What Time Is It In America
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TIME America’s National Parks
Author: The Editors of TIME
language: en
Publisher: Time Inc. Books
Release Date: 2016-05-13
As the National Park Service marks its 100th birthday in 2016, TIME celebrates America’s spectacular, unspoiled natural treasures. Vast in scale at nearly 85 million acres, the park system stretches from Acadia park in Maine to War in the Pacific park on Guam and more than 400 parks in between, visited by 280 million people each year. Highlights of this special edition: * Jewels in the crown: a lavish pictorial tour of the most breathtaking parks, including Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Glacier and Grand Teton * Founding fathers: the idea of a national park began with Western painter George Catlin and was later embraced by President Teddy Roosevelt after three nights under the stars in Yosemite Valley * A visitor’s guide to the best of the parks and monuments, from the spectacular to the quirky
Selling the True Time
This first comprehensive, scholarly history of timekeeping in America studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, a process that led to Standard Time—the worldwide system of timekeeping by which we all live. The book describes the contributions of the railroad industry, university astronomers, clockmakers, and civil and electrical engineers.
America in the Time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Author: Sally Senzell Isaacs
language: en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Release Date: 1999-05
Uses the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a reference to examine the history of the United States from 1929 to 1948.