Susan E Benson

In recent years, history has been increasingly popularized through television docudramas, history museums, paperback historical novels, grassroots community history projects, and other public representations of historical knowledge. This collection of lively and accessible essays is the first examin...

ARISE Basic Health 101: Nutrition and Exercise motivates your students to develop healthy nutritional habits, no bribes or deals involved! Your Nutrition and Exercise students will really eat it up, because they learn by working in groups, not by themselves. Watch the energy build as they realize ho...

It s not what you know, but whom you know that counts. Until now, today s youth and particularly at risk youth had no idea of the value of building a network of contacts to further their goals. When it comes to preparing for and finding a job, Networking, Jobs, and Money breaks down the process step...

ARISE Life Skills for Middle School: Volume 2 provides interactive lesson plans that every middle school aged child will benefit from. Topics include learning strategies, managing money, time management, power communications, and building leadership qualities, all skills that will help every youth e...

With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class families in the United States between the two world wars. Focusing on families from regions across America and of differing races and ethnicities, she arg...

Confederate scout and sharpshooter Berry Greenwood Benson witnessed the first shot fired on Fort Sumter, retreated with Lee's Army to its surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, and missed little of the action in between. This classic account of his wartime service tells of his reconnaissance exploits, ...

Paperback - 1988 - University of Illinois Press