{"product_id":"many-voices-one-nation-isbn-9781944466091","title":"Many Voices, One Nation","description":"\u003ci\u003e Many Voices, One Nation \u003c\/i\u003eexplores U.S. history through a powerful collection of artifacts and stories from America’s many peoples. Sixteen essays, composed by Smithsonian curators and affiliated scholars, offer distinctive insight into the peopling of the United States from the Europeans’ North American arrival in 1492 to the near present. Each chapter addresses a different historical era and considers what quintessentially American ideals like freedom, equality, and belonging have meant to Americans of all backgrounds, races, and national origins through the centuries.\u003cbr\u003e Much more than just an anthology, this book is a vibrant, cohesive presentation of everyday objects and ideas that connect us to our history and to one another. Using these objects and personal stories as a transmitter, the book invites readers to hear the voices of our \u003ci\u003emany \u003c\/i\u003evoices,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand contemplate the complexity of our \u003ci\u003eone \u003c\/i\u003enation. The stories and artifacts included in this volume bring our seemingly disparate pasts together to inspire possibilities for a shared future as we constantly reinterpret our \u003ci\u003ee pluribus unum \u003c\/i\u003e– our nation of many voices.\u003cb\u003eMargaret Salazar-Porzio\u003c\/b\u003e is Curator of Latina\/o history and culture at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and a specialist in twentieth-century visual and material culture of the Western United States, Pacific Rim, and Mexico. Formerly an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia University Law School, she has received numerous research fellowships. Salazar-Porzio was also a primary education teacher in Los Angeles, California, where she received a local Teacher of the Year award (2004). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoan Fragaszy Troyano\u003c\/b\u003e is Mellon\/ACLS Public Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution and a member of the \u003ci\u003eMany Voices, One Nation\u003c\/i\u003e curatorial team at the National Museum of American History. A historian of immigration, visual culture, and public understandings of the past, her public history career includes museum exhibitions and education across the Smithsonian, as well as scholarly communication and digital projects with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Safranek\u003c\/b\u003e is a curatorial assistant at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for the \u003ci\u003eMany Voices, One Nation\u003c\/i\u003e exhibition. Her scholarly work focuses on material culture and storytelling around recent immigration to the United States, and her public history products include exhibition development and curation, educational materials, public outreach, and the award-winning citizenship education website, \u003ci\u003ePreparing for the Oath\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2012 she was a Goldman Sachs Junior Fellow at the National Museum of American History.Familiar and unfamiliar stories weave a textured history of America that redfines \"E Pluribus Unum\" through the voices of America's many peoples.","brand":"Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300617572581,"sku":"NP9781944466091","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781944466091.jpg?v=1767732236","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/many-voices-one-nation-isbn-9781944466091","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}