Books with author Kathleen J. Edgar

The San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo mission, the second of the twenty one missions, was founded by Fray Serra in the Carmel valley. The content provided in this book, aligned to California state standards, will provide students with a greater insight into the story of San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo and California’s mission system. Readers will become familiar with the various buildings, living quarters, and courtyards that constitute a mission as well as important historical dates. This book is filled with excellent primary source materials and visuals, including illustrations, paintings, and maps.

Fray Junipero Serra established San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the California missions, in 1769. The Catholic Spanish friars established the mission with the hope of converting Native Americans to Catholicism. Although the level of reception to the Catholic religion and subsequently to the mission itself varied, the San Diego de Alcala played an important role in the history of California. The content provided in this book, aligned to California state standards, will provide students with a greater insight into the story of San Diego de Alcalá and California’s mission system. This book is filled with excellent primary source materials and visuals, including illustrations, paintings, and maps.

The Mission San Francisco de Asís, sometimes called Mission Dolores was the sixth of twenty-one missions. The government of New Spain required the friars to keep records of life at the mission. Readers will get to experience that life while learning incredible details of innovation for those times. The content provided in this book, aligned to California state standards, will provide students with a greater insight into the story of San Francisco de Asís and California’s mission system. This book is filled with excellent primary source materials and visuals, including illustrations, paintings, and maps.

The San Luis Obispo de Tolosa remains an architectural artifact of religious fervor in downtown San Luis. The mission, named for Bishop Toulouse, is called the Prince of Mansions. Spanning an entire city block, its whitewashed adobe and red-tiled roof towers above nearby buildings. The content provided in this book, aligned to California state standards, will provide students with a greater insight into the story of San Luis Obispo de Tolosa and California’s mission system. This book is filled with excellent primary source materials and visuals, including illustrations, paintings, and maps.

Current headlines, classroom assignments, and natural concern all draw students to social reform studies. American Social Reform Movements Reference Library satisfies the curiosity of students and helps them successfully complete research and projects. The four-volume set chronicles and illustrates movements from the mid-1800s to the present day. The two Almanac volumes discuss economic, religious and political forces that played a role in the formation of the various movements. In addition, they detail issues such as civil rights, environmental issues, gay rights, the antiwar movement, poverty and womens rights.