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Journeys in Time
Author | : Elspeth Leacock,Susan Washburn Buckley |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780618311149 |
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Americans have always been a people on the move. Journeys in Time maps twenty journeys that have shaped our national past. These are stories of change -- of pilgrims and pioneers, soldiers and children, explorers and adventurers building new lives and finding new worlds. From a cabin boy who sailed with Columbus to a Union soldier and a young migrant farm worker, these journeys changed the lives of those who took them.
A Journey Through American Literature
Author | : Kevin J. Hayes |
Publsiher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199862061 |
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A spirited and lively introduction to American literature, this book acquaints readers with the key authors, works, and events in the nation's rich and eclectic literary tradition.
Journey Through America
Author | : Wolfgang Koeppen,Michael Kimmage |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780857454379 |
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Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the United States. A major twentieth-century German writer, Koeppen presents a vivid and fascinating portrait of the US in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, its troubled race relations, its multi-culturalism and its vast loneliness, a motif drawn, in part, from Kafka’s Amerika. A modernist travelogue, the text employs symbol, myth, and image, as if Koeppen sought to answer de Tocqueville’s questions in the manner of Joyce and Kafka. Journey through America is also a meditation on America, intended for a German audience and mindful of the destiny of postwar Europe under many Americanizing influences.
Journeys for Freedom
Author | : Susan Washburn Buckley,Elspeth Leacock |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0618223231 |
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Trace travelers across time and space as they pursue freedom and help forge America's history.
Curating America
Author | : Richard Rabinowitz |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2016-09-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469629513 |
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How do history museums and historic sites tell the richly diverse stories of the American people? What fascinates us most about American history? To help answer these questions, noted public historian Richard Rabinowitz examines the evolution of public history over the last half-century and highlights the new ways we have come to engage with our past. At the heart of this endeavor is what Rabinowitz calls "storyscapes--landscapes of engagement where individuals actively encounter stories of past lives. As storyscapes, museums become processes of narrative interplay rather than moribund storage bins of strange relics. Storyscapes bring to life even the most obscure people--making their skills of hands and minds "touchable," making their voices heard despite their absence from traditional archives, and making the dilemmas and triumphs of their lives accessible to us today. Rabinowitz's wealth of professional experience--creating over 500 history museums, exhibitions, and educational programs across the nation--shapes and informs the narrative. By weaving insights from learning theory, anthropology and geography, politics and finance, collections and preservation policy, and interpretive media, Rabinowitz reveals how the nation's best museums and historic sites allow visitors to confront their sense of time and place, memories of family and community, and definitions of self and the world while expanding their idea of where they stand in the flow of history.
Embattled Freedom
Author | : Amy Murrell Taylor |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469643632 |
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The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled Freedom reveals as never before the everyday experiences of these refugees from slavery as they made their way through the vast landscape of army-supervised camps that emerged during the war. Amy Murrell Taylor vividly reconstructs the human world of wartime emancipation, taking readers inside military-issued tents and makeshift towns, through commissary warehouses and active combat, and into the realities of individuals and families struggling to survive physically as well as spiritually. Narrating their journeys in and out of the confines of the camps, Taylor shows in often gripping detail how the most basic necessities of life were elemental to a former slave's quest for freedom and full citizenship. The stories of individuals--storekeepers, a laundress, and a minister among them--anchor this ambitious and wide-ranging history and demonstrate with new clarity how contingent the slaves' pursuit of freedom was on the rhythms and culture of military life. Taylor brings new insight into the enormous risks taken by formerly enslaved people to find freedom in the midst of the nation's most destructive war.
S t p
Author | : Robert Greenfield |
Publsiher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2009-04-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780786730803 |
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"One of the greatest rock books ever written." -- GQ Thirty years ago, the Rolling Stones swept America, taking Exile on Main Street to Main Streets across the nation. Everyone held their breath to see what would happen; the Stones' previous U.S. tour had been a chaotic circus culminating in the infamous death of a fan at Altamont. And this tour (the "Stones Touring Party") was rumored to be wilder than ever: bigger shows in major arenas, with a far larger entourage and even more drugs. Robert Greenfield went along for the ride, and came away with a riveting insider's account, called by Ian Rankin "one of the greatest rock books ever written." The reality lived up to the rumor: take one part Lee Radziwill, a dash of Truman Capote, set the scene at Hef's Playboy mansion, and toss in the county jail for good measure. That was the Stones Touring Party, the ultimate rock 'n' roll band at the height of its spectacular depravity.
Africans in America
Author | : Charles Johnson,Patricia Smith,WGBH Series Research Team |
Publsiher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 0613210700 |
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A riveting history of America is told from the point of view of the Africans who arrived in shackles and endured the terrible dichotomy of this new land founded on ideals of liberty but dedicated to perpetuation of slavery. Photos & illustrations.