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The WPA Guide to New Jersey
Author | : Federal Writers' Project |
Publsiher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 735 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781595342287 |
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During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The Granite State has a rich history and varied landscape, beautifully presented in the WPA Guide to New Hampshire. The driving tours highlight the White Mountains, Lake Winnipesaukee, and the coast near Portsmouth. This New Hampshire guide also has traditional photographs of churches, landscapes, and colonial houses which give readers a feel for life in New England in the early 20th century.
A Guide to New Jersey s Revolutionary War Trail
Author | : Mark Di Ionno |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813527708 |
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Listing more than 350 historic sites throughout the state, this book is the most complete guide ever to the Revolutionary War in the Garden State.
The WPA Guide to 1930 s New Jersey
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015011705244 |
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War on Crime revises the history of the New Deal transformation and suggests a new model for political history-one which recognizes that cultural phenomena and the political realm produce, between them, an idea of "the state." The war on crime was fought with guns and pens, movies and legislation, radio and government hearings. All of these methods illuminate this period of state transformation, and perceptions of that emergent state, in the years of the first New Deal. The creation of G-men and gangsters as cultural heroes in this period not only explores the Depression-era obsession with crime and celebrity, but it also lends insight on how citizens understood a nation undergoing large political and social changes. Anxieties about crime today have become a familiar route for the creation of new government agencies and the extension of state authority. It is important to remember the original "war on crime" in the 1930s-and the opportunities it afforded to New Dealers and established bureaucrats like J. Edgar Hoover-as scholars grapple with the ways states assert influence over populations, local authority, and party politics while they pursue goals such as reducing popular violence and protecting private property.
The WPA Guide to 1930s New Jersey
Author | : WPA |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813514657 |
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American Guides
Author | : Wendy Griswold |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2016-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226357973 |
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In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate—and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a response to devastating unemployment, Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers’ Project. The Project’s mission was simple: jobs. But, as Wendy Griswold shows in the lively and persuasive American Guides, the Project had a profound—and unintended—cultural impact that went far beyond the writers’ paychecks. Griswold’s subject here is the Project’s American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. Griswold finds that the series unintentionally diversified American literary culture’s cast of characters—promoting women, minority, and rural writers—while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes. Griswold’s story alters our customary ideas about cultural change as a gradual process, revealing how diversity is often the result of politically strategic decisions and bureaucratic logic, as well as of the conflicts between snobbish metropolitan intellectuals and stubborn locals. American Guides reveals the significance of cultural federalism and the indelible impact that the Federal Writers’ Project continues to have on the American literary landscape.
New Jersey s Coastal Heritage
Author | : Mark Di Ionno |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0813523427 |
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In this book, Mark Di Ionno invites you to join him in discovering New Jerseys rich and varied coastal heritage. Hell take you on a personal tour to explore the Sandy Hook Lighthouse and Spermaceti Cove Station, admire offbeat collections of saltwater taffy boxes and sand art in Atlantic City, spend an afternoon at Brigantine and unravel the legend of Captain Kidd, marvel at the skills of Tuckertons boatbuilders, discover New Jerseys own version of the Boston Tea Party in Greenwich, and find inspiration at Ocean Grove, a Methodist meeting place.
Skiing in New Jersey
Author | : Elizabeth Holste |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2006-07-30 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781411660373 |
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A history of New Jersey's ski hills from the early 1900s to the present. Also a history of the sport of downhill skiing in the state.
The WPA Guide to Pennsylvania
Author | : Federal Writers' Project |
Publsiher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781595342362 |
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During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The Keystone State is well represented in the WPA Guide to Pennsylvania. The essays explore the rich descriptions of the states historically significant cities—such as Pittsburgh and Philadelphia—as well as the diversity of the state which also includes many farms and small mining communities.