American Guides

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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.

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Genre : History
Author : Wendy Griswold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release : 2016-08-26
File : 376 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780226357973


Architecture And Town Planning In Colonial North America

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Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : James D. Kornwolf
Publisher : JHU Press
Release : 2002
File : 542 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0801859867


Governor S Houses And State Houses Of British Colonial America 1607 1783

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This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.

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Genre : Art
Author : Hoke P. Kimball
Publisher : McFarland
Release : 2017-05-11
File : 492 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780786470518


Lincoln On The Verge

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WINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE “A Lincoln classic...superb.” ­—The Washington Post “A book for our time.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic story of America’s greatest president discovering his own strength to save the Republic. As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Washington and his inauguration—an inauguration Southerners have vowed to prevent. Lincoln on the Verge charts these pivotal thirteen days of travel, as Lincoln discovers his power, speaks directly to the public, and sees his country up close. Drawing on new research, this riveting account reveals the president-elect as a work in progress, showing him on the verge of greatness, as he foils an assassination attempt, forges an unbreakable bond with the American people, and overcomes formidable obstacles in order to take his oath of office.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Ted Widmer
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Release : 2020-04-07
File : 624 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781476739434


New Jersey S Multiple Municipal Madness

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Alan J. Karcher takes a critical look at how and why the boundary lines of New Jersey's 566 municipalities were drawn, pointing to the irrationality of these excessive divisions.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Alan J. Karcher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Release : 1998
File : 264 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0813525667


Book Catalog Of The Library And Information Services Division

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Author : Environmental Science Information Center. Library and Information Services Division
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Release : 1977
File : 582 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000105034924


Book Catalog Of The Library And Information Services Division Shelf List Catalog

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Genre : Earth sciences
Author : Environmental Science Information Center. Library and Information Services Division
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Release : 1977
File : 578 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015007489944


This Is New Jersey

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Genre : New Jersey
Author : Doris M. Perry
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Release : 1963
File : 72 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015023470860


Collier S Encyclopedia

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Genre : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Release : 1957
File : 964 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:31951D00380159L


Catalogue

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library
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Release : 1968
File : 672 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015007174157