Download or read book The Hall of Fame for Great Americans on the Campus of New York University written by New York University. Hall of Fame for Great Americans and published by . This book was released on 1939* with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University written by New York University. Hall of Fame for Great Americans and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Americans written by New York University. Hall of Fame for Great Americans and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Hall of Fame written by Marshall Everett and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century written by Peter Dreier and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted -- because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history. It isn't taught in most high schools. You can't find it on the major television networks. In popular media, the most persistent interpreter of America's radical past is Glenn Beck, who teaches viewers a wildly inaccurate history of unions, civil rights, and the American Left. The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century, a colorful and witty history of the most influential progressive leaders of the twentieth century and beyond, is the perfect antidote.
Download or read book The Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University written by New York University. Hall of Fame for Great Americans and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University written by Hall of Fame for Great Americans and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Hall of Fame for Great Americans written by Sheila Gerami and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hall of Fame for Great Americans provides a window into the cultural changes taking place in the United States from the turn of the twentieth century into the twenty-first. This book is the first examination of the institutional and social history of America’s first hall of fame, from its dynamic opening in 1901 through its protracted decline in the late twentieth century and its brief return to relevancy in the early twenty-first century. It also examines in depth what is arguably the least studied project of Stanford White, one of the most distinguished architects of the Gilded Age. Originally designed for New York University’s new campus in the Bronx, the Hall of Fame once housed ninety-eight bronze busts of men and women deemed “great Americans” within its elegant colonnade, including the likes of George Washington, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, and Robert E. Lee. The Hall was conceived when the Great Man theory dominated American thought. However, as times changed, challenges to ideas concerning greatness and heroism grew, and heroes once celebrated were scrutinized for their flaws. The monument is now a shell of its former glory and largely forgotten, and the NYU campus that once housed the colonnade was eventually sold to Bronx Community College. In 2017, following the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, by white supremacists attempting to prevent the removal of a monument to General Lee, Andrew Cuomo, then governor of New York, thrust the Hall of Fame back into the limelight by ordering the busts of Lee and Stonewall Jackson to be removed. This action joined a national trend to remove monuments deemed offensive. Gerami argues that the rise and fall of this institution mirrors the nation’s changing conception of what comprises a hero. This biography of a public art memorial answers questions about the importance of art history and the cultural evolution of what it means to be great in America.
Download or read book The American Hall Of Fame written by Marshall Everett and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Story of the Hall of Fame Including the Lives and Portraits of the Elect and of Those Who Barely Missed Election written by Louis Albert Banks and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fascinating glimpse into the history of the National Hall of Fame in the United States. It includes biographies and portraits of famous Americans who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, as well as those who came close but did not quite make the cut. Additionally, it features a list of America's most eligible women. This is a must-read for anyone interested in American history and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book The Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University written by New York University. Hall of Fame and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Independence Hall in American Memory written by Charlene Mires and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independence Hall is a place Americans think they know well. Within its walls the Continental Congress declared independence in 1776, and in 1787 the Founding Fathers drafted the U.S. Constitution there. Painstakingly restored to evoke these momentous events, the building appears to have passed through time unscathed, from the heady days of the American Revolution to today. But Independence Hall is more than a symbol of the young nation. Beyond this, according to Charlene Mires, it has a long and varied history of changing uses in an urban environment, almost all of which have been forgotten. In Independence Hall, Mires rediscovers and chronicles the lost history of Independence Hall, in the process exploring the shifting perceptions of this most important building in America's popular imagination. According to Mires, the significance of Independence Hall cannot be fully appreciated without assessing the full range of political, cultural, and social history that has swirled about it for nearly three centuries. During its existence, it has functioned as a civic and cultural center, a political arena and courtroom, and a magnet for public celebrations and demonstrations. Artists such as Thomas Sully frequented Independence Square when Philadelphia served as the nation's capital during the 1790s, and portraitist Charles Willson Peale merged the arts, sciences, and public interest when he transformed a portion of the hall into a center for natural science in 1802. In the 1850s, hearings for accused fugitive slaves who faced the loss of freedom were held, ironically, in this famous birthplace of American independence. Over the years Philadelphians have used the old state house and its public square in a multitude of ways that have transformed it into an arena of conflict: labor grievances have echoed regularly in Independence Square since the 1830s, while civil rights protesters exercised their right to free speech in the turbulent 1960s. As much as the Founding Fathers, these people and events illuminate the building's significance as a cultural symbol.
Download or read book Lives of Great Americans in the Hall of Fame written by Ormond Drake and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Hundred Famous Americans written by Helen Ainslie Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from One Hundred Famous Americans The care with which the selections herein have been made receives indorsement in the fact that all the names of those chosen as worthy of commemoration in the Hall of Fame for great Americans find a place in this volume. A paper on the Hall of Fame, by Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken, of the New York University, is also included. The illustrations have been taken from photographs and historical portraits, models, or the real objects. Thanks are due to Messrs. Harper & Brothers for permission to use the illustrations of Asher Brown Durand and Elias Haskett Derby. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
