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Book The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year book for 1929

Download or read book The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year book for 1929 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for

Download or read book The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chicago Daily News Almanac and Political Register

Download or read book Chicago Daily News Almanac and Political Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daily News Almanac and Political Register

Download or read book Daily News Almanac and Political Register written by George Edward Plumbe and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chicago Daily News Almanac

Download or read book Chicago Daily News Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chicago Daily News Almanac

Download or read book Chicago Daily News Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema written by Charlie Keil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is a collection of new scholarship that investigates the first decades of motion-picture history from diverse perspectives and methodologies. Featuring over thirty essays by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cinema's earliest years while also illuminating how cinema derived strength from competing cultural forms, becoming in the process the most influential mass medium of the early twentieth century.

Book Posing a Threat

    Book Details:
  • Author : Angela J. Latham
  • Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
  • Release : 2000-04-28
  • ISBN : 081956401X
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Posing a Threat written by Angela J. Latham and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively look at the ways in which American women in the 1920s transformed their lives through performance and fashion. New definitions of American femininity were formed in the pivotal 1920s, an era that vastly expanded the "market" for sexually explicit displays by women. Angela J. Latham shows how quarrels over and censorship of women's performance — particularly in the arenas of fashion and theater — uniquely reveal the cultural idiosyncracies of the period and provide valuable clues to the developing iconicity of the female body in its more recent historical phases. Through disguise, display, or judicious appropriation of both, performance became a crucial means by which women contested, affirmed, mitigated, and revolutionized norms of female self-presentation and self-stylization. Fashion was a hotly contested arena of bodily display. Latham surveys 1920s fashion trends and explores popular fashion rhetoric. Resistance to social mandates regarding women's fashion was nowhere more pronounced than in the matter of "bathing costumes." Latham critiques locally situated contests over swimwear, including those surrounding the first Miss America Pageant, and suggests how such performances sanctioned otherwise unacceptable self-presentations by women. Looking at American theater, Latham summarizes major arguments about censorship and the ideological assumptions embedded within them. Although sexually provocative displays by women were often the focus of censorship efforts, "leg shows," including revues like the Zeigfeld Follies, were in their heyday. Latham situates the popularity of such performances that featured women's bodies within the larger context of censorship in the American theater at this time.

Book The Daily News Almanac and Political Register for

Download or read book The Daily News Almanac and Political Register for written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roger C  Sullivan and the Triumph of the Chicago Democratic Machine  1908 1920

Download or read book Roger C Sullivan and the Triumph of the Chicago Democratic Machine 1908 1920 written by Richard Allen Morton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1908 and 1920, Roger C. Sullivan and his political allies consolidated their control of the Chicago and Illinois Democratic parties, creating the enduring structure known as the "Chicago Democratic machine." Not a personal faction nor tied to any cause, it was a coalition of professional political operatives employing business principles to achieve legal profit and advantage. Sullivan was its chief organizer and first "boss," rising to primacy after many political battles--with William Jennings Bryan, among others--and went on to become a kingmaker who helped Woodrow Wilson win the presidency. By the time of his death, Sullivan was widely respected, his achievements recognized even by those who deplored his politics. Based upon new research, this first comprehensive study of Sullivan and the early days of the Chicago "machine" focuses on the daily realities of the city's politics and the personalities who shaped them.

Book Dream Books and Gamblers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2022-11-22
  • ISBN : 0252053834
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Dream Books and Gamblers written by Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ubiquitous illegal lotteries known as policy flourished in Chicago’s Black community during the overlapping waves of the Great Migration. Policy “queens” owned stakes in lucrative operations while women writers and clerks canvased the neighborhood, passed out winnings, and kept the books. Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach examines the complexities of Black women’s work in policy gambling. Policy provided Black women with a livelihood for themselves and their families. At the same time, navigating gender expectations, aggressive policing, and other hazards of the infromal economy led them to refashion ideas about Black womanhood and respectability. Policy earnings also funded above-board enterprises ranging from neighborhood businesses to philanthropic institutions, and Schlabach delves into the various ways Black women straddled the illegal policy business and reputable community involvement. Vivid and revealing, Dream Books and Gamblers tells the stories of Black women in the underground economy and how they used their work to balance the demands of living and laboring in Black Chicago.

Book Ida B  Wells Barnett and American Reform  1880 1930

Download or read book Ida B Wells Barnett and American Reform 1880 1930 written by Patricia A. Schechter and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles against injustice is not as well known. With this book, Patricia Schechter restores Wells-Barnett to her central, if embattled, place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United States and abroad. Schechter's comprehensive treatment makes vivid the scope of Wells-Barnett's contributions and examines why the political philosophy and leadership of this extraordinary activist eventually became marginalized. Though forced into the shadow of black male leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington and misunderstood and then ignored by white women reformers such as Frances E. Willard and Jane Addams, Wells-Barnett nevertheless successfully enacted a religiously inspired, female-centered, and intensely political vision of social betterment and empowerment for African American communities throughout her adult years. By analyzing her ideas and activism in fresh sharpness and detail, Schechter exposes the promise and limits of social change by and for black women during an especially violent yet hopeful era in U.S. history.

Book Richard Wright

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michel Fabre
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9781617032219
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Richard Wright written by Michel Fabre and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Newspaper Reference Methods

Download or read book Newspaper Reference Methods written by Robert William Desmond and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1933 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newspaper Reference Methods was first published in 1933. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Book Jazz Age Chicago  Crucible of Modern America

Download or read book Jazz Age Chicago Crucible of Modern America written by Joseph Gustaitis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When people imagine 1920s Chicago, they usually (and justifiably) think of Al Capone, speakeasies, gang wars, flappers and flivvers. Yet this narrative overlooks the crucial role the Windy City played in the modernization of America. The city's incredible ethnic variety and massive building boom gave it unparalleled creative space, as design trends from Art Deco skyscrapers to streamlined household appliances reflected Chicago's unmistakable style. The emergence of mass media in the 1920s helped make professional sports a national obsession, even as Chicago radio stations were inventing the sitcom and the soap opera. Join Joseph Gustaitis as he chases the beat of America's Jazz Age back to its jazz capital."--Page 4 of cover.

Book Nomination and Election of President and Vice President and Qualifications for Voting

Download or read book Nomination and Election of President and Vice President and Qualifications for Voting written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: