Download or read book The Pageant and Masque of Saint Louis Forest Park May 28 31 1914 written by St. Louis Pageant Drama Association and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Words of the Pageant and Masque of Saint Louis written by Thomas Wood Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference of Cities written by St. Louis Pageant Drama Association and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lion of the Valley written by James Neal Primm and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After revising the original 1981 edition in 1990 and looking back to regret his enthusiastic reporting of what turned out to be temporary and peripheral trends, Primm has decided that current events are not safe water for historians. He has not, therefore extended the text to include the 1990s, but better technology has considerably improved the quality of the illustrations. Distributed in the US by U. of Missouri Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The St Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration written by Thomas M. Spencer and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2000-04-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Veiled Prophet organization has been a vital institution in St. Louis for more than a century. Founded in March 1878 by a group of prominent St. Louis businessmen, the organization was fashioned after the New Orleans Carnival society the Mystick Krewe of Comus. In The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration, Thomas Spencer explores the social and cultural functions of the organization's annual celebration—the Veiled Prophet parade and ball—and traces the shifts that occurred over the years in its cultural meaning and importance. Although scholars have researched the more pluralistic parades of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, very little has been done to examine the elite-dominated parades of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This study shows how pluralistic parades ceased to exist in St. Louis and why the upper echelon felt it was so important to end them. Spencer shows that the celebration originated as the business elite's response to the St. Louis general strike of 1877. Symbolically gaining control of the streets, the elites presented St. Louis history and American history by tracing the triumphs of great men—men who happened to be the Veiled Prophet members' ancestors. The parade, therefore, was intended to awe the masses toward passivity with its symbolic show of power. The members believed that they were helping to boost St. Louis economically and culturally by enticing visitors from the surrounding communities. They also felt that the parades provided the spectators with advice on morals and social issues and distracted them from less desirable behavior like drinking and carousing. From 1900 to 1965 the celebration continued to include educational and historical elements; thereafter, it began to resemble the commercialized leisure that was increasingly becoming a part of everyday life. The biggest change occurred in the period from 1965 to 1980, when the protests of civil rights groups led many St. Louisans to view the parade and ball as wasteful conspicuous consumption that was often subsidized with taxpayers' money. With membership dropping and the news media giving the organization little notice, it soon began to wither. In response, the leaders of the Veiled Prophet organization decided to have a "VP Fair" over the Fourth of July weekend. The 1990s brought even more changes, and the members began to view the celebration as a way to unite the St. Louis community, with all of its diversity, rather than as a chance to boost the city or teach cultural values. The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration is a valuable addition not only to the cultural history of Missouri and St. Louis but also to recent scholarship on urban culture, city politics, and the history of public celebrations in America.
Download or read book American Historical Pageantry written by David Glassberg and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What images shape Americans' perceptions of their past? How do particular versions of history become the public history? And how have these views changed over time? David Glassberg explores these important questions by examining the pageantry craze of the
Download or read book Seeking St Louis written by Lee Ann Sandweiss and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementing the new permanent exhibition at the Missouri Historical Society, this anthology gathers over three centuries of writings on St. Louis by 100 individuals who have been inspired to describe the physical and cultural essence of this region. The volume contains excerpted selections from all genres--travel diaries, poetry, fiction, journalism, drama, and rare out-of-print and previously unpublished archival material--including poems by Angus Umphraville, from the first volume of verse published west of the Mississippi, and newspaper articles by Theodore Dreiser when he was a beat reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Other compelling excerpts were authored by such notables as Auguste Chouteau, Charles Dickens, William Wells Brown, William T. Sherman, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Fanny Hurst, William S. Burroughs, Miles Davis, Nzotake Shange, John Lutz, Carl Phillips, and Quincy Troupe. A biographical introduction precedes each entry to place the author and the excerpt in the proper historical context. The content of Seeking St. Louis was enriched by the involvement of several of the St. Louis area's foremost literary experts--Robert Boyd, Jan Garden Castro, Gerald Early, Wayne Fields, and Karen Goering--who served as contributing editors.
Download or read book English Pageantry written by Robert Withington and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mound City written by Patricia Cleary and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly one thousand years ago, Native peoples built a satellite suburb of America's great metropolis on the site that later became St. Louis. At its height, as many as 30,000 people lived in and around present-day Cahokia, Illinois. While the mounds around Cahokia survive today (as part of a state historic site and UNESCO world heritage site), the monumental earthworks that stood on the western shore of the Mississippi were razed in the 1800s. But before and after they fell, the mounds held an important place in St. Louis history, earning it the nickname “Mound City.” For decades, the city had an Indigenous reputation. Tourists came to marvel at the mounds and to see tribal delegations in town for trade and diplomacy. As the city grew, St. Louisans repurposed the mounds—for a reservoir, a restaurant, and railroad landfill—in the process destroying cultural artifacts and sacred burial sites. Despite evidence to the contrary, some white Americans declared the mounds natural features, not built ones, and cheered their leveling. Others espoused far-fetched theories about a lost race of Mound Builders killed by the ancestors of contemporary tribes. Ignoring Indigenous people's connections to the mounds, white Americans positioned themselves as the legitimate inheritors of the land and asserted that modern Native peoples were destined to vanish. Such views underpinned coerced treaties and forced removals, and—when Indigenous peoples resisted—military action. The idea of the “Vanishing Indian” also fueled the erasure of Indigenous peoples’ histories, a practice that continued in the 1900s in civic celebrations that featured white St. Louisans “playing Indian” and heritage groups claiming the mounds as part of their own history. Yet Native peoples endured and in recent years, have successfully begun to reclaim the sole monumental mound remaining within city limits. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Patricia Cleary explores the layers of St. Louis’s Indigenous history. Along with the first in-depth overview of the life, death, and afterlife of the mounds, Mound City offers a gripping account of how Indigenous histories have shaped the city’s growth, landscape, and civic culture.
Download or read book Pageants in Great Britain and the United States written by Caroline Hill Davis and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missouri 1912 13 14 written by Missouri. Bureau of labor statistics and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by Missouri. Bureau of Labor Statistics (1906) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Masses and Moral Order in America 1820 1920 written by Paul S. BOYER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapters on moral reform, the YMCA, Sunday Schools, and parks and playgrounds.
Download or read book National Civic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Municipal Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by Indiana State Library and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
