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Book The Town of the Fearless  by Caroline Dale Snedeker

Download or read book The Town of the Fearless by Caroline Dale Snedeker written by Caroline Dale Snedeker and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Town of the Fearless

Download or read book The Town of the Fearless written by Caroline Dale Snedeker and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Town of the Fearless  With Pictoral Supplement and Ills by M  de V  Lee

Download or read book The Town of the Fearless With Pictoral Supplement and Ills by M de V Lee written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Americans

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  • Author : Gary D. Schmidt
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2013-12-01
  • ISBN : 1609382218
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Making Americans written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American children need books that draw on their own history and circumstances, not just the classic European fairy tales. They need books that enlist them in the great democratic experiment that is the United States. These were the beliefs of many of the authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, and teachers who expanded and transformed children’s book publishing between the 1930s and the 1960s. Although some later critics have argued that the books published in this era offered a vision of a safe, secure, simple world without injustice or unhappy endings, Gary D. Schmidt shows that the progressive political agenda shared by many Americans who wrote, illustrated, published, and taught children’s books had a powerful effect. Authors like James Daugherty, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lois Lenski, Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Virginia Lee Burton, Robert McCloskey, and many others addressed directly and indirectly the major social issues of a turbulent time: racism, immigration and assimilation, sexism, poverty, the Great Depression, World War II, the atomic bomb, and the threat of a global cold war. The central concern that many children’s book authors and illustrators wrestled with was the meaning of America and democracy itself, especially the tension between individual freedoms and community ties. That process produced a flood of books focused on the American experience and intent on defining it in terms of progress toward inclusivity and social justice. Again and again, children’s books addressed racial discrimination and segregation, gender roles, class differences, the fate of Native Americans, immigration and assimilation, war, and the role of the United States in the world. Fiction and nonfiction for children urged them to see these issues as theirs to understand, and in some ways, theirs to resolve. Making Americans is a study of a time when the authors and illustrators of children’s books consciously set their eyes on national and international sights, with the hope of bringing the next generation into a sense of full citizenship.

Book The Town of the Fearless     With Pictorial Supplement  and Illustrations by Manning de V  Lee   A History of New Harmony  Indiana  and Its Founder  Robert Owen

Download or read book The Town of the Fearless With Pictorial Supplement and Illustrations by Manning de V Lee A History of New Harmony Indiana and Its Founder Robert Owen written by Caroline Dale SNEDEKER and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Angel and the Serpent

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  • Author : William E. Wilson
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1984-04-22
  • ISBN : 9780253203267
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Angel and the Serpent written by William E. Wilson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1984-04-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship and literary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and the Owenites.Ó ÑHenry Steele Commager, ÑThe New York Times Book ReviewÒWilson writes with clarity and humor and has given us a work which will be valuable both to the cultural historian and to the general reader.Ó ÑSt. Louis Globe DemocratÒ. . . exceedingly valuable addition to Indiana historiography.Ó ÑIndianapolis TimesHere is the story of George RappÕs German Harmonists and Robert OwenÕs IdealistsÑthe two vastly different communities that shaped the history of New Harmony, Indiana. Both the Rappites and the Owenites came to New Harmony to conduct communal living experimentsÑRapp expecting the millennium; Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him. Although the two men were motivated by different ideas, they shared the same goal: to see their people live together in happiness and peace. Their two experiments are probably the best known and most interesting efforts at establishing alternate or Utopian communities in America.

Book Vassar Quarterly

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 956 pages

Download or read book Vassar Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Avant Garde in the Cornfields

Download or read book Avant Garde in the Cornfields written by Michelangelo Sabatino and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy Avant-Garde in the Cornfields is an in-depth study of New Harmony, Indiana, a unique town in the American Midwest renowned as the site of two successive Utopian settlements during the nineteenth century: the Harmonists and the Owenites. During the Cold War years of the twentieth century, New Harmony became a spiritual “living community” and attracted a wide variety of creative artists and architects who left behind landmarks that are now world famous. This engrossing and well-documented book explores the architecture, topography, and preservation of New Harmony during both periods and addresses troubling questions about the origin, production, and meaning of the town’s modern structures, landscapes, and gardens. It analyzes how these were preserved, recognizing the funding that has made New Harmony so vital, and details the elaborate ways in which the town remains an ongoing experiment in defining the role of patronage in historic preservation. An important reappraisal of postwar American architecture from a rural perspective, Avant-Garde in the Cornfields presents provocative ideas about how history is interpreted through design and historic preservation—and about how the extraordinary past and present of New Harmony continue to thrive today. Contributors: William R. Crout, Harvard U; Stephen Fox, Rice U; Christine Gorby, Pennsylvania State U; Cammie McAtee, Harvard U; Nancy Mangum McCaslin; Kenneth A. Schuette Jr., Purdue U; Ralph Schwarz; Paul Tillich.

Book Wings

Download or read book Wings written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maclure of New Harmony

Download or read book Maclure of New Harmony written by Leonard Warren and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maclure of New Harmony follows the twists and turns of William Maclure's intriguing life. A native Scotsman, Maclure (1763--1840) became a merchant, made a fortune, and retired in his early thirties. Then his life became interesting. Fascinated by the study of geology, Maclure did fieldwork throughout Europe before traveling to the United States, where he completed the first geological survey of his adopted nation and published a detailed, color geological map -- one reason he is known as the Father of American Geology. Maclure's travels sharpened his convictions about social justice and led him to a life of social radicalism. He founded progressive schools to educate the children of the working classes and, in 1820, he joined forces with Robert Owen to found New Harmony -- the utopian community in Indiana. Ever restless, Maclure later moved to Mexico, where he watched his hopes for the new republic founder.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  New Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1932 with total page 2934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Five Years of Children s Books

Download or read book Five Years of Children s Books written by Bertha E. Mahony Miller and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1959 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)

Book The Scrivener

Download or read book The Scrivener written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wisconsin Library Bulletin

Download or read book Wisconsin Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern English Composition

Download or read book Modern English Composition written by John C. McCloskey and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since contemporary writers who have achieved success and prestige are those who can help the beginner most in reporting his contacts with the world about him, it is to them rather than to earlier writers that he should turn for inspiration and example. This, then, is the approach to writing set forth by precept and example in this volume. It is an approach at once different from the older approaches and fresher. The book has one objective: to vitalize the subject of English composition and to change theme writing from a series of dull tasks laboriously performed to the beginning of a glorious adventure in self-expression.

Book Women s Press Organizations  1881 1999

Download or read book Women s Press Organizations 1881 1999 written by Elizabeth V. Burt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little has been published about press organizations, and even less about women's press organizations. This book is the first to document the history of women's press organizations. In addition to rich historical accounts of some of these organizations, it also provides a picture of many of the women journalists involved in these press organizations, many of whom were leaders, both in journalism and in the social movements of their time. This book is a description and analysis of forty women's press organizations that have been key to the development of women writers of the press since the first established organization in 1881. Each entry describes the challenges faced by women that brought about the establishment of the organization at that particular time and place, some of the women who played key roles in the group's leadership, the group' s major activities and programs and its contributions to women of the press. The main purpose of these organizations was to provide women with a place where they could discuss professional issues and career strategies at a time when they were largely excluded from or marginalized by male-dominated media institutions. However, many also reflected the interests of some of the social and political reform movements associated with the women's movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the woman suffrage, peace, and ERA movements. Although some of the organizations described here no longer exist, new ones have taken on the challenge, in a profession where women still do not have equity.