Author: Trudy FeltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
A History of the Library at the University of Missouri at Kansas City
Author: Trudy FeltA History of the Library, 1933-1983
Author: Philip TompkinsOpening Exercises of the New Library Building, January 6, 1916
Author: University of Missouri. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
A History of Services to Black People by the Kansas City, Missouri Public Library
Author: Ursula Fiona FuhriWide-Open Town
Author: Diane Mutti BurkePublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700627065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city’s complicated and colorful past. The decades between World Wars I and II were a time of intense political, social, and economic change—for Kansas City, as for the nation as a whole. In exploring this city at the literal and cultural crossroads of America, Wide-Open Town maps the myriad ways in which Kansas City reflected and helped shape the narrative of a nation undergoing an epochal transformation. During the interwar period, political boss Tom Pendergast reigned, and Kansas City was said to be “wide open.” Prohibition was rarely enforced, the mob was ascendant, and urban vice was rampant. But in a community divided by the hard lines of race and class, this “openness” also allowed many of the city’s residents to challenge conventional social boundaries—and it is this intersection and disruption of cultural norms that interests the authors of Wide-Open Town. Writing from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints, the contributors take up topics ranging from the 1928 Republican National Convention to organizing the garment industry, from the stockyards to health care, drag shows, Thomas Hart Benton, and, of course, jazz. Their essays bring to light the diverse histories of the city—among, for instance, Mexican immigrants, African Americans, the working class, and the LGBT community before the advent of “LGBT.” Wide-Open Town captures the defining moments of a society rocked by World War I, the mass migration of people of color into cities, the entrance of women into the labor force and politics, Prohibition, economic collapse, and a revolution in social mores. Revealing how these changes influenced Kansas City—and how the city responded—this volume helps us understand nothing less than how citizens of the age adapted to the rise of modern America.
The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book
Author: Bill WattersonPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780836218527
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The magical friendship shared by Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes endeared them to millions of fans. In The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book their friendship endures in a full-color collection of Sunday cartoons and original art done for the book, all fit for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Whether visiting other planets as Spaceman Spiff, transmogrifying into a dangerous dinosaur, or just hanging around with Hobbes, Calvin's adventures are a showcase for the masterful art of Bill Watterson. The enlarged format of full-color Sunday illustrations provides more room for all the action and imagination inherent in each Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Readers will delight in pages enlivened with the bright color images of this precocious pair embroiled in all kinds of predicaments. Watterson engaged readers of all ages with the seemingly endless imagination of Calvin, tempered by the more thoughtful Hobbes. The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book provides many lazy Sunday afternoons of smiles and laughter. Online: gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/
History of the Library
Author: Henry Ormal SeverancePublisher:
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Historical Sketch of the Kansas City Public Library, 1911-1936
Author: The Kansas City Public Library Quarterly
Author: Kansas City (Mo.) Public libraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Kansas City Then and Now II
Author: Monroe DoddPublisher: Kansas City Star Books
ISBN: 0974000914
Category : Kansas City (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description