Author: Henry Garfield AlsbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
The American Guide
Author: Henry Garfield AlsbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
The WPA Guides
Author: Christine BoldPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578061952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In 1935 the FDR administration put 40,000 unemployed artists to work in four federal arts projects. The main contribution of one unit, the Federal Writers Project, was the American Guide Series, a collectively composed set of guidebooks to every state, most regions, and many cities, towns, and villages across the United States. The WPA arts projects were poised on the cusp of the modern bureaucratization of culture. They occurred at a moment when the federal government was extending its reach into citizens' daily lives. The 400 guidebooks the teams produced have been widely celebrated as icons of American democracy and diversity. Clumped together, they manifest a lofty role for the project and a heavy responsibility for its teams of writers. The guides assumed the authority of conceptualizing the national identity. In The WPA Guides: Mapping America Christine Bold closely examines this publicized view of the guides and reveals its flaws. Her research in archival materials reveals the negotiations and conflicts between the central editors in Washington and the local people in the states. Race, region, and gender are taken as important categories within which difference and conflict appear. She looks at the guidebook for each of five distinctively different locations -- Idaho, New York City, North Carolina, Missouri, and U.S. One and the Oregon Trail--to assess the editorial plotting of such issues as gender, race, ethnicity, and class. As regionalists jostled with federal officialdom, the faultlines of the project gaped open. Spotlighting the controversies between federal and state bureaucracies, Bold concludes that the image of America that the WPA fostered is closer to fabrication than to actuality. Christine Bold is director of the Centre for Cultural Studies and an associate professor of English at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.
The WPA Guide to Ohio
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595342338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. For a reader interested in small town life in the early 20th century, the WPA Guide to Ohio is an excellent resource. A series of photographs by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration is well complemented with 17 selective essays about the political, industrial, and cultural life in the Buckeye State. The essay on the economy provides interesting information on the labor movement in Ohio.
Michigan, a Guide to the Wolverine State
Author: Writers' Program (Mich.)Publisher: Scholarly Press
ISBN: 9780403021727
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Pennsylvania; a Guide to the Keystone State,
Author: Best Books onPublisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623760372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 773
Book Description
compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the state of Pennsylvania ... Co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the University of Pennsylvania.
The WPA Guide to Washington
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 1595342451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Washington exhibits the beauty and individuality found in the Pacific Northwest. The guide takes the reader on a journey across the Evergreen State, from Seattle to Spokane with the Cascades in between. Essays on the state’s large lumber industry and its role in the westward expansion are included.
Portrait of America
Author: Jerrold HirschPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807854891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word "American"? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring and seemingly permanent questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history-and questions that were ad
Ohio
Author: Best Books onPublisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623760348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 749
Book Description
Arkansas: A Guide to the State
Author: Publisher: US History Publishers
ISBN: 1603540040
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The WPA Guide to New York City
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
This tour guide for time travelers offers New York lovers and 1930s buffs an endlessly fascinating look at life as it was lived in the days when a trolley ride cost five cents, a room at the Plaza was $7.50, and the new World's Fair was the talk of the town. Hailed by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books ever written about the city. Photos. Maps.