Author: Publisher: Kristin Rutten
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Real Life Scrapbooking: Weekly Challenges
Author: A Remarkable Curiosity
Author: Amos Jay CummingsPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457109379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
In 1873, Amos Jay Cummings, a decorated Civil War veteran and journalist for the New York Sun newspaper, set out on a westward journey aboard the newly completed transcontinental railroad. For some time, miners, settlers, and entrepreneurs had already been heading west to make their fortunes, and Cummings made the trip in part to see what all the fuss was about. During his six-month expedition from Kansas to California, Cummings sent extraordinary and engaging accounts of the American West back to his readers in New York. Collected in this volume for the first time are Cummings's portraits of a land and its assortment of characters unlike anything back East. Characters like Pedro Armijo, the New Mexican sheep tycoon who took Denver by storm, and more prominently the Mormon prophet Brigham Young and one of his wives, Ann Eliza Young, who was filing for divorce at the time of Cummings's arrival. Although today he is virtually unknown, during his lifetime Cummings was one of the most famous newspapermen in the United States, in part because of stories like these. Complete with a biographical sketch and historical introduction, A Remarkable Curiosity is an enjoyable read for anybody interested in the American West in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Literature as Pulpit
Author: Randi R. WarnePublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889205639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) was an internationally celebrated feminist and social activist whose success as a platform speaker was legendary. Her earliest notoriety was achieved as a writer, and during her lengthy career she authored four novels, two novellas, three collections of short stories, a two-volume autobiography and various collections of speeches, articles and wartime writing, to a total of sixteen volumes. All this served as a “pulpit” from which McClung could preach her gospel of feminist activism and social transformation. She was convinced that God’s intention for Creation was a “Fair Deal” for everyone; and that Canada, particularly the prairie West, was a perfect place to begin to bring that about. Woman suffrage, temperance and the ordination of women were keystones in the battle — engaged, in contrast to contemporary stereotypes, with a wit and compelling humour that won over enemies as it delighted her allies. Literature as Pulpit explores Nellie McClung’s vision of a “better world,” and the impediments to it, as expressed through her novels and her feminist “tract,” In Times Like These. It addresses the profoundly anti-feminist context within which McClung was forced to make her arguments, and notes her indebtedness to other feminist writers and thinkers of her day. Throughout, McClung’s religion of “active care” emerges as a consistent and harmonizing theme which integrates her feminism and social activism into a single empowering vision for social change.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan
Author: Thomas R. TrautmannPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871698469
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) was America's leading ethnologist in his day, & his scholarship played a role of exceptional importance during the critical period of the 1860s-1880s when anthropology was beginning to crystalize as a specialized field of research. Contents of this vol.: Lewis Henry Morgan & His Library; Morgan's Life & Works; The Library & Its Contents; Analysis of the Collection; Explanation of the Inventory, Catalogue, & Register; Bibliography of Morgan's Publications; The Inventory; The Catalogue; & Register of the Morgan Papers. Illus.
Writing with Scissors
Author: Ellen Gruber GarveyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199987025
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans. Like us, nineteenth-century readers spoke back to the media, and treasured what mattered to them. In this groundbreaking book, Ellen Gruber Garvey reveals a previously unexplored layer of American popular culture, where the proliferating cheap press touched the lives of activists and mourning parents, and all who yearned for a place in history. Scrapbook makers documented their feelings about momentous public events such as living through the Civil War, mediated through the newspapers. African Americans and women's rights activists collected, concentrated, and critiqued accounts from a press that they did not control to create "unwritten histories" in books they wrote with scissors. Whether scrapbook makers pasted their clippings into blank books, sermon collections, or the pre-gummed scrapbook that Mark Twain invented, they claimed ownership of their reading. They created their own democratic archives. Writing with Scissors argues that people have long had a strong personal relationship to media. Like newspaper editors who enthusiastically "scissorized" and reprinted attractive items from other newspapers, scrapbook makers passed their reading along to family and community. This book explains how their scrapbooks underlie our present-day ways of thinking about information, news, and what we do with it.
The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Manuscript inventories, A-P
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Jewish Roots in Southern Soil
Author: Marcie Cohen FerrisPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584655893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A lively look at southern Jewish history and culture.
ThompsonCourierRakeRegister_2018-04-26_all.pdf
Author: Publisher: Thompson Courier & Rake Register, L.L.C.
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
ThompsonCourierRakeRegister_2018-04-26_all.pdf
Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital
Author: United States. Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National CapitalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description