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Rebirth of a Nation
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Jackson Lears |
In the half-century between the Civil War and World War I, widespread yearning for a new beginning permeated American public life. Dreams of spiritual, moral, and physical rebirth formed the foundati… |
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This is Who We Were
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Scott Derks |
This is Who We Were: In the 1910s explores American life in the 1910s. This new series is sure to be of value as both a serious research tool for students of American history as well as an intriguing… |
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This is Who We Were
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Grey House Publishing |
This new addition to the This is Who We Were series provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day-to-day life in America during the last two decades of the 19th century. Readers will uncover… |
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The brown decades
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Lewis Mumford |
A picture of the "buried renaissance" of the post-Civil War period, and the founding of modern architecture (Sullivan, Richardson, Root, Roebllng), landscape development (Marsh, Olmstead, Eliot), and… |
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Taylored lives
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Martha Banta |
Scientific management: Technology spawned it, Frederick Winslow Taylor championed it, Thorstein Veblen dissected it, Henry Ford implemented it. By the turn of the century, practical visionaries pride… |
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America's public holidays, 1865-1920
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Ellen M. Litwicki |
"Between the close of the Civil War and the end of World War I, Americans invented more than twenty-five holidays. Investigating a wide array of secular holidays, Ellen M. Litwicki argues that their … |
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