|
Realism for the masses
|
Chris Vials |
Realism for the Masses is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The literary and artistic creations of American realism … |
OL12037117W |
|
This is Who We Were
|
Scott Derks |
A companion resource to the 1940 Census just released by the US National Archives, This is Who We Were, provides the reader with a deeper understanding of what life was like in America in 1940 and ho… |
OL17075469W |
|
This is Who We Were
|
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… |
OL17075477W |
|
This is Who We Were
|
Scott Derks |
This Is Who We Were: In The 1920s is an offspring of our 13-volume Working Americans series. This new title is devoted to one decade -- the 1920s. It represents all classes, dozens of occupations, an… |
OL17075491W |
|
This Is Who We Were in the 1940s - 1940-1949
|
Mars, Laura |
This is Who We Were: In the 1940s provides the reader with a deeper understanding of what life was like in America in 1940-1949 and how it compares statistically to life today. Using original materia… |
OL17213816W |
|
Making people's music
|
Peter David Goldsmith |
"As the founder of Folkways Records in 1948 and its director for nearly forty years, Moe Asch was committed to preserving the entire range of the world's musical and oral traditions. By his death in … |
OL2710170W |
|
Taylored lives
|
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… |
OL4310373W |
|
From the crash to the blitz, 1929-1939
|
Cabell B. H. Phillips |
"Cabell Phillips takes the reader from the crash of the stock market to the crash of bombs and artillery in Poland. The New Deal was part of a social revolution, a recreation of the American experime… |
OL56929W |