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To Tell A Free Story traces in unprecedented detail the history of Black autobiography from the colonial era through Emancipation. Beginning with the 1760 narrative...
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Even after 100 years, this is a captivating fable witty and biting of a Thomas Edisonlike inventor who creates the radiant and tragic android Hadaly,...
Even after 100 years, this is a captivating fable witty and biting of a Thomas Edisonlike inventor who creates the radiant and tragic android Hadaly,...
The revised and expanded edition of Touching Base examines the myths, realities, symbols, and rituals of America's national pastime. Steven Riess details the relationships among...
The revised and expanded edition of Touching Base examines the myths, realities, symbols, and rituals of America's national pastime. Steven Riess details the relationships among...
In this lively, thoughtprovoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. womenofcolor feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how...
In this lively, thoughtprovoking study, AnaLouise Keating writes in the traditions of radical U.S. womenofcolor feminist/womanist thought and queer studies, inviting us to transform how...
Transforming Tradition examines the phenomenon of the folk song revival, those vibrant meldings of popular and folk culture that captured public awareness in the 1950s...
Transforming Tradition examines the phenomenon of the folk song revival, those vibrant meldings of popular and folk culture that captured public awareness in the 1950s...
From fiddle tunes to folk ballads, from banjos to blues, traditional music thrives in the remote mountains and hollers of West Virginia. For a quarter...
A compelling account of contemporary Sacred Harp singing, Traveling Home describes how this vibrant musical tradition brings together Americans of widely divergent religious and political...
This portrait describes and evaluates Ralph Stanley's more than 40year career with his Clinch Mountain Boys. Wright also reveals how Stanley's life and music developed...
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From the union's formation in 1937 until the 1960s, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) was the largest and most influential teachers' union in the country....
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For a director who has made a limited number of feature films over fourplus decades, Terrence Malick sustains an extraordinary reputation as one of Americas...
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Chicago'S 1933 World'S Fair Set A New Direction For International Expositions. Earlier Fairs Had Exhibited Technological Advances, But Chicago'S Fair Organizers Used The Very Idea...
What emerges from Kachru's fine work is the potential demarcationof an entire field, rather than merely the fruitful exploration of a topic.. . . [Kachru]...
What emerges from Kachru's fine work is the potential demarcationof an entire field, rather than merely the fruitful exploration of a topic.. . . [Kachru]...
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The past few decades have witnessed an increasing reaction of the Mormons against their own successful assimilation,' Armand Mauss writes in The Angel and the...
Fourteen authors, including many of the bestknown scholars in the field,explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms...
In August 1835, in the midst of a particularly tumultuous year of nationwide unrest and upheaval, Baltimore suffered one of the most violent and destructive...
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