Remembering Boston

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Remembering
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1683368126

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Remembering Boston by Anonim Pdf

Boston is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Boston has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, Boston has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens. With a selection of fine historic images from his bestselling book Historic Photos of Boston, Timothy Orwig provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Boston. Remembering Boston captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From the era of privately owned textile interests, to its role as a financial hub, Remembering Boston follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city's history. This volume captures unique and rare scenes as depicted in more than a hundred historic photographs. Published in striking black-and-white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.

Author : Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478059165

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The Art of Remembering by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw Pdf

In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of "rememory"—the recovery of facts and narratives of African American creativity and self-representation that have been purposefully set aside, actively ignored, and disremembered. In analyses of the work of artists ranging from Scipio Moorhead, Moses Williams, and Aaron Douglas to Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Deana Lawson, Shaw demonstrates that African American art and history may be remembered and understood anew through a process of intensive close looking, cultural and historical contextualization, and biographic recuperation or consideration. Shaw shows how embracing rememory expands the possibilities of history by acknowledging the existence of multiple forms of knowledge and ways of understanding an event or interpreting an object. In so doing, Shaw thinks beyond canonical interpretations of art and material and visual culture to imagine “what if,” asking what else did we once know that has been lost.

Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1584798521

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Remembering Fenway Park by Harvey Frommer Pdf

Provides a decade-by-decade account of the history of Fenway Park, with first-person narratives and historical photographs.

Author : Susan Tucker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781496806222

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City of Remembering by Susan Tucker Pdf

City of Remembering represents a rich testament to the persistence of a passionate form of public history. In exploring one particular community of family historians in New Orleans, Susan Tucker reveals how genealogists elevate a sort of subterranean foundation of the city--sepia photographs of the Vieux Carré, sturdy pages of birth registrations from St. Louis Cathedral, small scraps of the earliest French Superior Council records, elegant and weighty leaves of papers used by notaries, and ledgers from the judicial deliberations of the Illustrious Spanish Cabildo. They also explore coded letters left by mistake, accounts carried over oceans, and gentle prods of dying children to be counted and thus to be remembered. Most of all, the family historians speak of continual beginnings, both in the genesis of their own research processes, but also of American dreams that value the worth of every individual life. The author, an archivist who has worked for over thirty years asking questions about how records figure in the lives of individuals and cultures, also presents a national picture of genealogy's origins, uses, changing forms, and purposes. Tucker examines both the past and the present and draws from oral history interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and archival research. Illustrations come from individuals, archives, and libraries in New Orleans; Richmond; Washington, DC; and Salt Lake City, as well as Massachusetts and Wisconsin, demonstrating the contrasts between regions and how those practitioners approach their work in each setting. Ultimately, Tucker shows that genealogy is more than simply tracing lineage--the pursuit becomes a fascinating window into people, neighborhoods, and the daily life of those individuals who came before us.

Author : Richard Blanco
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780807025918

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How to Love a Country by Richard Blanco Pdf

A timely and moving collection from the renowned inaugural poet on issues facing our country and people—immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more. Through an oracular yet intimate and accessible voice, Richard Blanco addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that affect us all. Blanco digs deep into the very marrow of our nation through poems that interrogate our past and present, grieve our injustices, and note our flaws, but also remember to celebrate our ideals and cling to our hopes. Charged with the utopian idea that no single narrative is more important than another, this book asserts that America could and ought someday to be a country where all narratives converge into one, a country we can all be proud to love and where we can all truly thrive. The poems form a mosaic of seemingly varied topics: the Pulse nightclub massacre; an unexpected encounter on a visit to Cuba; the forced exile of 8,500 Navajos in 1868; a lynching in Alabama; the arrival of a young Chinese woman at Angel Island in 1938; the incarceration of a gifted writer; and the poet’s abiding love for his partner, who he is finally allowed to wed as a gay man. But despite each poem’s unique concern or occasion, all are fundamentally struggling with the overwhelming question of how to love this country.

Author : Marianne Holdzkom
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476649207

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Remembering John Adams by Marianne Holdzkom Pdf

Has John Adams been forgotten? He is the only Founding Father without a major memorial in the nation's capital. When he lamented that "monuments will never be erected to me," he predicted as much. His pessimism was understandable, but it was unjustified: Adams has since been portrayed in numerous biographies, plays, musicals, poems, novels, and television shows. This is the first comprehensive overview of John Adams as he appears in scholarship and in popular culture. The second president is one-dimensional at times, and perhaps best known to the public as "obnoxious and disliked," but he is always fascinating. The varied ways in which biographers and artists represented Adams provide a glimpse into his character. These portrayals also provide insight into the various ways in which people continue to find meaning in the American Revolution and its aftermath.

Author : G. Kurt Piehler
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588344519

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Remembering War the American Way by G. Kurt Piehler Pdf

Wars do not fully end when the shooting stops. As G. Kurt Piehler reveals in this book, after every conflict from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War, Americans have argued about how and for what deeds and heroes wars should be remembered. Drawing on sources ranging from government documents to Embalmer's Monthly, Piehler recounts efforts to commemorate wars by erecting monuments, designating holidays, forming veterans' organizations, and establishing national cemetaries. The federal government, he contends, initially sidestepped funding for memorials, thereby leaving the determination of how and whom to honor in the hands of those with ready money—and those who responded to them. In one instance, monuments to “Yankee heroes” erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution were countered by immigrant groups, who added such figures as Casimir Pulaski and Thaddeus Kosciusko to the record of the war. Piehler argues that the conflict between these groups is emblematic of the ongoing reinterpretation of wars by majority and minority groups, and by successive generations. Demonstrating that the battles over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are not unique in American history, Remembering War the American Way reveals that the memory of war is intrinsically bound to the pluralistic definition of national identity.

Author : Alexander Winchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Blanc, Mont (France and Italy).
ISBN : HARVARD:HS1NU3

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Sparks from a Geologist's Hammer by Alexander Winchell Pdf

Author : Jesse George Cross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Eclectic shorthand
ISBN : NYPL:33433034370860

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Eclectic Short-hand: Writing by Principles Instead of Arbitrary Signs by Jesse George Cross Pdf

Author : William Mathews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : American essays
ISBN : UGA:32108003763284

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Literary Style by William Mathews Pdf

Author : Lucius N. Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : China
ISBN : OXFORD:400955423

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The Foreigner in China by Lucius N. Wheeler Pdf

Author : Benjamin Franklin Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B282251

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Between the Gates by Benjamin Franklin Taylor Pdf

Author : Louise Märtz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1MY5

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A New Method for the Study of English Literature by Louise Märtz Pdf

Author : George Claude Lorimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Baptists
ISBN : WISC:89005730312

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Isms Old and New by George Claude Lorimer Pdf

Author : Richard J. Cox
Publisher : Library Juice Press, LLC
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781936117451

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The Demise of the Library School by Richard J. Cox Pdf

In The Demise of the Library School, Richard J. Cox places the present and future of professional education for librarianship in the debate on the modern corporate university. The book is a series of meditations on critical themes relating to the education of librarians, archivists, and other information professionals, playing off of other commentators analyzing the nature of higher education and its problems and promises.