Winifred Black Annie Laurie And The Making Of Modern Nonfiction

Author : Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476622668

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Winifred Black/Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction by Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene Pdf

Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers—especially the San Francisco Examiner—and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books, a nonfiction oeuvre that combined quasi-autobiographical details with characters and scenes to provide cultural analysis for a nationwide audience. She wrote about the realities facing modern women—their work, their marriages and divorces, the violence they endured, their need for independence. Contemporary praise for Black named her “the world’s most famous feature writer” and “one of the world’s most successful reporters,” while her critics affixed the pejorative labels “stunt girl” and “sob sister.” This study covers her influential career and gives the first serious attention to her journalism and nonfiction.

Author : Kirstin Olsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216071570

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Daily Life of Women in the Progressive Era by Kirstin Olsen Pdf

This book illustrates the social change that took place in the lives of women during the Progressive Era. The political and social change of the Progressive Era brought conflicts over labor, women's rights, consumerism, religion, sexuality, and many other aspects of American life. As Americans argued and fought over suffrage and political reform, vast changes were also taking place in women's professional, material, personal, recreational, and intellectual lives. In this installment of Greenwood's Daily Life through History series, award-winning author Kirstin Olsen brings to life the everyday experiences, priorities, and challenges of women in America's Progressive Era (ca. 1890–1920). From the barnstorming "bloomer girls" who showed America that women could play baseball to film star, tycoon, and co-founder of the Academy of Motion Pictures Mary Pickford, and from the highly skilled "Hello Girls"—telephone operators who helped win World War I—to the remarkable journalist and civil rights activist Ida Wells-Barnett, women led both famous and ordinary lives that were shaped by and helped to drive the dramatic social change taking place during the Progressive Era. All of this and more is described in this book through topical sections as well as stories and profiles that reveal to readers the daily lives of America's women who lived during the Progressive Era. Readers will benefit from Olsen's characteristically sharp eye for detail, power of description, and breadth of historical knowledge.

Author : Grace Wetzel
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809338672

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Rhetorical Education in Turn-of-the-century U.S. Women's Journalism by Grace Wetzel Pdf

At the end of the nineteenth century, newspapers powerfully shaped the U.S. reading public, fostering widespread literacy development and facilitating rhetorical education. Rhetorical Education in Turn-of-the-Century U.S. Women's Journalism illuminates the pedagogical contributions of three newspaperwomen to show how the field became a dynamic site of public participation, relationship building, education, and activism in the 1880s and 1890s.

Author : Johnny D. Boggs
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476646008

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American Newspaper Journalists on Film by Johnny D. Boggs Pdf

When "talking" pictures first appeared in cinema theaters in the late 1920s, films about newspaper journalists quickly became a Hollywood mainstay. These were a variety of responses from working reporters, editors, and photographers. The newspaper film was a popular genre in the 1950s, and famous films such as All the President's Men (1976) and Spotlight (2015) have depicted the power of the press. Journalists have also been portrayed in films that are not specifically about newspapers, appearing in noir films like Woman on the Run (1950), Westerns such as Fort Worth (1951), comedies like The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), musicals like Wake Up and Live (1937) and historical epics like Lawrence of Arabia (1962). A film historian and former newspaper writer, the author investigates how accurately films have portrayed journalists across the decades. The book also details what journalists thought of the depictions at the time, contributing to brief histories and analyses for each film. Featured journalist archetypes include airy reporters, screaming editors, photographers, sportswriters and war journalists. Classics, misfires, Westerns, obscure treasures and films the press both adored and detested are all included in this comprehensive here.

Author : Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476662978

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Women, Art and the New Deal by Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene Pdf

In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American artists through the Works Progress Administration--fiction writers, photographers, poster artists, dramatists, painters, sculptors, muralists, wood carvers, composers and choreographers, as well as journalists, historians and researchers. Secretary of Commerce and supervisor of the WPA Harry Hopkins hailed it a "renascence of the arts, if we can call it a rebirth when it has no precedent in our history." Women were eminently involved, creating a wide variety of art and craft, interweaving their own stories with those of other women whose lives might not otherwise have received attention. This book surveys the thousands of women artists who worked for the U.S. government, the historical and social worlds they described and the collaborative depiction of womanhood they created at a pivotal moment in American history.

Author : Katherine H. Adams
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476643809

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The Rankins of Montana by Katherine H. Adams Pdf

This is the story of the Rankins, a family that embodied the risk and ambition that transformed America. John Rankin arrived in the West chasing the adventure of gold mining but soon turned to ranching and building in the new town of Missoula. There he met Olive Pickering, who had left New Hampshire in 1878 to become a teacher and seek a husband on the American frontier. John and Olive's children continued to demonstrate their parent's ambition and nerve. Their son became one of the biggest landowners in the country, one of the first personal injury lawyers, and a crusader against railroads and mining. Jeannette became the first woman in a national legislature, voted against two world wars and led marches protesting the Vietnam War. As a dean, Harriet helped develop the modern co-educational university. Edna traveled the world advocating for birth control. The Rankins faced both national adulation and condemnation for the choices they made. Their family story concerns independence and education, activism, the boundaries created by gender, religious choices, and the changing meaning of the West.

Author : Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476669687

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Paper Dolls by Katherine H. Adams,Michael L. Keene Pdf

Paper dolls might seem the height of simplicity--quaint but simple toys, nothing more. But through the centuries paper figures have reflected religious and political beliefs, notions of womanhood, motherhood and family, the dictates of fashion, approaches to education, individual self-image and self-esteem, and ideas about death. This book examines paper dolls and their symbolism--from icons made by priests in ancient China to printable Kim Kardashians on the Internet--to show how these ephemeral objects have an enduring and sometimes surprising presence in history and culture.

Author : Katherine H. Adams
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476637174

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Claiming Her Place in Congress by Katherine H. Adams Pdf

 The fall of 2018 saw an unprecedented number of women elected to Congress, changing estimates of how long it might take to achieve equal representation. For the first time, women candidates used techniques honed by America's political families, which have helped women enter politics since 1916. Drawing on extensive research and conversations with successful women politicians, this book offers a history of the political opportunities provided through familial connections. Family networks have a long history of enabling women to run for political office. There is much for the latest group of candidates to emulate.

Author : Therese Oneill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781982199715

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Unbecoming a Lady by Therese Oneill Pdf

A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t attractive, well-spoken, demure, or sinless enough to receive their rightful place in history, until now, from New York Times bestselling author Therese Oneill. Slut. Shrew. Sinful. Scold. The 19th- and early 20th-century American women profiled in this collection were called all these names and worse when they were alive. And that’s just fine. These glorious dames earned those monikers, and one hundred years later they can wear them proudly! They refused to conform to societal standards. They bucked everyday niceties and blazed their own trails. They were collectively unbecoming as women, but they forever changed what women can become. With irresistible charm and laugh-out-loud impertinence, New York Times bestselling author Therese Oneill chronicles the lives of eighteen unbecoming ladies whose audacity, courage, and sheer disdain for lady-like expectations left them out of so many history books. Curious readers will learn about forgotten heroines such as: -Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: who, despite being the only woman ever awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, was shunned and forgotten due to her insistence on wearing pants in public. -Elizabeth Packard: whose careful record of her own unjust incarceration in a 19th century madhouse by her husband (her crime: not wanting to be Presbyterian anymore) led to nationwide law reforms to protect the rights of those with mental health issues. -Lilian Gilbreth: best remembered for being the real-life mom of Cheaper by the Dozen but who probably should be remembered for scientifically removing the stigma of the sanitary napkin and designing the modern-day kitchen. -And many more! With dozens of illustrations and historical photographs throughout, Unbecoming a Lady shines a light on unforgettable, impressive women who deserve to be remembered.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Feminist Collections by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Horwood,Helen Rappaport
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 009179658X

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Dark Hearts of Chicago by William Horwood,Helen Rappaport Pdf

'Dark Hearts of Chicago' combines powerful storytelling with the most meticulous research to produce a novel that is a striking new departure for both William Horwood and Helen Rappaport.

Author : Winifred Black Bonfils
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258486229

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The Life and Personality of Phoebe Apperson Hearst by Winifred Black Bonfils Pdf

Author : James Conan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 1407424963

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City of Dark Hearts by James Conan Pdf

It is 1893 and Anna Zemeckis, a young New Yorker, goes missing in America's most dangerous city: Chicago. Home to the World's Fair, Chicago is a city of glitz and razzmatazz - a city intoxicated by its own spectacular wealth. But beneath the sophisticated facade lies a sinister underworld of pornography, prostitution and violence. It's a lethal place for the weak or vulnerable - and Anna isn't the first young woman to disappear without trace. Emily Strauss, an inexperienced but ambitious reporter from the New York World, is given a treacherous assignment: to find out what happened to Anna, and to the other missing women. Against a punishing deadline, alone in a dangerous and unfamiliar world, she faces a near-impossible task. And, she soon discovers, a powerful enemy...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : London (England)
ISBN : MINN:31951001356680C

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The Illustrated London News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015549996

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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record by Anonim Pdf