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Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the early decades of cinema, some of the most innovative and celebrated filmmakers in America were women. Alice Guy-Blaché helped establish the basics of cinematic language, while others boldly continued its development : slapstick queen Mabel Normand (who taught Charlie Chaplin the craft of directing), action star Grace Cunard, and LGBTQ icon Alla Nazimova. Unafraid of controversy, filmmakers such as Lois Weber and Dorothy Davenport Reid tackled...
Publisher
Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Chicago is famously a city of neighborhoods. Seventy-seven of them, formally; more than 200 in subjective, ever-changing fact. But what does that actually mean? The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook, the latest in Belt's series of idiosyncratic city guides (after Cleveland and Detroit), aims to explore community history and identity in a global city through essays, poems, photo essays, and art articulating the lived experience of its residents. Edited...
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Contributors: Abigail McCarthy, Alice R. Longsworth, Art Buchwald, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Barbara Howar, Ben Bradlee, David Brinkley, David McCullough, Dean Acheson, Drew Pearson, Robert S. Allen, Eleanor Roosevelt, Grace Tully, Harry Truman, Henry Allen, Henry Kissinger, Isabel Anderson, Jack Anderson, Jack Valenti, James Thurber, John dos Passos, Jonathan Daniels, Lady Bird Johnson, Lilian R. Parks, Liz Carpenter, Merriman Smith, Michael K....
Author
Publisher
Museum of Fine Arts
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890) was one of the most talented painters of late nineteenth-century America. He was among the first Americans to use the bright colors and broken brushstrokes of the new Impressionist style; his beautiful landscapes and portraits are sought after by the most distinguished collectors of American art. Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist is the first comprehensive study of this important American artist. Trained...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Zilphia Horton was a pioneer of cultural organizing, an activist and musician who taught people how to use the arts as a tool for social change, and a catalyst for anthems of empowerment such as "We Shall Overcome" and "We Shall Not Be Moved." Her contributions to the Highlander Folk School, a pivotal center of the labor and civil rights movements in the mid-twentieth century, and her work creating the songbook of the labor movement influenced countless...
98) Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's vision for social justice
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"How Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School catalyzed social justice and democratic education. For too long, the story of life-changing teacher and activist Myles Horton has escaped the public spotlight. An inspiring and humble leader whose work influenced the Civil Rights Movement, Horton helped thousands of marginalized people gain greater control over their lives. Born and raised in early twentieth-century Tennessee, Horton was appalled by...
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Series
Publisher
Santillana USA Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Who was Franklin Roosevelt? A boy who loved sailing, riding horses, and football? A man left crippled by polio? The only president of the United States elected four times? All of the above! Find out more about the real life Franklin Roosevelt in this illustrated biography.
"¿Quién fue Franklin Roosevelt? Un muchacho a quien le encantaba navegar, montar a caballo, y jugar fúbol americano? Un hombre que quedó paralitico por la polio? El único...
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