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Constructing American Lives
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Author : Scott E. Casper
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 1999
Constructing American Lives written by Scott E. Casper and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writin
American Lives
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Author : Robert F. Sayre
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1994
American Lives written by Robert F. Sayre and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
American Lives is a groundbreaking book, the first historically organized anthology of American autobiographical writing, bringing us fifty-five voices from throughout the nation's history, from Abigail Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Jonathan Edwards, and Richard Wright to Quaker preacher Elizabeth Ashbridge, con man Stephen Burroughs, and circus impresario P.T. Barnum. Representing canonical and non-canonical writers, slaves and slave-owners, generals and conscientious objectors, scientists, immigrants, and Native Americans, the pieces in this collection make up a rich gathering of American "songs of ourselves." Robert F. Sayre frames the selections with an overview of theory and criticism of autobiography and with commentary on the relation between history and many kinds of autobiographical texts--travel narratives, stories of captivity, diaries of sexual liberation, religious conversions, accounts of political disillusionment, and discoveries of ethnic identity. With each selection Sayre also includes an extensive headnote providing valuable critical and biographical information. A scholarly and popular landmark, American Lives is a book for general readers and for teachers, students, and every American scholar.
African American Lives
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Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-04-29
African American Lives written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-29 with History categories.
African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these stories of the renowned and the near forgotten give us a new view of American history. Our past is revealed from personal perspectives that in turn inspire, move, entertain, and even infuriate the reader. Subjects include slaves and abolitionists, writers, politicians, and business people, musicians and dancers, artists and athletes, victims of injustice and the lawyers, journalists, and civil rights leaders who gave them a voice. Their experiences and accomplishments combine to expose the complexity of race as an overriding issue in America's past and present. African American Lives features frequent cross-references among related entries, over 300 illustrations, and a general index, supplemented by indexes organized by chronology, occupation or area of renown, and winners of particular honors such as the Spingarn Medal, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize.
Literacy In American Lives
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Author : Deborah Brandt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-05-28
Literacy In American Lives written by Deborah Brandt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-28 with History categories.
This book addresses critical questions facing public education at the twenty-first century.
American Lives
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Author : Amy A. Kass
language : en
Publisher: Jackdaw Publications
Release Date : 1995-01-01
American Lives written by Amy A. Kass and has been published by Jackdaw Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Autobiographies categories.
The study of diverse American lives, presented firsthand by those who lived them, is an excellent way for students to become more
Modern American Lives Individuals And Issues In American History Since 1945
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Author : Blaine T Browne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-18
Modern American Lives Individuals And Issues In American History Since 1945 written by Blaine T Browne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Business & Economics categories.
The individuals presented in these narrative biographies significantly, and sometimes decisively, impacted contemporary American life in a wide range of areas, including national politics, foreign policy, social and political activism, popular and literary culture, sports, and business. The combined biographical/thematic approach is designed to serve two purposes: to present more substantive biographical information, and to offer a fuller examination of key events and issues. The book is an ideal supplement for undergraduate courses on The United States Since 1945, as well as for courses on Modern America and 20th Century America.
Myths America Lives By
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Author : Richard T. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2018-09-05
Myths America Lives By written by Richard T. Hughes and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-05 with Social Science categories.
Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of white supremacy, the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others.
American Lives
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Author : Alicia Christensen
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2010-03-01
American Lives written by Alicia Christensen and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In prose as diverse as the stories they tell, writers such as Floyd Skloot, Ted Kooser, Peggy Shumaker, and Lee Martin, among many others, open windows to their own ordinary and extraordinary experiences. John Skoyles tells how, for his Uncle Fred, a particular "Hard Luck Suit" imparted misfortune. Brenda Serotte describes a Turkish grandmother who made her living reading palms, interpreting cups, and prescribing poultices for the community. In "Son of Mr. Green Jeans," Dinty W. Moore views fatherhood through the lens of pop culture. Janet Sternburg's Phantom Limb muses on the dilemmas of a child caring for a parent. Whether evoking moments of death or disease, in family or marriage, history, politics, religion, or culture, these glimpses into singular American lives come together in a richly textured, colorful patchwork quilt of American life.
American Lives
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Author : Willard Sterne Randall
language : en
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1997
American Lives written by Willard Sterne Randall and has been published by Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"American Lives "is a collection of succinct biographical essays on both renowned and lesser-known figures in American History.
What Becomes You
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Author : Aaron Raz Link
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-04
What Becomes You written by Aaron Raz Link and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn," Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. Turning from female to male and from teaching scientist to theatre performer, Link documents the extraordinary medical, social, legal, and personal processes involved in a complete identity change. Hilda Raz, a well-known feminist writer and teacher, observes the process as both an "astonished" parent and as a professor who has studied gender issues. All these perspectives come into play in this collaborative memoir, which travels between women's experience and men's lives, explores the art and science of changing sex, maps uncharted family values, and journeys through a world transformed by surgery, hormones, love, and . . . clown school. Combining personal experience and critical analysis, the book is an unusual--and unusually fascinating--reflection on gender, sex, and the art of living.