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Oral History Project University Of Nevada
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Author : University of Nevada, Reno. Oral History Project
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Oral History Project University Of Nevada written by University of Nevada, Reno. Oral History Project and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Nevada categories.
The Oral History Project Of The University Of Nevada Reno Library
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Author : Mary Ellen Glass
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Oral History Project Of The University Of Nevada Reno Library written by Mary Ellen Glass and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Nevada categories.
Oral History Program Of The University Of Nevada Reno Library
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Oral History Program Of The University Of Nevada Reno Library written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Nevada categories.
Becoming America S Playground
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Author : Larry D. Gragg
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2019-08-29
Becoming America S Playground written by Larry D. Gragg and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with History categories.
In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous postwar Americans could enjoy vices largely forbidden elsewhere, and it emerged in the sixties as a national hotspot, the glitzy resort city that lights up the American West today. Becoming America’s Playground chronicles the vice and the toil that gave Las Vegas its worldwide reputation in those transformative years. Las Vegas’s rise was no happy accident. After World War II, vacationing Americans traveled the country in record numbers, making tourism a top industry in such states as California and Florida. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce saw its chance and developed a plan to capitalize on the town’s burgeoning reputation for leisure. Las Vegas pinned its hopes for the future on Americans’ need for escape. Transforming a vice city financed largely by the mob into a family vacation spot was not easy. Hotel and casino publicists closely monitored media representations of the city and took every opportunity to stage images of good, clean fun for the public—posing even the atomic bomb tests conducted just miles away as an attraction. The racism and sexism common in the rest of the nation in the era prevailed in Las Vegas too. The wild success of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack performances at the Sands Hotel in 1960 demonstrated the city’s slow progress toward equality. Women couldn’t work as dealers in Las Vegas until the 1970s, yet they found more opportunities for well-paying jobs there than many American women could find elsewhere. Gragg shows how a place like the Las Vegas Strip—with its glitz and vast wealth and its wildly public consumption of vice—rose to prominence in the 1950s, a decade of Cold War anxiety and civil rights conflict. Becoming America’s Playground brings this pivotal decade in Las Vegas into sharp focus for the first time.
Oral History Community And Work In The American West
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Author : Jessie L. Embry
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2013-10-03
Oral History Community And Work In The American West written by Jessie L. Embry and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-03 with History categories.
Nurses, show girls, housewives, farm workers, casino managers, and government inspectors—together these hard-working members of society contributed to the development of towns across the West. The essays in this volume show how oral history increases understanding of work and community in the twentieth century American West. In many cases occupations brought people together in myriad ways. The Latino workers who picked lemons together in Southern California report that it was baseball and Cinco de Mayo Queen contests that united them. Mormons in Fort Collins, Colorado, say that building a church together bonded them together. In separate essays, African Americans and women describe how they fostered a sense of community in Las Vegas. Native Americans detail the “Indian economy” in Northern California. As these essays demonstrate, the history of the American West is the story of small towns and big cities, places both isolated and heavily populated. It includes groups whose history has often been neglected. Sometimes, western history has mirrored the history of the nation; at other times, it has diverged in unique ways. Oral history adds a dimension that has often been missing in writing a comprehensive history of the West. Here an array of oral historians—including folklorists, librarians, and public historians—record what they have learned from people who have, in their own ways, made history.
Oral History Project University Of Nevada Master Index 1965 1975
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Author : University of Nevada. Oral History Project
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Oral History Project University Of Nevada Master Index 1965 1975 written by University of Nevada. Oral History Project and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Nevada categories.
History Of Nevada
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Author : Russell R. Elliott
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1987-01-01
History Of Nevada written by Russell R. Elliott 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 1987-01-01 with History categories.
Maintaining the same high standards of the first edition, published in 1973, this new, revised edition is still the most comprehensive one-volume history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." In revising, Elliott summarizes the state's economic, political, and social history since 1973 and strengthens a major point he made then: that Nevada's acceptance of liberal marriage and divorce laws and of legalized gambling brought economic stability to a state singularly devoid of stable economic resources. -- from Book Jacket
Suburban Xanadu
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Author : David G. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2003
Suburban Xanadu written by David G. Schwartz and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Casinos categories.
Institution. Remarkably detailed and entertaining, Suburban Xanadu tells us a great deal about popular leisure in America, and why the suburban ideal has become so dominant in our social life. Book jacket.
Practicing Oral History In Historical Organizations
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Author : Barbara W Sommer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-16
Practicing Oral History In Historical Organizations written by Barbara W Sommer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with History categories.
It has been half a century since the last book that addressed how historical societies can utilize oral history. In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical organizations of all sizes and sorts might develop. The book -covers project personnel options, funding options, legal and ethical issues, interviewing techniques, and cataloging guidelines;-identifies helpful steps for historical societies when developing and doing oral history projects;-includes a dozen model case studies;-provides additional resources, templates, forms, and bibliography for the reader.
Speaking History
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Author : S. Armitage
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Speaking History written by S. Armitage and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with History categories.
This oral history reader, designed to supplement texts on the second half of the U.S. history survey, features the words of ordinary people who describe how they shaped, viewed, and remembered American history.