Oral History Interview with George Harrison Whitney
Author | : George Harrison Whitney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : George Harrison Whitney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : Michael Whitney Straight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Art |
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Interview of Michael Whitney Straight conducted by Laurin Raikin and Barry Schwartz for the Archives of American Art "Art World in Turmoil" oral history project.
Author | : Sylvia Ellis |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813047188 |
History has labeled Lyndon B. Johnson "Lincoln's successor." But how did a southern president representing a predominately conservative state, with connections to some of the nation's leading segregationists, come to play such an influential role in civil rights history? In Freedom's Pragmatist, Sylvia Ellis tracks Johnson's personal and political civil rights journey, from his childhood and early adulthood in Texas to his lengthy career in Congress and the Senate to his time as vice president and president. Once in the White House, and pressured constantly by grassroots civil rights protests, Johnson made a major contribution to the black freedom struggle through his effective use of executive power. He provided much-needed moral leadership on racial equality; secured the passage of landmark civil rights acts that ended legal segregation and ensured voting rights for blacks; pushed for affirmative action; introduced antipoverty, education, and health programs that benefited all; and made important and symbolic appointments of African Americans to key political positions. Freedom's Pragmatist argues that place, historical context, and personal ambition are the keys to understanding Johnson on civil rights. And Johnson is key to understanding the history of civil rights in the United States. Ellis emphasizes Johnson's complex love-hate relationship with the South, his innate compassion for the disadvantaged and dispossessed, and his political instincts and skills that allowed him to know when and how to implement racial change in a divided nation.
Author | : Michael Burlingame |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 2028 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0801889936 |
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America's sixteenth president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's life during his presidency and the Civil War, narrating in fascinating detail the crisis over Fort Sumter and Lincoln's own battles with relentless office seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also offers new interpretations of Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd and the untimely deaths of two sons to disease. But through it all—his difficult childhood, his contentious political career, a fratricidal war, and tragic personal losses—Lincoln preserved a keen sense of humor and acquired a psychological maturity that proved to be the North's most valuable asset in winning the Civil War. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this landmark publication establishes Burlingame as the most assiduous Lincoln biographer of recent memory and brings Lincoln alive to modern readers as never before.
Author | : Eugene D. Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Depressions |
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Interview with Eugene D. Harrison, an automobile mechanic, concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Author | : Jim Newton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2007-10-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1440619808 |
One of the most acclaimed and best political biographies of its time, Justice for All is a monumental work dedicated to a complicated and principled figure that will become a seminal work of twentieth-century U.S. history. In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the court in American life through landmark Supreme Court cases whose names have entered the common parlance -- Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, Miranda v. Arizona, to name just a few. Drawing on unmatched access to government, academic, and private documents pertaining to Warren's life and career, Newton explores a fascinating angle of U.S. Supreme Court history while illuminating both the public and the private Warren.
Author | : Elizabeth Ferrell |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300256523 |
A remarkable portrait of a web of artistic connections, traced outward from Jay DeFeo's uniquely generative work of art Through deep archival research and nuanced analysis, Elizabeth Ferrell examines the creative exchange that developed with and around The Rose, a monumental painting on which the San Francisco artist Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) worked almost exclusively from 1958 to 1966. From its early state to its dramatic removal from DeFeo's studio, the painting was a locus of activity among Fillmore District artists. Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Wally Hedrick, and Michael McClure each took up The Rose in their photographs, films, paintings, and poetry, which DeFeo then built upon in turn. The resulting works established a dialogue between artists rather than seamless cooperation. Illustrated with archival photographs and personal correspondence, in addition to the artworks, Ferrell's book traces how The Rose became a stage for experimentation with authorship and community, defying traditional definitions of collaboration and creating alternatives to Cold War America's political and artistic binaries.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Archives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Niels Bohr Library |
Publisher | : American Institute of Physics |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
This volume contains a guide to the archival collections of the Niels Bohr Library at the American Institute of Physics.
Author | : Ruth McMullin |
Publisher | : New York : Bowker |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
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