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Author | : Federal Writers' Project |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2013-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1595342036 |
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During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. Published in 1941, the WPA Guide to Arkansas splendidly exhibits the varied environment of the Natural State. From the densely forested land in the Ozark Mountains and Arkansas Timberlands to the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta, the guide to the Land of Opportunity provides several photographs of, history on, and driving tours through the state’s grand geography.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Arkansas |
ISBN | : 9780700603411 |
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**** The original edition, Nevada, a guide to the Silver State is cited in BCL3. This reprint (shot from the 1940 edition) is not beautiful typographically. New (4 p.) foreword. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Federal Writers' Project |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
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Download The WPA Guide to 1930s Kansas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A reissue of a 1939 guide to Kansas compiled as part of the Federal Writers' Project during the Depression years, providing information not only about the attractions of the state, but serving as a cultural chronicle of an earlier time.
Author | : Bernard A. Weisberger |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
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Download The WPA Guide to America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : US History Publishers |
Total Pages | : 558 |
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ISBN | : 1603540040 |
Download Arkansas: A Guide to the State Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
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Reprint. Originally pub. in 1941 by the Univ. of Oklahoma Press as: Oklahoma, a guide to the Sooner State. Includes index.
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Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Colorado |
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Author | : Federal Writers' Project |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1595342230 |
Download The WPA Guide to Missouri Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to the Show-Me State of Missouri literally shows the reader the virtues of this lovely region, by including vivid pictures of Art Deco skyscrapers in downtown Kansas City, farm scenes, the Ozark Mountains, and the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. It includes historical essays about the influence of these rivers on the state as well as Missouri’s important role in the American Civil War.
Author | : Federal Writers' Project |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1595342052 |
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During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Colorado, not surprisingly, emphasizes the natural beauty of the Highest State. With a landscape ranging from alpine mountains with lush forests to arid deserts with massive sand dunes and a history that includes a rich Native American presence as well as booming mining and agriculture industries, the WPA guide shows how Colorado has earned the moniker “the Colorful State.”
Author | : George E. Lankford |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2006-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1557288178 |
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The first edition of Bearing Witness brought together for the first time 176 slave narratives from the state of Arkansas. Now, this new edition adds ten previously undiscovered accounts. No one knew the truths of slavery better than the slaves themselves, but no one consulted them until the 1930s. Then, recognizing that this generation of unique witnesses would soon be lost to history, the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project acted to interview as many former slaves as possible. In a continuation of the project's interest in the life histories of ordinary people, writers interviewed over two thousand former slaves, more than a third of them in Arkansas. These oral histories were first published in the 1970s in a thirty-nine-volume series organized by state, and they transformed America's understanding of slavery. They have offered crucial evidence on a variety of other topics as well: the Civil War, Reconstruction, agricultural practices, everyday life, and oral history itself. But some former Arkansas slaves were interviewed in Texas, Oklahoma, and other states, so their narratives were published in those other collections. And more than half of the testimonies in the Arkansas volume were interviews with people who had moved to Arkansas after freedom. Folklorist George Lankford combed all of the state collections for the testimonies properly belonging to Arkansas and deleted from this state's collection the testimony of later migrants