We cannot guarantee that every book is in the library! Originally published in at the time of the World's Fair, this is a reissue of this guide for time-travellers. The New York of was a city where adventures began under the clock at the Biltmore, the big liners sailed at midnight, and Times Square was considered the crossroads of the world. Hailed by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books ever written about the city.
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, writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories.
Compatible with any devices. They offer the day-tripper everything from nature trails to military garrisons. Written by New York natives, this guide zeros in on Manhattan, the city's crown jewel, and its world-class museums, restaurants, clubs, and hotels, and then goes on to the rich and diverse outer boroughs, digging up the less obvious charms.
A guide to the forgotten waterways hidden throughout the five boroughs Beneath the asphalt streets of Manhattan, creeks and streams once flowed freely. The remnants of these once-pristine waterways are all over the Big Apple, hidden in plain sight. Extensively revised for , this page volume includes updated information on finding a home to rent or buy, expanded activities for the sports-minded trapeze school, anyone?
From Inwood to Battery Park, from Riverdale to Bayside to DUMBO to Grymes Hill, plus suburbs in New Jersey, Long Island and Westchester, and Connecticut, this latest volume extensively and intensively describes each neighborhood—its character, its features, and types and availability of housing—while offering the most up-to-date information on finding a place to live, childcare, transportation, education, cultural life, helpful services, recreation, and much more.
Along with historical text of each site, borough histories, reference maps, and GPS Coordinates are included. Travelers and residents alike will find enjoyment and education. In the FDR administration put 40, unemployed artists to work in four federal arts projects.
The main contribution of one unit, the Federal Writers Project, was the American Guide Series, a collectively composed set of guidebooks to every state, most regions, and many cities, towns, and villages across the United States.
The WPA arts projects were poised on the cusp of the modern bureaucratization of culture. They occurred at a moment when the federal government was extending its reach into citizens' daily lives. The guidebooks the teams produced have been widely celebrated as icons of American democracy and diversity. Clumped together, they manifest a lofty role for the project and a heavy responsibility for its teams of writers. The guides assumed the authority of conceptualizing the national identity.
Her research in archival materials reveals the negotiations and conflicts between the central editors in Washington and the local people in the states. Race, region, and gender are taken as important categories within which difference and conflict appear. One and the Oregon Trail--to assess the editorial plotting of such issues as gender, race, ethnicity, and class.
As regionalists jostled with federal officialdom, the faultlines of the project gaped open. Spotlighting the controversies between federal and state bureaucracies, Bold concludes that the image of America that the WPA fostered is closer to fabrication than to actuality.
Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. Library Call no. Full Text online, edition Project Gutenberg.
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Penkower, Monty Noam. University of Illinois Press, Urana. Search or Browse "American Writers Project". This Research Guide contains details regarding each guide in the American Guide Series--there is one guide for each of the 48 States of the Union and Alaska, guides for several cities, and a few inter-state special guides-- produced in the late s and early s. Rowan University makes no claim to freely available websites nor does it accept responsibility for the information or opinions expressed by those who have created or authored the content or by those who are quoted on the sites.
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Hunt, Secretary of State Request print copy through Inter-Library loan at the academic or public library with which you are affiliated. Here's New England! The Writer's Project. See everyhrting availabl on your subject. Also set up an account and sign in with your NJ Library card for borrowing priviledges to , modern titles. Academic Search Complete Journal, magazine and news articles in all academic disciplines. This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 6, journals.
Abstracts and some full text of journal articles, citations to books, and dissertations on the history of the world excluding North America from to the present. Coverage includes the full text from volume 1, number 1 through the current date in some cases or, more often, up to a period of embargo from six months to five years depending on the arrangements with the title's vendor.
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