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“bryan e norwood”

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  • Professing Architecture

    Morals, Markets, and Architects in the Early United States

    by Bryan E. Norwood ...
    In the early nineteenth-century United States, a number of architects began to see their profession as a higher calling. Even as architecture was increasingly subjected to the pressures of the market, these figures gave sermon-like public lectures that cast their work as a divinely informed task. They sought to elevate their profession beyond mere building or crass profit-seeking by portraying it ... Read more

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  • The University of Illinois

    Engine of Innovation

    by James R. Barrett, George O Batzli, Claire Benjamin, Jeffrey D Brawn, Jimena Canales, Stephanie A Dick, Poshek Fu, Marcelo H Garcia, Lillian Hoddeson, Harry Liebersohn, Claudia Lutz, Kathleen Mapes, Vicki McKinney, Elisa Miller, Robert Michael Morrissey, Bryan E Norwood, Elizabeth Pleck, Leslie J Reagan, Susan M Rigdon, David Rosenboom, Katherine Skwarczek, Winton U Solberg, Carol Spindel, William F Tracy, Joy Ann Williamson-Lott ...
    The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix of teachers and scholars produced innovations in agriculture, engineering and the arts that challenged old ideas and stimulated dynamic new industries. Projects ranging from the Mosaic web browser to the discovery of Archaea and pioneering triumphs in women's ... Read more

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  • Mystic Chords of Memory

    The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

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  • William Wells Brown

    An African American Life

    by Ezra Greenspan ...
    **A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Biography'A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century.**Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone’s, “rented” out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the young man ... Read more

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  • The Promised Land

    History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond

    Edited by Boulou de b'Beri, Nina Reid-Maroney, Handel K. Wright ...
    Series series African & Diasporic Cultural Studies
    Eschewing the often romanticized Underground Railroad narrative that portrays southern Ontario as the welcoming destination of Blacks fleeing from slavery, The Promised Land reveals the Chatham-Kent area as a crucial settlement site for an early Black presence in Canada. The contributors present the everyday lives and professional activities of individuals and families in these communities and ... Read more

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  • In Pursuit of Privilege

    A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis

    by Clifton Hood ...
    A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance. Despite their efforts, New York City's upper class has been drawn into the larger story of the city both through class conflict and ... Read more

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  • Public History

    An Introduction from Theory to Application

    by Jennifer Lisa Koslow ...
    PUBLIC HISTORYPROVIDES A BACKGROUND IN THE HISTORY, PRINCIPLES, AND PRACTICES OF THE FIELD OF PUBLIC HISTORYPublic History: An Introduction from Theory to Application is the first text of its kind to offer both historical background on the ways in which historians have collected, preserved, and interpreted history with and for public audiences in the United States since the nineteenth century to ... Read more

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  • On Doing Local History

    by Carol Kammen ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    For over thirty years, Carol Kammen’s On Doing Local History has been a valuable guide to professional and “amateur” historians alike. First published in 1986, revised in 2003, this book offers not only discussion of practical matters, but also a deeper reflection on local, public history, what it means, and why it is done. It is used in classrooms and found on the shelves of local historians ... Read more

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  • The Week

    A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are

    by David M Henkin ...
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  • Interpreting African American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites

    Edited by Max A. van Balgooy ...
    Series series Interpreting History
    In this landmark guide, nearly two dozen essays by scholars, educators, and museum leaders suggest the next steps in the interpretation of African American history and culture from the colonial period to the twentieth century at history museums and historic sites. This diverse anthology addresses both historical research and interpretive methodologies, including investigating church and legal ... Read more

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  • Picturing Frederick Douglass

    An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American

    by John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd, Celeste-Marie Bernier, Kenneth B. Morris Jr ...
    Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeA landmark and collectible volume—beautifully produced in duotone—that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force” (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to ... Read more

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