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  • Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle

    by Jessie Embry, ...
    Mormons and non-Mormons all have their views about how polygamy was practiced in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Embry has examined the participants themselves in order to understand how men and women living a nineteenth-century Victorian lifestyle adapted to polygamy. Based on records and oral histories with husbands, wives ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Defining Memory

    Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities

    by Tami Christopher, James Connor, J Daniel d'Oney, Jessie Embry, Eric Gable, Lucian Gomoll, Richard Handler, Donna Langford, Amy Levin, Mauri L. Nelson, Stuart Patterson, Heather Perry, Jay Price, Michael Rhode, Eric Sandweiss, Elizabeth Vallance ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors argue that these small institutions play a key role in defining America's self-identity and ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

  • Immigrants in the Far West

    Historical Identities and Experiences

    by Jessie L. Embry, Brian Q. Cannon ...
    This book is a collection of essays showcasing cutting-edge research and innovative approaches that a new generation of scholars is bringing to the study of immigration in the American West. Often overlooked in general studies of immigration, the western United States has been and is an important destination for immigrants. The unique combination of ethnicities and races in the West, combined with ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Utah in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Brian Q. Cannon, Jessie L. Embry ...
    The twentieth century could easily be Utah's most interesting and complex. Utah in the Twentieth Century chronicles the social and cultural transitions of the time, offering a well-rounded perspective on the development and change the Beehive State went through during this period.It was an era complicated by the push of economic development and pull of traditional culture, demand for natural ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West

    Edited by Jessie L. Embry ...
    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 ... Read more

    $23.09 USD