Author: Marian C. Putnam
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781258168377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Margo Culley
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780935312515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.
Author: Donna Harrington-Lueker
Publisher: UMass + ORM
Published: 2019-08-30
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1613766319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status, book publishers sought new market opportunities, authors discovered a growing readership, and more readers indulged in lighter fare. Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Countering fears about the dangers of leisurely reading—especially for young women—publishers framed summer reading not as a disreputable habit but as a respectable pastime and welcome respite. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.
Author: Daniel Okrent
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2020-05-19
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1476798052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NAMED ONE OF THE “100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR” BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW From the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call—this “rigorously historical” (The Washington Post) and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America keep out “inferiors” in the 1920s is “a sobering, valuable contribution to discussions about immigration” (Booklist). A forgotten, dark chapter of American history with implications for the current day, The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who argued that certain nationalities were inherently inferior, providing the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history. Brandished by the upper class Bostonians and New Yorkers—many of them progressives—who led the anti-immigration movement, the eugenic arguments helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the US for more than forty years. Over five years in the writing, The Guarded Gate tells the complete story from its beginning in 1895, when Henry Cabot Lodge and other Boston Brahmins launched their anti-immigrant campaign. In 1921, Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that “biological laws” had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law was enacted three years later. In his trademark lively and authoritative style, Okrent brings to life the rich cast of characters from this time, including Lodge’s closest friend, Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Darwin’s first cousin, Francis Galton, the idiosyncratic polymath who gave life to eugenics; the fabulously wealthy and profoundly bigoted Madison Grant, founder of the Bronx Zoo, and his best friend, H. Fairfield Osborn, director of the American Museum of Natural History; Margaret Sanger, who saw eugenics as a sensible adjunct to her birth control campaign; and Maxwell Perkins, the celebrated editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. A work of history relevant for today, The Guarded Gate is “a masterful, sobering, thoughtful, and necessary book” that painstakingly connects the American eugenicists to the rise of Nazism, and shows how their beliefs found fertile soil in the minds of citizens and leaders both here and abroad.
Author: Joseph Norman Heard
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780810818941
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Author: Brimfield (Mass. : Town)
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joyce D. Goodfriend
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrea Wyman
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides a starting point for further research on the lives and duties of rural women teachers. It collects in a single bibliography a wide variety of material on rural women teachers from Colonial America to the 1940s including archival material, letters, diaries, journals, fiction, and dissertations.
Author: Frances Rollins Morse
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1000
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Henry Lee (1782-1867) was a merchant in Boston, Mass.