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1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions
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Abstract: A lesson plan in which students create their own multi-media epic poems about the year 1900. Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and Hart Crane's The Bridge serve as artistic models for students, who also draw on life histories, sound recordings, and other primary resources.
9 Variations on a Dance Theme
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Abstract: A female dancer repeats a short dance theme nine times to a soundtrack of piano and flute. As she performs the theme, the dancer is shot from different angles to yield nine variations. The first variations are composed of longer shots that capture the body and movements of the dancer in full. These variations ... More »
"A Black Joke."
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Abstract: Free African Americans living in the North before the Civil War suffered enormous disadvantages and discriminations. Forced to sit in separate and inferior sections in theaters, public transit, and churches, free blacks were also barred from all but the most menial jobs and denied entrance to white trade ... More »
A Child Becomes a Reader
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Abstract: tells what parents can do to help children (ages 0-4 and 5-8) become readers. It includes suggestions about what to look for in day care centers and preschools, and a summary of scientific research on how children learn to read and write.
"A Damaging Impression of Hollywood Has Spread": Movie "Czar" Eric Johnston Testifies before HUAC
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Abstract: The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) held hearings in October 1947 on Communist activity in Hollywood. In the following testimony, Eric Johnston, a successful businessman who in 1945 succeeded Will H. Hays as President of the Motion Picture Association of America--the industry's institution ... More »
A. F. of L. Delegates.
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Abstract: Faced with stiff business opposition, a conservative political climate, hostile courts, and declining membership, leaders of the American Federeration of Labor (AFL) grew increasingly cautious during the 1920s. Labor radicals viewed AFL leaders as overpaid, self-interested functionaries uninterested ... More »
"A German Beer Garden on Sunday Evening."
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Abstract: Between 1820 and 1860, 1,500,000 immigrants arrived in America from Germany. Many of the new arrivals who settled in cities such as New York worked as shopkeepers and skilled tradesmen, although many more worked as employees in construction, brewing, and manufacturing. Although German immigrants did ... More »
"A harvest of death, Gettysburg, July 1863."
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Abstract: Photographers covered the Civil War, following the Union Army in wagons that served as traveling darkrooms. Their equipment was bulky and the exposures had to be long, so they could not take action photographs during battle. But photography was graphic; this picture taken on the morning of July 4th, ... More »
A History of Computation, Control, and Communication from the course Foundations of American Cyberculture
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Abstract: Art 23: Foundations of American Cyberculture - Fall 2006. This new course will enable students to think critically about, and engage in practical experiments in, the complex interactions between new media and perceptions and performances of embodiment, agency, citizenship, collective action, individual ... More »
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Abstract: Henry Johnson comments on significance of the 1972 African Liberation Day March. Program examines the continued role of African Liberation Day in the lives of African Americans. Host Marita Rivero interviews African Liberation Day Steering Committee members Ethel and Frank Shefton to discuss both the ... More »
"A Make-Believe World": Contestants Testify to Deceptive Quiz Show Practices
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Abstract: Television had become the nation's largest medium for advertising by the mid-1950s, when the Revlon cosmetics corporation agreed to sponsor The $64,000 Question , the first prime-time network quiz show to offer contestants fabulous sums of money. As Revlon's average net profit rose in the next four ... More »
"A Most Awkward, Ridiculous Appearance": Benjamin Franklin Enters Philadelphia
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Abstract: When Boston native Benjamin Franklin entered Philadelphia in 1723, he had few coins in his pocket and scarce entrepreneurial skills. However, Franklin did have valuable training as a printer, and he came armed with some significant introductions to local printers. Printers and other craftsmen relied ... More »
"A Nave and Self-Taught Artist": John Frazee Sculpts Daniel Webster, 1833
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Abstract: Many artists working in the decades after the American Revolution came from the ranks of artisans and mechanics. In a republic that dispensed with aristocratic patrons and royal academies, art came to be supported by a middling populace more interested in portraits than grand history painting. Sculpture ... More »
"A Rale Boost to Lithrachoor": A Humorist Lampoons Libraries
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Abstract: The founders of the great libraries of the 19th century were often ambivalent about whether their goal was to disseminate or conserve knowledge. They were also uncertain about the intended audience. John Cotton Dana of the Newark Public Library was atypical in his populist stance that "it is a proper ... More »
"A Regular Row in the Backwoods."
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Abstract: The 1841 issue of the Crockett Almanac , named after the Tennessee backwoodsman, Davey Crockett, made famous by his self-serving tall tales, portrayed a rough rural sport." The inexpensive comic almanacs combined illustrated jokes on topical subjects with astrological and weather predictions. While ... More »
A Royal Disaster: Cortissoz Critiques the Armory Show
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Abstract: In February and March 1913, thousands of New Yorkers poured into the 69th Regiment Armory for an "International Exhibition of Modern Art." By the time the so-called Armory Show had completed its tour of the U.S., a half million people had seen the exhibit--one of the most influential in American art ... More »
A Shoemaker and the Tea Party
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Abstract: George Robert Twelve Hewes, a Boston shoemaker, participated in many of the key events of the Revolutionary crisis. Over half a century later, Hewes described his experiences to James Hawkes. When Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773, colonists refused to allow cargoes of tea to be unloaded. In the ... More »
"A Sop to the Public at Large": Contestant Herbert Stempel Exposes Contrivances in a 1950s Television Quiz Show
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Abstract: Television had become the nation's largest medium for advertising by the mid-1950s, when the Revlon cosmetics corporation agreed to sponsor The $64,000 Question , the first prime-time network quiz show to offer contestants fabulous sums of money. As Revlon's average net profit rose in the next four ... More »
"A Sweepstakes Attracts Attention": Corporate Executives Defend Sweepstakes Promotions
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Abstract: In the 1960s, lottery-like contests designed to publicize products through sweepstakes competitions spread rapidly. In the 19th century, every state banned lotteries--defined as competitions in which chances to win prizes were sold÷to protect citizens. In 1868, Congress prohibited the distribution of ... More »
A Text-Book of the History of Painting
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Abstract: This book presents the history of painting.