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A-Z of Modern America
An A-Z of Modern America is a comprehensive cultural dictionary which defines contemporary America through its history and civilization. The book includes entries on:key people from presidents to Babe RuthAmerican life, customs, clothing and educationlegal, religious and governmental practicesmulticulturalism, minorities and civil rightsAn A-Z of Modern America offers accessible and lively definitions of over 3,000 separate items. The book is cross-referenced and thus provides associated links and cultural connections while the appendices contain essential extra information on American institutions, structures and traditions.
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The Mindset lists of American history : from typewriters to text messages, what ten generations of Americans think is normal
\"Snapshots of the U.S.'s last nine generations--from the creators of the Mindset List media sensation. Just as high school graduates in 1957 couldn't imagine life without zippers, those of 2009 can't imagine having to enter phone booths and deposit coins in order to call someone from the street corner. Every August, the Mindset List highlights the cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives of that year's incoming college class. Now this fascinating book extends the Mindset List approach to dramatize what it was like to grow up for every American generation since 1880, showcasing the remarkable changes in what Americans have considered \"normal\" about the world around them. Expands Tom McBride and Ron Nief's popular annual Mindset Lists to explore the mindset of nine generations of Americans, from 1880 to the future high school graduates of 2030. Offers a novel and absorbing way to understand the frame of reference of Americans through history, whether it's the high school grads of 1918, who viewed riding an elevator as a thrill second only to roller coasters, or those of 2009, who have always thought of \"friend\" as an active verb. Puts a human face on the evolution of historical changes related to technology, the struggle for rights and equality, the calamities of war and depression, and other areas. The annual Mindset List garners extensive media attention, including on Today, The Early Show, the NBC Nightly News, CNN, and Fox as well as in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Time magazine, and hundreds of international publications. Whatever your own generational mindset, this book will give you an entertaining and important new tool for understanding the unique perspective and experience of Americans over more than a hundred and fifty years\"--Provided by publisher.
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Boston Firsts
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- COMMERCE & INDUSTRY -- BAKER'S CHOCOLATE, 1765 -- READY-MADE SUIT, 1826 -- BANANA SHIPMENT, 1871 -- GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR, 1903 -- FILENE'S AUTOMATIC BARGAIN BASEMENT, 1909 -- MOLASSES FLOOD, 1919 -- COMMUNICATION -- NEWSPAPER , 1690 -- NOVEL, 1789 -- THOMAS ALVA EDISON AND THE ELECTRIC VOTE RECORDER, 1868 -- TELEPHONE, 1876 -- TV FOR THE DEAF, 1972 AND THE BLIND, 1990 -- SCIENCE & ENGINEERING -- SMALLPOX INOCULATION, 1712 -- ETHER, 1846 -- SUBWAY, 1897 -- KIDNEY TRANSPLANT, 1954 -- ART& ARCHITECTURE -- BOSTON LIGHT, 1716 -- TONTINE CRESCENT, 1794 -- USS CONSTITUTION, 1797 -- BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1854, 1858, 1895 -- ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER AND FENWAY COURT, 1903 -- RECREATION & CELEBRATION -- MADAM ALICE, 1672 -- HOTEL, 1829 -- YMCA, 1851 -- WORLD SERIES, 1903 -- FIRST NIGHT, 1976 -- INNOVATION & ADAPTATION -- ICE, 1806 -- BOSTON CREAM PIE, 1856 -- BOSTON TERRIER, 1860s-1870s -- FANNIE FARMER'S BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL COOKBOOK, 1896 -- DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE, 1988 -- GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, & LAW -- CHRISTMAS BAN, 1659 -- MASSACHUSETTS STATE CONSTITUTION, 1780 -- GERRYMANDER, 1812 -- SCHOOL INTEGRATION, 1849, 1855, 1954 -- MASSACHUSETTS FIFTY-FOURTH REGIMENT, 1863 -- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, 2003 -- NATURE & THE ENVIRONMENT -- BOSTON COMMON, 1634 -- THE PUBLIC GARDEN, 1856 -- METASEQUOIA GLYPTOSTROBOIDES, DAWN REDWOOD, 1948 -- BOSTON HARBOR CLEANUP, 1990-2000.
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Between Panic and Desire
Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world. Here we see how the major events in the authors early lifethe Kennedy assassination, Nixons resignation, watching Father Knows Best, and dropping acid atop the World Trade Center, to name a fewshaped the way he sees events both global and personal today. More to the point, we see how these events shaped, and possibly even distorted, todays world for all of us who spent our formative years in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. A curious meditation on family and bereavement, longing and fear, self-loathing and desire, Between Panic and Desire unfolds in kaleidoscopic formsa coroners report, a TV movie script, a Zen koanaptly reflecting the emergence of a fractured virtual America.
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The Rebel Yell
No aspect of Civil War military lore has received less scholarly attention than the battle cry of the Southern soldier. In The Rebel Yell , Craig A. Warren brings together soldiers' memoirs, little-known articles, and recordings to create a fascinating and exhaustive exploration of the facts and myths about the “ Southern screech.”
Through close readings of numerous accounts, Warren demonstrates that the Rebel yell was not a single, unchanging call, but rather it varied from place to place, evolved over time, and expressed nuanced shades of emotion. A multifunctional act, the flexible Rebel yell was immediately recognizable to friends and foes but acquired new forms and purposes as the epic struggle wore on. A Confederate regiment might deliver the yell in harrowing unison to taunt Union troops across the empty spaces of a battlefield. At other times, individual soldiers would call out solo or in call-and-response fashion to communicate with or secure the perimeters of their camps.
The Rebel yell could embody unity and valor, but could also become the voice of racism and hatred. Perhaps most surprising, The Rebel Yell reveals that from Reconstruction through the first half of the twentieth century, the Rebel yell— even more than the Confederate battle flag— served as the most prominent and potent symbol of white Southern defiance of Federal authority. With regard to the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Warren shows that the yell has served the needs of people the world over: soldiers and civilians, politicians and musicians, re-enactors and humorists, artists and businessmen. Warren dismantles popular assumptions about the Rebel yell as well as the notion that the yell was ever “ lost to history.”
Both scholarly and accessible, The Rebel Yell contributes to our knowledge of Civil War history and public memory. It shows the centrality of voice and sound to any reckoning of Southern culture.
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