Author: Almira Sheffield Peckham Cordry
Publisher:
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Category : Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Story of the Marking of the Santa Fé Trail by the Daughters of the American Revolution in Kansas and the State of Kansas
Author: Almira Sheffield Peckham Cordry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Daughters of the American Revolution and Patriotic Memory in the Twentieth Century
Author: Simon Wendt
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813057612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In this comprehensive history of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), one of the oldest and most important women’s organizations in United States history, Simon Wendt shows how the DAR’s efforts to keep alive the memory of the nation’s past were entangled with and strengthened the nation’s racial and gender boundaries. Taking a close look at the DAR’s mission of bolstering national loyalty, Wendt reveals paradoxes and ambiguities in its activism. While the Daughters engaged in patriotic actions long believed to be the domain of men and challenged male-centered accounts of US nation-building, their tales about the past reinforced traditional notions of femininity and masculinity, reflecting a belief that any challenge to these conventions would jeopardize the country’s stability. Similarly, they frequently voiced support for inclusive civic nationalism but deliberately shaped historical memory to consolidate white supremacy. Using archival sources from across the country, Wendt focuses on the DAR’s most visible work after its founding in 1890—its commemorations of the American Revolution, western expansion, and Native Americans. He also explores the organization’s post–World War II history, a time that saw major challenges to its conservative vision of America’s “imagined community.” This book sheds new light on the remarkable agency and cultural authority of conservative white women in the twentieth century.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813057612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In this comprehensive history of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), one of the oldest and most important women’s organizations in United States history, Simon Wendt shows how the DAR’s efforts to keep alive the memory of the nation’s past were entangled with and strengthened the nation’s racial and gender boundaries. Taking a close look at the DAR’s mission of bolstering national loyalty, Wendt reveals paradoxes and ambiguities in its activism. While the Daughters engaged in patriotic actions long believed to be the domain of men and challenged male-centered accounts of US nation-building, their tales about the past reinforced traditional notions of femininity and masculinity, reflecting a belief that any challenge to these conventions would jeopardize the country’s stability. Similarly, they frequently voiced support for inclusive civic nationalism but deliberately shaped historical memory to consolidate white supremacy. Using archival sources from across the country, Wendt focuses on the DAR’s most visible work after its founding in 1890—its commemorations of the American Revolution, western expansion, and Native Americans. He also explores the organization’s post–World War II history, a time that saw major challenges to its conservative vision of America’s “imagined community.” This book sheds new light on the remarkable agency and cultural authority of conservative white women in the twentieth century.
The Story of the Marking of the Santa Fe Trail by the Daughters of the American Revolution in Kansas and the State of Kansas
Author: Almira Sheffield Peckham Cordry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Santa Fe National Historic Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
Book Description
The Santa Fe Trail
Author: David Dary
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700618708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700618708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Old Santa Fe Trail
Author: Stanley Vestal
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803296152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Santa Fe Trail was one of the two great overland highways originating in Missouri in the nineteenth century. Several decades before settlers streamed over the Oregon Trail, traders were heading southwest. The caravans carried the wares of Yankee commerce; they returned loaded with buffalo robes and beaver pelts and the rich metals of Mexican mines. The thousand-mile journey “was a perilous cruise across a boundless sea of grass, over forbidding mountains, among wild beasts and wilder men, ending in an exotic city offering quick riches, friendly foreign women, and a moral holiday,” writes Stanley Vestal. Vestal begins where the trail does. He describes outfitting for the trip, the society formed for survival, the hunt for meat, landmarks, and the dangers. He evokes the history and legends surrounding the trail at every point, including figures like Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith, the Bent brothers, and Uncle Dick Wooton.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803296152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Santa Fe Trail was one of the two great overland highways originating in Missouri in the nineteenth century. Several decades before settlers streamed over the Oregon Trail, traders were heading southwest. The caravans carried the wares of Yankee commerce; they returned loaded with buffalo robes and beaver pelts and the rich metals of Mexican mines. The thousand-mile journey “was a perilous cruise across a boundless sea of grass, over forbidding mountains, among wild beasts and wilder men, ending in an exotic city offering quick riches, friendly foreign women, and a moral holiday,” writes Stanley Vestal. Vestal begins where the trail does. He describes outfitting for the trip, the society formed for survival, the hunt for meat, landmarks, and the dangers. He evokes the history and legends surrounding the trail at every point, including figures like Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith, the Bent brothers, and Uncle Dick Wooton.
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A History of Kansas
Author: Anna Estelle Arnold
Publisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
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