Author: Emily Johnston De Forest
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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A Walloon Family in America
Author: Emily Johnston De Forest
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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The Geographical Journal
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
The American Historical Review
Author: John Franklin Jameson
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. Kaminkow
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Writings on American History
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Author: Richard Henry Greene
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
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Things American
Author: Jeffrey Trask
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
American art museums of the Gilded Age were established as civic institutions intended to provide civilizing influences to an urban public, but the parochial worldview of their founders limited their democratic potential. Instead, critics have derided nineteenth-century museums as temples of spiritual uplift far removed from the daily experiences and concerns of common people. But in the early twentieth century, a new generation of cultural leaders revolutionized ideas about art institutions by insisting that their collections and galleries serve the general public. Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era tells the story of the civic reformers and arts professionals who brought museums from the realm of exclusivity into the progressive fold of libraries, schools, and settlement houses. Jeffrey Trask's history focuses on New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which stood at the center of this movement to preserve artifacts from the American past for social change and Americanization. Metropolitan trustee Robert de Forest and pioneering museum professional Henry Watson Kent influenced a wide network of fellow reformers and cultural institutions. Drawing on the teachings of John Dewey and close study of museum developments in Germany and Great Britain, they expanded audiences, changed access policies, and broadened the scope of what museums collect and display. They believed that tasteful urban and domestic environments contributed to good citizenship and recognized the economic advantages of improving American industrial production through design education. Trask follows the influence of these people and ideas through the 1920s and 1930s as the Met opened its innovative American Wing while simultaneously promoting modern industrial art. Things American is not only the first critical history of the Metropolitan Museum. The book also places museums in the context of the cultural politics of the progressive movement—illustrating the limits of progressive ideas of democratic reform as well as the boldness of vision about cultural capital promoted by museums and other cultural institutions.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
American art museums of the Gilded Age were established as civic institutions intended to provide civilizing influences to an urban public, but the parochial worldview of their founders limited their democratic potential. Instead, critics have derided nineteenth-century museums as temples of spiritual uplift far removed from the daily experiences and concerns of common people. But in the early twentieth century, a new generation of cultural leaders revolutionized ideas about art institutions by insisting that their collections and galleries serve the general public. Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era tells the story of the civic reformers and arts professionals who brought museums from the realm of exclusivity into the progressive fold of libraries, schools, and settlement houses. Jeffrey Trask's history focuses on New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which stood at the center of this movement to preserve artifacts from the American past for social change and Americanization. Metropolitan trustee Robert de Forest and pioneering museum professional Henry Watson Kent influenced a wide network of fellow reformers and cultural institutions. Drawing on the teachings of John Dewey and close study of museum developments in Germany and Great Britain, they expanded audiences, changed access policies, and broadened the scope of what museums collect and display. They believed that tasteful urban and domestic environments contributed to good citizenship and recognized the economic advantages of improving American industrial production through design education. Trask follows the influence of these people and ideas through the 1920s and 1930s as the Met opened its innovative American Wing while simultaneously promoting modern industrial art. Things American is not only the first critical history of the Metropolitan Museum. The book also places museums in the context of the cultural politics of the progressive movement—illustrating the limits of progressive ideas of democratic reform as well as the boldness of vision about cultural capital promoted by museums and other cultural institutions.
The Nation
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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