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Books on: 1940s american history

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Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1900-1940s

Book by Louis Harap; Greenwood Press, 1987

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American literature--20th century--History and criticism, American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism, Jews in literature, Judaism and literature--United States--History--20th century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...THE JEW AT WAR: THE 1940S 1. Morris U. Schappes, Documentary History of the Jews in the United...The Image of the Jew in American Literature , 2nd ed...Quoted in Simon Wolf, The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier...The Jewish GI in American Fiction," The Menorah...
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From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s

Book by David Reynolds; Oxford University Press, 2006

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Great Britain--Foreign Relations--1936-1945, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--1945-1964, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--1933-1945, United States--Foreign Relations--1945-1953, United States--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, World Politics--1945-1955, World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...on the New International History These essays seek to illuminate the wartime Anglo-American relationship and its place in the history of the 1940s. They also raise questions...some of the material on the 1940s deployed in earlier chapters...
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Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History during the 1940s and 1950s

Book by Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann; Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Europe--Ethnic Relations, Europe--Social Conditions--20th Century, Germany (West)--Ethnic Relations, Germany--Social Conditions--20th Century, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological Aspects, Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Europe, Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany (West), Social Change--Europe--History--20th Century, Social Change--Germany (West)--History--20th Century, Social Conflict--Europe--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Oct. 1958): 25 40. For the history of American design, see Terry Smith, Making...1993), and Arthur Pulos, American Design Ethic: A History of Industrial...German designers unlike their American counterparts did not come from...
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Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

Book by Ira Gitler; Oxford University Press, 1987

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Jazz Musicians--United States--Interviews, Jazz--1941-1950--History And Criticism

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...friends. The Hines band, circa 1942-1943, is one of the great unrecorded organizations in jazz history. The recording ban enforced by the American Federation of Musicians imposed a heavy silence in the studios but there were many transcriptions...
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Black Mosaic: Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography

Book by Benjamin Quarles; University of Massachusetts Press, 1988

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African Americans--Historiography, African Americans--History, United States--Race Relations

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Study of Negro Life and History and the Journal of Negro...in Gunnar Myrdal An American Dilemma 1944 , in which...influential sectors in the American white intellectual community. 8 The 1940s marked a new departure in Afro-American history, with the rise...very well," few white Americans were actually aware...

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Journal Articles on: 1940s american history

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Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s

Journal article by Colin Gordon; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999

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Books--Reviews, Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Colin Gordon Building...Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By David Plotke...contentious landmark in the history of the modern American...order in the 1930s and 1940s. David Plotkes goal...
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Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s

Journal article by Lauren Borchard; American Studies International, Vol. 39, 2001

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Books--Reviews, Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s (Book)--Reviews

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...that both recover a history and further her analytic...jazz musicians, womens history, women jazz instrumentalists...bands in the 1930s and 1940s and their subsequent elision from jazz and war histories, also seeks to foreground...remember them from the 1940s and as they construct...negotiated a wartime all-American image that required...
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Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s

Journal article by Roger D. Markwick; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 55, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s. Edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick...Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, more than 12 are portrayed...different from European and North American fellow travellers in the 1930s and 1940s, although there were comparatively...
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An American Art Colony: The Art and Artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940

Journal article by William Keyse Rudolph; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 75, 2009

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An American Art Colony: The Art and Artists of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, 1930-1940 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Imprinting the South: Southern Printmakers and Their Images of the Region, 1920s-1940s (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Jerry Bywaters, Lone Star Printmaker: A Study of His Print Notebook, with a Catalogue of His Prints and a Checklist of His Illustrations and Ephemeral Works (Critical work)--Book reviews, Jerry Bywaters: Interpreter of the Southwest (Biography)--Book reviews, Roger Brown: Southern Exposure (Biography)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

An American Art Colony: The Art...the Region, 1920s-1940s. By Lynn Barstis Williams...It is a truism in art history today that art of the...within southern art history--understandable since...career. The personal histories contained here are of...the Region, 1920s-1940s is sure to become a...
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Playing Rough and Tough: Chinese American Women Basketball Players in the 1930s and 1940s

Journal article by Kathleen S. Yep; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 31, 2010

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Basketball--California, Basketball--Social aspects, Chinese Americans--Social aspects, Racism--Research, Teenage athletes--Social aspects, Women basketball players--Social aspects

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...California Chinese American Oral History Project (Los...Chan, Asian Americans: An Interpretive...Espiritu, Asian American Women and Men...the 1930s and 1940s (New York...First: Chinese Americans and the Second...Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their...the 1930s and 1940s African Americans...

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Magazine Articles on: 1940s american history

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Men and Women at Work: the Portrayal of American Workers by Three Artists of the 1930s and 1940s

Magazine article by Susan Goetz Zwirn; Art Education, Vol. 57, March 2004

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Art education, Art history, Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965), Lawrence, Jacob, Painting, Shahn, Ben, Unemployment, Visual artists

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...teachers to connect the art history of the 1930s and 1940s to today. A confluence...factors in the 1930s and 1940s propelled the neglected...who worked into the 1940s creating powerful images...the harsh realities of American life during the Depression...paintings focused on working Americans and often dramatized...
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Being Seen and Heard: African American Documentation Initiatives in Iowa and Minnesota

Magazine article by Kathryn M. Neal; Negro History Bulletin, January 2001

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African Americans--History, African Americans--Political activity, Historic documents--Management, Iowa--Demographic aspects, Iowa--History, Minnesota--Demographic aspects, Minnesota--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...history of African Americans in Iowa and Minnesota...residents are African American, while there are 141...the voices of African Americans in Iowa and Minnesota...selection of African American women in Iowa and preparations...collections and includes oral history interviews. My term...memos, organizational histories, and other items that...Iowa during the mid-1940s. In 1948 she became...
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Perspectives on Puerto Rico: Intriguing Images of Island Life as Seen through the Lens of Farm Security Administration Photographers in the 1940s

Magazine article by David A. Taylor; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 62, January 2010

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Documentary photography--1940s (Decade) AD, Photography, Documentary--1940s (Decade) AD, Puerto Rican culture--1940s (Decade) AD, Puerto Rican history--1940s (Decade) AD, Puerto Ricans--1940s (Decade) AD

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Photographers in the 1940s. by David A. Taylor...with the job of making Americans care about that woman...awareness of African-American life before the civil...moment of Puerto Ricos history to another." Born...suspicion of African-Americans who were accustomed...those pictures of the American South appeared in 12...
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African Americans and World II: A Pictorial Essay

Magazine article by Cynthia Neverdon-Morton; Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 51, December 1993

Subjects:

African American soldiers--History, African Americans--History, United States. Army--African American troops, World War, 1939-1945--African Americans

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the first African American to be appointed...officer in the history of the Regular...nation was at war, Americans at home rallied...gains for African Americans. However, many...privileges for African Americans. The challenge...inclusion in the American society, a challenge...movement in the late 1940s. Sources Carnegie...for the Fight, A History of Black Americans...
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A Pitch for Black History: Black Baseball Museum Rescues Our Past

Magazine article by Randy Giancaterino, Paul Debono, Barbara Gregorich; American Visions, Vol. 8, June 1993

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African American baseball players--History, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Kansas City, Missouri--Management, Stone, Toni--Biography, Walker, Moses Fleetwood--Biography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Gregorich No African-American achievement of...century, African Americans owned and operated...Grays, the Chicago American Giants, the Baltimore...Americas sports history have been restored...reinforce the oral histories of the swiftly...which in the 1940s were reputed to...for the Chicago American Giants. Determined...see that African Americans got a fairer return...

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Newspaper Articles on: 1940s american history

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COVENTRY'S CINEMA HISTORY; DURING the Heyday of Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s, Coventry Had as Many as 30 Picture Houses

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), October 23, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

COVENTRYS CINEMA HISTORY; DURING the Heyday of Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s, Coventry Had as Many...voted the greatest American movie song of all time by the American Film Institute. CHILDREN...of rubble. In the 1940s annual cinema attendance...
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Jazzing Up History Program Shows Swing Dance's Role in American Culture

Newspaper article by Nadia Malik; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 13, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Jazzing Up History Program Shows Swing Dances Role in American Culture. by Nadia...the 1920s through the 1940s. "There are so many different types of American music now, and a lot...combined to make the first American form of music." Wimes...
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Wartime Duty for Women to Look Good; WOMEN'S Wartime Fashion Will Be to the Fore as Wallington Turns Back the Clock 70 Years Next Weekend. INDIA ADAMS Finds out How 1940s Women on the Home Front Kept Old-Fashioned Glamour Alive.: Dressed for Victory

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), September 18, 2010

Subjects:

Accessories (Clothing), Clothing accessories

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...episodes of recent British history. From the pre-recorded...sophisticated appeal of the 1940s pin-up girl - the tailored...across Europe in the 1940s. Wartime rationing...up and glamour, and 1940s dances and tea parties...Lucy Adlington in an American limited 85 pea-green...
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AGENDA: Brown's Rule Has Parallels to Eden's Ill-Fated Reign; the Political Woes of Gordon Brown and Labour Continue to Build. Here Chris Painter Examines Shifting Political Tides and Dominant - and Not So Dominant - Prime Ministerial Reigns since the Mid-1940s

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 24, 2008

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Brown, Gordon (British prime minister), Eden, Anthony

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Ministerial Reigns since the Mid-1940s. Byline: Chris Painter...others are but a footnote in history. The recent local and by...former flew in the face of American opinion, whereas the latter was in coalition with American forces). Even more interesting...
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Barry Regan of East Ballina Is a Legend: A Surfer since the Early 1940s, a Surfboard Maker, the First Person Ever to Surf Lennox Point, He's Beaten Leukaemia, and Is Still Surfing and Making Boards at the Age of 80. BARRY CHEADLE Reports; the Long and the Short of a Life Dedicated to a Love of the Surf

Newspaper article; The Northern Star (Lismore, Australia), April 3, 2010

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Leukemia, Surfers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Surfer since the Early 1940s, a Surfboard Maker...it turned out, the American racing boards failed...Australian boards, the Americans rode across the face...accepted in local surfing history that this was the first...boards ridden by the Americans and Hawaiians, the...first surfed in the 1940s. "Theres always been...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: 1940s american history

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...tendentious journalistic histories of John Winthrop and William...by the first professional American novelist, Charles Brockden...coveted by every aspiring American writer and was first achieved...won attention by presenting American folk stories, and James...Longfellow , who won the hearts of Americans with glib, moralizing verse...
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Oral History

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

ORAL HISTORY compilation of historical...absence of written histories. In Western society...Herodotus (in his history of the Persian Wars...concept of oral history was developed in the 1940s by Allan Nevins...In creating oral histories, interviews are...oral history of American music has been compiled...
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Abstract Expressionism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following...abstract paintings of the 1940s were followed by images...abstract late in the 1940s and soon developed...American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism...
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Baseball

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...number of turns at bat. History Early History Baseball...changed its name to the American League in 1900 and placed...the champions of the American and National leagues...forces. By the mid-1940s most had returned to...1920s), and the Negro American League (1936). Black...
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New York , City, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...cent. African Americans from the South...1910, and in the 1940s large numbers of...other Hispanic-Americans began to settle...Whitney Museum of American Art , the Neue...Museum of Natural History (with the Hayden...plot by African-American slaves to burn...against African Americans. Extensive immigration...

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