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Boughing to Tradition: Trees Bedecking Local Museums Reflect Myriad Holiday Customs

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, December 18, 1999

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Boughing to tradition: Trees bedecking...Center for African American History...surprisingly, women decorated the...silver forks. Women from 10 states...gifts. These traditions gradually became...Center for African American History...in with the "African Voices" exhibit...intriguing traditions of Christmas...
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One Man's Colorful Flair with Black-and-White Photos: Exhibit Provides a Clear Picture of African Artist's Studio Portraits

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, April 14, 1996

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...part of a long African tradition of photographic portraiture...for film. Like other African studio photographers...dressed and bejeweled women in another portrait from...Geary, National Museum of African Art curator of photographic...such photo is of two women and a girl who are dressed...
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To Be Dads, Boys Must Learn to Be Men: Expert Espouses the Values of African Culture

Newspaper article by Cheryl Wetzstein; The Washington Times, December 3, 1998

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...espouses the values of African culture by Cheryl...we should go back to tradition. Males, in order to...established and the women have agreed to, which...daughters and other women that, unless the male...love? Well, what did traditional societies do? They...
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Guardians of Gullah Tradition

Newspaper article by Fred J. Eckert; The Washington Times, May 24, 1998

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...over time, blended their African ways and traditions with the Christian religion and European...live here perhaps the most authentically African of Americas African-American population...basket. She is doing it exactly the way women on the west coast of Africa do it, the...
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Signs and Symbols; African-American Quilts Reveal Rich Heritage

Newspaper article; Sarasota Herald Tribune, January 23, 2005

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...slave owners, this tradition was changed and made the duty of women. Since the 18th...visual symbols in African culture, and a...African visual tradition. The works illustrate...quilters and how African-American women often worked together...

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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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...existentialism ; in the traditions of the music hall...lives of minorities and women. Beginning with Lorraine...drama by and about African Americans emerged as...prolific of the centurys African-American playwrights...Feminist and other women-centered themes dramatized...
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Quilting

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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...ornamental needlework. Traditional African-American quilts have...present) created by the women of Gees Bend, an historically...Ringgold, who blends African-American tradition with contemporary...Buferd, The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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...breaking the no-third-term tradition. World War II The...young men and many young women. The creation of a great...States cast off its traditional peacetime isolationism...Courage: A History of Women in the United States...Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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...aesthetic concerns. Though the 19th-century tradition of the novel lived on in the work of...and the supercivilized urges of men and women. Sensitivity and psychological subtlety...to work in the expansive 19th-century tradition, producing a series of realistic novels...
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History

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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...were largely ignored, such as women and minorities. The study of...possible for the historian using traditional methods. In recent years some...Univ. School of Oriental and African Studies, Historical Writing...1972 75); J. Vansina, Oral Tradition as History (1985); G. B. Himmelfarb...

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