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The WPA Guide to Oklahoma

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595342346
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to Oklahoma written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Oklahoma is filled with descriptions of Native American life in the region, accompanied by many photographs. From Black Mesa to Cavanal Hill, this guide to the Sooner State takes the reader on a journey across the state’s vast and varied landscape. Also, notable in this guide is an essay by prominent historian Edward Everett Dale entitled “The Spirit of Oklahoma.”

The WPA Guide to 1930s Oklahoma

Author : Angie Debo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to 1930s Oklahoma written by Angie Debo and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oklahoma

Author : Federal Writers Project
Publisher : Scholarly Press
ISBN 13 : 9780403021857
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Oklahoma written by Federal Writers Project and published by Scholarly Press. This book was released on 1941-06 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives

Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806128597
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives written by T. Lindsay Baker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I never talk to nobody 'bout this" was the response of one aged African American when asked by a Works Project Administration field worker to share memories of his life in slavery and after emancipation. He and other ex-slaves were uncomfortable with the memories of a time when black and white lives were interwoven through human bondage. Yet the WPA field workers overcame the old people's reticence, and American West scholars T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker have collected all the known WPA Oklahoma "slave narratives" in this volume for the first time - including fourteen never published before. Their careful editorial notes detail what is known about the interviewers and the process of preparing the narratives.

Oklahoma, a Guide to the Sooner State

Author : Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Oklahoma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Oklahoma, a Guide to the Sooner State written by Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Oklahoma and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soul of a People

Author : David A. Taylor
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470885882
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Soul of a People written by David A. Taylor and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. This particular handful of characters went from poverty to great things later, and included John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Studs Terkel. In the 1930s they were all caught up in an effort to describe America in a series of WPA guides. Through striking images and firsthand accounts, the book reveals their experiences and the most vivid excerpts from selected guides and interviews: Harlem schoolchildren, truckers, Chicago fishmongers, Cuban cigar makers, a Florida midwife, Nebraskan meatpackers, and blind musicians. Drawing on new discoveries from personal collections, archives, and recent biographies, a new picture has emerged in the last decade of how the participants' individual dramas intersected with the larger picture of their subjects. This book illuminates what it felt like to live that experience, how going from joblessness to reporting on their own communities affected artists with varied visions, as well as what feelings such a passage involved: shame humiliation, anger, excitement, nostalgia, and adventure. Also revealed is how the WPA writers anticipated, and perhaps paved the way for, the political movements of the following decades, including the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Right movement, and the Native American rights movement.

The WPA Guide to Arkansas

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595342036
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to Arkansas written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. Published in 1941, the WPA Guide to Arkansas splendidly exhibits the varied environment of the Natural State. From the densely forested land in the Ozark Mountains and Arkansas Timberlands to the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta, the guide to the Land of Opportunity provides several photographs of, history on, and driving tours through the state’s grand geography.

The WPA Guide to 1930s Kansas

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to 1930s Kansas written by Federal Writers' Project and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of a 1939 guide to Kansas compiled as part of the Federal Writers' Project during the Depression years, providing information not only about the attractions of the state, but serving as a cultural chronicle of an earlier time.

Final Report on the WPA Program, 1935-43

Author : United States. Federal Works Agency
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Final Report on the WPA Program, 1935-43 written by United States. Federal Works Agency and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The WPA Guide to America

Author : Bernard A. Weisberger
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to America written by Bernard A. Weisberger and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1985 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians

Author : Zitkala-S̈a
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians written by Zitkala-S̈a and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Global West, American Frontier

Author : David M. Wrobel
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826353711
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Global West, American Frontier written by David M. Wrobel and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.

The WPA Guide to Kansas

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595342141
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The WPA Guide to Kansas written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. America’s Heartland is well depicted in this WPA Guide to Kansas, originally published in 1939. Kansas, also nicknamed the “Sunflower State” because of its rich agricultural roots and the “Jayhawker State” because of its distinct role in the American Civil War, has a diverse and extensive history.

The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma

Author : Amanda L. Regnier
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320253
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma written by Amanda L. Regnier and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisits and updates WPA-funded archaeological research on key Oklahoma mound sites As part of Great Depression relief projects started in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored massive archaeological projects across Oklahoma. The WPA crews excavated eight mound sites and dozens of nonmound residential sites in the Arkansas River Valley that date between AD 1000 and 1450. These sites are considered the westernmost representations of Mississippian culture in the Southeast. The results of these excavations were documented in field journals and photographs prepared by the field supervisors and submitted in a series of quarterly reports to WPA headquarters. These reports contain a wealth of unpublished information summarizing excavations at the mound sites and residential sites, including mound profiles, burial descriptions, house maps, artifact tables, and artifact sketches. Of the excavated mound sites, results from only one, Spiro, have been extensively studied and synthesized in academic literature. The seven additional WPA-excavated mound sites—Norman, Hughes, Brackett, Eufaula, Skidgel, Reed, and Lillie Creek—are known to archaeologists outside of Oklahoma only as unlabeled points on maps of mound sites in the Southeast. The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma curates and contextualizes the results of the WPA excavations, showing how they inform archaeological understanding of Mississippian occupation in the Arkansas Valley. Regnier, Hammerstedt, and Savage also relate the history and experiences of practicing archaeology in the 1930s, incorporating colorful excerpts from field journals of the young, inexperienced archaeologists. Finally, the authors update current knowledge of mound and nonmound sites in the region, providing an excellent example of historical archaeology.

Oklahoma

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Oklahoma written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Field Guide to American Windmills

Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806119014
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to American Windmills written by T. Lindsay Baker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the use of windmills in the United States and surveys the various types of American windmills

The Great Depression in Literature for Youth

Author : Rebecca L. Berg
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810850934
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Great Depression in Literature for Youth written by Rebecca L. Berg and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No area of the United States was untouched by the Great Depression, but the severity in which people experienced those significant years depended in large part on where in the nation they lived. While dust choked the life out of Americans in the plains, apples grew in abundance in the Northwest. Unemployment-driven poverty robbed urban dwellers of hearth and home, while Upper-plains farm women traded eggs and chickens like money. This bibliography describes the youth literature and relevant resources written about the Great Depression, all categorized by geographical location. Students, educators, historians, and writers can use this book to find literature specific to their state or region, gaining a greater understanding of what the Great Depression was like in their locale. The Great Depression was a pivotal period in our nation's history. This annotated bibliography guides readers to biographies; oral histories, memoirs, and recollections; photograph collections; fiction and nonfiction books; picture books; international resources; and other reference sources. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) state guides are included, as well as literature about the federal theater, arts, and music projects. A comprehensive listing of museums and state historical societies complement this reference. For readers interested in learning about the Great Depression, this is a must-have resource.