Book Description
In over 200 glorious full-color works, Charles Wysocki portrays the joy of Early America.
Author : Charles Wysocki
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN :
In over 200 glorious full-color works, Charles Wysocki portrays the joy of Early America.
Author : Lon Kurashige
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 2002-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520227422
A history of the struggles over identity within the Japanese American community, using ethnic festivals to reveal the conflicts from the 1930s (a period of wealthy Japanese enclaves) through the WWII internment to the late 20th century influx of investment from Japan.
Author : Barb Adams
Publisher : Kansas City Star Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2002-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780972273930
This much-talked about block-of-the-month project published in The Kansas City Star is available as a book! The patterns celebrate America's greatest virtues, such as Liberty, Opportunity, Diversity, Humor and more. Created by best-selling authors and the women of Blackbird Designs, the book also features six projects.
Author : Len Hilts
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN :
Author : Frank Gambale
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2001
Category :
ISBN : 9780757933660
Author : Eric V. Copage
Publisher : Quill
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 1991
Category : African American cookery
ISBN :
Known as "first fruits of the harvest" in Swahili, Kwanzaa is an annual holiday of African American cultural heritage, celebrated between December 26 and New Year's Day. Now in paperback after its celebrated hardcover release two years ago, Kwanzaa is a complete guide to the holiday's history and food. Illus.
Author : Cheryl Jamison
Publisher : Harvard Common Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2004-02-14
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781558322912
Presents three hundred recipes for all-American standbys and regional favorites hot off the grill, along with recommended techniques and grilling lore.
Author : Ralph Ellison
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593242106
The radiant, posthumous second novel by the visionary author of Invisible Man, featuring an introduction and a new postscript by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles Johnson “Ralph Ellison’s generosity, humor and nimble language are, of course, on display in Juneteenth, but it is his vigorous intellect that rules the novel. . . . A majestic narrative concept.”—Toni Morrison In Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator from New England, is mortally wounded by an assassin’s bullet while making a speech on the Senate floor. To the shock of all who think they know him, Sunraider calls out from his deathbed for Alonzo Hickman, an old black minister, to be brought to his side. The reverend is summoned; the two are left alone. “Tell me what happened while there’s still time,” demands the dying Sunraider. Out of their conversation, and the inner rhythms of memories whose weight has been borne in silence for many long years, a story emerges. Senator Sunraider, once known as Bliss, was raised by Reverend Hickman in a black community steeped in religion and music (not unlike Ralph Ellison’s own childhood home) and was brought up to be a preaching prodigy in a joyful black Baptist ministry that traveled throughout the South and the Southwest. Together one last time, the two men retrace the course of their shared life in an “anguished attempt,” Ellison once put it, “to arrive at the true shape and substance of a sundered past and its meaning.” In the end, the two men confront their most painful memories, memories that hold the key to understanding the mysteries of kinship and race that bind them, and to the senator’s confronting how deeply estranged he had become from his true identity. In Juneteenth, Ralph Ellison evokes the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech to tell a powerful tale of a prodigal son in the twentieth century. At the time of his death in 1994, Ellison was still expanding his novel in other directions, envisioning a grand, perhaps multivolume, story cycle. Always, in his mind, the character Hickman and the story of Sunraider’s life from birth to death were the dramatic heart of the narrative. And so, with the aid of Ellison’s widow, Fanny, his literary executor, John Callahan, has edited this magnificent novel at the center of Ralph Ellison’s forty-year work in progress—its author’s abiding testament to the country he so loved and to its many unfinished tasks.
Author : Kathy Allen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404855424
In the United States, the Fourth of July means picnics, parades, and fireworks. But it wasn't always so. The First Independence Day happened during a time of war. Here's the story.
Author : Creative Action Network
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1452149291
In homage to America’s National Parks and their iconic art posters, this volume features new artwork for seventy-five parks and monuments across all fifty states. “In this sepia-tinged homage” to the iconic National Parks posters “modern artists contribute dazzling new graphics” (Entertainment Weekly). From 1935 to 1943, the WPA’s Federal Art Project hired American artist to create posters celebrating the National Parks Service. The icon See America posters inspired Americans to fall in love with the country’s landmarks and wild spaces from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Gateway Arch and from the Grand Canyon to the Great Smokey Mountains. Originally published to coincide with the centennial anniversary of the National Parks Service, the Creative Action Network has partnered with the National Parks Conservation Association to revive and reimagine the legacy of WPA travel posters. Artists from all over the world participated in the creation of this new, crowdsourced collection of See America posters for a modern era.