Book Description
In this engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.
Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674307605
In this engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 1895
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Kindra McDonald
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2020-07-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781946580191
The fourth issue of Alternating Current Press' annual literary publication contains 48 works of poetry, photographs, fiction, essays, articles, and nonfiction by 33 authors about various historical topics. Within these pages, you will find contemporary outlooks on history right alongside little-known historical works that feel as fresh and as vibrant (and as scary) as if they were written today. Here, the old meets the new, and you'll discover fascinating history from a personal, accessible, non-scholarly literary approach. As we go through an age of accountability and social justice as a society, the writing we're seeing becomes more aware, more prominent in its voicing of history's ill treatment of certain subsets of people and ideas. We start right out with the gut punch of American slavery, hearing the voices of then and now, through Rev. Richard Allen, slavemasters, runaways, and Frederick Douglass, and leading up to Juneteenth, when enslaved workers in Texas finally learned that they'd already been free for two years. We'll meet Civil War zombies and cattle-hunting soldiers, and we'll go in search of the lost hoof of a famous fire horse. We'll explore the missionary failures of David Livingstone and Eleazar Wheelock and travel the seafaring journeys and shipwrecks of robber Joaquín Murrieta, arctic explorers, British lightermen, and one unfortunate girl in a rum keg. Women like Conchita Cintrón will have their firsts (and be arrested, naturally), and we'll unravel the dark mind of Virginia Woolf. We'll learn about the Brothertown Indians, the ill beginnings of Dartmouth College, and the massacres and stereotypes that Native Americans endured in the mid-to-late 1800s. We'll travel to England with Samson Occom, Dominic Fanning, Oliver Cromwell, nuclear bombs, and the erosion of the East Yorkshire coastline through the years. Art is explored through the eyes of Leda with her swan, Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series, the photography of the Great Depression, and Victorian photographs with dead people. Featured Writer Kindra McDonald will take us through the Dismal Swamp and into the suicidal minds of Robert Frost and Meriwether Lewis, then through a history of salt, foot binding, and lost languages. Featured Writer Benjamin Goluboff examines the work and art curation of John Quinn and Walker Evans, the former responsible for the 1913 Armory Show that was the first exhibit of modern art, and the latter a renowned photographer of life in the 1930s. Their work is showcased next to the winners and finalists for the 2018 Charter Oak Award for Best Historical.
Author : Joe Sacco
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1250383927
"Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own."—Los Angeles Times Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah—cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake—reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war. In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in the daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. As in Palestine and Safe Area Goražde, his unique visual journalism renders a contested landscape in brilliant, meticulous detail. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, Footnotes in Gaza—Sacco's most ambitious work to date—transforms a critical conflict of our age into intimate and immediate experience.
Author : Ted Lange
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 149076707X
Lights down to half on Anderson. Lights up on Brown standing before a noose. Lights up to half on John Wilkes Booth; he is standing in front of a Confederate flag. He is dressed as a Confederate soldier and holding a rifle. Osborne is standing in front of the Fort Sumter Union Flag. The figures of Osborne and Wilkes Booth face each other. Both men are armed. Paul Robesons version of John Browns body plays.
Author : Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2006
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780760788714
Author : Marion Tuttle Marzolf
Publisher : Hastings House Book Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Examines the history of women in journalism from colonial times to the present and discusses their frustrations and progress in a field dominated by men.
Author : Boff Whalley
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781904590002
Footnote is a clever, funny and irreverent autobiography about a boy from depressing small town England ditching Mormonism, finding punk rock, squatting with his mates and promoting political insurrection. After years of earnest, determined (if not talented) gigging, his pop/punk group, Chumbawamba, make it BIG with "Tubthumping." Not another plodding rock memoir but a compassionate, critical, and sometimes cynical account of a life steeped in pop culture, class conflict, political activism, and what the British call "football." Fantastic.
Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Publisher Fact Sheet The sweeping history of two immigrant families & the marriage that brought them together.
Author : Francis A. Burkle-Young
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Bibliographical citations
ISBN : 9780761803485
The Art of the Footnote reacquaints students and writers with the footnote as the most effective method for presenting all of the information that is necessary to make every manuscript lucid for every reader. This book shows why footnotes are valuable, even essential, as a part of writing in the context of the scientific and historical methods of research; how easy it is to become thoroughly familiar with the various types of notes and when to employ them; and how to create footnotes which are both clear and helpful to the reader. This book will be helpful in writing undergraduate term papers to large monographs because it describes specific cases in which footnoting is appropriate and it illustrates those with examples drawn from a variety of writings.