American Library History
Author | : Donald G. Davis |
Publisher | : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald G. Davis |
Publisher | : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : New York Public Library |
Publisher | : Hyperion Books |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2003-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Organized by cultural and social categories, a compendium of information about American history contains succinct overviews, detailed timelines, and capsule biographies that detail major events.
Author | : Edward Sylvester Ellis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Vol. 9 contains questions, plan for study, civil government handbook, manual of civil service, etc.
Author | : Edward Sylvester Ellis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wayne A. Wiegand |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190248009 |
Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important function is providing commonplace reading materials and public space. Challenges a professional ethos about public libraries and their responsibilities to fight censorship and defend intellectual freedom. Demonstrates that the American public library has been (with some notable exceptions) a place that welcomed newcomers, accepted diversity, and constructed community since the end of the 19th century. Shows how stories that cultural authorities have traditionally disparaged- i.e. books that are not "serious"- have often been transformative for public library users.
Author | : P. Scott Corbett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1886 |
Release | : 2024-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author | : James Philip Danky |
Publisher | : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
The authentic voice of African-American culture is captured in this first comprehensive guide to a treasure trove of writings by and for a people, as found in sources in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. This bibliography contains over 6,000 entries.
Author | : Edward Sylvester Ellis |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2015-09-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781341607455 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : American Museum of Natural History |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Illustrated books |
ISBN | : 9781454912149 |
Highlights 40 masterworks of illustrated scientific art from the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History.
Author | : Susan Orlean |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476740194 |
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.