The WPA Guide to Oregon

The WPA Guide to Oregon
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Publisher : Trinity University Press
Total Pages : 453
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ISBN-10 : 9781595342355
ISBN-13 : 1595342354
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis The WPA Guide to Oregon by : Federal Writers' Project

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 Oregon contains some quaint features, including a chapter entitled “Tall Tales and Legends” and a recipe for huckleberry cakes. The impact of the depression on the people of the Beaver State is discussed, and the beauty of the state is emphasized from the tips of the Cascadian Mountains to the agricultural region of Willamette Valley.

The WPA Guides

The WPA Guides
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 1578061954
ISBN-13 : 9781578061952
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The WPA Guides by : Christine Bold

In 1935 the FDR administration put 40,000 unemployed artists to work in four federal arts projects. The main contribution of one unit, the Federal Writers Project, was the American Guide Series, a collectively composed set of guidebooks to every state, most regions, and many cities, towns, and villages across the United States. The WPA arts projects were poised on the cusp of the modern bureaucratization of culture. They occurred at a moment when the federal government was extending its reach into citizens' daily lives. The 400 guidebooks the teams produced have been widely celebrated as icons of American democracy and diversity. Clumped together, they manifest a lofty role for the project and a heavy responsibility for its teams of writers. The guides assumed the authority of conceptualizing the national identity. In The WPA Guides: Mapping America Christine Bold closely examines this publicized view of the guides and reveals its flaws. Her research in archival materials reveals the negotiations and conflicts between the central editors in Washington and the local people in the states. Race, region, and gender are taken as important categories within which difference and conflict appear. She looks at the guidebook for each of five distinctively different locations -- Idaho, New York City, North Carolina, Missouri, and U.S. One and the Oregon Trail--to assess the editorial plotting of such issues as gender, race, ethnicity, and class. As regionalists jostled with federal officialdom, the faultlines of the project gaped open. Spotlighting the controversies between federal and state bureaucracies, Bold concludes that the image of America that the WPA fostered is closer to fabrication than to actuality. Christine Bold is director of the Centre for Cultural Studies and an associate professor of English at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.

Writing Program Administration

Writing Program Administration
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Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages : 171
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ISBN-10 : 9781602350090
ISBN-13 : 1602350094
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Writing Program Administration by : Susan H. McLeod

This reference guide provides a comprehensive review of the literature on all the issues, responsibilities, and opportunities that writing program administrators need to understand, manage, and enact, including budgets, personnel, curriculum, assessment, teacher training and supervision, and more. Writing Program Administration also provides the first comprehensive history of writing program administration in U.S. higher education. Writing Program Administration includes a helpful glossary of terms and an annotated bibliography for further reading.

Oh the Glory of It All

Oh the Glory of It All
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 505
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ISBN-10 : 9781101201138
ISBN-13 : 1101201134
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Oh the Glory of It All by : Sean Wilsey

“In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess.” With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families. Sean's mother is a 1980s society-page staple, regularly entertaining Black Panthers and movie stars in her marble and glass penthouse. His enigmatic father uses a jet helicopter to drop Sean off at the video arcade and lectures his son on proper hygiene in public restrooms. When Sean, "the kind of child who sings songs to sick flowers," turns nine years old, his father divorces his mother and marries her best friend. Sean's life blows apart. His mother has a "vision" of salvation that requires packing her Louis Vuitton luggage and traveling the globe, a retinue of multiracial children in tow. Follow Sean as he candidly recounts his life growing up in a wealthy family all while discovering who he is amongst San Francisco's social elite.

The Old Oregon Trail

The Old Oregon Trail
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015027941148
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Old Oregon Trail by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads

Statements of Hon. A.T. Smith, Hon. Albert Johnson, Hon. N.J. Sinnott, Hon. W.C. Hawley, Hon. J.W. Summers, Hon. J.F. Miller, Hon. U.S. Guyer, Hon. C.E. Winter, Hon. W.G. Sears, Hon. Elton Watkins, Hon. J.G. Strong, Hon. E.O. Leatherwood, Mr. W.C. Markham, Hon. R.G. Simmons, Hon. D.B. Colton.

Washington

Washington
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Publisher : North American Book Distributors, LLC
Total Pages : 808
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015000640020
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Washington by : Writers' Program (Wash.)

Washington: A Guide To The Evergreen State of the American Guide Series written by the FWP reviews the history of Washington.

Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon

Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : 0875952054
ISBN-13 : 9780875952055
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon by : Dwight A. Smith

Handsome illustrations of more than two hundred bridges, including Columbia River Scenic Highway bridges, covered bridges, and magnificent coastal bridges.

Road Trip USA

Road Trip USA
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Publisher : Avalon Travel Pub
Total Pages : 500
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ISBN-10 : 1566911907
ISBN-13 : 9781566911900
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Road Trip USA by : Jamie Jensen

Offers detailed descriptions of drives through California and the Southwest, with a flexible format allowing one to switch routes during a journey, and including information on where to eat and sleep, the best local radio stations, hundreds of roadside attractions, and more.

Crossings

Crossings
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 0615449212
ISBN-13 : 9780615449210
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Crossings by : Judy Fleagle

Crossings ties together the history of the Oregon Coast Highway, the story of master bridge engineer Conde B. McCullough, the exciting path to federal funding, and the building of the coastal bridges, with special emphasis on the bridge that best represents McCullough's technical and aesthetic genius the Siuslaw River Bridge.