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1 online resource (xii, 293 pages) |
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I: Romantic nationalism, cultural pluralism, and the federal writers' project -- 1. Inherited questions -- 2. Visions and constituencies: introducing and writing the American guide series -- 3. A new deal view of American history and art: The federal writer's project guidebook essays -- 4. Picturesque pluralism: the guidebook tours -- II: Modernity, cultural pluralism, and the federal writers' project -- 3. Long live participation!: ethnicity, race, and the federal writer's project -- 6. Before Columbia: the federal writers' project and American oral history research -- 7. The people must be heard: W.T. Couch and the southern life history program -- 8. Toward a marriage of true minds: the federal writers' project and the writing of southern folk history -- III: Denouement -- 9. Conflicting definitions of America: the dies committee and the writers' project -- 10. Reform, culture, and patriotism: the writers' project becomes the writers' program, 1939-1943 -- Have you discovered America? |
| Summary |
How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word ""American""? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history--and questions that were addressed when, in 1935, the Roosevelt administration created the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. Although the immediate context of the FWP was work relief, national FWP officials developed programs that spoke to much larger and longer-standing debates over the nature of American identity and culture and the very |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Federal Writers' Project -- History
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Federal Writers' Project fast |
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National characteristics, American.
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HISTORY.
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Civilization
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Historiography
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Intellectual life
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National characteristics, American
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New Deal.
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Schrijvers.
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Nationale identiteit.
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Cultuur.
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United States -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367
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United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139943
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003006858 |
| ISBN |
0807861669 |
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9780807861660 |
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0807828173 |
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9780807828175 |
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