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Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, ...

Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, ...

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Federal Writers' Project, Georgia. Georgia: A Guide to Its Towns and Countryside. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1940. Federal Writers' Project, Kentucky. Kentucky: A Guide to the Bluegrass State. New York: Hastings, 1939. Federal Writers' Project  ...
Guide to Reprints

Guide to Reprints

Ann S. Davis

Federal Writers' Project Florida. SEEING ST. AUGUSTINE. 1937. ISBN 0404- 579094. AMS/1 2.50. Federal Writers' Project Georgia. AUGUSTA. 1938. ISBN 0- 404-57910-8. AMS/12.50. Federal Writers' Project Georgia. THE MACON GUIDE  ...
The WPA Guide to Georgia: The Peach State

The WPA Guide to Georgia: The Peach State

Federal Writers' Project

HEN THE Federal Writers' Project of Georgia began work on a guidebook of the state, no one knew exactly where to start. We knew that various points of interest should be located and described, but we had little conception of how patiently ...
Against Itself: The Federal Theater and Writers' Projects in ...

Against Itself: The Federal Theater and Writers' Projects in ...

Paul Sporn

It had to do with Clifford Montague, a project member in the Grand Rapids region, who was suspected of violating federal law, regulations, or standards of ethics. What disrupted writer and researcher morale was Chittenden's perceived ...
Annual Report

Annual Report

American Historical Association

[2861 The writer's reminiscences of his experiences in the aviation business in Atlanta, Ga., 1919-1923. Federal writers' project, Georgia. Georgia; a guide to its towns and countryside, compiled and written by workers of the Writers' program of ...
Unburdened by Conscience: A Black People's Collective ...

Unburdened by Conscience: A Black People's Collective ...

Anthony W. Neal

12, 22; Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the F ederal Writers' Project, South Carolina Narratives, vol. 14, part 1, 191. 11. Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, Georgia Narratives, vol. 4, part 2, 106. 12. Born in ...
From A Burning House: The Aids Project Los Angeles Writers ...

From A Burning House: The Aids Project Los Angeles Writers ...

AIDS Project Los Angeles

The Aids Project Los Angeles Writers Workshop Collection AIDS Project Los Angeles Irene Borger. qfe TUBES Doug Bender It was late, and the room was dark. There was just enough light to see her outline. She sat in the chair next to my bed, ...
The WPA Guide to Wisconsin: The Badger State

The WPA Guide to Wisconsin: The Badger State

Federal Writers' Project

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.
The WPA Guide to Louisiana: The Pelican State

The WPA Guide to Louisiana: The Pelican State

Federal Writers' Project

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.
The WPA Guide to Ohio: The Buckeye State

The WPA Guide to Ohio: The Buckeye State

Federal Writers' Project

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.
Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the ...

Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the ...

Alan M. Wald

She then worked for the Federal Writers Project until it ended in the 1940s, after which she became a regular contributor of short stories to theNew York Daily News.In 1948 she published an autobiographical novel,The Living Is Easy,in ...
Georgia Slave Narratives

Georgia Slave Narratives

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Applewood Books Federal Writers' Project. More than 140 years have elapsed since the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared slavery illegal in the United States, yet America is still wrestling with the legacy ...
The WPA Guide to West Virginia: The Mountain State

The WPA Guide to West Virginia: The Mountain State

Federal Writers' Project

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.
The WPA Guide to New Mexico: The Colorful State

The WPA Guide to New Mexico: The Colorful State

Federal Writers' Project

Five other panels, Transgression and Reconciliation by Emil Bisttram, Superfluous Laws Oppress and Sufficient Law Protects by Ward Lockwood, and The Shadow of Crime by Bert Phillips, complement the first. 3. The HEPTAGON GALLERY ...
California; a Guide to the Golden State,

California; a Guide to the Golden State,

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compiled and written by the Federal writers' project of the Works progress administration for the state of California ... Sponsored by Mabel R. Gillis, California state librarian.
Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, ...

Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, ...

Federal Writers' Project

This book reveals the remarkable results of the FWP in Wyoming at a time when it was still possible to interview Civil War veterans and former slaves, homesteaders and Oregon Trail migrants, soldiers of the Great War and Native Americans ...
Georgetown Mysteries & Legends:

Georgetown Mysteries & Legends:

Elizabeth Huntsinger Wolf

Between 1936 and 1938, as part of the Federal Writers' Project, Genevieve Chandler interviewed former slaves and children of former slaves living in the Waccamaw Neck area of Georgetown County. On June 15, 1937, she visited and  ...
Arkansas Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the ...

Arkansas Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the ...

Federal Writers Project

They had the same master. They had three boys and two girls. Our owners was Jim Gant and Elizabeth Gante Ma had seven children, four gals and three boys • He called her Miss Betsy. Jim Gant owned seven hundred acres of good land in ...
Louisiana: A Guide To The State: A Guide to the State

Louisiana: A Guide To The State: A Guide to the State

Federal Writers Project

This series has been described as the biggest, fastest and most original research job in the history of the world.No library collection in Louisiana would be complete without a copy of Louisiana: A Guide To The State.
The WPA Guide to Delaware: The First State

The WPA Guide to Delaware: The First State

Federal Writers' Project

Delaware State Board of Agriculture, Bureau of Markets. Delaware. n.p., 1936c. 77 p. illus. Delaware State Program. What Delaware Makes and Spends. Wilmington, Clearing House, 1920. 55 p. “The story of State revenue and expenditures.
A Century of Georgia Agriculture, 1850-1950

A Century of Georgia Agriculture, 1850-1950

Willard Range

Coulter, E. Merton, "Planters' Wants in the Days of the Confederacy" in Georgia Historical Quarterly, XII, 1 (March, 1928), 38-52. Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration of Georgia, "Cuaston's Bluff, Deptford, Brewton Hill, Three ...
The WPA Guide to Indiana: The Hoosier State

The WPA Guide to Indiana: The Hoosier State

Federal Writers' Project

382 p., illus., ports., map, tables. Indiana State Teachers' Association. History Section. Readings in Indiana History . . . Bloomington, Indiana Univ., 1914. 470 p. , illus. Kemper, General William Harrison. Medical History of the State of Indiana.
America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor ...

America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor ...

Michael Golay

Time, January 15, 1934, 18; The Atlanta Journal, January 5, 1934, 1; hickok to hopkins, Athens, Ga., January 11, 1934, hopkins Papers, FDr library. 9. Augusta Unit, Federal Writers' Project, Augusta (Augusta, Ga.: city council of Augusta, 1938) ...
In a Time of Total War: The Federal Judiciary and the ...

In a Time of Total War: The Federal Judiciary and the ...

Joshua E. Kastenberg

The Federal Judiciary and the National Defense - 1940-1954 Joshua E. Kastenberg, Eric Merriam. A hearty thank you to my former colleagues at the United States Air Force Academy for their willingness to spare me time for this project. Also ...

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