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Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the ...
Nell Irvin PainterNell Irvin Painter will be featured in the PBS multipart series The Progressive Era with Bill Moyers, which coincides with the release of the updated edition of this acclaimed work.
Southern History across the Color Line
Nell Irvin Paintergender & american culture Coeditors Thadious M. Davis Linda K. Kerber Editorial Advisory Board Nancy Cott Cathy N. Davidson Jane Sherron De Hart Sara Evans Annette Kolodny Wendy Martin Nell Irvin Painter Janice Radway Mary Kelley ...
Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction
Nell Irvin PainterThey were headed for the homesteading lands of Kansas, the 'Garden Spot of the Earth' and the 'quintessential Free State, the land of John Brown'....Painter examines their exodus in fascinating detail.
Soul Murder and Slavery
Nell Irvin PainterDrawing upon psychological paradigms, Professor Painter examines the history of child and sexual abuse within American slave society by employing the concept of "soul murder".
Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919
Nell Irvin Painter"A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age."—Kirkus Reviews
Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
Nell Irvin PainterOffers a portrait of Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery, transformed herself into a pentecostal preacher, and spoke out against slavery and in support of oppressed people
The History of White People
Nell Irvin PainterA story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People closes a huge gap in literature that has long focused on the non-white and forcefully reminds us that the concept of “race” is an all-too-human invention whose ...
Albert Irvin: life to painting
Paul MoorhouseThis is the first monograph on British painter Albert Irvin (born 1922), whose large-scale abstract paintings are among the most exuberant and colorful work produced in Britain today.
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its ...
Nell Irvin PainterEnhanced by nearly 150 images of painting, sculptures, photographs, quilts, and other work by black artists, offers a survey of African American history which covers the predominant political, economic, and demographic conditions of black ...
Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader
Martin Robison DelanyMary Helen Washington (1892; reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 30. 6. Nell Irvin Painter, "Martin R. Delany: Elitism and Black Nationalism," in Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century, ed. Leon Litwack and August Meier ...
Love's Executioner
Irvin D. YalomHow did Carlos's macho fantasies help him deal with terminal cancer? In this engrossing book, Irvin Yalom gives detailed and deeply affecting accounts of his work with these and seven other patients.
Every Day Gets A Little Closer: A Twice-told Therapy
Irvin D. YalomThe many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love’s Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he treated--the first book to share the ...
Monte Irvin
Katie Haegelen many ways, Monte Irvin's early life reflected the hardships taking place in America at that time. He was born with such extraordinary talent, however, that he was able to experience things most people only dream of doing. Born on February ...
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
Nell StevensThey pop up in her novel, too, and in other fictional pieces that dot the book. It seems that there is nowhere Nell can run—an island or the pages of her notebook—to escape the big questions of love, art and ambition.
Inpatient Group Psychotherapy
Irvin D. YalomIn a book for front-line clinicians, Irvin Yalom turns to the inpatient psychiatric setting and offers new ways of conceptualizing the techniques of group therapy for use on acute wards.
Staring At The Sun: Being at peace with your own mortality
Irvin D. YalomOver the past quarter century Irvin Yalom has established himself as the world's leading group psychotherapist. In STARING AT THE SUN, he explores how the knowledge of our own mortality affects the unconscious mind of every human being.
Best Served Cold
Jimmie Ruth EvansWhen Wanda Nell Culpepper's brother shows up in town after ten years, Wanda Nell wants to heal the rift between them, but Rusty has other scores to settle in town and will barely talk to her.
Plant Pigments
Irvin Walter BrandelPlant Pigments By IRVIN WALTER BRANDEL A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN 1906 Reprinted from Pharmaceutical Review, Vols. 25, 26 MADISON, WIS. 401195 m 2 0 1933 Plant ...
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World
Nell StevensBut as Nell gets to work on her novel--a delightful Dickensian fiction she calls Bleaker House--she discovers that an excruciatingly erratic Internet connection and 1100 calories a day (as much food as she could carry in her suitcase, ...
Marc Chagall: painter of dreams
Natalie BoberTraces the life of the noted painter, from his birth in Russia to his death in France, with an emphasis on his Jewish background.
Garard/Garrard/Gerard/Gerrard/Girard: descendants of Rev. ...
Robert GerardInTMFredMiller(1810.Grace8, 1 192.Hettie7, 607.Oliver6, 243.Mehetable5, 56. Elizabeth4, 12.Justus\2.Rev.2, l._?_') b. 23 Aug 1916,406 m. Ruby Pearl Finch, b. 5 May 1920.406 Irvin died 1 May 1984.774 Children: 3219. i Irvin Duane Miller b.
Journal: Appendix. Reports
California. LegislatureA. W. Henning, painter .................................. .. D. MeGinley, painter ............................. ........ .. M. Campbell, tinners' services .......................... .. D. Hogan, gasfitter ............... ......................... .. J. C. Corcoran, helper ..................................... .. Thomas Kelleher ...
The Girl from Gadsby's
Harriet HudsonNell Watkins doesn't appear to be the ordinary star-struck girl to the burly doorman barring her way to the dressing room of beautiful musical comedy star Melissa Hargreaves. 'Tell her,' Nell insists, 'I'm the girl from Gadsby's.
Frida Kahlo: Mexican Painter
Hedda GarzaRecounts the life of the Mexican painter, and describes how she turned her suffering as a result of a bus accident into art
The Colour of Milk
Nell LeyshonThe Colour of Milk is the new novel by Orange longlisted author and playwright Nell Leyshon. 'this is my book and i am writing it by my own hand' The year is eighteen hundred and thirty one when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the difficult ...
The Best American Short Stories ... and the Yearbook of the ...
More editionsShe was a Morris — Laura Nell Morris. I won't bore you by telling you what a beautiful creature Laura Nell was. Suffice it to say that it was love at first sight for me. And suffice it to say, on another score, that she bore only the very slightest family ...
Frida Kahlo: Portrait of a Mexican Painter
Bárbara CruzA biography of the Mexican woman painter discussing her work and its international reputation, her political ties, and her relationship with the muralist Diego Rivera.
Battling Nell: The Life of Southern Journalist Cornelia ...
Alexander LeidholdtThrough the extraordinary story of "Battling Nell," Leidholdt reveals how the complex issues of gender, labor, and race intertwined to influence the convulsive events that shaped the course of early twentieth-century southern history.
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