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The Olympic Mountains rise up from the sea with moss-draped forests
growing right to the water's edge. Glaciers crown steep slopes
while alpine meadows and lush valleys teem with elk, deer, cougars,
bears, and species known nowhere else on earth. The Olympic
National Park was created in 1938 to protect the grandeur of the
Olympic Mountains. The rugged coastal area was added in 1953. To
further protect this remnant of wild America, Congress designated
95 percent of the park as the Olympic Wilderness in 1988. Today it
is recognized as a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site and one of the
most popular wilderness destinations in North America. It is a
place that changed the people who would conquer it. Farmers gave
up; miners found no riches; loggers reforested. Tourism came early
and endures.
In the lively neighborhood of Fort Greene in downtown Brooklyn,
Native Americans and early Dutch and British settlers were largely
agrarian. Over time, the neighborhood sprouted into an energetic
enclave in which multiple ethnicities thrive today. From the East
River's Wallabout Bay, a navy yard grew into a mass of floating
arsenals, including the USS Missouri, aboard which the Japanese
surrendered in World War II. Mole holes were dug out beneath Fort
Greene to serve as transit ways to greater New York. The 20th
century brought a variety of arts, such as the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, featuring the likes of Enrico Caruso, Isadora Duncan, Paul
Robeson, and Rudolph Nureyev. Popular arts equally flourished as
vaudeville merged into cinema and jazz and rock ricocheted out of
the Fox and Paramount.
Following World War II, Puerto Ricans moved to New York in record
numbers and joined a community of compatriots who had emigrated
decades before or were born in diaspora. In a series of vivid
images, Pioneros II: Puerto Ricans in New York City 1948-1998
brings to life their stories and struggles, culture and values,
entrepreneurship, and civic, political, and educational gains. The
Puerto Rican community's long history and achievements opened
pathways for the city's newer Latino immigrant communities.
Andre Laurendeau was the most widely respected French-Canadian
nationalist of his generation. The story of his life is to a
striking degree also the story of French-Canadian nationalism from
the 1930s to the 1960s, that period of massive societal change when
Quebec evolved from a traditional to a modern society. The most
insightful intellectual voice of the nationalist movement, he was
at the tumultuous centre of events as a young separatist in the
1930s; an anti-conscription activist and reform-minded provincial
politician in the 1940s; and an influential journalist, editor of
the Montreal daily Le Devoir, in the 1950s. At the same time he
played an important role in Quebec's cultural life both as a
novelist and playwright and as a well-known radio and television
personality. In tracing his life story, this biography sheds
indispensable light not only on the development of Laurendeau's own
nationalist thought, but on his people's continuing struggle to
preserve the national values that make them distinct.
Unitarians established a church in the nation's capital in 1821,
and the first Universalist sermon in Washington was presented at
city hall in 1827. Since these beginnings, Washington-area
Unitarians and Universalists have created congregations that affirm
ideals of religious liberalism: a commitment to religious freedom,
a reasoned approach to faith, a hopeful view of human capacities to
create a better world, and the belief that God is most
authentically known as love. Images of America: Unitarians and
Universalists of Washington, D.C. features prominent figures such
as Robert Little, an English Unitarian who fled his native land and
became minister of First Unitarian Church of Washington; political
rivals John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun, both founding members
of the congregation; and Clara Barton, who organized the American
Red Cross after her experiences on the battlefields during the
Civil War. In 1961, Unitarians and Universalists joined together,
and the story continues as Unitarian Universalists interpret the
values of religious liberalism for each new generation.
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Franklin
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Students of the Civil War know Franklin, Tennessee, for the major
battle that happened here, but there is a lot more to the story. In
fact, Main Street in Franklin is a glimpse into 250 years of
history. Within a few blocks surrounding the public square, some of
the city's original buildings now house the newest and most popular
shops, restaurants, and entertainment venues in Middle Tennessee.
Franklin has been a center for agriculture and manufacturing. It is
a place where families can enjoy small-town life on the interstate.
It is home to a college. It has always been the seat of Williamson
County. Franklin's small businesses have a habit of sticking around
for decades, often passing through generations of the same family.
Franklin is as quaint and picturesque as it is exciting and
progressive, because it continues to attract the kind of people who
have always made it that way.
Filipinos arrived in the Washington, D.C., area shortly after 1900
upon the annexation of the Philippines to the United States. These
new settlers included students, soldiers, seamen, and laborers.
Within four decades, they became permanent residents, military
servicemen, government workers, and community leaders. Although
numerous Filipinos now live in the area, little is known about the
founders of the Filipino communities. Images of America: Filipinos
in Washington, D.C. captures an ethnic history and documents
historical events and political transitions that occurred here.
The nineteenth-century middle-class ideal of the married woman was
of a chaste and diligent wife focused on being a loving mother,
with few needs or rights of her own. The modern woman, by contrast,
was partner to a new model of marriage, one in which she and her
husband formed a relationship based on greater sexual and
psychological equality. In Making Marriage Modern, Christina
Simmons narrates the development of this new companionate marriage
ideal, which took hold in the early twentieth century and prevailed
in American society by the 1940s.
The first challenges to public reticence to discuss sexual
relations between husbands and wives came from social hygiene
reformers, who advocated for a scientific but conservative sex
education to combat prostitution and venereal disease. A more
radical group of feminists, anarchists, and bohemians opposed the
Victorian model of marriage and even the institution of marriage.
Birth control advocates such as Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger
openly championed women's rights to acquire and use effective
contraception. The "companionate marriage" emerged from these
efforts. This marital ideal was characterized by greater emotional
and sexuality intimacy for both men and women, use of birth control
to create smaller families, and destigmatization of divorce in
cases of failed unions. Simmons examines what she calls the
"flapper" marriage, in which free-spirited young wives enjoyed the
early years of marriage, postponing children and domesticity. She
looks at the feminist marriage in which women imagined greater
equality between the sexes in domestic and paid work and sex. And
she explores the African American "partnership marriage," which
often included wives' employment and drew more heavily on the
involvement of the community and extended family. Finally, she
traces how these modern ideals of marriage were promoted in sexual
advice literature and marriage manuals of the period.
Though male dominance persisted in companionate marriages,
Christina Simmons shows how they called for greater independence
and satisfaction for women and a new female heterosexuality. By
raising women's expectations of marriage, the companionate ideal
also contained within it the seeds of second-wave feminists'
demands for transforming the institution into one of true equality
between the sexes.
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Lampasas County
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About an hour's drive northwest of Austin, Lampasas County is
located in the center of the state of Texas, on the northern edge
of the Hill Country. Native Americans were the first to discover
the area, and they told settlers about the natural sulfur springs
there. In the 1850s, Moses Hughes and his ailing wife, Hannah,
traveled to the region to drink and bathe in the medicinal waters
of the springs. The sulfur cured Hannah, and word traveled quickly.
In 1856, Lampasas County was created. The Santa Fe Railroad
completed its line from Galveston to the county seat in 1882, and
with hotels and bathhouses booming, Lampasas became known as the
"Saratoga of the South." In towns such as Lometa and Kempner,
ranchers raised goats and sheep for mohair and wool and cattle for
beef. Though fires and floods struck the county on several
occasions, Lampasas soldiered on and continues to thrive today.
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Redwood City
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Reg McGovern, Janet McGovern, Betty S. Veronico, Nicholas A. Veronico
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Redwood Cityas slogan, aClimate Best By Government Test, a
describes the fair weather at San Mateo Countyas seat, which was
established in 1851 as the bayside terminus for the peninsulaas
lumber industry. Wharfs located along Redwood Creek formed the
basis of the townas commercial district, and in the 20th century,
the cityas port expanded with new industries, such as the
Pacific-Portland Cement Company, the Morgan Oyster Company, and
Leslie Salt. Meanwhile, Redwood Cityas downtown area hosted many
civic events, numerous theaters, and the regionas largest retail
district. In the 1950s, the city grew along Woodside Road and, soon
thereafter, when Redwood Shores was added to its boundaries,
expanded north. Today Redwood City has come full circle with a
revitalized downtown and a beautifully restored courthouse square.
The remote Smoky Mountain community of Cades Cove still lives in
the memory of J.C. McCaulley, one of the few remaining former
residents, who offers an exclusive glimpse into a childhood in the
Cove. His stories, compiled by his wife Margaret, are a testament
to a way of life long abandoned a life before automobiles,
television and perhaps too much exposure to the outside world; a
life of hard work and caring for your neighbors. Join the
McCaulleys in their quest to preserve the beauty, tranquility and
traditions of this pristine community, and dare to dream of a way
of life that encouraged independence, integrity and the courage to
overcome adversity
Located in the far northeastern edge of the city, Deanwood is one
of Washington, D.C.'s oldest, consistently African American
neighborhoods. Rooted in slave-based agriculture on white-owned
land, the community began its transition from rural to urban
development with the 1871 arrival of a branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad along its western boundary. This period after the
Civil War offered blacks the opportunity to become landowners.
Since this time, many notable Washingtonians of various ethnicities
have been residents and frequent visitors to the area. In the early
1920s, it was home to Suburban Gardens, the only permanent
amusement park ever to be housed within the city limits. Many of
Deanwood's families have lived in the community for generations,
which makes it stable and close-knit.
Since its founding in 1651 on the western shore of the Delaware
River, New Castle and its residents have shared in the making of
American history. Known as the first capital of the first state,
this charming town watched European powers clash over its control;
welcomed William Penn when he first set foot on American soil;
participated in the drama of the Revolutionary War, the War of
1812, and the Civil War; and reaped the benefits of new
technologies like the railroad, steam engine, and aviation.
Eventually, trade and commerce moved elsewhere, leaving New Castle
preserved and intact. Today, the people of New Castle take great
pride in their community's heritage and enjoy sharing the story of
this National Historic Landmark District with others.
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Des Moines
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The city of Des Moines experienced a rebirth at the beginning of
the 20th century. The City Beautiful movement focused on cleaning
up the city, starting with a new civic center along the Des Moines
River. A progressive wave in city politics organized the Des Moines
plan of commission government. Modern streetcars traveled along
recently paved roads and newly constructed bridges, while electric
lights kept the streets safe at night. The city motto said it all:
Des Moines Does Things. This postcard collection showcases the best
the city had to offer during that time, as the city changed and
prospered, becoming the "City of Certainties," through challenges
during both world wars, and beyond into the postwar boom, when Des
Moines became the crossroads of the nation.
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