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Nebraska During the New Deal: The Federal Writers Project in the Cornhusker State - Couverture souple

Holt, Marilyn Irvin

 
9781496215666: Nebraska During the New Deal: The Federal Writers Project in the Cornhusker State
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1496215664 ISBN 13 : 9781496215666
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2019

Synopsis

2020 Nebraska Book Award

As a New Deal program, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) aimed to put unemployed writers, teachers, and librarians to work. The contributors were to collect information, write essays, conduct interviews, and edit material with the goal of producing guidebooks in each of the then forty-eight states and U.S. territories. Project administrators hoped that these guides, known as the American Guide Series, would promote a national appreciation for America's history, culture, and diversity and preserve democracy at a time when militarism was on the rise and parts of the world were dominated by fascism.

Marilyn Irvin Holt focuses on the Nebraska project, which was one of the most prolific branches of the national program. Best remembered for its state guide and series of folklore and pioneer pamphlets, the project also produced town guides, published a volume on African Americans in Nebraska, and created an ethnic study of Italians in Omaha. In Nebraska during the New Deal Holt examines Nebraska's contribution to the project, both in terms of its place within the national FWP as well as its operation in comparison to other state projects.

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À propos de l'auteur

Marilyn Irvin Holt is an independent historian and writer. She is the author of several books, including Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930 (Nebraska, 2006) and The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Nebraska, 1992).

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496215664
ISBN 13 
9781496215666
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Nombre de pages
208
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