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Eileen J. Southern, Josephine Wright

This lavishly illustrated book brings together for the first time a significant body of imagery devoted to the traditional culture of the African-American slave.

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Ira Brenner, Stanley J. Coen, Hossein M. Etezady, Michelle Foster, Ruth Garfield, Eileen Johnson, Albert Kaplan, Tooraj Moradi, Josephine Wright, Calvin A. Colarusso, Jaswant Guzder, Leon Hoffman, Ilany Kogan, Henri Parens

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Margaret S. Mahler

Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts to fill this gap by addressing the issue of death in a comprehensive manner. Among questions the contributors raise and seek...

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Josephine Young Francis, Wynn Wright

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Hazel Weihe, Cliff Sabere, Wilbur Schramm

The screenplay writer in Hollywood was a pen-for-hire. Whatever your status elsewhere in the world here, in Hollywood, you were usually a high-paid weekly contract where your talents, your genius, were at the beck and call of others who spoke of Art but were really mad but we're really the mouthpieces of Commerce.But radio for the Hollywood studio system was all about marketing. On that basis something approaching art could be produced on a regular basis. This series produced some ...

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Mark Twain

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Mark Twain Papers

Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature.**“Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us.”—New York Times“His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review**"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a fri...

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Ron Chernow

**The #1 New York Times Bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025• A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book • Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews“Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain flows like the Mississippi River, its prose propelled by Mark Twain’s own exuberance.” —The Boston Globe“Che...

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Stephen Nissenbaum

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children.Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Chris...

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Alain Locke

The New Negro is the idea of a transformed African American identity that rejects the stereotypes and oppressive limitations of the past. The "New Negro," as Locke describes it, is self-confident, proud, and intellectually empowered, seeking to assert a positive and autonomous identity in contrast to the subjugation and discrimination of earlier periods. Locke emphasizes the importance of cultural pride, social and political activism, and a commitment to higher education and intellectual e...

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Laura Dassow Walls

This acclaimed biography captures the inspiring life and philosophy of an influential American thinker: "a moving portrait of a brilliant, complex man" ( The New York Times).Henry David Thoreau's attempt to "live deliberately" in the woods outside his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, has inspired individualists since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment in living at Walden Pond. A member...

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Edna M. Troiano

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American Heritage

"The true story behind Uncle Tom's Cabin . . . the real story of his escape is more moving, and more harrowing, than anything one could put in fiction." — Yesterday's AmericaJosiah Henson was born into slavery in La Plata, Maryland, and auctioned off as a child to pay his owner's debt. After numerous trials and abuse, he earned the trust of his slaveholder by exhibiting intelligence and skill.Daringly, he escaped to Canada with his wife and ...

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

"An arresting and meticulously researched collection of poems" about the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first black woman to publish a book in America ( Ms. Magazine).In 1773, a young African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry, Poems on various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). When Wheatley's book appeared, her words would challenge Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Her words w...

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Paul E. Johnson

"In this compact masterpiece of historical detective work, Paul E. Johnson manages . . . to bring this unlikely early American hero back to vivid life." —Geoffrey C. Ward, bestselling author of The Vietnam WarIn the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn't drinking) as a mill hand for one of America's new textile companies. Sam made a name for himself one day by jumping seventy feet...

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Mark Twain

A Dog's Tale' is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Still later in 1904 it was expanded into a book published by Harper & Brothers. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia