[PDF] North Dakota A Guide To The Northern Prairie State Compiled By Workers Of The Federal Writers Project Of The Works Progress Administration For The State Of North Dakota Sponsored By The State Historical Society Of North Dakota eBook

Author : Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 1938
Category : North Dakota
ISBN :

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Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 159534232X

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During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. 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. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. According to the WPA Guide to North Dakota, there is more to the Northern Prairie State than meets the eye. Primarily an agricultural state, cattle ranching and the pioneer spirit are ever-present in this guide. Also, beautiful photographs of the Great Plains make this a visually pleasing guide the Peace Garden State.

Author : Writers' Project of the Works Progres
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2023-02-14
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ISBN : 9789356906679

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North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

Author : Wendy Griswold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 022635797X

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In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate—and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a response to devastating unemployment, Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers’ Project. The Project’s mission was simple: jobs. But, as Wendy Griswold shows in the lively and persuasive American Guides, the Project had a profound—and unintended—cultural impact that went far beyond the writers’ paychecks. Griswold’s subject here is the Project’s American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. Griswold finds that the series unintentionally diversified American literary culture’s cast of characters—promoting women, minority, and rural writers—while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes. Griswold’s story alters our customary ideas about cultural change as a gradual process, revealing how diversity is often the result of politically strategic decisions and bureaucratic logic, as well as of the conflicts between snobbish metropolitan intellectuals and stubborn locals. American Guides reveals the significance of cultural federalism and the indelible impact that the Federal Writers’ Project continues to have on the American literary landscape.