Mississippi; a Guide to the Magnolia State, Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. New York, Viking Press, 1938
Title | Mississippi; a Guide to the Magnolia State, Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. New York, Viking Press, 1938 PDF eBook |
Author | Federal Writers' Project. Mississippi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Mississippi |
ISBN |
Mississippi
Title | Mississippi PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 1943 |
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American Guides
Title | American Guides PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Griswold |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2016-08-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022635783X |
In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate--and they were hungry for the written word. With an eye to this market and as a response to unemployment, Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers' Project. They produced 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. 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.
Mississippi; a Guide to the Magnolia State,
Title | Mississippi; a Guide to the Magnolia State, PDF eBook |
Author | Best Books on |
Publisher | Best Books on |
Pages | 575 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1623760232 |
comp. and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration.
Mississippi, a Guide to the Magnolia State
Title | Mississippi, a Guide to the Magnolia State PDF eBook |
Author | Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (Miss.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Mississippi |
ISBN |
The WPA Guide to Mississippi
Title | The WPA Guide to Mississippi PDF eBook |
Author | Federal Writers' Project |
Publisher | Trinity University Press |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2013-10-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1595342222 |
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. The Magnolia State of Mississippi is beautifully depicted in this WPA Guide originally published in 1938. While this Southern state is by no means average, the guide focuses on the daily lives of typical people from the region. There are two essays about farmers which contrast between the white farmers of the Central and Tennessee Hills and African American farmers of the Delta.
Book catalog of the Library and Information Services Division
Title | Book catalog of the Library and Information Services Division PDF eBook |
Author | Environmental Science Information Center. Library and Information Services Division |
Publisher | |
Pages | 582 |
Release | 1977 |
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