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Mamie Doud Eisenhower
The General's First Lady
Inbunden, 2007
485 kr
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It was fitting for a soldier's wife to make curtains out of military-surplus parachutes. That they would hang in the White House made little difference. Mamie Doud Eisenhower was a president's wife who seemed to most Americans like the friend next door. She gave us ""Mamie pink"" and ""Mamie …
Cold War Kids
Politics and Childhood in Postwar America, 19451960
E-bok, 2014
436 kr
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Today we take it for granted that political leaders and presidential administrations will address issues related to children and teenagers. But in the not-so-distant past, politicians had little to say, and federal programs less to do with children—except those of very specific populations. This …
Mamie Doud Eisenhower
The General''s First Lady
E-bok, 2025
313 kr
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It was fitting for a soldier’s wife to make curtains out of military-surplus parachutes. That they would hang in the White House made little difference. Mamie Doud Eisenhower was a president’s wife who seemed to most Americans like the friend next door. She gave us “Mamie pink” and “Mamie bangs” …
Mamie Doud Eisenhower
The General's First Lady
Häftad, 2025
351 kr
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It was fitting for a soldier's wife to make curtains out of military-surplus parachutes. That they would hang in the White House made little difference.Mamie Doud Eisenhower was a president's wife who seemed to most Americans like the friend next door. She gave us 'Mamie pink' and 'Mamie bangs' but …
Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930
Häftad, 2006
282 kr
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The Progressive Era, falling between the conspicuous materialism of the Gay Nineties and the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, promoted a vision of America united by an emphasis on science and progressive reform. The zeal to modernize business, government, and social relations extended to farm …
Orphan Trains
Placing Out in America
Häftad, 1994
246 kr
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"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the …
Nebraska During the New Deal
The Federal Writers' Project in the Cornhusker State
Häftad, 2019
315 kr
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2020 Nebraska Book AwardAs 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 …
Children of the Western Plains
The Nineteenth-Century Experience
Inbunden, 2003
297 kr
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On December 7, 1828, Lewis Bissell Dougherty was born at Cantonment Leavenworth, the military post of the Missouri River. For the rest of his life, Dougherty carried a footnote to his name: he was one of the first white children to be born in Kansas. These "first" children came to be celebrated as …
Cold War Kids
Politics and Childhood in Postwar America, 1945–1960
Inbunden, 2014
639 kr
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Today we take it for granted that political leaders and presidential administrations will address issues related to children and teenagers. But in the not-so-distant past, politicians had little to say, and federal programmes less to do with children - except those of very specific populations. …
