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  • Part of Our Lives

    A People's History of the American Public Library

    by Wayne A. Wiegand ...
    Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • American Public School Librarianship

    A History

    by Wayne A. Wiegand ...
    The first comprehensive history of American public school librarianship."Can I get a library pass?" Over the past 120 years, millions of American K–12 public school students have asked that question. Still, we know little about the history of public school libraries, which over the decades were pulled together and managed by hundreds of thousands of school librarians. In American Public School ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • In Silence or Indifference

    Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries

    by Wayne A. Wiegand ...
    Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism. Despite this work, the library community has often overlooked—even ignored—its own history of White supremacy and deliberate inaction on the part of White librarians and library leadership. Author Wayne A. Wiegand takes a crucial step ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Library History

    by Wayne A. Wiegand, Donald G. Jr. Davis ...
    First Published in 1994. This book focuses on the historical development of the library as an institution. Its contents assume no single theoretical foundation or philosophical perspective but instead reflect the richly diverse opinions of its many contributors. This text is intended to serve as a reference tool for undergraduate and graduate students interested in library history, for library ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South

    Civil Rights and Local Activism

    by Shirley A. Wiegand, Wayne A. Wiegand ...
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    In The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South, Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Librarianship

    Constructing the Heritage of Western Cultures

    Edited by Pamela Spence Richards, Wayne A. Wiegand, Marija Dalbello ...
    A broad, comparative history of librarianship, this intriguing work goes beyond the standard focus on institutions and collections to help you explore the part modern librarianship played—and continues to play—in forming Western cultures.Previous histories of libraries in the Western world—the last of which was published nearly 20 years ago—concentrate on libraries and librarians. This book takes ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    Activism & Education in Logan Circle

    by Ida E. Jones ...
    The civil rights leader's life and work in the nation's capital, and her influence around the world, are celebrated in this biography.Best known as an educator and early civil rights activist, Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of formerly enslaved people. After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1936, she founded the National Council of Negro Women, an organization that supported Black women ... Read more

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  • Black Broadway in Washington, D.C.

    by Briana A Thomas ...
    A history of the African American neighborhood and its remarkable residents in our nation's capital.Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the 1950s, African Americans plagued by Jim Crow laws in other parts of town were free to own businesses ... Read more

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  • A History of the Book in America

    Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940

    by David D. Hall ...
    In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers. Volume 4 of A History of the Book in America traces the complex, even contradictory consequences ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • America's Women

    400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

    by Gail Collins ...
    Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent work of women's history tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century.In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over four hundred years. As she traces the role of ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Race Beat

    The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s.Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Square and the Tower

    Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    **The instant New York Times bestseller.A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks.“Captivating and compelling.” —The New York Times"Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book...In 400 pages you will have restocked your mind. Do it." —The Wall Street Journal“The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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