Walt Whitman's New York : from Manhattan to Montauk / by Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Symphony no. 1 (1942) Holiday overture (1944 ; revised 1961) ; Suite from Pocahontas (1939) / by Carter, Elliott, 1908-2012

Virgin land : the American West as symbol and myth / by Smith, Henry Nash

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Eighteenth-century origins -- Book One: Passage to India -- A highway to the Pacific: Thomas Jefferson and the far West -- Passage to India: Thomas Hart Benton and Asa Whitney -- The untransacted destiny: William Gilpin -- Walt Whitman and Manifest Destiny -- Book Two: The sons of Leatherstocking -- Daniel Boone: empire builder or philosopher of primitivism? …”
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Brooklyn is : Southeast of the island : travel notes / by Agee, James, 1909-1955

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Young America : the flowering of democracy in New York City / by Widmer, Edward L.

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Home front girl : a diary of love, literature, and growing up in wartime America / by Morrison, Joan

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American West (1836-1900) /

Table of Contents: “…On Texas independence ; A foreigner in my own land ; Mexican denunciations of the United States ; The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; On seizing land from native Californians ; Walt Whitman : The Spanish element in our nationality -- Westward movement. …”
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Hispanic New York : a sourcebook /

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The great heart of the republic : St. Louis and the cultural Civil War / by Arenson, Adam, 1978-

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West of the West : imagining California : an anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Litwak -- Escape from Esalen / Jonathan Lieberson -- Ground zero / Ishmael Reed -- The suicides of the temple / Umberto Eco -- Ravishing hyperrealism / Jean Baudrillard -- The desert / Aldous Huxley -- Facing west from California's shores / Walt Whitman…”
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Brooklyn by name : how the neighborhoods, streets, parks, bridges, and more got their names / by Benardo, Leonard

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