The best short stories of O. Henry / by Henry, O., 1862-1910

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Blackballed : the Black vote and US democracy / by Pinckney, Darryl, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Blackballed: the Black vote and US democracy -- What Black means now -- Buck Moon in Harlem…”

Lost battalions : the Great War and the crisis of American nationality / by Slotkin, Richard, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Safe for democracy: the lost battalion and the Harlem Hell Fighters -- "The great composite American": Theodore Roosevelt and American nationalism, 1880-1917 -- No black in the rainbow: the origin of the Harlem Hell Fighters, 1911-1917 -- "The Jews and Wops, the Dutch and Irish Cops": recruiting the melting pot division, July-December 1917 -- The politics of ridicule: the 15th New York goes to war, October 1917-May 1918 -- The slamming of great doors: entering the world of combat, May-September 1918 -- Home fires burning: political and racial reaction, summer 1918 -- "Tout le Monde à la Bataille!"…”

Soul of a people : the WPA Writers' Project uncovers Depression America / by Taylor, David A., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The Writers' Project -- Point of departure : New York -- Chicago and the midwest -- Gathering folklore, from Oklahoma to Harlem -- Rising up in the West : Idaho -- Nailing a freight on the fly : Nebraska -- Poetic land, pugnacious people : California -- Raising the dead in New Orleans -- Cigars and turpentine in Florida -- American and un-American : back around the boroughs -- Converging on Washington -- Traveling beyond.…”

Ruth Page : the woman in the work / by Meglin, Joellen A.

Table of Contents: “…Ballet Americana : White she-devil in an otherwise Black cast: La guiablesse ; "Jungle jazz": a murder trial in ballet ; "Ghosts of Harlem": a blues ballet ; America's first feminist ballet: An American pattern ; Embodying "lowlife" in high art: Frankie and Johnny ; Victory Garden: danced poems in the time of war ; Postwar anomie: The bells ; Bible stories meet music hall: Billy Sunday -- Part 3. …”

The ultimate jazz fakebook /

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