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Autobiographical reminiscences of African-American classical singers, 1853-present : introducing the
Nash, Elizabeth,
viii, 511 p. ;
ISBN/ISSN: 9780773452503


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The Crisis reader : stories, poetry, and essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis magazine / Sondra Kathr

xxxii, 422 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 0375752315
Introduction / Editing The crisis / To usward / Hope ; Dirge / Scintilla / The freedom of the free / After the storm / The road to the bow / Shakespeare's sonnet / Dad ; Bread and wine ; Sonnet to her / Gospel for those who must / Again it is September ; Rencontre ; Courage! he said / The teacher ; Vision of a lyncher / Letters found near a suicide ; Harlem / The Negro speaks of rivers ; The south ; Being old / Negro soldiers / Old things ; True wealth / My love / Prejudice ; Motherhood ; Decay ; Courier / Father, Father Abraham ; Brothers ; Helene ; The river ; Moods ; A passing melody / The international spirit / Sonnet ; The proletariat speaks / Exodus ; Bluebird ; The little page / Dunbar ; White things / Song of the son ; Banking coal / The servant / Emmy / A man they didn't know / The doll ; Mr. Taylor's funeral ; The marked tree / A tale of the North Carolina woods / High yaller / The death game / Unfinished masterpieces / Nothing new ; Drab rambles / The man who wanted to be red / On the fields of France / The broken banjo / Exit, an illusion / Twilight, an impression / All God's chillun got eyes / On being young, a woman, and colored ; The young blood hungers / College / Countee Cullen to his friends / An autobiography / New literature on the Negro ; The symbolism of Bert Williams / Plácido ; Negro authors and white publishers / Steps toward the Negro theatre / The National Association of Negro Musicians / Soviet Russia and the Negro / The younger literary movement / Antar, Negro poet of Arabia / The Negro in literature / Criteria of Negro art / Our Negro "Intellectuals" / A musical invasion of Europe / Negro authors' week, an experiment / The work of a mob / Documents of the war ; Marcus Garvey / The faith of the American Negro / Coöperation and the Negro / John Brown Day / Temperament / Three achievements and their significance / The present South / Africa--our challenge /

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Voices from the Harlem renaissance / edited by Nathan Irvin Huggins.

438 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 0195019555
from The messenger. The Negro : a menace to radicalism -- A new crowd--a new negro / "If we must die" ; Defense of Negro rioters ; The new negro--what is he? ; Africa for the Africans / Garveyism / Africa for the Africans ; The future as I see it / Race pride /

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American datelines : major news stories from colonial times to the present / edited by Ed Cray, Jona

xxiii, 412 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 0252071166 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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White, James, letters, 1845-1881


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Shut door and close of probation in James and Ellen White letters 1846-1855 -- Releases from James White letters for Gerard Damsteegt -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Jacobs (article, Day Star, 1845) -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Jacobs (article, Day Star, 1845) -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Jacobs (article, Day Star, 1845) Letter from James White to dear Brother Jacobs (article, Day Star, 1845) -- Letter from James White to my dear Brother Collins, Aug 1846, about the death of Mary Ann Lawrence -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Howland, Mar 1847, about Ellen G. White and what has occurred since they left Topsham -- Letter from James White to dear Sister Hastings, May 1847, about the copies of the visions -- Letter from James White to dear Sister Hastings, Aug 1847, about the letter from Brother Bates -- Letter from James White to dear Brother and Sister Hastings, Apr 1848, about Brother Matthias, Ellen G. White and her vision on the Sabbath -- Letter from James White to my dear Brother, Jul 1848, about Ellen White and Henry not being so well -- Letter from James White to my dear Brother and Sister Hastings, Aug 1848, about his trip with Ellen G. White to New York City -- Letter from James White to dear Brother and Sister, Aug 1848, about the invitation to visit with them -- Letter from James White to my dear Brother and Sister Hastings, Oct 1848, about the general meeting of the "Outcasts" in Maine -- Letter from James White to my dear Brother and Sister Hastings, Jan 1849, about general matters -- Letter from James White to my dear Brother and Sister Hastings, Feb 1849, about the offer of a home -- Letter from James White to beloved Bro. and Sister Collins, Sep 1849, about general matters in Maine -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Bowles, Oct 1849, about their visit to Connecticut and Western New York -- Letter from James White to beloved Brother Bowles, Nov 1849, about general matters and Western New York -- Letter from James White to dear Brother and Sister Hastings, Jan 1850, about the letter from Brother Bates -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Hastings, Jan 1850, about the baby being sick and the time at Brother B. C. Stoors -- Letter to dear Brother and Sister Collins, Jan 1850, about his intent to be at Fairhaven -- Letter from James White to dear Bro. and Sr. Collins and Gilbert and Deborah, Feb 1850, about Jesus and general matters -- Letter from my dear afflicted Brother Hastings, Mar 1850, about the death of the wife of Brother Hastings -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Hastings, Jul 1850, about publishing the Testimonies (handwritten) -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Hastings, Jul 1850, about publishing the Testimonies (typed) -- Letter from James White to my dear Bro. Hastings and all your dear children, Nov 1850, about the printing -- Note by James White at end of Ellen G. White letter dated April 1, 1851, Davis, Maine -- Letter from James White to dear brethren in Jackson, Aug 1851, about the publishing at Saratoga Springs -- Letter from James White to dear Brethren in Christ, Nov 1851, about our conferences at Medford, Washington, Bethel and Johnson -- Letter from James White to dear Brother, Sep 1852, about Ellen G. White's vision -- Letter from James White to brethren in Jackson, Michigan, Dec 1852, about being free of debt -- Letter from James White to beloved Brother Dodge, Jul 1853, about the tracts -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Abraham, Jul 1853, about general matters -- Letter from James White to Brother Abram, Dec 1853, about Brother Rhodes -- Letter from James White to dear Brother and Sister Smith, Aug 1854, about the box of books -- Letter from James White to brethren Cornell and Dodge, Nov 1854, about general matters -- Letter from James White to dear Brother, Feb 1855, about the present situation of Brother J. N. Andrews -- Letter from James White to Bro. Abram, Mar 1855, about the article with Sister Knight's letter -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Lyon, Jul 1855, about the ill health of Brother Lyon and general matters -- Letter from James White to dear Brother, Aug 1855, about letters received from Michigan -- Private letter from James White, 1855, about a vision of Ellen G. White -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Dodge, Aug 1855, about locating the Review West (handwritten) -- Letter from James White to dear Brother Dodge, Aug 1855, about locating the Review West (typed) -- Letter from James White to Sister Below, Nov 1856, about her moving from New York -- Letter from James White to dear Sister, Nov 1856, about her coming to Battle Creek -- Letter from James White to my dear Sister, or shall I say Mother, Mar 1857, about her moving circumstances -- Letter from James White to my dear Edson, Jan 1860, about personal matters -- Letter from James White to my dear Edson, Mar 1860, about personal matters -- Letter from James White to dear Brother, Oct 1860, about personal matters -- Letter from James White to dear Ellen, Oct 1860, about the meeting -- Letter from James White to my dear Ellen, Oct 1860, about his time in Knoxville and his health -- Letter from James White to my dear Ellen, Oct 1860, about the meeting at Marion -- Letter from James White to dear Ellen, Oct 1860, about going to Wisconsin -- Letter from James White to my dear Ellen, Nov 1860, about Brother Frisbie and general matters and the Mississippi River Boat, "War Eagle" -- Letter from James White to dear Ellen, Nov 1860, about praying with Brother Ingraham and Sanborn -- Letter from James White to dear Ellen, Nov 1860, about his health -- Letter from James White to dear Ellen, Nov 1860, about general matters -- Letter from James White to Brother E. P. Butler, Dec 1861, about the Andrews' difficulty -- Letter from James White to the gentlemen, Oct 1862, about William Hall -- Letter from James White to Brother and Sister Abbey, Dec 1863, about the death of Henry White -- Letter from James White to Sister Steward, Sep 1864, about the Cure and the philosophy of health taught there -- Letter from James White to Brother Abbey, May 1865, about finding a place to live in Michigan -- Letter from James White to my dear niece, (Mary Clough), Jun 1865, about personal matters -- Letter from James White to Brethren - directors of the Health Institute, Aug 1867, about building and property considerations -- Letter from James and Ellen G. White, Sep 1867, about the Health Institute -- Letter from James White to dear Willie, Sep 1867, about general matters -- Letter from James White to my dear Willie, Oct 1867, about Battle Creek -- Letter from James White to my dear Willie, Oct 1867, about going from Michigan to Maine -- Letter from James White to O. H. Pratt, Mar 1869, about the Monroe Church -- Letter from James White to Sister Hall, Jul 1869, about general matters -- Letter from James White to dear son, May 1870, about Mrs. Kittle and her place -- Letter from James White to Willie, Lucinda, May (Mary?) and Anna, Jun 1870, about the importance of having oversight over the entire work and about being in the field more -- Letter from James White to dear Edson, Apr 1871, about the deed from McDearmon and his indefiniteness relative to the peas and the plants -- Letter from James White to Brother Andrews, May 1871, about the tract "The Sabbath on the Round World" still being in type -- Letter from James White to Lucinda and Willie, Jun 1871, about future plans to go to Wisconsin and Minnesota -- The Saviour of sinners / Letter from James White to Sister Lucinda, Oct 1871, about coming with them to Boston -- Letter from James White to my dear son Willie, Nov 1871, about Sister White's dream concerning Edson, Henry, Byron Sperry and Willie himself -- Letter from James White to dear Willie, Nov 1871, about their appointments from Maine to Michigan -- Letter from James White to dear children, Edson and Emma, Dec 1871, about Edson and prosperity only in the Lord

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World War I and America : told by the Americans who lived it / A. Scott Berg, editor.

xxxiii, 987 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 9781598535143 : HRD
Heir to Austria's throne is slain Death of an archduke, Sarajevo, June 1914 -- The war begins, Belgium, July-August 1914 / A journal from our legation in Belgium) -- "The grand smash is come" : London, August 1914 / Defending Germany, Massachusetts, August 1914 / Britain goes to war, London, August 1914 / Statement on Neutrality / The fall of Brussels and burning of Louvain, Belgium, August 1914 / "Justice and fair play" : Long Island, October 1914 / "White Imperialism" : New York, November 1914 / (World War and the Color Line) -- "Hungry, wet, weary" : Przemyśl and Budapest, October-November 1914 / "A vain hatred" : England, November 1914 / (The Logic of Fanaticism) -- "My boy belongs to me" : New York, January 1915 / (I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier) -- "The war-vision" : France, February-March 1915 / "A fifty-mile grave" : Serbia, April 1915 / (Goutchevo and the valley of corpses) -- "The final plunge" : off the Irish coast, May 1915 / The Lusitania's last voyage) -- Address to naturalized citizens at Convention Hall, Philadelphia, May 10, 1915 / "There are things worse than war" : New York, May 1915 / (Roosevelt for prompt action, "The sacred freedom of the seas" : Washington, D.C., May 1915 / Reports of Armenian massacres, Istanbul, May 1915 / "The lie unveiled" : New York, June 1915 / (Lusitania) -- "The rights of humanity" : Washington, D.C., June 1915 /

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The Norton anthology of African American literature / Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor, Nellie

xliv, 2665 p. ;
ISBN/ISSN: 0393040011
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? ; City called heaven ; God's a-gonna trouble the water ; Walk together children ; I know moon-rise ; I'm a-rollin' ; I been rebuked and I been scorned ; Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? ; Soon I will be done ; No more auction block ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; Steal away to Jesus ; Go down, Moses ; Been in the storm so long ; Oh, freedom! -- This little light of mine ; Down by the riverside ; Freedom in the air ; Take my hand, precious Lord ; Peace be still ; Stand by me -- Yellow dog blues ; St. Louis blues ; Beale Street blues ; Down-hearted blues ; See, see rider ; Prove it on me blues ; Gulf Coast blues ; Trouble in mind ; Backwater blues ; In the house blues ; How long blues ; Hellhound on my trail ; It's a low down dirty shame ; Good morning, blues ; Sent for you yesterday ; Going to Chicago blues ; Fine and mellow ; Hoochie coochie ; Sunnyland.

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Black nationalism in America / edited by John H. Bracey, Jr., August Meier [and] Elliott Rudwick.
Bracey, John H.,
lxx, 568 pages
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Richard Allen describes the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1787-1816 / Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne reviews the contribution of the Negro church / Layman explains "why Negro churches are a necessity" / Free African Society of Philadelphia -- African Institution of Boston / First Negro paper: "too long have others spoke for us" / "To unite the colored people" / "Let us cherish a friendly union with ourselves" / Paul Cuffe call for the uplift of Africa -- James Forten expresses a deep concern about Africa -- "My soul cleaves to Africa" / Would-be emigrant: "we had rather be gone" / Colored National Convention of 1848 on "complexional" and White institutions -- "Our elevation as a race, is almost wholly dependent upon our own exertions" / Colored National Convention of 1853: " a national council of the colored people" -- Henry Highland Garnet calls for slave rebellions -- Alabama Negro businessman wants to go to Liberia / Black citizens of Cincinnati "seek a home where we may be free" / "People, to be free, must necessarily be their own rulers" / Continued advancement of the Negro nationality of the new world / Henry Highland Garnet describes the greatness of Africa -- "We must learn to love ourselves" / "What this race needs in this country is power" / "Need of ... scholarly men" to "lift up this people of ours" / Francis J. Grimkè urges Black teachers for Black schools -- "God is a Negro" / "We wanted to go to a territory by ourselves" / South Carolina exodus to Africa: "Africa is the only land that a colored man can say is his" / Bishop Henry M. Turner demands an indemnity "to go home to Africa" / "Prophetic liberator of the coloured race" demands an indemnity for a separate territory in the United States / Garvey Movement described: "up, you mighty race" / "Ethiopia shall once more see the day of her glory" / "We know our rights ... and have the courage to defend them" / "Negro can grow only .... in his own sphere, as God intended" / Booker T. Washington urges "cultivating ... faith in the race" -- Colored convention recommends Negro support for Negro business -- "Negroes should now begin to support Negroes" / Kansas City businessman urges Negroes to "patronize the colored man" / California newspaper looks at the national Negro Business League / On the conversation of races: "the Negro people as a race have contribution to make to civilization ... which no other race can make" / On support for Black business enterprise / On cooperation among Black consumers / On Pan-Africanism: "the divine right of suppressed ... peoples to ... be free" / On cultural nationalism: "let us train ourselves to see beauty in Black" / On Black separatism: "organize our economic and social power no matter how much segregation it involves" / E.A. Johnson urges the study of Afro-American history "for a new self-respect and confidence" / Arthur A. Schomburg advocates the creation of chairs of Negro history / "Negroes should not despise the rock from which they were hewn" / "Every race has a peculiar genius" / Negro spirituals are "the soul of the race made manifest" / "Forced attempt to build ... Americanism on race values" / "Before the Negro becomes one with the rest of the American people, he must become one with himself" / "Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us" / Chicago in the 1930s: "making jobs for the race" / New Negro alliance: "we must organize our purchasing power" / Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., argues the communist position: "the Negro people a nation" / Philip Randolph and the march on Washington movement: "oppressed people must assume the responsibility ... to free themselves" W.E.B. Du Bois emigrates to Africa: "Africa had come not up from hell, but from the sum of heaven's glory" / "What do the Muslims want" / "Separation of the so-called Negroes from their slavemasters' children is a must" / Minister Malcolm X enunciates the Muslim program / Organization of Afro-American unity: "for human rights and dignity" / "Black is coming back" / "We are on the move and our music is moving with us" / "We must create a national Black intelligentsia in order to survive" / "Organizing the Black community for the purpose of promoting the interests and concerns of the Black people" / "We are going to use the term 'Black Power' and we are going to define it because Black power speaks to us / Northwestern University Black students: "if our demands are impossible, then peace between us is impossible too" / African nationalist pioneer movement: "we advocate complete economic control by the Blacks of all African communities in America" / "Black business development with social commitment to Black communities / "My fight for freedom: Uhuru, Libertad, Halauga, and Harambee!" / "Revolutionary nationalism, Black nationalism, or just plain Blackism" / Republic of New Africa: "we are the government for the non-self-governing Blacks held captive within the United States" / "Final confrontation" / "Political power comes through the barrel of a gun" / Drum: "dare to fight! Dare to win!" /

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African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song / Kevin Young, editor

lx, 1110 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 9781598536669
Introduction / Bury me in a free land: 1770-1899 -- Lift every voice: 1900-1918 -- Dark tower: 1919-1936 -- Ballads of remembrance: 1936-1959 -- Ideas of ancestry: 1959-1975 -- Blue light sutras: 1976-1989 -- Praise songs for the day: 1990-2008 -- After the hurricane: 2009-2020

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Songbooks : the literature of American popular music / Eric Weisbard.
Weisbard, Eric,
xxii, 530 pages :
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Setting the Scene -- The Jazz Age -- Midcentury Icons -- Vernacular Counterculture -- After the Revolution -- New Voices, New Methods -- Topics in Progress.


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Transatlantic Anglophone literatures, 1776-1920 : an anthology / edited by Linda K. Hughes, Sarah Ru

xxiii, 777 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 9781474429832

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Documents of the Harlem Renaissance / [edited by] Thomas J. Davis and Brenda M. Brock.

xlii, 243 pages
ISBN/ISSN: 9781440855566
Introduction -- Chronology -- The new negro mecca : Harlem. "Harlem" / "The black city" / "The making of Harlem" / "The city of refuge" / "Harlem's nightlife" / "Amateur night in Harlem : 'That's why darkies were born'" / "When Harlem was in vogue" / The new negro : a new time, a new people. "Lift every voice and sing" / "A new negro for a new century" / "The souls of black folk" / "Possibilities of the negro : the advance guard of the race" / "Public opinion and the negro" / "The new negro faces America" / "Enter the new negro" / "Who is the new negro, and why?" / The new negro at war. "Plea of the negro soldier" / "Her thirteen black soldiers" / "Close ranks" / "Du Bois, one-time radical leader deserts and betrays cause of his race" / "A negro woman to her adopted soldier boy" / "The American negro in the World War" / "Returning soldiers" / "The colored soldier" / "Two Americans" / "The black draftee from Dixie" / The new negro on the move. "Bound for the promised land" / "Is migration a panacea?" / "How much is the migration a flight from persecution?" / "Cotton song" / "Northboun'" / "A summer tragedy" /

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Reconstruction : voices from America's first great struggle for racial equality / Brooks D. Simpson,

xxix, 778 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 9781598535556

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These truly are the brave : an anthology of African American writings on war and citizenship / edite

xxxviii, 543 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 9780813060224

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Life upon these shores : looking at African American history, 1513-2008 / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Gates, Henry Louis,
xvi, 487 p. :
ISBN/ISSN: 9780307593429

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The American Negro.

viii, 359 pages, [1] leaf of plates :
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Empire City : New York through the centuries / edited by Kenneth T. Jackson and David S. Dunbar.

xx, 994 pages :
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Twentieth-century American poetry / edited, and with a pref., by Conrad Aiken.
Aiken, Conrad,
xxii, 552 pages
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In Winter / I died for beauty / I've seen a dying eye / The chariot / If I shouldn't be alive / Safe in their alabaster chambers / The wind / In the garden / The snake / The storm / It was not death / Parting / To my quick ear / Not any sunny tone / A snake / I have a king / Evening / Auror / Immortality / Trying to forget / I felt a funeral / Dying / A clock stopped / Ben Jonson entertains a man from Stratford / Eros Turannos / The gift of God / For a dead lady / The man against the sky / Be still the hanging gardens were a dream / Live blindly / He said: If in his image I was made / On some shells found inland / In Ampezzo/ Now in the Palace gardens / Fidelity / At Sainte-Marguerite / Leave him now quiet / Near Helikon / In Ampezzo (II) / Mnemosyne / Little ivory figures pulled with string / The city of falling leaves / The road not taken / Home burial / The wood-pile / The fear / Birches / The sound of the trees / Hyla Brook / The oven bird / My November guest / Mowing / To earthward / Fire and ice / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Bereft / Desert places / Cool tombs / Jazz fantasia / Wind song / Gone / The eagle that is forgotten / Euclid / Yet gentle will the griffin be / A sense of humor / What Semiramis said / The scissors grinder / Aladdin and the Jinn / The comedian as the letter c / Peter Quince at the Clavier / Sunday morning / Le monocle de mon Oncle / Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Domination of black / Sea surface full of clouds / To the one of fictive music / Cortege for Rosenbloom / The wanderer / Tract / The yachts / Burning the Christmas greens / Gulls / Portrait of a lady / Canto II / The alchemist / The tree / The tomb at Akr Caar / Portrait d'une femme / Apparuit / The return / The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Dance figure / Ité / Ltament of the frontier guard / Taking leave of a friend / Arabs / Nun snow / Irradiations / Blue symphony / At Baja / Not honey / Song / The garden / England /

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The questing spirit : religion in the literature of our time / selected and edited by Halford E. Luc

717 pages ;
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Amos comes to Bethel / A shepherd / Simon who was called Peter / Come, follow me / They cast lots for his robe / On the road to Damascus / St. Peter's difficulty / from The lost word / A Christmas mystery / The stranger / The saint and the goblin / Music on the Muskatatuck / The pragmatist / The Lord's day in the nineties / The man with the good face / Mr. Andrews / The debt / The shadow of a green olive tree / The materialist / The truth / John the six / Child of God / The lesson / Father Sebastian / Answer to prayer / The little candle / The tenth Jew / D-Day in church / Leaning on the everlasting arms /


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American poetry : The twentieth century Volume two, E. E. Cummings to May Swenson.

1009 p. ;
ISBN/ISSN: 1883011787
"All in green went my love riding" "in Just-/spring when the world is mud-" "Tumbling-hair/picker of buttercups" "Humanity i love you" "O sweet spontaneous" "stinging/gold swarms" "between green/mountains" "Babylon slim/-ness of" "ta/ppin/g/toe" "Buffalo Bill's/defunct" "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" "god pity me whom(god distinctly has)" "Dick Mid's large bluish face without eyebrows" "Spring is like a perhaps hand" Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal "she being Brand" "on the Madam's best april the" Memorabilia "next to of course god america i" "lis/-ten//you know what i mean when" "my sweet old etcetera" "Among/these/red pieces of" "in spite of everything" "since feeling is first" "i sing of Olaf glad and big" "twi-/is -Light bird" "a clown's smirk in the skull of a baboon" "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r" "the boys i mean are not refined" "as freedom is a breakfastfood" "anyone lived in a pretty how town" "my father moved through dooms of love" "plato told" "pity this busy monster, manunkind" "a grin without a" Proud Riders Europa Test Paper From the Green Book of Yfan Mater Dolorosa Words of an Old Woman Hasbrouck and the Rose Bill Gets Burned "On Brooklyn Bridge I saw a man drop dead" "I met in a merchant's place" "The shopgirls leave their work" "How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted" "My work done, I lean on the window-sill" "In the shop, she, her mother, and grandmother" Idiot "She who worked patiently" Epidemic "Her work was to count linings--" "The house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase" Aphrodite Vrania April "Out of the hills the trees bulge" "How difficult for me is Hebrew" "I have learnt the Hebrew blessing before eating bread" "After I had worked all day at what I earn my living" "The Hebrew of your poets, Zion" "Though our thoughts often, we ourselves" "Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies" Epitaphs Millinery District ["The clouds ..."] "A dead gull in the road" "I like this secret walking" Rainy Season "Of course, we must die" My grandfather, dead long before I was born" "A grove of small trees, branches thick with berries" Millinery District ["Many fair hours ..."] Similes Epitaph Free Verse from Early History of a Writer Empty Bed Blues Everyday Alchemy Thirst To One Loved Wholly Within Wisdom To Mr. Maunder Maunder, Professional Poet To the Powers of Desolation To the Natural World: at 37 Try Tropic All Around the Town Bounding Line Hymn to Yellow Weed Fructus Reapers Cotton Song Georgia Dusk Nullo Evening Song Portrait in Georgia Seventh Street Storm Ending Her Lips Are Copper Wire Gum Gods Are Here This Amber Sunstream Axle Song Near House Midland So Simple Where I Saw the Snake First Poem Lamentations Winter Nocturne: Thea Hospital "To an Amiable Child" Creatures in the Zoo A Purplexicon of Dissynthegrations Ol' Man River Little Girl Blue Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Dead Man's Corner Epitaphs A House of the Eighties Omelet of A. MacLeish Newsreel LIII Waltz Against the Mountains Something Starting Over Noon I Can't Get Started They All Laughed Elegy for Melusine from the Intensive Care Ward Red-Headed Intern, Taking Notes Scene: A Bedside in the Witches' Kitchen Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Insects A History of the Caesars Medusa Knowledge Women Alchemist My Voice Not Being Proud Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom Sub Contra Cassandra Winter Swan Dark Summer Late Song Short Summary Roman Fountain Evening-Star Baroque Comment Kept Heard by a Girl Several Voices Out of a Cloud Musician Zone Night Morning Dragonfly Sermon Serenade Kiss Almost a God Long Distance Moan from Elegy in the Manner of a Requiem in Memory of D. H. Lawrence Waiter History of Education Slow Curtain Why Must You Know? Would You Think? Fish Food: An Obituary to Hart Crane Come Over and Help Us Anathema. Maranatha! In the Bathtub, to Mnemosyne Esprit d'Escalier Cross Questions from John Brown's Body American Names Cotton Mather Daniel Boone Metropolitan Nightmare Winter Tenement Ernest Vision Photoheliograph from Chorus for Survival Cage of Voices from Libretto for the Republic of Liberia from Harlem Gallery April Mortality Ghostly Tree Rounds and Garlands Done Moon and Spectator Fragmentary Stars Horn Figurehead Grapes Making Chaplinesque For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen Voyages Repose of Rivers Wine Menagerie At Melville's Tomb Bridge O Carib Isle! Broken Tower Take My Hand, Precious Lord Dumb Moment Fern Song Frog Song True Western Summer from The Indians in the Woods Girl Help Reader Winter Garden Helen Grown Old For the Father of Sandro Gulotta Ancient Ones: Betatakin Garden Note I, Los Altos Garden Note II, March from The Wild Party from Lolita On Translating "Eugene Onegin" Santo Domingo Corn Dance Mr. Pope Ode to the Confederate Dead Twelve Last Days of Alice Wolves Aeneas at Washington Ivory Tower Mediterranean Sonnets at Christmas Swimmers February Ground Walt Whitman Two Songs of Advent Magpie's Shadow Solitude of Glass October Vacant Lot Cold Nocturne Barnyard Wild Sunflower Realization Apollo and Daphne Fable Fall of Leaves Slow Pacific Swell To a Young Writer By the Road to the Sunnyvale Air-Base Elegy on a Young Airedale Bitch Lost Two Years Since in the Salt-Marsh On Teaching the Young Time and the Garden In Praise of California Wines To the Moon Long Gone Scotty Has His Say Sister Lou Southern Road Memphis Blues Ma Rainey Slim in Atlanta Children's Children Chillen Get Shoes Sporting Beasley Cabaret Old Lem A Broken View Onion Fields Earthworm Slow By Night Curse While I Slept Sound I Listened For As Easily As Trees Waxwings Pitcher Cypresses Swimmer Farm Boy After Summer Museum Vase Ordovician Fossil Algae Sounds

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The Penguin book of the sonnet : 500 years of a classic tradition in English / edited by Phillis Lev

lxxvii, 448 p. ;
ISBN/ISSN: 9780140589290 (pbk.)
Canzoniere, 132 / Troilus and Criseyde, Canticus Troili / The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar ; Who so list to hounte I know where is an hynde ; Farewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever ; My galy chargèd with forgetfulnes ; I find no peace, and all my war is done / The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes ; Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace ; I never saw you, madam, lay apart ; Love that liveth and reigneth in my thought / A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in maner of a Paraphrase upon the 51 Psalme of David ; Loe prostrate, Lorde, before thy face I lye ; But render me my wonted joyes againe / That self-same tongue which first did thee entreat ; Sonet written in prayse of the brown beautie / Licia or poems of love First did I fear, when first my love began / Amoretti: Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands ; More thenmost faire, full of the living fire ; Rolling wheele that runneth often round ; This holy season fit to fast and pray ; Penelope for her Ulisses' sake ; My love is lyke to yse, and I to fyre ; What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses ; Leave, lady, in your glasse of christal clene ; Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace ; Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day ; One day I wrote her name upon the strand ; Lackyng my love I go from place to place ; Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it ; Fayre is my love, when her fayre golden heares / Caelica: Caelica, I overnight was finely used ; Nurse-life wheat, within his green husk growing ; In night when colours all to black are cast / Countess of Pembroke's arcadia: My true love hat my hart, and I have his ; Astrophel and Stella: Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show ; Let daintie wits crie on the sisters nine ; It is most true that eyes are form'd to serve ; With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies ; My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell ; Come sleepe, O sleepe, the certaine knot of peace ; Having this day, my horse, my hand, my launce ; What, have I thus betrayed my libertie? ; I on my horse, and love on me doth trie ; Because I breathe not love to everie one ; O grammer rules, O now your vertues show ; Who will in fairest booke of nature know ; Love still a boy, and oft a wanton is ; Stella, thinke not that I by verse seeke fame ; Certaine sonnets: Leave me, O love, which reachest but to dust / Vision upon this conceipt of the faery queene ; Secret murder hath been done of late ; To his son / Phillis: Honoured with pastorall sonnets, elegies and amorous delights ; Coronet for his mistress philosophy: Muses that sing love's sensual empery -- Diana: Needs must I leave, and yet needs must I love -- Sonet: Fra banc to banc, fra wod to wod, I rin / To Delia: Looke, Delia, how wee steeme the half-blowne rose ; Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the sable night ; Let others sing of knights and palladines / Idea in sixtie three sonnets: Nothing but no and I, and I and no ; How many paltry, foolish, painted things ; Love, in a humor, play'd the prodigall ; His remedie for love ; Sitting alone, love bids me goe and write ; Since ther's no helpe, come let us kisse and part / Some blaze the precious beauties of their loves ; Although we do not all the good we love ; Author loving these homely meats speciall, viz. :cream, pancakes, buttered pippin-pies, &c. /

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Art since 1900 : modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism / Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-alain Bo

2 volumes :
ISBN/ISSN: 0500289522

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The unlevel playing field : a documentary history of the African American experience in sport / [edi

xxi, 493 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 0252028201

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The Southern States since the war, 1870-71 / Robert Somers ; introduction and index by Malcolm C. Mc
Somers, Robert,
xxi, 293 pages :
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Home and Parenting


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Letter from Wm. Miller to his son contemplating marriage (Jan 1835) -- Counsels regarding parenthood and family relationships / Counsels regarding parenthood and family relationships / How to raise your children (guide, 1961) "What is a boy" / Verbal skills / An educator's exegesis of Deuteronomy 6 / Development of a model for social improvement in communities / Sabbath do's and don'ts based on the chapter "Sabbath--the day of delight," Child Guidance, pp. 527-37 -- Understanding is the need / Educator blames family for today's unrest / The happy family / Teen-agers and parents "dual controls" / Second-born gives 'advice' to ... / Osmosis Christianity? / Improving family living / Raising children - government's or parent's right? (1975) The little woman with a baby in her arms / Disagreeing agreeably / Protected but not overprotected / In spite of failure / Reader to reader (letters, Adventist Review, 1979) -- Parent's exchange - teen-agers wanted / Spiritual nurture of the child / The family - seedbed for mental health / Children are for cherishing / No ordinary couple / Ten commandments for a happy marriage / Religion in the family (Sabbath School Quarterly, Jan-Mar 1982) -- Notes on character development -- Social studies - theme: the importance of making wise choices (guide) -- Am I a person or a role? (article) -- Walking in Dad's boots / For further study, pages 71, 39 (references from the writings of Ellen G. White) -- Footprints / A bed for Michael / So this is how much mother loves child / Helping your child manage money / Watching eyes / Parents and teachers, working together / What children would like (excerpt of His Partner: a Bulletin for British Columbia Conference Workers' Wives, 1986) -- The perils of parenthood (1986) -- Parent's influence upon child's personality development during the age 1-7 (optimal period C. G. 193-194) -- Eight ways to be a terrific stepparent / Preparing your child to start school / The hidden abuse / Great moments in child rearing / The great fun campaign: making family time priority time / What makes Johnny try? / Work and family / The balancing act / Do good parents make good children? / What am I doing here, anyway? / Help for single parents / Helping children cope with loss / The facts of life are good news / What children really mean when they say... / How super is superbaby? / Bringing up junior / Positive parenting in five steps / Teaching kids about money / Foster parenting / Seven things teens are dying to tell their parents / When death came before birth... / Dr. Dobson answers your questions (article, Focus on the Family, Aug 1988) -- Beginning a family star search / In focus - What readers ask most often about Dr. Dobson (article, Focus on the Family, 1988) -- Who's minding the kids? / Love unspoken / Successful grandparenting / Dr. Dobson answers your questions (article, Focus on the Family, Nov 1988) -- Reaching out to single parent families (interview conducted by Kyle Duncan and Carol Jackson) (article, Focus on the Family, 1989) -- 'I can't raise kids alone!' / A single parent shares the pain / The flourishing teen years (for child and parent) / Dr. Dobson answers your questions (article, Focus on the Family, Jan 1989) -- Money matters for kids: how do you teach your children financial responsibility? / Dr. Dobson answers your questions (article, Focus on the Family, Feb 1989) -- The unexpected lesson / Life's unplanned moments are often the most memorable...not all valentines come in envelopes / Making churches into marriage savers / The Christian home / Christian education is, basically, reception of the mind of Christ, which is love (notes and quotations from the writings of Ellen G. White in the books Education and Counsels to Teachers) -- See also referral notes -- Transfer sheet

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Chicago by the book : 101 publications that shaped the city and its image / The Caxton Club ; introd

xvii, 273 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 9780226468501

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Disability experiences : memoirs, autobiographies, and other personal narratives / G. Thomas Couser

2 volumes (lxix, 913 pages) ;
ISBN/ISSN: 9781410388049

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Post-bellum, pre-Harlem : African American literature and culture, 1877-1919 / edited by Barbara McC

xiv, 298 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 0814731678 (cloth : alk. paper)

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The books of American Negro spirituals : including The book of American Negro spirituals and the sec

1 score (2 volumes in 1; 187, 189 pages) ;
ISBN/ISSN: 0306812029

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Harlem Renaissance / Kelly King Howes ; Christine Slovey, editor.
Howes, Kelly King.
xxix, 293, xlii p. :
ISBN/ISSN: 0787648361

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The Black experience in children's books / selected by Barbara Rollock.
Rollock, Barbara.
ii, 122 p. ;
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Reading the American past : selected historical documents / [edited by] Michael P. Johnson.

2 v. ;
ISBN/ISSN: 9780312564131 (pbk. : v. 1)

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A history of the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Rachel Farebrother, Miriam Thaggert.

xix, 432 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 9781108493574

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The New York Times book of movies : the essential 1,000 films to see / selected by Manohla Dargis an

1296 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 9780789336576


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Library management tips that work [electronic resource] / Carol Smallwood, editor.


ISBN/ISSN: 9780838911211 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Beating the clock : adaptive management in a fluid environment / Creating manuals for job duties / How to manage serving students of generational poverty / How to protect your library from employment discrimination claims / Managing emergencies : what to do when basic or big disasters strike / Creating a staff accountability system / Planning ahead : time management in defining goals / Transforming an off-campus library from empty space to award winner in one year / When you're not (exactly) the boss : how to manage effectively in a 'coordinator' role / Communication and staff awareness in the branch library / ASSURE-ing your collection / Billy Club : a model for dealing with unreturned library materials / Collaboration for library collection acquisitions / Community partnerships : the key to providing programs in a recession / CVL leads : mentorship and leadership / How to manage a student-centric library service for nontraditional users / Managing overnight / Managing more than one school library with one FTE librarian / Management tips for merging multiple service points / SuperStarz : an experience in grant project management / Utilizing retired individuals as volunteers / Weeding as affective response, or "I just can't throw this out!" / Facebook for student assistants / Improving communication with blogs / Improving productivity with Google apps / Partnering with information technology at the reference desk : a model for success / Putting missing pieces from the collection together with SharePoint / Real-life management using virtual tools / Session control software for community users in an academic library / To friend or not to friend : the Facebook question / Why a wiki? How wikis help get work done / Millennials, Gen-X, Gen-Y, and boomers, oh my! Managing multiple generations in the library / Hiring and training graduate assistants for the academic library / Managing for emergencies : what to do before, during, and after disaster strikes / Managing librarians and staff with young children / Mentoring graduate assistants in the academic library / New employee orientation / Discrimination in employment : an overview for library managers / Obtaining compliance from underperforming employees : talking it through / Planning for change : ensuring staff commitment / Shadow and learn : knowing your staff / Staff shortages / No surprises : keeping your board in the loop / Board meetings that work / Library partners : cooperating with other nonprofits / Portraits in a small town : balancing access and privacy with a local history photography collection / Using numbers to make your case / Staying in the game : public relations on a shoestring /

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The new Negro : an interpretation / edited by Alain Locke ; book decoration and portraits by Winold

xviii, 452 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 9781614278023

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Exploring literature : writing and arguing about fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay / Frank Madde
Madden, Frank,
xxxiv, 1355 p. :
ISBN/ISSN: 9780205640188

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The books of American Negro spirituals : including The book of American Negro spirituals and The sec
Johnson, James Weldon,
2 v. in 1. :
ISBN/ISSN: 0306800748

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Witnessing lynching : American writers respond / edited by Anne P. Rice ; foreword by Michele Wallac

xv, 324 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 0813533295
Passing, lynching, and Jim Crow / The contest over memory.


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A patriot's handbook : songs, poems, stories, and speeches celebrating the land we love / selected a

xxiii, 663 p. :
ISBN/ISSN: 0786869186

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The literature of the American South : a Norton anthology / William L. Andrews, general editor [and

xxvi, 1188 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 0393316718
from A description of New England. The delights of a new land ; from The generall historie of Virginia. Smith captured by Powhatan / from The sot-weed factor, or, A voyage to Maryland / To Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery (July 5, 1726) ; from The history of the dividing line / from The autobiography of Thomas Jefferson. A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in general congress assembled ; from Notes on the State of Virginia. from Query VI : productions mineral, vegetable and animal ; from Query XIV : laws ; Query XVIII : manners ; Query XIX : manufactures / Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State, with his answer (August 19, 30, 1791) / from Swallow barn, or, A sojourn in the old dominion. Swallow barn ; A country gentleman / Division of an estate ; George Moses Horton, myself / The lazy crow : a story of the cornfield / from Letter to an English abolitionist / Introduction ; To Helen ; Israfel ; The fall of the House of Usher ; The philosophy of composition / from Incidents in the life of a slave girl. Chapter I : Childhood ; The new master and mistress ; The trials of girlhood ; A perilous passage in the slave girl's life ; The loophole of retreat ; The confession ; The Fugitive Slave Law ; Free at last / from My southern home, or, The South and its people. White supremacy after the Civil War ; Self-elevation and independence / The captain attends a camp-meeting / from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself. Chapter I ; Chapter II ; Chapter III ; Chapter IV ; Chapter V ; Chapter VI ; Chapter VII ; Chapter X ; Chapter XI / from Mary Chestnut's Civil War / from Literature in the South ; The unknown dead /

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African American history / editor, Kibibi Mack-Shelton, PhD, Clafin University

3 volumes (xx, 770 pages) :
ISBN/ISSN: 9781682171523

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Reading publics [electronic resource] : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / Tom Glynn.
Glynn, Tom,

ISBN/ISSN: 9780823262649 (hardback)

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