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CONTENTS By CHAPTER: Images: Early Abstinence and Temperance Images: Before Prohibition Images: During Prohibition Images: After Prohibition Images: Alcohol Advertisements Prohibition: Legislating the Liquor Law—Prohibition and the House Prohibition: The Senate Overrides the President's Veto of the Volstead Act Prohibition: The Volstead Act Prohibition: Law of the Land Prohibition: U.S. Census Bureau History - Prohibition Prohibition: A Case Study In Progressive Reform Prohibition: The Supreme Court Decision On National Prohibition Prohibition: The Eighteenth Amendment And Its Enforcement Prohibition: Presidential Proclamation 2065 of December 5, 1933 Prohibition: A Byte Out of History - Eliot Ness and the FBI Prohibition: Eliot Ness Prohibition: How Prohibition Fueled Bootleggers, Mobsters, and Corruption Prohibition: Music Marks the Battle Over Prohibition Prohibition: Unprohibited Prohibition: Twenty-First Amendment Prohibition: 100 Years Later Constitution of the United States Using Primary Sources How Many Words Is A Picture Worth?
Winner of the Ewell L. Newman Award from the American Historical Print Collectors Society (2009) Winner of the Betty M. Linsley Award from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (2010) This is the first book-length account of the pioneering and prolific Kellogg family of lithographers, active in Connecticut for over four decades. Daniel Wright Kellogg opened his print shop on Main Street in Hartford five years before Nathaniel Currier went into a similar business in New York and more than twenty-five years before Currier founded his partnership with James M. Ives, yet Daniel and his brothers Elijah and Edmund Kellogg have long been overshadowed by the Currier & Ives printmaking...
The first book in a multi-volume set on American fads. Gives data on the entertainers, art, movies, literature, television programs, and music that have captured national attention and followers in the past 200 years. Each of the 120 entries examines the nature of the fad and its importance to the American scene, influencing our vocabularies, fashions, leisure time pursuits, expectations about life, marketing strategies, and spending habits. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on...