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The Five Editions Of Old Mens Tears, Paul Royster

Joshua Scottow Papers

Following are reproduced the title pages of the five printed editions of Joshua Scottow’s Old Mens Tears for Their Own Declensions. It is certainly unusual for such a work to have been reprinted so many times over such a long period, 1691–1769, and it must testify to the continuing appeal of the tract in New England. Scottow died in 1698, and so had no hand in any of the editions except the first.
A multi-edition collation might yield a genetic tree, showing which editions derived from which others. Preliminary examination seems to suggest that the second and third editions …

American Zeitgeist: Spontaneity In The Work Of Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker And Jack Kerouac, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder Compositions

During the decade following World War Two, a body of artistic work was created that clearly articulated for the first time, a distinctly American aesthetic, independent of European models. This is not to say that celebrated works like The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Appalachian Spring and Roy Harris’ Third Symphony are not recognized as American masterpieces; but their American characteristics are expressed through content, rather than form or methods of production. Fitzgerald and Hemingway all furthered their apprenticeship in Europe during the 1920s while Copland and Harris studied in Paris with Boulanger. It remained for the next generation …

Prairie Suite: A Celebration, Twyla Hansen, Paul A. Johnsgard

Paul Johnsgard Collection

25 poems by Twyla Hansen, with illustrations by Paul A. Johnsgard, including:

Walk on the Prairie

There is mystery here, in the shapes of grass,
in the dim movements of an inland sea,
connections to an earlier time. Wander barefoot,
hypothesize the dance of millennia, the unbearable
carvings of the built environment, this ragtag escape.

Let its divine simplicity ooze into your pores.
Comb the steel from your hair, blanket your
tongue with orange. Your breathing will slow.
Breathing slow, unbutton the child within.
Give her permission to go fly a kite.

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 27 (2006), Joanna E. Evans, Loretta G. H. Woodward, Beverly Gordon, Teri Klassen, Marsha Macdowell, Charlotte Quinney, Mary Worrall, Nao Nomura, Janneken Smucker, Laurann Gilbertson, Ronda Mcallen

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Joanna E. Evans

Communities of Quilters: Hawaiian Pattern Collecting, 1900-1959 by Loretta G. H. Woodard

Crazy Quilts as an Expression of "Fairyland" by Beverly Gordon

Polk's Fancy: Quiltmaking, Patriotism, and Gender in the Mexican War Era by Teri Klassen

The K.K.K. Fundraising Quilt of Chicora, Michigan by Marsha MacDowell, Charlotte Quinney, and Mary Worrall

From Fibers to Fieldwork: A Multifaceted Approach to Re-examining Amish Quilts by Nao Nomura and Janneken Smucker

Patterns of the New World: Quiltmaking Among Norwegian Americans by Laurann Gilbertson

Jewish Baltimore Album Quilts by Ronda McAllen

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