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Review Of Shared Spaces And Divided Places: Material Dimensions Of Gender Relations And The American Historical Landscape., Mark Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
Reviews the book "Shared Spaces and Divided Places: Material Dimensions of Gender Relations and the American Historical Landscape," edited by Deborah L. Rotman and Ellen-Rose Savulis.
Pursuing E-Opportunities In The History Classroom, Mark T. Tebeau
Pursuing E-Opportunities In The History Classroom, Mark T. Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
Provides information on utilizing electronic opportunities when teaching U.S. history. Factors influencing electronic opportunities for innovations in U.S. history teaching; Issues on historical content on the Internet and filtering information; Impact of information technology on how and when students learn.
Review Of Asbestos And Fire: Technological Tradeoffs And The Body At Risk., Mark Tebeau
Review Of Asbestos And Fire: Technological Tradeoffs And The Body At Risk., Mark Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
Book review of Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk by Rachel Maines.
Review Of Next To Godliness: Confronting Dirt And Despair In Progressive Era New York City, Mark Tebeau
Review Of Next To Godliness: Confronting Dirt And Despair In Progressive Era New York City, Mark Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
Review of Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City by Burnstein, Daniel Eli.
Eating Smoke: Fire In Urban America, 1800-1950, Mark Tebeau
Eating Smoke: Fire In Urban America, 1800-1950, Mark Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations left Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and San Francisco in ruins. Into the twentieth century, this dynamic hazard intensified as cities grew taller and more populous, confounding those who battled it. Firefighters' death-defying feats captured the popular imagination but too often failed to provide more than symbolic protection. Hundreds of fire insurance companies went bankrupt …
Review Ofunderwriting: The Poetics Of Insurance In America, 1722-1872, By E. Wertheimer, Mark Tebeau
Review Ofunderwriting: The Poetics Of Insurance In America, 1722-1872, By E. Wertheimer, Mark Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
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Review Of The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure In America From Colonial Times To The Present, By M.V. Melosi, Mark Tebeau
Review Of The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure In America From Colonial Times To The Present, By M.V. Melosi, Mark Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
No abstract provided.
Review Of Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, And American Environmentalism, By S. Schrepfer, Mark T. Tebeau
Review Of Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, And American Environmentalism, By S. Schrepfer, Mark T. Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
Review of Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism, by S. Schrepfer
Sculpted Landscapes: Art & Place In Cleveland's Cultural Gardens, 1916-2006, Mark Tebeau
Sculpted Landscapes: Art & Place In Cleveland's Cultural Gardens, 1916-2006, Mark Tebeau
Mark Tebeau
Perhaps the world's first peace garden, the Cleveland Cultural Gardens embody the history of twentieth-century America and reveal the complex interrelations between art and place. This essay uses the Cleveland Cultural Gardens as a lens through which to explore how art and place have intersected over time. It explores how communities have negotiated questions of national, ethnic, and American identity and embedded those identities into the vernacular landscape. It considers how the particulars of place were embedded into a public garden and asks whether it is possible for public art to transcend its place both in terms of geography and …