Belleville: 1914 and Beyond
Belleville: 1914 and Beyond

Author: Judith A. Belleville, Robert deV. Brunkow, PhD, and Robert L. Arndt

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467111104

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In 1914, celebrants marked the anniversary of the founding of Belleville, Illinois, by observing the progress the city had made since it was established a hundred years before. In that time, it had become a regional hub for surrounding communities, with robust commercial, manufacturing, coal-mining, and agricultural sectors. Over the next century, the automobile, wars, economic depression, and technological innovation transformed daily life in ways unimaginable to those citizens of 1914. Bellevilleans' civic volunteerism would serve the city well as Belleville approached its bicentennial. In 2011, the National Civic League designated it an All-American City.

Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859–1914 and Beyond
Nature and Nurture in French Social Sciences, 1859–1914 and Beyond

Author: Martin S. Staum

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2011-10-07

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 077358594X

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The prevailing assumption has been that French ethnographers highlighted the cultural and social environment while anthropologists emphasized the scientific study of head and body shapes. Martin Staum shows that the temptation to gravitate towards one pole of the nature-nurture continuum often resulted in reluctant concessions to the other side. Psychologists Théodule Ribot and Alfred Binet, for example, were forced to recognize the importance of social factors. Non-Durkheimian sociologists were divided on the issue of race and gender as progressive and tolerant attitudes on race did not necessarily correlate with flexible attitudes on gender. Recognizing this allows Staum to raise questions about the theory of the equivalence of all marginalized groups. Anthropological institutions re-organized before the First World War sometimes showed decreasing confidence in racial theory but failed to abandon it completely. Staum's chilling epilogue discusses how the persistent legacy of such theories was used by extremist anthropologists outside the mainstream to deploy racial ideology as a basis of persecution in the Vichy era.

East St. Louis
East St. Louis

Author: Bill Nunes

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738582801

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Depicts the early history of East St. Louis, which was officially established in 1861.

Beyond the Movie Theater
Beyond the Movie Theater

Author: Gregory A. Waller

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-11

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0520391519

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Beyond the Movie Theater excavates the history of non-theatrical cinema before 1920, exploring where and how moving pictures of the 1910s were used in ways distinct from and often alternative to typical theatrical cinema. Unlike commercial cinema, non-theatrical cinema was multi-purpose in its uses and multi-sited in where it could be shown, targeted at particular audiences and, in some manner, sponsored. Relying on contemporary print sources and ephemera of the era to articulate how non-theatrical cinema was practiced and understood in the US during the 1910s, historian Gregory A. Waller charts a heterogeneous, fragmentary, and rich field that cannot be explained in terms of a master narrative concerning origin or institutionalization, progress or decline. Uncovering how and where films were put to use beyond the movie theater, this book complicates and expands our understanding of the history of American cinema, underscoring the myriad roles and everyday presence of moving pictures during the early twentieth century.

State Committees on Education Beyond the High School
State Committees on Education Beyond the High School

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor

Publisher:

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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Considers legislation to authorize appropriations for the President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School to study national problems of higher education and encourage the establishment of state committees to study and formulate higher education policies.