Remembering the University of Chicago

Remembering the University of Chicago

Author: Edward Shils

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1991-12

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 9780226753355

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To celebrate the intellectual achievement of the University of Chicago on the occasion of its centennial year, Edward Shils invited a group of notable scholars and scientists to reflect upon some of their own teachers and colleagues at the University.


Troubled Commemoration

Troubled Commemoration

Author: Robert Cook

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2007-06

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0807137006

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In Troubled Commemoration, Robert J. Cook recounts the planning, organization, and ultimate failure of United States Civil War Centennial and reveals how the broad-based public history extravaganza was derailed by its appearance during the decisive phase of the civil rights movement.


Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, City Hallowed in Centennial Fame, Remember You and Your Famous Name

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, City Hallowed in Centennial Fame, Remember You and Your Famous Name

Author: Madame Daphne Jane Rogers Molson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2021-06-30

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1664180192

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Madame Daphne Jane Rogers Molson is a Canadian, membered, International Who's Who Golden Poet, awarded laureate graduate, of American multibillionaire, Howard Ely, Editor and Owner of Waternark Press. Since 1997, Howard's International Library of Poetry anthologies, America In The Millennium, The Colors of Life, The Best Poems and Poets, The International Who's Who In Poetry, Poetry.com, The Sound of Poetry tapes, discs, electronic collections, and the International Society of Poets Conventions and Symposiums have acclaimed Daphne's evocative, meaningful, wittingly woven humour, satire, war and peace pathos, peace and prayer asking, prose, and human loving, inspiring poems. Xlibris published With Love To Humanity and Madame Daphne Jane Rogers Molson in 2011 to BEA, America's yearly book exhibition, held in New York City, then to Chicago, then to Canadian and American cities television, newspaper, and radio medias. Former Presidents, Barack Obama and William Clinton thanked Daph for A New Millennium Address To Humanity. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and House of Commons MP, Maryam Monsef congratulated her poetry works. Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Trillium Foundation, EC3, Chapters, Indigo, Trent University, The Poetry Institute of Canada, Canadian Authors Association, Canadian Writers Summit, Amazon, Kindle, Xlibris and others sponsor and sell Daph's books. Her famous city, Rogers and Molson relatives, friends, and their profit making of wealth, business, industry, culture, art, and Daph's are the essence of this book.


Fenway Park: The Centennial

Fenway Park: The Centennial

Author: Saul Wisnia

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2011-09-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780312642747

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Honoring the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park, this is a nostalgic and reverent look at America's # 1 baseball shrine--the national treasure that has been home to more than 600 straight sellouts and some of baseball's greatest games and players over the last century Relive 100 years of memories in Fenway Park with this monumental book-with an original DVD documentary hosted by Carlton Fisk. With supreme photography, a wealth of memorabilia, and original commentary by three generations of Boston Red Sox players and fans, this book celebrates the stadium in style. It also includes treasures from the Sports Museum of New England—rarely seen photographs and artifacts—that enhance the nostalgic experience. FENWAY PARK: THE CENTENNIAL is a visually stunning and thoroughly engaging celebration of this great monument and its 100 year history. Packed with original essays, commentary and history, this landmark book includes sections on: • The inception, construction, and early years of Fenway Park • Detailed looks at Red Sox legends from Babe Ruth and Ted Williams to Pedro Martinez and David Ortiz • The greatest moments of the Green Monster, Fenway's most famous feature • A trip inside the Monster's manually operated scoreboard • Fenway fans and their love affair with the legendary stadium through the years • Unforgettable seasons, including the Impossible Dream team and the 2004 World Series champs


Remembering the Year of the French

Remembering the Year of the French

Author: Guy Beiner

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780299218249

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Delving into the folk history found in Ireland's oral traditions, this work reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiations of memory that have gone unnoticed by historians.