The American Pageant

The American Pageant

Author: Thomas Andrew Bailey

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 1114

ISBN-13:

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Traces the history of the United States from the arrival of the first Indian people to the present day.


The American Pageant

The American Pageant

Author: Thomas Andrew Bailey

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9780669210514

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Traces the history of the United States from the arrival of the first Indian people to the present day.


Here She Is

Here She Is

Author: Hilary Levey Friedman

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 080708364X

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A fresh exploration of American feminist history told through the lens of the beauty pageant world. Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America’s most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement’s signature achievements, including bringing women into the public sphere, helping them become leaders in business and politics, providing increased educational opportunities, and giving them a voice in the age of #MeToo. Using her unique perspective as a NOW state president, daughter to Miss America 1970, sometimes pageant judge, and scholar, Friedman explores how pageants became so deeply embedded in American life from their origins as a P.T. Barnum spectacle at the birth of the suffrage movement, through Miss Universe’s bathing beauties to the talent- and achievement-based competitions of today. She looks at how pageantry has morphed into culture everywhere from The Bachelor and RuPaul’s Drag Race to cheer and specialized contests like those for children, Indigenous women, and contestants with disabilities. Friedman also acknowledges the damaging and unrealistic expectations pageants place on women in society and discusses the controversies, including Miss America’s ableist and racist history, Trump’s ownership of the Miss Universe Organization, and the death of child pageant-winner JonBenét Ramsey. Presenting a more complex narrative than what’s been previously portrayed, Here She Is shows that as American women continue to evolve, so too will beauty pageants.


Only in America

Only in America

Author: Heather Alexander

Publisher: 50 States

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0711262845

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In Only In America, ​discover unique, strange, funny, record-breaking and downright unbelievable facts about every state in the USA.


Essential Documents of American History, Volume I

Essential Documents of American History, Volume I

Author: Bob Blaisdell

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0486797309

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The most important documents in American history: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, presidential speeches, Supreme Court decisions, Acts and Declarations of Congress, essays, letters, and much more.