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      New Hampshire: A Guide To The Granite State

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      Sponsored by Dr. Jeanne Elizabeth Wier, Nevada State Historical Society.

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      Virginia: A Guide To The Old Dominion

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      Virginia: A Guide To The Old Dominion of the American Guide Series written by the FWP reviews the history of Virginia.

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      West Virginia: A Guide To The Mountain State

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      West Virginia: A Guide To The Mountain State of the American Guide Series written by the FWP reviews the history of West Virginia.

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      Arkansas Slave Narratives - Parts 1 & 2: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Arkansas Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Arkansas slaves.

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      Alabama Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Alabama Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Alabama slaves.

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      Indiana Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

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      Indiana Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Indiana slaves.

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      Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee & Virginia Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

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      Kansas Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Kansas slaves.

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      North Carolina Slave Narratives - Part 1: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      North Carolina Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former North Carolina slaves.

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      Mississippi: A Guide To The Magnolia State

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      Mississippi: A Guide To The Magnolia State of the American Guide Series written by the FWP reviews the history of Mississippi.

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      Octave Chanute, Aviation Pioneer: Chanute Field, Illinois

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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      Octave Chanute, Aviation Pioneer: Chanute Field, Illinois

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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      Frontier Stories: A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book

      Ann Lacy,Anne Valley-Fox

      Between 1850 and 1912, the year New Mexico was granted statehood, the Territory of New Mexico was a wild and dangerous place. Homesteaders, cowboys, ranchers, sheepherders, buffalo hunters, prospectors, treasure…

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      Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project

      Catherine A. Stewart

      From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. In this examination of the project and its legacy…

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      North Carolina Slave Narratives - Part 2: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      North Carolina Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former North Carolina slaves.

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      Mississippi & Ohio Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Mississippi Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Mississippi slaves.

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      Connecticut: A Guide To Its Roads, Lore and People

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      Connecticut: A Guide To Its Roads, Lore and People of the American Guide Series written by the FWP reviews the history of Connecticut.

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      Ohio Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

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      Ohio Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Ohio slaves.

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      Arkansas Slave Narratives - Part 7: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Arkansas Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Arkansas slaves.

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      Kentucky Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Kentucky Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Kentucky slaves.

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      Missouri Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Missouri Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Missouri slaves.

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      Oklahoma Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Oklahoma Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Oklahoma slaves.

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      Arkansas Slave Narratives - Parts 3 & 4: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Arkansas Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Arkansas slaves.

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      Arkansas Slave Narratives - Parts 5 & 6: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Arkansas Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Arkansas slaves.

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      Utah: A Guide To The State

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      Utah: A Guide To The State of the American Guide Series written by the FWP reviews the history of Utah.

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      Georgia Slave Narratives - Parts 1 & 2: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Georgia Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Georgia slaves.

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      Georgia Slave Narratives - Parts 3 & 4: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Georgia Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Georgia slaves.

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      South Carolina Slave Narratives - Parts 1 & 2: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      South Carolina Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former South Carolina slaves.

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      South Carolina Slave Narratives - Parts 3 & 4: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      South Carolina Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former South Carolina slaves.

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      Texas Slave Narratives - Parts 1 & 2: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)

      Texas Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Texas slaves.

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      Texas Slave Narratives - Parts 3 & 4: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

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      Texas Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Texas slaves.

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      The WPA Guide to Kentucky

      Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the s,Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Kentucky.

      While it includes brief essays describing Kentucky’s history, folklore, education, industry, geology, ethnic mix and other topics, the most remarkable feature is the driving tours that are as accurate today…

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      Henry Alsberg: The Driving Force of the New Deal Federal Writers’ Project

      Susan Rubenstein DeMasi

      During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal program of the Works Progress Administration. Under his…

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      The WPA Guide to Wisconsin: The Federal Writers’ Project Guide to 1930s Wisconsin

      Norman K. Risjord

      Part of American Guide series, this book offers a tour of Badger State. More than a nostalgic snapshot of 1930s Wisconsin, it contains essays on the state’s history and architecture…

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      Nebraska during the New Deal: The Federal Writers’ Project in the Cornhusker State

      Marilyn Irvin Holt

      Marilyn Irvin Holt examines Nebraska’s contribution to the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) in terms of its place within the national FWP as well as its operation in comparison to other…

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      History of Milford, Connecticut, 1639-1939

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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      Texas Slave Narratives & Photographs: A Traditional History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Illustrated with Photographs. Part 3

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      Texas Slave Narratives & Photographs: A Traditional History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Illustrated with Photographs. Part 3 Authored by Works Progress Administration, Compiled…

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      Alabama WPA Slave Narratives: From Interviews With Former Slaves

      Federal Writers' Project

      [The book] offer[s] a wealth of information concerning the personal lives of those enslaved in the state of Alabama. This volume contains the personal interviews of 129 former slaves with…

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      The WPA Slave Narratives of Oklahoma & Texas: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. An Original Compilation.

      Works Progress Administration,Federal Writers' Project

      This unique and original compilation of Work Progress Administration slave narratives contains 145 slave narratives from the states of Oklahoma and Texas. Slave narratives from Oklahoma are difficult to obtain…

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      San Francisco in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City by the Bay

      Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration

      San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it. This guide to San Francisco relates the city’s history from the vantage point of the 1930s, describing…

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      Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels

      Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration

      A document of Depression-era Los Angeles, that illuminates a pivotal moment in L A’s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images…

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      San Diego in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to America’s Finest City

      Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration

      Reveals both in the opinions it embodies and in the juicy details it records - tidbits such as the bloodiest and most incompetently fought battle of the Mexican-American War, Emma…

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      California in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the Golden State

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      Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this guide to California includes more than 700 pages of information that is, as the author writes in his…

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      Men at Work: Rediscovering Depression-era Stories from the Federal Writers’ Project

      Matthew Basso

      This volume brings to the public for the first time thirty-four pieces of fiction that had been written for the Federal Writers’ Project.

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      Creating a Hoosier Self-Portrait: The Federal Writers’ Project in Indiana, 1935-1942

      George T. Blakey

      The story of the New Deal program that produced the first guide to Indiana.

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      Literary Legacies of the Federal Writers’ Project: Voices of the Depression in the American Postwar Era

      Sara Rutkowski

      The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA’s Federal Writers’ Project (FWP)-a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting the country during the Depression. Drawing on critical…

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      Literary Legacies of the Federal Writers’ Project: Voices of the Depression in the American Postwar Era

      Sara Rutkowski

      The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA’s Federal Writers’ Project (FWP)-a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting the country during the Depression. Drawing on critical…

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      Lost Treasures & Old Mines: A New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project Book

      Ann Lacy

      Lost Treasures & Old Mines brims with stories of gold fever, copper ore, and silver mining in the American Southwest.

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      WPA Guide to Philadelphia: A Guide to the Nation’s Birthplace

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      This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn…

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