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Playing with History
Since the advent of the American toy industry, children’s cultural products have attempted to teach and sell ideas of American identity. By examining cultural products geared towards teaching children American history, Playing With History highlights the changes and constancies in depictions of the American story and ideals of citizenship over the last one hundred years. This book examines political and ideological messages sold to children throughout the twentieth century, tracing the messages conveyed by racist toy banks, early governmental interventions meant to protect the toy industry, influences and pressures surrounding Cold War stories of the western frontier, the fractures visible in the American story at a mid-century history themed amusement park. The study culminates in a look at the successes and limitations of the American Girl Company empire.
The Dispatch
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Freedomland U.S.A. - More Definitive History
There's More to the Story of America's Park During the handful of years since the publication of Freedomland U.S.A.: The Definitive History, many employees, their spouses, and their children have stepped forward to share memories and stories about America's Theme Park. Each conversation generated many new questions, leading journalist and author Michael R. Virgintino to explore previously unknown paths where he uncovered substantially more information about the world's largest entertainment center. At this same time, an increased number of newspapers from the 1950s and 1960s have been digitized to reveal additional news and feature articles along with advertisements that showcased the park. ...
Guide to Funding for International & Foreign Programs
Grantmakers featured in this Guide provide funding for international relief, disaster assistance, human rights, civil liberties, community development. conferences, and education. This Guide includes more than 1,400 grantmakers and 9,300 sample grants.
Fine Woodworking
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Disney's Land
A propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow. One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a world still powered by steam and fire for a day or a week or (if the visitor is slightly mad) forever.” Despite his wealth and fame, exactly no one wanted Disney to build such a park. Not his brother Roy, who ran the company’s finances; not the bankers; and not his wife, Lillian. Amuseme...
Popular Science
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