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A Home of Another Kind

One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare

By: Kenneth Cmiel

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A Home of Another Kind

One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare

By: Kenneth Cmiel

In the most comprehensive account ever written of an American orphanage, an institution about which even its many new advocates and experts know little, Kenneth Cmiel exposes America's changing attitudes toward child welfare. The book begins with the fascinating history of the Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum from 1860 through 1984, when it became a full-time research institute. Founded by a group of wealthy volunteers, the asylum was a Protestant institution for Protestant children—one of dozens around the country designed as places where single parents could leave their children if they were temporarily unable to care for them. But the asylum, which later became known as Chapin Hall, changed dramatically over the years as it tried to respond to changing policies, priorities, regulations, and theories concerning child welfare. Cmiel offers a vivid portrait of how these changes affected the day-to-day realities of group living. How did the kind of care given to the children change? What did the staff and management hope to accomplish? How did they define "family"? Who were the children who lived in the asylum? What brought them there? What were their needs? How did outside forces change what went on inside Chapin Hall? This is much more than a richly detailed account of one institution. Cmiel shatters a number of popular myths about orphanages. Few realize that almost all children living in nineteenth-century orphanages had at least one living parent. And the austere living conditions so characteristic of the orphanage were prompted as much by health concerns as by strict Victorian morals.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226110842

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9780226110844

Promiscuous Knowledge

Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

By: Kenneth Cmiel,John Durham Peters

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Promiscuous Knowledge

Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

By: Kenneth Cmiel,John Durham Peters

Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google. It examines how we think about fact, image, and knowledge, centering on the different ways that claims of truth are complicated when they pass to a larger public. To explore these ideas, Cmiel and Peters focus on three main periods—the late nineteenth century, 1925 to 1945, and 1975 to 2000, with constant reference to the present. Cmiel’s original text examines the growing gulf between politics and aesthetics in postmodern architecture, the distancing of images from everyday life in magical realist cinema, the waning support for national betterment through taxation, and the inability of a single presentational strategy to contain the social whole. Peters brings Cmiel’s study into the present moment, providing the backstory to current controversies about the slipperiness of facts in a digital age. A hybrid work from two innovative thinkers, Promiscuous Knowledge enlightens our understanding of the internet and the profuse visual culture of our time.

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022661185X

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Democratic Eloquence

The Fight Over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-century America

By: Kenneth Cmiel

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Democratic Eloquence

The Fight Over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-century America

By: Kenneth Cmiel

A penetrating account of the long debate about the kind of public language appropriate for a democratic society. . . . Cmiel manages to do justice to both sides."--Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism "Every scholar interested in the English language will put this book next to Mencken and Baugh. It will be indispensable to writing the social history of English into the 20th Century."--Joseph Williams, author of Origins of the English Language

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Univ of California Press

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0520074858

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9780520074859

A Home of Another Kind

One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare

By: Kenneth Cmiel

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One Chicago Orphanage and the Tangle of Child Welfare

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The Wilmington Ten

Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s

By: Kenneth Robert Janken

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The Wilmington Ten

Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s

By: Kenneth Robert Janken

In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500,000 in damage, and the firebombing of a white-owned store, before the National Guard restored uneasy peace. Despite glaring irregularities in the subsequent trial, ten young persons were convicted of arson and conspiracy and then sentenced to a total of 282 years in prison. They became known internationally as the Wilmington Ten. A powerful movement arose within North Carolina and beyond to demand their freedom, and after several witnesses admitted to perjury, a federal appeals court, also citing prosecutorial misconduct, overturned the convictions in 1980. Kenneth Janken narrates the dramatic story of the Ten, connecting their story to a larger arc of Black Power and the transformation of post-Civil Rights era political organizing. Grounded in extensive interviews, newly declassified government documents, and archival research, this book thoroughly examines the 1971 events and the subsequent movement for justice that strongly influenced the wider African American freedom struggle.

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UNC Press Books

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1469624842

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The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman

By: Kenneth M. Price,Stefan SchÃ¶berlein

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The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman

By: Kenneth M. Price,Stefan SchÃ¶berlein

A Handbook on Walt Whitman that reflects the best new work in the field including chapters that set his work within the context of digital scholarship, discussion of new manuscript discoveries and transcriptions, exploration of environmental angles on Whitman, and a focus on disability studies.

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Oxford University Press

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0192894846

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Making Saints

Religion and the Public Image of the British Army, 1809-1885

By: Kenneth E. Hendrickson

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Making Saints

Religion and the Public Image of the British Army, 1809-1885

By: Kenneth E. Hendrickson

This study tells the story of how the British army went from rabble to crusaders beginning with the century that witnessed Britain's greatest imperial triumphs, and how institutional reforms helped to shape and alter public opinion.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838637299

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9780838637296

Promiscuous Knowledge

Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

By: Kenneth Cmiel,John Durham Peters

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Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

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A Home of Another Kind

A Home of Another Kind

Promiscuous Knowledge

Promiscuous Knowledge

Democratic Eloquence

Democratic Eloquence

A Home of Another Kind

A Home of Another Kind

The Wilmington Ten

The Wilmington Ten

The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman

The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman

Making Saints

Making Saints

Promiscuous Knowledge

Promiscuous Knowledge

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