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The American Chestnut : an environmental history / by Davis, Donald Edward,1959-author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-352) and index.List of illustrations -- Preface --Introduction -- Giving character to the landscape --Part one. Chestnuts on the move --The evolutionary history of the species -- Part two. Chestnut encounters --The seasonal bounty of nuts and acorns -- Wherever there are mountains -- The most celebrated hunting grounds -- Cash will be paid if delivered soon -- Placed there by a quadruped or bird -- Along all prominent thoroughfares -- Part three. Chestnut decline -- The wonder and admiration of all -- To maintain the balance of nature -- Grandfather had lived in a log -- A national calamity -- Part four. Chestnut revival -- Genes for blight resistance -- Conclusion. The giving tree -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index"Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. Although historical evidence suggests the natural distribution of the American chestnut extended across more than four hundred thousand square miles of territory-an area stretching from eastern Maine to southeast Louisiana-stands of the trees could also be found in parts of Wisconsin, Michigan, Washington State, and Oregon. An important natural resource, chestnut wood was preferred for woodworking, fencing, and building construction, as it was rot resistant and straight grained. The hearty and delicious nuts also fed wildlife, people, and their livestock. Ironically, the tree that most piqued the emotions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Americans, has virtually disappeared from the eastern United States. After a blight fungus was introduced into the United States during the late nineteenth century, the American chestnut became functionally extinct. Although the virtual eradication of the species caused one of the greatest ecological catastrophes since the last ice age, considerable folklore about the American chestnut remains. Some of the tree's history dates to the very founding of our country, making the story of the American chestnut an integral part of American cultural and environmental history. The American Chestnut tells the story of the American chestnut from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Davis documents the tree's impact on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American life, including the decorative and culinary arts. While much attention is paid to the importation of chestnut blight and the tree's decline as a dominant species, the author also evaluates efforts to restore the American chestnut to its former place in the eastern deciduous forest, including modern attempts to genetically modify the species"--

Subjects: American chestnut.; American chestnut; Forests and forestry;

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Black refractions : highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem / by Choi, Connie H.,author.(CARDINAL)314689; Jones, Kellie,1959-contributor.(CARDINAL)279923; Golden, Thelma,contributor.(CARDINAL)209039; American Federation of Arts,issuing body,publisher,organizer.(CARDINAL)137873; Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum,host institution.(CARDINAL)274038; Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, S.C.),host institution.(CARDINAL)197918; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts,host institution.(CARDINAL)148583; Museum of the African Diaspora,host institution.(CARDINAL)785102; Rizzoli editore,publisher.(CARDINAL)784753; Smith College.Museum of Art,host institution.(CARDINAL)153854; Studio Museum in Harlem,issuing body,publisher,organizer.(CARDINAL)165993; Utah Museum of Fine Arts,host institution.(CARDINAL)133470;

Includes bibliographical references."The artists featured in Black Refractions, including Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, Nari Ward, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, and Lorna Simpson, are drawn from the renowned collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Through exhibitions, public programs, artist residencies, and bold acquisitions, this pioneering institution has served as a nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally since its founding in 1968. Rather than aim to construct a single history of "black art," Black Refractions emphasizes a plurality of narratives and approaches, traced through 125 works in all media from the 1930s to the present."

Subjects: Catalogs.; Exhibition catalogs.; Studio Museum in Harlem; African American art; African American art; African Americans in art;

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Reaching inside : 50 acclaimed authors on 100 unforgettable short stories / by Dubus, Andre,III,1959-editor,writer of supplementary material.(CARDINAL)771834;

Includes bibliographical references.Introduction / Andre Dubus III -- Ann Patchett. Sonny's blues / James Baldwin ; The long-distance runner / Grace Paley -- Mary Gordon. I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen ; Pale horse, pale rider / Katherine Anne Porter -- Madison Smartt Bell. King of the mountain / George Garrett ; Sredni Vashtar / Saki -- Meg Wolitzer. Clay / James Joyce ; Yours / Mary Robison -- Dani Shapiro. The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges ; Getting closer / Steven Millhauser -- ZZ Packer. Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek ; A solo song: for Doc / James Alan McPherson -- Ann Beattie. Bliss / Katherine Mansfield ; The prince / Craig Nova -- T. C. Boyle. The brother / Robert Coover ; Sorrows of the flesh / Isabel Huggan -- Anthony Doerr. The garden of Forking Paths / Jorge Luis Borges ; Continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar -- Gish Jen. Barn burning / William Faulkner ; Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Stewart O'Nan. Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Boys / Rick Moody -- Tobias Wolff. Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Jess Walter. The school / Donald Barthelme ; Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Kirstin Valdez Quade. Love / William Maxwell ; Dance of the happy shades / Alice Munro -- Mona Simpson. The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov ; Good people / David Foster Wallace -- Richard Russo. The lottery / Shirley Jackson ; Builders / Richard Yates -- Ron Rash. Where will you go when your skin cannot contain you / William Gay ; A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Anna Quindlen. The gift of the Magi / O. Henry ; Wants / Grace Paley -- Jayne Anne Phillips. A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; In dreams begin responsibilities / Delmore Schwartz -- Edith Pearlman. A love match / Sylvia Townsend Warner ; Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- Peter Orner. Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor ; Welcome / John Edgar Wideman -- Joyce Carol Oates. Battle royal / Ralph Ellison ; A & P / John Updike -- Bich Minh Nguyen. Cathedral / Raymond Carver ; In the American society / Gish Jen -- Antonya Nelson. Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad ; The girl who left her sock on the floor / Deborah Eisenberg -- Rick Moody. The company of wolves / Angela Carter ; The use of force / William Carlos Williams -- Sue Miller. Spanish in the morning / Edward P. Jones ; The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- Colum McCann. A ball of malt and Madame Butterfly / Benedict Kiely ; The love object / Edna O'Brien -- Lois Lowry. A small, good thing / Raymond Carver ; The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee -- Dennis Lehane. Why don't you dance / Raymond Carver ; The second tree from the corner / E.B. White -- Phil Klay. The grand inquisitor / Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; The harvest / Amy Hempel -- Charles Johnson. An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; Trumpeter / John Gardner -- Pam Houston. Sara Cole: a type of love story / Russell Banks ; A note on the type / Ron Carlson -- Ann Hood. Girl / Jamaica Kincaid ; Home / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Paul Harding. The swimmer / John Cheever ; The jewels of the Cabots / John Cheever -- Ron Hansen. To build a fire / Jack London ; Master and man / Leo Tolstoy -- Jane Hamilton. Goodbye my brother / John Cheever ; White angel / Michael Cunningham -- Jennifer Haigh. The ice wagon going down the street / Mavis Gallant ; Family furnishings / Alice Munro -- Lauren Groff. The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol ; The shawl / Cynthia Ozick -- Robert Boswell. Madagascar / Steven Schwartz ; The death of Ivan Ilych / Leo Tolstoy -- Russell Banks. The artificial nigger / Flannery O'Connor ; No place for you my love / Eudora Welty -- Julia Glass. A father's story / Andre Dubus ; Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Dagoberto Gilb. La Noche Buena / Tomas Rivera ; Paso del norte / Juan Rulfo -- Stuart Dybek. The grasshopper and bell cricket / Yasunari Kawabata ; Birds / John O'Brien -- Emma Donoghue. An attack of hunger / Maeve Brennan ; The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Junot Díaz. Bloodchild / Octavia Butler ; Night women / Edwidge Danticat -- Michael Cunningham. Work / Denis Johnson ; The dead / James Joyce -- Lan Samantha Chang. French lesson I: le meurtre / Lydia Davis ; The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- Ron Carlson. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Charles Baxter. The corn planting / Sherwood Anderson ; A conversation with my father / Grace Paley -- Richard Bausch. Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway ; The real thing / Henry James -- Writing prompts from the contributors."An anthology of original essays by fifty major American writers on one hundred essential short stories. 'A writer, ' Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, 'is a reader who is moved to emulation.' That idea inspired New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus III to invite fifty acclaimed authors to write about the precise alchemy of emulation, about short stories that altered their view of life and their place in it-short stories that, ultimately, made them want to write something substantial themselves. Reaching Inside is the far-ranging end result of that invitation. For practitioners of the personal essay and other forms of creative nonfiction, this anthology is fifty examples of how to write about the "I" as well as the 'eye.' For teachers of creative writing, it is fifty inspiring songs of praise for the kind of writing that aspires to art. For professors of literature, it is fifty models for how to think and write critically. And for readers, Reaching Inside is simply a moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays that reach inside us and, as Tolstoy wrote, 'transfer feeling from one person's heart to another person's heart.' Reaching Inside will remind you why you fell in love with reading"--

Subjects: Short stories.; Essays.; Authors, American; Authorship;

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A new literary history of America / by Marcus, Greil.(CARDINAL)266903; Sollors, Werner.(CARDINAL)744628;

Includes bibliographical references and index.1507, the name "America" appears on a map / Toby Lester -- 1521 Mexico in America / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- 1536, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca / Ilan Stavans -- 1585, "Counterfeited according to the truth" / Michael Gaudio -- 1607, Fear and love in the Virginia colony / Adam Goodheart -- 1630, A city upon a hill / Elizabeth Winthrop -- A nearer neighbor to the Indians / Ted Widmer -- 1666, Anne Bradstreet / Wai Chee Dimock -- 1670, The American jeremiad / Emory Elliott ; The stamp of God's image / Jason D. LaFountain -- 1673, The Jesuit relations / Laurent Dubois -- 1683, Francis Daniel Pastorius / Alfred L. Brophy -- 1692, The Salem witchcraft trials / Susan Castillo -- 1693, Edward Taylor / Werner Sollors -- 1700, Samuel Sewall's "The selling of Joseph" / David Blight -- 1722, Benjamin Franklin, the Silence Dogood letters / Joyce E. Chaplin -- 1740, The Great Awakening / Joanne Van Der Woude -- Late 1740s, Two national anthems / John Picker -- 1765, Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur / Leo Damrosch -- 1773, Phillis Wheatley / Rafia Zafar -- 1776, The Declaration of Independence / Frank Kelleter -- 1784, Charles Willson Peale / Michael Leja -- 1787, James Madison's "Notes of the debates in the federal convention" / Mitchell Meltzer -- 1787-90, John Adams's "Discourses on Davila" / John Diggins -- 1791, Philip Freneau and "The National Gazette" / Jeffrey L. Pasley -- 1796, Washington's farewell address / Francois Furstenberg -- 1798, Mary Rowlandson and the Alien and Sedition Acts / Nancy Armstrong -- 1798, American Gothic / Marc Amfreville --1801, Jefferson's first inaugural address / Jan Ellis Lewis -- 1804, The matter of Haiti / Kaima Glover - 1809, Cupola of the world / Judith Richardson -- 1819, The Missouri crisis / John Stauffer -- 1820, Landscape with birds / Christoph Irmscher -- 1821, Sequoyah, the Cherokee syllabary / Lisa Brooks ; Junius Brutus Booth / Coppelia Kahn -- 1822, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow's "Hiawatha" / Davie Treuer -- 1852, Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School / Alan Wallach -- 1826, Songs of the republic / Steve Erickson -- Cooper's Leatherstocking tales / Richard Hutson -- 1826-1927 Transnational poetry / Stephen Burt -- 1827, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon / Terryl L. Givens -- 1828, David Walker's "Appeal, in four articles" / Tommie Shelby -- 1830, Jump Jim Crow / W. T. Lhamon, Jr. -- 1831, The "Cherokee Nation" decision / Philip Deloria -- 1832, President Jackson's bank veto / Dan Feller -- 1835, "Democracy in America" / Ted Widmer ; William Gilmore Simms's "The Yemassee" / Jeffrey Johnson ; "The Sacred harp" / Sean Wilentz -- 1836, The Alamo and Texas border writing / Norma E. Cantu ; Richard Henry Dana, Jr. / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The American Schollar" / James Conant -- 1838, "The Divinity School Address / Herwig Friedl ; The slave narrative / Caille Millner -- 1841, "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Robert Clark -- 1846, James Russell Lowell's "Biglow papers" / Shelley Streeby ; Henry David Thoreau / Jonathan Arac --1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville / Clark Blaise -- 1851, "Moby-Dick" / Greil Marcus ; "Uncle Tom's Cabin" / Beverly Lowry -- 1852, Hawthorne's "Blithedale romance" and utopian communities / Winifried Fluck ; Frederick Douglass's "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / Liam Kennedy -- 1854, Maria Cummins and sentimental fiction / Cindy Weinstein -- 1855, Walt Whitman's "Leaves of grass" / Angus Fletcher -- 1858, The Lincoln-Douglas debates / Michael T. Gilmore -- 1859, The science of the Indian / Scott Richard Lyons -- 1861, Emily Dickinson / Susan Stewart -- 1862, The journeys of "Little women" / Shirley Samuels -- 1865, Lincoln's 2nd inaugural address / Ted Widmer ; "Conditions of repose" / Robin Kelsey -- 1869, Carl Schurz / Michael Boyden -- 1872, All men and women are created equal / Laura Wexler -- 1875, The Winchester rifle / Merritt Roe Smith -- 1876, Melville in the dark / Kenneth W. Warren ; The art of telephony / Avital Ronell -- 1878, "How to make our ideas clear" / Christopher Hoodway -- 1879, John Muir and nature writing / Scott Slovic -- 1881, Henry James's "Portait of a Lady" / Alide Cagidemetrio -- 1884, Mark Twain's hairball / Ishmael Reed ; The linotype machine / Lisa Gitelman ; The Southwest imagined / Leah Dilworth -- 1885, The problem of error / James Conant ; Limits to violence / James Dawes ; Writing New Orleans / Andrei Codrescu -- 1888, The introduction of motion pictures / Jonathan Lethem -- 1889, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Yael Schacher -- 1893, Chief Simon Pokagon and Native American literatuer / David Treuer -- 1895 / Ida B. Wells's "A Red Record" / Jacqueline Goldsby -- 1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Lyrics of lowly life" / Judith Jackson Fossett ; Queen Lili'uokalani / Rob Wilson -- 1897, The Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Monument / Richard Powers -- 1898, Literature and imperialism / Amy Kaplan -- 1899, "McTeague" and 1924, "Greed" / Gilberto Perez --1900, Henry Adams / T. J. Jackson Lears ; "The Wizard of Oz" / Gerald Early ; 1900, "Sister Carrie" and 1905, "The House of Mirth" / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- 1901 & 1903, The problem of the color line / Arnold Rampersad -- 1903, "The real American has not yet arrived" / Aviva Taubenfeld ; The invention of the blues / Luc Sante ; One sees what one sees / Daniel Albright -- 1904, Henry James in America / Ross Posnock -- 1905, "Little Nemo in Slumberland" / Kerry Roeder ; 1906, The Azusa Street revival / RJ Smith ; The San Francisco Earthquake / Kathleen Moran -- "Alexander's Ragtime Band" / Philip Furia -- 1912, Lifeboats cut adrift / Alan Ackerman ; The lure of impossible things / Heather Love ; Tarzan begins his reign / Gerald Early -- 1913, A modernist moment / Bonnie Costello -- 1915, D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" / Richard Schickel ; Robert Frost / Christian Wiman -- 1917, The philosopher and the millionaire / Richard J. Bernstein -- 1920, Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" / Daphne A. Brooks -- 1921, Jean Toomer / Elizabeth Alexander -- 1922, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence / Anita Patterson -- 1923, Chaplinesque / David Thomson -- 1942, F. O. Mattiessen meets Russell Cheney / Robert Polito ; The Johnson-Reed Act and ethnic literature / Yael Schacher -- 1925, "The Great Gatsby" / Lan Tran ; Sinclair Lewis / Jeffrey Ferguson ; The Scopes trial / Michael Kazin ; Dorothy Parker / Catherine Keyser -- 1926, "Fire!" / Carla Kaplan ; Hardboiled / Walter Mosley ; The Book-of-the-Month Club / Joan Shelly Rubin -- 1927, Carl Sandburg and "The American Songbag" / Paul Muldoon ; "Free to develop their faculties" / Jeffrey Rosen -- 1928, Dilsey Gibson goes to church / Werner Sollors ; John Dos Passos / Phoebe Kosman ; The mouse that whistled / Karal Ann Marling -- 1930, "The Silent Enemy" / Micah Treuer ; Grant Wood's "American Gothic" / Sarah Vowell -- 1931, Nevada legalizes gambling / David Thomson -- 1932, Edmund Wilson's "The American jitters" / Anthony Grafton ; Arthur Mill / Andrea Most -- 1932, The River Rouge plant and industrial beauby / John M. Staudenmaiser, S.J. ; Ned Cobb / Robert Cantwell -- 1933, "Baby Face" is censored / Stephanie Zacharek ; FDR's first Fireside Chat / Paula Rabinowitz -- 1934, Robert Penn Warren / Howell Raines -- 1935, The Popular Front / Angela Miller ; The skyscraper / Sarah Whiting ; Alcoholics Anonymous / Michael Tolkin ; "Porgy and Bess" / John Rockwell -- 1936, "Gone with the Wind" and "Absalom, Absalom!" / Carolyn Porter ; Two days in Harlem / Adam Bradley ; "Life" begins / Michael Lesy -- 1938, Superman / Douglas Wolk ; Jelly Roll Morton speaks / Marybeth Hamilton -- 1939, Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" / Robert O'Meally ; Up from invisibility / Josef Jarab -- 1940, "No way like the American way" / Erika Doss -- 1940-44, Preston Sturges / Douglas McGrath -- 1941, An insolent style / Carrie Tirado Bramen ; "Citizen Kane" / Joseph McBride ; The word "multicultural" / Werner Sollors -- 1943, Hemmingway's paradise, Hemingway's prose / Keith Taylor -- 1944, The 2nd Bill of Rights / Cass R. Sunstein -- 1945, Bebop / Ingrid Monson ; Thomas Pynchon and modern war / Glenda Carpio ; The atom bomb / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi -- 1946, Integrating the military / Gerald Early -- 1947, Tennessee Williams / Camille Paglia -- 1948, Norbert Wiener's "Cybernetics" / David A. Mindell ; Saul Bellow / Ruth Wisse -- 1949-50, "The birth of cool" / Ted Gioia --1950, "Damned busy painting" / T. J. Clark -- 1951, A poet among painters / Mark Ford ; "The Catcher in the Rye" / Gish Jen ; James Jones's "From Here to Eternity" / Lindsay Waters ; A soft voice / M. Lynn Weiss -- 1952, Elia Kazan and the blacklist in Hollywood / Michael Ventura ; C. L. R. James / Donald E. Pease -- 1953, The song in country music / Dave Hickey -- 1954, Wallace Stevens's "Collected poems" / Helen Vendler -- 1955, "The self-respect of my people" / Monica L. Miller ; A. J. Liebling and the Marciano-Moore fight / Carlo Rotella ; A generation in miniature / Richard Candida Smith ; Nabokov's "Lolita" / Stephen Schiff -- 1956, "Roll Over Beethoven" / James Miller -- 1957, Dr. Seuss / Philip Nel -- 1959, "Nobody's perfect" / William J. Mann -- 1960, "Psycho" / William Beard ; More than a game / Michael MacCambridge -- 1961, JFK's inaugural address and "Catch-22" / Charles Taylor ; The author as advertisement / David Thomson -- 1962, Bob Dylan writes "Song to Woody" / Joshua Clover ; "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art" / Howard Hampton -- 1963, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / George Hutchinson -- 1964, Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" / Peter Sacks ; "The last stand on earth" / Gary Kamiya -- 1965, The Council on Interracial Books for Children / Dianne Johnson ; "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" / David Bradley -- 1968, Norman Mailer / Mary Gaitskill ; The illusory babels of language / Hal Foster ; The plight of conservative literature / Michael Kimmage -- 1969, Eilzabeth Bishop's "Complete poems" / Laura Quinney ; The first Asian Americans / Hua Hsu ; The eye of Vietnam / Thi Phuong-Lan Bui -- 1970, Maya Angelou, Toni MOrrison, Alice Walker / Cheryl A. Wall ; Linda Lovelace / Anne Marlowe -- 1973, Loisaida literature / Frances R. Aparicio ; Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck" / Maureen N. McLane -- 1975, Gayl Jones / Robert O'Meally -- 1981, Toni Morrison / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- 1982, Edmund White's "A Boy's Own Story" / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum ; "Wild Style" / Mua Hsu ; Maya Lin's wall / Anne M. Wagner ; Harriet Wilson / Saidiya V. Hartman -- 1985, Henry Roth / Mario Materassi -- 1987, Maxine Hong Kingston's "Tripmaster Monkey" / Seio Young Chu -- 1995, Philip Roth / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- 2001, 21st-century free verse / Stephen Burt -- 2003, Richard Powers's "The Time of Our Singing" / Greil Marcus -- 2005, Hurricane Katrina / Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors -- 2008, Barack O'Bama / Kara Walker.

Subjects: American literature;

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