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CoC historians: this is for anyone interested in Mormon history that isn't exactly LDS history.
Mormon bride: One enterprising and creative young women leader took a contemporary bridal magazine and Mormon-ized it.
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Colonial painter John Singleton Copley
Copley contributed significantly to contemporary history painting in England, although he is widely known for his portraiture during colonial America. Copley moved to England in 1774 to pursue his craft away from the impending American revolution.
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... today's most popular mainstream Hip Hop magazines, emcees, and current Black History Month celebrati...: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America and Robin D. G. Kelley's Race Rebels: Cult...
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This study examines how nineteenth-century American journalism used history. Based primarily on almost 2,000 magazine article titles, the authors found a marked increase in historical referents by 1900. Primarily used for context and placement, historical references often noted the country's origins, leaders and wars, particularly the Civil War. By connecting the present to the past, journalists highlighted an American story worth remembering during a time of nation-building, increased magazine circulation, and rise of feature stories. References to past people, events and institutions reiterated a particular national history, not only to those long settled, but also to new immigrants. Journalistic textual silences were the histories of most women, African Americans, Native Americans an...
...They do so to understand major contemporary occurrences,1 to place individuals and events in c...
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This piece on the Venice Bienale, by New York Magazine's Jerry Saltz, gets at what I think is one of the pervading problems of the contemporary art world today: a surfeit of art about art. Too much painting that references other painting, or sculpture that talks about other sculpture, without the addition of much else to sustain our interest. (The best works of art strike a much better balance between historical nods and forward thinking.) Or criticism focused almost exclusively on where an artwork sits in the grand narrative of art history at the expense of understanding what it actually means to us today.
An excerpt:
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... worlds of American gospel music, contemporary Christian entertainment, and multi-media televange... songbooks and other memorabilia, a magazine, and a subscriber-based online community. In the t...
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... Biennales and the Production of Contemporary Art in a Post-Apartheid South Africa" (SUNY Bingha..., Pushing Boundaries: Senufo Arts and History in a 'Frontier'" (UCLA, S. Nelson, Z. S. Strother)... during the Cold War: Photographs in Life Magazine, 1945-1962" (Virginia Commonwealth, R. Hobbs) . CA...
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... Griots: A Social, Political and Cultural History of Individuals in Mali through the Photographer's ...P. Blier) . MUHAMMED, BAQIE B., "Contemporary East African Artists: The Fusion and Hybridization... during the Cold War: Photographs in Life Magazine, 1945-1962" (Virginia Commonwealth, R. Hobbs) . CA...
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Acknowledging the trade magazine, The Hotel Monthly, Hager gives a brief view of hotelkeeping in the early 1900s that can serve as an antidote to contemporary misrepresentations. He also presents a brief history of St Nicholas Hotel and a profile of E. M. Statler, America's extraordinary hotelman.
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Thanks to the New Mexico Rail Runner Express, for the third year in a row holiday shoppers can graze for gifts from Belen to Santa Fe without having to set tire to Interstate 25 or fight for parking.
The train connects Santa Fe's and Albuquerque's central shopping districts and provides opportunities to buy gifts at businesses surrounding the smaller stations in Belen, Bernalillo and Los Lunas. Several stops also feature bus connections to the Albuquerque area's major malls for those seeking the big-time shopping experience. Though the Santa Fe Depot offers free shuttle connections to downtown (look left as you exit the train for the Santa Fe Pick-Up vans), there's a wealth of shopping in the immediate Railyard area, particularly at the always-busy Santa Fe Farmers Market (1607 Paseo d...