Pictures with Purpose: Early Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Paperback - Michele Gates Moresi

DescriptionPictures with Purpose, the seventh volume in the Double Exposure series, explores images from the NMAAHC's collection of nineteenth and ...

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Showcases over a hundred treasures from the collections of the National Museum of Scotland.

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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary ...

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The best photographs of the first 21 years of the 21st century take center stage in this incredible volume of Nat Geo's world-famous imageryPublish...

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Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creat...

This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington's original vision for a grand national capi...

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