New and Notable—National Museum of American History Library

Here are some of the newest additions to the National Museum of American History Library.

 

Historical memories of the Japanese American internment and the struggle for redress. Alice Yang Murray. Stanford University Press, 2008. D769.8.A6 M88 2008

Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2007001251-d.html

Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007001251.htmlThe Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the lost African-American Renaissance. R.J. Smith.

Subject: Japanese Americans — Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. Japanese Americans — Reparations. World War, 1939-1945 — Japanese Americans. Collective memory — United States.

 

 

The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the lost African-American Renaissance. R.J. Smith. Public Affairs, c2006. F869.L89 N4155 2006

Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2006011968-d.html

Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006011968.html

Subject: African Americans — California — Los Angeles — Intellectual life — 20th century. African American arts — California — Los Angeles — History — 20th century. African American neighborhoods — California — Los Angeles — History — 20th century. Community life — California — Los Angeles — History — 20th century. African Americans — California — Los Angeles — Interviews. Interviews — California — Los Angeles. Central Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) — History — 20th century. Los Angeles (Calif.) — Intellectual life — 20th century. Los Angeles (Calif.) — Biography. Los Angeles (Calif.) — Race relations — History — 20th century.

 

 

Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade. David Eltis and David Richardson; foreword by David Brion Davis; afterword by David W. Blight. Yale University Press, c2010. REF. G2446.E625 E48 2010

Contents: Nations transporting slaves from Africa, 1501-1867 — Ports outfitting voyages in the transatlantic slave trade — The African coastal origins of slaves and the links between Africa and the Atlantic world — The experience of the Middle Passage — The destinations of slaves in the Americas and their links with the Atlantic world — Abolition and suppression of the transatlantic slave trade.

Subject: Slave trade — Africa — History — Maps. Slave trade — History — Maps. Slave trade — Africa — History. Slave trade — History.

 

 

 

Houdini: art and magic. Brooke Kamin Rapaport; with contributions by Alan Brinkley … [et al.].

Yale University Press, c2010. GV1545.H8 R37 2010

Subject: Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926 — Exhibitions. Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926 — Influence — Exhibitions. Identity (Psychology) in art — Exhibitions. Art and popular culture — United States — History — 20th century — Exhibitions. Art and popular culture — United States — History — 21st century — Exhibitions.

 

 

 

Measuring America: how economic growth came to define American greatness in the late twentieth century. Andrew L. Yarrow. University of Massachusetts Press, c2010. HB119.A2 Y37 2010

Subject: Economics — United States — Sociological aspects. Public opinion — United States. Nationalism — United States. United States — Economic conditions — 20th century. United States — Social conditions — 20th century.

 

 

 

—Chris Cottrill