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THE TRIALS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• December 18, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1930s, Alex Lichtenstein, Angelo Herndon (1913-1997), Brian Orfall, Communist Pary of the United States, Florida International University, Francis Luca, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), Jim Crow, library exhibitions, racism, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Teaching American History Master's Degree Program, Trials

A CHALLENGE FOR YOU POETRY FANS OR ERIC GILL AFICIONADOS

• December 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: Arts & Crafts movement, Beatrice Warde (1900-1969), Dennis Doordan, Engravers, Eric Gill (1882-1940), Erotic art, Mellon grant, Monumental masons, religious art, Sculptors, Typographers, Wolfsonian library

CRUISING—ITALIAN STYLE!

• December 9, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in cruise ships, Laurence Miller Collection, ocean liners, Wolfsonian library
Tags: Costa Line (Genoa), Cosulich Line, Italian Line, Navigazioni Generale Italiana, Pier Luigi Foschi

KOREA—THE “HERMIT” NATION!

• December 3, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Wolfsonian library
Tags: Japan, Korea, military exercises, North Korea, South Korea, travelogues

ROOSEVELT & THE REDS

• December 1, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Christopher DeNoon, Communism, donations, Great Depression, New Deal (1933-1939), NRA
Tags: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Herbert Hoover, red-baiting, Socialism, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture