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About Men : A Middle-Aged Orphan
Short essay on the recurring presence of writer Clark Blaise's deceased father - the stories he both took with him and left behind, and the impact of certain memories of this man on Blaise in his adult life. -
Social Photography
Text of a brief talk given by acclaimed photographer of American working life - and famously, child industrial labor - during the first half of the twentieth century. Thoughts on the role and function of the photographer and "social photography" in light of Hine's thoughts on the injustices endured by urban children in poverty, at work. Included in a 1980 book of essays on photography, with a brief biographical introduction from the editor. Originally published as "Social Photography ; How the Camera May Help in the Social Uplift" in the "Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction at the Thirty-sixth Annual Session held in the City of Buffalo, New York, June 9-16, 1909," Alexander Johnson, ed., (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Press of Fort Wayne, 1909). -
Canadians in the United States
Brief 1913 review of what the author calls "the great Canadian exodus" - the period from 1850 to 1900 when nearly 1.8 million English and French Canadians emigrated to the United States.Tags Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Business and Economics, Cambridge MA, Canada, Chicago IL, Cincinnatti OH, Cleveland OH, Demography, Detroit MI, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Family, Geography, Germany, Great Britain, Holyoke MA, Ireland, Jersey City NJ, Lawrence MA, Louisville KY, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, New Bedford MA, New Haven CT, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Newark NJ, Newfoundland, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Paterson NJ, Philadelphia PA, Pittsburgh PA, Providence RI, Rochester NY, San Francisco CA, St. Louis MO, St. Paul MN, United States, Washington DC, Worcester MA -
The Teacher of French and the Franco-American Newspaper
Article describing French, French-Canadian, and Franco-American newspapers published in the US and Canada as useful classroom tools for language learning and cultural competency. Discussions of various relevant French-language periodicals, their contents, origins, and distribution. Suggestions for their use with students.Tags Alberta, Berlin NH, California, Canada, Fall River MA, Lewiston ME, Los Angeles CA, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Massachusetts, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, New England, New Hampshire, New York, Newark NJ, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pittsburgh PA, Québec, Rhode Island, San Francisco CA, Saskatchewan, Worcester MA -
About Men : A Middle-Aged Orphan
Short essay on the recurring presence of writer Clark Blaise's deceased father - the stories he both took with him and left behind, and the impact of certain memories of this man on Blaise in his adult life. -
L'Héritage français dans la vallée du Mississippi
Publication sur l'histoire de l'exploration et la colonisation française en Amérique du Nord, et les emplacements américaine dans laquelle les constructions et les noms de lieu françaises persistent dans le présent.Tags Canada, Detroit MI, Duluth MN, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, France, Geography, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Great Lakes Region, Green Bay WI, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi River Valley, Mobile AL, Native Americans, New Orleans LA, Ohio, Ontario, Pittsburgh PA, Québec, St. Louis MO, St. Paul MN, Texas, Vincennes IN, War, Wisconsin -
Children's and Mothers' Wage Labor in Three Eastern U.S. Cities, 1880-1920
Article on the dynamics of class and ethnicity as related to the labor of women and children in the northeastern United States around the turn of the century. Statistical relationship between family and economy in urban, industrialized America during a period of heavy immigration. Emphasis on child labor as varying by type of family, ethnicity, and the relevant legal structures of different locales. A gradual replacement of children's wage labor by the employment of women. Statistics based on U.S. census data from 1880, 1900, and 1920. From the author: "The battle over child labor fought in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries pitted emerging understandings about children's well-being against those of the rest of the family....This article explores the variations in children's and mothers' labor in three very different settings: Pittsburgh, Fall River, and Baltimore between 1880 and 1920. It finds that child labor and education legislation resulted in a decrease in children's employment and increased the likelihood that mothers would take paid jobs."Tags African Americans, Baltimore MD, Business and Economics, Chicago IL, Demography, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Family, Fishing, Gender and Sexuality, German Americans, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Labor History, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Demography, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh PA, Polish Americans, Portuguese Americans, Sharpsburg PA, Slavic Americans, Youth -
One Piece in the Great American Mosaic : The Franco-Americans of New England
Essay written in 1976, "in the spirit of the [United States'] Bicentennial," recognizing the Franco Americans as a distinct and significant ethnic group in American history. The 38-page piece begins its observations at the 1524 French explorations of North America, from where it moves into New France, to rural life in Quebec and the revolutionary war in the US, and into the hundred years of French Canadian community development in immigrant New England. For this author, the history of the United States, Quebec, and France converge on the Franco Americans of the New England states. The text concludes with a list of "Who's Who" among Franco Americans, as well as a bibliography of relevant resources. The piece is also published in its entirety in a 1976 quarterly of the Association canado-américaine, "Two Hundred Years of Freedom."Tags Arctic Centre RI, Berlin NH, Blackstone River Valley, Brunswick ME, Burlington VT, Central Falls RI, Chicago IL, Chicopee MA, Connecticut River Valley, Danielson CT, Detroit MI, Dubuque IA, Duluth MN, Emigration and Immigration, England, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, France, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Louisiana, Merrimack River Valley, Mobile AL, Moosup CT, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New Orleans LA, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Essay, North Grosvenordale CT, Pawtucket RI, Pittsburgh PA, Putnam CT, Québec, Quinebaug River Valley, Religion, Rutland VT, Saco River Valley, Somersworth NH, Southbridge MA, Spain, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, St. Johnsbury VT, St. Louis MO, War, Warren RI, West Warwick RI, Willimantic CT, Winooski VT, Worcester MA -
Man and His World
Book of international short stories rooted in Montréal and the US Northeast. Written in English with a recognizable play of languages, especially French and German. From renowned fiction writer and essayist, Clark Blaise, author of such books as "I Had a Father," "A North American Education," and "Tribal Justice." Blaise is the former director of the International Writing Program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. -
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The Teacher of French and the Franco-American Newspaper
Article describing French, French-Canadian, and Franco-American newspapers published in the US and Canada as useful classroom tools for language learning and cultural competency. Discussions of various relevant French-language periodicals, their contents, origins, and distribution. Suggestions for their use with students.Tags Alberta, Berlin NH, California, Canada, Fall River MA, Lewiston ME, Los Angeles CA, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Massachusetts, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, New England, New Hampshire, New York, Newark NJ, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Pittsburgh PA, Québec, Rhode Isand, San Francisco CA, Saskatchewan, Worcester MA