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American History Review: Moving Midway
Moving Midway: A Southern Plantation in Transit directed by Godfrey Cheshire, Color, 98 minutes, In theaters Fall 2008 Talk about a family affair. In 2004 Godfrey Cheshire’s cousins, the Hintons, decide to literally uproot Midway, the family’s ancestral North Carolina mansion built in 1848, because Raleigh’s mall-riddled suburbs have noisily engulfed it. The notion naturally …
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American History Book Review: Ten-Cent Plague
The Ten-Cent Plague David Hajdu, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 448 pp., $26 A half-century ago, comic books were the subject of a fierce battle in the war on the First Amendment—a story that, in The Ten-Cent Plague, David Hajdu expertly brings back to light. Author of Positively 4th Street, a portrait of 1960s folk bohemia …
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American History Book Review: Execution of Willie Francis
The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South Gilbert King, Basic Civitas, 362 pp., $26 In 1946 Willie Francis, a 17-year-old African American, sat in an electric chair, about to die. The crime: He allegedly killed a white man in his hometown, St. Martinville, La.—and not just …
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American History Book Review: Playing the Changes
Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs Milt Hinton, with David Berger and Holly Maxson, Vanderbilt, 384 pp., 260 photos, $75 Milt Hinton spanned much jazz history. He also changed it: The master of the “walking” bass performed with Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong, and helped break the studio-musician color line. And …
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American History Review: Baseball’s League of Nations
Baseball’s League of Nations: A Tribute to Native American Baseball Players Iroquois Indian Museum, Howes Cave, N.Y. Through December 31 Last August, when a 6-foot-2, 230-pound 21-year-old Winnebago Indian named Joba Chamberlain first stepped onto the pitcher’s mound for the New York Yankees in a road game against the Toronto Blue Jays, he dazzled millions …
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Citizens, Start Your Engines
The Model T Ford abruptly ended the horse-and-buggy era and put Americans in seemingly perpetual motion. September marks the 100-year anniversary of the national debut of the Model T Ford, a simple automobile in technological achievement and appearance, somewhat dumbed down for the masses, but nothing less than a revolutionary changer of society. The disruptive …
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