James B Lagrand
Biographic Data
| ID | 682582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James B Lagrand |
| GIVEN NAMES | James B |
| FAMILY NAME | Lagrand |
| SIGNATURE | LAGRAND J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Messiah College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Harrisburg, the City Beautiful: Recasting the History of Urban Reform in a Small American Capital
In 1980 William H. Wilson published an important essay in Pennsylvania History that defined Harrisburg's City Beautiful movement as “successful.” In his analysis, reformers galvanized citizens to vote for civic betterment. A package of amenities—pavements, clean water, drainage, and parks—improved the state capital. On this fortieth anniversary of Wilson's publication, in a year commemorating significant federal amendments granting suffrage to Af…
Understanding Urban Progressivism and the City Beautiful Movement
This article places the City Beautiful movement in Harrisburg within the history of urban progressive reform in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, a time of industrial growth and the various problems stemming from it. In order to better understand the City Beautiful movement, it is helpful to engage the scholarly literature on Progressivism, which notes its complexity, with many different goals, strategies, and historical actor…
Harrisburg's Historic African American Community: An Interview with Calobe Jackson Jr
This excerpted oral history with Calobe Jackson Jr., prominent citizen and local historian, discusses Harrisburg's African American community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, relationships between the city's black and white population, the City Beautiful movement, and the Commonwealth Monument Project
Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power. New Directions in Native American Studies Series. By Paul R. McKenzie-Jones
Clyde Warrior (1939–1968) has long deserved a full-length biography, and we can now thank Paul R. McKenzie-Jones for providing one. Warrior was one of the leading young American Indian activists of the 1960s, in part due to his role as founder and leader of the National Indian Youth Council, established in 1961. Along with contemporaries during the red power era, Warrior challenged the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and other Indian leaders and o…
Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940–2000
Book Review| April 01 2013 Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940–2000 Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940–2000. By Stephen Kent Amerman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 280 pp. Map, tables, and appendixes. $40 (cloth). James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 32 (3): 115–116. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.32.3.0115 Cite Icon Cite…
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Book Review| April 01 2008 Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place. By Coll Thrush. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xxi + 326 pp., foreword, preface, notes, bibliography, index. $28.95 cloth.) James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 340–341. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-069 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Vid…
Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75
Journal Article Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945–75 Get access Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945–75. By LaGrand James B.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xii + 284 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Nicolas G. Rosenthal Nicolas G. Rosenthal University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historica…
Whose Voices Count? Oral Sources and Twentieth-Century American Indian History
INTRODUCTION\nFrom the beginning, observers have remarked about the special relationship American Indian people seemed to have with the spoken word. All the powerful and fantastic tribal stories-that spoke of the origins of the earth, culture heroes, and crafty tricksters-were transmitted exclusively by oral communication in America’s native cultures, making the spoken word appear to carry even greater power. And ever since anthropologists at the…
Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance
Journal Article Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance Get access Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance. By Vizenor Gerald. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994. 191 pp. Index. $30.00, cloth; $13.95, paper.) James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Page 87, ht…
"The Changing "Jesus Road: Protestants Reappraise American Indian Missions in the 1920s and 1930s
Journal Article The Changing “Jesus Road”: Protestants Reappraise American Indian Missions in the 1920s and 1930s Get access James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand Ph.D. candidate Indiana University. He wishes to thank R. David Edmunds, William J. Reese, Bradley J. Birzer, and several anonymous referees for commenting on earlier versions of this article. He would also like to thank the staff at Calvin College's Heritage Hall archives for their assista…
Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance
Journal Article Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance Get access Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance. By Vizenor Gerald. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994. 191 pp. Index. $30.00, cloth; $13.95, paper.) James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Page 87, ht…
Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance
Journal Article Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance Get access Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance. By Vizenor Gerald. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994. 191 pp. Index. $30.00, cloth; $13.95, paper.) James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Page 87, ht…
"The Changing "Jesus Road: Protestants Reappraise American Indian Missions in the 1920s and 1930s
Journal Article The Changing “Jesus Road”: Protestants Reappraise American Indian Missions in the 1920s and 1930s Get access James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand Ph.D. candidate Indiana University. He wishes to thank R. David Edmunds, William J. Reese, Bradley J. Birzer, and several anonymous referees for commenting on earlier versions of this article. He would also like to thank the staff at Calvin College's Heritage Hall archives for their assista…
Whose Voices Count? Oral Sources and Twentieth-Century American Indian History
INTRODUCTION\nFrom the beginning, observers have remarked about the special relationship American Indian people seemed to have with the spoken word. All the powerful and fantastic tribal stories-that spoke of the origins of the earth, culture heroes, and crafty tricksters-were transmitted exclusively by oral communication in America’s native cultures, making the spoken word appear to carry even greater power. And ever since anthropologists at the…
Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75
Journal Article Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945–75 Get access Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945–75. By LaGrand James B.. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xii + 284 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Nicolas G. Rosenthal Nicolas G. Rosenthal University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historica…
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Book Review| April 01 2008 Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place. By Coll Thrush. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xxi + 326 pp., foreword, preface, notes, bibliography, index. $28.95 cloth.) James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2008) 55 (2): 340–341. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-069 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Vid…
Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940–2000
Book Review| April 01 2013 Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940–2000 Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940–2000. By Stephen Kent Amerman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 280 pp. Map, tables, and appendixes. $40 (cloth). James B. LaGrand James B. LaGrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 32 (3): 115–116. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.32.3.0115 Cite Icon Cite…
Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power. New Directions in Native American Studies Series. By Paul R. McKenzie-Jones
Clyde Warrior (1939–1968) has long deserved a full-length biography, and we can now thank Paul R. McKenzie-Jones for providing one. Warrior was one of the leading young American Indian activists of the 1960s, in part due to his role as founder and leader of the National Indian Youth Council, established in 1961. Along with contemporaries during the red power era, Warrior challenged the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and other Indian leaders and o…
Harrisburg, the City Beautiful: Recasting the History of Urban Reform in a Small American Capital
In 1980 William H. Wilson published an important essay in Pennsylvania History that defined Harrisburg's City Beautiful movement as “successful.” In his analysis, reformers galvanized citizens to vote for civic betterment. A package of amenities—pavements, clean water, drainage, and parks—improved the state capital. On this fortieth anniversary of Wilson's publication, in a year commemorating significant federal amendments granting suffrage to Af…
Understanding Urban Progressivism and the City Beautiful Movement
This article places the City Beautiful movement in Harrisburg within the history of urban progressive reform in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, a time of industrial growth and the various problems stemming from it. In order to better understand the City Beautiful movement, it is helpful to engage the scholarly literature on Progressivism, which notes its complexity, with many different goals, strategies, and historical actor…
Harrisburg's Historic African American Community: An Interview with Calobe Jackson Jr
This excerpted oral history with Calobe Jackson Jr., prominent citizen and local historian, discusses Harrisburg's African American community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, relationships between the city's black and white population, the City Beautiful movement, and the Commonwealth Monument Project
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