From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs? Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.

Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys

Business & Money

DiGirolamo, Vincent

Economics

Oxford University Press

From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs?\nCrying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives.\nBased on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.

Two brothers, one living and one a ghost, have an adventure in the waterfront community of Monterey, California, in the 1950s.

Whispers Under the Wharf: A Monterey Ghost Story

Children's Books

Fithian Pr

On Common Ground introduces a new approach to help bridge what has been termed a divide between Later-day Saint and Christian beliefs. On Common Ground is intended to foster a new level of understanding and acceptance among all Christian religions. On Common Ground author, Vincent DiGirolamo asserts, "All Mormons, Evangelicals, Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists and many other traditional, non-traditional, orthodox religions who believe in Christ are Christians. Why? Because their fundamental belief in Christ and their practice of moral principles, values, and gospel tenets, gives them hope in the promise of salvation through Christ, a personal witness of His grace, and experience in His ways. The common ground is the beliefs, principles and values they share, not in the way that they are interpreted or practiced, nor their origins, but in the manifestation of the fruits they bear and the manner of men they become through living those principles which are true."...

On Common Ground: Bridging the Mormon Evangelical Divide

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Vincent DiGirolamo, Celestine Publishing, LLC

Principles with Promise: Old Testament & New Testament is the second in a succession of principle-based topical guides planned for release within the next two years. This publication of Principles with Promise catalogues the doctrines, values, and teachings found in the Bible and their associated references regardless of how they are interpreted and practiced by the various Christian denominations.

Principles with Promise: Old Testament, New Testament

Celestine Publishing, LLC

Principles with Promise is a new kind of scriptural concordance - a 740 page principle based topical guide. Each Volume in the Series represents a compilation of action-based principles and their associated promises found in holy writ or scripture. Principles of all kinds have been extracted and catalogued one verse at a time in a new method of cross referencing and indexing. Principles include the laws, ordinances, commandments, and doctrines from God and His servants, the prophets regarding our personal journey here on the earth and also the life to come. This publication contains principles Latter-day Saints believe and live.

Principles with Promise: For Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

On Common Ground introduces a new approach to help bridge what has been termed a divide between Later-day Saint and Christian beliefs. On Common Ground is intended to foster a new level of understanding and acceptance among all Christian religions. On Common Ground author, Vinny DiGirolamo asserts, “All Mormons, Evangelicals, Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists and many other traditional, non-traditional, orthodox religions who believe in Christ are Christians. Why? Because their fundamental belief in Christ and their practice of moral principles, values, and gospel tenets, gives them hope in the promise of salvation through Christ, a personal witness of His grace, and experience in His ways. The common ground is the beliefs, principles and values they share, not in the way that they are interpreted or practiced, nor their origins, but in the manifestation of the fruits they bear and the manner of men they become through living those principles which are true.” This Second Edition of On Common Ground includes Celestine Publishing's recent publication, titled, Three Words: The Only Difference Between Latter-day Saint Beliefs and the Rest of the Christian World

Religious Studies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925

The images that are often associated with the Ashcan school of artists are the more sombre depictions of working-class life in early twentieth-century New York. This subject matter is not, however, representative of the entire spectrum of Ashcan art. Featuring some of the Ashcan school's most vibrant and outstanding works, this book demonstrates unequivocally the zeal with which these artists and their circle embraced the world of play enjoyed by all levels of society. Spirited scenes of diverse leisure activities in cafés, bars and parks, at the theatre, on the beach, at sporting events and in the countryside provide a refreshing look at this important artistic movement.
Offers a fresh exploration of a major American artistic movement Features works by the Ashcan artists and their circle, including George Bellows (see opposite), William Glackens, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, George Luks, Guy Pène du Bois, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn and John Sloan, among others Complemented by lively essays on the world of leisure experienced and depicted by the Ashcan school.

Arts & Photography

Leeds, Valerie Ann

Doezema, Marianne

Tottis, James

Smeaton, Suzanne

History & Criticism

Merrell Publishers

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Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys

Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys

Whispers Under the Wharf: A Monterey Ghost Story

On Common Ground: Bridging the Mormon Evangelical Divide

Principles with Promise: Old Testament, New Testament

Principles with Promise: For Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

On Common Ground: Bridging the Mormon Evangelical Divide

Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925