Books by Susan Reyburn
Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress
by Harry Katz, Frank Ceresi, Phil Michel, Susan Reyburn
The Smithsonian's sports history collection, National Museum of American History, Behring Center includes signed baseballs, baseball equipment and memorabilia. Our baseball inspired gift collection depicts the equipment, style and materials of the collections’ artifacts and America’s nostalgia for them.
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Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress
by Harry Katz, Frank Ceresi, Phil Michel, Susan Reyburn
A lavishly illustrated history of America's game from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress, with a foreword by George F. Will and a new preface by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
“One of the most seductively designed books about the sport to come our way. . . . A book like this, so rich and deep in material. . . . brings baseball history to multifaceted life and reminds us that baseball is the sport that celebrates its history more than any other. . . . This book itself is a form of time-traveling—a pleasurable, often surprising and aesthetic trip.” —San Diego Union-Tribune
Baseball, the sport that helped reunify the country in the years after the Civil War, remains the National Pastime. The Library of Congress houses the world's largest baseball collection, documenting the history of the game and providing a unique look at America since the late 1700s. Baseball Americana presents the best of the best from that treasure trove. From baseball's biggest stars to street urchins, from its most newsworthy stories to sandlot and Little League games, the book examines baseball's hardscrabble origins, rich cultural heritage, and uniquely American character.
The more than 350 fabulous illustrations—many never before published—feature first-generation, vintage photographic and chromolithographic baseball cards; photographs of famous players and ballparks; and newspaper clippings, cartoons, New Deal photographs, and baseball advertisements. Packed with images that will surprise and thrill even the most expert collector, Baseball Americana is a gift for every baseball fan.
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Potus Flotus & Scotus a Quiz Deck of Acronyms
by Library of Congress, Susan Reyburn
With 48 fact-filled cards per package, Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards.
Card size: 3¼ x 4 in.
You may think that OMG is an acronym, but strictly speaking, it s not! (It s better described as an initialism.) Acronyms are pronounceable words created from letters that stand for other words. You probably know what ASAP stands for, but what about NIMBY or FIFO? Dig into this deck of 48 acronyms and discover why a geographical code is called ZIP and how a TASER got its name. Test yourself and your friends, and perhaps be inspired to make up your own acronyms. DIT, for instance! (Do It Today!)
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Football Nation: Four Hundred Years of America's Game
by Library of Congress, Susan Reyburn
Football Nation: Four Hundred Years of America's Game from the Library of Congress is an unprecedented look at football from its early days in colonial America to the professional and college game in the twenty-first century. This visually stunning social and cultural history contains nearly 400 images, many rare or never before published, including memorabilia, cartoons, fine art, and game photographs. The lively text examines how the game acquired its distinct American style, survived attempts to kill it, and became the country’s dominant sport, while coping with wartime, social change, intensifying fan participation, and corporate influence.
Throughout the book, illustrated features explore the history of the fight song, tailgating, and cheerleading; how Hollywood has portrayed the game and its players; the long-running role of women in football; and the impact of game-changing personalities from pioneer Walter Camp to Coach Vince Lombardi to contemporary player agents. (Indeed, no other football book includes such a diverse range of figures as Abigail Adams, Nathan Hale, Confederate general James Longstreet, Al Capone, Queen Elizabeth II, John Lennon, Hirohito, several U.S. presidents, and Peyton Manning.) Quite simply, this book reveals how the United States came to be Football Nation.
“With hundreds of illustrations from the incomparable collections of the Library of Congress this is a book to treasure, not just read. The casual fan will be enchanted; the scholar will find something new on every page.” ―Dr. Michael Oriard, an English professor and dean at Oregon State University, former All American offensive lineman at Notre Dame, former NFL player, and the author of Brand NFL: Making and Selling America’s Favorite Sport
“Football Nation is an awesome read and unlike any other sports history I’ve come across. It’s great to see how the game evolved in America and how it’s been a part of our history since the beginning.” ―Eli Manning, two-time Super Bowl MVP and quarterback for the New York Giants
Praise for Football Nation:
“Visually, this coffee-table book on football is a gem, featuring an abundance of black-and-white and color photographs . . . this attractive and intelligent retelling of the growth and history of the game will appeal equally to college and pro-football fans.” ―Library Journal
“Sharp text . . . feast of archival material includes photos, drawings, reproduced magazine and newspaper extracts." ―BookPage.com
“A multifaceted, pictorial perspective on America’s favorite sport.” ―Shelf Awareness
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Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words
Until recently, Rosa Parks’s personal papers were unavailable to the public. In this compelling new book from the Library of Congress, where the Parks Collection is housed, the civil rights icon is revealed for the first time in print through her private manuscripts and handwritten notes. Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words illumines her inner thoughts, her ongoing struggles, and how she came to be the person who stood up by sitting down.
At the height of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as Parks was both pilloried and celebrated, she found a catharsis in her writing. Her precise descriptions of her arrest, the segregated South, and her recollections of childhood resistance to white supremacy document a lifetime of battling inequality. Parks expressed her thoughts on paper using whatever was available―meeting agendas, event programs, drugstore bags. The book features one hundred color and black-and-white photographs from the Parks collection, many appearing in print for the first time, along with ephemera from the long life of a private person in the public eye.
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