African American Womanhood: A Study of Women’s Life Writings (1861-1910s) by Élise Vallier

“…Covering the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, and up to the beginning of World War I, this work examines the way these women expressed their self-identities.…”
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Exhibiting the West at the Paris Exposition of 1867: Towards a New American Aesthetic Identity? by François Brunet, Jessica Talley

“…In 1867 the French Second Empire’s “social” doctrine staged industry and labor not only as economic values but as cultural facts, envisioned in socio-ethnographic terms if not as forms of spectacle. The United States was only a second-tier player; however, for the U.S. organizers the Paris Exposition was a crucial opportunity for the country as it just emerged from the Civil War and entered Reconstruction. …”
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Spatial Structure of Modern Moscow by D. V. Goloukhova

“…Crucial spatial characteristics emerged in the Soviet era and up to now they define the image of Moscow. …”
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