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American icons : an encyclopedia of the people, places, and things that have shaped our culture / edited by Dennis R. Hall and Susan Grove Hall

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Author:
Hall, Dennis 1942-  Search this
Hall, Susan G. 1941-2014  Search this
Physical description:
3 v. : ill. ; 27 cm
Type:
Encyclopedias
Place:
United States
Date:
2006
Contents:
v. 1. Alamo / Richard R. Flores -- Muhammad Ali / J. Peter Williams -- Amish / David L. Weaver-Zercher -- Antiperspirant / Jimmy Dean Smith -- Art fair / Mary Carothers and Sharon Scott -- Fred Astaire / Michael Dunne -- Lucille Ball / Rhonda Wilcox -- Banjo / Jack Ashworth -- Barbie / Dawn Heinecken -- Bear / Richard Sanzenbacher -- Beats / Jason R. Kirby -- Betty Crocker / Pauline Adema -- Bomb / Margot A. Henriksen -- Daniel Boone / Richard Taylor -- Boy Scout knife / R. H. Miller -- Capitol / Karelisa V. Hartigan -- Johnny Carson / Don Cusic -- Cell phone / John P. Ferré -- Ray Charles / Reginald Martin -- Julia Child / Sara Lewis Dunne -- Computer chip / Michael Bertz -- Coney Island / Judith A. Adams-Volpe -- Couch / Dennis Hall -- Courtroom trial / David Ray Papke -- Joan Crawford / Claude J. Smith -- Crayola Crayon / Elizabeth Armstrong Hall -- George Armstrong Custer / Michael C. C. Adams -- James Dean / Geoffrey Weiss -- Dinosaur / Mark A. Wilson -- Dollar bill / Heinz Tschachler -- Bob Dylan / Edward P. Comentale -- Albert Einstein / Anthony O'Keefe -- Emergency room / Robert Wolosin -- Flea market / Michael Prokopow -- Ford Mustang / Susan Grove Hall -- Gettysburg / Randal Allred -- GI / Michael Smith -- Golden Gate Bridge / Kenneth M. Sanderson and Laura Kennedy -- Billy Graham / David Fillingim -- Grateful Dead / Nicholas Meriwether
v. 2. Guardian angel / Scott Vander Ploeg -- Gun / Michael C. C. Adams -- Halloween costume / Sylvia Grider -- Hard-boiled detective / Brendan Riley -- Harley-Davidson motorcycle / Wendy Moon -- Ernest Hemingway / R. H. Miller -- Jimi Hendrix / Joy Haenlein -- Audrey Hepburn / Lucy Rollin -- Hershey bar / Dennis Hall -- Hollywood / Thomas B. Byers -- Horse / Barrett Shaw -- Indian scout / Tom Holm -- Martin Luther King, Jr. / Ricky L. Jones -- Evel Knievel / Randy D. McBee -- Kodak camera / Richard N. Masteller -- Las Vegas / Lawrence E. Mintz -- Rush Limbaugh / Thomas A. Greenfield -- Charles A. Lindbergh / Roger B. Rollin -- List / Dennis Hall -- Log cabin / William J. Badley with Linda Badley -- Lorraine Motel / Thomas S. Bremer -- Jessica Lynch / Anna Froula -- Loretta Lynn / Don Cusic -- MAD magazine / Charles Hatfield -- Madonna / Diane Pecknold -- McDonalds / Betsy Beaulieu -- Mexican-American border / Susana Perea-Fox and Iván Figueroa -- Miami / Gary Harmon -- Mickey Mouse / M. Thomas Inge -- Miss Manners / Dennis Hall -- Marilyn Monroe / Ann C. Hall -- Mount Rushmore / Susan Grove Hall with Dennis Hall -- Muppets / Robert Barshay -- NASCAR's Bristol Motor Speedway / Barbara S. Hugenberg and Lawrence W. Hugenberg -- Niagara Falls / Patrick McGreevy -- Jack Nicholson / Thomas A. Van -- Olmsted Park / Thomas J. Mickey -- One-room schoolhouse / Ray B. Browne -- Oscar / Robert Holtzclaw -- Patchwork quilt / Judith Hatchett -- Walter Payton / Clyde V. Williams -- Polyester / Patricia A. Cunningham -- Poster child / Mary Johnson -- Elvis Presley / George Plasketes
v. 3. Railroad / Arthur H. Miller -- Robot / Ira Wells -- Eleanor Roosevelt / Maurine H. Beasley -- Rosie the Riveter / Kathleen L. Endres -- Route 66 / Thomas A. Greenfield -- Babe Ruth / J. Peter Williams -- Scrapbook / Patricia Prandini Buckler -- Tupac Shakur / Mickey Hess -- Spaceship /Angela Hague -- Sports bar / William R. Klink -- Stadium / Sylvester Frazier, Jr. -- Stonewall / Thomas Piontek -- Suburbia / Philip C. Dolce -- Superman / P. Andrew Miller -- Tara / Diane Calhoun-French -- Tattoo / Karen Aubrey -- Henry David Thoreau / Daniel S. Kerr -- Tractor / Robert T. Rhode -- Tupperware / Judith Hatchett -- Underground Railroad / J. Blaine Hudson -- Viagra / Bennett Kravitz -- Video game / Ken S. McAllister and Judd Ethan Ruggill -- Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Linda Marie Small -- Wal-Mart / Richard Daniels -- John Wayne / David Magill -- Whistler's mother / Elaine A. King -- Oprah Winfrey / R. Mark Hall -- Witch / Linda Badley -- Tiger Woods / Michael K. Schoenecke -- Wright brothers / Roger B. Rollin -- Zipper / Robert Friedel
Topic:
Popular culture  Search this
Americana  Search this
Civilization  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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