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Citizen Teacher
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Citizen Teacher

Finalist for the 2006 History of Education Society's Outstanding Book Award Winner of the 2005 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association Citizen Teacher is the first book-length biography of Margaret Haley (1861–1939), the founder of the first American teachers' union, and a dynamic leader, civic activist, and school reformer. The daughter of Irish immigrants, this Chicago elementary school teacher exploded onto the national stage in 1900, leading women teachers into a national battle to secure resources for public schools and enhance teachers' professional stature. This book centers on Haley's political vision, activities as a public school activist, ...

Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Journal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1879
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Social Register, New York
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

Social Register, New York

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Lever of Riches
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

The Lever of Riches

In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China, or Britain in the industrial revolution--pass into stagnation? Beginning with a fascinating, concise history of technological progress, Mokyr sets the background for his analysis by tracing the major inventions and innovations that have transformed society since ancient Greece and Rome. What emerges from this survey is often surprising: the classical world, for instance, was largely barren of new technology, the relatively backward society ...

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, ...

Catalog of Copyright Entries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1260

Catalog of Copyright Entries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1953
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Windows in Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 139

Windows in Time

I was the youngest child of ten raised during the years of The Great Depression and World War Two. My book, Windows In Time is an overview of life growing up in the, as some call them, The Good Old Days. I invite the reader to step back in time and enjoy the good, bad, sad, happy and funny experience of yesterday. What follows is some personal background. I am married to a special man for many years. We were blessed with a son and daughter. They are grown now and we have three wonderful grandchildren. By now you probably know my major interest in life is my family. Next to them, my extended family, friends and our community. My writing background includes publication in Outdoor Life Magazine...

African American Arts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

African American Arts

  • Categories: Art

Trans Identity as Embodied Afrofuturism / Amber Johnson -- "I Luh God" : Erica Campbell, Trap Gospel and the Moral Mask of Language Discrimination / Sammantha McCalla -- The Conciliation Project as a Social Experiment : Behind the Mask of Uncle Tomism and the Performance of Blackness / Jasmine Coles & Tawnya Pettiford-Wates.

The One For Me
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

The One For Me

Kyle Parker never expected to see her again, and now he’s standing on her front porch with a foreclosure notice in his hand. Jenna can’t believe her eyes. Her life is a mess, her daughter is depending on her and the one person who can wreck the rest of her day is standing there with a pink slip of paper in his hand. When she left him standing in a cloud of dust all those years ago, he vowed to never see or speak to her again. Now, he has to make a big decision - let her destroy his life all over again or pay her back for what she did? In book 1 of the popular January Cove series, we meet the first of the Parker siblings and follow the family as they live their often complicated lives in a small coastal Georgia town. If you love women's fiction with clean romance, this series is for you!

Pseudonyms and Nicknames Dictionary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1078

Pseudonyms and Nicknames Dictionary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1982
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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