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A Woman Making History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

A Woman Making History

Historian, social reformer, and women's suffrage campaigner, Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958) was one of the most prominent intellectuals of her day. Co-author with her husband, Charles Beard of The Rise of American Civilization: and other works in US history, she also founded the modern field of women's history. This collection of her letters, offers in effect an intellectual biography which is considered to be better documented and more vivid than any previous book about her.

Annual Catalogue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Annual Catalogue

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1893
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Women Educators in the Progressive Era
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Women Educators in the Progressive Era

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-07-19
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  • Publisher: Springer

In 1896, John Dewey established the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago - an experimental school designed to test his ideas in the reality of classroom practice. Through a collective portrait of four of the school’s teachers Women Educators in the Progressive Era examines the struggles and satisfactions of teaching at this innovative school, and situates the school community in the context of Progressive Era experimental impulses in Chicago and the nation. This book reassesses the implications of Dewey’s ideas for current efforts to improve schools, as it explores how the Laboratory School teachers participated in inquiry designed to advance educational thought and practice.

The Naffz Family History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

The Naffz Family History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1960
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The International Claims Settlement Act
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1460

The International Claims Settlement Act

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1959
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Washington University, for the Academic Year ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1502
Notable American Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 784

Notable American Women

This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.

Greater Cooperation Among Atlantic Democracies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

Greater Cooperation Among Atlantic Democracies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1960
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Considers S. Con. Res. 17, to authorize U.S. participation in a conference of delegates from NATO countries to convene as often as necessary to further cooperation within the Altantic community.

Some Maryland Baxters and Their Descendants
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Some Maryland Baxters and Their Descendants

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1948
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  • Publisher: Unknown

John Baxter of Baltimore County, Maryland, may have had two wives, if so both were named Mary. He was the father of eleven children, born 1735-1757 in Baltimore County. His wife, Mary Brown Baxter, was the mother of at least nine of these children. He died in 1757 in Baltimore County, probably about forty-five years of age. Descendants listed lived in Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Missouri, Illinois, and elsewhere.

Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race and the Politics of Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race and the Politics of Memory

In Women and the Historical Enterprise in America, Julie Des Jardins explores American women's participation in the practice of history from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II, a period in which history became professionalized as an increasingly masculine field of scientific inquiry. Des Jardins shows how women nevertheless transformed the profession during these years in their roles as writers, preservationists, educators, archivists, government workers, and social activists. Des Jardins explores the work of a wide variety of women historians, both professional and amateur, popular and scholarly, conservative and radical, white and nonwhite. Although their ability t...