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Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite
Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other fields. Among them were the politicians J. William Fulbright, Bill Bradley, and Bill Clinton; the public policy analysts Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos; the writer Robert Penn Warren; the entertaine...
A Southside Virginia Skein
Robert Mitchell (1767-1843), son of William Mitchell and Lucy Hancock, married Mary Collier (1787-1857), daughter of William Collier and Mary Gee, 13 January 1803. They had twelve children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia.
Race and Rumors of Race
In the early 1940s, all sorts of rumors about impending and presently occurring race wars were circulating throughout the South among white Southerners. Chapel Hill sociologist Howard W. Odum was so alarmed--and fascinated--by these rumors that he set out to collect and catalog them. First published in 1943 RACE AND RUMORS OF RACE documents Odum's findings.
Asburys in America
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