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W. E. B. Du Bois was the preeminent black scholar of his era. He was also a principal founder and for twenty-eight years an executive officer of the nation's most effective civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Even though Du Bois was best known for his lifelong stance against racial oppression, he represented much more. He condemned the racism of the white world but also criticized African Americans for mistakes of their own. He opposed segregation but had reservations about integration. Today he would be known as a pluralist. In Du Bois and His Rivals, Raymond Wolters provides a distinctive biography of this great pioneer of the ...
This book chronicles the history of the University of Missouri from 1839 to 1939.
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The product of a cooperative planning effort by a group of leaders in higher educ. across Missouri, on expanded access to postsecondary educ. for all its citizens. The system features the use of advanced telecommunications. Covers: desirable characteristics (access; learner-centered; faculty-supported; high-quality instruction; support institutional missions; emphasize educational partnerships); the current picture (Internet; community info. networks; video networks; satellite downlinks); recommendations. Extensive appendices.
Our built environment inspires writers to reflect on the human experience, discover its history, or make it up. Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are “documents” of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England examines the relationship between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architectural and literary works. By becoming more sensitive to the narrative functions of architecture, Anne M. Myers argues, we begin to understand how a range of writers viewed and made use of the material built environment that surrou...
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