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The Odyssey of Burt High School By: Dr. Joe Ann Burgess Burt High School takes center stage on an inspiring journey to literacy as blacks in small town Clarksville, TN struggle for the privilege to attain an education and to have equal access to facilities and equipment provided by the State. Interviews with teachers and students will remind readers or let them see for the first time the difficulties African Americans faced across the South as they fought to gain their right to public education and as they strove toward an integrated, unified system of education. The Odyssey of Burt High School is a celebration of the many teachers and others who took great interest in the educational welfare of students and their lives. Many BHS graduates led successful careers in medicine, business, athletics, the military, and more.
The Encyclopedia provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the subject known as public choice. However, the title would not convey suf- ciently the breadth of the Encyclopedia’s contents which can be summarized better as the fruitful interchange of economics, political science and moral philosophy on the basis of an image of man as a purposive and responsible actor who pursues his own objectives as efficiently as possible. This fruitful interchange between the fields outlined above existed during the late eighteenth century during the brief period of the Scottish Enlightenment when such great scholars as David Hume, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith contributed to all these fields, and m...
"This book has historic notes and tales from the past, but they are presented in a unique way, featuring the people who lived them and made them happen We include personal stories of politicians, inventors, soldiers and farmers, a circus family and several librarians who played a part in making Macomb County prosper."--Page 9
Public choice is the study of behavior at the intersection of economics and political science. Since the pioneering work of Duncan Black in the 1940s, public choice has developed a rich literature, drawing from such related perspectives as history, philosophy, law, and sociology, to analyze political decision making (by citizen-voters, elected officials, bureaucratic administrators, lobbyists, and other "rational" actors) in social and economic context, with an emphasis on identifying differences between individual goals and collective outcomes. Constitutional political economy provides important insights into the relationship between effective constitutions and the behavior of ordinary poli...
This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and easte...
James Ray (ca. 1750-1816) lived in North Carolina and married Jane "Jinnit" Allison (ca. 1750-1849). Descendants lived in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, Illinois, Georgia, Oklahoma, Colorado, Alabama, and elsewhere.
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Johan Georg (George Coldiron) Kalteisen (1730-1805) lived in Goppingen, Wuerttemberg, Germany and immigrated to Pennsylvania between 1749-1754. He married Catherine in 1752 in Berks County. They and their family moved to Rowan County North Carolina in 1768 where they lived until George's passing. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, Utah, Oklahoma, California, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Saskatchewan (Canada), Wyoming, Indiana, Florida, Missouri, Nevada, Tennessee and elsewhere.
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