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Articles 1 - 12 of 12
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Review Of The Book The Source: A Guidebook To American Genealogy, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Book The Source: A Guidebook To American Genealogy, 3rd Ed., John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the book The source: A guidebook to American genealogy, 3rd ed.
Review Of The Website Cyndi’S List Of Genealogy Sites On The Internet, John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Website Cyndi’S List Of Genealogy Sites On The Internet, John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the website Cyndi’s list of genealogy sites on the internet.
Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid In Post-Civil Rights America And Unfinished Business: Closing The Racial Achievement Gap In Our Schools, Kristopher B. Burrell
Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid In Post-Civil Rights America And Unfinished Business: Closing The Racial Achievement Gap In Our Schools, Kristopher B. Burrell
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This book review of Segregated Schools and Unfinished Business assesses each author's views on the question: can schools be agents of social change? Both books also illustrate that there is much more work that needs to be done in order to fulfill the letter and spirit of the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.
Review Of The Database Proquest Obituaries, John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Database Proquest Obituaries, John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the database ProQuest obituaries.
Harlem, New York, Kristopher B. Burrell
Harlem, New York, Kristopher B. Burrell
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This encyclopedia entry takes a brief span of the history of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City from the 17th century until the present day.
Joan Beverly Kroc, John A. Drobnicki
Joan Beverly Kroc, John A. Drobnicki
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Joan Kroc, who was the third wife of McDonald’s Corporation founder Ray Kroc, was a peace advocate and philanthropist.
Madame De Staël, The Protestant Reformation And The History Of ‘Private Judgement’, Helena Rosenblatt
Madame De Staël, The Protestant Reformation And The History Of ‘Private Judgement’, Helena Rosenblatt
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It is a well-known fact that Madame de Staël held the Protestant Reformation in high regard and preferred Protestantism to all other religions. To her, Protestantism was the most moral and the most enlightened religion available; it was the the religion most compatible with, and even conductive to, progress.
But why was this so, and what exactly did Madame de Staël mean by Protestantism? It is an important question, because answering it will shed light on the nature of her liberalism and, more particularly, on the interconnectedness of her religious and her political views.
On The Intellectual Sources Of Laïcité: Rousseau, Constant, And The Debates About A National Religion, Helena Rosenblatt
On The Intellectual Sources Of Laïcité: Rousseau, Constant, And The Debates About A National Religion, Helena Rosenblatt
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That French Protestants gave strong support to laïcité is by now well established. In recent work, Patrick Cabanel has even made a compelling case for the Protestant sources of laïcité, placing particular emphasis on the Protestant entourage of Jules Ferry (1832-1893) and stressing the inspiration provided by the pro-Protestant intellectual, Edgar Quinet (1803-1875.)
This article suggests that we look even earlier in time for the intellectual sources of laïcité. Seminal ideas can be found in the writings of two liberal Protestants, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) and Benjamin Constant (1767-1830.) Rousseau is usually counted among the opponents, and not the …
Roots Of Modern Arabic Script: From Musnad To Jazm, Saad D. Abulhab
Roots Of Modern Arabic Script: From Musnad To Jazm, Saad D. Abulhab
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Review Of The Book Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide To British Genealogy And Family History, 2nd Ed., John A. Drobnicki
Review Of The Book Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide To British Genealogy And Family History, 2nd Ed., John A. Drobnicki
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Review of the book Ancestral trails: The complete guide to British genealogy and family history, 2nd ed.
Edward Said And The Study Of Music, Kofi Agawu
Edward Said And The Study Of Music, Kofi Agawu
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My first encounter with Edward Said’s work was in the 1980s with the book, Beginnings: Intention and Method (1975). I was exploring a semiotic approach to late 18th-century music, specifically, a beginning-middle-ending paradigm (an Aristotelian paradigm) that seemed to me to capture the rhetorical intentions of Classic composers. Said’s wide-ranging reflections and ruminations on beginnings – as inaugural moments, as sites for the establishment of difference, as authorially privileged moments, and as "first steps in the intentional production of meaning" – proved inspiring. My enduring impression of him at the time was that he was a very good …
The Man-Made Disaster: Fire In Cities In The Medieval Middle East, Anna Akasoy
The Man-Made Disaster: Fire In Cities In The Medieval Middle East, Anna Akasoy
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Considering the building materials and climatic conditions in the medieval Middle East, fires must have been a major problem. This article provides a first survey of sources which are relevant for studying the impact of fires in urban environments. Evidence can be found, for example, in historiographies such as Ibn Kathīr's The Beginning and the End, or in legal discussions. Most fires mentioned in these sources were caused during riots or war, or by accidents in markets. The article also analyses how far fires fit into the general pattern of discussions around disasters in medieval Arabic literature.