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Vanguard

How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

By: Martha S. Jones

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Vanguard

How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

By: Martha S. Jones

The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women -- Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more -- who were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.

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Basic Books

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1541618602

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Things Happen For A Reason

By: Martha Smith

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Things Happen For A Reason

By: Martha Smith

This is a true story of mercy, healing, and deliverance. Ellis Shortridge was born and raised in Grundy, Virginia, in 1917. When Ellis was just a young man, he came to know Jesus, and his whole life was changed. As he read his Bible, he claimed all the promises. Ellis knew and believed God could do anything. He was called to a ministry of healing and deliverance, and God used him in a great way. At that time, there was not a Pentecostal Church anywhere in the county where Ellis lived. After holding meetings in people’s homes, God blessed Ellis and his two brothers, Hassel and Ed, to build the first church there. God supplied all the land and material to build it. Today it has grown to become a large church and is still doing work for God.

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1638147205

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The Qualities of a Citizen

Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965

By: Martha Mabie Gardner

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The Qualities of a Citizen

Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965

By: Martha Mabie Gardner

The Qualities of a Citizen traces the application of U.S. immigration and naturalization law to women from the 1870s to the late 1960s. Like no other book before, it explores how racialized, gendered, and historical anxieties shaped our current understandings of the histories of immigrant women. The book takes us from the first federal immigration restrictions against Asian prostitutes in the 1870s to the immigration "reform" measures of the late 1960s. Throughout this period, topics such as morality, family, marriage, poverty, and nationality structured historical debates over women's immigration and citizenship. At the border, women immigrants, immigration officials, social service providers, and federal judges argued the grounds on which women would be included within the nation. As interview transcripts and court documents reveal, when, where, and how women were welcomed into the country depended on their racial status, their roles in the family, and their work skills. Gender and race mattered. The book emphasizes the comparative nature of racial ideologies in which the inclusion of one group often came with the exclusion of another. It explores how U.S. officials insisted on the link between race and gender in understanding America's peculiar brand of nationalism. It also serves as a social history of the law, detailing women's experiences and strategies, successes and failures, to belong to the nation.

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Princeton University Press

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0691089930

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9780691089935

English Pronunciation Teaching and Research

Contemporary Perspectives

By: Martha C. Pennington,Pamela Rogerson-Revell

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English Pronunciation Teaching and Research

Contemporary Perspectives

By: Martha C. Pennington,Pamela Rogerson-Revell

This book offers contemporary perspectives on English pronunciation teaching and research in the context of increasing multilingualism and English as an international language. It reviews current theory and practice in pronunciation pedagogy, language learning, language assessment, and technological developments, and presents an expanded view of pronunciation in communication, education, and employment. Its eight chapters provide a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of pronunciation and the linguistic and social functions it fulfils. Topics include pronunciation in first and second language acquisition; instructional approaches and factors impacting teachers’ curriculum decisions; methods for assessing pronunciation; the use of technology for pronunciation teaching, learning, and testing; pronunciation issues of teachers who are second-language speakers; and applications of pronunciation research and pedagogy in L1 literacy and speech therapy, forensic linguistics, and health, workplace, and political communication. The chapters also critically examine the research base supporting specific teaching approaches and identify research gaps in need of further investigation. This rigorous work will provide an invaluable resource for teachers and teacher educators; in addition to researchers in the fields of applied linguistics, phonology and communication.

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Springer

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113747677X

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The Qualities of a Citizen

Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965

By: Martha Gardner

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The Qualities of a Citizen

Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965

By: Martha Gardner

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Princeton University Press

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1400826578

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9781400826575

An American Planter

Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York

By: Martha Jane Brazy

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An American Planter

Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York

By: Martha Jane Brazy

Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this, the first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling new portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncan's multifaceted personal networks in both the South and the North. Duncan grew up in an elite Pennsylvania family with strong business ties in Philadelphia. There was little indication, though, that he would become a cosmopolitan entrepreneur who would own over fifteen plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana, collectively owning more than two thousand slaves. With style and substance, Martha Jane Brazy describes both the development of Duncan's businesses and the lives of the slaves on whose labor his empire was constructed. According to Brazy, Duncan was a hybrid, not fully a southerner or a northerner. He was also, Brazy shows, a paradox. Although he put down deep roots in Natchez, his sphere of influence was national in scope. Although his wealth was greatly dependent on the slaves he owned, he predicted a clash over the issue of slave ownership nearly three decades before the onset of the Civil War. Perhaps more than any other planter studied, Duncan contradicts historians' definition of the southern slaveholding aristocracy. By connecting and contrasting the networks of this elite planter and those he enslaved, Brazy provides new insights into the slaveocracy of antebellum America.

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LSU Press

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0807142735

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9780807142738

THE NOVELS OF FAITH – Premium 7 Book Collection (Christian Classics Series)

Ella Clinton, Edith's Sacrifice, Elsie Dinsmore, Mildred Keith, Signing the Contract and What it Cost, The Thorn in the Nest and The Tragedy of Wild River Valley

By: Martha Finley

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THE NOVELS OF FAITH – Premium 7 Book Collection (Christian Classics Series)

Ella Clinton, Edith's Sacrifice, Elsie Dinsmore, Mildred Keith, Signing the Contract and What it Cost, The Thorn in the Nest and The Tragedy of Wild River Valley

By: Martha Finley

This unique collection of Martha Finley's spiritual novels has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. "Elsie Dinsmore" - After her mother's death, Elsie an 8 years-old child must come to terms with the world around her, her over-protective father and her firm belief in God. It is a moving story of a young girl's dilemma between her love for her father and her God. "Mildred Keith" - A story of a family who have placed their trust in God in times of difficulty. Ella Clinton, or By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them: Ella Clinton, a bubbly little girl, wants to help others, but things don't often go as planned. An amusing tale of an innocent child. "Edith's Sacrifice" - Like Elsie, Edith is a woman of few words and prefers to bear everything in her stride stoically. However, fate has something else in store for her when she meets Mr. Randolph, a widower with a daughter named Lulu. "Signing the Contract and What it Cost" - A young woman gives up her little daughter to a childless couple thinking she is going to die soon. But did she make a right decision? "The Thorn in the Nest" - Family secrets and unsolved mysteries threaten the loving relationship of Kenneth Clendenin – a doctor in Ohio. In spite of his intention of marrying his beloved, Kenneth cannot commit to her and the skeletons-in-his-closet keep growing bigger. "The Tragedy of Wild River Valley" - The war changes a lot of people but those who bow thorns have to reap their deeds. Set against the background of the civil war, the novel tells a story of all wars and what happens to people when the much-needed peace follows after the war. Martha Finley (1828-1909) was a teacher and author of numerous works.Finley's books represent the psychological conflict between individuals and their societies which lend a deeper sociological insight to her works.

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e-artnow

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8075832361

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9788075832368

MARTHA FINLEY Ultimate Collection – Timeless Children Classics & Other Novels

35+ Books in One Volume (Illustrated) - The Complete Elsie Dinsmore Series & Mildred Keith Collection, Ella Clinton, Edith's Sacrifice, Signing the Contract and What it Cost, The Thorn in the Nest, The Tragedy of Wild River Valley…

By: Martha Finley

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MARTHA FINLEY Ultimate Collection – Timeless Children Classics & Other Novels

By: Martha Finley

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Elsie Dinsmore Series Elsie Dinsmore Elsie's Holidays at Roselands Elsie's Girlhood Elsie's Womanhood Elsie's Motherhood Elsie's Children Elsie's Widowhood Grandmother Elsie Elsie's New Relations Elsie at Nantucket Two Elsies Elsie's Kith and Kin Elsie's Friends at Woodburn Christmas with Grandma Elsie Elsie and the Raymonds Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds Elsie's Vacation Elsie at Viamede Elsie at Ion Elsie at the World's Fair Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters Elsie at Home Elsie on the Hudson Elsie in the South Elsie's Young Folks Elsie's Winter Trip Elsie and Her Loved Ones Elsie and Her Namesakes Mildred Keith Series Mildred Keith Mildred at Roselands Mildred and Elsie Mildred's Married Life Mildred at Home Mildred's Boys and Girls Mildred's New Daughter Other Novels Edith's Sacrifice Ella Clinton Signing the Contract and What it Cost The Thorn in the Nest The Tragedy of Wild River Valley Martha Finley (1828-1909) was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well-known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years.

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e-artnow

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8075832353

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9788075832351

Literacy and Second Language Oracy

By: Elaine Tarone,Martha Bigelow

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Literacy and Second Language Oracy

By: Elaine Tarone,Martha Bigelow

This book offers research evidence documenting the significant impact of low literacy skill on adolescents' processing of oral L2 input and acquisition.

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Oxford University Press

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0194423131

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9780194423137

Cipe Pineles A Life Of Design

By: Martha Scotford,Cipe Pineles Golden

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Cipe Pineles A Life Of Design

By: Martha Scotford,Cipe Pineles Golden

Cipe Pineles was art director of Glamour, Seventeen, Charm and Mademoiselle magazines between 1930 and 1960. She helped to create the institutional identity of the Lincoln Center in the 1960s, and taught generations of students at Parsons School of Design. Tracing Pineles' career, Martha Scotford chronicles her professional life at a time when few women were involved in design and assesses her contributions to graphic and magazine design.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393730271

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9780393730272

Murder In Scorpio

A Fatal Crash Leads Parapsychologist P.I. Elizabeth Chase Down The Highway Of Extrasensory Danger.

By: Martha C. Lawrence

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Murder In Scorpio

A Fatal Crash Leads Parapsychologist P.I. Elizabeth Chase Down The Highway Of Extrasensory Danger.

By: Martha C. Lawrence

When his high school sweetheart is killed in a car accident, police sergeant Tom McGowan suspects foul play and hires Dr. Elizabeth Chase, a parapsychologist, to help him find the truth.

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Macmillan

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0312959842

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9780312959845

White Women, Black Men

By: Martha Hodes

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White Women, Black Men

By: Martha Hodes

This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes tells a series of stories about such liaisons in the years before the Civil War, explores the complex ways in which white Southerners tolerated them in the slave South, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation. Hodes provides details of the wedding of a white servant-woman and a slave man in 1681, an antebellum rape accusation that uncovered a relationship between an unmarried white woman and a slave, and a divorce plea from a white farmer based on an adulterous affair between his wife and a neighborhood slave. Drawing on sources that include courtroom testimony, legislative petitions, pardon pleas, and congressional testimony, she presents the voices of the authorities, eyewitnesses, and the transgressors themselves—and these voices seem to say that in the slave South, whites were not overwhelmingly concerned about such liaisons, beyond the racial and legal status of the children that were produced. Only with the advent of black freedom did the issue move beyond neighborhood dramas and into the arena of politics, becoming a much more serious taboo than it had ever been before. Hodes gives vivid examples of the violence that followed the upheaval of war, when black men and white women were targeted by the Ku Klux Klan and unprecedented white rage and terrorism against such liaisons began to erupt. An era of terror and lynchings was inaugurated, and the legacy of these sexual politics lingered well into the twentieth century.

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351

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Yale University Press

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0300173679

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9780300173673

Italian Americans of the Greater Mahoning Valley

By: Dr. Donna M. DeBlasio,Dr. Martha I. Pallante

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Italian Americans of the Greater Mahoning Valley

By: Dr. Donna M. DeBlasio,Dr. Martha I. Pallante

Between 1890 and 1924, Italian immigrants flocked to Ohio's Mahoning Valley. The area's burgeoning iron and steel industries beckoned with job prospects for immigrants fleeing southern and eastern Europe--particularly from southern Italy, a region that at the time lacked opportunity and highly taxed its natives. Upon the arrival of these new residents, neighborhoods such as Youngstown's Smoky Hollow and Brier Hill offered accepting communities, and Niles Fire Brick Factory Company and Trumbull Blast Furnace provided employment. Assimilation was not always easy, and discrimination did occur, but Italian Americans ultimately prospered, making a mark not only as steelworkers but also as shopkeepers, grocers, restaurateurs, tradesmen, educators, doctors, lawyers, legislators, and mayors. This book explores the immigration experience, community, workplace dynamics, celebrations, worship, heritage, and lasting impact of the second-largest ethnic group in Ohio's Mahoning Valley.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439654409

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9781439654408

The Sweetness of Freedom

Stories of Immigrants

By: Martha Aladjem Bloomfield,Stephen Garr Ostrander

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The Sweetness of Freedom

Stories of Immigrants

By: Martha Aladjem Bloomfield,Stephen Garr Ostrander

The Sweetness of Freedom presents an eclectic grouping of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants' narratives and the personal artifacts, historical documents, and photographs these travelers brought on their journeys to Michigan. Most of the oral histories in this volume are based on interviews conducted with the immigrants themselves. Some of the immigrants presented here hoped to gain better education and jobs. Others—refugees—fled their homelands because of war, poverty, repression, religious persecution, or ethnic discrimination. All dreamt of freedom and opportunity. They tell why they left their homelands, why they chose to settle in Michigan, and what they brought or left behind. Some wanted to preserve their heritage, religious customs, traditions, and ethnic identity. Others wanted to forget past conflicts and lost family members. Their stories reveal how they established new lives far away from home, how they endured homesickness and separation, what they gave up and what they gained.

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MSU Press

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1628951443

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9781628951448

Homewood

By: Martha Wurtele,Jake Collins

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Homewood

By: Martha Wurtele,Jake Collins

Shades Valley was primarily used as a hunting ground by Native Americans until the arrival of the first white settlers in the 1830s. During Birmingham's industrial boom in the 1870s, "Out of the Smoke Zone, Into the Ozone" became the promoters' cry to move "Over the Mountain" into what was then called Clifton. By 1926, Rosedale, Edgewood, and Grove Park were established neighborhoods, and under the leadership of Charles Rice they incorporated to form the city of Homewood. The new community had luxurious amenities like the Hillcrest Country Club and the Birmingham Motor and Country Club at Edgewood Lake, which was accessible via the Edgewood Electric Railway. Nearly 100 years later, through much growth and change, Homewood has maintained its small-town feel while adapting to the ever-changing culture of today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439653968

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9781439653968

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook

By: Martha Davis,Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman,Matthew McKay

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The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook

By: Martha Davis,Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman,Matthew McKay

Now in its seventh edition—with more than one million copies sold worldwide—The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook remains the go-to resource for stress reduction strategies that can be incorporated into even the busiest lives. The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook broke new ground when it was first published in 1980, detailing easy, step-by-step techniques for calming the body and mind in an increasingly overstimulated world. Now in its seventh edition, this fully revised and updated workbook—highly regarded by therapists and their clients—offers the latest stress reduction techniques to combat the effects of stress and integrate healthy relaxation habits into every aspect of daily life. This new edition also includes powerful self-compassion practices, fully updated chapters on the most effective tools for coping with anxiety, fear, and panic—such as worry delay and defusion, two techniques grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)—as well as a new section focused on body scan. In the workbook, you’ll explore your own stress triggers and symptoms, and learn how to create a personal action plan for stress reduction. Each chapter features a different method for relaxation, explains why the method works, and provides on-the-spot exercises you can do when you feel stressed out. The result is a comprehensive yet accessible workbook that will help you to curb stress and cultivate a more peaceful life.

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408

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New Harbinger Publications

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1684033365

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9781684033362

Photography Books Index III

A Subject Guide to Photo Anthologies

By: Martha Kreisel

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Photography Books Index III

A Subject Guide to Photo Anthologies

By: Martha Kreisel

While the Internet is an important source for locating photographic images, there still are hundreds of photography books published each year for whose contents there is no external access. This second supplement to Photography Books Index addresses this need by analyzing important photographic anthologies that have been published since 1985. Accessing more than fifty photographic anthologies that are widely held in libraries across the country--along with images from two critical annual compilations, Best of Photojournalism and Graphis Annual--this book identifies photographs that record the history of our times. This reference guide provides an important index to contemporary as well as historical photographers, including those for whom full monographs have not been published. Photographs of important individuals as well as photographic records of cataclysmic events can be located through this index. Extensive descriptions of the individual photographs--from the commonplace to the extraordinary--are identified in this volume. Organized into three sections--Photographers, Subjects of Photographs, and Portraits of Named Individuals--these descriptions provide the researcher with important information on each photograph. An essential volume for all public, special and academic libraries, this index will be an invaluable resource for reporters, historians, academics, students and anyone wishing to research photographs and photographers.

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Scarecrow Press

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081085693X

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9780810856936

Memories of a Georgia Teacher

Fifty Years in the Classroom

By: Martha Mizell Puckett

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Memories of a Georgia Teacher

Fifty Years in the Classroom

By: Martha Mizell Puckett

While Puckett offers a valuable perspective on schooling in the twentieth-century rural South, she also captures the essence of daily life in the communities in which she taught. We read of how she sometimes boarded with the parents of her pupils; of how teachers, students, and parents joined together in observance of holidays; and of how schooling managed to continue through the busy growing seasons. Personal details of Puckett's life also emerge, from her relationship with her parents to her life at home with her husband and their eight children.".

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University of Georgia Press

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0820322598

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9780820322599

Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Martha W. McCartney

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Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Martha W. McCartney

From the earliest records relating to Virginia, we learn the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the "hundreds" and "plantations" they inhabited, the names of their spouses and children, their occupations and their position in the colony, their relationships with fellow colonists and Indian neighbors, their living conditions as far as can be ascertained from documentary sources, their ownership of land, the dates and circumstances of their death, and a host of fascinating, sometimes incidental details about their personal lives, all gathered together in the handy format of a biographical dictionary" -- publisher website (January 2008).

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806317744

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9780806317748

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