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When Augustus De Morgan died in 1871, he was described as ‘one of the profoundest mathematicians in the United Kingdom'and even as ‘the greatest of our mathematicians'. But he was far more than just a mathematician. Because much of his voluminous
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George A Pruitt, Melissa A Maszczak
From Protest to President describes an inspirational odyssey of a young, Black activist coming of age in Mississippi and Chicago in the tumultuous 1960s and'70s, culminating in a notable thirty-five-year presidency at Thomas Edison State University.
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Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
How have Black women fostered belonging in higher education institutions that have persisted in marginalizing them? Focusing on the career of Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first trained African American student affairs professional in the United States, this
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Michael T. Benson
One of the most remarkable education leaders of the late nineteenth century and the creator of the modern American research university finally gets his due.Daniel Coit Gilman, a Yale-trained geographer who first worked as librarian at his alma mater,
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James H. Morrison
So sums up the quest of Nova Scotian Alfred Fitzpatrick, the man behind campaigns for the betterment of Canada's working class, and specifically the 1899 creation of the still-running literacy organization Frontier College. A tireless fighter for the
Autor:
Lonneke Geerlings
Rosey E. Pool (1905–71) did not live an ordinary life. She witnessed the rise of the Nazis in Berlin firsthand, tutored Anne Frank, operated in a Jewish resistance group, escaped from a Nazi transit camp, published African American poets in Europe,
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H. Carl McCall, Paul Grondahl
Truly Blessed and Highly Favored is the story of the remarkable rise and illustrious career of H. Carl McCall, a revered figure in New York State politics and the first Black official elected to statewide office. Growing up in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
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Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Franz Boas defined the concept of cultural relativism and reoriented the humanities and social sciences away from race science toward an antiracist and anticolonialist understanding of human biology and culture. Franz Boas: Shaping Anthropology and F
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Sonya Y. Ramsey
North Carolina Society of Historians Book AwardSouthern Conference on African American Studies, Inc., C. Calvin Smith-Wali R Kharif Book AwardFinalist, Hooks National Book AwardThe life and accomplishments of an influential leader in the desegregated
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Ned Stuckey-French
A tireless and discerning advocate for contemporary practitioners of creative nonfiction, Ned Stuckey-French was at the center of every national discussion about the genre. He greatly contributed to our scholarly understanding of the history of the e