Georgia Biographical Dictionary
Georgia Biographical Dictionary

Author: Caryn Hannan

Publisher: State History Publications

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 925

ISBN-13: 1878592424

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GEORGIA BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY is the definitive biographical reference work on people that have contributed to the history of Georgia. Biographees were chosen from various vocations. Activists, artists, authors, athletes, educators, business leaders, entertainers, historians, inventors, journalists, military figures, musicians, politicians, philanthropists, religious leaders and many other vocations. The place index will make it easy to research people from any place in Georgia. The editorial content of the work is well balanced over all time periods, as well as gender and political affiliations. The work contains historical and contemporary figures Minority studies are of special interest in schools today. February is Black History Month and November is National American Indian Heritage Month. Biographies on Native Americans and African Americans are included in this reference work for research on minority studies. March is National Women's History Month and GEORGIA BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY includes biographies on hundreds of women from various vocations, ethnicity and time periods. This unique reference work contains hundreds of biographies along with illustrations. GEORGIA BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY will be used year round in the various studies on Georgia history, Black history, American Indian history and Women's history.

A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms
A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms

Author: Francisca de Haan

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2006-01-10

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13: 6155053723

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This Biographical Dictionary describes the lives, works and aspirations of more than 150 women and men who were active in, or part of, women’s movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Thus, it challenges the widely held belief that there was no historical feminism in this part of Europe. These innovative and often moving biographical portraits not only show that feminists existed here, but also that they were widespread and diverse, and included Romanian princesses, Serbian philosophers and peasants, Latvian and Slovakian novelists, Albanian teachers, Hungarian Christian social workers and activists of the Catholic women’s movement, Austrian factory workers, Bulgarian feminist scientists and socialist feminists, Russian radicals, philanthropists, militant suffragists and Bolshevik activists, prominent writers and philosophers of the Ottoman era, as well as Turkish republican leftist political activists and nationalists, internationally recognized Greek feminist leaders, Estonian pharmacologists and science historians, Slovenian ‘literary feminists,’ Czech avant-garde painters, Ukrainian feminist scholars, Polish and Czech Senate Members, and many more. Their stories together constitute a rich tapestry of feminist activity and redress a serious imbalance in the historiography of women’s movements and feminisms.

The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law
The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law

Author: Roger K. Newman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 637

ISBN-13: 0300113005

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This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law presents succinct and lively entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law. Casting a wide net, editor Roger K. Newman includes individuals from around the country, from colonial times to the present, encompassing the spectrum of ideologies from left-wing to right, and including a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Entries are devoted to the living and dead, the famous and infamous, many who upheld the law and some who broke it. Supreme Court justices, private practice lawyers, presidents, professors, journalists, philosophers, novelists, prosecutors, and others--the individuals in the volume are as diverse as the nation itself. Entries written by close to 600 expert contributors outline basic biographical facts on their subjects, offer well-chosen anecdotes and incidents to reveal accomplishments, and include brief bibliographies. Readers will turn to this dictionary as an authoritative and useful resource, but they will also discover a volume that delights and entertains. Listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law: John Ashcroft Robert H. Bork Bill Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg Patrick Henry J. Edgar Hoover James Madison Thurgood Marshall Sandra Day O'Connor Janet Reno Franklin D. Roosevelt Julius and Ethel Rosenberg John T. Scopes O. J. Simpson Alexis de Tocqueville Scott Turow And more than 700 others

Alabama Biographical Dictionary
Alabama Biographical Dictionary

Author: Jan Onofrio

Publisher: Somerset Publishers, Inc.

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0403098114

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Alabama Biographical Dictionary contains biographies on hundreds of persons from diverse vocations that were either born, achieved notoriety and/or died in the state of Alabama. Prominent persons, in addition to the less eminent, that have played noteworthy roles are included in this resource. When people are recognized from your state or locale it brings a sense of pride to the residents of the entire state.

Oregon Biographical Dictionary
Oregon Biographical Dictionary

Author: Jan Onofrio

Publisher: Somerset Publishers, Inc.

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0403098416

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Describes the lives and accomplishments of over 120 important men and women in the history of Oregon, from business leaders and politicians to authors and actors.

The Personal Equation
The Personal Equation

Author: Charles Stephen Gurr

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780820321080

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The Personal Equation is the first biography of Steadman Vincent Sanford, a distinguished educator who was instrumental in shaping higher education in Georgia and in the South during the first half of the twentieth century. The story begins in the late nineteenth century by describing Sanford's family and childhood, his education, and his early teaching and administrative career in the public schools. In 1903 Sanford joined the faculty of the University of Georgia, where he subsequently founded the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and served as its dean. Sanford was a major contributor to the athletic program at the University and is possibly best remembered for the athletic stadium that bears his name. He rose through the university's administrative ranks, serving as president of the University of Georgia from 1932 to 1935 and then as chancellor of the University System of Georgia, a position he held until his death in 1945. While focusing on Sanford's accomplishments as a teacher, leader, and administrator, Charles Stephen Gurr also draws the portrait of a man for whom the ties of family, friendship, and community were immensely important and whose personal and professional legacy lives on in the lives he influenced and the institutions he led.

Maryland Biographical Dictionary
Maryland Biographical Dictionary

Author: Jan Onofrio

Publisher: Somerset Publishers, Inc.

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 557

ISBN-13: 0403098238

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Maryland Biographical Dictionary contains biographies on hundreds of persons from diverse vocations that were either born, achieved notoriety and/or died in the state of Maryland. Prominent persons, in addition to the less eminent, that have played noteworthy roles are included in this resource. When people are recognized from your state or locale it brings a sense of pride to the residents of the entire state.