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| Author | : Barbara Chase-Riboud |
| Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
| Release Date | : 2009-04 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781556529450 |
| Pages | : 384 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (294 users) |
Download or read book Sally Hemings written by Barbara Chase-Riboud and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional account of the relationship between American statesman Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings.
| Author | : Annette Gordon-Reed |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Release Date | : 1998-03-29 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780813933566 |
| Pages | : 288 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (335 users) |
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings written by Annette Gordon-Reed and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998-03-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of Jefferson's renowned life, it was perhaps the most hotly contested topic. The publication of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies in many noted scholars' evaluations of the existing evidence. In this study, Gordon-Reed assembles a fascinating and convincing argument: not that the alleged thirty-eight-year liaison necessarily took place but rather that the evidence for its taking place has been denied a fair hearing. Friends of Jefferson sought to debunk the Hemings story as early as 1800, and most subsequent historians and biographers followed suit, finding the affair unthinkable based upon their view of Jefferson's life, character, and beliefs. Gordon-Reed responds to these critics by pointing out numerous errors and prejudices in their writings, ranging from inaccurate citations, to impossible time lines, to virtual exclusions of evidence—especially evidence concerning the Hemings family. She demonstrates how these scholars may have been misguided by their own biases and may even have tailored evidence to serve and preserve their opinions of Jefferson. This updated edition of the book also includes an afterword in which the author comments on the DNA study that provided further evidence of a Jefferson and Hemings liaison.00 Possessing both a layperson's unfettered curiosity and a lawyer's logical mind, Annette Gordon-Reed writes with a style and compassion that are irresistible. Each chapter revolves around a key figure in the Hemings drama, and the resulting portraits are engrossing and very personal. Gordon-Reed also brings a keen intuitive sense of the psychological complexities of human relationships—relationships that, in the real world, often develop regardless of status or race. The most compelling element of all, however, is her extensive and careful research, which often allows the evidence to speak for itself. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy is the definitive look at a centuries-old question that should fascinate general readers and historians alike.
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| Release Date | : 1999-06 |
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| Pages | : 168 pages |
| Rating | : 4./5 ( users) |
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
| Author | : Tina Andrews |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2002 |
| ISBN 10 | : UOM:39015055898194 |
| Pages | : 304 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (55 users) |
Download or read book Sally Hemings written by Tina Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Naomi Andre |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Release Date | : 2018-05-04 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780252050619 |
| Pages | : 296 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (56 users) |
Download or read book Black Opera written by Naomi Andre and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemmings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.
| Author | : John M. Butler |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Release Date | : 2005-02-08 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0080470610 |
| Pages | : 688 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (1 users) |
Download or read book Forensic DNA Typing written by John M. Butler and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-02-08 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic DNA Typing, Second Edition, is the only book available that specifically covers detailed information on mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome. It examines the science of current forensic DNA typing methods by focusing on the biology, technology, and genetic interpretation of short tandem repeat (STR) markers, which encompass the most common forensic DNA analysis methods used today. The book covers topics from introductory level right up to cutting edge research. High-profile cases are addressed throughout the text, near the sections dealing with the science or issues behind these cases. Ten new chapters have been added to accommodate the explosion of new information since the turn of the century. These additional chapters cover statistical genetic analysis of DNA data, an emerging field of interest to DNA research. Several chapters on statistical analysis of short tandem repeat (STR) typing data have been contributed by Dr. George Carmody, a well-respected professor in forensic genetics. Specific examples make the concepts of population genetics more understandable. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in forensic DNA analysis, forensic scientists, population geneticists, military and private and public forensic laboratories (for identifying individuals through remains), and students of forensic science. *The only book available that specifically covers detailed information on mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome *Chapters cover the topic from introductory level right up to "cutting edge" research *High-profile cases are addressed throughout the book, near the sections dealing with the science or issues behind these cases *NEW TO THIS EDITION: D.N.A. Boxes--boxed "Data, Notes & Applications" sections throughout the book offer higher levels of detail on specific questions
| Author | : Evan Lanning |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Release Date | : 2019-09-16 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781796059359 |
| Pages | : 238 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (593 users) |
Download or read book The Global and American Spirit written by Evan Lanning and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the great thinkers of Ancient Greece to the illustrious forebears of America’s founding to the fearless leaders of free peoples who inspired the twentieth-century world through the disturbing turmoil and despair of two global wars—wars that resulted in genocide, mass destruction, and cultural decay—all of history seems to direct us, respectively, toward the light of truth, the sound of liberty, and the resolve of democracy. Encapsulating this and more with a sweeping series of essays, the exciting new author Evan Lanning takes us up to today’s disturbing world of critical un-thinking, historical illiteracy, unrelenting group-think, and agenda-driven “truth-telling.” In this world of unconstructive, ineffective, and ultimately destructive passions of party spirit, Lanning asks us to consider the limits of our knowledge and to surrender our respective feelings in exchange for the nobler pursuit of truth rooted in fact. Only when we recognize how much we do not know will we be able to find our way through this darkened world. Only when we realize how much humanity cannot know will we understand our need for a deeper source of meaning. In The Global and American Spirit, Lanning attempts to pierce through the darkness of political acquiescence by asserting that we must lift our eyes to the light of Truth and stand upon the shoulders of the greats in order to see the American spirit reborn. Lanning appeals to the American people to take heart once again that “the energy, the faith, [and] the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it.” In short, he asks Americans to rekindle Faith, in order that “the glow from that fire can truly light the world!”
| Author | : James Oliver Horton |
| Publisher | : New Press, The |
| Release Date | : 2006-04-03 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781565849600 |
| Pages | : 290 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (496 users) |
Download or read book Slavery And Public History written by James Oliver Horton and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Slavery and Public History' looks at the controversies surrounding the interpretation of slavery's history in the public arena. The book takes on contemporary reactions to the fundamental contradiction of American history, and offers an analysis of how people remember their past.
| Author | : Jon Meacham |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Release Date | : 2012-11-13 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780679645368 |
| Pages | : 800 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (453 users) |
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power written by Jon Meacham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Bloomberg Businessweek In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things—women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson’s world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity—and the genius of the new nation—lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From the writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in Paris and in the President’s House; from political maneuverings in the boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and New York to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicated life at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation in Virginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jefferson was central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a man of appetite, sensuality, and passion. The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amid economic change and external threats, and also because he embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world. Praise for Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power “This is probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.”—Gordon S. Wood “A big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before.”—Entertainment Weekly “[Meacham] captures who Jefferson was, not just as a statesman but as a man. . . . By the end of the book . . . the reader is likely to feel as if he is losing a dear friend. . . . [An] absorbing tale.”—The Christian Science Monitor “This terrific book allows us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality that it seems as if he might still be alive today.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin
| Author | : Joshua D. Rothman |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Release Date | : 2003 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0807854409 |
| Pages | : 364 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (9 users) |
Download or read book Notorious in the Neighborhood written by Joshua D. Rothman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of interracial sex in antebellum Virginia, Rothman examines a wide range of relationships--between whites and free people of color and whites and slaves, between black women and white men and between black men and white women--and the complicated responses these relationships inspired.
| Author | : Maurizio Valsania |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Release Date | : 2017-04-26 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780813939698 |
| Pages | : 280 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (396 users) |
Download or read book Jefferson's Body written by Maurizio Valsania and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Thomas Jefferson look like? How did he carry himself? Such questions, reasonable to ask as we look back on a person who lived in an era before photography, are the starting point for this boldly original new work. Maurizio Valsania considers all aspects of Jefferson’s complex conception of "the body," from eighteenth-century clothing and fashion to manners, adornment, posture, gesture, and visual and material culture. Drawing also from the fields of medical science, psychology, and cultural anthropology, the author conjures a vivid and detailed re-creation of the third president as a living, breathing—and pondering—human being. Having situated Jefferson in his own body, Valsania looks at the embodied Jefferson in the world of his fellow humans. Any one of the other people in Jefferson’s society—whether that other person was male or female, free or enslaved, African American or Native American—was a critical counterexample for the eighteenth-century Virginian to define himself against, and Valsania’s explorations here lead to numerous insightful discoveries about race, gender, and structures of power. The first comprehensive exploration of Jefferson’s corporeal world, Jefferson’s Body brings the man vividly to life for the modern reader while deepening our understanding of what it meant to Jefferson to be alive.
| Author | : Aaron Schwabach |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2016-04-15 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781317136453 |
| Pages | : 184 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (364 users) |
Download or read book Fan Fiction and Copyright written by Aaron Schwabach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As long as there have been fans, there has been fan fiction. There seems to be a fundamental human need to tell additional stories about the characters after the book, series, play or movie is over. But developments in information technology and copyright law have put these fan stories at risk of collision with the content owners’ intellectual property rights. Fan fiction has long been a nearly invisible form of outsider art, but over the past decade it has grown exponentially in volume and in legal importance. Because of its nature, authorship, and underground status, fan fiction stands at an intersection of key issues regarding property, sexuality, and gender. In Fan Fiction and Copyright, author Aaron Schwabach examines various types of fan-created content and asks whether and to what extent they are protected from liability for copyright infringement. Professor Schwabach discusses examples of original and fan works from a wide range of media, genres, and cultures. From Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter, fictional characters, their authors, and their fans are sympathetically yet realistically assessed. Fan Fiction and Copyright looks closely at examples of three categories of disputes between authors and their fans: Disputes over the fans’ use of copyrighted characters, disputes over online publication of fiction resembling copyright work, and in the case of J.K. Rowling and a fansite webmaster, a dispute over the compiling of a reference work detailing an author's fictional universe. Offering more thorough coverage of many such controversies than has ever been available elsewhere, and discussing fan works from the United States, Brazil, China, India, Russia, and elsewhere, Fan Fiction and Copyright advances the understanding of fan fiction as transformative use and points the way toward a safe harbor for fan fiction.
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| Release Date | : 1999-06 |
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| Pages | : 168 pages |
| Rating | : 4./5 ( users) |
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
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| Release Date | : 1962-10 |
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| Pages | : 144 pages |
| Rating | : 4./5 ( users) |
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1962-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
| Author | : Eric C. R. Reeve |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Release Date | : 2001 |
| ISBN 10 | : 1884964346 |
| Pages | : 1004 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (46 users) |
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Genetics written by Eric C. R. Reeve and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "Discoveries in genetics are reported daily. Written for academic audiences and well-informed generalists, this authoritative and impressivly up-to-date 125-entry encyclopedia covers not only the basics and principles of genetics, but details the role of genetics in current issues, such as diseases, disorders, aging, sex, conservation, mapping, gene therapy, and food and nutrition."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2002
| Author | : Bill Orr |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Release Date | : 2016-10-04 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781483456133 |
| Pages | : 644 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (561 users) |
Download or read book Blackwhite America :A Fresh Look at Whites and Blacks Living Fitfully Together for 393 Years written by Bill Orr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing history to life, Blackwhite America chronicles the racial struggle since America's origins. Told in the first-person, present-tense voice of Thomas Jefferson, it is a story of stories, each one reliving a time of important change and decision-making. Orr takes an open-minded, well-researched, fresh look at how American whites and blacks lived fitfully together under common governments, from arrival of the first blacks to reelection of Barack Obama-1619-2012. Orr seeks insights to questions he poses at the outset: If the purpose of the Civil War was to free the slaves, why did it take more than a century and a half for blacks to get as close as we are now to equal rights? How far have we all come, really? When, if ever, will we get there? Where is "there?" Blackwhite America details the evolution of America's growth toward emancipation, the progress of civil rights, and the hope of racial equality.
| Author | : Klaus P. Fischer |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Release Date | : 2006-01-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0826418163 |
| Pages | : 476 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (63 users) |
Download or read book America in White, Black, and Gray written by Klaus P. Fischer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous studies on various aspects of the issues of the 1960s have been written over the past 35 years, but few have so successfully integrated the many-sided components into a coherent, synthetic, and reliable book that combines good storytelling with sound scholarly analysis.
