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Journal articles on the topic "American biography"

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Kendall, John. "American National Biography." Reference Reviews 28, no. 2 (2014): 7–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rr-11-2013-0296.

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the American National Biography including a brief history of the book and details on its electronic format. Design/methodology/approach - An historical account of the forerunner publications is provided, followed by consideration of the printed and the electronic versions. Illustrative examples are used throughout. It is briefly compared with a similar work from the UK. The advantages of the electronic format are assessed. Findings - The American National Biography provides a comprehensive coverage of notable Americans and offers

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Blair, Jennifer. "American National Biography." Charleston Advisor 22, no. 1 (2020): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5260/chara.22.1.5.

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American National Biography provides access through a subscription to biographies of over 19,000 historical figures that helped to shape American history. The biographies span from pre-World War II to the present, with an emphasis on historical and cultural figures. The price varies and is based on subscription type and institution or a personal subscription, but primarily on number of users. The interface could use improvement in its advanced search features, response to queries, and incorporating automated responses. But searchability by occupation is a benefit. The content is ideal for basi

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Petersen, Ronald H., and Henning Knudsen. "Jakob Emanuel Lange: The man and his mushrooms." MycoKeys 89 (April 26, 2022): 1–86. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.89.79064.

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Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864–1941), Danish mushroom taxonomist and illustrator, was an agricultural educator and economic philosopher. A follower and translator of the American Henry George, Lange was Headmaster of a "Small-holders High-School," which served as a model for American folk-schools. Lange visited North America on three occasions. The first, in 1927, relied on his professional expertise; the second, in 1931, was purely mycological; and the third, 1939, was a combination of the two. All of this was lived against two World Wars and the Great Depression. This paper summarises the circums

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Ware, Susan. "Writing Women's Lives: One Historian's Perspective." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 40, no. 3 (2010): 413–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2010.40.3.413.

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From the start, biography played a vibrant and significant part in the growth of women's history, especially American women's history, as a well-respected and popular field within the historical profession. The insistence of feminist biographers that the personal is political, and that attention must be paid to the daily lives of their subjects as well as to their more public achievements, continues to ripple through the field of biography as a whole. To talk about biography is also to talk about the biographer, for the precise reason that behind every biography lies autobiography—that special

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Burner, David, John A. Garraty, and Mark C. Carnes. "Dictionary of American Biography." Journal of American History 76, no. 4 (1990): 1350. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2936733.

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Bradley, M. P. "Napalm: An American Biography." Journal of American History 101, no. 1 (2014): 325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau190.

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Matiu, Ovidiu. "Frederick Douglass Revisited: Booker T. Washington’s Perspective on His Legacy." East-West Cultural Passage 24, no. 2 (2024): 76–87. https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2024-0017.

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Abstract This essay explores Booker T. Washington’s perspective on the legacy of Frederick Douglass, as presented in his 1906 eponymous biography. Douglass (1818-1895), an abolitionist, orator, journalist, and statesman, emerged as one of the most influential African-American leaders of his time. His autobiographical works, his speeches, his journalistic activity and his political activism solidified his place in American literature and historical discourse. Washington’s biography presents Douglass both as a symbol of African American progress and as a pragmatic political leader. It also highl

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Porterfield, Amanda. "Review Essay: American Religious Biography." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 15, no. 2 (2005): 245–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.2005.15.2.245.

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Garraty, John A., J. Franklin Jameson, and Frederick Jackson Turner. "The Dictionary of American Biography*." Reviews in American History 16, no. 4 (1988): 668. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2702372.

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Monteon, Michael. "Biography and Latin American History." Latin American Research Review 40, no. 2 (2005): 193–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0026.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "American biography"

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Killinger, Margaret O'Neal. "Helen Knothe Nearing: A Biography." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/KillingerMON2004.pdf.

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Spingarn, Adena Tamar. "Uncle Tom in the American Imagination: A Cultural Biography." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10455.

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This dissertation charts the dramatic cultural transformation of Uncle Tom, the heroic Christian martyr of Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), into a commonly known slur for a submissive race traitor. As many scholars have noted, the hero of Stowe's novel is not what we would today call an "Uncle Tom." Some have put the blame for the figure's drastic transformation on the many popular stage adaptations of Stowe's novel that blanketed the nation during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, relying on extensive archival work in both traditional ar

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Crews, Karen M. "Hugo Fox : a biography of a prominent American Bassoonist /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486397841220277.

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Best, Felton O. "Crossing the color line : a biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872-1906 /." Connect to resource, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1249488861.

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Schloegel, Judith Johns. "Intimate biology Herbert Spencer Jennings, Tracy Sonneborn, and the career of American protozoan genetics /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3223050.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, 2006.<br>"Title from dissertation home page (viewed June 27, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2297. Adviser: Sander Gliboff.

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Norcini, Marilyn Jane 1950. "The education of a Native American anthropologist: Edward P. Dozier (1916-1971)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291860.

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This is a documentary study of the formative years of Native American anthropologist, Edward P. Dozier (1916-1971). The research is based on the Edward P. Dozier Papers in the Arizona State Museum Archives, University of Arizona. Edward Pascual Dozier (Awa Tsideh) spent his early years, from his 1916 birth in Santa Clara Pueblo until his 1952 doctoral degree in anthropology, assimilating into the pluralistic society of the Southwest. Although enculturated as a Tewa, he also interacted with local Roman Catholic Hispanic communities in New Mexico. As a young man, Dozier encountered many aspects

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Updike, Ann Sutton. "Materiality Matters: Constructing a Rhetorical Biography of Plains Indian Pictography." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1416670234.

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Hubbs, Holly J. "American women saxophonists from 1870-1930 : their careers and repertoire." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1259304.

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The late nineteenth century was a time of great change for women's roles in music. Whereas in 1870, women played primarily harp or piano, by 1900 there were all-woman orchestras. During the late nineteenth century, women began to perform on instruments that were not standard for them, such as cornet, trombone, and saxophone. The achievements of early female saxophonists scarcely have been mentioned in accounts of saxophone history. This study gathers scattered and previously unpublished information about the careers and repertoire of American female saxophonists from 1870-1930 into one referen

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Lichfield, Diane Marie Quilty. "One woman's construction of self and meaning: A qualitative study of the life of Alice Koller based on her autobiographical texts: "An Unknown Woman" (1981) and "The Stations of Solitude" (1990)." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/21827.

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Groth-Seary, Angela. "'All that associates, saves' : Hawthorne biography and twentieth-century American cultural criticism." Thesis, University of Kent, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730927.

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This study gives an account of the roles that biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a nineteenth-century American writer, have come to play within the twentieth-century discourses concerned with American literature as a national literature and as a field of academic inquiry. While attempting to outline the general development of Hawthorne biography in this context, it concentrates mainly on three Hawthorne biographies and on the historical, intellectual and political contexts within which they were produced: Newton Arvin's Hawthorne, published in 1929, Randall Stewart's Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Bi

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Books on the topic "American biography"

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Helen, Zia, and Gall Susan B, eds. Asian American biography. UXL, 1995.

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1920-, Garraty John Arthur, Carnes Mark C. 1950-, and American Council of Learned Societies., eds. American national biography. Oxford University Press, 1999.

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R, Betz Paul, Carnes Mark C. 1950-, and American Council of Learned Societies., eds. American national biography. Oxford University Press, 2002.

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K, Hall Bridget, ed. Arab American biography. U.X.L., 1999.

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Johnson, Allen. Dictionary of American biography. Scribner's, 1995.

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Rollyson, Carl. American Biography. iUniverse, Inc., 2006.

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Engelbert, Phillis. African American Biography Volume 7. (African American Biography). U·X·L, 2001.

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Engelbert, Phillis. African American Biography Volume 6. (African American Biography). U·X·L, 1999.

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Hispanic American biography. International Thomason Pub., 1995.

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Belknap, Jeremy, and F. M. Hubbard. American Biography V3. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "American biography"

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McDonnell, Michael A. "Re-centring Native American history." In Reframing Indigenous Biography. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003351863-19.

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"AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY." In Arab-American Faces and Voices. University of Texas Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.7560/709195-023.

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Munro, Lachlan, and W. R. B. Cunninghame Graham. "Biography." In The Complete Scottish Sketches of R.B. Cunninghame Graham. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781399533089.003.0010.

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A brief summation of Graham’s long life, his Spanish/Scottish background, education, and business ventures in South America, particularly Argentina. His morganatic marriage, and his time as a rebel MP for a mining community, his dislike of parliament, and his imprisonment for leading a riot. Graham’s expressive journalism for small socialist publications, his role in the founding of the first party of Labour with Keir Hardie, and his continued fight for the rights of the working class. Later, his recruitment for more prestigious publications in which he contributed 250 essays, or ‘sketches’, m

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Hull, Richard T. "Biography: Roderick Firth." In American Philosophical Association Centennial Series. Philosophy Documentation Center, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/apapa2013110.

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Hull, Richard T. "Biography: Joel Feinberg." In American Philosophical Association Centennial Series. Philosophy Documentation Center, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/apapa2013122.

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Hull, Richard T. "Biography: Adolf Grünbaum." In American Philosophical Association Centennial Series. Philosophy Documentation Center, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/apapa2013128.

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Hull, Richard T. "Biography: Benson Mates." In American Philosophical Association Centennial Series. Philosophy Documentation Center, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/apapa2013140.

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Hull, Richard T. "Biography: Jaegwon Kim." In American Philosophical Association Centennial Series. Philosophy Documentation Center, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/apapa2013187.

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Hull, Richard T. "Biography: Nicholas Rescher." In American Philosophical Association Centennial Series. Philosophy Documentation Center, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/apapa2013190.

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Hull, Richard T. "Biography: Patrick Suppes." In American Philosophical Association Centennial Series. Philosophy Documentation Center, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/apapa2013229.

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Conference papers on the topic "American biography"

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Charnov, Bruce. "History and Hysteria: The 'True Story' of the 2003 Hofstra University From Autogiro to Gyroplane Conference." In Vertical Flight Society 74th Annual Forum & Technology Display. The Vertical Flight Society, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4050/f-0074-2018-12793.

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The April, 2003 Hofstra University From Autogiro to Gyroplane: The Past, Present and Future of an Aviation Industry Conference was a unique, truly historic gathering. This first university-level conference brought together an international group of pioneers and, as England's Ron Bartlett later observed in his Autogiro 1/4ly publication, this "[u]nique conference brings a long awaited legitimacy to the world's autogyro movement", a sentiment also voiced by Stephanie Gremminger in an October 2003 issue of Kitplanes and long-time PRA member (and former Popular Rotorcraft Flying editor) Paul Berge

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"About the editor [Biography of Dr. Elif Kongar]." In 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/aseezone1.2014.6820622.

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JICU, Adrian. "Docufiction as an alternative for the research of George Bacovia's life and work." In "Ştiință și educație: noi abordări și perspective", conferinţă ştiinţifică internaţională. Ion Creangă Pedagogical State University, 2024. https://doi.org/10.46727/c.v3.21-22-03-2024.p9-16.

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The starting point of the present paper is the question how can we re-read the life and work of a canonic writer, already re-interpreted in various and exquisite studies and books, which developed subtle and hued approaches. Accepting that the reception of a work is the result of continuous negotiations and critical changes, we aim at proving that the recent forms of the so-called subjective criticism (docufiction, biographic metafiction, fictional biography and so on) can be a reliable alternative to the philologic research, thus becoming a useful hermeneutic instrument for better understandi

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Bruce, Dr. "The Life and Mysterious Death of Harold F. Pitcairn: Was it Suicide?" In Vertical Flight Society 76th Annual Forum & Technology Display. The Vertical Flight Society, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4050/f-0076-2020-16260.

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Harold F. Pitcairn, American aviation and Autogiro pioneer, died from a single gunshot wound to the head in the late evening hours of April 23, 1960 at the age of 62 after a gala evening at which he presided over a celebration attended by more than 450 guests for his brother's Raymond's 75th birthday. Initially labelled a suicide by the press, Pitcairn's widow Clara declared that "she never wanted to hear another word about the tragedy", while friends and friendly local authorities made the argument, duly reported by Frank Kingston Smith in Legacy of Wings, his devotional Pitcairn biography (s

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Fardink, Paul. "Floyd Carlson: The Legacy and Contributions of One of America's Greatest Rotary Wing Test Pilots." In Vertical Flight Society 77th Annual Forum & Technology Display. The Vertical Flight Society, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4050/f-0077-2021-16810.

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Floyd Carlson was a true pioneer and major contributor in the early development and testing of a broad-range of cutting-edge vertical flight aircraft. His contributions are numerous. Starting with the birth of Bell Helicopter in Gardenville, New York (1942-1945), he performed the first flight of every helicopter Bell designed and built until 1960. His biography mirrors the early history of Bell Helicopter. During this time, Carlson became one of the most experienced and renowned helicopter test pilots in the world, testing aircraft which included the Model 30 (1942); Model 47 (1945); HSL-1 Tan

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Castro, Ana Claudia Veiga de. "Um historiador entre duas cidades: Richard Morse, de Nova York a São Paulo." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Instituto de Arte Americano. Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.5938.

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O historiador Richard Morse (1922-2001) publica o livro De comunidade à metrópole, a biografia de São Paulo, em 1954, nas comemorações do IV Centenário da cidade. O livro, hoje um clássico, foi gestado entre a sua formação nos Estados Unidos e a pesquisa de campo em São Paulo. Esse artigo tem a intenção traçar paralelos entre as condições urbanas e culturais de São Paulo e Nova York em 1940 e 1950 e a estrutura narrativa do livro, apontando o que Morse traz da América para a formulação do problema encarado na tese – a evolução urbana de comunidade à metrópole – e

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Vlada, Marin, and Adrian Adascalitei. "ROMANIAN EXPERIENCE IN COURSES DEVELOPMENT. SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT: VISION ON LEARNING - GRIGORE C. MOISIL, 110 YEARS AFTER BIRTH." In eLSE 2016. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-16-264.

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Motto: "The only source of knowledge is experience. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) "I am for new things, but, more, than the things that are new today , I appreciate the things that will be new starting tomorrow." Grigore C. Moisil (1906-1973) CONTENT 1. The need for computer and concepts 2. Development of sciences and evolution of university courses 3. Grigore Moisil, the father of Romanian Informatics 4. Grigore Moisil's vision on learning The need for computer was not the dream of a scie

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