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  • Me and the Cottonwood Tree: An Untethered Boyhood by Bryce, Herb
    Herb Bryce

    Me and the Cottonwood Tree: An Untethered Boyhood

    Chock-full of unbelievable stories, Me and the Cottonwood Tree will enchant readers with the hilarious misadventures of young Herb growing up during some of the most pivotal times in America.From getting stuck in the family outhouse, to buying a donkey as a pet, to...
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  • Get Your Elbow Off the Horn: Stories Through the Years Volume 10 by Gannon, Jack R.
    Jack R. Gannon

    Get Your Elbow Off the Horn: Stories Through the Years Volume 10

    Get Your Elbow Off the Horn is a collection of interactions and observations written by Jack R. Gannon, a lifelong advocate for the Deaf community. Warm and amusing, Gannon's stories begin with his rural childhood in the Ozarks and continue through his experiences as...
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  • Deception: A true story about wounded souls, who extrapolated a murder conspiracy, from the ambiguous moments that occurred durin by William, Roberts G.
    Roberts G. William

    Deception: A true story about wounded souls, who extrapolated a murder conspiracy, from the ambiguous moments that occurred durin

    In November of 1977, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada left this mortal world surrounded by hundreds of his beloved disciples. The formal cause for his departure was a heart attack complicated by kidney failure and diabetes. Twenty years later a rumor began...
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  • Sir John Plumb: The Hidden Life of a Great Historian by McKendrick, Neil
    Neil McKendrick

    Sir John Plumb: The Hidden Life of a Great Historian

    Sir John (Jack) Harold Plumb (1911 - 2001) was a great British historian.This is a very personal account written by Neil McKendrick, a fellow historian, a fellow Master of a Cambridge college and one his oldest and closest friendsAuthor: Neil McKendrickISBN-10: 1913087220ISBN-13: 9781913087227Publisher: Edward...
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  • A Child Is a Poem You Learn By Heart: A Memoir in Verse by Whitehurst, Paulette
    Paulette Whitehurst

    A Child Is a Poem You Learn By Heart: A Memoir in Verse

    Awarded Third Place by the NATIONAL Federation of Press Women Communications Contest, 2021 for Non-fiction for Adult Readers, Autobiography or MemoirAwarded FIRST PLACE by Virginia Professional Communicators, 2021, for Non-fiction for adult readers, Memoir-.South Carolina, 1940s. A farmer's daughter marries her father's hired hand...
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  • Jeffanoo: Stories from My Life by Rose, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Rose

    Jeffanoo: Stories from My Life

    Meet Jeff...gold velour bell-bottom hip-huggers on the first day of school. Getting drunk, not play drunk. A 1969 rock festival in Plumpton, England. Meets his first love at a sensitivity training group. Tries his hand at poker in Las Vegas. Employment as a longshoreman,...
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  • Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman by Harris, Sheena
    Sheena Harris

    Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman

    Born enslaved in 1861, by 1892 Margaret Murray Washington of Macon, Mississippi, married the twice-widowed race leader Booker T. Washington and joined the ranks of the rising black middle class. While one cannot discount the accomplishments of her storied husband, Washington's own successes warrant...
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  • New Beginnings by Keelen, Debra H.
    Debra H. Keelen

    New Beginnings

    Everyone has a gift. This book is the result of how God intervened in my life and used people to get me to use my God-given gift of teaching. My book is the voice of my students, family, and colleagues. I am a humbled...
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  • A Beard Cut Short: The Life and Lessons of a Legendary Professor Clipped by a Slip of #MeToo by Neff, Todd
    Todd Neff

    A Beard Cut Short: The Life and Lessons of a Legendary Professor Clipped by a Slip of #MeToo

    John Rubadeau's long, white beard; homeless-guy wardrobe; and penchant for dirty jokes belied his lofty status as one of the most popular professors ever at the University of Michigan. He taught writing in Ann Arbor for more than 30 years. The cover of his...
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  • Creatively: A Memoir of Plays, Films, Musicals, Commentaries, and Books by Hopkins, Jeff
    Jeff Hopkins

    Creatively: A Memoir of Plays, Films, Musicals, Commentaries, and Books

    This is a memoir from the point of view of a working-class boy from East Fremantle, in Western Australia who, in his formative and teenage years, had a love of the theatre and performing. Later he went on to script and produce films. Then...
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  • Trying to Fix Stupid: The Autobiography of a Maverick Professor by Newman, Gerald
    Gerald Newman

    Trying to Fix Stupid: The Autobiography of a Maverick Professor

    A provocative and often hilarious look at teaching -- a beautifully written book that will resonate with anyone who's been a teacher or been taught in America.Gerald Newman, acclaimed author of The Rise of English Nationalism and holder of the Kent State University Distinguished...
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  • Dutch Mandarin: The Life and Work of Robert Hans van Gulik (First English) by Barkman, C. D.
    C. D. Barkman

    Dutch Mandarin: The Life and Work of Robert Hans van Gulik (First English)

    Diplomat, Asian scholar, author, calligrapher, polyglot, polymath, passionate lover of life in all its forms, Robert van Gulik researched and wrote prolifically on a diverse range of Asian subjects, such as--but certainly not limited to--Chinese scroll mounting, sexual life in ancient China and the...
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  • The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship by Ronnick, Michele Valerie
    William Sanders Scarborough

    Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

    This illuminating autobiography traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in higher education for African Americans, Scarborough...
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  • Snapshots from Memory: The Autobiography of a Greenock Academy Schoolboy by Johnson, Peter Joseph
    Peter Joseph Johnson

    Snapshots from Memory: The Autobiography of a Greenock Academy Schoolboy

    AN INSPIRATIONAL AND ENTERTAINING AUTOBIOGRAPHYAuthor, artist and retired vice principal, Jo Johnson was born and brought up in the leafy suburbs of Greenock in the West of Scotland. Educated at Greenock Academy until the age of fourteen, he experienced a profound culture shock when...
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  • My Journey Through Life by Wozuzu Acholonu, Alexander D.
    Alexander D. Wozuzu Acholonu

    My Journey Through Life

    My Journey Through Life critically records and celebrates the life of Chief Sir Prof. Alexander D. Wozuzu Acholonu's earliest beginnings through his educational struggles accentuating challenges he has faced and how he has been able to surmount them; Professor Acholonu's career as an academician...
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  • Sketches from a Quaker's Moscow Journal by Cockrell, Patricia
    Patricia Cockrell

    Sketches from a Quaker's Moscow Journal

    The iron curtain was giving way or at least becoming permeable in the age of perestroika. After writing letters for 20 years while teaching Russian at two schools in Exeter, Patricia was at last successful in setting up an exchange with a school in...
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  • The Boy from Buzwah: A Life in Indian Education by King, Cecil
    Cecil King

    The Boy from Buzwah: A Life in Indian Education

    A powerful memoir from an Indigenous educator. "Through my eyes, my community was creative, innovative and self-sufficient. In this remote northern traditional First Nation society, the skills, knowledge and abilities that the community needed to survive were all there. . . . The stories...
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  • A Texan's Story: The Autobiography of Walter Prescott Webb by Webb, Walter Prescott
    Walter Prescott Webb

    A Texan's Story: The Autobiography of Walter Prescott Webb

    Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963), a towering figure in Texas and western history and letters, published an abundance of books--but for decades the autobiography he'd written late in life sat largely undisturbed among his papers. Webb's remarkable story appears here in print for the first...
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  • The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and Nasa's Challenger Disaster by Cook, Kevin
    Kevin Cook

    The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and Nasa's Challenger Disaster

    Winner of the American Astronautical Society's 2021 Eugene M. Emme Award The untold story of a national trauma--NASA's Challenger explosion--and what really happened to America's Teacher in Space, illuminating the tragic cost of humanity setting its sight on the starsYou've seen the pictures. You...
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  • Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic by Fussell, Paul
    Paul Fussell

    Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic

    In this highly praised autobiographical work, the author of "The Great War" and "Modern Memory" recounts his own experience of combat in World War II and how it became a determining force in his life. "Doing Battle" is at once a summing-up of one...
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  • John BASCOM and the Origins of the Wisconsin Idea by Hoeveler, J. David
    J. David Hoeveler

    John BASCOM and the Origins of the Wisconsin Idea

    In the Progressive Era of American history, the state of Wisconsin gained national attention for its innovative economic and political reforms. Amidst this ferment, the "Wisconsin Idea" was popularized--the idea that a public university should improve the lives of people beyond the borders of...
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  • A Texas Education: Learning (And Unlearning) in a Strangely Familiar Land by Segady, Tom
    Tom Segady

    A Texas Education: Learning (And Unlearning) in a Strangely Familiar Land

    This is a book about personal experience, but it is not a memoir. While experiencing threatening situations and circumstances that define one's life, the author invites encounters with others to teach him important life's lessons, while in fact he has been a college teacher...
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  • Loving Endeavour: Healthcare and Education in Bush Country by Sibanda, Melusi
    Melusi Sibanda

    Loving Endeavour: Healthcare and Education in Bush Country

    Loving Endeavour highlights the challenges faced by rural communities in Zimbabwe from the 1950s - the days of the federation of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland - through the Unilateral Declaration of Independence years starting in 1965 and further onwards through the years...
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  • Every Story Starts with Small Steps: Avondale Elementary COVID-19 Journal by Powell, Karen
    Karen Powell

    Every Story Starts with Small Steps: Avondale Elementary COVID-19 Journal

    Soon after the WHO declared a global pandemic in the spring of 2020, an Educational Assistant at Avondale Elementary recognized the significance of recording history. Her heart hurt, and she empathized with the fear and uncertainty, hardships and struggles many would face. She invited...
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  • Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot by Unger, Harlow Giles
    Harlow Giles Unger

    Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot

    Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man, shrewd, passionate, learned and energetic, God-fearing and patriotic. Mr. Unger has done a fine job reintroducing him to a new generation of Americans. --Washington Times Noah Webster The Life and Times of an American Patriot ""More than...
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  • Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City by Lewis, Pamela
    Pamela Lewis

    Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City

    Teaching should never be color-blind. In her compelling and unapologetic memoir, Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City, teacher and writer Pamela Lewis urges her fellow educators not only to acknowledge race but to consider both the...
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  • Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father by Dungan, Nicholas
    Nicholas Dungan

    Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father

    You won't find his portrait on our currency anymore and his signature isn't penned on the Constitution, but former statesman Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) contributed immeasurably to the formation of America. Gallatin was the first president of the council of New York University and his...
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  • The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship by Ronnick, Michele Valerie
    William Sanders Scarborough

    The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

    An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon. "If W.E.B Du Bois, the antecedent of today's black public intellectuals, himself has an antecedent, it is W....
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  • Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina Under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase by Covington, Howard E.
    Howard E. Covington

    Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina Under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase

    In June 1919 Harry Woodburn Chase was chosen to succeed Edward Kidder Graham as president of the University of North Carolina. The two were a study in contrasts. Graham was a southerner whose father had worn Confederate gray. Chase was a New Englander and...
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  • Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice by García, Mario T.
    Mario T. Garc?

    Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice

    In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led by Sal...
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  • Makarenko, His Life and Work: Articles, Talks and Reminiscences by Makarenko, Anton
    Anton Makarenko

    Makarenko, His Life and Work: Articles, Talks and Reminiscences

    Anton Makarenko's book The Road to Life has been read by millions of people in fifty-four languages. In the Soviet Union alone it has run into eighty-five editions totalling two and a half million copies. The name of this distinguished educator, who broke new...
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  • I'm Already Professionally Developed: Straight from the Teacher's Desk by B, Eddie
    Eddie B

    I'm Already Professionally Developed: Straight from the Teacher's Desk

    Eddie Brown found himself in a spot most teachers know all too well: Some days he loved his job, and other days he hated it. Teaching gave him money to take care of his family and a sense of fulfillment. But the culture, the...
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  • A True Immigration Success Story by Helwing, Eva
    Eva Helwing

    A True Immigration Success Story

    A True Immigration Success Story: From WWII Refuge to Principal at Inter-American begins with the unique journey of a young ethnic German girl born in Hungary who comes to America with her brother Adam and sister Mary to start a new life. Eva Helwing's...
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  • From the Barrio to the Beach by Hernandez, Rey
    Rey Hernandez

    From the Barrio to the Beach

    From the Barrio to the Beach is a novel about two public schools that are separated by a short fifteen mile stretch of Interstate 5. In his novel Rey Hernandez shares an incredible and revealing look at the challenges educators face as they strive...
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  • Off to a Good Start: A Baby Boomer's Memoir by Rundall, Thomas
    Thomas Rundall

    Off to a Good Start: A Baby Boomer's Memoir

    A Surprising JourneyThis memoir is about my surprising journey from a dirt road on the outskirts of Yuma, Arizona to an endowed professorship at the world's greatest public university, and the nine life lessons I learned along the way.I was born a Baby Boomer...
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  • Just Another Immigrant's Son: A Memoir on the Otology Renaissance by Paparella, Michael
    Michael Paparella

    Just Another Immigrant's Son: A Memoir on the Otology Renaissance

    Michael Paparella is born on the eve of the banking crisis in 1933. His immigrant parents struggle to raise their family in a city embroiled in striking, race riots, and the deepest economic depression this country has ever known. Although neither has finished primary...
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  • A Texan's Story: The Autobiography of Walter Prescott Webb by Webb, Walter Prescott
    Walter Prescott Webb

    A Texan's Story: The Autobiography of Walter Prescott Webb

    Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963), a towering figure in Texas and western history and letters, published an abundance of books--but for decades the autobiography he'd written late in life sat largely undisturbed among his papers. Webb's remarkable story appears here in print for the first...
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  • Ticket to Ride: My Adventures in Making Big Money and Giving It Away by Lampl, Sir Peter
    Sir Peter Lampl

    Ticket to Ride: My Adventures in Making Big Money and Giving It Away

    The candid tale of one of Britain's most outstanding contemporary philanthropists. These pages wryly track Peter's varied career moves, from flogging tickets for one of The Beatles first major concerts, to getting inadvertently caught up in a New York family turf war while trying...
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  • Try and Be Somebody: The Story of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason by Crabtree, Becky Hatcher
    Becky Hatcher Crabtree

    Try and Be Somebody: The Story of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason

    Try and Be Somebody, a biography of the inspiring life of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason, documents the life of the first president of Bluefield State College, Bluefield, West Virginia, and an early 20th century leader of Black education. Though Dickason's remarkable achievements have been...
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  • Mentors: The Making of an Art Historian by Naumann, Francis M.
    Francis M. Naumann

    Mentors: The Making of an Art Historian

    A surprising and revealing memoir populated with art historians, art influencers, and the former lover and lifelong friend of Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood. Francis M. Naumann, a distinguished expert on Dada and Marcel Duchamp reflects upon his mentors, including Leo Steinberg, John Rewald, and...
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  • From the Bronx to Oxford and Not Quite Back by Birnbaum, Norman
    Norman Birnbaum

    From the Bronx to Oxford and Not Quite Back

    This book is a contribution to the history of the Cold War, Dr. Birnbaum having been a very audible critic of US policy. Even more, it is a study of the role of ideas in politics, and of the adventures and misadventures of three...
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  • A Place in the Sun: A Memoir by Kennedy, Donald
    Donald Kennedy

    A Place in the Sun: A Memoir

    More than personal memoir, Donald Kennedy's story is not only a chronicle of watershed years in the history of Stanford University, but also a reflection on academia's perennial concerns. The story builds from his childhood and family in New England through mentors at Harvard...
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  • Leading the Crimson and Gray: The Presidents of Washington State University by Stimson, William
    William Stimson

    Leading the Crimson and Gray: The Presidents of Washington State University

    Washington State University (WSU) is a remarkable place, over the years educating hundreds of thousands, conducting innovative research in a wide variety of disciplines, and earning numerous intercollegiate athletics titles. Originally named The Agricultural College, Experiment Station and School of Science of the State...
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  • A New American Family: A Love Story by Likins, Peter
    Peter Likins

    A New American Family: A Love Story

    By most accounts Pete Likins has had a successful life. But his personal accomplishments are only the backdrop for the real story-the story of his family, whose trials and triumphs hold lessons for many American families in the 21st century. This poignant but ultimately...
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  • Nine Months is a Year at Baboquivari School by Bourne, Eulalia
    Eulalia Bourne

    Nine Months is a Year at Baboquivari School

    From the author of the widely acclaimed Woman in Levi's, this colorful autobiography follows a year in the lives of the lone woman rancher, her students, and their families in 1930s rural Southern Arizona.Author: Eulalia BourneISBN-10: 0816500673ISBN-13: 9780816500673Publisher: University of Arizona PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1968Pages:...
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  • Syracuse University: Volume VI: The Shaw Years by Tobin, David T.
    David T. Tobin

    Syracuse University: Volume VI: The Shaw Years

    This sixth in a series of volumes on Syracuse University's history focuses on the leadership of Chancellor Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw (1991-2004), who undertook the most comprehensive strategic overhaul of the institution since its founding in 1870. With a compelling narrative and fresh analysis, Tobin...
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  • Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley by Gillmor, C. Stewart
    C. Stewart Gillmor

    Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley

    Fred Terman was an outstanding American engineer, teacher, entrepreneur, and manager. Terman was also deeply devoted to his students, to engineering, and to Stanford University. This biography focuses on the weave of personality and place across time--it examines Terman as a Stanford faculty child...
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  • Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari by Levitov, Betty
    Betty Levitov

    Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari

    "I think I get it," Betty Levitov's youngest student said, sitting on a porch in Harare, Zimbabwe. "You've had a potentially fatal disease, and faced death, and now you'll do just about anything." The student was trying to fathom why a teacher would take...
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  • Journal for Christa: Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Space by Corrigan, Grace George
    Grace George Corrigan

    Journal for Christa: Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Space

    Most people remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, just as they remember how they felt when humans first set foot on the moon. Elements of both reactions are present in the story of Christa McAuliffe, the energetic young schoolteacher chosen...
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  • The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman by Sargent, Theodore D.
    Theodore D. Sargent

    The Life of Elaine Goodale Eastman

    Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she traveled west and opened a school on the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Over the next six years she witnessed many...
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