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But not long could he stay at home. The year of Jubilee for all these bondmen was his one thought, and he found friends who regarded him as a tried man and were prepared to trust him implicitly. Such men as Beecher and Theodore Parker gave him help spiritual; men like the wealthy Stearns gave him help financial to the extent of many thousand dollars. ... Read more

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This book is a revised edition of the 1993 African American Generals and Flag Officers: Biographies of Over 120 Blacks in the United States Military. It offers detailed, career-oriented summaries for men and women who often overcame societal obstacles to become ranking officers in the U.S. military. Included now are members of all branches of the armed services (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps), as well as the National Guard and Reserves. ... Read more

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Civil rights leaders, scientists, sports heroes, and government, business and military leaders: each person in this book has played a major role in 20th-century America.The one-page biographies provide detailed, career-oriented summaries. Criteria for inclusion include career accomplishments, being the first African American in the field or profession, individual awards (Hall of Fame, Olympic medal, etc.) and overall leadership. Includes occupational and geographical indexes. ... Read more

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Detailed, career-oriented summaries are given for over 120 men and women who often overcame societal obstacles to become ranking officers in the U.S. military. Included are members of all branches of the armed services (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps), as well as the National Guard and Reserves. ... Read more

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Short Biography of John Brown, who was the first white American abolitionist to advocate and practice insurrection as a means to the abolition of slavery. President Abraham Lincoln said he was a "misguided fanatic" and Brown has been called "the most controversial of all nineteenthcentury Americans." His attempt to start a liberation movement among enslaved blacks in Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859 electrified the nation, even though not a single slave answered his call. He was tried for treason (against the state of Virginia) and hanged, but his behavior at the trial seemed heroic to millions of Americans. Southerners alleged that his rebellion was the tip of an abolitionist iceberg and represented the wishes of the Republican Party, but those charges were vehemently denied by the Republicans. Historians agree that the Harper's Ferry raid in 1859 escalated tensions that a year later led to secession and the American Civil War. Later the song John Brown's Body became a Union marching song during the Civil War. ... Read more

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In 1992 Mr. Hawkins wrote the acclaimed ("recommended"-Library Journal) African American Biographies. This new volume provides detailed, career-oriented biographies of 332 additional African Americans (living now, or alive through mid-1976), chosen on the basis of career accomplishments, being the first African American in a field or profession, individual awards and overall leadership. ... Read more

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This is a photo history book, for anyone interested in military education or history.

This reference work contains information and over 2000 photos not contained in any of his other books. To include: Master Chief Petty Officer the First African-American Navy Diver; the First African American Pilot and Commander of the Blue Angels; Navy's First Black Chief Warrant Officer 05; the first Black Female Soldier ever held as a POW; the Navy's first African American Four Star Admiral; the First Black Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps; the First Black Female Marine Corps Combat Pilot; the First Black Female full Colonel in the Marine Corps; the First Black female to Command a Marine Corps Training Base;the first African American Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard; the First Black Female Aviator in the United States Coast Guard; the first African American Admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard's 208-year history; the First Black to serve as the Command Chief Master Sergeant in Georgia Air National Guard the First Black to serve as the Command Chief Master Sergeant United States Air Force; the First Black Female to serve as Command Chief Master Sergeant United States Air Force Reserves; the First Black Female to serve as Command Chief Master Sergeant United States Air National Guard; the first African American Admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard's 208-year history; the first African-American woman to earn an international pilot's license; the First Black Commander of the U.S. Air Force Thunder Birds. Of the over 1,200 photos in this book, 309 can not be found in any other publication.

American Black Military Leaders is a pictorial which contains over 2000 photos of black military leaders. This is the only publication that provides 326 photos of black Generals and Admirals and over 1674 other black military leaders. Also included is information on black leaders from World War I and World War II; the Medal of Honor Winners; and a list of historical facts about black military leaders. The biographical information on America's Black Female Generals and Admirals is also included.

While American military history is filled with many important milestones and achievements, until the publication of this book the photo's of these 326 Generals and Admirals have never been published.

The book is organized by services Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Navy. Some of the other photos included are:

1. General Lloyd "Fug" Newton with Members of the Tuskegee Air Member, Inc.
2. President Bill Clinton promoting General B. O. Davis, Jr. to his fourth star as General.
3. Members of the Montford Point Marine Association.
4. The first black Non-Commissioned Officers in the Marine Corps.
5. First black female Chief Warrant Officer Five in the Marine Corps.
6. First black female fighter pilot.
7. First black Navy Officers ("The Golden 13").
8. Colonel Adele Hodge first black female to command a Marine Corps Training Base.
9. Colonel Gilda Jackson first black female "full Colonel" in the Marine Corps.
10. Command Sergeant Major Michele S. Jones, first black female Command Sergeant Major to head the U.S. Army Reserves.
11. Command Chief Master Sergeant Betty L.G. Morgan, the first black Command Chief Master Sergeant to head the Georgia Air National Guard.
12. Command Chief Master Sergeant Thomas N. Barnes, the first black Command Chief Master Sergeant to head the U.S. Air Force.

There are over 100 other historical photos never published before, which are historic. ... Read more

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This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists John Sibthorp and John Hawkins, accompanied by illustrator Ferdinand Bauer, travelled there. Bauer produced a class of paintings superior to anthing of their kind in existence then, and his work was to become one of the most valuable treasures of the University of Oxford. Based on the original diaries, letters, and specimens, this fine work is illustrated with the original illustrations which are still housed at the Department of Plant Sciences there. ... Read more

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Between 1995 and 1997, three groups of college students each spent two months in K'iche' Maya villages in Guatemala. Led by Professors John P. Hawkins and Walter Randolph Adams, they participated in an ongoing field school designed to foster undergraduate research and documentation of K'iche' Maya culture in Guatemala.

In this enlightening book, Hawkins and Adams first describe their field-school method of involving undergraduate students in primary research and ethnographic writing, and then present the best of the student essays, which examine the effects of modernization on K'iche' Maya religion, courtship, marriage, gender relations, education, and community development.

The process of actively involving undergraduate students in research is one of the most effective methods of enhancing education. Indeed, there is growing interest in this idea--currently the Council on Undergraduate Research, a national organization, boasts members from more than 870 colleges and universities.

For educators of all fields interested in learning how to organize a field school that fosters research and publication, Hawkins and Adams discuss the methods they used and the problems they encountered. Anthropologists and sociologists will find this demonstration of undergraduates' achievements useful for introductory and field methods courses. Finally, the book's portrayal of the K'iche' Maya culture in transition will appeal to Mesoamericanists and Latinamericanists of any discipline. ... Read more

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Health Care in Maya Guatemala examines medical systemsand institutions in three K'iche' Maya communities to reveal the conflictsbetween indigenous medical care and Guatemalan biomedical system. Theeditors and contributors show how people in this rapidly modernizingsociety think about traditional practices--and reveal that healthconditions in traditional communities deteriorate over time aslong-standing medical practices erode in the face of Western encroachment.

The contributors first consider cultural, institutional, andbehavioral aspects of health care in Guatemala. Then they look closely atthe nature and treatment of specific health issues, such as dentistry andmental health--especially depression. Finally they provide new insight onmidwifery, nutrition, ethnomedicine, and other topics. ... Read more

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The story of Walter B. Hawkins, one of America's first aviators who flew for films, as a barnstormer, and in the aviation parts industry. Accompanied by historic photos. ... Read more