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  • A Physical Education: On Bullying, Discipline and Other Lessons by Taylor, Jonathan
    Jonathan Taylor

    A Physical Education: On Bullying, Discipline and Other Lessons

    On bullying, discipline, and power in school and beyond. What does it mean to be a bully? What does it feel like to be bullied--to be a victim, a pariah, a scapegoat? What are the techniques, patterns, and languages of bullying? Intermingling memoir with...
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  • Cherished Memories: Snapshots of Life and Lessons from a 1950s New Orleans Creole Village by Anderson, Beverly Jacques
    Beverly Jacques Anderson

    Cherished Memories: Snapshots of Life and Lessons from a 1950s New Orleans Creole Village

    CHERISHED MEMORIES takes a memorable journey back to New Orleans of the 1950s. Professor Beverly Jacques Anderson shares stories from her childhood and from her elementary school classmates, providing a fascinating look at the experience of growing up in the Creole culture of the...
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  • Learning Life: A Memoir by Baer, Sylvia
    Sylvia Baer

    Learning Life: A Memoir

    Learning Life: A Memoir is the first volume of an unconventional memoir from the highly original educator and writer, Sylvia Baer. Through essays, photographs, and poems-many of which were online sensations during the pandemic, shared worldwide on social media-Baer tells the stories of five...
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  • The Principal Chronicles Two/Too/II/As Well by Garlick, David
    David Garlick

    The Principal Chronicles Two/Too/II/As Well

    David Garlick, your favourite educational storyteller, is back with a new collection of short stories: The Principal Chronicles Two/Too/II/As Well. It's a 'mostly true' memoir that follows Garlick from pre-school to post retirement. The majority of stories, such as "At the Intersection of Adolescence...
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  • Peace Corps Victim: A Peace Corps Volunteer Story of Trauma and Betrayal by Shea, Patrick
    Patrick Shea

    Peace Corps Victim: A Peace Corps Volunteer Story of Trauma and Betrayal

    Witness the harrowing true story of an idealistic American Volunteer who ventured into the heart of Eastern Europe with the honorable intention of serving in the United States Peace Corps. What awaited him in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia was a nightmare difficult...
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  • More Wit and Wisdom: Another Year of Foolin' Around in Bed by Kendrick, Brent L.
    Brent L. Kendrick

    More Wit and Wisdom: Another Year of Foolin' Around in Bed

    Embark on a literary journey with Dr. Brent L. Kendrick in More Wit and Wisdom: Another Year of Foolin' Around in Bed. This collection brings together fifty-two creative nonfiction essays, each a unique exploration of life's rich tapestry. From poignant reflections on grief and...
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  • Peace Corps Victim: A Peace Corps Volunteer Story of Trauma and Betrayal by Shea, Patrick
    Patrick Shea

    Peace Corps Victim: A Peace Corps Volunteer Story of Trauma and Betrayal

    Witness the harrowing true story of an idealistic American Volunteer who ventured into the heart of Eastern Europe with the honorable intention of serving in the United States Peace Corps. What awaited him in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia was a nightmare difficult...
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  • Bright Eyes: Surviving Our Monsters and Learning to Live Without Them - A Memoir by Thelen-Heidel, Bridey
    Bridey Thelen-Heidel

    Bright Eyes: Surviving Our Monsters and Learning to Live Without Them - A Memoir

    Fans of Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died will root for Bridey Thelen-Heidel as she struggles to unshackle herself from her mother's chaos in this triumphant debut memoir. Bridey is tethered to her mom's addiction to dangerous men who park their Harley-Davidsons in...
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  • Separate Lives: Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon by Pettem, Silvia
    Silvia Pettem

    Separate Lives: Uncovering the Hidden Family of Victorian Professor Mary Rippon

    A pioneer woman educator in the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century academia, Mary Rippon was the first female professor at the University of Colorado and is believed to have been the first woman in the United States to teach at a state university. Mary received...
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  • By the Grace of God by Greenwood, Marie L.
    Marie L. Greenwood

    By the Grace of God

    Author: Marie L. GreenwoodISBN-10: 0984418717ISBN-13: 9780984418718Publisher: Greenwood & Associates, LLC.Language: EnglishPublished: 07/27/2013Pages: 412Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.84d
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  • Been There, Done That: Recounts of a Lifetime Journey by Rachi Ngaine, Mspa Cpa
    Mspa Cpa Rachi Ngaine

    Been There, Done That: Recounts of a Lifetime Journey

    In this memoir series; Been There, Done That: The author expounds on the memoir of his lifetime journey and related experiences. The book expands on a compelling and potent discussion of family values including unwavering self-determination. Author Ngaine is a successful scholar with a...
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  • Teaching Freedom: Stories of Anti-Fascist Teachers in Italy by Castoldi, Massimo
    Massimo Castoldi

    Teaching Freedom: Stories of Anti-Fascist Teachers in Italy

    Starting in the early 1900s, male and female elementary schoolteachers in Italy gained increasing awareness of the role of social workers in the fight against illiteracy and in creating civic consciousness based on widespread, qualified education. In 1900, the Unione Magistrale (the Teachers Association)...
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  • Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World by Hotta, Eri
    Eri Hotta

    Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World

    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year . "Moving and beautifully written." --BBC Music Magazine "Hotta is an unobtrusive narrator whose personal anecdotes are like grace notes on the larger score of Suzuki's life." --Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal "Suzuki will take...
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  • Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (Annotated) by Washington, Booker T.
    Booker T. Washington

    Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (Annotated)

    "Up From Slavery: An Autobiography" is an unparalleled literary journey that takes readers through the compelling life of Booker T. Washington, a man whose indomitable spirit transcended the shackles of slavery to shape the course of American history. Published in 1901, this timeless memoir...
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  • Testing Education: A Teacher's Memoir by Greeley, Kathy
    Kathy Greeley

    Testing Education: A Teacher's Memoir

    Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, the American public education system has been fundamentally changed. Excessive testing, standardized curriculums, destructive demands on children, corporate-­style evaluations, and top-­down mandates have become the norm. In response, record numbers of demoralized educators have quit,...
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  • Toy Fights: A Boyhood by Paterson, Don
    Don Paterson

    Toy Fights: A Boyhood

    Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of "an infinite sensitivity to the world" (Zadie Smith). But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent youth. An indifferent student prone to obsessions (with girls at school and ....
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  • Moving Forward, Looking Back by Is 141, 8th Graders at
    8th Graders at Is 141

    Moving Forward, Looking Back

    Eighth grade students from IS 141: The Steinway school crafted powerful poems and narratives united by themes of hope, love, loss and possibility.Author: 8th Graders at Is 141ISBN-10: 1304321916ISBN-13: 9781304321916Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2024Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
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  • The Shaping of a Life by Goddard, Sally
    Sally Goddard

    The Shaping of a Life

    Born in England, Sally Goddard immigrated to Canada at six months old. She grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and after graduating from Trent University joined CUSO. She taught in Papua New Guinea for almost ten years, where she married Tim Goddard. After...
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  • How to Survive the School Year: An Essential Guide for Stressed-Out Grown-Ups by Parkinson, Lee
    Lee Parkinson

    How to Survive the School Year: An Essential Guide for Stressed-Out Grown-Ups

    Let the Sunday Times bestselling authors and hosts of Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast) lead you through the school year... Does the phrase 'back to school' fill you with dread? Or does it bring delight ... until you see the size of your...
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  • Combat Survival Manual by Harland, Mike
    Mike Harland

    Combat Survival Manual

    This manual is for survival in a general sence and combat survival as not all aspects can be covered its only a basic view. This manual is syructured in a logical sequence based on the numerous considerations for preparing for and succedding in variuos...
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  • Toy Fights: A Boyhood by Paterson, Don
    Don Paterson

    Toy Fights: A Boyhood

    For fans of Douglas Stuart and Nick Hornby comes an uproarious, tenderhearted memoir of growing up in working-class Dundee in the 1970s and 1980s. Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of "an infinite sensitivity to the world" (Zadie Smith)....
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  • Charles Duncan McIver: Born September 27, 1860, Died September 17, 1906 .. by North Carolina College for Women
    North Carolina College for Women

    Charles Duncan McIver: Born September 27, 1860, Died September 17, 1906 ..

    This comprehensive biography chronicles the life and achievements of Charles Duncan McIver, a prominent educator and public figure in early 20th century North Carolina. McIver was instrumental in the founding and development of what is now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and...
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  • From the Projects to the Presidencies: My Journey to Higher Education Leadership by Lyons, James E.
    James E. Lyons

    From the Projects to the Presidencies: My Journey to Higher Education Leadership

    Raised in a public housing project in New Haven, Connecticut, James E. Lyons Sr. overcame the difficult circumstances of his childhood to flourish academically, eventually becoming president of six universities--Bowie State University, Jackson State University, California State University Dominguez Hills, Dillard University, the University...
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  • Tales out of School by Nassau, Robert Hamill
    Robert Hamill Nassau

    Tales out of School

    A memoir of Robert Hamill Nassau's experiences as a missionary and educator in Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nassau provides vivid descriptions of the customs, beliefs, and daily life of the people he encountered, as well as reflections on the...
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  • My First Hundred Years by Adams, Will
    Will Adams

    My First Hundred Years

    My First Hundred Years is a memoir of the lifetime of Dr. Will Adams who shares many varied experiences culminating in the knowledge and opinions of a man who has lived a very fulfilling life.The book begins with an introduction to his family of...
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  • The Gee Years, 2007-2013 by Asher, Herbert B.
    Herbert B. Asher

    The Gee Years, 2007-2013

    The Gee Years, 2007-2013 chronicles E. Gordon Gee's second tenure as president of The Ohio State University and the fourteenth in the university's history. With previous posts at Vanderbilt, Brown, Colorado, West Virginia, and a previous term at Ohio State, Gee is the longest...
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  • A Grand Adventure: Memoirs of a Missionary Nun by Warman, Sister Helen
    Sister Helen Warman

    A Grand Adventure: Memoirs of a Missionary Nun

    A memoir written by Sister Helen Warman, an Australian nun of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. Sister Helen spent sixty years as an educator in Catholic missions to Papua New Guinea, primarily in Milne Bay Province (including the Trobriand Islands...
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  • The School for Life: N.F.S. Grundtvig on Education for the People by Broadbridge, Edward
    Edward Broadbridge

    The School for Life: N.F.S. Grundtvig on Education for the People

    N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) produced a major body of work in the fields of theology, education, literature, politics, and history. He was also a poet, a hymn-writer, and a translator. In particular, however, it is his educational writings that over the years have attracted international...
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  • The Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole: An Eclectic Collection to Honor Alaska's Public Historian by Soos, Frank
    Frank Soos

    The Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole: An Eclectic Collection to Honor Alaska's Public Historian

    This collection of essays honors beloved Alaska historian Terrence Cole upon his retirement. Contributors include former students and colleagues whose personal and professional lives he has touched deeply. The pieces range from appreciative reflections on Cole's contributions in teaching, research, and service, to topics...
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  • James Hope Moulton by Moulton, Harold K.
    Harold K. Moulton

    James Hope Moulton

    Few men have better deserved the double title of scholar and saint than James Hope Moulton, with five doctorates, and the first Wesleyan minister to win a Cambridge Fellowship. His fame and learning (notably in Greek and Zoroastrianism) were everywhere celebrated. To learning he...
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  • The Man in the Red Tie: Professor Harold Jeskey by Moore, Sterling E.
    Sterling E. Moore

    The Man in the Red Tie: Professor Harold Jeskey

    The late Dr. Harold Jeskey, professor of chemistry at Southern Methodist University, had a signature look: a red tie. To him, red ties represented excellence, which is why he awarded them to outstanding students in his classes. But his respect for, and understanding of,...
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  • Where a Man Stands: Two Different Worlds, an Impossible Situation, and the Unexpected Friendship That Changed Everything by Paysinger, Carter
    Carter Paysinger

    Where a Man Stands: Two Different Worlds, an Impossible Situation, and the Unexpected Friendship That Changed Everything

    When Beverly Hills High School welcomed a skinny boy from the other side of the tracks, no one knew just how life-changing the decision would be, not just for Carter Paysinger but for all of Beverly Hills. Carter grew up hearing his parents say,...
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  • The Inception of Modern Professional Education: C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906 by Kimball, Bruce A.
    Bruce A. Kimball

    The Inception of Modern Professional Education: C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906

    Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, he conceived, designed, and built the educational model that leading professional schools in virtually all fields...
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  • There Are No Shortcuts by Esquith, Rafe
    Rafe Esquith

    There Are No Shortcuts

    Year after year, Rafe Esquith's fifth-grade students excel. They read passionately, far above their grade level; tackle algebra; and stage Shakespeare so professionally that they often wow the great Shakespearen actor himself, Sir Ian McKellen. Yet Esquith teaches at an L.A. innercity school known...
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  • The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women's Higher Education in Japan by Furuki, Yoshiko
    Yoshiko Furuki

    The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women's Higher Education in Japan

    At the age of six, Ume Tsuda (1864-1929), the daughter of a progressive samurai, was sent on a mission by the Japanese government with four other girls to the United States. Their noble task was to first educate themselves in modern ways and Western...
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  • Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy by Kahlenberg, Richard
    Richard Kahlenberg

    Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy

    In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead." Shanker was condemned by many when he shut down the...
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  • My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick
    Frederick Douglass

    My Bondage and My Freedom

    My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an...
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  • Educator: The Life of Thelma Smiley Morris by Bobo, Thomas
    Thomas Bobo

    Educator: The Life of Thelma Smiley Morris

    Former Alabama school superintendent Thomas Bobo's biography of teacher Thelma Smiley Morris, for whom the Morris Elementary School is named. "I recall Thelma Smiley Morris," writes Coretta Scott King in her foreword, "as one of Montgomery's finest citizens and a woman of great faith,...
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  • Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life by Epstein, Joseph
    Joseph Epstein

    Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life

    A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years. An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies--those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams--were justified by their...
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  • Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Cohen, Morton N.
    Morton N. Cohen

    Lewis Carroll: A Biography

    Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became a legend for his children's books, which broke the constraints of Victorian moralism. Thirty years in the writing and drawn from a voluminous fund of letters and diaries, this exemplary biography conveys both the...
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  • From Cotton Fields to University Leadership: All Eyes on Charlie, a Memoir by Nelms, Charlie
    Charlie Nelms

    From Cotton Fields to University Leadership: All Eyes on Charlie, a Memoir

    Charlie Nelms had audaciously big dreams. Growing up black in the Deep South in the 1950s and 1960s, working in cotton fields, and living in poverty, Nelms dared to dream that he could do more with his life than work for white plantation owners...
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  • Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life by Epstein, Joseph
    Joseph Epstein

    Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life

    A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years. An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies--those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams--were justified by their...
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  • Little Teachers by Henny, Betsy
    Betsy Henny

    Little Teachers

    I couldn't wait to begin my teaching career. I had always been captivated by children's imaginations and their inquisitive spirits.... Their eagerness to learn. Teaching new skills to entire classrooms of students was an exciting opportunity.I'm just a short while, I realized that it...
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  • Chasing One Day at a Time by Moline, Thomas Lee
    Thomas Lee Moline

    Chasing One Day at a Time

    ANOTHER SPIRITUAL BEING SIMPLY HAVING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE Receipt of the family genealogy inspires the author to capture his life story in writing before it is too late. Intending to simply supplant a tombstone with an autobiography, the book that is produced generates example...
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  • Mawson's Mission: Launching Women's Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Kansas by Mawson, Marlene
    Marlene Mawson

    Mawson's Mission: Launching Women's Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Kansas

    Before 1968, women's athletics in higher education meant playdays and sports days. That spring, when the Division of Girls and Women in Sports announced that national collegiate sports championships for women would begin in 1969, Marlene Mawson, a new hire on the physical education...
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  • Black Girl Butterfly Effect: Blogs of A Woman Still Healing by Wilson, Donecia Janay
    Donecia Janay Wilson

    Black Girl Butterfly Effect: Blogs of A Woman Still Healing

    Explore the healing of a black millennial as she overcomes grief, heartbreak, and the growing pains of life. With blogs about her life, her healing journey, and advice she's learned, Donecia provides us with gems we need. Each blog is different, but covers the...
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  • Educating the Women of Hainan: The Career of Margaret Moninger in China, 1915-1942 by Lodwick, Kathleen L.
    Kathleen L. Lodwick

    Educating the Women of Hainan: The Career of Margaret Moninger in China, 1915-1942

    For Margaret Moninger-a brilliant, fun-loving, and dedicated young woman from Iowa-a career as a missionary in China promised adventure and the chance for responsibility and authority denied most American women of her time. In 1915 she went as a Presbyterian missionary to Hainan Island,...
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  • Taught a Lesson by Stivers, Michael
    Michael Stivers

    Taught a Lesson

    Michael Stivers was a kindergarten teacher in a school of children with very few behavior problems. Then he lost most of the use of his left arm. He could not drive to his school without fear of an accident, so he searched for a...
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  • Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian 1773-1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion by Farish, Hunter Dickinson
    Hunter Dickinson Farish

    Journal And Letters Of Philip Vickers Fithian 1773-1774: A Plantation Tutor Of The Old Dominion

    The Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian 1773-1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion is a historical book written by Hunter Dickinson Farish. The book is a collection of letters and journal entries written by Philip Vickers Fithian, a young man from...
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  • Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art by May, Jill P.
    Jill P. May

    Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art

    Best remembered as an influential illustrator and teacher, Howard Pyle (1853-1911) produced magnificent artwork and engrossing books and magazine stories about King Arthur, Robin Hood, swashbuckling pirates, and the American Revolution. He also completed public murals and trained many famous artists and illustrators at...
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