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Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre - dominated by women - achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century.
Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with ......
Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century.
N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois
A pioneer of architecture education in the United States, N. Clifford Ricker notably taught with an emphasis on construction and shop practice in his teaching. Marci S. Uihlein edits and elaborates on The Elements of Construction, the text on building materials that Ricker wrote and used in his teaching, but never published. The book is a window ......
The Education of Phillips Brooks probes the formative years of one of the best-known figures of Victorian America's ''Gilded Age.'' Rigorously researched, bringing as yet untapped archival material into play, John F. Woolverton's book is an extremely readable and fascinating look at a gifted, persuasive clergyman and public figure. One of the most ......
In 1958, the American Historical Association began a study to determine the status and condition of history education in U.S. colleges and universities. Published in 1962 and addressing such issues as the supply and demand for teachers, student recruitment, and training for advanced degrees, that report set a lasting benchmark against which to ......
In this book, the nation's leading female newspaper journalists, editors, and executives provide critical perspectives on the challenges women face in today's news organizations, such as connecting with diverse audiences, maintaining credibility, negotiating media consolidation and corporate pressures, and overcoming the persistent barriers to ......
Amazonian Storytelling and the Shamanism among the Napo Runa
This volume offers the first theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology in English. Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy present and analyze lowland Quichua speakers in the Napo province of Ecuador through narratives, songs, curing chants, and other oral performances, so readers may come to understand and ......
Amazonian Storytelling and the Shamanism among the Napo Runa
Beyond words, exploring Quichua aesthetic expressionThe Ecology of the Spoken Word offers the first theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology in English. Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy present and analyze lowland Quichua speakers in the Napo province of Ecuador through narratives, songs, curing chants, ......
This book examines the lives, work, and contributions of two of the most important figures of the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. Drawing on the two men's personal papers as well as the materials of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), Pero Gaglo Dagbovie probes the ......
