This provocative study examines Theodore Roosevelt's ideas about race, focusing especially on his attitudes towards blacks, American Indians, immigration, and imperialism. Thomas G. Dyer gives careful attention to formal and nonformal aspects of Roosevelt's thought, as revealed in his voluminous published works and personal papers. Historians have traditionally disagreed about the character of Theodore Roosevelt's racial ideology. Dyer's illuminating study clarifies many of the relevant issues by viewing Roosevelt's racial theory as an integrated whole.
This provocative study examines Theodore Roosevelt's ideas about race, focusing especially on his attitudes towards blacks, American Indians, immigrat...
Thomas G. Dyer s definitive history of the University of Georgia celebrates the bicentennial of the school s founding with a richly varied account of people and events. More than an institutional history, "The University of Georgia" is a contribution to the understanding of the course and development of higher education in the South.
The Georgia legislature in January 1785 approved a charter establishing a public seat of learning in this state. For the next sixteen years the university s trustees struggled to convert its endowment--forty thousand acres of land in the backwoods--into...
Thomas G. Dyer s definitive history of the University of Georgia celebrates the bicentennial of the school s founding with a richly varied account ...
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First published in 1928, "College Life in the Old South" relates the early history of the University of Georgia from its founding in 1785 through the Reconstruction era. Not a dry compilation of facts, E. Merton Coulter's classic study portrays the struggles and accomplishments of America's first chartered state university.
Coulter recounts, among other things, how Athens was chosen as the university's location; how the state tried to close the university and refused to give it a fixed allowance until long after the Civil War; the early rules and how students invariably broke them; the...
First published in 1928, "College Life in the Old South" relates the early history of the University of Georgia from its founding in 1785 through t...
Amelia Akehurst Lines's diaries and letters provide an extraordinarily rich record of the attitudes and values of an "average" American woman of the mid-nineteenth century. Lines was a young New York schoolteacher whose ambition drove her to seek new opportunities in rural Georgia. Her letters and diary entries provide keen observations on Georgia society and yield a great deal of information concerning the family, child-rearing, and other facets of everyday life in both the North and the South. Lines's life, says historian Thomas Dyer in his introduction, is testimony to the mythical quality...
Amelia Akehurst Lines's diaries and letters provide an extraordinarily rich record of the attitudes and values of an "average" American woman of the m...
