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Book Remembering Cheltenham Township

Download or read book Remembering Cheltenham Township written by Donald Scott Sr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its founding in 1687 by Quaker settlers searching for religious freedom, Cheltenham Township has been a hub for social history and change. On the edge of Philadelphia, the township was a rallying point for fiery abolitionists such as Lucretia Mott, the sight of the first African American Civil War camp and a retreat for Gilded Age tycoons. Local historian Donald Scott Sr. has compiled a series of vignettes to chronicle the history of a small but influential township from its earliest days and into the twentieth century. With tales of a locally born ice cream empire, the early life of Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson and an exploration of striking neighborhood architecture, Scott pays homage to this remarkable community.

Book A History of Cheltenham Township

Download or read book A History of Cheltenham Township written by Elaine W. Rothschild and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Remembering

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  • Author : Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2024-03-01
  • ISBN : 1478059168
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book The Art of Remembering written by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Art of Remembering art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present. She engages in the process of "rememory"—the recovery of facts and narratives of African American creativity and self-representation that have been purposefully set aside, actively ignored, and disremembered. In analyses of the work of artists ranging from Scipio Moorhead, Moses Williams, and Aaron Douglas to Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, and Deana Lawson, Shaw demonstrates that African American art and history may be remembered and understood anew through a process of intensive close looking, cultural and historical contextualization, and biographic recuperation or consideration. Shaw shows how embracing rememory expands the possibilities of history by acknowledging the existence of multiple forms of knowledge and ways of understanding an event or interpreting an object. In so doing, Shaw thinks beyond canonical interpretations of art and material and visual culture to imagine “what if,” asking what else did we once know that has been lost.

Book Medal Winners

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  • Author : Raymond S. Greenberg
  • Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
  • Release : 2020-02-10
  • ISBN : 1477319433
  • Pages : 521 pages

Download or read book Medal Winners written by Raymond S. Greenberg and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called doctor draft to secure adequate numbers of medical personnel in the armed forces. Among newly minted physicians’ few alternatives to military service was the Clinical Associate Training Program at the National Institutes of Health. Though only a small percentage of applicants were accepted, the elite program launched an unprecedented number of remarkable scientific careers that would revolutionize medicine at the end of the twentieth century. Medal Winners recounts this overlooked chapter and unforeseen byproduct of the Vietnam War through the lives of four former NIH clinical associates who would go on to become Nobel laureates. Raymond S. Greenberg traces their stories from their pre-NIH years and apprenticeships through their subsequent Nobel Prize–winning work, which transformed treatment of heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. Greenberg shows how the Vietnam draft unintentionally ushered in a golden era of research by bringing talented young physicians under the tutelage of leading scientists and offers a lesson in what it may take to replicate such a towering center of scientific innovation as the NIH in the 1960s and 1970s.

Book Camp William Penn

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  • Author : Donald Scott
  • Publisher : Schiffer + ORM
  • Release : 2012-11-30
  • ISBN : 1507302169
  • Pages : 832 pages

Download or read book Camp William Penn written by Donald Scott and published by Schiffer + ORM. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Civil War facility to exclusively train federal black soldiers Philadelphia and Camp William Penn hosted the greatest anti-slavery abolitionists and Underground Railroad of that century Over 130 rare images

Book Cheltenham Township

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  • Author : Arthur Hosking Jones
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2016-11-11
  • ISBN : 1512803197
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Cheltenham Township written by Arthur Hosking Jones and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Book Cheltenham Township

Download or read book Cheltenham Township written by Arthur Hosking Jones and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revisiting the Memories of Yesterday

Download or read book Revisiting the Memories of Yesterday written by George E. Saurman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George E. Saurman looks back at a life filled with adventure, beginning with his birth in Houston in 1926 and through his twilight years at a Pennsylvania retirement community. Within a year of being born, his family moved to Baltimore before finding a permanent home in Pennsylvania, but it wasnt long before they were immersed in the Great Depression. With Saurmans father out of work, his mother supported the family as a hairdresser. Saurman recalls being mentored by his grandfather, who taught the importance of living life according to the Ten Commandments and the Book of Proverbs. He also shares what it was like growing up as a boy in the 1930s and early 1940s. With the arrival of World War II, he joined the Army and eventually went to basic infantry training. He served in the infantry for the duration of the war. Hed have the great fortune to meet his future wife, Mary Elizabeth Ewen, at Ursinus College. They enjoyed a sixty-two year marriage and raised a wonderful family, and she supported him throughout his career as a businessman, borough councilman, as mayor of Ambler, and during his fourteen years as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Book The Quaker World

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  • Author : C. Wess Daniels
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2022-11-04
  • ISBN : 0429632355
  • Pages : 631 pages

Download or read book The Quaker World written by C. Wess Daniels and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quaker World is an outstanding, comprehensive and lively introduction to this complex Christian denomination. Exploring the global reach of the Quaker community, the book begins with a discussion of the living community, as it is now, in all its diversity and complexity. The book covers well-known areas of Quaker development, such as the formation of Liberal Quakerism in North America, alongside topics which have received much less scholarly attention in the past, such as the history of Quakers in Bolivia and the spread of Quakerism in Western Kenya. It includes over sixty chapters by a distinguished international and interdisciplinary team of contributors and is organised into three clear parts: Global Quakerism Spirituality Embodiment Within these sections, key themes are examined, including global Quaker activity, significant Quaker movements, biographies of key religious figures, important organisations, pacifism, politics, the abolition of slavery, education, industry, human rights, racism, refugees, gender, disability, sexuality and environmentalism. The Quaker World provides an authoritative and accessible source of information on all topics important to Quaker Studies. As such, it is essential reading for students studying world religions, Christianity and comparative religion, and it will also be of interest to those in related fields such as sociology, political science, anthropology and ethics.

Book The Cheltenham Township Charter

Download or read book The Cheltenham Township Charter written by Cheltenham (Pa. : Township) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Brief History of Bishop Henry Funck and Other Funk Pioneers  and a Complete Genealogical Family Register  with Biographies of Their Descendants from the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time

Download or read book A Brief History of Bishop Henry Funck and Other Funk Pioneers and a Complete Genealogical Family Register with Biographies of Their Descendants from the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time written by Abraham James Fretz and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genealogy of the descendants of Henry Funck born in Europe. He immigrated to America in 1719 and settled at Indian Creek, Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania where he died in 1760. He married Anne Meyer.

Book Atlantic Reporter

Download or read book Atlantic Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Some Account of Jacob Oberholtzer  who Settled  about 1719  in Franconia Township  Montgomery County  Pennsylvania

Download or read book Some Account of Jacob Oberholtzer who Settled about 1719 in Franconia Township Montgomery County Pennsylvania written by Elisha Scott Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Oberholtzer (b.ca. 1686) immigrated from Switzerland (or from the Palatinate of Germany) to Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania before 1710, and married Deborah Krey. He died after 1742. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.

Book Back Street to Happy

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  • Author : Gary D. Jefferson
  • Publisher : Archway Publishing
  • Release : 2014-06-11
  • ISBN : 1480808342
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Back Street to Happy written by Gary D. Jefferson and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Gina is a smart, Hurricane Katrina survivor who used her physical gifts to achieve material gain. La Gina is now settled in a new life with her husband, Earl Cuyler, a police detective with strong convictions and a wandering eye. Although Earl claims to love La Gina, her friends think otherwise, but they have their own personal battles. Raymond thinks he is too poor to marry his woman. Suzi is in love with her neighbor, Zege, who is interested in a casual friendship with benefits. Everything changes when La Gina is diagnosed with breast cancer. Earl abandons her because he could not tolerate the effects that chemotherapy was having on his pride and joy_La Gina's body and her long, beautiful hair. Earl tells La Gina, "well, that is your problem, your sickness or illness, whatever, not mine." La Gina thinks her illness is one of her greatest challenges--until Earl is charged with murdering his mistress and her unborn child. Throughout her illness, La Gina undergoes a paradigm shift and begins to govern her behavior by reasoning and logic. She decides to stand by Earl while he is being investigated for the horrific crime. Her friends think that she has gone cray-cray. All of that is about to change when friends help her realize that she may be an accomplice to the murders. Back Street to Happy is the suspenseful tale of a woman's journey to attain her dreams, despite a betrayal by the man she loves.

Book Crazy Faith

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  • Author : Earl Palmer
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2012-03-29
  • ISBN : 0985248149
  • Pages : 83 pages

Download or read book Crazy Faith written by Earl Palmer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Crazy Faith" is operating or functioning upon hearing the word of God, believing by faith in spite of the present circumstances, or the way things appear to be. "Crazy", because it sometimes requires a behavior or attitude that is contrary to common sense or reasonable thinking and logic.

Book African Founders

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  • Author : David Hackett Fischer
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2022-05-31
  • ISBN : 1982145099
  • Pages : 960 pages

Download or read book African Founders written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A ... synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--

Book Vital Statistics Bulletin

Download or read book Vital Statistics Bulletin written by Pennsylvania. Bureau of vital statistics and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: