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Harvard University
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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...
Peace Corps (U.S.)
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The Peace Corps was established by Executive Order 10924, issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961, announced by televised broadcast March 2, 1961, and authorized by Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public Law 87-293). Since 1961, over 200,000 Americans have joined the Peace Corps and have served in 139 countries. From the guide to the Brown University Peace Corps files, 1965-1967, (John Hay Library Special Collections) The Pea...
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...
Geertz, Clifford, 1926-2006
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Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. ...
United States. Department of State
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The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by an act of July 27, 1789 (1 Stat. 28) and redesignated the Department of State by an act of September 15, 1789 (1 Stat. 68). It was the agency of the United States created by law to assist the President in the formulation and execution of the Nation's foreign policy, and in the conduct of foreign affairs and of certain domestic affairs. The Department made plans for peace and security among all nations, participated in the United Nations and o...
Mills, George
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Harley, George, 1791-1871
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Dapper, O.
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d'Azevedos
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UNICCO
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Yale University press
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See "A Brief History of Yale University Press" by Robert Pranzatelli, adapted from A World of Letters by Nicholas A. Basbanes, available at <http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/about.asp>. From the guide to the Yale University Press records, 1919-1964, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) I. THE FIRST HALF-CENTURY From its founding in 1908 by George Parmly Day, Yale University Press sought to acquire and publish important works of scholarship, issuin...
U.N.,
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Jack Sills
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Indiana,
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Anderson, Richard, 1972-
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Lowie Museum
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Harley, George W. (George Way), 1894-1966
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Missionary and physician. From the description of Papers, 1911-1975 bulk 1925-1960. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 16392517 George Way Harley, Methodist missionary, physician, blacksmith, geographer, anthropologist, and researcher was born in Asheville, North Carolina on August 8, 1894. Harley's father was a Methodist minister and from an early age Harley aspired to become a missionary. After graduating from Trinity College, Durham, N.C. in 1916,...
Fowler, Don
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Weil, Peter
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Azango
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Parezo, Nancy J.
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Barbara Babcock (Department of English) and Nancy Parezo (American Indian Studies and Anthropology) are members of the faculty at the University of Arizona. Their oral history of women anthropologists in the southwestern United States was published in 1988 as Daughters of the Desert : Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1980 . From the guide to the Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest, 1880-1945, 1986, (American Philosophical Society) ...
Thomasson, Gordon C.
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Mormon author and associate editor of "Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought." From the guide to the Gordon C. Thomasson papers, 1971-1975, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...
Marie Adams
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Dan
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Crouch.
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Forge, Anthony
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Biography Born in West London, England, on February 27, 1929, Anthony Forge was educated at Highgate School. In 1948 he went on to do national service in Intelligence. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1953, where he studied anthropology under Edmund Leach. After graduation he spent three years in the printing industry, his father's profession, before enrolling in the London School of Economics, where he began graduate studies in anth...
Plotnicov, Leonard.
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Anthropologist. From the description of Leonard Plotnicov key punch cards, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870038 Biographical/Historical Note Anthropologist. From the guide to the Leonard Plotnicov key punch cards, undated, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...
Tubman, William V. S., 1895-1971
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William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman ( 1895-1971 ), nineteenth president of Liberia, was born November 29, 1895 in Harper City, Maryland County, Liberia to Alexander Tubman and Elizabeth Rebecca Barnes Tubman . His paternal grandparents, manumitted slaves, were repatriates who in 1837 had immigrated from Georgia ( USA ) to the Maryland Colony in Africa . Tubman received his education at Government Elementary School in Harper City and the Cape Palmas Methodist Seminary. He began his pol...
Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957
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Robert H. Lowie was a noted anthropologist, professor of anthropology, and specialist on the Crow Indians. He moved from Vienna to New York in 1893, and later received his doctorate from Columbia University, studying with Franz Boas. After doing curatorial and field work for the American Museum of Natural History, in 1921 he joined the anthropology faculty at U.C. Berkeley, where he taught until his retirement in 1950. Lowie published hundreds of articles, reviews, and monographs in English, Ger...
University of Nevada
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College Bowl began in 1953 as a radio program under sponsorship of the General Electric Company, moving to television in 1959. Each week two collegiate undergraduate teams would compete to be the first to correctly answer a variety of scholarly questions. The winner would return the following week, and the school would receive a General Electric scholarship grant. In 1963, the University of Nevada was invited to compete. Traveling to New York City with team coach Harold Kirkpatrick, the Nevada t...
Princeton University
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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...
Hallen, B.
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Foster, George
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Epithet: Citizen of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x0001e3 ...
Emory university
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The Baccalaureate service is an inter-religious ceremony for all graduating Emory University students receiving bachelor's degrees and consists of prayers, music, and an address by the Emory University President. The Commencement ceremony includes all Emory University graduates and consists of an address by the commencement speaker, the conferral of honorary degrees and awards, and the conferral of degrees en masse. From the description of Emory University Baccalaureate and Commencem...
Gotomo
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Northwestern university
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During World War II, Northwestern offered its facilities for use by the War Department. The Army, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics Administration operated eleven training programs at Northwestern in addition to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (N.R.O.T.C.) established in 1926: the Navy V-7, Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School; the Navy V-5, Naval Aviation Prepatory Program; the Navy V-1, Accredited College Program; the Naval Training School (Radio); the Army Signal Corps Officers Training Scho...
Gibbs, James Lowell
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Cultural anthropologist James Lowell Gibbs, Jr., was born on June 13, 1931, in Syracuse, New York to Huldah Hortense Dabney, a school teacher, and James Lowell Gibbs, Sr., executive director of a community center. Gibbs was born prematurely when his mother's appendix burst during the seventh month of her pregnancy. Gibbs can trace his family ancestry back to 1834 to a paternal great-great grandfather who was born in Florence, South Carolina. Gibbs grew up in Ithaca, New York, where he attended H...
Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
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Pioneer anthropologist and Africanist; Professor of Sociology (1927-38) and of Anthropology (1938-61), Northwestern University. From 1961 through 1963, held Northwestern's Chair of African Studies, the first such position in the United States. From the description of Melville Herskovits Papers, 1906-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80577063 Anthropologist; Africanist; founder of the first African Studies program in the United States. Melville J. ...
d'Azevedo, Warren
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Warren d'Azevedo was a professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, from 1963 to 1988 . As a student, d'Azevedo worked with a number of prominent anthropologists at the University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University, including Paul Radin and Melville Herskovits, both of whom had a profound influence on his work. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1962 from Northwestern University . Throughout his long and distinguished career, Professor d'Azevedo authored nume...
ACASA
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NEH
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Moran, Mary
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Berg, Maria
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Brown University.
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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...
United Nations
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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...
Gay, Judy
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University of Nevada, Reno
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Governor's Day was an annual occasion for honoring ROTC cadets. In 1970, students that opposed the war in Vietnam held a peace rally the same day, and distributed flyers and posters on campus announcing the rally and opposition to the Governor's Day observances. From the description of Governor's Day records, 1970. (University of Nevada, Reno). WorldCat record id: 40932828 In 1970/71, the Oral History Program at the University of Nevada and the University Archives initiated ...
Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912
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Blyden was an African American author and activist. From the description of Letter and newspaper clipping, 1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80219161 ...
UC Berkeley,
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Girshick
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Sieber, Roy
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Kurtz, Ronald J.
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Ronald J. Kurtz received his M.A. (1956) and Ph.D. (1963) in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico. The majority of Kurtz' professional career was spent as an instructor (1961-1963), assistant professor (1963-1967) associate professor (1967-1970), professor (1970-1997) and currently, professor emeritus in the Anthropology Department at Grinnell College in Iowa. From the description of Ronald J. Kurtz Cañoncito Navajo research papers, 1945-1963 (bulk 1957) (University of New...
Welmers, William Everett, 1916-
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Welmers was born on Apr. 4, 1916 in Orange City, IA; AB, Hope College, 1936; ThB and Th, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1939; Ph. D, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1943; member, Lutheran Mission, Liberia, 1946-48 and 1954-55; linguistic research in Africa as fellow in the American Council of Learned Societies, 1948-50; visiting asst. professor of linguistics (1950-51) and acting assoc. professor (1951-54), Cornell Univ.; assoc. professor, Kennedy School Missions, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1955-60...
UNESCO
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NPFL
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Ottenberg, Simon
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Simon Ottenberg is emeritus professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he was a faculty member from 1955-1991. He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1957. His advisor was Melville J. Herskovits, founder of the Program of African Studies. From the guide to the Simon Ottenberg Papers, 1950s-2000s, (Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies) ...
Zemp, Hugo
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Merriam, Alan P., 1923-1980
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Ethnomusicologist and Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. From the description of Papers, 1963-1966. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 49713497 Alan Parkhurst Merriam, 1923-1980, was an enthnomusicologist and professor of anthropology at Indiana University. From the guide to the Merriam mss., 1963-1966, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)) ...
Smyke, Raymond J.
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American-born Raymond Smyke worked in the field of education in Africa for over 30 years. As Assistant Secretary General for the World Confederation of Teachers and head of its African Program, Smyke oversaw the training of national teacher leaders in all English and French speaking countries on the continent, including the Republic of South Africa . Smyke later taught African Studies and Third World Politics at Geneva 's Webster University, co-founding its Refugee Studi...
Kine, Make
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Gay, John
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Epithet: of Add MS 42922 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000446.0x0002e6 John Gay is considered to be an expert on the subect of the Westernization of traditional societies. A priest, professor and scholar, Gay often writes about the civil war conflicts in Liberia and the clash between Westernization and traditional culture in his novels, articles and non-fiction works, His works include: ...
Clegg, John
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Ford foundation
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Philanthropic organization established in 1936 by Henry and Edsel Ford from profits of the Ford Motor Company. From the description of Grant files, [ca. 1936-1986]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532303 ...
Liebenow, J. Gus, 1925-....
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J. Gus Liebenow joined the faculty of Indiana University in 1958 and founded the university's African Studies Program in 1961, which he directed for 11 years. He also served as dean for research and advanced studies as well as vice president and dean for academic affairs on the Bloomington campus. In 1987, he was named Rudy Professor by the university trustees, who award the title for excellence. He retired in 1990 . An expert on Liberia, Professor Liebenow testified on ...
Saul, John
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Karp, Ivan C., 1926-2012
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Ivan C. Karp (1926- ) is an art dealer and director of the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Ivan C. Karp, 1969 Mar. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84163264 Art dealer and director of the O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Ivan C. Karp, 1986 Apr. 18 - 1988 Oct. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 226956498 From the description of Oral history i...
Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
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Alfred L. Kroeber was an anthropologist. He taught anthropology at the University of California, 1901-1946, and was curator, 1908-1925, and director, 1925-1946, of the University's anthropological museum. From the description of Yana vocabulary and grammatical notes, 1911-1912. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 86165433 Anthropologist. From the description of Anthropology : mss., 1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85185772 A...
Alland, Alexander.
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B. in Ukraine,1902; d. 1989. From the description of Alexander Alland : Artist File. (International Center of Photography). WorldCat record id: 459790798 ...
Cornell, John B., 1921-
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American anthropologist. From the description of John B. Cornell papers, 1965-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872255 John Bilheimer Cornell, 1921-1994, was an American anthropologist specializing in Japanese agriculture, ecology, social organization, agricultural policy, material culture, land tenure, social relations as affected by geography, outcaste society, and Japanese immigrants in Brazil. From the description of The John B. Cornell collection 1947-...
University of Pittsburgh. United Faculty
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Throughout its history the University of Pittsburgh has received occasional support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the early 1960s it suffered an unprecedented fiscal crisis and sought a solution that linked it to the Commonwealth. On August 23, 1966, House Bill No. 2 of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania was signed and the University officially became state-related. From the description of State-related status of the University of Pittsburgh files, 1936-1983. (Universit...
Field Museum
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IU
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Stanford university
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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...
Elwood Dunn
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ULAA
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de Hart, J.
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Tubman, William V. S., 1895-1971
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William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman ( 1895-1971 ), nineteenth president of Liberia, was born November 29, 1895 in Harper City, Maryland County, Liberia to Alexander Tubman and Elizabeth Rebecca Barnes Tubman . His paternal grandparents, manumitted slaves, were repatriates who in 1837 had immigrated from Georgia ( USA ) to the Maryland Colony in Africa . Tubman received his education at Government Elementary School in Harper City and the Cape Palmas Methodist Seminary. He began his pol...
British Museum.
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Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts. The British Library, established in 1973, is now responsible for manuscript collections previously held by the library of the British Museum. From the guide to the Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts, 20th century, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) ...
Poro
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Moore, Bai T., 1916-1988
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Bai Tamiah Moore was born in the village of Dimeh, 20 miles from Monrovia, and given the name Tamiah. Though the exact date of Moore’s birth was not recorded, it has been approximated as either sometime in 1916 or in October, 1920 . The village in which he grew up was ruled by the Dei ethnic group, but was also inhabited by the Gola, Vai, Mandingo, and Bassa peoples. Moore’s parentage was both Vai and Gola, but he identified himself as Vai, using the criteria of patrilineal descent,...
LSA
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Lowenkopf, Martin.
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Biographical/Historical Note American political scientist and author. From the guide to the Martin Lowenkopf papers, 1952-1973, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...
Crowley, Daniel J., 1921-....
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Professor in both the Art and Anthropology Departments at UC Davis. From the description of Papers, 1918-1995. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 40681144 ...
Lucille
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Holmes, Thomas, 1846-1918
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Epithet: DD, Chancellor and Canon of Wells British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x0001ac Epithet: of Add MS 29139 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x000279 Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x00027d Epithet: of...
Mark, Peter
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Moore, Bai T., 1916-1988
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Bai Tamiah Moore was born in the village of Dimeh, 20 miles from Monrovia, and given the name Tamiah. Though the exact date of Moore’s birth was not recorded, it has been approximated as either sometime in 1916 or in October, 1920 . The village in which he grew up was ruled by the Dei ethnic group, but was also inhabited by the Gola, Vai, Mandingo, and Bassa peoples. Moore’s parentage was both Vai and Gola, but he identified himself as Vai, using the criteria of patrilineal descent,...
Stone, Ruth
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Holsoe, Svend E.
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Over the course of his prolific scholarly career, anthropologist Svend Einar Holsoe has greatly advanced our knowledge and understanding of the history and culture of the peoples of Liberia . During his youth, Holsoe’s family lived in Liberia for nine years. His interest in a close study of this country and its peoples began during his senior year in high school. Asked to write an essay on his hometown for his senior English course, Holsoe chose Monrovia, only to discover the dearth...
Murphy, William P.
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William Parry Murphy was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating pernicious anemia. He taught at Harvard Medical School in varying capacities from 1924 to 1958. He was associated with the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. From the description of Papers, 1919-1950s. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281454961 William Pa...
Siegman
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Cole, Michael
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Epithet: of Sloane MS 1206 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000246.0x000155 ...
Indiana University. Digital Library Program
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In 1954, the Indiana University School of Education partnered with the Prasan Mitr College of Education in Bangkok and the Thai Ministry of Education to develop programs in teacher education in Thailand. IU's involvement in this area of the world expanded even further the following year when IU was contracted by the U.S. Foreign Operations Administration to assist in the development of an Institute of Public Administration at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. From the descri...
Smithsonian Institution
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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...
Sande
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Fernandez, James
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Teh, Tarty
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Department of Education.
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Agency History California's 1849 Constitution provided for the election of a state Superintendent of Public Instruction and for a system of common schools. Supervision of California's educational system was carried out by the State Board of Education with the Superintendent of Public Instruction acting as its executive officer. The first foundations of a State Department of Education were laid in 1913 when the Legislature provided for the app...