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The New Jersey African American history curriculum guide, grades 9 to 12. by Larry A. Greene, Lenworth Gunther.
No full textThe New Jersey African American history curriculum guide is a resource for New Jersey high school teachers who wish to incorporate African American experiences into their teaching of U.S. history. The guide provides narratives, keywords, suggested activites, and bibliographies.CONTENTS:
Foreword -- About the Authors -- Preface -- How to Use This Guide -- Acknowledgments -- Unit 1 African Beginnings -- Unit 2 Africa, Europe, and the Rise of Afro-America, 1441-1619 -- Unit 3 African American Slavery in the Colonial Era, 1619-1775 -- Unit 4 Blacks in the Revolutionary Era, 1776-1789 -- Unit 5 Slavery and Abolition in Post-Revolutionary and Antebellum America, 1790-1860 -- Unit 6 African Americans and the Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Unit 7 The Reconstruction Era, 1865-1877 -- Unit 8 The Rise of Jim Crow and The Nadir, 1878-1915 -- Unit 9 World War I and the Great Migration, 1915-1920 -- Unit 10 The Decade of the Twenties: From the Great Migration to the Great Depression -- Unit 11 The 1930s: The Great Depression -- Unit 12 World War II: The Struggle for Democracy at Home and Abroad, 1940-1945 -- Unit 13 The Immediate Postwar Years, 1945-1953 -- Unit 14 The Civil Rights and Black Power Era: Gains and Losses, 1954-1970 -- Unit 15 Beyond Civil Rights, 1970-1994
Letter to William A. Starna from Gunther Michelson, January 12, 1987
No full textIn a letter dated January 12, 1987, Gunther Michelson writes to William Starna, confirming his satisfaction with being listed as the chapter author for the word list and receiving credit for his contributions to the endnotes. Michelson requests the replacement of pages 4-6 of the endnotes with the enclosed pages, including corrections and insertions. He also mentions the challenges he faced in working on the Mohawk passage in endnotes 110. This item does not include the enclosed pages Michelson mentions in the letter
Oral history interview with Nancy Gunther
No full textTranscript, 53 pp.Nancy Gunther grew up in Mason City, Iowa, attended the local community college then majored in mathematics (including computing) at the University of Iowa. In 1966 she went to work for Sperry Rand Univac in St. Paul. She worked as a programmer initially in Advanced Tactical Systems using assembly language and Compiler Monitor System for 18 bit computers. She describes and compares working conditions and company culture in St. Paul and also, from 1967 forward, at the Navy Systems department (Eagan MN) as well as in Montreal (1984-1987). Her technical work focused on operating systems and command-and-control systems for navy ships and submarines. She describes the culture changes with the merger between Sperry and Burroughs to create Unisys.
This material is based on work funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”Gunther, Nancy. (2015). Oral history interview with Nancy Gunther. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/183242
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Interview with Gunther Schuller
No full textInterview with Gunther Schuller on the topic of Dizzy Gillespie. The interviewer is unknown, and not heard on the recording. Schuller discusses Gillespie as a composer and arranger, particularly with the Billy Eckstine band, how improvisations later informed ensemble work, hearing the Earl Hines band in Cincinnati, the blues emphasis of the Eckstine band, the tune "Things to Come," the album Gillespiana, JJ Johnson's admiration of Paul Hindemith, Afro-Caribbean music and "A Night in Tunisia," "world music" as a genre, the Third Stream concept, and Schuller's books in progress or planning stages
Letter to Gladys Abrams from Gunther Michelson, September 23, 1963
No full textIn a letter dated September 23, 1963, Gunther Michelson writes to Gladys Abrams regarding the miniature mask and expressing gratitude for their kind reception
Letter to Daniel Clement from Gunther Michelson, March 18, 1998
No full textIn a letter dated March 18, 1998, Gunther Michelson writes to Daniel Clement to follow up on their March 16, 1998, telephone conversation. He provides a list of Mohawk terms connected with winter
Letter to Hanni Woodbury from Gunther Michelson, October 23, 1980
No full textIn a letter dated October 23, 1980, Gunther Michelson writes to Hanni Woodbury, expressing gratitude for Woodbury's copy of the proposal to NEH and posting linguistic questions regarding the various words in Mohawk in appendix 1
Letter to William Wykoff from Gunther Michelson, May 28, 1979
No full text[added by hand at the top in blue ink. "William Wykoff" "May 28,1979"]In a letter dated May 28, 1979, Gunther Michelson writes to William Wykoff, answering Wykoff's queries and discussing linguistic noun root relationships on various words in Mohawk
Letter to Floyd Lounsbury from Gunther Michelson, January 1, 1989
No full textIn a letter dated January 1, 1989, Gunther Michelson writes to Floyd G. Lounsbury in response to Lounsbury's letter of November 10, 1988, discussing linguistic roots -Otar- and the connection between Laurentians and Mohawks in Lounsbury's paper "Iroquois Place Names.
Contracting worlds : the many autonomies of private law
No full textDeutsche Fassung: Vertragswelten: Das Recht in der Fragmentierung von private governance regimes. Rechtshistorisches Journal 17, 1998, 234-265. Italienische Fassung: Mondi contrattuali. Discourse rights nel diritto privato. In: Gunther Teubner, Diritto policontesturale: Prospettive giuridiche della pluralizzazione dei mondi sociali. La città del sole, Neapel 1999, 113-142. Portugiesische Fassung: Mundos contratuais: o direito na fragmentacao de regimes de private governance. In: Gunther Teubner, Direito, Sistema, Policontexturalidade, Editora Unimep, Piracicaba Sao Paolo, Brasil 2005, 269-298
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