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Robert D. Richardson, Jr., 25th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRobert D. Richardson, Jr. is the author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, and Emerson: The Mind on Fire, for which he won the Bancroft Award in History. His work is widely acclaimed, and he has been recipient of the Francis Parkman Prize for literary distinction in the writing of history and biography, The Society of American Historians Melcher Book Award, the Unitarian Universalist Association Certificate of Merit, and the Gale Research Company St. Nicholas Society Literary Award. He has taught at Harvard University, University of Colorado and Wesleyan University. He is a co-editor of the recently published Three Centuries of American Poetry
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
Get PDFBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Slater v. Baker and Stapleton (C.B. 1767): Unpublished Monographs by Robert D. Miller
No full textThe Slater case is the first case imposing liability on a surgeon for performing a procedure without consent. This book reviews what happened, what was presented in court, and why they are so different. It also reviews the context of consent principles and medical experimentation and law of the time. It also provides biographical notes on the persons related to the case. It also reviews how the Slater case has been used in medical, ethical, legal and other publications
Robert D. Gregg with map
No full textDr. Robert Gregg Author 'Chronicles of Willamette' ; Box 19Black and Whit
Ralph D. Abernathy, circa 1970
No full textRalph D. Abernathy is shown shaking hands with a crowd of people.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
Ralph D. Abernathy, circa 1970
No full textRalph D. Abernathy is shown speaking with an unidentified man inside of an airplane.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
Ralph D. Abernathy, circa 1965
No full textRalph D. Abernathy is shown pointing upward while standing in the Colosseum in Rome, Italy.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
Grace D. Davis, circa 1952
No full textWritten on verso: Grace D. Davis, 1422 Harriet Street, Montgomery, AL.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generosity of the Digital Public Library of America for supporting in part the digitization of this collection as part of the Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection, a project made possible through funding from Pivotal Ventures, A Melinda Gates Company
John Brown Collection
No full textThis collection consists of correspondence and papers of John Brown, an American abolitionist. The collection contains letters from Brown's fellow abolitionist, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn concerning the Free-Soil contest in Kansas, the National Kansas Committee, and various state committees. The letters concern finances and the amassing of arms for Brown's insurgencies on Kansas soil. Two letters concerning Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, from local resident D. E. Henderson, give a detailed account of the foray. A military order, signed by Robert E. Lee, details a guard to escort Brown and his fellow prisoners to the Charleston jail.
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John Nichols and Robert McChesney on the media and democracy
No full textIn this program, media experts John Nichols and Robert McChesney join Bill Moyers to examine America's corporate media machine and the dire implications of closed-door deregulatory decisions. Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation, and McChesney, author of "Rich media, poor democracy: communication politics in dubious times", discuss, among other topics, the pernicious influence of corporate interests on the free press, which they contend have become a major barrier to the exercise of democracy.Host/interviewer, Bill Moyers; interviewees, John Nichols, Robert McChesney
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