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First Class

Author : Alison Stewart
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613740123
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book First Class written by Alison Stewart and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public school successful. In 1870, in the wake of the Civil War, citizens of Washington, DC, opened the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth, the first black public high school in the United States; it would later be renamed Dunbar High and would flourish despite Jim Crow laws and segregation. Dunbar attracted an extraordinary faculty: its early principal was the first black graduate of Harvard, and at a time it had seven teachers with PhDs, a medical doctor, and a lawyer. During the school's first 80 years, these teachers would develop generations of highly educated, successful African Americans, and at its height in the 1940s and '50s, Dunbar High School sent 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as in too many failing urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students are barely proficient in reading and math. Journalist and author Alison Stewart—whose parents were both Dunbar graduates—tells the story of the school's rise, fall, and possible resurgence as it looks to reopen its new, state-of-the-art campus in the fall of 2013.

William Dunbar

Author : Arthur H. DeRosierJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813157676
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book William Dunbar written by Arthur H. DeRosierJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish-born William Dunbar (1750--1810) is recognized by Mississippi and Southwest historians as one of the most successful planters, agricultural innovators, explorers, and scientists to emerge from the Mississippi Territory. Despite his successes, however, history books abridge his contributions to America's early national years to a few passing sentences or footnotes. William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest rectifies past neglect, paying tribute to a man whose life was driven by the need to know and the willingness to suffer in pursuit of knowledge. From the beginning, research, contemplation, and scholarship formed the template by which Dunbar would structure his life. His mother's insistence on education motivated him throughout his youth, and in 1771, he sailed to America, prepared to seize any and all opportunities. Settling in the Mississippi territory, Dunbar embarked on the endeavors that would soon gain him renown. He surveyed the boundary between Spanish West Florida and the United States and contributed heavily to the rise of cotton culture through his inventions and innovations in agricultural technology. In 1804, at the same time that Lewis and Clark were making their way up the Missouri River, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Dunbar -- now a fellow member of the prestigious American Philosophical Society -- to lead a similar exploration of the southern Louisiana Purchase territory. The 103-day expedition captured the imagination of Americans looking to move westward and yielded the first information about the geographical, geological, and meteorological characteristics of the old Southwest. Arthur H. DeRosier Jr. traces Dunbar's life from his ambition as a youth to his development into a man recognized by his contemporaries as a leader in many scientific fields. Drawing upon the private journal of Dunbar's granddaughter Virginia Dunbar McQueen and neglected historical annals, William Dunbar examines Dunbar's public and private life, the scope of his interests, and the lasting contributions he left to a country and people he loved.

The History of Dunbar

Author : James Miller (of Haddington, Scotland.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The History of Dunbar written by James Miller (of Haddington, Scotland.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Never Caught

Author : Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501126431
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Never Caught written by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn’t abide: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire. Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom. So, when the opportunity presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Yet freedom would not come without its costs. At just twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property. “A crisp and compulsively readable feat of research and storytelling” (USA TODAY), historian and National Book Award finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one young woman risked everything to gain freedom from the famous founding father and most powerful man in the United States at the time.

House of Dunbar

Author : Lyle Dunbar
Publisher : Rise and Fall of a Scottish No
ISBN 13 : 9781483563510
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book House of Dunbar written by Lyle Dunbar and published by Rise and Fall of a Scottish No. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what your last name means? How did you get your last name? Where did your ancestors originate? Do you have any connections to royalty in your family history? Did your ancestors make any contributions to history? I thought about all of those questions, and went looking for the answers related to my Dunbar family name. I discovered that "Dunbar" meant "fort on a hill" in the old Gaelic language of Scotland. This name was given to Dunbar Castle, as well as the adjacent town of Dunbar, in southeast Scotland. The owners of Dunbar Castle in the 11th to 15th centuries were Scottish nobles known as the Earls of Dunbar because the name identified the location of their land holdings. By about 1300 in the Middle Ages, surnames were adopted to distinguish individuals within the growing population. The families of the Earls of Dunbar adopted the surname of Dunbar. Most of the Dunbars in the world got their name handed-down from these ancient Earls of Dunbar and the location of Dunbar Castle and Dunbar town. The author refers to the Dunbar family as the "House of Dunbar" because it was more than a Scottish clan. The Earls of Dunbar were nobility with a line of descent from ancient Scottish and English kings. They played a prominent role in Scottish and English history in the Middle Ages. The Earls became one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in Scotland by the 15th century, which accounts for the word "Rise" of a Scottish noble family in the title. But the most distinguishing feature of the House of Dunbar was its loss of titles and power, never to be regained, in the mid-15th century, which accounts for the word "Fall" in the title. The author's House of Dunbar story is told in the context of famous people, places, and historical events in three separate parts. In Part I-Rise of the Earls of Dunbar, the book covers the early history of Scotland, the rise to power of the Earls of Dunbar, and the forfeiture of the Earldom of Dunbar in 1435. In Part II-After the Fall of the Earldom of Dunbar, the book covers the turbulent history in Scotland after the forfeiture of the Dunbar Scottish earldom until the mid-1700s when there was a major immigration of Scottish people, including the author's Dunbar ancestor, to America. In Part III-Coming to America, the book covers the story of Scottish immigration to America, and the author's Scotch-Irish Dunbar family history in America from the mid-1700's over eight generations to the present day. Those with the Dunbar surname should read this story to explore where they fit in the House of Dunbar. Those interested in Scottish history will get an overview plus a description of the role of the Earls of Dunbar in that history. There were many noble families in Scotland, but the Dunbar story is unique due to the rise of the earls to the highest levels of power, and their fall from power, never to be regained. Those with other Scottish names and ancestry may be encouraged to explore their own family history to find their connections to famous people and places in Scottish history.

The History of Dunbar

Author : James Miller
Publisher : Salzwasser-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783375136796
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The History of Dunbar written by James Miller and published by Salzwasser-Verlag. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

The History of Dunbar

Author : James Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Dunbar written by James Miller and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (10th Anniversary Edition)

Author : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807013145
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (10th Anniversary Edition) written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.

HISTORY OF DUNBAR

Author : JAMES. MILLER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033382318
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book HISTORY OF DUNBAR written by JAMES. MILLER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Dunbar

Author : James Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The History of Dunbar written by James Miller and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fourth Down in Dunbar

Author : David A. Dorsey
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813047749
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Fourth Down in Dunbar written by David A. Dorsey and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the young men of Dunbar—the low-income, historically segregated neighborhoods of Fort Myers, Florida—avoiding the path that leads to easy money as a drug dealer often means choosing complete devotion to football and dreams of NFL stardom. While such dreams remain out of reach for most, an astonishing number of Dunbar athletes, including NFL idols Deion Sanders, Jevon Kearse, and Earnest Graham, have achieved massive success. Fourth Down in Dunbar is the story of how one community, plagued by drugs and violence, where many children are fatherless, gave rise to so many stellar youth athletes. Using Sanders as the centerpiece of the story, David Dorsey explores Dunbar’s history to show how the same drug culture that ruined so many promising futures also served as motivation for football success. As a reporter for the Fort Myers News-Press, Dorsey had exclusive access to the players and their relatives. He shows the success of the wildly talented as well as the regrets of those who took the wrong path, while highlighting hope for the future of Dunbar. In this poignant tale of heartbreak and triumph, Dorsey reveals the true nature of these men who overcame the obstacles in their lives and made their families and their hometown proud.

The History of Dunbar

Author : James Miller
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265750889
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The History of Dunbar written by James Miller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Dunbar: From the Earliest Records to the Present Time Lady Elizabeth Dunbar - Betrothed to the Duke of Bethany - The duke starved to death - Fast Castle taken - Dunbar burnt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The History of Dunbar; from the Earliest Records to the Present Time

Author : James Miller
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230300412
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The History of Dunbar; from the Earliest Records to the Present Time written by James Miller and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter V Think you now.behold Upon the hempen tackle ship-boya climbing, Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order give To sounds confused. Behold the threading sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottom through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge.--Shakspbbe. shipwrecks.--fox man-of-war. pallas and nymph frigates. john and agnes of newcastle. the czar of leith.--disasters of A night. smugglers, etc. The rock-girt coast of Dunbar has been the theatre of many shipwrecks, and the sands of Tyne the grave of many a gallant vessel. Our limits, however, will only allow us to notice a few of the most remarkable. In a strong gale from the north-east, during the night of the 14th November, 1746, the Fox man-ofwar, Captain Beaver, commander, was cast away near Dunbar, and all on board perished. At the same time, the Trial sloopof-war was lost at Holy Island, and one of the custom-house yachts. The last time the Fox was discovered was to the eastward of the island of May. It is supposed that she struck upon some of the half-ebb rocks near the castle, and lost her bottom, and that the wreck afterwards drifted to Tyne Sands, where she was swallowed up in the Horner's-hole, about one mile east from Tynewater mouth, part of her rigging having at times been seen there. Most of the corpses were found at the back of the castle, and o

The History of Dunbar

Author : James Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book The History of Dunbar written by James Miller and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oak and Ivy

Author : Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Oak and Ivy written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dunbar

Author :
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738565583
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Dunbar written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settled in the 1790s and incorporated in 1883, Dunbar was named for Col. Thomas Dunbar, who along with Gen. Edward Braddock and George Washington came to the area in 1755 to take back Fort Duquesne. In 1791, Isaac Meason started the Union Furnace, marking the beginning of the industrial growth that became Dunbaras lifeblood for more than a century. Vintage photographs in Dunbar capture the townas industry, tragedies such as the Hill Farm Mine disaster, faith, weddings, pastimes that entertained young and old alike, intriguing people, and beautiful buildings that stand as a testament to a more prosperous age. Today tourism opportunities such as the Sheepskin Trail, the Fayette Central Railroad Tourist Train, and the coke oven project at the Dunbar Historical Societyas park are helping the community reinvent itself and provide a new future for the little town.