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Susan Dunn, ed.: Something That Will Surprise the World: The Essential Writings of the Founding Fathers.(Book review)
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Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
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March 22, 2008
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- Riggs, Dawn Marsh
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Susan Dunn, ed. Something That Will Surprise the World: The Essential Writings of the Founding Fathers. New York: Basic Books, 2006. Pp. 450. Cloth, $32.00; ISBN 0-465-01779-7.
Every teacher who makes a commitment to using primary sources in the classroom either faces a lack of easily accessible materials or such a cornucopia of resources that making the best selection is time-consuming and complicated. For those educators who teach early American history or history of the American Revolution, the latter scenario is more often the case. The founders were prolific writers and the ongoing publication of their public and personal writings shows no sign of tapering off in the ...
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Safe to talk: Abortion narratives as a rite of return
Journal of American Culture;
January 1, 1996 ;
Helen Susan Edelman;
787 words
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Gerber, David A.: Authors of their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of...
History: Review of New Books;
March 22, 2006 ;
Gorman, Daniel;
513 words
......A. Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North...identity was formed primarily through personal correspondence with family members and close...transnational social space (155) of personal correspondence. The book is an epistolary history...
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Love & Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince...
Canadian Slavonic Papers;
September 1, 2006 ;
Randolph, John;
787 words
......and trans. Love & Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince...and Conquest. Catherine's early "personal" correspondence with Potemkin-long kept under...grotesquely personal power; and this personal correspondence illuminates how this kind of ...
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ACCUSED HACKER TURNS SELF IN.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);
July 31, 2002 ;
188 words
......into his ex-employer's computer system and stealing personal correspondence has turned himself over to police. Robert Starks, 21...dealer Guild.com, is accused of stealing and publishing personal correspondence from Guild.com's computer system after he was fired...
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The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston.
Journal of Southern History;
February 1, 2001 ;
BUENGER, WALTER L.;
510 words
...The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston. Volume III: 1848-1852. Edited by Madge...us another side of the man in her third volume of the personal correspondence of Houston and his wife Margaret. These letters speak...
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Biter bit.(Business)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);
March 15, 2005 ;
34 words
...Byline: By Denise Robertson Best laugh of the week for me was John Reid behaving exactly like an attack-dog because Jeremy Paxman had just called him one. * Denise Robertson cannot enter into any personal correspondence.
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Denise Robertson column.(Business)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);
March 29, 2005 ;
38 words
...Byline: By Denise Robertson The nature charity Plantlife says each county in Britain loses 10 species of wildflower every 10 years. That's another bit of childhood magic gone then. * Denise Robertson cannot enter into any personal correspondence.
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Of the Gipper's civil missives.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times;
November 16, 2003 ;
787 words
...Byline: Woody West, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Personal correspondence by mail is soon likely to be filed in the...notice . . . Thus, the published volumes of personal correspondence between notable public persons will inevitably...
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pounds 100,000 for stolen Brando letters
The Independent - London;
May 16, 2001 ;
39 words
...THE BRITISH director Tony Kaye has offered a reward of pounds 100,000 for the return of personal correspondence with Marlon Brando stolen in a burglary at his villa in Cannes. Mr Kaye, who directs TV commercials, had been attending the film festival.
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Those inappropriate e-mails can cost you your job
Daily Breeze;
March 22, 2005 ;
536 words
......most people also use work e-mail and IM accounts for personal correspondence. Admit it -- we've all done it. But before you hit send...With 86 percent of employees using company e-mail for personal correspondence, the risk of sexually charged e-mail is huge," says...
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LETTERS FROM NEW ENGLAND SOLDIERS OFFER GLIMPSE OF LIFE ON THE FRONT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
May 15, 2007 ;
787 words
......to war by reading hundreds of personal correspondence from the three wars. An article...in Concord. "All too often the personal correspondence of ordinary men and women have...of human nature in the form of personal correspondence, such as the letter of a father...
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ASK JANE.
The Daily Mail (London, England);
April 8, 2008 ;
69 words
......Good Health, Daily Mail, 2Derry Street, London W8 5TT, or e-mail jane.clarke@dailymail.co.uk. Jane cannot enter into personal correspondence. Please include contact details. Her replies cannot apply to individual casesand should be taken in a general context...
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Special delivery.(good house: Idea File)(Image)(Brief article)
Good Housekeeping;
August 1, 2007 ;
47 words
......postal, impose order with a British toast rack. Used in the U.K. to serve the breakfast staple, these elegant holders (in antique stores or on eBay) are perfectly sized for collating bills and personal correspondence. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
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Targeting Higher Education: Computers, the Internet, and Higher Education
The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education;
February 10, 2003 ;
A, Gustavo;
787 words
......such day-to-day activities as business transactions, personal correspondence, research, information-gathering, and shopping. With...on a frequent basis for business, research, shopping, personal correspondence, social interactions, entertainment, listening to radio...
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Private letters by Austen, Byron and Darwin could be made public under...
The Independent - London;
March 6, 2003 ;
Paul Kelbie Scotland Correspondent;
687 words
...THE PRIVATE thoughts and personal correspondence of some of the greatest writers of all time could...created a treasure chest of original manuscripts and personal correspondence. Now with more than 150,000 items, much of it revealing...
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