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• Connerly, Charles E. The Most Segregated City in America: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980.(Book Review)

  - 2005-09-22

  Connerly, Charles E. The Most Segregated City in America: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980 Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press 360 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2334-4 Publication Date: June 2005 In 1963, images of bombed black churches and nonviolent African American demonstrators...

  Tags: America, Government, Leadership, SOFTWARE, Transportation, University of Virginia

• JEFFERSON: POLITICAL WRITINGS.(Review) (book review)

  - 2000-06-01

  JEFFERSON: POLITICAL WRITINGS. Edited by JOYCE APPLEBY and TERENCE BALL. Cambridge University Press. 623 pp. $59.95. If, during his thirty years of service as revolutionary publicist, Governor, Congressman, diplomat, Secretary of State, Vice President, and two-term President, Thomas Jefferson had done nothing except acquire...

  Tags: America, democracy, education, Government, professor, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia, Virginia

• THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE EDUCATION OF A CITIZEN.(Review) (book review)

  - 2000-06-01

  THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE EDUCATION OF A CITIZEN. Edited by JAMES GILREATH. Library of congress. 383 pp. $41. If, during his thirty years of service as revolutionary publicist, Governor, Congressman, diplomat, Secretary of State, Vice President, and two-term President, Thomas Jefferson had done nothing...

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• Thomas Jefferson and historical self-construction: the earth belongs to the living?

  - 1999-01-01

  Thomas Jefferson in his letters to James Madison wrote the living generation of people should have control over the laws that govern them, and an inherited rule of law was an infringement on the rights of the living. However, in his private life he tried to ensure that his political...

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