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• James McClellan, R.I.P.

  - 2005-02-07

  The conservative movement was saddened last week by the loss of one of its intellectual powerhouses. Dr. James McClellan, constitutional scholar, attorney, teacher, historian and author, died January 28 after a long illness.A graduate of the University of Virginia Law School who also earned a doctorate from the University of...

  Tags: CAREER, Government, U.S. Senate, University of Virginia

• Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth.(Book Review) (book review)

  - 2003-03-22

  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 352 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1157-6 Publication Date: February 2002 Stephen F. Knott is an assistant professor and research fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. His previous work includes Secret and Sanctioned: Covert...

  Tags: Alexander, CAREER, Government, Leadership, Quality, SOFTWARE, Strategy, University of Virginia

• Encouraging the Brightest: The 1999 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute.(Brief Article)

  - 1999-09-01

  Fourteen gifted undergraduate students from colleges across the country attended the thirteenth annual Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at the University of Virginia this summer. Their mission: To learn more about graduate study in political science. Sponsored jointly by the department of government and foreign affairs at...

  Tags: CAREER, Government, Institute, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia

• 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...

  Tags: America, CAREER, FINANCE, Government, liberty, president, Republic, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia, Virginia, Washington

• Encouraging the brightest: the 1998 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute.

  - 1998-09-01

  The University of Virginia's Dept of Government and Foreign Affairs, together with the American Political Science Assn, organizes an annual Ralph Bunche Summer Institute to encourage African American students to attend graduate school and finish Ph.D programs in political science. In the summer of 1998, 15 undergraduate students from colleges...

  Tags: CAREER, Government, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia

• In memoriam: Paul Theodore David. (Obituary)

  - 1995-03-01

  University of Virginia Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs Paul T. David passed away last Sep. 7, 1994, in Charlottesville, VA. David graduated in 1928 from Antioch College with a degree in economics and he earned his doctorate from Brown University in 1933. He began his career as a...

  Tags: Brookings Institution, CAREER, Government, professor, SOFTWARE, Tennessee Valley Authority, University of Virginia

• Thomas Jefferson: pragmatist or visionary?

  - 1993-04-01

  How should we view Thomas Jefferson in this, the 250th anniversary of his birth? Colin Bonwick offers his assessment of the man as America's third president, party leader and Enlightenment enthusiast. Thomas Jefferson believed he knew the value of his own...

  Tags: CAREER, Declaration, Government, leader, Leadership, liberty, president, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia, Virginia, Washington

• F. Palmer Weber. (editorial)

  - 1986-09-06

  F. Palmer Weber After Sidny Hillman hired him as the research director of the Congress of Industrial Organizations' PAC in 1943, F. Falmer Weber, who died last week, had dinner with a friend. "Jim Carey [secretary-treasurer of the C.I.O.] says that you're...

  Tags: CAREER, FINANCE, Government, Investment, U.S. Congress, University of Virginia