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• The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.(Book review)

  - 2005-12-22

  The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. By Edmund S. Morgan. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 91. $19.95.) Since its original publication nearly thirty years ago, Edmund S. Morgan's The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George ...

  Tags: democracy, Government, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia, Washington

• 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

• 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

• CCTI annual meeting coming.

  - 2002-04-27

  The 69th annual meeting of the Composite Can and Tube Institute CCTI takes place June 14 at the Sagamore Hotel, Bolton Landing, N.Y. Topics to be explored include corporate complexity, employee loyalty, fluctuating economies, and global competition. Charles Sullivan, senior vice president...

  Tags: Government, Leadership, SOFTWARE, Strategy, U.S., University of Virginia

• Roanoke, Va., Biomedical Institute, State University Join, Tap into Japan.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-07-18

  Jul. 18--In Kobe, Japan, the advent of new medical industry is diagnosed as a healing aid for its economy, thrashed by a debilitating earthquake five years ago. Roanoke sees new medical developments as a future source of high-paying jobs not available in a historically blue-collar economy....

  Tags: FISHER, Government, HEALTHCARE, institute, Japan, SOFTWARE, Strategy, 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...

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

• Matthew Holden Jr.(Testimony Before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee)(University of Virginia political scientist; views on impeachment)

  - 1999-03-01

  Legislators should not deviate from analyzing the nation's potential gains and losses from impeaching the president. Some of them have willfully ignored the public's desire to be relieved of discussions on the political repercussions of the sex scandal surrounding Pres Bill Clinton. Such reactions from the public reflect their assessment...

  Tags: Government, Leadership, officer, president, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia

• Family-Favorable Campuses.

  - 1999-03-01

  In 1994, 41 percent of the 66.7 million children in the United States lived in homes where both parents worked, according to a study by the University of Virginia. Many colleges offer only standard benefits for faculty and staff--medical and dental plans, group life insurance, Social...

  Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, Government, Insurance, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia