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Willie Ann Benning: American quiltmaker, born 1927 United States of America: 1927 Q109653315: 0 Helen Mae Mullen: American librarian (1927-2018) United States of America: 1927-01-02 2018-12-02 Hastings: Q59558701: 0 Louise Jones: African American educator in San Francisco California 1927-10-01 2018-05 Thibodaux: Q105534557: 0 Barbara-Marie Green
The front gate at American University American University in 1916. American University was established in the District of Columbia by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892, primarily due to the efforts of Methodist bishop John Fletcher Hurst, who aimed to create an institution that could train future public servants.
Mary Louise Schaubel Spindler (1917–1997), known professionally as Louise S. Spindler, was an American anthropologist, author, and scholar. Working with her husband and collaborator, George Spindler , she primarily studied the Menominee tribe in Wisconsin and helped revolutionize the field of educational anthropology. [ 1 ]
Louise Barnett is the author of seven books, including a biography of General Custer titled Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer (1996). Education and employment [ edit ]
On finishing high school in the late 1880s, Louise Upton Brumback first looked to a career in music, but soon turned her attention to painting. [4] Her desire to become a professional artist may have been influenced by stories she had heard about her great uncle, William Page, a highly regarded artist who had held the office of president of the National Academy of Design in the early 1870s. [4]
Louise Michelle Rosenblatt (23 August 1904 in Atlantic City, New Jersey – 8 February 2005 in Arlington, Virginia) was an American university professor. She is best known as a researcher into the teaching of literature.
Louise Arner Boyd (September 16, 1887 – September 14, 1972) was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her scientific expeditions. She became the first woman to fly over the North Pole in 1955, after privately chartering a DC-4 and crew that included aviation pioneers Thor Solberg and Paul Mlinar.
Mary Louise Brown (1868 – March 9, 1927) was a physician and teacher who devoted over 25 years of her life to servicing the African-American community of Washington D.C. Brown was the first African-American woman to receive a wartime medical commission when she joined the Red Cross in 1918 during World War I. Brown graduated from the Howard University College of Medicine and comingled her ...