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Aaron Burr, the Third U.S. Vice President, 1801–05 (John Vanderlyn, 1802) Burr portrays the eponymous anti-hero as a fascinating and honorable gentleman, and portrays his contemporary opponents as mortal men; thus, George Washington is an incompetent military officer, a general who lost most of his battles; Thomas Jefferson is a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and ...
Emery's World Johnson with Ralph Ellison. Charles Richard Johnson (born April 23, 1948) [1] is an American scholar and the author of novels, short stories, screen-and-teleplays, and essays, most often with a philosophical orientation.
Charles E. Johnson, former president of Arkansas Baptist College; Charles Elliott Johnson, Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 2003–2004; Charles Ellis Johnson (1857–1926), American photographer; Charles Johnson (wide receiver, born 1972) (Charles Everett Johnson), American football player; Charles Ellicott Johnson ...
Middle Passage (1990) is a historical novel by American writer Charles R. Johnson about the final voyage of an illegal American slave ship on the Middle Passage.Set in 1830, it presents a personal and historical perspective of the illegal slave trade in the United States, telling the story of Rutherford Calhoun, a freed slave who sneaks aboard a slave ship bound for Africa in order to escape a ...
Wake has not interpreted the new state law’s wording about supplementary material as applying to school library books. Third graders search for books during the WAKE Up and Read event in Garner ...
Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes. In 1998 Modern Library, an American publishing company, polled its editorial board to find the best 100 novels of the 20th century: Modern Library 100 Best Novels. These attempts have been criticized for their ...
Wake County school board members argue whether to allow teachers to apply for grants from the group We Need Diverse Books at its Feb. 20, 2024 meeting in Cary, N.C.
Charles Johnson Woodbury (15 September 1844 – 13 May 1927) was a lecturer on poetry & literature. He was a student of Ralph Waldo Emerson and wrote the book Talks With Ralph Waldo Emerson . [ 1 ]