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This book is primarily a reference for the most famous revolver
manufactured by Eli Whitney, Jr. during the late-1850s and
throughout the American Civil War. The Whitney Navy Revolver
documents the results of a two-year research project and provides
clear and current information on the various models and types. A
thorough description along with photographs of each model and type
of Whitney Navy revolver is found in this book. In addition to
serving as a reference work, this book provides a brief history of
the firearms development and marketing efforts of Eli Whitney, Jr.
along with extensive information on the use of his revolvers by
both the North and South during the Civil War. Photographs of Union
and Confederate soldiers with Whitney revolvers are included, along
with a photograph of the Whitney revolver used by Confederate
cavalry commander, General JEB Stuart. Much additional information
is found in this book, including photographs of engraved revolvers,
cartridge conversion models, and other revolvers that were copies
of the Whitney Navy revolver. This book is a must for collectors
and students of historical firearms.
Spencer Hays grew up in a small town in a family of very little
means to become a business leader and a wealthy philanthropist by
way of sheer grit and hard work - a true Horatio Alger story. His
success was such that he and his wife Marlene were able to bequeath
to the MusEe d'Orsay in Paris a major collection of French
Impressionist and post-Impressionist art - an act of philanthropy
so exceptional that they were given the highest civilian honor that
France bestows. Hays's corporate leadership was based upon an
extraordinary commitment to his customers and especially to the
well-being of his employees in an era when corporations see profits
for upper management and stockholders as their chief, if not only,
responsibility. Beloved by friends and employees alike for his
self-effacement and generosity, Spencer Hays wanted the principles
that his corporations operate by to be the primary focus of this
book. These principles, which embody commitment and service,
undergird the success and growth of his businesses. Spelled out
here for the benefit of readers, they are vividly brought to life
by the remarkable career of one remarkable man.
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Descant - Fifty Years (Hardcover)
Dave Kuhne, Daniel E. Williams, Charlotte Hogg, Charlotte Willis
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Robert Penn Warren, Karl Shapiro, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles
Bukowski, and Denise Levertov are but a few of the outstanding
authors whose works grace this celebration of fifty years of
""Descant"", the literary journal of Texas Christian University.
This retrospective traces the journal's history from its beginnings
as the product of a literary discussion group modeled after the
Vanderbilt Fugitives to its recent years as a critically acclaimed
small magazine that receives thousands of submissions and offers
annual awards for fiction and poetry.The anthology begins with a
memoir by Betsy Colquitt, who served as the journal's editor for
nearly forty years and who, along with Louise Cowan and the TCU
""Fugitives,"" founded descant in 1956. The early years of
""Descant"" had a distinctly local flavor and featured such young
talents as Bill Camfield, who would later become a pioneer writer
and performer in children's television, and William Barney, who
would become Poet Laureate of Texas.But Colquitt had an uncanny
ability for recognizing and publishing promising writers from
across the nation, and soon descant was an established literary
voice. Since Colquitt's retirement in the mid-1990s, the editors of
""Descant"" have continued the tradition of publishing both
emerging authors and established writers such as William Harrison,
Clyde Edgerton, and Andrew Hudgins.
Celebrating Fifty Years of Achievement: Honors at TCU traces the
history and impact of Honors at TCU from its beginning as a small
program in the early 1960s through the present day, highlighting
how its courses and cocurricular activities not only enrich student
learning but also campus culture. A unique resource for anyone
interested in Honors education, this volume examines how various
TCU administrators, faculty, and students imagined, created, and
adapted a program and then a college to enhance TCU's educational
experiences. Much of the material in this book was gathered as part
of an Honors oral history project. Honors students interviewed
dozens of administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni,
whose words they then transcribed, edited, and annotated. Thus
Celebrating Fifty Years of Achievement is a uniquely collaborative
book filled with multiple voices, perspectives, and events.
Combined with editorial introductions and descriptions, these
voices explore course development and curriculum initiatives,
student research and creativity, cocurricular activities and
events, experiential learning, and community building. As its title
indicates, this book celebrates a half century of commitment and
accomplishment in Honors education at TCU. Beginning with a
foreword by Chancellor Victor J. Boschini Jr. and a preface by
Provost R. Nowell Donovan, this book traces Honors from its
earliest discussions to its current status as the John V. Roach
Honors College and is filled with stories and photos from those
involved in all areas of Honors at TCU. Yet Celebrating 50 Years of
Achievement is not simply about the past but looks forward to the
future, concluding with a section of advice to future Honors
students and an epilogue by Dr. Diane Snow, Wassenich Endowed
Family Chair and dean of the John V. Roach Honors College, who
outlines goals of Honors in the future.
An astonishing variety of captivity narratives emerged in the fifty
years following the American Revolution; however, discussions about
them have usually focused on accounts of Native American
captivities. To most readers, then, captivity narratives are
synonymous with 'godless savages,' the vast frontier, and the
trials of kidnapped settlers. This anthology, the first to bring
together various types of captivity narratives in a comparative
way, broadens our view of the form as it shows how the captivity
narrative, in the nation-building years from 1770 to 1820, helped
to shape national debates about American liberty and
self-determination. Included here are accounts by Indian captives,
but also prisoners of war, slaves, victims of pirates and Barbary
corsairs, impressed sailors, and shipwreck survivors. The volume's
seventeen selections have been culled from hundreds of such texts,
edited according to scholarly standards, and reproduced with the
highest possible degree of fidelity to the originals. Some
selections are fictional or borrow heavily from other, true
narratives; all are sensational. Immensely popular with American
readers, they were also a lucrative commodity that helped to
catalyze the explosion of print culture in the early Republic. As
Americans began to personalize the rhetoric of their recent
revolution, captivity narratives textually enacted graphic scenes
of defiance toward deprivation, confinement, and coercion. At a
critical point in American history they helped make the ideals of
nationhood real to common citizens.
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