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The Last Rough Rider: Jesse Langdon
The Rough Riders captured the imagination of the American public during the Spanish-American War. It revived Theodore Roosevelt’s political career...
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The Next Generation: William and Margaret Cowles and Corinne Alsop Cole
Theodore Roosevelt’s sister Anna would have been president, several family members insist, had women been allowed to run. Her son William Sheffield...
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A Grande Dame: Georgiana Farr Sibley
The Hagedorns interviewed several neighbors of the Roosevelts. The Farrs lived in New Jersey, nearby the Robinsons who had children of the same age....
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Introduction
In the 1950s, the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association began an oral history project that interviewed family, friends, and contemporaries of the...
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Homosexualität
Unter allen Geschlechtsakten, die möglichHomosexualität sind, führt nur einer zu Babys. Eine gleitende Skala gibt es hier nicht – die...
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A Short History of Investigative Journalism
Investigative journalism is an activity that can be as blundering as a child’s game of blind man’s buff. Yet the movies glamorise its (mostly male)...
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The Intersection of Natural Resource and Energy Policy
This chapter explores the natural resource and energy policy nexus that often define environmental policy in the American West. This chapter begins...
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War
This chapter covers the outbreak of World War I and Wells’s many pieces of journalism and non-fiction the conflict occasioned: The World Set Free...
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Corruption in North America: Canada and the United States
Neither Canada nor the United States is corrupt according to global standards and the critical measurement indexes. But both harbor pockets of...
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Examining the Wide Range of Business Models Currently in Use in Online Businesses: How to Understand a New Business Using Existing Frameworks
The net has facilitated the digital transformation of everything digital transformation of everything...
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Edward Curtis’ Vision of Transcendence
We have thus far fronted the query, can one individual affect the many? It is a pre-Socratic conundrum that has, suffice it to say, been taken up as...
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Evolutionary Biographies and the Enigma of the “Other”
With the emergence 400 years ago of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, fiction has lent so much perspective to our solitary selves that there is every reason to...
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A Prolegomena of Human Conscience
First, Flannery O’Conner’s pet Colonet Eggbert, and then tens of billions of such chickens grotesquely murdered and forced to suffer annually; the...
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The “Other Minds” Challenge
While philosophers from vastly different orientations have sought to comprehend the problems inherent to postulating the reality, content, and...
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The Social Media Election of 2016
Social media radically upended the traditional campaign norms and practices in the 2016 presidential campaign. Its use was unprecedented in volume,...
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Comedy and Romance: On Diff’rent Strokes and Webster
This chapter looks at earlier imagery of black youth in US visual culture, discussing the post-civil rights era television situation comedy as a...
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Licht
Stellen Sie sich eine außerirdische Zivilisation vor, die die Erde von jenseits der Galaxie beobachtet und nach Zeichen intelligenten Lebens sucht....
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Spielsachen
Ist Spielzeug nur Zeug zum Spielen oder brauchen wir es, um das Zeug zum Spielen überhaupt erst zu entwickeln, das heißt, dient Spielzeug dazu, die...
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Grünes New York
Dieses Kapitel ist ein Führer durch 33 Parks, Naturflächen und Naturschutzgebiete, die alle in einem der fünf Stadtteile New Yorks liegen. Einige...