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   bfparker's Blogs in July 2008
Lawrence A. Cremin (1925-90), US Educational Histo
Lawrence Arthur Cremin (1925-1990), U.S. Educational Historian, Career, Publications, Reviews of Major Works, Criticism, Obituaries. By Franklin Parker and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net Lawrence A. Cremin's parents (Arthur T. Cremin and Theresa [Borowick] Cremin) owned the......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-28 11:45:34 |  Rating: | Views: 38 | Comments: 0 | Tags: U.S. educational historian  school and society  what factors shape us humans? 
Arthurdale, WV, Historic First FDR New Deal Homest
Eleanor Roosevelt in Arthurdale, W. Va., 1933: Historic First FDR New Deal Homestead Community By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net Over 75 years ago, Arthurdale, in northern West Virginia, was a storm center of New Deal controversy. The first, most controversial,......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-28 11:59:47 |  Rating: | Views: 645 | Comments: 0 | Tags: 1933 Great Depression  W.Va. jobless coalminers  Eleanor Roosevelt  FDR  first new deal settlement community 
Ezekiel Cheever (1614-1708), New England Colonial
Ezekiel Cheever (1614-1708), New England Colonial Teacher By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net Ezekiel Cheever was the most famous colonial New England Latin grammar teacher of his time.  He came from middle class Puritan roots in England, where he received a......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-28 16:19:51 |  Rating: | Views: 40 | Comments: 0 | Tags: colonial new england teacher  boston latin grammar school  cambridge universit  puritan  boston 
Civil Rights: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. & Myles Horton in Tennessee By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net May 17, 2008, marked the 54th year since passage of the Brown v. Board of Education, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared separate white and......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-28 16:36:35 |  Rating: | Views: 382 | Comments: 0 | Tags: civil rights  Rosa Parks  Martin Luther King  Jr.  Myles Horton in TN  montgomery alabama 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Changed the Way We See
“ How Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Changed the Way We See the Universe.”   By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net Review of Walter Isaacson's Einstein, His Life and Universe, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2007, and Related Sources, Given as Dialogue,......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-28 22:13:16 |  Rating: | Views: 154 | Comments: 2 | Tags: einstein  e=mc2  science  atom bomb 
Philip Vickers Fithian (1747-1776), a Princeton Tu
“Philip Vickers Fithian (1747-1776), a Princeton Tutor on a Virginia Plantation.” By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net Philip Vickers Fithian was a northern tutor on a southern plantation just before the American Revolution.  His journal and......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-28 22:36:31 |  Rating: | Views: 61 | Comments: 0 | Tags: colonial southern plantation  tutor  teaching  Am. Revolution  college of NJ  Princeton 
Cyrus West Field (1819-92):Laying...Atlantic Cable
“Cyrus West Field (1819-92): Laying the Atlantic Cable, 1866; A  Dialogue.” By Franklin Parker and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net (First published by the authors as “Laying the Atlantic Cable, 1866: A Social Studies Dialogue, “Review Journal......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-28 23:03:36 |  Rating: | Views: 195 | Comments: 0 | Tags: atlantic cable  samuel f.b. morse  peter cooper  1850s-60s  Ireland to New Foundland 
Abraham and Simon Flexner: Medical Edn. Reform USA
“Abraham and Simon Flexner: Medical Education Reformers in the U.S.A.” Dialogue by Franklin and Betty Parker,   bfparker@frontiernet.net Betty:   We begin with Abraham Flexner’s An Autobiography (NYC: Simon & Schuster, 1960) which describes......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-29 09:29:17 |  Rating: | Views: 140 | Comments: 0 | Tags: medical education reform  abraham flexner  carnegie foundation  Rockefeller foundation  johns hopkins medical school  louisville ky 
Eric Hoffer (1902-83) Remembered:Guru of the 1950s
Eric Hoffer (1902-83) Remembered: Guru of the 1950s-60s. By Franklin and Betty J. Parker, bfparker@frontiernet.net If you've never heard of Eric Hoffer, you are in for a surprise. Hoffer was rare. He was a laboring man and self-taught philosopher; a Los Angeles skid row tramp......Read More
Posted on: 2008-07-29 09:45:19 |  Rating: | Views: 1537 | Comments: 0 | Tags: 1930s depression  hobo turned writer  influence of Montaigne  Francis Bacon  communism  fascism 

                 
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