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He was coauthor of a textbook, Principles of Zoology, his first American work, which went through sixteen editions
David McCullough • Brave Companions
he produced another tribute,
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
A fascinating yet incredibly alarming aspect of this passage (see pics) is how the author keeps referring to truancy as an evil. He’s writing in 1896 about events (in this passage) that had occurred in the 1840s and 1850s. I’m *guessing* many of the proponents of that time had to have *some what* similar feelings about truancy and the need to make ... See more
The master of the academy, William Weatherald, had a major impact on the boy, implanting in him a love of literature and the essentials of mathematics and other practical sciences and fostering more than a little of the gentle religiosity of Quakerism.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
colony and colonizer was unstable;