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Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Coll. of Agricultural and Life Sciences. – 1983
Papers presented at a symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Rural Sociology of the University of Wisconsin-Madison are collected in this volume. The first four papers--by Olaf Larson, Edward Moe, Daryl Hobbs, and Robert Gard--discuss the department's history, emphasizing the contributions of outstanding…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Departments, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Ambrose, Stephen E. – Humanities, 1993
Contends that, when laypeople read history, they prefer to read biographies--stories about leaders and people--rather than about social forces and ideas. Argues that the most effective way of writing biography is to write chronologically, not to use flashbacks or flash forward writing. (CFR)
Descriptors: Biographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Historians
