This is a young-adult adventure novel. The story is about Jacob "Jake" Ehrlich and his friends adventures throughout the Waccamaw and Johns Islands. They spend most of their days hunting, fishing, and encountering the residents of the surrounding area.

The prominence of sport in American secondary school curriculum owes much to 19th-century child development theories, the most prominent of which, Von Baer's Law, held that youth passed through the same developmental gradations ontogenetically that the human race passed through phylogenetically; youth repeated in their development approximately…

This textbook is a reader on life in ancient Greece. Chapters include: (1) General Features of the Greek Nation; (2) Men and Property; (3) The Greek at Home; (4) Public Life of the Greek Citizen; and (5) Greek Religion and Law.

This article originally appeared in March, 1940 as "Why No Great Women Composers?" The author, a psychologist, finds no sex differences in music achievement traceable to ability or opportunity, but feels that a woman's fundamental urge is to be loved, while a man's is to achieve in a career. (SJL)

Gloria Richardson was one of the Black women activists whose work is largely unnoticed but who was an inspirational worker for civil rights. As the coordinator of the Cambridge branch of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, she challenged local racist laws and policies. (VM)

The matter presented in this circular relates to the military training of youths of school age, conducted either as a part of the regular school work or by independent agencies. Military instruction, of the exact nature and to the same extent as that given to soldiers, is not found in the schools of any country of Europe except the special…

This paper focuses on historic portrayal of black males in service and support roles in the media and their relation to social reality. Both television and films use glamorous sophisticated trappings seemingly to enhance the image of black males, but the personalities of the characters they play remain stereotypic. (VM)

The complexities of institutional change and stability in terms of gender policies are analyzed. The following three questions are central to the discussion: (1) why did some policy changes take place with only minor controversy? (2) why did vehement policy talk affect practice so little? and (3) how did gender reforms alter educational…

Model for looking at the position of women in librarianship and other female-intensive professions consists of three parts: needs of emerging progressive or welfare state with its ever-growing list of activities; prevailing gender system in progressive America; and adjustments required to accommodate tensions between the first two. Forty-four…

This paper reviews some of the past literature on male-female wage differentials in order to determine the early hypotheses which are the historical roots of the current theoretical and empirical work analyzing male-female wage differentials. Part 1 reviews the discrimination hypotheses, which emphasize differences in the labor market conditions…

Changes in sex-related symbolism during the late 1700s are traced and gender is analyzed as a cultural, historical construct. The word "virtue" became gender bound so that public virtues, such as heroism, were inherently masculine. Feminine virtues were things such as a mother passively donating her sons to the revolution. (VM)

Statements by male philosophers and religious leaders from Biblical times to the present show the depth of negative feelings about women which pervade the world's major religions and civilizations. (IS)

Traces the development and political use of the racist stereotype of the degenerate Black family from the early 1800s to the present. Highlights basic misconceptions about the unbridled sexuality of Black "superstuds" and "mammas." Urges Black women to take the lead in defining the family as a unifying factor in society. (FMW)

Opened in 1851, the Cherokee Male Seminary was the first nonsectarian secondary school west of the Mississippi River. It fulfilled the goals of the Cherokee national council to prepare students for higher education, promote the Cherokee economy, and expose children to white values and lifestyle. (SV)

"Twelve Years a Slave" is a script intended to go with accompanying audio cassettes. It was developed for Voices of Liberty (a project of New Faces of Liberty) and was produced by the San Francisco Study Center as one of their "Cutting Edge Curriculum Materials." The story told by the script is excerpted from the 1989 edition…