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From Tee to Green: Municipal Planning, Golf, and Mountain Progress
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Author
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Dixon, Kenneth
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History, African Americans--Study and teaching
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On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board ruled the "separate but equal" doctrine, set in place by the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case in 1896, to be unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s "Equal Pro...
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Memories of Mont Amoena: "An Island of Culture in Difficult Years," 1859-1927
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Author
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McLain, Denise
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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In 1851, the North Carolina Lutheran Synod (NCLS) selected the small, remote village of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina as its center for secondary education. Mount Pleasant Female Academy’s future was uncertain, at best, when it opened as a finish...
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Separate and Unequl: Segregation in North Carolina's Asylum System 1856-1905
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Author
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Westpfahl, Jocelyn
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Mental health, History, African Americans--Study and teaching
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Description
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During its 1874-1875 session, the North Carolina General Assembly founded twonew public asylums to address overcrowding in its only mental health care facility inRaleigh (Dorothea Dix Hospital). The first, in Morganton (Broughton Hospital), wasint...
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The Chicago Resettlers' Committee and Chicago Japanese American Resettlement
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Author
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Kojima, Jordan
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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As Japanese Americans left the World War II internment camps, many people migrated to the Midwest, and a large Japanese American community gathered in Chicago. During the early postwar years, the Chicago Resetters’ Committee assisted and helped re...
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“PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
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Author
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Whittington, Joseph
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, History--Religious aspects, History
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Description
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In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mission to free the native peoples of the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Gu...