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Margaret Creighton
Margaret S. Creighton is an American historian, writer and professor emerita at Bates College in Maine. She is the author of many articles, essays and several award-winning books including ''Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870'' (1995), ''The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, And African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle'' (2005), ''The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair'' (2016), and with Lisa Norling edited the collection ''Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920'' (1996). Creighton has taught courses at Bates College on the American Civil War, women's and gender history, and historical methods. Additionally, she has taught a course on the cultural history of the Boston Red Sox. See also * List of Bates College people * List of historians * Battle of Gettysburg References External links and sources Facul ...
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Bates College
Bates College () is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals with a small urban campus which includes 33 Victorian Houses as some of the dormitories. It maintains of nature preserve known as the " Bates-Morse Mountain" near Campbell Island and a coastal center on Atkins Bay. With an annual enrollment of approximately 1,800 students, it is the smallest college in its athletic conference. As a result of its small student body, Bates maintains selective admit rates and little to no transfer percentages. The college was founded on March 16, 1855, by abolitionist statesman Oren Burbank Cheney and textile tycoon Benjamin Bates. Established as the Maine State Seminary, the college became the first coeducational college in New England and went on to confer the first female undergraduate degree in the area. Bates is the third-oldest college in Maine, after Bowdoin College and Colby College. It became a vanguard in ...
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Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively. The largest state by total area in New England, Maine is the 12th-smallest by area, the 9th-least populous, the 13th-least densely populated, and the most rural of the 50 U.S. states. It is also the northeasternmost among the contiguous United States, the northernmost state east of the Great Lakes, the only state whose name consists of a single syllable, and the only state to border exactly one other U.S. state. Approximately half the area of Maine lies on each side of the 45th parallel north in latitude. The most populous city in Maine is Portland, while its capital is Augusta. Maine has traditionally been known for its jagged, rocky Atlantic Ocean and bayshore coastlines; smoothly contoured mountains; heavily f ...
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Lisa Norling
Lisa Norling is a U.S. historian noted for her pioneering work on gender and the sea. As such she is part of a new move in maritime historiography to examine gender, race and class in relation to seafaring labor, passengers and people in port cities (i.e. interfaces with the sea). Life She graduated from Cornell University, magna cum laude, and from Rutgers University with a Ph.D. She teaches at the University of Minnesota. She also teaches at the Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport, and serves as a consultant to the USS Constitution Museum. She became involved in the Minnesota "Profile of Learning" controversy. In 1994, she married Steven Ruggles, another historian. She currently lives in Minneapolis with her two children and her husband. Awards * 2001 Frederick Jackson Turner Award * 2000 John Lyman Book Awards for best book in American Maritime History, North American Society for Oceanic History The North American Society for Oceanic ...
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List Of Bates College People
This list of notable people associated with Bates College includes matriculating students, alumni, attendees, faculty, trustees, and honorary degree recipients of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Members of the Bates community are known as "Batesies" or bobcats. This list also includes students of the affiliated Maine State Seminary, Nichols Latin School, and Cobb Divinity School. In 1915, George Colby Chase, the second president of the college, opted that the college include former students (those who did not complete the full four year course of study) as alumni in "appreciation of their loyalty". Throughout its history, Bates has been the fictional ''alma mater'' of various characters in American popular culture. Notable fictional works to feature the college include '' Ally McBeal'' (1997)'', The Sopranos'' (1999), and '' The Simpsons'' (2015). , there are 24,000 Bates College alumni. Affiliates of the college include 86 Fulbright Scholars, 22 Watson Fellows, and 5 ...
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List Of Historians
This is a list of historians only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included. Names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality. Antiquity Greco-Roman world Classical period *Herodotus (484 – c. 420 BCE), Halicarnassus, wrote the '' Histories'', which established Western historiography *Thucydides (460 – c. 400 BCE), Peloponnesian War *Xenophon (431 – c. 360 BCE), Athenian knight and student of Socrates *Ctesias (early 4th century BCE), Greek historian of Assyrian, Persian, and Indian history Hellenistic period * Ephorus of Cyme (c. 400–330 BCE), Greek history *Theopompus (c. 380 – c. 315 BCE), Greek history *Eudemus of Rhodes (c. 370 – c. 300 BCE), Greek historian of science *Ptolemy I Soter (367 – c. 283 BCE), general of Alexander the Great, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty * Duris of Samos (c. 350 – post-281 BCE), Greek history *Berossus (early ...
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Battle Of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg () was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. In the battle, Union Major General George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, halting Lee's invasion of the North. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point due to the Union's decisive victory and concurrence with the Siege of Vicksburg.Rawley, p. 147; Sauers, p. 827; Gallagher, ''Lee and His Army'', p. 83; McPherson, p. 665; Eicher, p. 550. Gallagher and McPherson cite the combination of Gettysburg and Vicksburg as the turning point. Eicher uses the arguably related expression, " High-water mark of the Confederacy". After his success at Chancellorsville in Virginia in May 1863, Lee led his army through the Shenandoah Valley to begin his second ...
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Bates College Faculty
Bates may refer to: Places * Bates, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Bates, Illinois. an unincorporated community in Sangamon County * Bates, Michigan, a community in Grand Traverse County * Bates, New York, a hamlet in the town of Ellington in Chautauqua County * Bates, Oregon, unincorporated community in Grant County * Bates County, Missouri, county in Missouri * Bates Island, Biscoe Islands, Antarctica * Bates Island (Massachusetts), Island in Lake Chaubunagungamaug * Bates Point, in Victoria Land, Antarctica * Bates Pond (Carver, Massachusetts), Twenty-acre pond * Bates State Park, in Grant County, Oregon * Bates Township, Michigan, in Iron County People * Bates (surname), a common surname * Bates family, a banking family in the United States and the United Kingdom * Bates Gill (born 1959), American political scientist * Bates Lowry (1923–2004), American art historian Organizations Colleges and universities * Bates College, a liberal arts college founded in ...
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Living People
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21st-century American Historians
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American Political Writers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ...
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Historians Of The United States
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. Some historians are recognized by publications or training and experience.Herman, A. M. (1998). Occupational outlook handbook: 1998–99 edition. Indianapolis: JIST Works. Page 525. "Historian" became a professional occupation in the late nineteenth century as research universities were emerging in Germany and elsewhere. Objectivity During the ''Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt'' trial, people became aware that the court needed to identify what was an "objective historian" in the same vein as the reasonable person, and reminiscent of the standard traditionally used in English law of "the man on the Clapham omnibus". This was necessary so that there would be a legal benchmark to compare and contrast the scholar ...
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
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