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Paula Mitchell Marks
Paula Mitchell Marks is an American historian specializing in U.S. women’s history and the history of the American West. She was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer_Prize_for_History, Pulitzer Prize for history for her book, ''In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival''. Education Marks received her Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. Career Marks is professor emerita of American studies at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. She held a number of previous positions at St. Edward's University, including associate dean and director of the Master of Liberal Arts program. Her book ''In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival'', which chronicles how the U.S. government and white settlers worked together to seize land from Native_Americans_in_the_United_States, Native Americans, was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in History. Her earlier book, ''Precious dust: The American gold rush era, 1848-1900' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
