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Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural.(Review)
Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural Edited by Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn. Pantheon (1998), 273 pages, $13.00 paperback
WHEN I WAS 18, I learned, quite belatedly, that my father's brother had married a black woman. The wedding took place in 1958--the year I was born, the year after my parents married. Instantly I knew that racism had kept me from knowing my uncle (by then dead of a heart attack), my aunt, my cousins. Instantly I knew I would have to find them. But it was one thing to discover that the deepest, most volatile division in the country ran right through my family; actually crossing that divide to claim kinship was, for a long ...
- Thomas Jefferson Yencer alias Bell; Civil War pension record.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2009 700+ words
9780962327582 Thomas Jefferson Yencer alias Bell; Civil War pension record. Bell, George E. Wayne & Ridge Publishing 2007 190 pages $35.00 Paperback E591 Facsimiled documents...
- Patriot's Day in Smithfield to bring past to life: History is fun for event...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Press (Newport News, VA) April 17, 2006 700+ words
...Radio's "The Thomas Jefferson Hour" and other...through the Civil War in venues throughout...enactments of Thomas Jefferson and Meriwether...Meriwether Lewis. As Thomas Jefferson, he's going...We have a Civil War spy who will...
- EVERYTHING FROM VAN PEEBLES TO THOMAS JEFFERSON ON VIDEO.(TIMEOUT)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) February 20, 1997 700+ words
...one very adult fairytale. ''Thomas Jefferson: A Film by Ken Burns...After focusing on ''The Civil War,'' ''Baseball...history. Burns' first subject is Thomas Jefferson - author of the Declaration...
- For Disney, Civil War battle
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Bob Hohler, Globe staff May 12, 1994 700+ words
...town in a region where Thomas Jefferson lived, George Washington...surveyed and two major Civil War battles were waged...Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, the...raft to the scene of a Civil War battlefield. McCullough...
- Mississippi builds Davis library and museum.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Smith, Edward C. February 22, 1997 700+ words
...leisure to reflect on the Civil War and write his memoir...forgiven. Before the Civil War, Douglass had adopted slave-owning Thomas Jefferson as an "intellectual...Revolutionary War, the Civil War was a war of secession...
- When is a civil war a revolution? (column)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Boorstin, Daniel J. June 11, 1990 700+ words
...labels. Revolution and civil war are confusing and often...that they, too, were a civil war-Britons against other...of the struggle, as Thomas Jefferson expounded in his Summary...British Constitution. Our civil war of 1861, which affirmed...
- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) December 6, 1997 700+ words
...AMERICAN SPHINX: THE CHARACTER OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. By Joseph Ellis. Knopf; 400 pages...WASHINGTON, DC Eclipsed for a century by Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton is making a comeback...have been fascinated most of all by Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of ...
- THOMAS JEFFERSON THE MAN FROM MONTICELLO KEN BURNS TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO MAN...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Levesque, John February 17, 1997 700+ words
...history we embraced in ``The Civil War'' and in last year's...House.'' Even so, ``Thomas Jefferson'' has the old-shoe familiarity...favorite novel, Burns' ``Thomas Jefferson'' gives something new...home video version of ``Thomas Jefferson'' is being released this...
