Word: jeffersonism
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...Hara tradition, and governors' messages are said to have "popped and rattled across the Gulf states like a chain of firecrackers." The authors also claim that "no two men in all the nation held views about the [Kansas-Nebraska] crisis with firmer conviction than did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis." And to everyone but the reader, "it was obvious, from almost every angle, that the [1860 Republican] party had put together an excellent combination [in its platform...
Wednesday, November 20 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A dramatic study of the year 1863, concen-rating on the words of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, with Ossie Davis playing Douglass...
...Greek Orthodox faith in an overwhelmingly Moslem environment (Aflak's father was a moderately successful grain merchant, and his mother, now 75, is still illiterate), Aflak got honors in history at the Sorbonne. In Paris he argued politics with other Afro-Asian students, read Marx, Nietzsche and Jefferson. He says, "I quickly found Marxism inadequate, based on materialism without human and spiritual values, without national consciousness. Nations are only large families, and the Arab family needs more than Marx. Thus we evolved the Baathist doctrine of socialism mingled with nationalism and the human spirit...
...student to give up his desire to study philosophy. DuBois decided to concentrate in history and soon selected American Negro History as his special field. He received his bachelor's degree with distinction in 1890 and was one of the six Commencement speakers; the subject of his address was Jefferson Davis. His fellowship was renewed and he continued his studies at the Graduate School. In 1892 he became the first Negro to attain the degree of Ph.D. at Harvard...
...responsible for the evils of racism. We must all concentrate our efforts towards the goal of eliminating the George Wallace's the Ross Barnett's, and the Mrs. Hicks's. --Jefferson Frazier...