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A graduate of [[Wellesley College]] in 1888, she became the first woman to graduate from the [[University of Chicago]] Law School and was the first woman admitted to the bar in [[Kentucky]]. Although she never practiced law, Ms. Breckinridge used her legal training to pursue a variety of reform interests, including abused and neglected children, [[child labor]], [[poverty|poor families]], development of [[public welfare administration]] and advancement of the [[social work]] profession. | A graduate of [[Wellesley College]] in 1888, she became the first woman to graduate from the [[University of Chicago]] Law School and was the first woman admitted to the bar in [[Kentucky]]. Although she never practiced law, Ms. Breckinridge used her legal training to pursue a variety of reform interests, including abused and neglected children, [[child labor]], [[poverty|poor families]], development of [[public welfare administration]] and advancement of the [[social work]] profession. | ||
Breckinridge received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1901, and the following year joined the faculty of the [[Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy]] (which later became the University of Chicago School of Social Work). She remained on the faculty there until 1942. Other notable faculty colleagues at the time were [[Edith Abbott]], first dean of the School, | Breckinridge received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1901, and the following year joined the faculty of the [[Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy]] (which later became the University of Chicago School of Social Work). She remained on the faculty there until 1942. Other notable faculty colleagues at the time were [[Edith Abbott]], first dean of the School, Edith's sister [[Grace Abbott]], and [[Julia C. Lathrop]], who were also residents of [[Hull House]]. Breckinridge served as Dean from 1908 to 1920. At various times, she also served as a [[Chicago]] city health inspector, a probation officer for the [[Chicago Juvenile Court]], a member of the executive committee of the [[Consumers' League]], a member of the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]], and as secretary of the [[Immigrants' Protective League]], the American Association of Social Workers (a predecessor to the present [[National Association of Social Workers]], President of the [[Illinois Conference on Social Welfare]], organizer and president of the [[American Association of Schools of Social Work]]. | ||
Julia Lathrop and Grace Abbott both later moved to Washington, where they served as the first and second directors of the U.S. [[Children's Bureau]] and were instrumental in the design, passage and implementation of a major, but ill-fated piece of national [[social legislation]]. Breckinridge is believed to have met [[Jane Addams]] and adopted the cause of social work around 1905. This group of women social work faculty members (and Hull House residents) advocated a very different model of social work from the [[social casework]] approach of [[Mary Richmond]] and the American branch of the [[Charity Organization Society|charity organization movement]]. As a group, they placed strong emphasis on understanding social problems, working with, rather than for, those in need, legislative advocacy and “[[wholesale reform]]”, and public welfare administration. The adoption of the [[Sheppard-Towner Act]] in 1921 was one of the major successes of their approach through the Children's Bureau, although they were unable to repeat their success when that law expired in 1929. Some provisions of the act, however, were later included in Title IV of the [[Social Security Act]] when that legislation was drafted under the leadership of [[Edwin E. Witte]] and with the involvement of [[Frances Perkins]], [[Arthur J. Altmeyer]], and others in 1935. | Julia Lathrop and Grace Abbott both later moved to Washington, where they served as the first and second directors of the U.S. [[Children's Bureau]] and were instrumental in the design, passage and implementation of a major, but ill-fated piece of national [[social legislation]]. Breckinridge is believed to have met [[Jane Addams]] and adopted the cause of social work around 1905. This group of women social work faculty members (and Hull House residents) advocated a very different model of social work from the [[social casework]] approach of [[Mary Richmond]] and the American branch of the [[Charity Organization Society|charity organization movement]]. As a group, they placed strong emphasis on understanding social problems, working with, rather than for, those in need, legislative advocacy and “[[wholesale reform]]”, and public welfare administration. The adoption of the [[Sheppard-Towner Act]] in 1921 was one of the major successes of their approach through the Children's Bureau, although they were unable to repeat their success when that law expired in 1929. Some provisions of the act, however, were later included in Title IV of the [[Social Security Act]] when that legislation was drafted under the leadership of [[Edwin E. Witte]] and with the involvement of [[Frances Perkins]], [[Arthur J. Altmeyer]], and others in 1935. |
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W.G. Sebald
Winfried Georg Sebald (usually identified as W.G. Sebald) was born May 18, 1944 in Wertach, Allegau, Germany and died December 14, 2001 in Norfolk, England.
Ellen Gates Starr
Ellen Gates Starr (born, March 19, 1859 on a farm near Laona, Illinois – died, February 10, 1940 in Suffern, New York) was a co-founder with Jane Addams of the Hull House Settlement in Chicago. Ms. Starr had a particularly strong interest in the arts and is generally considered to be the leading force behind the Hull House art gallery and founder of the bookbinding program there.
Ms. Starr and Ms. Addams first met as students at the Rockford Female Seminary in 1877-1878 school year. Following that, she taught for ten years in the Chicago area. In 1888 she was invited by Addams to accompany her on a continental tour of Europe. While in Budapest, the two decided to visit Toynbee Hall, which had been established in 1884 by men from Cambridge University in the East End of London, and run by Canon Barnett. Later that same year, back in Chicago, Starr and Addams went looking for an inner-city residence to establish their own settlement house, and settled upon the Hull Mansion on South Halstead Street.
In her time at Hull House, Ms. Starr was active with the kindergarten, day nursery, and infant care program as well as the art museum. She single-handedly founded and led the bookbinding program. For many years, she taught literature courses on William Shakespeare, Robert Browning, Dante to children and adults at Hull House and elsewhere in Chicago.
She was very interested in the problems of industrial labor, attracted to the anti-industrialization and craft themes of the Arts and Crafts Movement and became more and more sympathetic to organized labor. She was active in local campaigns in Chicago to regulate child labor and industrial working conditions. She joined the Women's Trade Union League and helped organize strikes by garment workers in 1896, 1910 and 1915.
She also developed a keen interest in social justice and by 1920 had become a Roman Catholic. In 1931, she retired to a convent in Suffern, New York, and died there nine years later.
Sophonisba Breckinridge
Workgroups: Sociology (& Social Work subgroup); Law; History
Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (1866-1948) was a social reformer, social worker, educator, author, editor, public welfare and academic administrator. She was one of the early residents of Hull House, after it was opened to residents (aka social settlers) by the founders Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. She was born in Lexington KY, to a family noted for its commitment to public service. Her father was a lawyer, a confederate Colonel, a US Congressman, and a staunch supporter of women's education. Her great-grandfather was a US Senator and US Attorney General under President Thomas Jefferson. A graduate of Wellesley College in 1888, she became the first woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School and was the first woman admitted to the bar in Kentucky. Although she never practiced law, Ms. Breckinridge used her legal training to pursue a variety of reform interests, including abused and neglected children, child labor, poor families, development of public welfare administration and advancement of the social work profession.
Breckinridge received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1901, and the following year joined the faculty of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy (which later became the University of Chicago School of Social Work). She remained on the faculty there until 1942. Other notable faculty colleagues at the time were Edith Abbott, first dean of the School, Edith's sister Grace Abbott, and Julia C. Lathrop, who were also residents of Hull House. Breckinridge served as Dean from 1908 to 1920. At various times, she also served as a Chicago city health inspector, a probation officer for the Chicago Juvenile Court, a member of the executive committee of the Consumers' League, a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and as secretary of the Immigrants' Protective League, the American Association of Social Workers (a predecessor to the present National Association of Social Workers, President of the Illinois Conference on Social Welfare, organizer and president of the American Association of Schools of Social Work.
Julia Lathrop and Grace Abbott both later moved to Washington, where they served as the first and second directors of the U.S. Children's Bureau and were instrumental in the design, passage and implementation of a major, but ill-fated piece of national social legislation. Breckinridge is believed to have met Jane Addams and adopted the cause of social work around 1905. This group of women social work faculty members (and Hull House residents) advocated a very different model of social work from the social casework approach of Mary Richmond and the American branch of the charity organization movement. As a group, they placed strong emphasis on understanding social problems, working with, rather than for, those in need, legislative advocacy and “wholesale reform”, and public welfare administration. The adoption of the Sheppard-Towner Act in 1921 was one of the major successes of their approach through the Children's Bureau, although they were unable to repeat their success when that law expired in 1929. Some provisions of the act, however, were later included in Title IV of the Social Security Act when that legislation was drafted under the leadership of Edwin E. Witte and with the involvement of Frances Perkins, Arthur J. Altmeyer, and others in 1935.
Breckinridge was the first co-managing editor, along with Edith Abbott of Social Service Review. A partial list of her publications is included on the Works page of this entry.
From 1907 to the mid-1920s, Dr. Breckinridge lived part of each year at Hull House.
Bibliography page: Additional information about Sophonisba Breckinridge can be found in Lela Costin. Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott (1983).
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List of Communitarians
(One of the things that unites nearly all communitarians is that they deny that's what they are! The label is attributed by others).
List of Neoconservatives
- William Kristol: Add brief definition or description
- Irving Kristol: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Wolfowitz: Add brief definition or description
- L. Paul Bremer: Retired American Foreign Service Officer and counterterrorism specialist who was Presidential Envoy to Iraq in 2003-2004, running the Coalition Provisional Authority [e]
- Charles Krauthammer: Conservative syndicated columnist, most associated with the Washingon Post; non-practicing psychiatrist; advisor, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; "favorite columnist", American Conservative Union [e]
- Francis Fukuyama: Add brief definition or description
- Donald Kagan: Historian and classics professor at Yale University, expert on the Peloponnesian War; Trustee emeritus, Hudson Institute; father of Robert Kagan and Frederick Kagan; Project for the New American Century [e]
- Robert Kagan: U.S. foreign policy analyst and influencer; cofounder of the new Foreign Policy Initiative; senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, contributing editor at the New Republic and Weekly Standard, columnist, Washington Post; member, Council on Foreign Relations; fellow in American diplomatic history at American University; Aspen Strategy Group, Aspen Institute; son of Donald Kagan and brother of Frederick Kagan [e]
- Frederick Kagan: A Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a member of the Strategic Assessments Group to GEN Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan; former professor of history at the United States Military Academy; involved in planning the "Surge" in the Iraq War; academic adviser, Center for Security Policy; son of Donald Kagan and brother of Robert Kagan, prominent neoconservatives; spouse of Kimberly Kagan [e]
- Kimberly Kagan: Military historian, president of the Institute for the Study of War; member of the Strategic Assessment Group for GEN Stanley McChrystal in developing new doctrine for the Afghanistan War (2001-2021); adviser to Multi-National Force-Iraq; spouse of Frederick Kagan [e]
- John Podhoretz: Add brief definition or description
- Bret Stephens: Add brief definition or description
- Midge Decter: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Perle: An American political scientist who has been an important advisor and facilitator, rather than executive, for U.S. foreign policy and is associated with neoconservatism [e]
- Norman Podhoretz: Editor-at-large and formerly editor, Commentary (magazine), a leading journal of neoconservatism; member, Committee on the Present Danger; advisor, Project for the New American Century; adjunct fellow, Hudson Institute; spouse of Midge Decter [e]
- John Podhoretz: Add brief definition or description
- Elliott Abrams: Neoconservative, convicted and pardoned on activities related to the Iran-Contra affair; National Security Council staff during George W. Bush Administration; senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; spouse of Rachel Abrams and son-in-law of Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz; Project for the New American Century; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute 1990-1996 [e]
- Rachel Abrams: neoconversative writer and blogger; member of the board, Emergency Committee for Israel; spouse of Elliott Abrams and daughter of Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter; contributor, Weekly Standard [e]
- Patrick Buchanan: Add brief definition or description
- Douglas Feith: An American strategic analyst, associated with neoconservatism, who held posts including Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2001-2005, when he advised Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War; fellow of the Hudson Institute [e]
- Scooter Libby: Add brief definition or description
- Clifford May: President, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Expert panel, Iraq Study Group [e]
- Max Boot: Add brief definition or description
- Randy Scheunemann: Foreign policy and national security analyst; neoconservative and Republican Party (United States) consultant who operates a communications firm [e]
- Gary Schmitt: Resident Scholar and Director of Advanced Strategic Studies, American Enterprise Institute; Executive Director, Project for the New American Century (1997-2005}; Adjunct Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University (1996-97); Fellow, The National Interest, Brookings Institution, and National Strategy Information Center, (1988-96}; Executive Director, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1984-88}; ; minority staff (1981-1982) director (1982-1984) Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [e]
- Danielle Pletka: Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, of the American Enterprise Institute, and an advocate of a forward-deployed and interventionist US position; member, Committee on the Present Danger [e]
- Jamie Fly: Executive Director, Foreign Policy Initiative; Director for Counterproliferation Strategy at the National Security Council at the National Security Council (2008-2009) and Assistant for Transnational Threats Policy in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense (2005-2008); Republican National Committee 2004 campaign in Ohio and on the 2005 Presidential Inaugural Committee] Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations (2002-2004 [e]
- Justin Väisse: Add brief definition or description
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan: Add brief definition or description
- Jeane Kirkpatrick: (1926-2006) First woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the Ronald Reagan Administration; President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1985-1990) and the Defense Policy Review Board (1985-1993); chaired the Secretary of Defense Commission on Fail Safe and Risk Reduction of the Nuclear Command and Control System (1992); senior fellow of the American Enterprise Institute [e]
- John Bolton: American attorney and diplomat, associated with neoconservatism; Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (2007-) and Senior Vice President for Public Policy Research (1997-2001); U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations 2005-2006; not confirmed as Ambassador; Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, 2001-2005 [e]
- David Frum: An American conservative author and commentator, who advocates renewal of the conservative movement and Republican Party (United States), and has written in favor of an aggressive policy against terror, including preventive war; fired in March 2010 as Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute [e]
- Joshua Muravchik: Board of Trustees, Freedom House; neoconservative from Democratic Party and Socialist background; member, Committee for the Present Danger; Member, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs; Adjunct Scholar, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; former resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute; former president, Young People’s Socialist League [e]
- Daniel Senor: Now a commentator on the Middle East and investment capital adviser, a Republican who was a foreign policy and communications adviser in the Senate, Deputy Press Secretary in the George W. Bush Administration and spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority; adjunct fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations [e]
- Kimberly Kessler: (see Kimberly Kagan.) [e]
- Liz Cheney: neoconservative attorney; daughter of Dick Cheney and assisting him with his memoirs; founding board member of Keep America Safe and Chairman of the Board of the Institute for the Study of War; State Department official for the Middle East 2002-2006 [e]
- Dick Cheney: (1941–) U.S. Vice President in the George W. Bush Administration and advocate of neoconservatism and unitary Presidential authority; currently a political commentator; U.S. Secretary of Defense in the George H. W. Bush Administration; spouse of Lynne Cheney; father of Liz Cheney [e]
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- American Museum of Natural History: Large museum located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1869. The museum consists of 25 connected buildings and 46 exhibition halls for display of its large collection of diaramas, artifacts and scientific evidence of natural history. [e]
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Theater
Title | Composer/Librettist | Setting | Main Characters | Date First Produced |
Date Movie |
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Annie Get Your Gun | Irving Berlin | Annie Oakley, "Buffalo Bill" Cody | 1946 | 1950 | |
Aspects of Love | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948 | 1948 | 1948 | |
Cats | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Evita | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Argentina | 1900 | ||
Meet Me In St. Louis | Irving Brecker/Fred Finklehoffe | Worlds Fair of 1904 | The Smith family | 1944 | |
My Fair Lady | Edwardian London | 1900 | |||
New York, New York | 1900 | 1900 | |||
Oklahoma | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | Oklahoma Territory | Curley McLain, Laurey Williams | 1941 | 1955 |
Oliver | |||||
Pal Joey | 1900 | ||||
Private Lives | Noël Coward | London | 1930 | ||
Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Paris Opera, Paris Sewer | 1941 | 1943 | |
The Sound of Music | Austria | 1900 | 1900 | ||
South Pacific | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | WWII in Pacific | 1949 | 1958 | |
State Fair | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | Iowa State Fair | The Frake family | 1996 | 1945 |
West Side Story | Leonard Bernstein | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Wonderful Town | NYC | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Where’s Charley? | 1900 | ||||
The King and I | Siam | 1900 | |||
Guys and Dolls | Broadway | 1900 | |||
London Calling | Noel Coward | London | Willy & George Craft | 1923 | |
Kiss Me Kate | |||||
A Chorus Line | |||||
Hair | |||||
No No Nanette | |||||
Jesus Christ, Superstar | Tom Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber | ||||
Max and | |||||
Gypsy | Steven Sondheim | 1971 | |||
Rent | |||||
Les Miserables | |||||
No No Nanette | |||||
Porgy and Bess | |||||
Starlight Express | |||||
Follies | |||||
Billy Elliot | |||||
Funny Girl | |||||
On the Town | |||||
42nd Street | |||||
Auntie Mame | |||||
The Wiz | |||||
Sunset Boulevard | |||||
Sweet Charity |
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Max and
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- F [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Applause [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Young Frankenstein [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Music Man [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brigadoon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Finian's Rainbow [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aida [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hello Dolly [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Ragtime [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Annie Get Your Gun [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Porgy and Bess [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Desert Song [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Show Boat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mame [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mama Mia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Assassins [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bells are Ringing [r]: Add brief definition or description
Grey Gardens
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- Operetta [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alan Furst [r]: Add brief definition or description
Old Timeline
Date | Event |
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1642-1651 | English Civil War: Scarborough sides with the Royalists |
March 1643 | Castle garrison led by Sir Hugh Cholmley; briefly loses the Castle to his cousin, Captain Browne Bushell |
August 1644 | Parliamentary forces reach Scarborough following Royalist defeat at Marston Moor and the fall of York; Cholmley stalls with surrender negotiations |
18th February 1645 | Capture of Scarborough's port; first siege of the Castle by Parliamentary forces begins |
24th March 1645 | Sir John Meldrum, leader of the Parliamentary forces, badly injured in clifftop fall; allows Royalist surprise attack and delays siege by six weeks |
1st May 1645 | Parliamentarians' Committee of Both Kingdoms orders that the Castle be taken at all costs |
10th May 1645 | Royalist counter-attack leads to Parlimentary retreat after three-day bombardment and collapse of the keep's west wall |
11th May 1645 | Heavy hand-to-hand fighting around the barbican; Parliamentarians take heavier casualties, Meldrum killed |
25th July 1645 | Castle garrison surrenders following five-month siege |
27th July 1648 | New castle garrison goes over to the Royalist side |
19th December 1648 | Second siege brings Castle back under Parliamentary control; later used as a prison |
References
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