Letter About Palin Goes Viral Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400 This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook. Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400 Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools. Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400 Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.
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Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama. Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . . Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley. Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . . James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility? James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000 American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .
Child Labour - Offers detailed descriptions on what it was like to work in a factory as a child. Includes biographies of factory reformers, accounts from the workers themselves, legislation passed and statistics.
Meta Description: [ Child Labour ]
Cotton Times - Understanding the Industrial Revolution - An overview of the revolution in textiles, profiling workers and reformers of 18th century Britain, related events in labor history, and describing modes of transportation and living.
Meta Description: [ Industrial Revolution in England with biographies of inventors, engineers, politicians, reformers and other figures ]
Cotton Town - Tells the story of the rapid social and economic changes that occurred as Blackburn and Darwen began to expand with the growth of the British textile industry.
Meta Description: [ Cotton Town will tell the story of the rapid social and economic changes that occurred as Blackburn and Darwen began to expand in line with the United Kingdom textile industry. It will create a vast electronic collection of material, based on the influence of the cotton trade on our communities. ]
Factory Workers in the British Industrial Revolution - Papers on children, men, and women as factory workers as complete texts and abstracts by Douglas Galbi.
Meta Description: [ Social and economic study of child labor and the division of labor (children, men, and women) in cotton factories during the Industrial Revolution in England. ]
Industrial Revolution - A slide show presentation on the Industrial Revolution, including a look at inventions, labor laws, and socialism.
Meta Description: [ Xu Chen's Global Studies project on the Industrial Revolution. Its causes and effects. ]
500The Wilkinson Family, Ironmasters - The Beginning of an Industrial Empire - A series of illustrated historical essays about the family who played a major role in the history and economy of eighteenth century Britain, France and America.
Meta Description: [ A comprehensive history of the Wilkinson family, both of Isaac Wilkinson and his son John Wilkinson, so-called iron-mad. ]
The Wolverhampton Gunlock Makers - A sketch history of the family businesses who produced gunlocks (firing mechanisms for guns) from the 18th century to present day.
What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us - Explores the advances in science and engineering and how their effects are still felt today.
Meta Description: [ Join Dan Cruickshank to explore the scientific, technological and political changes of the 19th century, when the industrial leap forward shaped the world we live in today. ]
