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Selected Essays in Black History: The Fruits of Industrial Training
Of the Training of Black Men The Negro in the Regular Army The Fruits of Industrial Training by Booker T. Washington The political, educational, social, and economic evolution…Charles Russell TRAIN, Congress, MA (1817-1885)
TRAIN Charles Russell , a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Framingham, Mass., October 18, 1817; attended the common schools, Framingham Academy, and was graduated from Brown University,…Hall, Samuel Read
(Encyclopedia) Hall, Samuel Read, 1795–1877, American educator and clergyman, b. Croydon, N.H. After teaching in Rumford, Maine, and Fitchburg, Mass., he founded (1823) at Concord, Vt., a training…normal school
(Encyclopedia) normal school: see teacher training.teachers colleges
(Encyclopedia) teachers colleges: see teacher training.Armstrong, Samuel Chapman
(Encyclopedia) Armstrong, Samuel Chapman, 1839–93, American educator, philanthropist, and soldier, b. Hawaiian Islands, of missionary parents, grad. Williams, 1862. He served in the Union army in the…Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
(Encyclopedia) Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, U.S. military base, central N.J., SE of Trenton; est. 1917 as Camp Dix and named for U.S. statesman John A. Dix. In 1939 it was made a permanent…Gallaudet University
(Encyclopedia) Gallaudet University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; with federal support. It was founded (1856) as the Kendall School, a training school for deaf and blind students, by Edward…midwifery
(Encyclopedia) midwiferymidwiferymĭdˈwīˌfərē [key], art of assisting at childbirth. The term midwife for centuries referred to a woman who was an overseer during the process of delivery. In ancient…Fort Polk
(Encyclopedia) Fort Polk, U.S. army post, 200,000 acres (80,937 hectares), SW La.; est. 1941 and named for the Rev. Leonidas Polk. It is a major army warm-weather training center.Trending
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