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| Author | : Eugene J. Johnson |
| Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2018-11-13 |
| Genre | : Study Aids |
| ISBN | : 1616897937 |
Nestled in the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts, Williams College routinely ranks atop the best liberal arts colleges in the United States. The 450-acre campus, master-planned by the esteemed Olmsted Brothers, is home to 2,000 students and 100 academic and residential buildings, some dating back to the late 18th century. This beautifully written and illustrated portrait showcases many fine examples of American campus architecture by Cram Goodhue & Ferguson; Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbot; Stanford White; Mitchell-Giurgola; Tadao Ando; Cambridge Seven; Bohlin Cywinski Jackson; Einhorn, Yaffee, Prescott; and Polshek Partners. Williams College: The Campus Guide, with newly commissioned color photography and axonometric color maps to engage visitors, students, and alumni, is the newest edition to the acclaimed Campus Guide series of American colleges and universities.
| Author | : John W. Chandler |
| Publisher | : Williams College Museum of Art |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2014-05 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780915081073 |
This book tells the story of the beginnings, the blossoming, and the eventual banishment of fraternities at Williams College, together with the ensuing transformation of Williams, based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, as the old fraternal order was replaced with a new residential system in the nineteen-sixties and after. A key figure emerged: John Sawyer, president of the college between 1961-1973. In John Chandler's measured recounting of events, Sawyer oversaw not only the end of fraternity life at the college, but positioned Williams for its subsequent ascent to the top tier of liberal arts colleges.
| Author | : Dick Farley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-11 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780578312378 |
Dick Farley planned to be the head coach of track and field, assistant football coach, and P.E. instructor at Williams College for a couple of years before moving on to higher levels of football and eventually become an assistant coach in the NFL.Farley had starred in both sports at Boston University (BU), where he earned the scholar athlete award and the top athletic honor. He was inducted into the Boston University Hall of Fame in 1982. He competed in 14 events for BU in track and was drafted as a safety by the San Diego Chargers, where he started for two years. A back injury ended Farley's Chargers career. What Farley learned early on at Williams is that he could not separate his love of football and track and field and he could not leave Williams College. He just could not dedicate himself to football 12 months a year. He encouraged all of his football players to play another sport or take a semester abroad or in some other manner avail of all that Williams had to offer academically. It was never about winning and losing for Dick Farley it was all about giving one's best every day.Farley is likely the only member of the College Football Hall of Fame who coached more college track and field (44 years) than he did football (32).When Farley took over the reins of the Williams football team in 1987 the Ephs lost their first three games, however, the Ephs rebounded to finish 4-4 and Farley began a streak of 128 consecutive games without back to back losses. Little wonder he was named to the ESPN List of the 150 Greatest Football Coaches in 2019. In 1989 Farley's football Ephs recorded the first perfect season in school history 8-0-0 and in his 17-year run as Eph head coach he recorded five perfect seasons and compiled a career record of 114-19-3, .849.Dick Farley will never leave Williams and Williamstown as he has secured a burial plot in the Williams College Cemetery.
| Author | : Heather Andrea Williams |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2009-11-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0807888974 |
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended. Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.
| Author | : Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft |
| Publisher | : Williams College |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781611684353 |
A study of anti-Semitism, assimilation, and class the forces that governed Jewish participation in elite higher education for the first two-thirds of the twentieth century"
| Author | : Dustin Griffin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-03-19 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781034640806 |
This book is a sequel to Williamstown and Williams College: Explorations in Local History (2018). It is a collection of microstudies, or microhistories, each of them focused on a single narrowly-defined topic in the local history of Williamstown and its most notable local institution, Williams College. Griffin writes clearly and engagingly about places, events of the town and college from the 18th century through the 60s, and remarkable people. The essays are arranged in three sections: the history of the town; topics that involve both town and college; and episodes in the history of the college. Within each section the essays are arranged in rough chronological order. Readers with a particular interest are invited to dive in anywhere.
| Author | : Fatimah Tobing Rony |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2021-10-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 147802190X |
In How Do We Look? Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on transnational images of Indonesian women as a way to theorize what she calls visual biopolitics—the ways visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others. Rony outlines the mechanisms of visual biopolitics by examining Paul Gauguin’s 1893 portrait of Annah la Javanaise—a trafficked thirteen-year-old girl found wandering the streets of Paris—as well as US ethnographic and documentary films. In each instance, the figure of the Indonesian woman is inextricably tied to discourses of primitivism, savagery, colonialism, exoticism, and genocide. Rony also focuses on acts of resistance to visual biopolitics in film, writing, and photography. These works, such as Rachmi Diyah Larasati’s The Dance that Makes You Vanish, Vincent Monnikendam’s Mother Dao (1995), and the collaborative films of Nia Dinata, challenge the naturalized methods of seeing that justify exploitation, dehumanization, and early death of people of color. By theorizing the mechanisms of visual biopolitics, Rony elucidates both its violence and its vulnerability.
| Author | : Craig Steven Wilder |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2014-09-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1608194027 |
A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
| Author | : John Alexander Williams |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 2003-04-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807860522 |
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both the essence of America and a place apart. Williams begins his story in the colonial era and describes the half-century of bloody warfare as migrants from Europe and their American-born offspring fought and eventually displaced Appalachia's Native American inhabitants. He depicts the evolution of a backwoods farm-and-forest society, its divided and unhappy fate during the Civil War, and the emergence of a new industrial order as railroads, towns, and extractive industries penetrated deeper and deeper into the mountains. Finally, he considers Appalachia's fate in the twentieth century, when it became the first American region to suffer widespread deindustrialization, and examines the partial renewal created by federal intervention and a small but significant wave of in-migration. Throughout the book, a wide range of Appalachian voices enlivens the analysis and reminds us of the importance of storytelling in the ways the people of Appalachia define themselves and their region.
| Author | : H. Melt |
| Publisher | : Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 103 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781943977437 |
Subject to Change is an anthology celebrating the work of five poets who are unapologetically trans. Featuring poetry and interviews, this collection is a testament to the power of trans poets speaking to one another-about family, race, class, disability, religion, and the body.
