Author: Kathleen Waters SanderPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett's twenty-six-year reign.
John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Author: Kathleen Waters SanderPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett's twenty-six-year reign.
Remarks of John W. Garrett, President, Embracing a Statement of the Necessity for and Advantages of an Additional and Competing First-class Railway Between Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
The War Came by Train
Author: Daniel Carroll ToomeyPublisher: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum
ISBN: 9781886248014
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Mary Elizabeth Garrett
Author: Kathleen Waters SanderPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 142143864X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A captivating look at the remarkable life of this nineteenth-century suffragist, philanthropist, and reformer. Mary Elizabeth Garrett was one of the most influential philanthropists and women activists of the Gilded Age. With Mary's legacy all but forgotten, Kathleen Waters Sander recounts in impressive detail the life and times of this remarkable woman, through the turbulent years of the Civil War to the early twentieth century. At once a captivating biography of Garrett and an epic account of the rise of commerce, railroading, and women's rights, Sander's work reexamines the great social and political movements of the age. As the youngest child and only daughter of the B&O Railroad mogul John Work Garrett, Mary was bright and capable, well suited to become her father's heir apparent. But social convention prohibited her from following in his footsteps, a source of great frustration for the brilliant and strong-willed woman. Mary turned her attention instead to promoting women's rights, using her status and massive wealth to advance her uncompromising vision for women's place in the expanding United States. She contributed the endowment to establish the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with two unprecedented conditions: that women be admitted on the same terms as men and that the school be graduate level, thereby forcing revolutionary policy changes at the male-run institution. Believing that advanced education was the key to women's betterment, she helped found and sustain the prestigious girls' preparatory school in Baltimore, the Bryn Mawr School. Her philanthropic gifts to Bryn Mawr College helped transform the modest Quaker school into a renowned women's college. Mary was also a great supporter of women's suffrage, working tirelessly to gain equal rights for women. Suffragist, friend of charitable causes, and champion of women's education, Mary Elizabeth Garrett both improved the status of women and ushered in modern standards of American medicine and philanthropy. Sander's thoughtful and informed study of this pioneering philanthropist is the first to recognize Garrett and her monumental contributions to equality in America.
Railroad Generalship: Foundations Of Civil War Strategy [Illustrated Edition]
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Author: Dr. Christopher R. GabelPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782895698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Includes 4 figures, 13 maps and 4 tables. Renowned Military Historian Dr Christopher Gabel investigates the effects of the Railroad on the strategies employed by both the Union and Confederate Generals of the Civil War. According to an old saying, “amateurs study tactics: professionals study logistics.” Any serious student of the military profession will know that logistics constantly shape military affairs and sometimes even dictate strategy and tactics. This excellent monograph by Dr. Christopher Gabel shows that the appearance of the steam-powered railroad had enormous implications for military logistics, and thus for strategy, in the American Civil War. Not surprisingly, the side that proved superior in “railroad generalship,” or the utilization of the railroads for military purposes, was also the side that won the war.
Producers Versus Capitalists
Author: Tony Allan FreyerPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914961
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This mid-Atlantic region is intended to serve as a federal system in miniature, offering opportunities for comparative analysis.
Baltimore: Past and Present
Author: Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University
Author: Michael T. BensonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421444178
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
One of the most remarkable education leaders of the late nineteenth century and the creator of the modern American research university finally gets his due. Daniel Coit Gilman, a Yale-trained geographer who first worked as librarian at his alma mater, led a truly remarkable life. He was selected as the third president of the University of California; was elected as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, where he served for twenty-five years; served as one of the original founders of the Association of American Universities; and—at an age when most retired—was hand-picked by Andrew Carnegie to head up his eponymous institution in Washington, DC. In Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University, Michael T. Benson argues that Gilman's enduring legacy will always be as the father of the modern research university—a uniquely American invention that remains the envy of the entire world. In the past half-century, nothing has been written about Gilman that takes into account his detailed journals, reviews his prodigious correspondence, or considers his broad external board service. This book fills an enormous void in the history of the birth of the "new" American system of higher education, especially as it relates to graduate education. The late 1800s, Benson points out, is one of the most pivotal periods in the development of the American university model; this book reveals that there is no more important figure in shaping that model than Daniel Coit Gilman. Benson focuses on Gilman's time deliberating on, discussing, developing, refining, and eventually implementing the plan that brought the modern research university to life in 1876. He also explains how many university elements that we take for granted—the graduate fellowships, the emphasis on primary investigations and discovery, the funding of the best laboratory and research spaces, the scholarly journals, the university presses, the sprawling health sciences complexes with teaching hospitals—were put in place by Gilman at Johns Hopkins University. Ultimately, the book shows, Gilman and his colleagues forced all institutions to reexamine their own model and to make the requisite changes to adapt, survive, thrive, compete, and contribute.
Proceedings of Railway Meetings Held in Relation to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Its Extensions, Branches and Connections
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Baltimore: Past and Present
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336814491X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.