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Yancey, Kathleen Blake – Change, 2005
Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Dunfermeline, Scotland. Forty-six years later and on his way to becoming $400 million richer, he returned to the home of his birth and provided it with a new kind of library. Unlike the popular subscription libraries of the time that required patrons to rent books, this new library would lend them for free. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Libraries, Lifelong Learning, Citizenship Education
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Banks, Cherry A. McGee – Educational Perspectives, 2007
Following the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the nation was thrown into a state of fear and hysteria. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order No. 9066 which resulted in more than 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry being either interned in relocation centers, drafted, or…
Descriptors: Democracy, War, Japanese Americans, Relocation