Synopses & Reviews
A wake-up call to all of us who work with college-aged and college-bound students. For teachers like me, it is a forceful reminder of how we have failed to be effective role models for our sexually diverse student bodies. For administrators it will serve as an alarm on how hate and violence persist on campuses and on how little has been done to serve lesbian, gay, and bisexual students. But mostly it is a welcomed note of change. No longer will gay, lesbian, and bisexual students have to trust to chance or the local grapevine for information about the sexual atmospheres of colleges. Now they can finally vote with their pocketbooks on what kind of school they wish to attend. I applaud Sherrill and Hardesty on filling this long-standing need.
David Bergman, author of Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature. Now for the first time, there is a college guide written specifically for the largest under-recognized minority within our country's student population. The authors polled thousands of individuals and groups, centering their survey on the question,Would you recommend your school to other lesbian, bisexual and gay people? The result: profiles of life at 175 institutions nationwide, with specific information on the climate and special services for gay, lesbian and bisexual students and the prevalence of anti-gay violence and harassment.
Studies estimate that 1 in 6 college students is gay, lesbian, or bisexual. The presence, role, and acceptance of these students has received much attention in recent years. Yet there exists no resource by which they can judge the climate at the nation's schools. The first book to evaluate the college and university experiences of gay, lesbian, and bisexual students, this volume gives voice to the largest under-recognized minority on the nation's campuses.
Based on the results of a questionnaire that was sent to several thousand individuals and groups nationwide, the guide supplies information on how colleges respond to gay, lesbian, and bisexual students, what services students are offered, and what the atmosphere is for them at these institutions. Most importantly, students were asked whether or not they would recommend their schools to other lesbian, bisexual and gay people. Also for the first time, information from students all across the country regarding victimization by anti-gay violence and harassment is collected here, revealing a victimization rate nearly three times the national average for students in college.
Containing information on over 175 institutions, this book will be a vital resource to transfer students, high school seniors deciding upon a college, graduate school applicants, administrators, guidance counselors, faculty, admissions officers, students affairs offices, and parents.
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"Discusses issues that will help gay, lesbian, and bisexual students choose a school." -National On-Campus Report,
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"More than just another guidebook." -Chronicle of Higher Education,
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"Useful supplement to the mainstream guides." -Library Journal,
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"A useful guide for students seeking important information that is seldom available in college catalogs." -Kevin Berrill,co-editor of Hate Crimes: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men
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"Discusses issues that will help gay, lesbian, and bisexual students choose a school."
"More than just another guidebook."
"Useful supplement to the mainstream guides."
"A useful guide for students seeking important information that is seldom available in college catalogs."
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"More than just another guidebook."
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"Useful supplement to the mainstream guides."
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"A useful guide for students seeking important information that is seldom available in college catalogs."
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“Understanding what convinced Civil War soldiers to lay down their lives for “the cause,” North AND South, is perhaps the hardest part of teaching about making sense of the war. This excellent collection of selections from leading scholars on who the soldiers were, how they lived, and why they fought is a fine introduction to years of research that seeks to answer that question.”-Janet Coryell,Western Michigan University
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"Presenting a variety of viewpoints, the book will be of interest to all Civil War devotees." -Booklist,August 2002
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"This type of work would be especially valuable for assignment in the classroom." -North and South,
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"This is a fine collection which lends itself to classroom use and to the edification of non-specialists."-Indiana Magazine of History,
Synopsis
In 1943, Bell Wiley's groundbreaking book
Johnny Reb launched a new area of study: the history of the common soldier in the U.S. Civil War. This anthology brings together landmark scholarship on the subject, from a 19th century account of life as a soldier to contemporary work on women who, disguised as men, joined the army.
One of the only available compilations on the subject, The Civil War Soldier answers a wide range of provocative questions: What were the differences between Union and Confederate soldiers? What were soldiers' motivations for joining the armytheir "will to combat"? How can we evaluate the psychological impact of military service on individual morale? Is there a basis for comparison between the experiences of Civil War soldiers and those who fought in World War II or Vietnam? How did the experiences of black soldiers in the Union army differ from those of their white comrades? And why were southern soldiers especially drawn to evangelical preaching?
Offering a host of diverse perspectives on these issues, The Civil War Soldier is the perfect introduction to the topic, for the student and the Civil War enthusiast alike.
Contributors: Michael Barton, Eric T. Dean, David Donald, Drew Gilpin Faust, Joseph Allen Frank, James W. Geary, Joseph T. Glaatthaar, Paddy Griffith, Earl J. Hess, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Perry D. Jamieson, Elizabeth D. Leonard, Gerald F. Linderman, Larry Logue, Pete Maslowski, Carlton McCarthy, James M. McPherson, Grady McWhiney, Reid Mitchell, George A. Reaves, Jr., James I. Robertson, Fred A. Shannon, Maris A. Vinovskis, and Bell Irvin Wiley.
About the Author
The founding Director of the National Campus Violence Prevention Center at Towson State University,
Jan-Mitchell Sherrill is currently Assistant Dean of Students at The George Washington University. His work on campus violence, featured on ABC's
Good Morning America, NBC's
A Closer Look, and National Public Radio, has been recognized nationally.
Craig Hardesty is the Director of Student Judicial Services, also at The George Washington University.