Richard Gerber

World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

EDUCATION: PhD, University of Michigan, MA, University of Michigan, BA, University of Michigan. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Article, "Right Place, Right Time: The New England Educational Assessment Network, 2001-2010," The Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness, 1, no. 1, 2010: 103-140. Book, The System: The American Constitution in Historical Perspective, Volume I, 1763-1929 (Chicago, IL: Cengage, rev. edn. 2009). Book, Revolution and Union: The Dilemma of America 1763-1877 (Chicago, IL: Cengage, 2008). Article, "The Civil Rights Act of 1875: A Reexamination," co-authored with Alan Friedlander, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 60 (2008): 1-50. Booklet, Not Your (Founding) Fathers' Constitution (New Haven, CT: New Haven Public Schools, 2007).

Civil Rights Act Of 1875

December 30, 2012

http://www.yale.edu/caas/civilrights.html Civil Rights Act Of 1875: A Reexamination by Richard A. Gerber The Civil Rights Act…

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