The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture: 1997 (Jackie Robinson) (Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball & American Culture) [Paperback]

Alvin L. Hall (Author), Peter M. Rutkoff (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2000 | Series: Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball & American Culture

This is an anthology of 14 papers that were presented at the Ninth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held in June 1997 and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball, the 1997 Symposium was dedicated to Robinson. These papers focus on Robinson, baseball, and race relations and are divided into three parts: "Before Robinson," "Robinson and Social Change," and "The Legacy of Robinson." The preface is by series editor Alvin Hall, and an introduction is provided by the editor of the volume, Peter M. Rutkoff.

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"a documentary source for international human rights documents that bear uniquely on women" -- C&RL News

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"young adults can make use of this as a reference tool in studying not only women's rights but all human rights" -- VOYA

About the Author

Alvin Hall is dean of interdisciplinary arts and sciences at the Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. Peter M. Rutkoff is a National Endowment for the Humanities distinguished teaching professor of history and American studies at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

Product Details

• Paperback: 275 pages
• Publisher: Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub; 1997 edition (May 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786408316
• ISBN-13: 978-0786408313
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,805,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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We are Will Scott and Peter Rutkoff co-authors of Fly Away

WILL SCOTT: I teach in the department of History at Kenyon College. Not only are Peter and I colleagues, over the years we have collaborated on two other books and numerous papers and articles. As we read the last draft of Fly Away we found it impossible to determine who wrote what. Over the past thirty years we have taught a number of courses together, most importantly an NEH funded seminar entitled North By South, a research seminar on the Great Migration during which we took 75 students to conduct research on a southern black community and a northern community to which many members of the southern community migrated. We also co-directed three, three-year long Department of Education funded institutes on the Great Migration for Cleveland public school teachers.

I am not a "native New Yorker." I grew up in Christ Church Parish in Charleston, South Carolina. I am a self-taught furniture maker, the father of two grown daughters, and the husband of a woman who also grew up in Christ Church Parish. For both Peter and me, Fly Away is the culmination of a decade of unexpected discovery and affection.

PETER RUTKOFF: I teach American Studies at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
My career spans more than 38 years, ones that I devote to creative, scholarly, pedagogic concerns--ideals that Will and I share along with our love for the subject of our book and our collaboration.

I'm very committed to social justice issues, to experimental teaching strategies, and to working with school teachers. All these areas feed into and benefit from my work as a scholar and writer.

As a New Yorker living in Ohio, traveling to fascinating places like Cyprus and Ghana, I continue to take in the world.

But, I like nothing better than sitting on the front deck of a summer rental on Lake Otsego, in Cooperstown. There the world slows down, the water restores, and I find the peace that I need to create.