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  Madison Grant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grant was born in New York City, New York, to Gabriel Grant, a well-known physician and American Civil War surgeon, and Caroline Manice.
Grant represented the "hereditarian" branch of physical anthropology at the time, despite his relatively amateur status, and was staunchly opposed to and by Boas himself (and the latter's students), who advocated cultural anthropology.
Grant's works of scientific racism are often cited by scholars to demonstrate that many of the genocidal and eugenic ideas associated with the Third Reich did not arise specifically in Germany, and in fact that many of them had origins in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madison_Grant   (1713 words)

  
 Madison Grant on the New Immigrants as Survival of the Unfit, 19 1 8
Madison Grant on the New Immigrants as Survival of the Unfit, 19 1 8
Madison Grant is one of the founders of the modern eugenics movement, which called for racial purity.
Madison Grant on the New Immigrants as Survival of the Unfit, 1918
www3.niu.edu /~td0raf1/history261/oct0104.htm   (901 words)

  
 Madison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Traditionally, Madison was a surname, meaning son of Maud.
Madison is also used, to a lesser extent, as a male given name.
Madison is the name of several towns and cities in the United States, many of which are named after President James Madison:
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madison   (317 words)

  
 James Madison Supplemental Lesson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Madison combined the intellectual knowledge and creativity of the scholar with the practical savvy of the politician, a man of strong principles who also realized the value of compromise.
In 1779 Madison was elected as the youngest delegate to the Continental Congress.
Madison hoped that the end of the foreign slave trade in 1808 would force planters to hire free labor and that westward expansion would disperse the slave population and diminish the economic value of slavery to the south.
www.civiced.org /wtp_madison_lesson.html   (3681 words)

  
 Racial Suicide - John Taylor Gatto
Grant’s beneficent imagination, for he was its founder and the founder of its parent, the New York Zoological Society.
Grant was a lifelong bachelor, a childless man. Like many people associated with public schooling on a policy level, Grant came from a patrician family which had graced society from colonial days.
Grant was deeply disgusted by the mixing of European races underway here; he believed the foundation of our national and cultural life lay in racial purity and backed this opinion with action.
www.rit.edu /~cma8660/mirror/www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/11e.htm   (868 words)

  
 EPA Brownfields Grants, Madison, WI
Grant funds will be used to perform Phase I and II assessments on portions of a 62-acre brownfields site in the southern portion of the town.
Madison is a community of 6,975 in Dane County, Wisconsin.
Grant Recipient: Madison, WI The cooperative agreement for this grant has not yet been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
www.epa.gov /brownfields/04grants/madison.htm   (577 words)

  
 Madison Grant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Grant was a close friend of many U.S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, andalso was an avid conservationist.
The link between Grant's conservationism and eugenics is not unrelated: both are hallmarks of the early 20th-century Progressive movement, and both assume the need for various types ofstewardship over their charges.
Grant viewed the Nordic race lovingly as he did any of his endangered species, and considered themodern industrial society as infringing just as much on its existence as it did on the redwoods.
www.therfcc.org /madison-grant-202204.html   (785 words)

  
 WSJ Local News
Six years and $700,000 later, as the initial grant is ending and a new one for almost $500,000 is pending, little of obvious note has changed.
Enis Ragland, chief of staff to Madison Mayor Sue Bauman and a member of the Partnership Council, said the lack of student buy-in to the project was a weakness.
Besides Madison, the foundation is funding similar multi-year grants for alcohol programs at the University of Vermont, Lehigh University, the University of Delaware, the University of Colorado-Boulder, the University of Iowa, Louisiana State University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Florida State University and Georgia Tech.
www.madison.com /wisconsinstatejournal/local/30387.html   (1934 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Madison Grant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Miscegenation is an archaic term invented in 1863 to describe people of different human races (usually one European and one African) producing offspring; the use of this term is invariably restricted to those who believe that the category race is meaningful when applied to human beings.
Madison Grant (1865 - 1937) was an American lawyer, eugenicist, and conservationist.
No proper understanding is possible of the meaning of the history of Christendom, or full appreciation of the place in it of the Teutonic Nordics, without a brief review of the events in Europe of the last two thousand years.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Madison-Grant   (681 words)

  
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Madison House, which coordinates community service efforts of U.Va. students, received a $21,000 grant to promote its model of student-run programs nationally and a $1,500 grant for its Alternative Spring Break program.
The funds will be used to promote the Madison House model of volunteerism nationally at conferences and to develop and distribute guides on student volunteerism and the impact it can have on a community.
The grant was awarded to the University Internship Program in recognition of its strength and growth over 18 years, according to UIP director Nancy J.H. Gansneder.
www.virginia.edu /topnews/textonlyarchive/December_1994/grants.txt   (631 words)

  
 Madison High School Website
In the fall of 1981, the student population of Madison was extended to include the ninth grade; the enrollment during that year reached a peak of 2,236.
Madison became a magnet school for Meteorology and Space Science in 1995 and a partnership was established with Channel 2.
In 1997, a grant from Madison's business partner General Electric for $250,000.00 was used for the implementation of a College Bound Program.
hs.houstonisd.org /MadisonHS/SchoolInfo/history.htm   (424 words)

  
 Every Girl Should Be Married Review - The Ultimate Cary Grant Pages
Accidentally bumping into Grant in a drugstore, she maps an elaborate pincer strategy after studiously gathering data on his habits and habitat.
When this fails in a series of tactical reversals, she switches to piquing Grant with jealousy, using Tone, the boss of the department store in which she works, as the foil.
Grant gave Betsy EVERY GIRL SHOULD BE MARRIED and made it her film, even though she was far down in the credits.
www.carygrant.net /reviews/every.html   (1699 words)

  
 American Renaissance December 1997 Issue
Grant was born in New York in 1865, just as the first of the modern white-against-white conflicts was closing.
Grant intended it as a call to American whites to counter the dangers both from fls and non-traditional immigration.
Grant was active throughout the 1920s, serving as president of both the Immigration Restriction League and the Eugenics Research Association.
www.amren.com /9712issue/9712issue.html   (10293 words)

  
 Madison County, Indiana History and Genealogy Research Guide and Links
Wendell Willkie was born in Elwood, Madison County, Indiana in 1892....
When the county of Madison was erected in 1823, the seat of justice was established at Pendleton, the organic act providing that the sessions of the court should be held at the house of William McCARTNEY, which stood near the falls of Fall Creek.
The "Madison House," a two-story frame building on the south side of Main street, west of State, was erected and opened as a hotel by Jesse BOSTON about 1835.
home.att.net /~Local_History/Madison-Co-IN.htm   (4850 words)

  
 Globeinvestor.com: 01 Communique completes second round of financing raising $467,000 of additional working capital
Madison Grant Fund Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, an investment banking firm specializing in tax-assisted financing for public companies, structured this transaction for the Company.
Investors in the Madison Grant Limited Partnership VIII will be able to utilize a total of $5,600,000 in available tax deductions.
Madison Grant Fund Inc. is a Canadian fund that establishes a unique structure of "Limited Partnerships" to provide a source of investment financing to thriving, publicly held companies.
www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/WireFeedRedirect?cf=GlobeInvestor/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20050316&archive=cnw&slug=1303165246   (648 words)

  
 2002.08.08:HHS Announces $928,000 Grant to Improve Health Care Access in Dane County
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced a $928,000 grant to Madison Community Health Center to increase access to health care and social services programs for low-income residents in Madison and Dane County.
With today's grant, the center expects to hire two new primary care providers and expand care to serve 6,000 individuals within two years.
The grant to the Madison center is part of President Bush's long-range plan to add 1,200 new and expanded health center sites over five years and increase the number of patients treated annually from 11 million to 16 million.
www.hhs.gov /news/press/2002pres/20020808a.html   (364 words)

  
 State Arts Board Approves Grant for Madison Victims of Violence Sculpture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Wisconsin Arts Board has approved a $5,800 grant for nationally renowned sculptor Brad McCallum's "A Path of Voices" artwork that will be designed to provoke discussion and action about the growth of violence in Madison and its impact on our social fabric.
The amount of the grant is contingent upon the legislature's approval of the Arts Board's budget.
The WI Arts Board grant is part of ongoing efforts to raise private funds and grants for the sculpture.
www.madison.k12.wi.us /cso/news/98-99/victims.htm   (239 words)

  
 Business and Professional Women of Madison
Madison, BPW, on occasion, will offer grants to community members seeking educational and growth opportunities.
Successful recipients will explain through this grant application how Madison BPW funding will benefit them either through our mission of education or advocacy, with attention given to equity in the workplace.
Madison BPW makes no guarantees that all applicants will receive funding.
www.madison.com /communities/bpw/pages/grantapp05.php?php_page_set=0   (108 words)

  
 UW-Madison Receives Grant to Develop Entrepreneurship Proposal | WTN
UW-Madison has received a $50,000 planning grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, Mo., to develop a comprehensive plan for cross-campus entrepreneurship in a national competition among 30 universities.
The goal of the Kauffman grant program is to transform campus life so that entrepreneurship will become a vital part of the college experience.
The $5 million grants will be awarded to schools based on their creativity and commitment to making entrepreneurship training and experiences available across college departments and to students of diverse disciplines.
wistechnology.com /article.php?id=46   (599 words)

  
 Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women - song & Story - MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY - by Madison Grant
BIO: Madison Grant is a freelance writer and poet from Kentucky.
Madison has completed a poetry compilation as well as her first book titled Saving Madison.
In addition to these two works she is writing a fiction romance novel, the non-fiction sequel to Saving Madison and short stories and poetry when inspiration presents itself.
www.moondance.org /2004/wind04/sns/myway.html   (939 words)

  
 How to find grant money fast and easy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I for one would love to have grant money flowing into my bank account, so I’d be able to realize whatever plan I have in mind, or pay whatever bills I might have accumulated.
Their membership areas are impressive, with a good amount of quality information on how and where to get government grant money.
I even chatted with a few of their satisfied customers in several online forums, and they verified that they were able to apply for government grant money successfully.
government-grant.101soho.com   (474 words)

  
 Social Origins of Eugenics
Influential writers like Madison Grant, a leading eugenicist, warned that racial mixing was "a social and racial crime." He said that acceptance of racial intermarriage would lead America toward "racial suicide" and the eventual disappearance of white civilization.
According to Grant, the mixture of "higher racial types," such as Nordic whites, with other "lower" races would inevitably result in the decline of the higher race.
Grant's proclamations on the perils of race mixing mirrored warnings by Charles Davenport and Harry Laughlin, leaders of the American eugenic bureaucracy at the Eugenics Record Office.
www.eugenicsarchive.org /html/eugenics/essay7text.html   (767 words)

  
 Horticulture at the University of Wisconsin: Faculty & Staff
Thirteen grants from the USDA Plant Genetic Resources System for germplasm expeditions of 6-10 weeks each year (1988, Mexico; 1989, Chile; 1990, Argentina and Chile; 1991, Ecuador; 1992, Colombia and Venezuela; 1993, Bolivia; 1994, Bolivia; 1995, Guatemala; 1996, Costa Rica; 1997, Mexico; 1998, Peru, 1998; Peru, 1999, Honduras and Panama, 2000).
University of Wisconsin-Madison grant to support attendance and presentation of research at an international meeting in Argentina in 1994.
USDA, grant to work with individuals from the Mexican National Potato Program (34) and Peru (35) to increase wild potato collections made in Mexico in 1997 and Peru in 1998.
www.horticulture.wisc.edu /faculty/faculty_pages/Spooner/spooner_cv.php   (916 words)

  
 Grant-Madison Caring Community
The GMCC is facilitating a process in the Madison region to encourage greater collaboration and integration among State, county, schools, and community providers.
In 2000, the Grant Madison Caring Community worked with Portland Public School's School to Work to help Madison students organize and present budget recommendations; 54 students were involved over 2 months.
The Caring Community was originally called the "Grant Madison Equity Committee" that was convened to address issues of equity in Outer NE Portland.
www.co.multnomah.or.us /oscp/caring/cc_gm_at.html   (629 words)

  
 Commission1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Friends of Madison Shade Trees (FMST) has been awarded a grant of just over $11,000 by the National Tree Trust (NTT) for planting 31 flowering pear trees on East Main Street in Madison.
The grant leverages matching funds and the services of local volunteers, who will help maintain the newly planted trees after the spring 2005 planting.
The choice of flowering pear trees implements Madison’s choice of a “signature” look along all of Main Street and is in support of and complementary to the Shade Tree Management Board (STMB) pear tree plantings in the downtown area.
www.rosenet.org /fmst/NewsArticles/2005_Award.htm   (299 words)

  
 Traning Grant - UW-Madison Institute on Aging
Its main goal is to train individuals from a wide variety of disciplines and diverse backgrounds to conduct biology of aging research.
After completing their training with this grant, our trainees have been very successful in their careers in research and teaching at major universities, such as the UW-Madison, the University of Michigan, the University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of California-Davis, the University of Minnesota, and others.
This training grant is committed to participating in the goals of this plan by making efforts to assure diversity among trainees and faculty.
aging.wisc.edu /education/training.php   (1538 words)

  
 The Grants Information Center
The Grants Information Collection is located in Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
It is one of a network of approximately 200 collections established by the Foundation Center, an independent national service organization in New York, to provide an authoritative source of information on foundation and corporate giving for nonprofit organizations.
The Grants Information Collection may be used by any member of the public seeking information on grants.
grants.library.wisc.edu   (335 words)

  
 Madison Receives Grant for Middle School Drug and Safety Coordinators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) recently announced that the Madison School District has received a $546,600 federal grant to recruit, hire and train middle school drug prevention and school safety coordinators.
Madison is one of five Wisconsin school districts and 113 in the nation to receive the grants which will be used for school-based coordinators.
The grant includes funding for the first two years of a three-year grant period.
www.madison.k12.wi.us /cso/news/00-01/msgrant.htm   (135 words)

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