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Beidler, Peter Grant was born on March 13, 1940 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Paul Henry and Margaret (Grant) Beidler.
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This companion volume to Beidler and Egge's Native Americans in the Saturday Evening Post expands upon the fictional short stories that mention or focus on Native Americans. Covering a period of 71 years (1897-1969), this compilation of summaries of 265 short stories shows how the fictional depiction of Native Americans changed chronologically from the end of the Indian Wars to the "Native American Renaissance" of the 1960's. The majority of these tales highlight Caucasian attitudes toward Indians, which generally ranged from pure racial hatred at worst, to apathy at best, placing race relations in a historical context. This annotated bibliography provides detailed summaries of each of the stories with specific focus on the Native American aspects. Each story provides insights into the prevailing negative stereotypes of the time that the authors either exploited or denied in their stories. Also, since many of the stories share characters, settings, and themes, the authors have provided parenthetical cross-references, in order to easily display their interconnectedness. The book concludes with an author index, a subject index, and an extensive tribe index containing the various spellings used in the stories.
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"Why do you teach, Pete?" Simple enough question, but an incredibly challenging one to answer. Peter Beidler, in the most thoughtful and honest of ways, delivers his answer in this special book. Read his words and you will have the opportunity to stop and relfect on life, contemplate why you do the things you do, and rediscover where your life takes on meaning. Beidler writes about lifelong learning through teaching, innovative teaching methods, and how teaching is rewarded continuously as former students go on to do good and useful things. Beidler says, "I teach because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, I occasionally find myself, quite magically, catching my breath with them." This book will inspire anyone who reads it. It's a wonderful keepsake to cherish and the perfect gift for any teacher, past or present, who deserves to be thanked and commemorated. Why I Teach is an essay Beidler wrote in 1985 and was later printed in Chinese textbooks for education majors. The essay is mandatory reading for 2 million students each year at 1,900 colleges in China. Beidler thinks the Chinese value the piece because it extols the benefits of public service.
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This volume is a handy research tool for anyone interested in Native American culture or in the changing perceptions of Native American culture as reflected in the 70-odd years of the Saturday Evening Post. Researchers can now access in one volume information that was previously scattered throughout 161 rolls of microfilm. Significantly, the authors do more than simply list references to Native Americans and Eskimos in the magazine; they provide extensive summaries of many of the writings, and in a number of important articles, they have quoted excerpts so that we can read the originals. Also included are reproductions of the images and illustrations from the magazine. Everyone who knew the Saturday Evening Post in its heyday knew it as the most popular and influential American magazine during much of the twentieth century. Full of fiction, nonfiction, art, cartoons, poetry, humor, travel, and more, it found its way into more American households and libraries than any of its competitors. In the era before television, the Saturday Evening Post was a must-read for anyone who wanted to know what was going on around the country or who simply wanted to be entertained. Scholars have always known this magazine to be a storehouse of information about American Indians as reflected in American popular culture, but there was, before now, no easy way to gain access to that storehouse. The ideas and attitudes expressed in the art work―photographs and cartoons, and in the articles―fiction, editorial comment, and letters to the editors, give us an accurate representation of the beliefs of Americans during the first half of this century. As a window to popular perception of American Indians and Eskimos, the 70 years of the magazine are invaluable, and now, for the first time, researchers have a guide to that literature.
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Beidler, Peter Grant was born on March 13, 1940 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Paul Henry and Margaret (Grant) Beidler.
Bachelor of Arts, Earlham College, 1962; Master of Arts, Lehigh University, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, Lehigh University, 1968.
Assistant Professor of English, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1968-1972; associate professor, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, 1972-1977; professor, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, since 1977; Lucy G. Moses Disting Professor of English, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, since 1978; acting vice president for student affairs, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, 1982-1983; Robert Foster Cherry distinguished teaching professor, Baylor University, 1995-1996.
(This volume is a handy research tool for anyone intereste...)
(This companion volume to Beidler and Egge's Native Americ...)
("Why do you teach, Pete?" Simple enough question, but an ...)
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Served with United States Air Force, 1962-1968. Member Modern Language Association, New Chaucer Society, Medieval Society of America, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Delta.
Married Anne E. Gilbert, June 15, 1963. Children: Paul, Kurt, Gretchen, Nora.