Jack Patrick Dougherty

Most Likely to Succeed at Work : How Work Is Just Like High School - Crib Notes for Getting along and Getting Ahead Amidst Bullies, Teachers' Pets, Cheerleaders, and Other Members of the Class

Most Likely to Succeed at Work: How to Get Ahead at Work Using Everything You Learned in High School

More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee

More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee

Corporate America: A Novel

Thank You For Smoking meets House of Cards in this fast-paced, sharp satire about the business world. After aspiring novelist Francis Scanlon is expelled from a prestigious graduate creative writing program, he is forced to become a spin doctor at the Prock Chocolate Corporation while he awaits the ...

MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED AT WORK: How to Get Ahead at Work Using Everything You Learned in High School

Your remember them from high school...the Rebel, the Jock, the Cheerleader, the Class Clown, the Geek, the Teacher's Pet. These stereotypes and their classmates - like the Loner, the Go-Getter and the Brown-Noser - roamed the halls for four long years. And where did they end up? At work, of course, ...

Confronting Urban Legacy: Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities

Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world’s population, are either critically misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. ...

Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning (Digital Humanities)

The essays in Web Writing respond to contemporary debates over the proper role of the Internet in higher education, steering a middle course between polarized attitudes that often dominate the conversation. The authors argue for the wise integration of web tools into what the liberal arts does best:...

Writing History in the Digital Age (Digital Humanities)

Writing History in the Digital Age began as a “what-if” experiment by posing a question: How have Internet technologies influenced how historians think, teach, author, and publish? To illustrate their answer, the contributors agreed to share the stages of their book-in-progress as it was constructed...

More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee

Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education. Jack Dougherty counters this interpretation, demonstrating that black activists engaged in multiple, overlapping, and often conflicting strategies to adv...