Clement And Linda Mcgillicuddy Humanities Center Spring 2018 Report, 2018 The University of Maine
Clement And Linda Mcgillicuddy Humanities Center Spring 2018 Report, Clement And Linda Mcgillicuddy Humanities Center
General University of Maine Publications
The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center promotes a broad spectrum of human culture through programs that aim to foster intellectual curiosity, critical reflection and creative innovation. It serves as a locus for humanities research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and meaningful conversations among scholars, artists, students and the public.
Central to the center’s mission is the belief that study of the humanities cultivates compassion across differences, develops empathy, and, in addition to providing a sound training in critical thinking, develops the emotional and intellectual agility needed to brilliantly navigate an increasingly interconnected and complex global landscape.
The center supports lectures, symposia, discussion …
Honor, Courage, Commitment: Navy Recruitment Posters In World War Ii, 2018 Georgia Southern University
Honor, Courage, Commitment: Navy Recruitment Posters In World War Ii, Shelby A. Georges
Honors College Theses
Navy recruitment posters from World War II are an important piece of American culture. The iconic signage can be seen in antique stores and textbooks alike. However, these posters provide more than just bold imagery and vintage decor. By analyzing recruitment posters as if they were advertisements and placing them in the context of the time period, many facets of American identity can be understood, especially regarding race, gender, and patriotism. These posters, while they almost never stated the specific outlined duties of Naval careers or requirements for enlisting, advertised to readers under the premise that they understood the guidelines …
Holding On To Culture: The Effects Of The 1837 Smallpox Epidemic On Mandan And Hidatsa, 2018 Taylor University - Upland
Holding On To Culture: The Effects Of The 1837 Smallpox Epidemic On Mandan And Hidatsa, Jayne Reinhiller
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research
The Mandan and Hidatsa tribes located in modern day North Dakota have a rich history characterized by elaborate social and religions structures and trade based economic systems; however, because of their stationary lifestyles and increased European and American trade, the Mandan and Hidatsa faced substantial loses during the 1837 smallpox epidemic. The tribal decimation altered both social and ceremonial structures resulting in a new and collective identity and a new ceremonial structure. Through the analysis of the anthropological studies of Alfred Bowers and the journals of fur traders and explorers like F. A. Chardon, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark, it …
A Blend Of Absurdism And Humanism: Defending Kurt Vonnegut’S Place In The Secondary Setting, 2018 Indiana Wesleyan University
A Blend Of Absurdism And Humanism: Defending Kurt Vonnegut’S Place In The Secondary Setting, Krisandra R. Johnson
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research
This essay argues that Kurt Vonnegut blends a unique humanist stance into his absurdist plots and characters, ultimately urging readers to confront the absurd with a kindness and human decency his protagonists often find rare. As a result of this absurd and humanist synthesis, I defend and promote Vonnegut’s place in the secondary English curriculum, despite his rank on many banned books lists, since his characters’ journeys correlate thematically with the growth and process of postmodern adolescents and encourage moral responsibility without sentimental manipulation.
Focusing on Cat’s Cradle, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, and Slaughterhouse-Five as primary sources, specifically …
Social Reform And Gender: Henry Bergh, "Manliness", And The Early Animal Rights Movement In America, 2018 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Social Reform And Gender: Henry Bergh, "Manliness", And The Early Animal Rights Movement In America, Hannah Gretchen Nelsen
EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement
In 1867, New York resident and philanthropist Henry Bergh founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (better known now the ASPCA). He was responsible for creating the first animal cruelty society of its kind in the United States, only a few years after the United States had abolished slavery and decades before women would be given the right to vote. While Bergh's work would start a revolution into the way Americans treated animals legally, he did not do so without controversy.
Priest Family Papers (Sc 3210), 2018 Western Kentucky University
Priest Family Papers (Sc 3210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3210. Correspondence and papers relating to the Priest family of Henderson County, Kentucky. Includes abstracts of title in connection with grants of coal rights. Correspondence discusses an estate settlement, pending legislation amending certain city charters, family financial matters, and a candidate’s defeat in an 1884 primary election after two of three barrooms in the precinct were “thrown wide open” for his opponent.
Editorial: Understanding Our Foul Mouths, 2018 The University of Maine
Editorial: Understanding Our Foul Mouths, Sarah Allisot
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
The language we use matters, regardless of how small individual words seem in the moment. It’s too easy to disconnect from a place of privilege and safety and ask, "Who cares?” The answer to that misguided question is people — living, breathing people who face aggression because we let coined phrases and words come out before really thinking about them. And that’s the best scenario. There are always those incidences where language is used as a weapon, meant to degrade or devalue certain people with the powerful backing of social context. Words don’t translate in a vacuum, free from our …
Johnnie W. Bennett, 2018 Georgia Southern University
Johnnie W. Bennett
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
Interment: Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey.
Saints And Sainthood Around The Baltic Sea: Identity, Literacy, And Communication In The Middle Ages, 2018 University of Copenhagen
Saints And Sainthood Around The Baltic Sea: Identity, Literacy, And Communication In The Middle Ages, Carsten Selch Jensen
Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
This volume addresses the history of saints and sainthood in the Middle Ages in the Baltic Region with a special focus on the cult of saints in Russia, Prussia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia (more commonly referred to in the Middle Ages as Livonia). The articles cover a wide range of topics, for example the introduction of foreign (and "old") saints into new regions, the creation of new local cults of saints in newly Christianized regions, the role of the cult of saints in the creation of political and lay identities, the adaption of the cult of saints in …
Reckoning With Violence: Counterinsurgency, Prisons, And Gang Truces In Los Angeles And El Salvador 1979-2017, 2018 University of New Mexico
Reckoning With Violence: Counterinsurgency, Prisons, And Gang Truces In Los Angeles And El Salvador 1979-2017, Sarah L. Knopp
History ETDs
Mara Salvatrucha is a street gang that developed organizationally in California's prisons in the 1980s and was exported to El Salvador beginning in 1992. Convicted felons were deported to their native El Salvador just as the Peace Accords brought an end to the twelve-year civil war. Most of these convicted felons had come to California as children during the civil war, and many had been present for the seminal gang truce in Los Angeles in 1992 and 1993. Some of those same gang members were also present during the gang truce negotiated in El Salvador in 2012. The latter truce …
Game Of Thrones Versus History: Written In Blood. Brian Pavlac, 2018 Independent Scholar
Game Of Thrones Versus History: Written In Blood. Brian Pavlac, Joseph Young
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
No abstract provided.
From The Trenches: Cross-Campus Digital History Collaboration, 2018 Gettysburg College
From The Trenches: Cross-Campus Digital History Collaboration, Amy E. Lucadamo, Ian A. Isherwood, R.C. Miessler, Jenna Fleming, Meghan E. O'Donnell
All Musselman Library Staff Works
In September 2015, our team launched The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs (www.jackpeirs.org), a digital history initiative built on collaboration between faculty, students, and library staff. The project is founded on amazing primary source material, but with limited financial support and little dedicated staff time. We leveraged the creativity and hard work of our team members to build a website that is maintained by students and enhanced whenever possible with features and commentary from faculty and staff. Members of #TeamPeirs discussed the evolution of the project, the nature of our collaboration, and the intersection of audiences …
April 13, 2018 Meeting Minutes, 2018 Shawnee State University
April 13, 2018 Meeting Minutes, Shawnee State University
Minutes of the Board of Trustees Meetings
Minutes of the April 13, 2018 Board of Trustees meeting.
Cecilia Madrigal, 2018 University of Nebraska at Kearney
Cecilia Madrigal, Cecilia Madrigal
Coming to the Plains Oral Histories/ Llenando las Llanuras Historias Orales
Cecilia Madrigal inmigró a los Estados Unidos en 1981. Tuvo una niñez feliz en El Salvador pero La Guerra Civil Salvadoreña resultó en amenazas a su vida. Madrigal trabajó en una farmacia. Ambos el FMLN y sus oponentes creían que ella estaba ayudando al otro. Cuando Madrigal llegó a Los Ángeles, California enfrentó barreras del idioma. Eventualmente, Madrigal aprendió inglés. Le abrió la oportunidad de trabajar en Grand Island, Nebraska. Ahí, ella trabajó en una iglesia católica ayudando a la comunidad haciendo trabajo comunitario. Madrigal le da crédito a su fe por haberla ayudado a superar los retos que ha …
Irish Journalists And Journalism During The American Civil War, 2018 Technological University Dublin
Irish Journalists And Journalism During The American Civil War, Michael Foley
Conference Papers
Irish journalists played a significant role in the lead up to the US Civil War in ensuring the Irish population supported the Union and volunteered for the army.
Where The Wild Things Are: Bring K-12 Students To Special Collections For Adventures!, 2018 Loyola Marymount University
Where The Wild Things Are: Bring K-12 Students To Special Collections For Adventures!, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian, Carol Raby
Rachel Wen-Paloutzian
Engagement In The History Classroom: Problem-Based Learning And Primary Sources, 2018 Wilmette Junior High School
Engagement In The History Classroom: Problem-Based Learning And Primary Sources, Lauren Seghi
The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies
Too often today, students have to sit idly in a history classroom listening to a lecture or reading out of a textbook which is why many people in society (adults and children alike) do not like or understand the complexity of history. This article argues that in order for students to be engaged in "doing" history in the classroom, they need to take part in problem-based learning (pbl) activities using primary sources from the past.
The Heart Of K'E: Transforming Dine Special Education And Unsettling The Colonial Logics Of Disability, 2018 University of New Mexico
The Heart Of K'E: Transforming Dine Special Education And Unsettling The Colonial Logics Of Disability, Sandra Yellowhorse
American Studies ETDs
This paper takes up the roles of ideology and spatiality as they impact Diné students and learners in understanding conceptions of normativity, neuro-diversity and bodily variance. I am concerned with how the movement and creation of Indigenous schools and their praxis still maintain and often times produce settler colonial ideologies of being, personhood, difference and ability. I illustrate the challenges that Diné planners and educators face in entrenching cultural knowledge and language into their educational initiatives, while some of the problematic manifestations and expressions of normativity present themselves through state polices, federal law and mainstream curriculum.
I focus on the …
Rabbi Eliezer Of Beaugency, Commentaries On Amos And Jonah (With Selections From Isaiah And Ezekiel), 2018 Jewish Theological Seminary
Rabbi Eliezer Of Beaugency, Commentaries On Amos And Jonah (With Selections From Isaiah And Ezekiel), Robert A. Harris
TEAMS Commentary Series
Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency represents the pinnacle of twelfth-century rabbinic exegesis of the Bible. A proponent of the literal school, Eliezer completely abandoned traditional rabbinic midrash in his explication of biblical texts and innovated a literary approach that anticipated the fruits of modern scholarship in virtually every paragraph. This volume presents, for the first time in English translation, an extended window into the oeuvre of this master interpreter.
Praise And Prejudice: American Attitudes Toward Japan In Uncle Ben, 2018 Brigham Young University
Praise And Prejudice: American Attitudes Toward Japan In Uncle Ben, Anna Nielsen, Rachel Baron, Emily Orton
FHSS Mentored Research Conference
Uncle Ben in Japan is a 1933 geographical workbook intended to teach American schoolchildren about Japan. This text highlights both positive and negative American attitudes towards Japan in the 1930s. Although this work expresses certain views progressive for its time, it also contains evident assumptions of American national superiority.