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After The Deluge: Central American Historiography At Low Tide, Robert H. Holden

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This essay reviews the following works:

Centroamérica: Filibusteros, estados, imperios y memorias. By Víctor Hugo Acuña. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Costa Rica, 2014. Pp. xv + 151. $5.99 paperback. ISBN: 9789968684408.

I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944. By David Carey Jr. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. Pp. xxv + 335. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780292748682.

A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic. By Kevin Coleman. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. Pp. 312. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781477308554.

Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in …

Contested Commemoration: The Relationship Between Politics And The Memorialization Of The Second World War In Polish Literature, Cinema, And Museums (1945-Present), Alexandria Joyner

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This study examines the relationship between politics and the memory of the Second World War in Polish literature, cinema, and museums from 1945-Present. I argue that the memory of the Second World War has changed radically over the last seventy- five years as the Polish government, in both the communist and post-communist periods, pursued a politics of memory. I build this argument first by identifying three political turning points that caused the communist government to confront and reevaluate the narrative they promoted about the war: 1945, 1956, and 1967. I include a fourth turning point, 1989, to show how post-communist …

Conflicts Over Local Beliefs: "Feudal Superstitions" As Intangible Cultural Heritage In Contemporary China, Ziying You

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This article addresses conflicts over local beliefs in both discourse and practice in contemporary China, especially in the process of protecting local beliefs as China’s national intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the twenty-first century. These local beliefs were stigmatized as “feudal superstitions” in revolution- ary China and were revived in public since the reform era started in 1978. With influence from UNESCO, the project to protect ICH has spread all over China since 2004, and many local beliefs are promoted as China’s national ICH. Drawing on my ethnographic case study of “receiving aunties (Ehuang and Nüying)” in Hongtong County, Shanxi …

Finding Those Once Lost: The Analysis Of The Potter's Field At Woodland Cemetery, London, On

Archaeology eBook Collection

Mortuary archaeology is the archaeological study of death and burial. In North America, the anthropological, cross-cultural, and deep temporal perspectives are employed (cf. Martin et al. 2013a). The myriad ways that societies deal with death are the product of complex and intertwined social, economic, and environmental factors such as class, gender, ethnicity, subsistence practice, and social complexity, to name a few. Therefore, the study of mortuary rituals sheds important light on social complexity and organization. This makes it an excellent topic for an advanced course in a Department of Anthropology. The research described in this report is the result of …

Presbyterian Church, Vernon, Louisiana Records, 1891- 1899, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Raymond Clary Louisiana Industrial Institute Collection, 1913, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Set of picture postcards featuring buildings at Louisiana Industrial Institute

Ralph Bills Louisiana Polytechnic Institute Collection, 1950-1955., University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Photographs of Louisiana Tech campus taken during donor's Air Force training period

Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Records, 1881-1969, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Church records

Reggie Mccleroy,, "Living Legacies Of Lincoln Parish", University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Drawings by area artist of local NAACP leaders in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana: Clara Carr, E.D. Smith, C.C. McClain, Thalia Williams, J.K. Haynes

Ringgold, Louisiana General Store Business Ledgers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Business ledger of a general store in Ringgold, Louisian

Rita M. Krouse Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Correspondence concerning the building of a military road between Fort Smith on the Arkansas River to Natchitoches, Louisiana

Riley Joe Wilson Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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"Crimefighters: Centennial History of the Ruston Police Department"

Robert J. Pfister Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Prints from the collection of Bob J. Pfister of photographic negatives from the inventories of the Ruston, Louisiana photographic studios of John Green Davis (1890's-?) and John Green Davis Jr. (?-1943), of the amateur photographers William Marbury (1930's-1940's) and J.E. Woodward (mid-1940's-1971), and of Louisiana Tech University photographer Bob J. Pfister (1950's), including index prepared by Pamela Pfister, who made the prints. Woodward accumulated the collection, which was given at his death to Pfister (some are photocopies). Prints funded by Ruston Building and Loan Association, President Benjamin Denny, in honor of the centennial of Louisiana Tech University, 1894-1994

Robert Edwin Russ Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Correspondence and his other writings reflecting Russ's life (1830-1902) as planter, community leader, and founder of Ruston, Louisiana; legal records and notes on the history of Ruston compiled by his descendants for the Diamond Jubilee in Ruston

Rita Krouse Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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The collection contains research material pertaining to Germantown, Louisiana

"Rocky Mount Presbyterian Cemetery", Tanya L. Arant

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History, records, map of cemetery

Rodney Ruby Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Civil War records and diary of members of the Ruby family of Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana

Roland H. Ebel Latin American Political Structure Publications, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Books and articles relating to the politics of Latin America

Roland Jones Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Papers of prominent attorney, U.S. Congressman, district judge of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, and a pioneer resident of Shreveport; include mainly correspondence of Roland Jones (1813-1869) and his wife, Anne Neville Stokes, and that of their descendants in Louisiana. Letters cover political, professional, social and family matters.

Rosa Colvin Barksdale Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

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Sketch based on records kept by Ainsley H. Colvin, the reminiscences of S.P. Colvin, C.C. Colvin, G.A. Colvin, and genealogical research conducted by Rosa Colvin Barksdale.