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The Middle Landscape Of The Private College: A Bicentennial Perspective, George W. Geib Nov 2015

The Middle Landscape Of The Private College: A Bicentennial Perspective, George W. Geib

George W. Geib

America's Private Colleges and Universities have entered the bicentennial year expressing deep concern for their individual and collective futures. They seem constantly engaged in a search for new students and additional financial contributors; they darkly aver that they may be forced to close forever if their search fails; and they point to the dozens of others campuses that passed from the scene in the last decade as proof of the urgency of their case. To some observers these forebodings of doom may appear, like the associated press reports about Mark Twain's demise, greatly exaggerated. But the immediacy and intensity with …


The Power Of The Purse, George W. Geib Nov 2015

The Power Of The Purse, George W. Geib

George W. Geib

The Army finance office was born two centuries ago in the midst of the American Revolution. From the golden orle insignia that legend reports was first authorized by George Washington, to the outline of its modern functions and limitations that emerged during the war, the service took form in the critical years of the struggle for independence.


Development And Preservation, George W. Geib Nov 2015

Development And Preservation, George W. Geib

George W. Geib

Details the history of two Marion County Courthouses.


Federal Justice And Moral Reform In The United States District Court In Indiana, 1816-1869, George W. Geib, Donald B. Kite Nov 2015

Federal Justice And Moral Reform In The United States District Court In Indiana, 1816-1869, George W. Geib, Donald B. Kite

George W. Geib

In November 1840, William Martin, an Indiana mail stage driver found himself standing in United States District Court, convicted of stealing a letter containing bank notes from the mail.^1 District Judge Jesse Lynch Holman reviewed the evidence that convinced the jury, and then lectured the defendant upon his future prospects: The prospect before you is truly dark and dreary; yet there is a distant ray of hope that may enlighten your path You may do much by a patient submission to the law—by a reformation of life and an upright line of conduct ... to some extent, to regain a …


The Diary Of Calvin Fletcher And The Historians, George W. Geib Nov 2015

The Diary Of Calvin Fletcher And The Historians, George W. Geib

George W. Geib

While we all make New Year's resolutions, few of us ever keep them with the tenacity that Calvin Fletcher kept the one he apparently made on this day. The diary that he had begun in fragmentary fashion in 1817 and continued intermittently to 1829, he maintained religiously thereafter. In so doing, he provided us with an extraordinary record of his life and times. Published in nine volumes by the Indiana Historical Society from 1972 to 1983, The Diary of Calvin Fletcher represents perhaps the single most important printed source for understanding Indiana's history. In commemoration of Fletcher's two-hundredth birthday on …


The Use Of Miniatures In Gaming, George W. Geib Nov 2015

The Use Of Miniatures In Gaming, George W. Geib

George W. Geib

The world of the miniature lies somewhere between the collector's and the historian's and owes its current popularity to the world of wargaming. But the origins of the miniature lie far from the simulation in the field of artisan crafts.


Benjamin Harrison, George W. Geib Nov 2015

Benjamin Harrison, George W. Geib

George W. Geib

An account of Benjamin Harrison's rise to the presidency beginning with his successful career during the Civil War.


Searching For Their Real Home: Dependent Black Children In Indianapolis, 1910-1940, John D. Ramsbottom Sep 2015

Searching For Their Real Home: Dependent Black Children In Indianapolis, 1910-1940, John D. Ramsbottom

John D. Ramsbottom

Concerns about the future for young people, reflected in contemporary headlines, were equally prominent in Indianapolis a hundred years ago. Then, as now, children whose parents neglected or abandoned them posed a special problem. In the midst of rapid social change that seemed to threaten traditional family stability, a small corps of professionals and volunteers worked to provide a nurturing environment.


Bulli Mine Disaster Centenary, Michael K. Organ Jul 2015

Bulli Mine Disaster Centenary, Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


The Old Mount Keira Inn : 59 Princes Highway, Figtree, Michael K. Organ Jul 2015

The Old Mount Keira Inn : 59 Princes Highway, Figtree, Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


Vale A.P. (Peter") Doyle, Michael K. Organ Jul 2015

Vale A.P. (Peter") Doyle, Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


The First Show Society, Michael K. Organ Jul 2015

The First Show Society, Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


Pre-Raphaelite Wonderland: Christian Yandell's Alice, Michael K. Organ Jul 2015

Pre-Raphaelite Wonderland: Christian Yandell's Alice, Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

In 1923, young Australian artist Christian Yandell (1894–1954) applied a Pre-Raphaelite pen to the task of illustrating an Australasian edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1924). A latecomer to the Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist worlds of myth and legend, Yandell’s work from the 1910s through to the 1930s strongly reflected both art movements, with theosophical underpinnings eventually dominating. Like Pre-Raphaelitism, Yandell’s was a narrative art, embedded in stories and telling their own, thus the natural application to Carroll's classic work of fantasy. Intelligent, mythological, spiritual, dreamy, and mystical, Yandell's drawings were less a reflection of her hometown Melbourne in 1923 …


Hume Cook And Christian Yandell's Australian Fairy Tales 1925, Michael K. Organ Jul 2015

Hume Cook And Christian Yandell's Australian Fairy Tales 1925, Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

Hume Cook's Australian Fairy Tales of 1925 was the first book fully produced in Australia to bear that specific title. Its appearance followed on the passage of almost 30 years since the publication in London during 1897 of Frank Atha Westbury's similarly titled work, and Jessie Mary Whitfield's The spirit of the bush fire and other Australian fairy tales in Sydney the following year. There had been numerous stories about local fairies and other fantastical creatures written in Australia prior to 1925, including the Reverend Charles Marson's Faery Stories (Marson 1891) and the many small booklets, articles and monographs by …


The 'London' Edition Of Captain Charles Wilkes' Narrative Of The Us Exploring Expedition, 1845, Michael K. Organ May 2015

The 'London' Edition Of Captain Charles Wilkes' Narrative Of The Us Exploring Expedition, 1845, Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

A copy of the rare 1845 imperial octavo 'London' edition of Captain Charles Wilkes' Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition exists in the National Library of Australia collection with original cloth bindings and ornamental blind and gold stamping featuring the seal of the United States on the front and back covers.1 This set of five volumes plus atlas allow us to obtain a precise bibliographic description of this little known variant of the Narrative.


Augustus Earle In Illawarra - 1827, Michael K. Organ Mar 2015

Augustus Earle In Illawarra - 1827, Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


Conrad Martens In Illawarra : July 1835, Michael K. Organ Mar 2015

Conrad Martens In Illawarra : July 1835, Michael K. Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


Rev. Richard Taylor : Extract From Diary Of A Residence In New South Wales (1) 13th - 20th January 1839, Richard K. Taylor Mar 2015

Rev. Richard Taylor : Extract From Diary Of A Residence In New South Wales (1) 13th - 20th January 1839, Richard K. Taylor

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


Illawarra's First Military Garrison 1816, Michael Organ Dec 2014

Illawarra's First Military Garrison 1816, Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


Wollongong Heritage Advisory Committee, Michael Organ Dec 2014

Wollongong Heritage Advisory Committee, Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


The "Count: And Illawarra : Paul Edmund De Strzelecki's Supposed Excursion To Wollongong, December 1839 , Michael Organ Dec 2014

The "Count: And Illawarra : Paul Edmund De Strzelecki's Supposed Excursion To Wollongong, December 1839 , Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


The Birthplace Of Wollongong : The Brighton Beach And Wollongong Harbour Precincts : Archaeological And Historical Significance, Michael Organ Dec 2014

The Birthplace Of Wollongong : The Brighton Beach And Wollongong Harbour Precincts : Archaeological And Historical Significance, Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


The Andrews Family Of Wollongong And Trooper Frank Andrews - A Boer War Casuality (Con'td From Feb Bulletin), Michael Organ Dec 2014

The Andrews Family Of Wollongong And Trooper Frank Andrews - A Boer War Casuality (Con'td From Feb Bulletin), Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


Wollongong Or Randwick : Which Was The First Municipality In 1859?, Michael Organ Dec 2014

Wollongong Or Randwick : Which Was The First Municipality In 1859?, Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


Report On July Meeting: Mr Peter Poulton: The Boer War & Australia's Involvement, Michael Organ Dec 2014

Report On July Meeting: Mr Peter Poulton: The Boer War & Australia's Involvement, Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


Robert Brown At Hat Hill (Mount Kembla) 1804, Michael Organ Dec 2014

Robert Brown At Hat Hill (Mount Kembla) 1804, Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


50th Anniversary Of The Illawarra Historical Society, Michael Organ Dec 2014

50th Anniversary Of The Illawarra Historical Society, Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


The Search For The Identity Of Alexander Harris : Whilst In New South Wales (C.1825-41), Michael Organ Dec 2014

The Search For The Identity Of Alexander Harris : Whilst In New South Wales (C.1825-41), Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


The Regent Theatre, Wollongong : "Australia's Most Beautiful Theatre", Michael Organ Dec 2014

The Regent Theatre, Wollongong : "Australia's Most Beautiful Theatre", Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.


Black Diamond District Heritage Centre (Bulli Railway Station), Michael Organ Dec 2014

Black Diamond District Heritage Centre (Bulli Railway Station), Michael Organ

Michael Organ

No abstract provided.