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Not So Cavalier: Technical Study And Conservation Treatment Of A Potential 17th Century Anglo-Dutch Military Portrait Painting, Josephine Ren Sep 2024

Not So Cavalier: Technical Study And Conservation Treatment Of A Potential 17th Century Anglo-Dutch Military Portrait Painting, Josephine Ren

Art Conservation Master's Projects

A potential 17th century Anglo-Dutch military portrait painting from the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York arrived at the Garman Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State University for conservation research and treatment in 2022. The painting’s title, date, and artist were unknown and the subject was initially referred to as a “17th Century Dutch Cavalier.” Little information existed on the provenance and history of the artwork. The painting was in a state of structural instability and aesthetic disfigurement and showed evidence of a past restoration campaign. This master’s project attempted to broadly …


Christ Child Bearing The Instruments Of The Passion Technical Study And Treatment Of A Painting On Copper From The Viceroyalty Of Peru, Daniela González-Pruitt Sep 2024

Christ Child Bearing The Instruments Of The Passion Technical Study And Treatment Of A Painting On Copper From The Viceroyalty Of Peru, Daniela González-Pruitt

Art Conservation Master's Projects

Christ Child Bearing the Instruments of the Passion (acc.# 228017) is a 17th century Peruvian Viceregal painting on copper belonging to the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. The painting depicts the Christ Child on a flower laid path as he carries the instruments of the passion also known as the Arma Christi Paintings executed on copper convey new and challenging preservation issues based on their materials and techniques.. The work had been heavily restored and exhibited several condition issues, including significant overpaint and broad losses. The painting was photographed using multimodal imaging techniques as well as reflectance …


Inciting Peace From The Inside Out, Stephen G. Adubato, Ebere Bosco Amakwe, Katherine Hinic, Sarita Maldjian, Forrest Pritchett, Jon Radwan, Nicholas Sooy, Chad Thralls Jun 2024

Inciting Peace From The Inside Out, Stephen G. Adubato, Ebere Bosco Amakwe, Katherine Hinic, Sarita Maldjian, Forrest Pritchett, Jon Radwan, Nicholas Sooy, Chad Thralls

Conferences

Violence and war can be incited, and so can peace. This volume shares select addresses and responses from Seton Hall University’s 2/7/23 conference “Inciting Peace From The Inside Out.” A multi-disciplinary range of scholars each addresses how reconciliation processes grow from spiritual dynamics. Multiple religious traditions teach contemplative praxes that prioritize and nurture personal reflection oriented toward peace. Social conflicts divide, so engaging them with a partisan orientation only serves to escalate harmful rifts. In contrast, bringing personal awareness and sensitivity, spiritual balance, and holistic integral perspective to conflict can transcend divisions and work toward unity. This volume is supported …


Jan Ruehling Polio Era Collection Jun 2024

Jan Ruehling Polio Era Collection

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and records related to the life and work of Jan Ruehling, as well as the 20th century polio epidemic of the United States of America.


Dumping In The Global Dixie: Circle Of Poison And The Contamination Of The Global South, Amy M. Hay Jun 2024

Dumping In The Global Dixie: Circle Of Poison And The Contamination Of The Global South, Amy M. Hay

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

The 1981 publication of David Weir and Mark Shapiro’s exposé Circle of Poison almost ten years after the banning of DDT represented how the landscape of understandings about hazardous chemicals and their regulation had changed. The book exposed two things. One was the ways power had reconfigured itself, which in turn highlighted the ways the story Silent Spring told, which effectively moved hearts and minds to make change happen. One thing that remained hidden, however, to both Rachel Carson and Weir and Shapiro, was the degree to which the chemical industry traded at the local and regional level, conducting international …


2024-06-06 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President. Jun 2024

2024-06-06 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

Message sent by the President to the campus community regarding upcoming dates of importance, additional paid day off, congratulatory recognitions, personnel updates, and summer camps on June 6, 2024.


Romani American History: Historical Absences And Their Consequences, Ann Ostendorf Jun 2024

Romani American History: Historical Absences And Their Consequences, Ann Ostendorf

History Faculty Scholarship

American historians have created an historical absence by ignoring Romani people’s presence in evidence from the past. The origins of this “absence-ing” are multifaceted and interrelated, but fundamentally stem from the continued influence of out-of-date and unprofessional ways of thinking and knowing. Examining and understanding “absence-ing” requires a consideration of the nature of the discipline of history as well as a history of the missing historicization of Romani Americans. The consequences of the “absence-ing” of Romani people from American histories have negatively and distinctively influenced four different groups of people: historians of the Americas; historians of Romani people in Europe; …


Hayes, Eugenia Mary (Blakey), 1905-1992 (Mss 764), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2024

Hayes, Eugenia Mary (Blakey), 1905-1992 (Mss 764), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 764. Primarily genealogical research collected by Eugenia Hayes on her ancestors in the Blakey, King, Morris, Cowherd and related families.


Memorial High School - Hart County, Kentucky (Sc 3729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2024

Memorial High School - Hart County, Kentucky (Sc 3729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3729. Directory of graduates, 1920-1969, of Memorial High School, located between Hardyville and Canmer in Hart County, Kentucky.


Hodges, Mary J. "Mollie" (Sc 3727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2024

Hodges, Mary J. "Mollie" (Sc 3727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3727. Letters of Mollie Hodges, Hart County, Kentucky, to her future husband Ambrose King, written during his Civil War U.S. Army service. She mourns their separation, mentions the Confederate presence near Burkesville, and recalls her visit to him in camp, where she found him in a sad state of mind. Distressed by his mood, she is anxious to keep up their correspondence.


Introducing New Chief Human Resources Officer (Chro), Ums Human Resources Jun 2024

Introducing New Chief Human Resources Officer (Chro), Ums Human Resources

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.


Hayes, Eugenia Mary (Blakey), 1905-1992 (Sc 3728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2024

Hayes, Eugenia Mary (Blakey), 1905-1992 (Sc 3728), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3728. “A History of Old Gilead Church House,” by Eugenia Blakey Hayes, prepared for the church’s one-hundredth anniversary, 1860-1960.


Japan’S Assimilation Of Okinawa, Alex Thompson Jun 2024

Japan’S Assimilation Of Okinawa, Alex Thompson

ASPIRE 2024

. My research shows that the initial motivation for assimilating the Okinawan people was to create a national cohesive culture in Japan. Still, it fell short because of the actions of the average citizen in Japan and the governmental strategies. The idea of racial superiority and discrimination kept the Okinawans from ever being recognized as Japanese citizens. In this paper, I will discuss the Japanese government's assimilation practices and how Japanese people contributed to the assimilation policies. After exploring Okinawan culture and how this unique culture was formed, I will examine how the average Japanese citizen's racial superiority complex, humiliation …


Ums Insider, June 2024, Ums Human Resources May 2024

Ums Insider, June 2024, Ums Human Resources

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.


Community Message About The Passing Of C. Thomas Hess, University Of Maine Office Of Human Resources May 2024

Community Message About The Passing Of C. Thomas Hess, University Of Maine Office Of Human Resources

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine community extends its deepest sympathy to the family, colleagues and friends of C. Thomas Hess, professor emeritus of physics, who passed away on May 22, 2024. He was 83.


Stringfellow, Jessie Eleanor, 1904-1980 (Sc 3726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2024

Stringfellow, Jessie Eleanor, 1904-1980 (Sc 3726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3726. Letter, 26 December 1926, to Jessie Stringfellow, Nashville, Tennessee, from “Boots.” He recounts his efforts to locate her during a visit to town, asks about recent flooding in Nashville, and describes a pin given to his girlfriend. He writes on letterhead of the Green River Fuel Company Incorporated, Mogg, Kentucky. The reverse provides information about the company and its product, “Green River Coal.”


Strategic Re-Envisioning Update, Joan Ferrini-Mundy May 2024

Strategic Re-Envisioning Update, Joan Ferrini-Mundy

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.


Temporary Interruption To Mainecat And Non-Ums Library Requests, Daisy Domínguez Singh, Office Of The Executive Vice President For Academic Affairs & Provost May 2024

Temporary Interruption To Mainecat And Non-Ums Library Requests, Daisy Domínguez Singh, Office Of The Executive Vice President For Academic Affairs & Provost

General University of Maine Publications

The temporary service interruption is due to enhancements being implemented, which will contribute to a more seamless and user-friendly experience, aligning with UMSL's mission to provide exceptional library services. University of Maine System Libraries is committed to a modern, reliable and effective library catalog system for all patrons.


"That They May Become Efficient Agents, Under God.": Antebellum Scientific Medical Education At The University Of Michigan As Preparation For The Civil War, Jesse A. Roberts May 2024

"That They May Become Efficient Agents, Under God.": Antebellum Scientific Medical Education At The University Of Michigan As Preparation For The Civil War, Jesse A. Roberts

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The following dissertation focuses on medical education at the University of Michigan before the Civil War and the graduate application of medical school lessons to the Civil War. Medical and Civil War Medical historians have overlooked the importance of medical education. The founding of the University of Michigan Department of Medicine and its position in Michigan's medical history and intellectual history is central to understanding the importance of the medical school. Chapters on the medical school show the valuable training Michigan medical school graduates received and how it was a scientific medical education superior to other contemporary medical schools. The …


The Protestant Vatican: Black Churches Involvement In The Nashville Civil Rights Movement 1865-1972, Samuel Dingkee Momodu May 2024

The Protestant Vatican: Black Churches Involvement In The Nashville Civil Rights Movement 1865-1972, Samuel Dingkee Momodu

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Black churches played a significant role in the Long Civil Rights Movement in Nashville, Tennessee, from Reconstruction to the early 1970’s. A more detailed study of the history of the movement and the role that Black churches played needs to be done at the local level, to gain a better understanding of how the Nashville Civil Rights Movement developed logistically and ideologically. This dissertation assesses how the Black Church, as an institution of African American life in Nashville, shaped and directed civil rights activism in that city. Black churches provided the headquarters that established two of the most influential civil …


Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum, If You Want Peace Prepare For War: The U.S. Army And The War Of 1812, Schuyler C. Ogden May 2024

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum, If You Want Peace Prepare For War: The U.S. Army And The War Of 1812, Schuyler C. Ogden

Masters Theses

When thinking of the War of 1812, many people may think about Fort McHenry and the Star-Spangled Banner. They may also think about the only time when the American capitol was burned. Or they think about Andrew Jackson and his triumphant victory at New Orleans. Other than these, most Americans do not think about the War of 1812. In fact, the war is all but forgotten in most American minds. Despite this, this early American conflict is still worth looking at. Not because it was a success, but because it brought up much needed changes to American policies. Some of …


Shining Lights In A Crooked Generation: The Experiences And Impact Of Soviet Evangelical Youth, Abigail Coker May 2024

Shining Lights In A Crooked Generation: The Experiences And Impact Of Soviet Evangelical Youth, Abigail Coker

Masters Theses

Despite facing severe pressure from their secular surroundings, Soviet evangelical youth displayed resilience and creativity throughout the Soviet era, becoming key figures in the preservation and growth of the Russian Baptist church. Up until now, western scholars have largely ignored this story or treated it peripherally. This research seeks to address this gap by examining the experiences and impact of Soviet evangelical youth. Throughout the Soviet period, the content of the evangelical youth experience remained essentially unchanged, focusing on fellowship, service, and Bible teaching through preaching, singing, and poetry readings. The period from 1908 – 1929 became a foundational one …


The Perpetual Progression In The Schleswig-Holstein Duchy: History, Politics, And Religion, 1460-1864, Christian Anthony Ahlers May 2024

The Perpetual Progression In The Schleswig-Holstein Duchy: History, Politics, And Religion, 1460-1864, Christian Anthony Ahlers

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

German nationalism in the Schleswig and Holstein duchies that predates the German Unification Wars of the Nineteenth Century continuously transformed in response to Danish encroachment, civic disputes regarding treaty legitimacy, and war. The Germans in the duchies fought to retain their ancestral homelands and, in doing so, embraced a pan-Germanic consciousness that is the foundation for early modern nationalism. This consciousness dates back hundreds of years. This case study examines the Germans of Schleswig and Holstein and their experiences with the consistent and pressing Danish encroachment. Despite the encroachment, the Germans remained connected with their culture, traditions, religion, and their …


Profiles In Influence: Shaping American Perceptions, Attitudes, And Policy Towards China, Benjamin Merritt May 2024

Profiles In Influence: Shaping American Perceptions, Attitudes, And Policy Towards China, Benjamin Merritt

Masters Theses

Pearl Buck, Henry Luce, Edgar Snow, and Richard Nixon have profoundly influenced Sino-American relations throughout the 20th century. Their impact on American perceptions, attitudes, and foreign policy has played a pivotal role in shaping the current state of relations between the United States government and the People’s Republic of China. Pivotal historical events such as WWI & WWII, the Sino-Japanese War, China’s Civil War, and the Soviet-Sino conflict—among other events—have also significantly influenced the dynamics of Sino-American relations. Despite their importance, there is a notable absence of studies that comprehensively explore the collective impact of these individuals and events. Understanding …


The Nuclear Threat: A Homeland Security Perspective, Renae Katherine Harvey May 2024

The Nuclear Threat: A Homeland Security Perspective, Renae Katherine Harvey

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

On December 8, 1987, the United States and Russia signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Since then, it has been a common misconception that this solidified the end of the Cold War and the Nuclear Arms Race. To this day, nuclear installations are plaguing bordering countries within the European Union. As a result, severe transnational issues become evident as transnational crime groups grow and technological advancements of terrorist groups continue to gain ground within the nuclear power threshold. Furthermore, countries within the Asian Peninsula and the Middle East continue to demonstrate nuclear prowess via mass media attention as a sense …


Malama Aina In Hawaii: Unraveling The Legacy Of The Post-World War Ii Land Sovereignty Movement, Rachel Lynn Sample May 2024

Malama Aina In Hawaii: Unraveling The Legacy Of The Post-World War Ii Land Sovereignty Movement, Rachel Lynn Sample

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation undertakes a rigorous historical analysis to elucidate the intricate and enduring challenges surrounding the desecration of Native Hawaiian lands and culture. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, as well as employing diverse methodological approaches, this study delves deep into the multifaceted factors that have shaped this longstanding issue within the context of Hawaii's history. Beginning with an exploration of the impact of Western legal strategies on land loss and cultural commodification among Native Hawaiians, this research investigates the historical processes that led to the separation of Hawaiians from their ancestral lands. It scrutinizes the ramifications …


America’S Favorite Fighting Frenchman: Marquis De Lafayette In American Pop Culture, Joshua Neiderhiser May 2024

America’S Favorite Fighting Frenchman: Marquis De Lafayette In American Pop Culture, Joshua Neiderhiser

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Popular culture has become as engrained within American society as the proverbial grandma’s apple pie. Due to the explosion of the internet, popular culture has become easier to find and share. For the historian this has created a cornucopia of research opportunities but has also created a massive problem: popular culture often comingles fact, fiction, and myth, making it more difficult for the historian to decipher the truth. The Marquis de Lafayette has been as affected by this as any other. His character and his legacy have been misrepresented in American popular culture. There has been a distinct divide between …


Radio At Saint John's University: Antennas To Long-Playing Legacies, Bonnie Finn May 2024

Radio At Saint John's University: Antennas To Long-Playing Legacies, Bonnie Finn

Libraries Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Audio Tape Recordings Collection, Wmky Radio May 2024

Audio Tape Recordings Collection, Wmky Radio

University Archives Finding Aids

No abstract provided.


H. L. Glover- St. Augustine Water Works, July 7, 1937 May 2024

H. L. Glover- St. Augustine Water Works, July 7, 1937

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

No abstract provided.