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Interview With James Leary, October 18, 2008, James Leary, Sierra R. Green
Interview With James Leary, October 18, 2008, James Leary, Sierra R. Green
Oral Histories
James Leary was interviewed on October 18, 2008, by Sierra Green about his experiences during World War II.
Course Information:
- Course Title: HIST 300: Historical Method
- Academic Term: Fall 2008
- Course Instructor: Dr. Michael J. Birkner '72
Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit -- https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16274coll2/search
Interview With Donald Gallion, August 6, 2008, Donald Gallion, Michael J. Birkner
Interview With Donald Gallion, August 6, 2008, Donald Gallion, Michael J. Birkner
Oral Histories
Donald Gallion was interviewed on August 6, 2008 by Michael Birkner about his time serving in the United States army during WWII and his return to Gettysburg College and after the war.
Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit -- https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16274coll2/search
The World That Made William Johnson, Timothy J. Shannon
The World That Made William Johnson, Timothy J. Shannon
History Faculty Publications
Readers of the Atlantic Monthly may have been taken aback when they received their December 2006 issue of that venerable journal of American arts and letters. In a pitch more appropriate to People or some other celebrity magazine, the Atlantic offered a list of "The 100 Most Influential Americans of All Time," and right there on the cover, posing as eye-candy for the intelligentsia was none other than #1 himself, Abraham Lincoln, the sexiest most dead American alive, or something like that. Had the high brow finally gone low brow? Had pop culture's fascination with list-making found a new frontier? …
A. Lincoln, Philosopher: Lincoln’S Place In 19th-Century Intellectual History, Allen C. Guelzo
A. Lincoln, Philosopher: Lincoln’S Place In 19th-Century Intellectual History, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
The nineteenth century in Europe and America was an era of second thoughts. Those second thoughts were largely about the Enlightenment, which had been born in the mid-1600s as a scientific revolution and blossomed into the Age of Reason in the 1700s, when it seemed that no puzzle was beyond the grasp of scientific rationality. That blossom was snipped all too quickly by the French Revolution, which drowned rationality in human politics in a spray of Jacobin-terrorized blood, then by the revulsion of European art and music from the Enlightenment’s canons of balance and symmetry in favor of the Romantic …
El Atlántico Y La Reinvención De Lo Humano En Las Silvas Americanas (1823-1826) De Andrés Bello, Alvaro Kaempfer
El Atlántico Y La Reinvención De Lo Humano En Las Silvas Americanas (1823-1826) De Andrés Bello, Alvaro Kaempfer
Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Faculty Publications
Este artículo analiza la construcción de la América postcolonial después del proceso de independencia. A partir de la lectura de las Silvas de Andrés Bello, se analiza interconectadamente la historia y la poesía para guiar la atención hacia el nuevo Occidente en las Américas. Andrés Bello, y sus Silvas Americanas, ofrece elementos para entender la construcción histórica y política de una América occidental, independiente y poscolonial.
This article focuses on the construction of postcolonial Latin America after the independence process. Then, Andrés Bello's Silvas Americanas go back to the founding grain of the West to show a decisive connection between …