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Landmark Report (Vol. 24, No. 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections Dec 2004

Landmark Report (Vol. 24, No. 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Landmark Report

Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.


Japan’S War With China: Context And Stakes, Michele Gibney Nov 2004

Japan’S War With China: Context And Stakes, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

The context in which Japan was drawn into war with China, and what they had at stake going in, are flip sides of the same coin. The contexts and stakes are: democratic government, will of the people, international status, foreign trade, the Emperor, and racial superiority. In the 1920’s and 30’s, Japan was losing the ideal of democracy, the desire to have democracy, and the will of the people. They were drawn into the war with China in order to reunite the citizenry and because of a failed democratic leadership being supplanted by right wing militarists. International status and foreign …


The Politics Of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department Of Justice, And Civil Rights, 1866-1876, Robert John Kaczorowski Nov 2004

The Politics Of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department Of Justice, And Civil Rights, 1866-1876, Robert John Kaczorowski

History

This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which federal judges, attorneys, and other law officers defined a new era of civil and political rights in the South and implemented the revolutionary 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction.


Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 27, Number 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections Oct 2004

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 27, Number 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Landmark Report (Vol. 24, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections Sep 2004

Landmark Report (Vol. 24, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Landmark Report

Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.


The Inter-Relations Of Geography And Human Advancement, Michele Gibney Aug 2004

The Inter-Relations Of Geography And Human Advancement, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

When I think about what factors into creating a culture, I seldom think of geography. But when one gets right down to it, geography plays an incredibly pivotal role in two of the most important categories of human interaction with the earth: agriculture and war. Both occupations go towards feeding a need in society and both produce innumerable advances in technology and human relations. According to texts currently under study in this class, the importance of geography (in the senses of features and border lines) is of paramount importance. But what makes them so important? How have the major geographical …


Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 27, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jul 2004

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 27, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


History In The Air, Edward L. Ayers Jul 2004

History In The Air, Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

The history in the air never seems to settle to the ground. Polls and tests reveal that plenty of young people do not know about their nation's history -- not to mention the history of other nations. Some connection is not being made.


Gommage Et Résistance Dans Le Processus De Mythification Postcoloniale, Robert Fotsing Mangoua Jun 2004

Gommage Et Résistance Dans Le Processus De Mythification Postcoloniale, Robert Fotsing Mangoua

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Using the central figures of Um Nyobe and Patrice Lumumba, this paper aims to show that postcolonial mythology is a confrontation of two tendencies: on one hand, the colonial and postcolonial States, whose efforts tend to rub out history and its great faces, and on the other, artists and thinkers from Africa or abroad who want to establish the memory and the deeds of the missing as a source of inspiration for the present and next generation.


The Social And Legal Aspects Of Colonial Witchcraft : A Comparison Of Virginia And Bermuda, Leigh Anne Collier Apr 2004

The Social And Legal Aspects Of Colonial Witchcraft : A Comparison Of Virginia And Bermuda, Leigh Anne Collier

Honors Theses

This is a study of the social and legal aspects of witchcraft in the British colonies of Virginia and Bermuda. It involves an analysis of the community and institutional structure of each of these settlements, as well as an investigation of the cultural understanding of the concept of witchcraft. The intensity with which witches in Bermuda were prosecuted, as compared with Virginia is due to several factors, including the higher level of community cohesiveness, the discord among religious groups and the rationale of the political leaders.


Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 27, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections Apr 2004

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 27, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


London Coffee Houses : The First Hundred Years, Heather Lynn Mcqueen Apr 2004

London Coffee Houses : The First Hundred Years, Heather Lynn Mcqueen

Honors Theses

This paper examines how early London coffee houses catered to the intellectual, political, religious and business communities in London, as well as put forward some information regarding what it was about coffee houses that made them "new meeting places" for Londoners. Coffee houses offered places for political debate and progressively modem forms of such debate, "penny university" lessons on all matter of science and the arts, simplicity and sobriety in which independent religious groups could meet, as well as the early development of a private office space.


Review: Pamela O. Long, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts And The Culture Of Knowledge From Antiquity To The Renaissance (Baltimore And London, 2001), Andre Wakefield Apr 2004

Review: Pamela O. Long, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts And The Culture Of Knowledge From Antiquity To The Renaissance (Baltimore And London, 2001), Andre Wakefield

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Reviewed work: Pamela O. Long. Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+364. $55.


Medieval Notaries And Their Acts: The 1327–1328 Register Of Jean Holanie, Kathryn L. Reyerson, Debra A. Salata Apr 2004

Medieval Notaries And Their Acts: The 1327–1328 Register Of Jean Holanie, Kathryn L. Reyerson, Debra A. Salata

TEAMS Documents of Practice

This book explores the beginnings of the continental European notarial tradition, acquainting readers with the format of notarial documents, the books containing notarial acts, and with the variety of notarial acts.


"Their Shoes Yet New" : The Immigrant Image In The Baltimore Riots Of 1812 And The Disagreement Over Nationality, John K. Dunn Jr Apr 2004

"Their Shoes Yet New" : The Immigrant Image In The Baltimore Riots Of 1812 And The Disagreement Over Nationality, John K. Dunn Jr

Honors Theses

This paper examines the ways in which immigrants were characterized in Baltimore immediately following that city's Riots in 1812. It finds that the "native" majority used the immigrant image in an attempt to determine the criteria of nationality. That image was not settled, however, and rather constituted a discussion between interested groups about the relative importance of ethnicity in the years before Jacksonian democracy. It also concludes that the peculiar conditions and social divisions of Baltimore directly contributed to the Baltimore Riots and that the riots provided an opportunity for prevalent stereotypes to surface.


Landmark Report (Vol. 22, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections Mar 2004

Landmark Report (Vol. 22, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Landmark Report

Newsletter published by the Landmark Association; this local group advocates the preservation, protection and maintenance of architectural, cultural and archaeological resources in Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky.


The History Of The One Hundred And Thirtieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Terrence W. Beltz Mar 2004

The History Of The One Hundred And Thirtieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Terrence W. Beltz

Master's Theses

In August 1862, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania quickly responded to President Lincoln's request for more troops. An overwhelming number of Pennsylvania volunteers promptly answered the call that supplied the Union Army eighteen new infantry regiments who were to serve for a period of nine months. This devoted group of central Pennsylvanians, rendezvoused at Camp Simmons, Pennsylvania, in mid-August 1862, was to become soldiers of 130th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers who, with no military experience and little training, would face hardened Confederate veterans at "Bloody Lane" at the Battle of Antietam and "Marye's Heights" at the Battle of Fredericksburg. They were to …


Au Seuil Du Chaos : Devoir De Mémoire, Indicible Et Piège Du Devoir Dire, Issac Bazié Jan 2004

Au Seuil Du Chaos : Devoir De Mémoire, Indicible Et Piège Du Devoir Dire, Issac Bazié

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

That literature has not entirely lost its means when faced with great human tragedies is a fact widely debated when it comes to the Holocaust. This text relies on a discussion of the unspeakable in order to reflect on the texts written about Rwanda’s genocide. Reading those texts’ thresholds reveals a tension of writing between history and fiction, “devoir de mémoire” and near resignation of speech.


Oliver Optic 1822-1897, Children's Author, Dale H. Freeman Jan 2004

Oliver Optic 1822-1897, Children's Author, Dale H. Freeman

Joseph P. Healey Library Publications

No abstract provided.


Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 27, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2004

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 27, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Miami Valley School: 1956-2003 A Retrospective, Barbara A. Cleary Ph.D. Jan 2004

The Miami Valley School: 1956-2003 A Retrospective, Barbara A. Cleary Ph.D.

Local and Rare Books

This book details the history of the Miami Valley School from before its founding in 1964 through to 2003. It highlights notable faculty, sports teams, and more.

The Miami Valley School, founding 1964 and located on 22 acres in Washington Township, is Dayton's only independent, college preparatory, non-sectarian school for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12. It serves students in 16 surrounding communities within a 35-mile radius.


The Duke’S Devil And Doctor Lambe’S Darling: A Case Study Of The Male Witch In Early Modern England, Karin Amundsen Jan 2004

The Duke’S Devil And Doctor Lambe’S Darling: A Case Study Of The Male Witch In Early Modern England, Karin Amundsen

Psi Sigma Siren

The witch-hunt in early modern England has been the subject of much scholarly research in the last several decades. While much of this research focuses on the political, religious, economic, and social aspects of the witch-hunts, the role of gender in the trials has recently come under more scrutiny, though much of it focuses on women. Although the role of women in the witch-hunts is unquestionably important given that accusations primarily targeted them, historians should not ignore male witches or simply dismiss them as spouses or relatives of female witches. Compounding the exclusion of male witches from historical consideration is …


History And The Fundamentals Of Computer Science, Edward L. Ayers Jan 2004

History And The Fundamentals Of Computer Science, Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Castle Valley, America, Nancy Taniguchi Jan 2004

Castle Valley, America, Nancy Taniguchi

All USU Press Publications

This is American history told through the stories of an atypical, for Utah, region. Castle Valley is roughly conterminous with two counties, Carbon and Emery, which together formed a rural, industrial enclave in a mostly desert environment behind the mountain range that borders Utah's principal corridor of settlement. In Castle Valley, coal mining and the railroad attracted diverse, multiethnic communities and a fair share of historic characters, from Butch Cassidy, who stole its largest payroll, to Mother Jones, who helped organize its workers against its mining companies. Among the last major segments of the state to be settled, it was …


Defiance And Deference In Mexico’S Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule In Nueva Vizcaya. By Susan M. Deeds, Charlotte M. Gradie Jan 2004

Defiance And Deference In Mexico’S Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule In Nueva Vizcaya. By Susan M. Deeds, Charlotte M. Gradie

History Faculty Publications

Reviews the book "Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya," by Susan M. Deeds.


Life After Civil Death: Felony And Mormon Disenfranchisement In The U.S. West (1880-1890), Winston A. Bowman Jan 2004

Life After Civil Death: Felony And Mormon Disenfranchisement In The U.S. West (1880-1890), Winston A. Bowman

Psi Sigma Siren

Pomeroy’s understanding of the nature of the franchise may seem foreign to many present-day Americans, but this vision is the one to which most nineteenth-century jurists, scholars, and politicians subscribed. It is worth noting that Pomeroy wrote these words in the aftermath of the post-Civil War rights revolution and half a century after the expansion of the franchise under the auspices of Jacksonian democracy. This attitude toward voting rights was not abandoned following the passage of the reconstruction amendments. Instead, the idea of a limited franchise was affirmed time and again in the post-bellum era. Pomeroy’s franchise (one in which …


The Danish Emigration Archives, Birgit Flemming Larsen Jan 2004

The Danish Emigration Archives, Birgit Flemming Larsen

The Bridge

The Danish Emigration Archives was founded in 1932 as the DanAmerica Archives.

Max Henius, a native of Aalborg and an enterprising businessman in Chicago, was the immigrant behind the Archives. It might be seen as flexibility by Danish Americans and their descendants to place their own ethnic group's source materials at a distance to themselves. It did cause some discussions at that time.

The purpose of the Archives is to preserve the history of those Danes who left Denmark to settle in foreign countries. Through the years The Danish Emigration Archives has suffered under several changes due to World War …


The Archive And History: Reflection And Anticipation, Niel Johnson Jan 2004

The Archive And History: Reflection And Anticipation, Niel Johnson

The Bridge

Engraved on the front of the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, is this statement: This Library will belong to the people of the United States. My papers will be the property of the people and be accessible to them. And this is as it should be. The papers of the President are among the most valuable sources of material for history. They ought to be preserved and they ought to be used.


2004 Ruby Yearbook, Britton Bongaardt, Katie Mclaughlin, Kevin Sylvester, Ursinus College Senior Class Jan 2004

2004 Ruby Yearbook, Britton Bongaardt, Katie Mclaughlin, Kevin Sylvester, Ursinus College Senior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 2004 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.


Truth Was Where You Found It: Race In The Press In Birmingham, Alabama, September 1963, Thomas Scales Jan 2004

Truth Was Where You Found It: Race In The Press In Birmingham, Alabama, September 1963, Thomas Scales

Vulcan Historical Review

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