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Judith Leyster: A Study Of Extraordinary Expression, Nicole J. Cardinale

Theses and Dissertations

Judith Leyster’s innovative application of expression in her Self Portrait serves as the focus, whereby she is shown to blend conventional painting categories, preserve a sense of innocence, and confidently flaunt her skills. In turn, Leyster challenged the male-centric art market and stood apart from her artistic predecessors and contemporaries.

Quintus Curtius, Francesca M. Costa

Wonders of Nature and Artifice

This book would have been created and read during the 1600’s, and throughout the European Enlightenment period. Written in Latin, it was made to be consumed by a wealthy and educated gentleman. This example was donated to the exhibit by Charles Emmons. It is covered in not-so-well-tooled vellum and gold leaf. All in all, it is in good condition with no marginalia, so while the vellum cover in the Renaissance is sometimes used on textbooks or other travel-appropriate tomes, this was probably only in a stationary location for a long period of time. [excerpt]

'Turning Hearts To Break Off The Yoke Of Oppression': The Travels And Sufferings Of Christopher Meidel, C. 1659-C. 1715, Richard Allen

Quaker Studies

This study of Christopher Meidel, a Norwegian Quaker writer imprisoned both in England and on the Continent for his beliefs and actions, explores the life of a convert to Quakerism and his missionary zeal in the early eighteenth century. From Meidel's quite tempestuous career we receive insights into the issues Friends faced in Augustan England in adapting to life in a country whose inter-church relations were largely governed by the 1689 Toleration Act, and its insistence that recipients of toleration were to respect the rights of other religionists. In England and Wales, although not censured by Friends, Meidel's activities were …

"Don't Wake Me, My Desk Is Far Too Comfortable": An Autoethnography Of A Novice Esl Teacher's First Year Of Teaching In Japan, Delaney Holland

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

"This thesis explores and analyzes a first year ESL teacher's experience teaching at an all-girl's private school in Nishinomiya, Japan. Chapter 3 is divided into 15 sections that tell the teacher's story of living and teaching in Japan. This chapter includes description, dialogue, concurrent diary excerpts, photos, and theory. Chapter 4 analyzes these experiences and discusses the lessons the author learned while reflecting on her teaching in Japan. The main lesson learned was the importance of practicing cultural relativity--that is, opening one's mind and realizing that there is more than one way to live, teach, and see the world. Chapter …

Fatal Wave, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Fatal Wave is an article concerning the July 1938 seiche that happend in Holland, Michigan and north to Muskegon, Michigan along the Lake Michigan eastern shoreline, taking several lives in its wake.

Ms-136: Temma Berg Collection, Julia D. Marshella

All Finding Aids

This collection contains 107 letters, postcards and telegrams from Temma Berg in Europe, to her parents, Selma and Charles Silverstein, in Philadelphia. While the majority of the letters are sent from her home in Baarn, Holland, a few were sent from London. The postcards were sent from places they visited during their travels, including Amsterdam, Belgium, Germany, London, Paris and Israel.

Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about …

Roamer, Before Chris-Craft, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Roamer, Before Chris-Craft is an article concerning the history of the Roamer Boat Company (1946-1955) of Holland, Michigan, its acquisition by the Chris-Craft Corporation in 1955 to become the Roamer Steel Boats Division of Chris-Craft. The Robert Linn family is also featured as the founders of the company.

Gibbs, Verbina (Fa 45), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 45. Interview with Verbina Gibbs about her work as an obituary writer in Allen County, Kentucky.

Along The Shores Of Macatawa: Boat Building In Holland, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Along the Shores of Macatawa: Boat Building in Holland is an article concerning the history of ship and boat building in the Holland, Michigan area from 1836-2011.

Lakewood Farm: The Private Zoo That The Public Loved, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Lakewood Farm: The Private Zoo That the Public Loved is an article concerning the private zoo in Holland, Michigan, that was owned by Chicago coal merchant George Fulmer Getz and helped form the Illionois based Brookfiekd Zoo and John Ball Zoo of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Boakye, Benjamin, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Interviewee: Reverend Benjamin Boakye

Interviewers: Mark Naison, Benjamin Heither, Amy Davies, Jane Edward

Date of Interview: October 29, 2009

Summarized by Sheina Ledesma

Reverend Benjamin Boakye is a senior pastor at the Ebenezer Assemblies of God church in the Bronx and the president of the Ghanaian Ministers Fellowship. Boakye was born in 1962 in the Ashanti region of Ghana. He was the eldest of six children and as the oldest was given great responsibility within the family. From an early age Boakye was exposed to University life. His father was a plumber at the University of Science and Technology in …

Moving Forward And Outward, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Moving Forward and Outward is the third of five short articles about the history of Hope College, located in Holland, Michigan.

Growing As A College, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Growing as a College is the second of a series of short articles concerning the history of Hope College, located in Holland, Michigan.

Beginning Of Hope, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Beginning of Hope is the first of five short articles about the history of Hope College, located in Holland, Michigan.

Lake 'N Sea Speedboats, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Lake 'n Sea Speedboats concerns the manufacture of the Lake 'n Sea boat line by the LakenSea Boat Corporation (a division of Southern Plastic Corporation), Chris-Craft Corporation, Parsons Corporation and Michigan Fiberglass Company, Holland, Michigan.

Nature, Nurture, Mythology: A Cultural History Of Dutch Orangism During The First Stadholderless Era, 1650-1672, Greg Alan Beaman

LSU Master's Theses

Through its military and political service to the United Provinces of the Netherlands during the course of the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain, the house of Orange came to occupy a special place in Dutch culture. The image of the house of Orange in Dutch political culture followed a trajectory of cultural assimilation from the sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century, whereby Orange's continued service linked it inextricably to certain aspects of Dutch culture. Having granted the house of Orange legitimacy as political leaders, the Dutch people went about incorporating Orange into the heart of their cultural spirit. …

Rydell, Alice And Vandewege, Mary Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Geoffrey Reynolds

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Dalman, Curly Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Geoffrey Reynolds

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Infamous Beauties: The Story Of The Lake 'N Sea Speedboats, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Infamous Beauties: The Story of the Lake 'n Sea Speedboats concerns the manufacture of the Lake 'n Sea boat line from 1956-1963 by the LakenSea, a division of Southern Plastic Corporation (1956-1957), the Chris-Craft Corporation (1957-1958), Parsons Corporation (1958-1960) and Michigan Fiberglass Company (1960-1963).

Built Along The Shores Of Macatawa: The History Of Boat Building In Holland, Michigan, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Built Along the Shores of Macatawa: The History of Boat Building in Holland, Michigan is an article concerning the history of ship and boat building in the Holland, Michigan area from 1836-2004.

Grinwis, Millie Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Paul Trap

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Erasmus And Switzerland, Edmund J. Campion

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Although Erasmus (1467?-1536) lived in Switzerland for ten years, a longer period of time than in any country except his native Holland, and was, in fact, buried in Basel, scholars have written very little of substance on his lengthy connections with Switzerland and Swiss intellectuals and publishers. This is surprising because links between Erasmus and specific European countries have attracted a great deal of interest from leading Erasmus scholars. In his 1954 book Erasme et l 'Italie, Augustin Renaudet examined the important connections between Erasmus and Italian theologians and philosophers. Not only did Erasmus earn his doctorate in sacred theology …

Pollock, Herb Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Geoffrey Reynolds

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Laukitis, Sally Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Geoffrey Reynolds

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Maritime Namesakes Of A.C. Van Raalte, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Maritime Namesakes of A.C. Van Raalte is an article that concerns the history of the great lakes ships that bore his name for over eighty years.

Vaile, Helen G. Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Larry J. Wagenaar

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Steffens, Margaret Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Larry J. Wagenaar

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Tolkien's Exceptional Visit To Holland: A Reconstruction, René Van Rossenberg

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

In March 1958 Tolkien was the guest of honour at a “Hobbit Meal” in Rotterdam, Holland. He had never before accepted such an invitation and never did again. By interviewing the organisers and many people who met Tolkien, the visit has been reconstructed, and many, often funny anecdotes have come to light.

Silva, Teodoro Oral History Interview: Members Of The Hispanic Community, Joseph O'Grady

Members of the Hispanic Community

The Hope College Oral History Project was designed to record and transcribe for permanent collection the living heritage of Holland, Michigan.

Serrano, Alberto R Oral History Interview: Members Of The Hispanic Community, Joseph O'Grady

Members of the Hispanic Community

The Hope College Oral History Project was designed to record and transcribe for permanent collection the living heritage of Holland, Michigan.