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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
Amjambo Africa! (January 2023), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (January 2023), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
War in eastern DRC ............2-3
Updates from Africa ................4
Depression/refugee camps...... 5
Editorial .....................................6
Amjambo Arts: Phuc Tran ......7
Advice: Someone to trust .....8-9
In 7 languages
Notable inaugurations .....10-11
Coastal resilience ...................11
All about the Workforce ........12
Financial literacy/New Year ..12
Legislative Update ..................13
MCA Giraffe awards ..............14
Tips & Info ..............................15
Year in Review .................. 16-17
Health & Wellness.......18-23, 25
Protecting vision
Health in winter
In 7 languages
Portland Adult Ed. .................27
Abolitionist movement ..........27
Languages are similar ............27
Ukrainian perspective ...........28
Amjambo Africa! (November 2022), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (November 2022), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Nigerian Community .............. 2
Amjambo Arts.......................... 3
Moonglade .............................4-5
Education ..................................6
Publisher’s editorial ..................7
Financial literacy ..........8-13, 19
In 7 languages
World Market Basket ......14-15
Election special .................16-17
All about the Workforce ........18
Community Happenings ...... 20
News from Africa. .............22-23
Health&Wellness. ..............24-31
Topic: Loneliness
In 7 languages
Community columns .......32-33
New Voices ........................34-35
Tips & Info ........................36-37
Afghan Adjustment Act ........ 38
Amjambo Africa! (October 2022), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (October 2022), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Election special .....................2-3
Moonglade .............................4-5
Amjambo Arts.......................... 6
Credential equivalencies ....8-10
In 7 languages
Ask the doctor ........................11
In 7 languages
Housing update ......................12
Editorial ...................................13
Market Basket ................... 14-15
Beautiful Blackbird .......... 16-17
All about the Workforce ........18
Community Happenings..20-21
News from Africa ..............22-23
Health & Wellness .............24-31
In 7 languages
Community columns .............32
Financial literacy ....................33
New Voices columns ........34-35
Tips & Info ........................36-37
Amjambo Africa! (July 2022), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (July 2022), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue
Amjambo Arts ......................2/3
Adama Delphine Fawundu Arisa White • Genius Black
Education ..................................4
Youth Fellowship Moonglade ................................ 5
4th of July • Hanji Chang
APIDA books for kids
Editorial & Letters.................... 6
Tips & info ...........................8-15
Fully translated
Useful info: Stimulus checks,
Resources, Marijuana, scams World Market Basket .............16
Farm market in Wales All about the workforce... 18/19
Licensing • Networking Community Happenings..20/21
News from Africa .......22/23/36
Congo Basin • Rwanda Ethiopia • DRC
Health & Wellness ............24-30
Lead poisoning - Fully Translated
Ask the Doctor • COVID Monkeypox • Suicide prevention
Community org. columns ....32
Financial …
Amjambo Africa! (June 2022), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (June 2022), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In this Issue Education ..................................3
Moonglade .............................4/5
Publisher’s editorial ..................7
Financial literacy: what is Credit .................8-13
In 7 languages Market Basket ..................14/15
Tips&Info ................................16
Lead in soil ..............................17
All about the Workforce ..18/19
Community Happenings .20/21
photos from community events
News from Africa .............22/36
Health&Wellness ...............24-31
Bridging the healthcare gap
In 7 languages
Columns .......................32/33/39
Nonprofit Organizations
Ask the D.A.
Let’s Talk/ELL
New Voices columns ........34/35
U.S. Extremism And Media: How The New Age Of Politics Speaks To Media Usage, Josephine R. Haneklau
U.S. Extremism And Media: How The New Age Of Politics Speaks To Media Usage, Josephine R. Haneklau
Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current
On January 6th, 2021, the nation watched from their television screens as a group of extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. An interesting emotion fell over the U.S. public – it was both shocking and not shocking at all. The attack on the Capitol was a by-product of years of internal division, catapulted by Trump’s presidency. Between racial divisions and the progression of Black Lives Matter, the advancement of COVID and its governmental policies, and Trump’s divisive nature of president at a peak, it seemed almost inevitable that an offense like this would occur.
As political conversations …
The 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott: Politics And The Public, Jonathan White
The 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott: Politics And The Public, Jonathan White
Global Tides
The paper examines the role President Carter played in forcing a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games by drawing support from a politically charged public. The Cold War altered not only American perceptions of the U.S.S.R. but also the Olympic Games. While the games were meant to serve as an apolitical arena meant only to celebrate athletic achievement, both sides of the Cold War used the games for political statements in favor of their own systems. President Carter was able to use the belief many Americans held that the U.S.S.R. was to be defeated and delegeitimized at every step …
The Epic Journey Of Pepe The Frog: A Study In Post-Truth, Jaq Webb
The Epic Journey Of Pepe The Frog: A Study In Post-Truth, Jaq Webb
Belmont University Research Symposium (BURS)
Abstract
The internet meme Pepe the Frog is an excellent avenue for exploring the relationship between post-truth politics, new media, and viral ideas. While memes as conceptualized by Richard Dawkins are essentially timeless components of human society, internet memes as exemplified by the hijacking of Pepe the Frog by the Alt-Right and the Trump campaign are a novel force with uniquely dark implications for liberal democracy. In this study, I attempt a leftist analysis of the best thinking about Post-Truth Trump-era politics and the communication tactics of the Alt-Right, which suggests that some of the same cultural and material forces …
The People's Court: On The Intellectual Origins Of American Judicial Power, Ian C. Bartrum
The People's Court: On The Intellectual Origins Of American Judicial Power, Ian C. Bartrum
Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)
This article enters into the modern debate between “consti- tutional departmentalists”—who contend that the executive and legislative branches share constitutional interpretive authority with the courts—and what are sometimes called “judicial supremacists.” After exploring the relevant history of political ideas, I join the modern minority of voices in the latter camp.
This is an intellectual history of two evolving political ideas—popular sovereignty and the separation of powers—which merged in the making of American judicial power, and I argue we can only understand the structural function of judicial review by bringing these ideas together into an integrated whole. Or, put another way, …
Spiritual Activism And Political Solidarity In So Far From God And Mother Tongue: Two Views By Two Authors, Jean Paul Russo
Spiritual Activism And Political Solidarity In So Far From God And Mother Tongue: Two Views By Two Authors, Jean Paul Russo
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM AND POLITICAL SOLIDARITY IN SO FAR FROM GOD AND MOTHER TONGUE: TWO VIEWS BY TWO AUTHORS
by
Jean Paul Russo
Florida International University, 2020
Miami, Florida
Professor Anne Castro, Major Professor
This thesis focuses on the intersection between spirituality and political action in the works of two Latinx authors, Demetria Martinez and Ana Castillo. Building on Gloria Anzaldua’s theories of trauma, narrative, and what she terms ‘conocimiento,’ I contend that the novels So Far From God, and Mother Tongue, present an alternative approach to political action that is derived from a common experience of suffering and trauma as …
Blotner, Joseph Leo, 1923-2012 (Mss 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Blotner, Joseph Leo, 1923-2012 (Mss 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 200. Research material collected by Joseph Leo Blotner for his literary biography of Robert Penn Warren. Includes Warren’s correspondence (photocopies from various repositories), interview transcripts, notes, news clippings, critical essays, and other documentation about Warren. Also includes drafts, galley proofs, and permissions related to the biography.
Exorcising Power, John Jarzemsky
Exorcising Power, John Jarzemsky
Theses and Dissertations
This paper theorizes that authors, in an act I have termed “literary exorcism,” project and expunge parts of their identities that are in conflict with the overriding political agenda of their texts, into the figure of the villain. Drawing upon theories of power put forth by Judith Butler, I argue that this sort of projection arises in reaction to dominant ideas and institutions, but that authors find ways to manipulate this process over time. By examining a broad cross-section of English-language literature over several centuries, this phenomenon and its evolution can be observed, as well as the means by which …
The Oil Crisis Of 1973: President Nixon’S Actions To Maintain American Prosperity, Meredith Haluga
The Oil Crisis Of 1973: President Nixon’S Actions To Maintain American Prosperity, Meredith Haluga
American Studies Forum
The paper describes the Oil Crisis of 1973. It examines how President Nixon and his government reacted to the Oil Crisis in attempts to prevent the United States from being economically devastated by it. The work includes details about the actions that Nixon and the government took, the regulations set in place as a result, the reactions of Americans, and the lasting impacts of both the crisis and the regulations.
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Samaa Abdurraqib is a Black, queer, Muslim woman living in Portland, Maine. Abdurraqib was raised in Columbus, Ohio. She attend the University of Ohio, and later the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a PhD in English Literature. After graduating she worked as a visiting professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Next she went on to work the American Civil Liberties Union in Maine as a reproductive rights organizer. She now works for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. Her advocacy and organizing work has included places such as Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine, …
How Civility Works, Keith Bybee
How Civility Works, Keith Bybee
Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media at Syracuse University
Is civility dead? Americans ask this question every election season, but their concern is hardly limited to political campaigns. Doubts about civility regularly arise in just about every aspect of American public life. Rudeness runs rampant. Our news media is saturated with aggressive bluster and vitriol. Our digital platforms teem with expressions of disrespect and trolls. Reflecting these conditions, surveys show that a significant majority of Americans believe we are living in an age of unusual anger and discord. Everywhere we look, there seems to be conflict and hostility, with shared respect and consideration nowhere to be found. In a …
The Heartland Of The Democracy: Presidential Politics In Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1860-64, Benjamin Petersheim
The Heartland Of The Democracy: Presidential Politics In Oley Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1860-64, Benjamin Petersheim
Masters Theses
Oley Township, founded in 1740, in Berks County, Pennsylvania holds a special place in the commonwealth's history because of its unique religious, political, and cultural history. With hundreds of historic buildings and its Pennsylvania German heritage, the heart of the Oley Valley continues to attract colonial and Pennsylvania German historians from great distances so that they are able to analyze and research its rich heritage. Indeed, the area was designated as a National Historic District by the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and much of the farmland has been preserved through land trusts and historical preservation efforts. Many …
“No Baker’S Dozen Was Her Taste”: Rhode Island, Ratification, And Rhetoric In American Constitutional History, Lucy Morroni
“No Baker’S Dozen Was Her Taste”: Rhode Island, Ratification, And Rhetoric In American Constitutional History, Lucy Morroni
American Studies Forum
In 1787, Rhode Island refused to send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, becoming the only state to do so. From its early colonial beginnings, Rhode Island's unique status gave its residents the opportunity to develop equally unique attitudes about the nature of government. These attitudes, however, also made the colony particularly susceptible to criticism from outside commentators. Over time, this criticism hardened Rhode Island's individualist, self-reliant determination to resist outside control, which ultimately resulted in the refusal to send delegates to the Convention and later continued refusal to ratify the Constitution until 1790. As Rhode Island's dissidence …
Makers: Women Who Make America [Film Review], Judith E. Smith
Makers: Women Who Make America [Film Review], Judith E. Smith
American Studies Faculty Publication Series
The three-hour documentary MAKERS: WOMEN WHO MADE AMERICA, promises to tell “how women have helped shape America over the last fifty years…in pursuit of their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy.” However, rather than provide a historical analysis of the reemergence of feminism as produced by social movements and social change, MAKERS, according to the film’s press release, focuses on “unforgettable moments in history” told through stories of “exceptional women whose pioneering contributions continue to shape the world in which we live… stories of women who led the fight, those who …
Faith, Politics, And American Culture [Review Of The Books Letter To A Christian Nation, Pity And Politics: The Right-Wing Assault On Religious Freedom, Faith And Politics: How The “Moral Values” Debate Divides America And How To Move Forward Together, The Compassionate Community: Ten Values To Unite America, Righteous: Dispatches From The Evangelical Youth Movement, And Believers: A Journey Into Evangelical America], Nick Salvatore
Nick Salvatore
[Excerpt] In January 2004, before a black church congregation in New Orleans, President George W. Bush commemorated Martin Luther King's birthday with a spirited promotion of his faith-based initiatives. Appropriating the slain Civil Rights leader's profession of faith, Bush proclaimed his ultimate purpose was to change "America one heart, one soul, one conscience at a time." He emphasized voluntary action by citizens (four times he extolled them as "the social entrepreneurs") and he consistency denigrated the role of government but for one critical function: providing "billions of dollars" to faith-based social-service groups. Proclaiming the values of the Christian Bible as …
Farm Women, Solidarity, And The Suffrage Messenger Nebraska Suffrage Activism On The Plains, 1915-1917, Carmen Heider
Farm Women, Solidarity, And The Suffrage Messenger Nebraska Suffrage Activism On The Plains, 1915-1917, Carmen Heider
Great Plains Quarterly
In the weeks and months following the November 3, 1914, vote on the Nebraska suffrage amendment, activists picked up the pieces after male voters for the third time defeated the proposition in their state. Thomas Coulter explains that in the days leading up to the vote, ''A feeling of impending victory suffused the hearts of pro-suffrage workers," but in the days after, "a sense of shock was widespread."1 The vote had been close: 90,738 for the Nebraska amendment and 100,842 against it.2 In fact, Attorney General Willis Reed later stated that had there been a recount, the amendment …
Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 342), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscritps Small Collection 342. Letters (25) written by Mrs. Giles, an author of Knifley, Adair County, Kentucky, to her friends, Joe Covington and Mitchell Leichhardt, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating much about her writings.
George Engelmann’S Barometer: Measuring Civil War America From St. Louis, Adam Arenson
George Engelmann’S Barometer: Measuring Civil War America From St. Louis, Adam Arenson
Adam Arenson
In the Civil War Era, German-American botanist George Engelmann regularly measured St. Louis's pressure and temperature--both literally, as a scientist, and figuratively, in his observations on the nation's politics. This essay uses this doubling to explore the place of St. Louis within Civil War America.
Guggenheim For Governor Antisemitism, Race, And The Politics Of Gilded Age Colorado, Michael Lee
Guggenheim For Governor Antisemitism, Race, And The Politics Of Gilded Age Colorado, Michael Lee
Great Plains Quarterly
In the summer of 1893 financial panic struck Colorado. The price of silver, in a protracted downward spiral since the conclusion of the Civil War, finally crashed. The British government announced that its Indian mints were ceasing the coinage of silver rupees. The news of that decision caused a torrent of selling on the international market. In a matter of hours, the price of silver plummeted from eighty cents to sixty-four cents an ounce. The collapse in value of Colorado's most important commodity precipitated runs on local banks. Twelve banks alone collapsed in Denver during the month of July. By …
Jenkins, William Marshall, Jr., 1918-2002 (Sc 1748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jenkins, William Marshall, Jr., 1918-2002 (Sc 1748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1748. Unpublished manuscript, "Mr. Democrat," written by William Marshall Jenkins Jr. about the political career of Alben W. Barkley, former U.S. Representative and Senator from Kentucky and former Vice President under Harry Truman. Chiefly excerpts from his speeches and remarks made on the floor of the House and Senate.
Diversity At The Ballot Box: Electoral Politics And Maine's Minority Communities, Post-Wwii To The Present, University Of Southern Maine, Selma Botman, Howard M. Solomon, Abraham J. Peck, Bob Greene
Diversity At The Ballot Box: Electoral Politics And Maine's Minority Communities, Post-Wwii To The Present, University Of Southern Maine, Selma Botman, Howard M. Solomon, Abraham J. Peck, Bob Greene
Publications (Annual Event Catalog)
As this year’s Sampson Center exhibition makes clear the powerful desire to find historical inevitability in the advance toward equal opportunity for all Americans has become far more nuanced by the sometimes discomforting reminders that advances at the ballot box are neither as clear-cut nor as unconditional as we once hoped. The ancient antipathies of racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia are not so easily elided by political campaigns and elections. The pace of social consensus requires a degree of patience and continuing attention that tries the very fabric of American life while we attempt to comprehend the consequences of change wrought …
Relativism, Reflective Equilibrium, And Justice, Justin Schwartz
Relativism, Reflective Equilibrium, And Justice, Justin Schwartz
Justin Schwartz
THIS PAPER IS THE CO-WINNER OF THE FRED BERGER PRIZE IN PHILOSOPHY OF LAW FOR THE 1999 AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BEST PUBLISHED PAPER IN THE PREVIOUS TWO YEARS.
The conflict between liberal legal theory and critical legal studies (CLS) is often framed as a matter of whether there is a theory of justice that the law should embody which all rational people could or must accept. In a divided society, the CLS critique of this view is overwhelming: there is no such justice that can command universal assent. But the liberal critique of CLS, that it degenerates into …
Interview With Virginia Pannell About Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Interview With Virginia Pannell About Her Life (Fa 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Oral Histories
Transcription of an oral interview with Virginia Pannell about her life and times conducted by Charlotte Postlewaite for an oral history project titled "Do You Remember When, 1900-1949." In the interview Pannell discusses her life in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She talks about teachers and teaching, schools, education, politics, health care, World War I, World War II, Influenza, radios, B. Mathis, coal mines and mining, strikes, telephones, vigilantism, Prohibition, rationing and religion.
Franco-American Album, 1980 (Scrapbook #7), Franco-American Collection
Franco-American Album, 1980 (Scrapbook #7), Franco-American Collection
Scrapbooks
Newspaper clippings with photographs of politics, schools, church, wedding anniversaries, obituaries and social events etc., in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine and Canada from 1980.
Franco-American Album, 1979 (Scrapbook #6), Franco-American Collection
Franco-American Album, 1979 (Scrapbook #6), Franco-American Collection
Scrapbooks
Newspaper clippings with photographs of politics, schools, church, wedding anniversaries, obituaries and social events etc., in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine and Canada from 1979.
Franco-American Album, 1978 (Scrapbook #5), Franco-American Collection
Franco-American Album, 1978 (Scrapbook #5), Franco-American Collection
Scrapbooks
Newspaper clippings with photographs of politics, schools, church, wedding anniversaries, obituaries and social events etc., in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine and Canada from 1978.