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Maine Folklife, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
As the incoming director of the Folklife Center, I [James Moreira] have been asked to write a short piece to introduce myself to the members and supporters. It seems, after all, the traditional thing to do in such circumstances.
Originally from Nova Scotia, I have spent much of the past twenty years living in Newfoundland, most recently on the stunningly beautiful west coast where I was teaching at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. I earned a masters and Ph.D. at the Department of Folklore at Memorial University in St. John's.
Maine Folklife, Vol. 5, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 5, Iss. 1, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
Edward D. "Sandy" Ives, founder of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History and the Northeast Folklore Society announced that he will retire after forty-four years of teaching at the University of Maine.
To Settle Is To Conquer: Spaniards, Native Americans, And The Colonization Of Santa Elena In Sixteenth-Century Florida, Karen Lynn Paar
To Settle Is To Conquer: Spaniards, Native Americans, And The Colonization Of Santa Elena In Sixteenth-Century Florida, Karen Lynn Paar
Faculty & Staff Publications
Sixteenth-century Spaniards believed that “to settle is to conquer,” and they brought this tradition established during the Reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from the Moors to their conquest and colonization of the Americas. The Spaniards’ multi-faceted approach to settlement proved remarkably enduring as shown by the mid-1560s effort of Pedro Menendez de Aviles to claim La Florida, which then included much of the present-day southeastern United States. Within this territory Santa Elena, now known as Parris Island, South Carolina, came into the focus of French and Spanish monarchs as the political and religious battles raging in Europe in the mid-sixteenth …
Ua1d Mary Clarke, Wku Human Resources
Ua1d Mary Clarke, Wku Human Resources
WKU Archives Records
Personnel file of professor Mary Clarke, includes correspondence and newspaper clippings.