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On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, And The American Landscape, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

Jared Farmer explains in the opening sentence of this book that he has written "the creation story of a landmark". More specifically, he has written about the manner in which Mt. Timpanogos, a peak that is neither the highest in the Wasatch Range nor the most historically prominent landmark in the Utah Valley, became such a beloved monument in contemporary Utah. This task requires a great deal of effort and insight, for Mt. Timpanogos's rise to prominence depended on a complicated series of events that are closely tied to the ways in which Mormons in particular and Americans in general …

International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

"Terrorism" is a term that cannot be given a stable defintion. Or rather, it can, but to do so forstalls any attempt to examine the major feature of its relation to television in the contemporary world. As the central public arena for organising ways of picturing and talking about social and political life, TV plays a pivotal role in the contest between competing defintions, accounts and explanations of terrorism. Which term is used in any particular context is inextricably tied to judgemements about the legitimacy of the action in question and of the political system against which it is directed. …

Teaching Urban History, Steven Corey

Steven H. Corey

No abstract provided.

Reviewed Work: Lincoln Revisited: New Insights From The Lincoln Forum By John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, Dawn Vogel, Edna Greene Medford

Edna Greene Medford

No abstract provided.

Review Of Women In The Church Of God In Christ: Making A Sanctified World By Anthea D. Butler, Cynthia Taylor

Cynthia Taylor

Batista-Era Havana On The Bayou, Michael Mizell-Nelson

Michael Mizell-Nelson

Review Essay: Kent B. Germany. New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2007. J. Mark Souther. New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Anthony J. Stanonis. Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918–1945. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2006.

Ethnic Chicago: The Development Of A Global City, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

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Silence In America Textbooks, Gerd Korman

Gerd Korman

[Excerpt] Although more than two decades separate us from the time when the Allied forces revealed the depth and dimensions of the Nazi horror, America’s textbook-writing historians still do not understand the demands the death camps place on each of them as scholar and as educator of the young in our public schools and universities. They continue to write in the tradition that prepared no one for the catastrophe, a tradition that still prevents us from attempting to assess and understand what happened; for with precious few exceptions they write of the years before 1945 as if the 1930’s and …

Grounded History: A Keynote Address To The 14th Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

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Will The Real Jedediah S. Smith Please Stand Up?: The Eulogy, Myths And Realities, Barton Barbour

Barton H. Barbour

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Review Of Empire’S Edge: American Society In Nome, Alaska 1898-1934 By Preston Jones Pacific Historical Review 77.2 (May 2008), 330-332., Adam Arenson

Adam Arenson

Review Of A. Philip Randolph: A Life In The Vanguard By Andrew E. Kersten, Cynthia Taylor

Cynthia Taylor

Review Of From Civil Rights To Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. And The Struggle For Economic Justice By Thomas F. Jackson, Cynthia Taylor

Cynthia Taylor

The Black Hawk War Of 1832, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

Because it is most often viewed as the last display of violent resistance to American expansion in the Old Northwest, the conflict dubbed the Black Hawk War has received attention from numerous individuals over the past 170 years. Even Black Hawk felt it necessary to explain the war’s causes and events in writing. Patrick J. Jung’s book is the most recent addition to the historiography that examines the Sauk Indian Black Hawk and the conflict of 1832 that has long borne his name. It also follows close on the heels of Kerry Trask’s Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart …

The Gnadenhutten Effect: Moravian Converts And The Search For Safety In The Canadian Borderlands, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

In 1782, 96 Moravian Indian converts, mostly Munsee Delawares, were systematically massacred at the Gnadenhutten settlement on the Muskingum River in Ohio. After the massacre, they struggled to find a new home in the Great Lakes region. Often finding themselves living in a war zone, the Moravians and the Indians were subject to raids, rumors, and misunderstandings, and in 1792 they made the decision to cross into Canada, where they established a successful settlement on the Thames River in Ontario. Ironically, during the War of 1812, the Battle of the Thames destroyed their settlement, but in 1815 they returned to …

Pioneering Lobster Aquaculture In Rhode Island, Michael Rice

Michael A Rice

No abstract provided.

J. C. Penney: Missouri Man, Wyoming Institution, David Kruger

David Delbert Kruger

Traces the business career of James Cash Penney (1875-1971), founder of the national chain of J. C. Penney stores. Born in Missouri, Penney came to Wyoming in 1902 and became partners with Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan, owners of the small chain of Golden Rule stores. Penney opened a store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that was immediately successful. A deeply religious man, Penney believed in making his store a part of the community rather than exploiting the customers. Business quickly expanded and more Golden Rule stores opened, and, eventually, Penney bought out his partners. At its peak the Penney chain numbered …

Introduction To At The Magistrate's Discretion: Sexual Crime And New England Law, 1636-1718, Abby Chandler

Abby Chandler

This dissertation is a comparative study of sexual crime trials in four New England jurisdictions: Essex County, Massachusetts, Plymouth Colony, The Province of Maine, and Rhode Island Colony. It argued that sexual crime trials could be used as a tool for studying the diverse and changing legal cultures of different regions within New England.

Whether morality or child support was under discussion, sexual intercourse outside of marriage threatened to disrupt the social and economic bounds of early modern society. Nevertheless, methods for addressing the issue varied widely in New England, depending on the jurisdiction in question. As a result, examining …

Chicago Slaughterhouse To The World, Dominic Pacyga, Paula Lee

Dominic Pacyga

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Quarterly Data On The Categories And Causes Of Bank Distress During The Great Depression, Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson

No abstract provided.

Edge Of Empire, 1671-1716: Documents Of Michilimackinac (Copublication With Mackinac Island State Park Commission), Joseph Peyser

Jose Antonio Brandao

Edge Of Empire, 1671-1716: Documents Of Michilimackinac (Copublication With Mackinac Island State Park Commission), Joseph Peyser

Jose Antonio Brandao