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Politics On The Periphery: Oscar Ewing And A Special Relationship With Israel, Sarah Weaver Sep 2019

Politics On The Periphery: Oscar Ewing And A Special Relationship With Israel, Sarah Weaver

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

This essay explores the role of Oscar Ewing, an Indiana native and a graduate of Indiana University (IU), in the story of the U.S. relationship with Israel, forming even prior to Israeli statehood in 1948. The essay will show that Oscar Ewing strategically utilized his political influence and role as U.S. federal security administrator—not diplomat or member of the State Department—to impact U.S. policy toward Israel. Although Ewing is a relatively unknown name in the history of the Truman administration and Israel, his influence and contribution to the early development of the well-known special relationship between the United States and …


Lessons From The 1800s: Creating The Miss Porter's School Digital Archive, Deborah Smith Jul 2019

Lessons From The 1800s: Creating The Miss Porter's School Digital Archive, Deborah Smith

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

College preparatory (“prep”) schools have their roots in the New England region of the United States; many predate the nation's most illustrious colleges and universities. The archives at these schools contain items of importance to American history in the 1800s. However, few schools have trained archivists managing their physical collections and even fewer have created digital archives to increase access. Founded in 1848, Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut was one of the first independent schools devoted to the education of young women. This article reviews the creation of the Porter's digital archive in 2018 and examines issues specific to …


The Rhetoric Of Public Support And The Foundations Of Educaiion In Montana, Micah Everson May 2019

The Rhetoric Of Public Support And The Foundations Of Educaiion In Montana, Micah Everson

Augsburg Honors Review

In 2005, the Supreme Court of Montana presented its final and unanimous opinion in the case of Columbia Falls Elem. School Dist. No. 6 v. State. A public coalition thus forced the state to acknowledge problems in its educational system and to work to- wards fixing them. This public interest in education in Montana is not a recent phenomenon.


Historical And Retrospective Approaches To Women's Issues In Turkestan, Yusupova Didora Dilshatovna Mar 2019

Historical And Retrospective Approaches To Women's Issues In Turkestan, Yusupova Didora Dilshatovna

Uzbekistan Journal of Oriental Studies

This article analyses women's issues in Turkestan, including parandja (vail) abuse of their rights, the movement of the “Khudjum”, women's spiritual educational life, social status in the family, religious-political situation in Turkestan, factors that led to the religious-political situation, gender characteristics from historical retrospectives in philosophical context. It also considers broadly the main aims and trends of the work of the East and West ideologists on parandja (vail), the issues of Islam and the Sharia law, discovering and the rights of modern women. The article shows the discourses of local scientists, their proposals and discussions set in the press of …


Introduction To Feminism And The Academy Today: A Graduate Forum, Kara Watts, Heather Turcotte Jan 2019

Introduction To Feminism And The Academy Today: A Graduate Forum, Kara Watts, Heather Turcotte

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

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