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The Idaho Territorial Penitentiary's First Female Inmate, Fred E. Woods
The Idaho Territorial Penitentiary's First Female Inmate, Fred E. Woods
Faculty Publications
While doing research on the experience of Mormon polygamists incarcerated at the Idaho Penitentiary, Fred Woods became curious about a woman imprisoned there at the same time. The Idaho Penitentiary's Convict Register names "Heneba" as the first female inmate received, on May 31, 1887. Next to her name is written in parentheses "squaw." For many years it has been unclear whether "Heneba" was her first or last name and what the background of this mysterious Native American was. Information about her age at the time of her incarceration, her family life, and the details of her later years and death …
Reports, Karl Niederer, Sabine Jessner, Carla Crosby, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Reports, Karl Niederer, Sabine Jessner, Carla Crosby, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Promptly at ten a.m. President Karl J. Niederer called the business meeting to order. He noted that since the Swiss Town House had been sold, this was the first time that we have met in another New York City location. He expressed the thanks of the society to Rosa Schupbach, a member of the Board of Advisors, for having found the location in the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and for having so efficiently taken care of the local arrangements. He also acknowledged Richard Frey of the church staff for his help.
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Program For The Afternoon Meeting
Program For The Afternoon Meeting
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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Obituary
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Robert Henry Billigmeier, who passed away on October 26, 1996 of complications from a stroke, was a distinguished teacher and scholar. Born on January 16, 1917 in McClusky, North Dakota, he moved with his family to Santa Rosa, California in 1933, where he graduated from high school and attended Santa Rosa Junior College. He went on to get a Bachelor's Degree in History from Stanford University in 1938 and a Master's Degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 1940. When World War II broke out, he went to work for the Wes tern Defense Command and later for the Cartography …
Zorastrianism And Its Earthly Tenure, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Zorastrianism And Its Earthly Tenure, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Comparative Civilizations Review
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The Golden Age Of Roman Helvetia, H. Dwight Page
The Golden Age Of Roman Helvetia, H. Dwight Page
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Any traveller who had visited the region of present day Switzerland in the first century before Christ and who could have returned there three centuries later at the end of the second century of the Christian era would have been astonished by the differences between the two periods. Whereas the pre-Roman country of the Helvetii had been a vast forest whose inhabitants had lived in rudimentary hilltop oppida and had spent their lives hunting, fishing and tilling the soil of small farms, the Roman province of Helvetia in the third century after Christ was a prosperous nation whose citizens lived …
Switzerland: 2050, Natalie Jomini
Switzerland: 2050, Natalie Jomini
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Today, in the year 2050, Switzerland has changed immensely over the past fifty years. From watches to robots, Switzerland has redefined technology. Advances and difficulties overcome have propelled the Swiss to world leadership in many areas. Swiss industry, although maintaining past trends, has championed and led the world into an era of Artificial Humanoidal Intelligence (AHi). This robotics movement has changed the world's standard of living. Swiss hero, Maggie Meier, developed one of the first artificial humanoids, and the industry has taken off since then. In addition, Swiss continue their supremacy in pharmaceutical production. The country has pursued a vigorous …
Mari Sandoz: Portrait Of A Swiss American Author, Laura Villiger
Mari Sandoz: Portrait Of A Swiss American Author, Laura Villiger
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Land of Promise, where the gold flows, where buffaloes roam in big herds attracting adventurous hunters, where Redskins are chased and defeated by cowboy heroes-these are some of the ideas people in the 19th century commonly held about the American West. Even today, the Old West is often associated with the same pictures. But we also know today that these pictures largely belonged to a myth--a myth propagated in Europe as well as in the so-called 'civilized' East of the American continent. It helped to take hold of the Western territory not only in people's minds, but also in reality.
Book Review: Das Selbstverstiindnis Eines Schweizerischen Auswanderer-Vereins In Den Usa: Die Geschichte Der Zeitschrift Swiss-American Historical Society Review,", Sabine Jessner
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Racine's work treats two subjects: the Society and the contents of the Swiss-American Historical Society Review. After a brief overview of the Society's first decades following its 1927 founding in Chicago, she traces in detail its evolution since 1965. The structure of the organization and the gender, educational, and geographical distribution of the membership are discussed. Although the diplomat Lukas Burckhardt reorganized the Society in 1965, the author fails to underscore his important role, while she does stress the leading part that academics--especially historians--have played. She-stresses Leo Schelbert's many contributions to the history of Swiss-American immigration, offering a review …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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Book Review: Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Accounts Of Swiss Immigrants To The United States., Jeffrey L. Burkhart
Book Review: Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Accounts Of Swiss Immigrants To The United States., Jeffrey L. Burkhart
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This fascinating anthology of letters written by immigrants to the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a thoroughly engrossing text. What emerges from the various groupings of correspondence is a picture of a hum~ odyssey that is often of heroic proportions. The immense courage to uproot oneself and voyage to an unknown and in some instances unfriendly environment is amply demonstrated as one reads through the sixty-three letters that comprise this collection.
Book Review: Exploring My Life: The Memoirs Of Felix P. Bentz, Chalice Wilkerson
Book Review: Exploring My Life: The Memoirs Of Felix P. Bentz, Chalice Wilkerson
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In his foreword, Felix P. Bentz explains that the impetus for writing his memoirs came from the receipt of a similar effort by a colleague in the oil business. As an international oil geologist, Bentz had the opportunity to realize his dream of traveling the world. Added as a postscript but perhaps more effective as a prologue is his credo written at the age of 30 and the beginning of his career. Bentz states his goal to live a full life roaming the globe and using his gifts to reproduce his thoughts, impressions and experiences while avoiding ignorance, intolerance and …
Book Review: The New Switzerland Problems And Policies, Nicole Butz
Book Review: The New Switzerland Problems And Policies, Nicole Butz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This volume, edited by Rolf Kieser and Kurt R. Spillmann, consists of twentyeight essays written by a group of Swiss scholars and officials. Originally intended as a new edition of the 1978 volume Modern Switzerland (edited by J. Murray Luck, Lukas F. Burckhardt, and Hans Haug), The New Switzerland nonetheless differs significantly in content and perspective from its earlier counterpart. As noted by the editors in the preface, the book does not attempt to provide its readers with a comprehensive account of Switzerland; rather, it seeks to inform a broad international audience through "a discussion of the present and future …
To "Eche Out Our Performance With Your Mind": Making Performance Pedagogy Intellectually Sound, Sharon A. Beehler
To "Eche Out Our Performance With Your Mind": Making Performance Pedagogy Intellectually Sound, Sharon A. Beehler
Quidditas
When the Chorus in Henry V instructs the audience about what to expect in Act III, it reiterates the point made earlier in the play that the spectator must take an active role in helping the players achieve their goal of presenting an effective drama: "eche out our performance with your mind" (line 35), says the Chorus. This would seem to be a commonplace of theater theory, but unfortunately, recent attempt by some teachers to incorporate televisual performance activities into the Shakespeare classroom have all too often neglected the intellectual participation of students with "performance texts," that is, with printed …
Review Essay: Arthur, Ross G., And Noel L. Corbett, Trans. The Knight Of The Two Swords: A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance, Judith Barban
Review Essay: Arthur, Ross G., And Noel L. Corbett, Trans. The Knight Of The Two Swords: A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance, Judith Barban
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Arthur, Ross G., and Noel L. Corbett, trans. The Knight of the Two Swords: A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1996. 188 pp. + notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.
Review Essay: Bjork, Robert E. And John D. Niles, Eds. A Beowulf Handbook. University Of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997. 466 Pp., Illustrations. $60.00., Joyce Tally Lionarons
Review Essay: Bjork, Robert E. And John D. Niles, Eds. A Beowulf Handbook. University Of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997. 466 Pp., Illustrations. $60.00., Joyce Tally Lionarons
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Bjork, Robert E., and John D. Niles, eds. A Beowulf Handbook. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997. 466 pp., illustrations. $60.00.
Review Essay: Cazelles, Brigitte. The Unholy Grail: A Social Reading Of Chrétien De Troyes's Conte Du Graal, Keith Busby
Review Essay: Cazelles, Brigitte. The Unholy Grail: A Social Reading Of Chrétien De Troyes's Conte Du Graal, Keith Busby
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Cazelles, Brigitte. The Unholy Grail: A Social Reading of Chrétien de Troyes's Conte du Graal. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1996. Figuræ: Reading Medieval Culture. 325 pp. $42.50.
Review Essay: Chance, Jane, Ed. Gender And Text In The Later Middle Ages, Lisa Weston
Review Essay: Chance, Jane, Ed. Gender And Text In The Later Middle Ages, Lisa Weston
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Chance, Jane, ed. Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 1996. xv + 342 pp. $59.95.
Review Essay: Cranston, Maurice. The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau In Exile And Adversity, Reginald Mcginnis
Review Essay: Cranston, Maurice. The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau In Exile And Adversity, Reginald Mcginnis
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Cranston, Maurice. The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997. 247 pp. $29.95.
Review Essay: De Weever, Jacqueline. Chaucer Name Dictionary: A Guide To Astrological, Biblical, Historical, Literary, And Mythological Names In The Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer, Sigmund Eisner
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de Weever, Jacqueline. Chaucer Name Dictionary: A Guide to Astrological, Biblical, Historical, Literary, and Mythological Names in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 709. Garland Publishing. New York, 1996. xxi + 451 pp. $24.95.