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American Women And The Great War, Lynn Dumenil Sep 2002

American Women And The Great War, Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil

Provides information on the idealized images of women during World War I. Features the use of posters and propaganda during the war. Focuses on voluntary activities in which women participated, the fight for women's suffrage during the war, and the effect of the war on women working. Includes poster reproductions. (CMK)


Social Discipline In Scotland, 1560-1610, Michael Graham Sep 2002

Social Discipline In Scotland, 1560-1610, Michael Graham

Michael F. Graham

This volume is an excellent introduction to Calvinist morals’ control in sixteenth-century Geneva, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Scotland. The Calvinists were typically seen as stricter than Lutherans, Catholics, or Anglicans—and in some ways as strict as groups associated with the Radical Reformation. The six case studies presented here are based largely on archival research. They explore the Calvinist endeavor to set high standards of behavior and to enforce them through the consistory.


Faculty Diversity, Kyle Scafide, Barbara Johnson Aug 2002

Faculty Diversity, Kyle Scafide, Barbara Johnson

Kyle Scafide

This article presents a broad view of issues related to faculty diversity. Headings include Demographics, The Growth of Faculty Diversity as an Ideal, and Barriers in the Academic Workplace. Race, ethnicity, and gender are the most common characteristics that institutions observe in order to measure faculty diversity. An even broader approach to faculty diversity involves age, socioeconomic background, national origin, sexual orientation, and diverse learning styles and opinions. Until the latter part of the twentieth century, the professoriate in the western world was composed almost exclusively of privileged, heterosexual males of Caucasian descent. Higher education institutions are generally concerned with …


The Battle For Shared Governance: The Birth Of The Northern Michigan University Chapter Of The American Association Of University Professors, 1967-1976, Marcus Robyns Dec 2001

The Battle For Shared Governance: The Birth Of The Northern Michigan University Chapter Of The American Association Of University Professors, 1967-1976, Marcus Robyns

Marcus C. Robyns CA

This article reviews the history of the formation of the NMU-AAUP and argues that collective bargaining brought real and effective shared governance to Northern Michigan University.


Teaching Urban Planning And Public Policy: Developing A "City As Classroom" Model At Two New England Colleges, Steven Corey, Mark Motte Dec 2001

Teaching Urban Planning And Public Policy: Developing A "City As Classroom" Model At Two New England Colleges, Steven Corey, Mark Motte

Steven H. Corey

Emerging trends in teaching urban geography, city planning, and public policy studies resonate with calls from think tanks, research associations, and most recently the Carnegie Foundation, for undergraduate education to be "reinvented" as interdisciplinary, inquiry-based, and experiential. This paper outlines a model that offers some success with inquiry-based learning strategies in the geography program at Rhode Island College and the urban studies program at Worcester State College. In grappling with the knotty problems of contemporary urban development/redevelopment policies in Providence and Worcester (downtown revitalization, infrastructure improvements, retail/commercial strategies, industrial restructuring, shifting labor markets, neighborhood planning, housing development, etc.), our students …


Onward Christian Soldiers: Presbyterian Missionaries And The Ambiguous Origins Of American Relations With Iran, Michael Zirinsky Dec 2001

Onward Christian Soldiers: Presbyterian Missionaries And The Ambiguous Origins Of American Relations With Iran, Michael Zirinsky

Michael Zirinsky

Papers presented at a conference held at the Rockefeller Foundation Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, in August 2000. This project on "Altruism and imperialism" was initiated by the Middle East Institute of Columbia University.


The Expanding Roles Of Chinese Americans In U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks And Trans-Pacific Interactions, Peter Koehn, Xiao-Huang Yin Dec 2001

The Expanding Roles Of Chinese Americans In U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks And Trans-Pacific Interactions, Peter Koehn, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

No abstract provided.


Kit Carson And The 'Americanization' Of New Mexico, Barton Barbour Dec 2001

Kit Carson And The 'Americanization' Of New Mexico, Barton Barbour

Barton H. Barbour

This article appeared as a lead article in the New Mexico Historical Review, 77:2 (Spring 2002), and as one of a dozen biographies in Richard W. Etulain's New Mexico Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories (2002). Carson's contemporary fame, and his mythical and historical legacies offer a great deal of material that helps readers understand not only Kit Carson's real life, but the Santa Fe Trade, fur traders and Indian-White relations, and Anglo-Hispanic relations during the decades spanning 1820 and 1870. For a sample, see the following introductory paragraph: Dateline: Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory, May 1868 Kit Carson, the mountain man, …


Gabriel Naudé'S Apology For Great Men Suspected Of Magic: Variations In Editions From 1625 To 1715, Maryanne Horowitz Dec 2001

Gabriel Naudé'S Apology For Great Men Suspected Of Magic: Variations In Editions From 1625 To 1715, Maryanne Horowitz

Maryanne Cline Horowitz

No abstract provided.


Working Cures: Healing, Health, And Power On Southern Slave Plantations, Sharla Fett Dec 2001

Working Cures: Healing, Health, And Power On Southern Slave Plantations, Sharla Fett

Sharla Fett

No abstract provided.


The Natufian Human Skeletal Remains From Wadi Hammeh 27 (Jordan), Steve Webb, Phillip C. Edwards Dec 2001

The Natufian Human Skeletal Remains From Wadi Hammeh 27 (Jordan), Steve Webb, Phillip C. Edwards

Steve Webb

This report describes skeletal remains from the early Natufian site of Wadi Hammeh 27 in Jordan. At least seven individuals are represented, and although small, the collection is notable for the eclecticism of its mortuary practice. Modes of mortuary disposal and ritual include a single-primary burial, a collective-secondary burial, burnt human cranial fragments disposed in residential contexts, and the ochre staining of bones. The two burials come from the lowest phase of the site, with fragmentary burials and smaller amounts of material issuing from the upper phases. The primary inhumation is marked by a neighbouring pit, which seems to be …