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The Spinster (2002), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)

Architecture Of The Popham Colony, 1607-1608: An Archaeological Portrait Of English Building Practice At The Moment Of Settlement, Peter H. Morrison

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

From August 1607 to summer or fall 1608, the Popham Colony was established on what is now known as Hossketch Point, in Popham Beach, Maine. Rediscovered in 1994, the archaeological remains of the colony are providing insights into one of England's earliest colonial efforts in North America. Among the most exciting hds, are features relating to early seventeenth-century English building practices. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of the colony's six meter wide by twenty meter long storehouse, the "Admiral's howse," one of two apparently connected buildings, the buttery general or the Corporal's house; and what has tentatively been identified as the …

Picturing Nature: Education, Ornithology And Photography In The Life Of Cordelia Stanwood: 1865-1958, Cynthia Watkins Richardson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The field of environmental history, with a few exceptions, has neglected gendered analysis; in addition, several women's histories have analyzed a few environmental issues, but disregard environmental scholarship. In the joining of women's and environmental history, this dissertation examines the life of one woman, Cordelia J. Stanwood of Ellsworth, Maine (1865-1958), to determine how a woman could use nature to transcend the social limits of domesticity in the early twentieth century. Research of her correspondence, published writing, photography and forty years of field notes reveals that like many other women, she took advantage of technology and evolving ideas about womanhood …

"Averse…To Remaining Idle Spectators:" The Emergence Of Loyalist Privateering During The American Revolution, 1775-1778 Volume Ii. Chapter 9 To Conclusion., Richard D. Pougher

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The important topic of loyalist privateering during the American Revolution has remained unaddressed. The intention of this study is to examine the activity's developmental period between 1775-1778. Relying predominantly on primary source materials such as newspapers, admiralty court records, ships papers, correspondence, memorials, diaries, journals, and minute, account, and log books, this work analyzes the participants and assesses their role in the war. There are three key focuses. The first is on the activities of loyalist mariners during the war's first half, prior to official recognition of privateering by the British. Loyalist service on various types of vessels is examined …

Journey To Understanding: An Introduction To North Dakota Tribes, Cheryl Ann Kary, North Dakota Department Of Public Instruction, North Dakota Department Of Health & Human Services, State Historical Society Of North Dakota

North Dakota Tribal History and Culture Series

Journey to Understanding: An Introduction to North Dakota Tribes is an introductory booklet intended to give a quick overview of Indigenous culture in North Dakota. It is a starting point for the rest of the North Dakota Tribal History & Culture series. The booklet explains the names and backgrounds of the nations that share geography with North Dakota. It also teaches basic cultural competency to facilitate interaction for people from a different background. The content is presented in the form of self-quizzes with provided answers. Journey to Understanding was originally used within the North Dakota Department of Human Services (NDDHS) …

Evolution Of Labor In Japan: A Comparative Study Of Labor Exportation To The Dominican Republic In The 1950s And Remigration Of Nikkeijin From Latin America In The 1990s, Hiroko Ishikawa

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Women In Medieval Iberia: A Selected Bibliography, Rafael M. Mérida-Jiménez

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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The History And Culture Of The Mandan, Hidatsa, Sahnish (Arikara), Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, North Dakota Department Of Public Instruction

North Dakota Tribal History and Culture Series

History & Culture of the Mandan Hidatsa & Sahnish (Arikara) is a guide to the Three Affiliated Tribes nation, past and present. The book is divided into three sections: one for each tribe. Elders, scholars, and other experts from the nation contributed the content of this book, which was reviewed by Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College and published by the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) for use in middle and high school North Dakota Studies classes, as well as in higher education.

The MHA nation is known as the following in its languages: Mandan: Miiti Naamni, Hidatsa: Awadi Aguraawi, …

The Response To Left-Wing Radicalism In Portland, Oregon, From 1917 To 1941, Andrew Nils Bryans

Dissertations and Theses

In the early twentieth century industrial, political, and social conflicts occurred throughout the United States during a period of rapid industrialization and modernization. Examples of these disputes, such as labor strikes and political struggles, have frequently been the subjects of scholarly investigations. Yet certain aspects of these conflicts remain relatively unknown, particularly on the community and local levels. The purpose of the present study was to explore and provide the context for a better understanding of the motives behind the responses of antiradicals to left-wing radicalism. What were some of the social, cultural, and economic motivations of local antiradicals in …

Capital Formations, Robert S. Duplessis

History Faculty Works

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Reforming Men And Women: Gender In The Antebellum City, Bruce Dorsey

History Faculty Works

Before the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of religious activism. Bruce Dorsey broadens the field of gender studies, incorporating an analysis of masculinity into the history of early American religion and reform. His is a holistic account that reveals the contested meanings of manhood and womanhood among antebellum Americans, both black and white, middle class and working class. "Combining stories of both ordinary individuals and major reformers with an insightful analysis of contemporary songs, plays, fiction, and polemics, Dorsey exposes the ways race, class, and ethnicity influenced the meanings …

The Measure Of Independence: From The American Revolution To The Market Revolution In The Mid -Atlantic, Richard Smith Chew

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This study explores the social and economic changes in the mid-Atlantic region generally, and Baltimore City and its hinterlands specifically, between the late colonial period and the dawn of the Jacksonian era. Baltimore foundered as a colonial entrepot until wheat emerged as an important export commodity in the 1740s. Between the mid-1740s and the 1770s, the town grew steadily within the British mercantilist world. its trade was deeply dependent on Atlantic commerce, its social structure reflected the mercantile orientation of the town and the staunchly deferential colonial household economy. The Revolution threatened to overturn this world with the promise of …

The Texture Of Contact: European And Indian Settler Communities On The Iroquoian Borderlands, 1720-1780, David L. Preston

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This dissertation is a comparative study of cultural relationships between European and Indian settler communities along the Six Nations' borders with New York and Pennsylvania from 1720 to 1780. It particularly examines "everyday encounters" between ordinary peoples---a dimension of colonial social and economic life that has usually escaped historians' attention. Palatine, Scots, Irish, Dutch, and English colonists not only lived close to Indian villages but also frequently interacted with Iroquois, Delawares, and other natives. Frontier farms, forts, churches, and taverns were scenes of frequent face-to-face meetings between colonists and Indians. My dissertation explores the dynamics of settler-Indian encounters and how …

Fair Visions: Elkanah Watson (1758--1842) And The Modern American Agricultural Fair, Mark A. Mastromarino

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The modern American agricultural fair, an annual harvest-time celebration at which livestock, produce, and handicrafts are exhibited for premiums, originated as an innovative response to conditions in rural New England at the time of the War of 1812. This study explains the birth of the institution by scrutinizing the motives and methods of its founders. In particular, it traces the intellectual journey from Puritan youth to Jeffersonian promoter of Plymouth, Massachusetts, native Elkanah Watson (1758--1842), its chief publicist. This dissertation also examines the specific social, economic, and political forces that shaped Pittsfield, Massachusetts---to which he retired from a mercantile career …

Terrance Gordon ("Terry") Sawchuk, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Terry Sawchuk was a Hall of Fame hockey goaltender who set records for shutouts and victories.

Pig Remains At The Ashbridge Estate, Toronto: The Importance Of Swine In The Settlement Of Upper Canada, Joanna Elizabeth Reading

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Creole Gumbo: Ingredients For Maintaining Creole Identity At Laura Plantation, Katherine W. Schupp

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Between Slavery And Freedom: African Americans In The Great Dismal Swamp 1763-1863, Edward Downing Maris-Wolf

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Struggle For Community In Revolutionary Newport, Joshua Fogarty Beatty

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Political Reconstruction Of The Southern Lady: A Case Study, 1856-1907, Laura Jean Odendahl

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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The First Dissenter: Richard B Russell And The Warren Commission, Dani E. Biancolli

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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The Men In Green: African Americans And The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942, Michael Shane Hoak

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Desegregating Boston's Schools: Episode 1, Melisa Kate Nasella

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1388. Annals of First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, which consist of brief entries about significant activities or events. These records began to be kept at the time of the church's sesquicentennial celebration.

Teachers And Teaching - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 1356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1356. Teacher's class book kept by Frances Hart, for the 1924-1925 school year, evidently as a Hartford [Kentucky] High School faculty member. The book lists domestic and social science classes taught as well as students' names.

Baker, Jane Stark (Helm), B. 1942 (Sc 1355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below" for Manuscripts Small Collection 1355. Letter, 19 January 2000, written by Jane S. Baker, Glasgow, Kentucky, in which Baker recalls her aunt Margie Helm, who was an outstanding Western Kentucky University librarian.

Richardson, Harry Blair, Sr., 1915-2002 - Letters To (Sc 1368), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1368. Letters, 1930, written to Missouri native Harry Richardson concerning the initiation rites of the high school fraternity Phi Lambda Epsilon.

Taulman, James (Sc 1358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1358. Letter, postcards, photos, clippings, etc., sent to James Taulman from Bowling Green, Kentucky childhood pen pal Carolyn Williams.

Wilson, Gordon, 1888-1970 (Sc 1357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1357. Letter, 2 January 1966, written by Gordon Wilson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to L. Y. Lancaster, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which Wilson extols their friendship that will soon celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.

Torreyson, Charles Hail, 1902-1973 (Sc 1340), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1340. World War II letters, 1944-1945, (27) written by Charles Torreyson to his wife Betsy, in Scottsville, Kentucky. He describes life in the Seabees, in Camp Pearcy, Virginia, and in New Guinea.