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Finding A Place For World War I In American History: 1914-2018, Jennifer D. Keene
Finding A Place For World War I In American History: 1914-2018, Jennifer D. Keene
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"World War I has occupied an uneasy place in the American public and political consciousness.1 In the 1920s and 1930s, controversies over the war permeated the nation’s cultural and political life, influencing memorial culture and governmental policy. Interest in the war, however, waned considerably after World War II, a much larger and longer war for the United States. Despite a plethora of scholarly works examining nearly every aspect of the war, interest in the war remains limited even among academic historians. In many respects, World War I became the “forgotten war” because Americans never developed a unifying collective memory about …
Rita M. Krouse Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Rita M. Krouse Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
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Correspondence concerning the building of a military road between Fort Smith on the Arkansas River to Natchitoches, Louisiana
Rodney Ruby Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Rodney Ruby Family Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
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Civil War records and diary of members of the Ruby family of Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana
Ross Hale Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Ross Hale Camp Ruston Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
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CAMP RUSTON DOCUMENTATION PROJECT
Various photographs from Camp Ruston of buildings, U.S. soldiers, staff, and their wives. Also included is the donor's letter to Vince Spione, October 1995
Roland Oliver Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Roland Oliver Papers, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
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Confederate letters of Oliver from Louisiana and Mississippi (including one from Vicksburg) during the Civil War.
Rufus M. Smith Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Rufus M. Smith Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
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CAMP RUSTON DOCUMENTATION PROJECT
List of former prisoners interned in U.S. World War II prisoner of war camps who returned for reunion in 1984, including four from Camp Ruston
Scotty Gatlin Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Scotty Gatlin Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
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Civil War letter from 28th Louisiana Regiment land information on men mentioned in it.
Stephen Webre, Phd., Historical Documents Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Stephen Webre, Phd., Historical Documents Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
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Letter from Lavinia Hood to Thomas Bacon Coleman, who was a private in Company I, Second Louisiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, dated Claiborne Parish, La., July 12, 1861
Thomas Claude Beard Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Thomas Claude Beard Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
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Materials from U.S. World War II prisoner of war camp Camp Ruston. Donor was a member of the U.S. staff at the camp
CAMP RUSTON DOCUMENTATION PROJECT
Virgil Orr Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
Virgil Orr Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
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Memorabilia from the donor's student days at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, [1940], and from his service in the U.S. Army during World War II, 1944-1945.
Donated in honor of the centennial of Louisiana Tech University, 1894-1994
World War Ii Ration Documents, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
World War Ii Ration Documents, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University
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Unused ration books from World War II, various rations, gas, store, tires, shoes, fuel oil, etc
A La Sombra De La Revolución Sandinista: Nicaragua, 1979-2019, Mateo Jarquín Chamorro
A La Sombra De La Revolución Sandinista: Nicaragua, 1979-2019, Mateo Jarquín Chamorro
History Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"Como suele suceder en cualquier sociedad conmovida por la pérdida abrupta del statu quo, el análisis de la historia vuelve a la moda en Nicaragua. La sociedad civil y la clase política buscan en el pasado las respuestas a las mismas preguntas planteadas por este libro: ¿cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí? ¿Qué perspectivas se abren para el futuro?
A primera vista, lucen imperantes las continuidades en la historia de Nicaragua. La consolidación de una nueva dictadura con pretensiones dinásticas invita a comparaciones evidentes con el proyecto somocista y hace eco de una larga tradición caudillista. Asimismo, lucen intactos los hábitos …