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"Two Days By Plane": America's First Transcontinental Passenger Airline And The Selling Of The Skies, Sean Fraga

Kaplan Senior Essay Prize for Use of Library Special Collections

Transcontinental Air Transport, the first transcontinental passenger airline in the U.S., cut the time necessary to cross the continent in half—and, in doing so, opened a new age in passenger aviation. In its brief life, the airline also captured the possibilities of flight, the limitations of technology, the power of celebrity, and the promise of national integration.

Lg Ms 017 Susan Farnsworth Papers Finding Aid, Karin A. France

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Susan Farnsworth earned her undergraduate degree from Bates College in 1969 and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Maine School of Law in 1976. She has worked in several city and state government positions, including Maine State Representative from 1988-1994. Farnsworth has also been active in the LGBT community, serving as a member of the Executive Committee and an organizer of “Yes on 6” PAC in the Statewide Referendum Campaign in 2000. The Papers consist of working papers, publications, and other materials.

Date Range:

1970s-1990s

Size of Collection:

2.25 ft.

The Italian Emigration Of Modern Times: Relations Between Italy And The United States Concerning Emigration Policy, Diplomacy, And Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, 1870-1927, Patrizia Fama Stahle

Dissertations

In the late 1800s, the United States was the great destination of Italian emigrants. In North America, employers considered Italians industrious individuals, but held them in low esteem. Italian immigrants were seen as dangerous subversives, anarchists, cheap laborers who were always ready to accept jobs for lower wages. Indeed, numerous episodes of violence and even lynching of Italians occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. In most cases, the violence went unpunished by the local authorities. Such episodes of violence provoked a diplomatic controversy between Italy and the United States concerning treaty-guaranteed protection of …

Keeping History Alive: David Mccullough And The Debate Between Popular And Academic History, James R. Allen

History

The purpose of this paper is to explore the differences between academic history and popular history through David McCullough, one of the most successful popular history writers. It attempts to reconcile the schism between the two schools of thought, and provide a middle ground where each can stand.

Book Review: Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture, And Race In The Big Easy, J. Mark Souther

History Faculty Publications

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Solace In St. Louis: A Case Study In Heroic Cultural Nostalgia, Amanda J. Pinney

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This thesis examines the response of American popular culture to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. By utilizing the September 17, 2001 pre-game ceremony, held at Busch Stadium as a case study example, larger generalizations are made about the role popular culture played in the days following the tragedy. In order to analyze this example, I have developed heroic cultural nostalgia, a framework that combines elements of myth, nostalgia and national identity. Heroic cultural nostalgia provides an explanation of how popular culture plays a role in crisis response. The framework highlights the role of individuals with heroic characteristics in …

Transforming Space Into Place: Development, Rock Climbing, And Interpretation In Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, 1960-2010, Megan Sharp Weatherly

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Though Americans tend to view wilderness as separate from nature, environmental historians have argued that wilderness is a cultural construct more than a quantifiable geographic category. Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area (NCA), a 195,000-acre tract located west of Las Vegas, Nevada, is one such cultural construction. Since 1960, this BLM-managed parcel has served as a local and regional expression of broader, national trends in outdoor recreation, interpretation, and development and thereby forced visitors to engage (often unknowingly) in a cultural dialogue about consumerism, technology, and identity. With information from newspapers, archival collections, oral histories, and government documents, this thesis …

The History Of Baccarat, Theodore Whiting

Occasional Papers

The true origins of modern Baccarat are probably lost to history. The first time the game Baccarat (spelled Baccara) was mentioned in print by a contemporary observer was in the early 19th century. The written record that would document the origins and evolution of the game is, unfortunately, incomplete. However, a close examination of the available material reveals some interesting facts surrounding the history of Baccarat, including a much earlier date for its arrival in the United States, that validates its continuing study.

The Grizzly, April 29, 2010, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Gianna Paone, Ashley Mccomeskey, Joshua C. Walsh, Lisa Jobe, Spencer Foreman, Audge Thrasher, Cory Kram, Elizabeth Mahoney, Bethani Zeller '12, Roger Lee, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Holly Brizell, Laura Gurenlian, James Kilduff, Shane Eachus, Matt Campbell

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Active Minds Hosts Art Fair to Benefit Mental Health • Students Say Farewell Through Presidential Celebration • UCDC Hosts Spring Concert in Lenfest Theater • Dr. Spencer Foreman: Counting Down the Reasons • Workout and Have Fun at Ursinus Zumba-Thon! • Music and Diplomacy Converge to Help Alleviate HIV and AIDS • Professor Mudd's CIE III Class Explores Happiness and the UC Student Body • Class of 2010 Spotlight: Seniors Reflect on UC Memories • Ursinus College Mourns the Loss of a Legend • Senior Spotlight: Mark Worrilow, Football

The American Civil War In The South: Love, Letters, And Shifting Gender Roles, Cassandra Bennett

Undergraduate Research Conference

Love remains one of the most basic human emotions that provides the motivation and sustains the loyalty of familial bonds. People fight for country and cause due to love and loyalty to those at home. Southern fami-lies involved in the American Civil War were no different. Fathers, husbands, sons, mothers, wives, and daugh-ters loved while in the midst of the “cruel war,” surrounded by death, destruction, and desperation. These same motivations remain in our society and an examination of correspondence between the homefront and the bat-tlefront sheds light into the inner workings of daily life as well as assigned gender …

The Grizzly, April 22, 2010, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Tyler Wetzel, Ashley Mccomeskey, Shane Eachus, Lisa Jobe, Michael Delaney, Helen Ann Coin, Joshua C. Walsh, Olivia Minick, Josh Steinhouse, Gianna Paone, Katie Haldeman, Thomas Nucatola, Carly Siegler, Nick Pane

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Yesterday Marks Ursinus' Fifth Annual CoSA • John Corson Announced as Ursinus Interim President • Dean Nolan Named Vice President of Student Affairs • Southeast Asian Student Association Presents "Tour of Asia" to Students and Faculty • John Strassburger 5K Run is a Success • "The Lantern" Unveiled with New Surprises • NCAA's First Openly Gay Football Captain Speaks at UC • Going the Distance with a Nose • Erin Dickerson: Promoting Diversity at Ursinus • UCDC Brings a Round of Fresh Performances Tonight Through Saturday • Opinions: Discovering the Pros and Cons of Unpaid Internships; Transferring and Adapting to …

The Grizzly, April 15, 2010, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Michael Delaney, Ashley Mccomeskey, Stefanie Moyer, Lisa Jobe, Gianna Paone, James Kilduff, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Samuel Stortz, Zach Shamberg, Shane Eachus, Matt Campbell

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus' Relay for Life Brings in Over $43,000 • V-Day Celebrations Continue with The Vagina Monologues • Phi Kappa Sigma Runs Another Successful Bike-a-Thon • "Enough is Enough" Week Brings Awareness to Campus Violence • Title IX: A Female Athlete's Freedom, or Her Health? • Bruno's Restaurant: Cheeseburgers in Paradise? • Omega Chi and UCARE Team Up for Blood Drive • Opinion: Two Worlds of Ursinus' Small Campus; Ursinus Dining Offers Less Than Healthy Options

The Grizzly, April 8, 2010, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Ashley Mccomeskey, Jarod Groome, Lisa Jobe, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Joshua C. Walsh, Sara Hourwitz, Gianna Paone, Stefanie Moyer, Carly Siegler, Zach Shamberg, Christopher Michael

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

First Annual Backwards Beauty Pageant Held • Ursinus Senior to Travel Abroad for a Year with Watson • Kappa Alpha Psi and Seismic Step Emerge on Campus • UC Welcomes New Field Hockey Coach • Sex on Wheels Documentary Screening • Volunteering with St. Christopher's Children's Hospital • Feeling Good in "The Skin We're In" • The Sacrifice Your Body Makes for [Better] Grades • Opinion: "Kyleigh's Law" Profiles Drivers by Age in New Jersey • Upper Classmen Off-Campus Living • UC Gymnastics Closes Season with Success

Naccs 37th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Chicana/o Environmental Justics Struggles for a Post-Neoliberal Age
April 7-10, 2010
Grand Hyatt

Lg Ms 014 Jessen Lgbt/Women’S Newsletter & Media Collection Finding Aid, Renee Desroberts, Karin A. France

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Barbara Jessen formed the Maine Tradeswomen's Network, a loose organization of women in the trades and supporting personnel, in 1990, to promote networking, mentoring, and employment. The Collection consists of six newsletter titles, plus newspaper clippings, fact sheets, and articles - all covering LGBT and women’s issues in Maine and nationally.

Date Range:

1970s-2000

Size of Collection:

0.5 ft.

Lg Ms 016 Transsupport Archives Finding Aid, Karin A. France

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Transsupport is a non-profit, educational, non-sexual peer support group for Cross-dressers, Transsexuals, their families, friends and significant others. The Archives contains organizational papers and newsletters from between 1994 and 1998, plus one issue of vol. 1 of the newsletter, dated 1989.

Date Range:

1989, 1994-1998

Size of Collection:

0.5 ft.

Gen Ms 25 T.A. Huston & Co. Salesman's Catalog Finding Aid, Karin A. France

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In the early 1920s, T. A. Huston & Co. of Auburn built a 7-story bakery building in Portland, which became the Glickman Library of USM in the early 1990s. This is a 3-ring binder containing a color facsimile of a salesman's catalog, ca. 1912, of T. A. Huston & Co.

Date Range:

ca. 1912

Size of Collection:

0.25 ft.

Lg Ms 015 May Sarton Scrapbook Finding Aid, Kristin Morris, Karin A. France

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William Barry is a well-known, published local historian. He had a slight connection with May Sarton through his friend Dorothy Healy, co-founder of the Maine Women Writers Collection. The Scrapbook contains documents relating to his correspondence with Sarton regarding her essay for a memorial book for Healy; documents and newspaper clippings relating to celebrations of Sarton’s life and work; documents regarding Barry’s effort to get Sarton’s essay in Healy’s memorial included in a Sarton bibliography.

Date Range:

1983-2008

Size of Collection:

0.25 ft.

Bataclanismo! Or, How Deco Bodies Transformed Postrevolutionary Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In the spring of 1925, Santa Anita's Festival of Flowers seemed to follow its tranquil trend of previous years. The large displays of flowers, the selection of indias bonitas (as the contestants of beauty pageants organized in an attempt to stimulate indigenism were known) and the boat-rides on the Viga Canal, all communicated what residents of neighboring Mexico City had come to expect of the small pueblo in the Federal District since the Porfiriato: the respite of a peaceful pastoral, the link to a colorful past, and the promise that mexicanidad was alive and well in the campo. Unfortunately, …

Society’S Views And The Personal Status Code: A Discussion Of Tunisian Men And Women’S Roles In Marriage And Divorce, Alexandra Betgeorge

Global Studies Student Scholarship

This paper discusses the present characteristics of men and women’s expected roles in Tunisian society and family during and after marriage. The relationship between the Personal Status Code’s laws and Tunisian society’s general mentality were studied to see how they interacted to create men and women’s reputations and statuses before and after divorce. Four interviews were conducted with two categories of marriages considered: those with children and those without children. Each category was represented by a male and female divorcé living in the northern suburbs of Tunis, who were each asked to speak of their marriage and divorce process. Each …