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The Avenger - March-May 2012, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum 2012 Nova Southeastern University

The Avenger - March-May 2012, Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum

The Avenger

No abstract provided.


Morgan County - Photographs Of 2012 West Liberty Tornado, W. Lynn Nickell 2012 Morehead State University

Morgan County - Photographs Of 2012 West Liberty Tornado, W. Lynn Nickell

County Histories of Kentucky

Photographs of the West Liberty, Kentucky tornado of March 2, 2012.


Breckinridge, Katherine B. (Carson), 1853-1921 (Sc 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Breckinridge, Katherine B. (Carson), 1853-1921 (Sc 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 374. Letter, 9 January 1889, written by Katherine (Mrs. Clifton Rodes) Breckinridge, Washington, D.C., to General Duncan S. Walker, Washington D.C., responding to his request for autograph letters of John and John C. Breckinridge (her husband’s great-grandfather and father, respectively). Includes an autograph of John C. Breckinridge.


Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 1862-1929 (Sc 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Underwood, Oscar Wilder, 1862-1929 (Sc 372), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) of Manuscripts Small Collection 372. Letter, 26 August 1912, of U.S. Representative Oscar W. Underwood, Washington, D.C., to John M. Bogart, New York City, declining an invitation to a dinner honoring Kentucky governor Augustus Wilson because of matters of importance requiring his return to Alabama.


Blackburn, Joseph Clay Stiles, 1838-1918 (Sc 373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Blackburn, Joseph Clay Stiles, 1838-1918 (Sc 373), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 373. Letters of Blackburn, 24 July 1884 to “My dear Genl” and 20 February 1889 to General Duncan S. Walker, New York City, regarding personal favors requested; and images (3) of Blackburn, a U.S. Congressman and Senator from Kentucky.


Trust, But Verify: Reagan, Gorbachev, And The Inf Treaty, William D. Watson 2012 Western Michigan University

Trust, But Verify: Reagan, Gorbachev, And The Inf Treaty, William D. Watson

The Hilltop Review

This paper is a discussion of the relationship between the deployment of two types of intermediate (medium) range missile systems in Europe, how leaders on both sides viewed the situation, and how the potential use of such weapons affected superpower relations during the last decade of the Cold War.


Woodson, Urey, 1859-1939 (Sc 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Woodson, Urey, 1859-1939 (Sc 367), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 367. Letter to Miss Elizabeth N. Duncan, Denver, Colorado, concerning the availability of tickets to the Democratic Convention. Urey Woodson was Secretary of the Democratic National Committee.


A Brief Research On 1936 Soviet Constitution Under Joseph Stalin, Jingyuan Qian 2012 Macalester College

A Brief Research On 1936 Soviet Constitution Under Joseph Stalin, Jingyuan Qian

The Macalester Review

The mission of this paper is to examine the Soviet Union's first constitution in 1936. It attempts to analyze how the social and economic conditions presented in USSR, as well as the personality of Joseph Stalin, stimulated the need to make a constitution. It also attempts to evaluate the influence of this constitution in the contemporary Soviet Society. I would like to thank Prof. Weisensel for his kind review and precious suggestions on this research paper.


What Lies Ahead For The Oecd?, Richard Woodward 2012 Technological University Dublin

What Lies Ahead For The Oecd?, Richard Woodward

Books/Book Chapters

The “rise of the rest” has prompted questions about the capacity and willingness of the United States to lead the liberal international order established under its post-war hegemony. Some prophesize that stronger connections amongst emerging powers are the basis for a parallel international order parading different rules, norms and institutions. In contrast, Ikenberry argues that the visionary use of US power has woven capitalist and democratic societies together into a uniquely entrenched “Western” order that is “hard to overturn and easy to join.” Prevailing arrangements will condition the environment within which rising powers make their decisions; nevertheless, by joining the …


Leslie, Preston Hopkins, 1819-1907 - Relating To (Sc 254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Leslie, Preston Hopkins, 1819-1907 - Relating To (Sc 254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 254. Photocopies of sketch written about Preston Hopkins Leslie in 1910, and a letter, 16 August 1969, written by Mary (Leslie) Ford, Helena, Montana, to Tim Cantrell, Henderson, Kentucky, related to Cantrell’s interest in writing a book about Preston Hopkins Leslie, Ford’s grandfather. Leslie was governor of Kentucky from 1871 to 1875, and governor of Montana from 1887 to 1889.


Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2012 Western Kentucky University

Donaldson, William M. (Sc 346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 346. Circular letter written by in behalf of Henry E. Youtsey who was imprisoned for his actions in the murder of Governor William Justus Goebel. Signatures on a petition were to be obtained with petition being returned to Mr. Donaldson, Newport, Kentucky.


Formation Of Public Sphere(S) In The Aftermath Of The 1908 Revolution Among Armenians, Arabs, And Jews, Bedross Der Matossian 2012 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Formation Of Public Sphere(S) In The Aftermath Of The 1908 Revolution Among Armenians, Arabs, And Jews, Bedross Der Matossian

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Revolutionary theories are most useful when they attempt to define and interpret the causes and mechanisms of revolutions. However, when they attempt to forecast the outcomes and the impact of revolutions on their indigenous societies, they are largely unsuccessful. This article deals with the impact of the Young Turk revolution on three non-dominant ethnic groups in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Arabs, and Jews. It will argue that the revolution resulted in the creation of a multiplicity of public spheres among the ethnic groupS.1 This multiplicity of public spheres became the main medium through which these ethnic groups internalized the Young …


A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres: The Church Street South Project And Urban Renewal In New Haven, Emily Dominski 2012 Yale University

A Nowhere Between Two Somewheres: The Church Street South Project And Urban Renewal In New Haven, Emily Dominski

Kaplan Senior Essay Prize for Use of Library Special Collections

“It is altogether too easy to forget the New Haven of a decade ago” New Haven’s Mayor Richard C. Lee began as he addressed the members of his Citizens Action Commission in 1965. “Neither our eyes, nor our memories are any longer jolted by the vision of the old produce market that had operated near the Railroad Station for more than half a century. The old market was a tangle of stress, often so congested that normal business was impossible. Most business was conducted from the tailgates of trucks. This was a truck market in every sense of the word, …


Democratic Transitions In Divided States: The Case Of Iraq, Kara Leigh Kingma 2012 University of Denver

Democratic Transitions In Divided States: The Case Of Iraq, Kara Leigh Kingma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many theorists have posited that democratic transitions in states divided along ethnic, racial, or religious lines are accompanied by violent conflict and thus unlikely to succeed. The end of authoritarian rule in Iraq and the introduction of democracy by the United States has been followed by many such challenges, and it has been argued that the artificial Iraqi state and its Kurdish, Sunni, and Shia communities does not possess the unity as required by democratic government. However, an informed analysis of Iraqi democracy requires attention to the role of its authoritarian leaders and war and economic hardships in making Iraq's …


Government And Politics Newsletter, Issue 8, Sacred Heart University 2012 Sacred Heart University

Government And Politics Newsletter, Issue 8, Sacred Heart University

Government and Politics Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Fighting The Great War: Reconsidering The American Soldier Experience, Jennifer D. Keene 2012 Chapman University

Fighting The Great War: Reconsidering The American Soldier Experience, Jennifer D. Keene

History Faculty Articles and Research

Why men fight is a particularly apt question to ask about the American soldier in World War I. Unlike Europeans in 1914, Americans went to war with their eyes wide open. They had already seen the worst of industrial warfare both on the high seas when the 1915 Lusitania sinking illustrated the dangers of ocean travel and on the battlefield when the 1916 battles of the Somme and Verdun left no doubt about the staggering casualties trench warfare engendered. Nonetheless, Americans displayed a certain naive enthusiasm for war in 1917. When American soldiers arrived overseas, French soldiers noted how much …


The Political Economy Of Mass Printing: Legitimacy And Technological Change In The Ottoman Empire, Metin M. Coşgel, Thomas J. Miceli, Jared Rubin 2012 University of Connecticut

The Political Economy Of Mass Printing: Legitimacy And Technological Change In The Ottoman Empire, Metin M. Coşgel, Thomas J. Miceli, Jared Rubin

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

New technologies have not always been greeted with full enthusiasm. Although the Ottomans were quick to adopt advancements in military technology, they waited almost three centuries to sanction printing in Ottoman Turkish (in Arabic characters). Printing spread relatively rapidly throughout Europe following the invention of the printing press in 1450 despite resistance by interest groups and temporary restrictions in some countries. We explain differential reaction to technology through a political economy approach centered on the legitimizing relationships between rulers and their agents (e.g., military, religious, or secular authorities). The Ottomans regulated the printing press heavily to prevent the loss it …


Politics As Usual Or Political Change: The War On Poverty's Community Action Program In Albany, N.Y., 1959-1967, Brian Keough 2012 University at Albany, State University of New York

Politics As Usual Or Political Change: The War On Poverty's Community Action Program In Albany, N.Y., 1959-1967, Brian Keough

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

The historical narrative of the Great Society in general, and the Community Action Program in particular, has largely reflected the events and experiences in large cities such as New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago, ignoring smaller communities’ implementation of the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act (EOA). This article examines the struggle to develop Albany’s CAP and provides a greater understanding of city’s race relations during the early 1960s. I argue that the conflict over community action exacerbated race relations in Albany and contributes to the ongoing narrative about the significance of the War on Poverty in smaller urban areas. A study …


Book Review: Lincoln And His Books, Allen C. Guelzo 2012 Gettysburg College

Book Review: Lincoln And His Books, Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

“I have found no one to speak of Lincoln as a man of either capacity or patriotism,” smirked Confederate general Lafayette McLaws, as the Army of Northern Virginia prepared to march into Pennsylvania on June 28, 1863. His was not, unhappily, an opinion limited to Abraham Lincoln’s enemies-in-arms. Henry Clay Whitney admitted that, at best, Lincoln “had the appearance of a rough intelligent farmer.” Elihu Washburne agreed: meeting Lincoln on the railroad platform in Washington, D.C., on February 23, 1861, Washburne could not help thinking that Lincoln “looked more like a well-to-do farmer from one of the back towns of …


Morgan County - Paul Gilley: The Ghost Writer In The Sky, W. Lynn Nickell 2012 Morehead State University

Morgan County - Paul Gilley: The Ghost Writer In The Sky, W. Lynn Nickell

County Histories of Kentucky

Paul Gilley: The Ghost Writer in the Sky written and published by W. Lynn Nickell in 2012.


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