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Forgotten Heroes Of World War I: Pfc. Preston W. Rushing And The 105th Field Signal Battalion

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Forgotten Heroes of World War I: Pfc. Preston W. Rushing and the 105th Field Signal Battalion

Alice-Catherine Carls

The Jackson Purchase: People And Places - Kenny Rollins (1923-2012)

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Jackson Purchase: People and Places - Kenny Rollins (1923-2012)

Kevin Hogg

The Confederate Surrender At Tiptonville And The Conclusion Of The Island No. 10 Campaign

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Confederate Surrender at Tiptonville and the Conclusion of the Island No. 10 Campaign

Dieter C. Ullrich

Editor’S Remarks

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Editor’s Remarks

James S. Humphreys

President’S Report, July 2020-June 2021

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

President’s Report, July 2020-June 2021

Bill Mulligan

Memories From The Great War: An Analysis Of Jackson Purchase Veteran’S Changes In Perspective Since 1914

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Memories From the Great War: An Analysis of Jackson Purchase Veteran’s Changes in Perspective Since 1914

David J. Wallace

Articles In The Filson Club Historical Quarterly And The Register Of The Kentucky Historical Society Related To The Jackson Purchase

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Articles in the Filson Club Historical Quarterly and the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Related to the Jackson Purchase

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Escape To Freedom: The Role Of The Steamboat In The Underground Railroad

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Escape to Freedom: The Role of the Steamboat in the Underground Railroad

Richard D. Parker

Book Reviews

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Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation by Peter Cozzens

Ted Franklin Belue

Finding Daniel Boone: His Last Days in Missouri and the Strange Fate of His Remains by Ted Franklin Belue

Dale Ray Phillips

West Tennessee: The Land Between the Rivers by Sam McGowan

Marvin Downing

T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer by David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito

Melinda Meador

A Beautiful Star, The Life of Lois Etoile Brewer by Bobbie Smith Bryant

Bruce Dobyns

Misremembering Risk In The Age Of Hurricanes: The Rhode Island Coast In The 1930s-1950s, Kara M. Schlichting

Publications and Research

This paper explores the lost history of New England hurricanes and how the “return” of hurricanes challenged understandings of the environmental vulnerabilities of coastal communities and weather. A series of severe New England hurricanes from 1938-1954 forced Rhode Islanders to reassess coastal vulnerabilities and protection strategies. Before the hurricane of ’38, Rhode Islanders lived with the vulnerability of seasonal erosion and winter storms, but believed their state was, and would remain, safe from hurricanes. In a new era of the shore-at-risk, the Army Corps of Engineers re-wrote the forgotten history of coastal dangers. Dense development along Narragansett Bay and the …

U.S. Government And Politics In Principle And Practice: Democracy, Rights, Freedoms And Empire, Samuel Finesurrey, Gary Greaves

Open Educational Resources

This book is written for students early in college to provide a guide to the founding documents and structures of governance that form the United States political system. This book is called American Government and Politics in Principle and Practice because you will notice that what has been inscribed in law has not always been applied in practice-particularly for indigenous peoples, enslaved peoples, people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, those formerly incarcerated, immigrants and the working class within U.S. society. In designing this book, we have two goals. First, we want you to know what the founding documents …

The Road To Self-Support: Vocational Rehabilitation And The Associational State, 1917-1945, William Jared Norwood

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

“The Road to Self-Support: Vocational Rehabilitation and the Associational State, 1917-1945” traces the origins and development of the Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation (CVR) program from its inception in 1920 until the conclusion of the Second World War. Rapid industrialization and the fallout of the First World War handed the nation a large amount of people with disabilities, which drew on already strained state and local welfare relief. The project examines the interwar period and finds it to be a battleground of differing governing strategies over how best to solve America’s growing level of disabled workers. The project argues that policymakers settled …

Scientific Development Vs. Political Strategy: Nasa’S Commitment To Science Following The First Moon Landing, Sean Van Buskirk

Masters Theses

This work looks at the scientific program of NASA during the Space Race. (1961- 1975) During this period of the Cold War, NASA shifted it role from a political asset of the United States strategy to an agency of scientific discovery. This was not a smooth transition due to political opinions on the wastefulness and role of NASA. Many politicians, citizens and even scientists had doubts about the scientific potential of NASA’s manned missions to the Moon. Despite the power politics, the administrators at NASA were able to break out of the political arena and create a balanced program where …

Reconstructing The Black Family: How The Freedmen’S Bureau Sought To Shape Black Family Structures After Emancipation, Megan R. Busby

Honors Theses and Capstones

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Building Public Health In A Rural State: Strategies For Preventing Disease In Kentucky, 1883-1914, Abigail Stephens

Theses and Dissertations--History

During the period from 1883-1914, the Kentucky State Board of Health developed strategies for preventing disease in the state by enforcing hard power measures of vaccination, quarantine, and isolation of disease suspects, and through the soft power measures of written and spoken communication. Throughout this period their efforts to prevent and contain disease were limited by inadequate funding as well as opposition from the public, local authorities, and the state legislature, demonstrating that while hard power measures can be effective in combating disease, they cannot be fully successful without support from the people they aim to protect.

The People's Court: On The Intellectual Origins Of American Judicial Power, Ian C. Bartrum

Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)

This article enters into the modern debate between “consti- tutional departmentalists”—who contend that the executive and legislative branches share constitutional interpretive authority with the courts—and what are sometimes called “judicial supremacists.” After exploring the relevant history of political ideas, I join the modern minority of voices in the latter camp.

This is an intellectual history of two evolving political ideas—popular sovereignty and the separation of powers—which merged in the making of American judicial power, and I argue we can only understand the structural function of judicial review by bringing these ideas together into an integrated whole. Or, put another way, …

15 Nr 2005 Grenadier Battalion Köhler, Graff, From September 1781 Vacant Graff, From July 1782 Platte -1779 – 1784 (January – April), Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Schwalm Marburg Files

No abstract provided.

America’S Presidential Crisis Of Legitimacy: How The Electoral College Became Obsolete And How We Can Fix It, Julia Rose Foodman

Scripps Senior Theses

The goal of this thesis is to critique the current American Presidential electoral system, the Electoral College, and to show what an alternative could potentially mean for the American people. This paper seeks to answer the following questions: What are the main arguments for the Electoral College, why are they troubling, and how can we mend American Presidential elections for the greater purposes of political equality, democracy, and freedom? To do so, core arguments made by conservative pundits in favor of the Electoral College are outlined in order to bring attention to their logical, political, and moral inconsistencies. The inequalities …

Ch. 3: A Contrarian Voice: Şehzāde Ḳorḳud’S (D. 919/1513) Writings On Kalām And The Early Articulation Of Ottoman Sunnism, Nabil Al-Tikriti

Books and Chapters

This chapter appears in the book, Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750.  Edited by Tijana Krstic and Derin Terzioglu.  

Chapter abstract:  What characterizes Ottoman Sunnism, and how did it come to be? The conventional view is that by roughly the middle of the sixteenth century the imperial elite came to adopt and promote a particular religious identity, which can be characterized by several overlapping, interrelated, and historically defined denominational (madhhab) affiliations, as well as a particular relationship with the political hierarchy. The favored denominations included Hanafi legal affiliation and Maturidi kalām orientation, accompanied by elite …

Centralizing The Purse: Why A More Centralized National Government Was Crucial For Managing America's Revolutionary War Debt, Ethan Berg

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Research on the American Revolutionary debt has particularly focused on the leadership of American financial figures: most notably Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris and U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. While scholars affirm their indispensable leadership, they also acknowledge institutional and political conditions that distinguish their tenures. This CE/T seeks to further analyze these conditions. It draws upon scholarly works while evaluating different aspects and time frames of Americas’ public debt, including the initial accumulation of debt, the tenure of Robert Morris, the formation of the U.S. Constitution, and the tenure of Alexander Hamilton. The CE/T also analyzes the papers of …