Mamie Clark Menefield, 2023 Georgia Southern University
Mamie Clark Menefield
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
Handwritten note about the death of Mrs. Mamie Clark Menefield. She was a member of Noah's Ark Baptist Church.
Reclaiming Public Space: How Black Portlanders Transformed Irving Park, 1960s-1980s, 2023 Portland State University
Reclaiming Public Space: How Black Portlanders Transformed Irving Park, 1960s-1980s, Ana Bane
University Honors Theses
Although we often take their existence for granted, public parks are imperative for the vitality of a functioning democratic society. Parks are more than just sites for recreation–an important arena for community building in its own right; occupying public space is an inherently political act that takes on new dimensions in resistance movements. This project explores the role that public space played in the history of Black community organizing and resistance in Portland. Irving Park is a sixteen acre park in the heart of the Albina district, Portland’s historic African American neighborhood. Though the area is now heavily gentrified, from …
The Life Of Pioneering Amish Studies Scholar Walter Kollmorgen: Transcript Of The Reschly-Jellison Interviews, 2023 Truman State University
The Life Of Pioneering Amish Studies Scholar Walter Kollmorgen: Transcript Of The Reschly-Jellison Interviews, Steven Reschly, Katherine Jellison
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
On March 20, 1994, we interviewed Walter Kollmorgen. Reschly also conducted a follow-up interview March 8, 1995. Herein, we provide the transcripts of these interviews, which are of particular historical value since Kollmorgen was one of Amish studies’ first researchers. Kollmorgen was a native speaker of German from having grown up in a Lutheran family in rural Nebraska. He and his younger sister, Johanna, both contracted polio at a very young age. The combination of German and physical limitations enabled both to establish rapport in a short time with the Amish community in Lancaster County for his rural community study. …
Subjectivity In The Lancaster Amish Community Study Of 1940-42: 'Economic Conquest' In Loomis’S Diary And Rosinow’S Photographs, 2023 The University of Akron
Subjectivity In The Lancaster Amish Community Study Of 1940-42: 'Economic Conquest' In Loomis’S Diary And Rosinow’S Photographs, Elizabeth Bennett
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies
The American Farm Community Study (1940), funded by the USDA’s Bureau of Agricultural Economics, was a social investigation that sought to determine why some rural communities thrive while others fail. To conduct the Study, the Bureau sent social scientists to six rural communities across the country to investigate and document the most and least “stable” American communities. Geographer Walter Kollmorgen, sociologist Charles Loomis, and photographer Irving Rusinow documented the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, PA, as the “most stable” community in the Study. In Lancaster, the men found a people thriving in the midst of english neighbors still economically …
Historical Trauma: Literary And Testimonial Responses To Hiroshima, 2023 The American University in Cairo AUC
Historical Trauma: Literary And Testimonial Responses To Hiroshima, Mariam Ghonim
Theses and Dissertations
The concept of trauma is controversial in literature. While one may be able to come up with ways to describe trauma in fiction, representing historical trauma is a hard task for writers. Some argue that trauma can not be described through those who did not experience it, while others claim that, provided some elements are added, one can represent trauma to the reader. This thesis focuses on twentieth-century historical traumas related to a nuclear catastrophe and explores the different literary and testimonial responses to the catastrophic man-made event of Hiroshima (1945). In this thesis, Kathleen Burkinshaw’s historical fiction The Last …
Lee Watt Brack Jr., 2023 Georgia Southern University
Lee Watt Brack Jr.
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Betty Jean Hendley Clifton, 2023 Georgia Southern University
Betty Jean Hendley Clifton
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Tommy Lee Hendrix, 2023 Georgia Southern University
Tommy Lee Hendrix
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
John Edward Pearsall, 2023 Georgia Southern University
John Edward Pearsall
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Myths, Museums, Mothers, And The Power Of Letitia Carson, 2023 Portland State University
Myths, Museums, Mothers, And The Power Of Letitia Carson, Hailey Brink
University Honors Theses
Letitia Carson was a trailblazing Black Oregon pioneer woman whose life offered remarkable and unprecedented departures from the white pioneer status quo. Letitia's story presents numerous points at which she could be heralded for her successes; her pregnant journey across the Overland Trail, giving birth in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, cultivating and maintaining two separate homesteads, challenging and conquering two lawsuits against administrator Greenberry Smith, her midwifery and community involvement, and lastly, becoming the first Black woman to own land in Oregon in 1862. And yet, her story fell to obscurity, only to be revived nearly a century …
Sevyn Reign Chavers, 2023 Georgia Southern University
Sevyn Reign Chavers
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Bettye Fean Jackson-Key, 2023 Georgia Southern University
Bettye Fean Jackson-Key
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Bearing Witness To Sacrifice: Death, Grief And Memorialisation In The Collections Of The Canadian War Museum, 2023 Wilfrid Laurier University
Bearing Witness To Sacrifice: Death, Grief And Memorialisation In The Collections Of The Canadian War Museum, Teresa Iacobelli
Canadian Military History
This article presents a selection of artworks, archival material and artifacts from the Canadian War Museum (CWM) that illuminate how Canadians—soldiers and civilians— have experienced and endured war. By focusing on the themes of death, grief and memorialisation, these items convey how Canadians have borne the sacrifice of war, and the way in which those losses have been memorialised in ways both public and private.
Cet article présente une sélection d’oeuvres d’art, de documents d’archives et d’artefacts du Musée canadien de la guerre (MCG) qui illustrent la façon dont les Canadiens – soldates et civils – ont vécu et enduré …
Woman Flytrap, 2023 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
Woman Flytrap, Brianna Jo Hobson
Student Theses and Dissertations
Woman FlyTrap is a short story zine collection that explores the topic of sexual violence through the perpetrator and victim relationship with an explicit lens. Replete with cultural and entomological themes and motifs, Woman Flytrap seeks to remind survivors that we are not alone. In our bodies or in our lives. Neither in the world. There are over a million insects to every human, proving that there is strength in numbers. All five stories in the collection present different abstracts: revenge, transformation, justice, healing, body image, self-harm, mourning, etc. There is also a playlist and a section about the author. …
Anna Mae Childers, 2023 Georgia Southern University
Anna Mae Childers
African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia
No abstract provided.
Reconciling Genoa: A Historiography Of The Genoa Indian Industrial School, 2023 University of Nebraska, Kearney
Reconciling Genoa: A Historiography Of The Genoa Indian Industrial School, Andrea Huebner
Graduate Review
In 1884, the Genoa Indian Industrial School was established to aid in the assimilation of Native American students. Schools, like Genoa Indian Industrial School, were originally considered successful but as historians uncovered abuse and unsafe living conditions the narratives surrounding the schools changed. This paper builds looks directly at how historians’ interpretation of the Genoa Indian Industrial School has changed over time. This contributes to a deeper understanding of how important it is to continue re-evaluating events throughout history.
The Students’ Army Training Corps In Virginia, 2023 James Madison University
The Students’ Army Training Corps In Virginia, R. Matthew Luther
Masters Theses, 2020-current
The Students’ Army Training Corps (SATC) is an overlooked part of the United States’ military training system during World War I. In early 1918, the War Department realized that they would need more military officers due to the rapid expansion of the Army for the war, the high expected casualty rate of officers, and the planned spring 1919 offensive. To help fix this problem, the Committee on Education and Special Training, a subsidiary of the War Department, created the SATC. College campuses served as training locations and male students enrolled at the schools received military training in addition to their …
Constructing Memories Of The Civic-Military Dictatorship In La Plata, Argentina, 1976 To The Present, 2023 James Madison University
Constructing Memories Of The Civic-Military Dictatorship In La Plata, Argentina, 1976 To The Present, Anna Neubauer
Masters Theses, 2020-current
This thesis examines how different organizations constructed memories of the civic-military dictatorship in Argentina. Although Spanish language literature on this topic is very rich, not much English language scholarship is present in the historiography. Using a local history approach and by analyzing primary sources such as newspapers, memoirs, flyers, and police archives, this thesis demonstrates how two groups: the Unión de Estudiantes Secundarios (High School Students Union, UES) and the Montoneros in the city of La Plata drew on the history of their fallen comrades during the civic-military dictatorship to fight for a better future in Argentina.
I Belong Here Too: An Oral History Of The Immigration Of Bangladeshis To New York City, 2023 James Madison University
I Belong Here Too: An Oral History Of The Immigration Of Bangladeshis To New York City, Subat Matin
Masters Theses, 2020-current
I Belong Here Too is an oral history project which consists of twenty interviews of the Bangladeshi community in New York. The oral histories touch on many aspects of Bangladeshi-American life, history, memory, identity, culture, and the struggles of being an immigrant. It tries to put the interviewees experiences in a larger historical context in order to understand how the Bangladeshi community in Brooklyn, New York has grown and the challenges they faced as immigrants in a new city. The two chapters of this thesis examines the oral history processes and the difficulties of Bangladeshi immigrant women. The project is …
The Daniel Harrison House Project: Heritage Education Programs At A Historic House Museum, 2023 James Madison University
The Daniel Harrison House Project: Heritage Education Programs At A Historic House Museum, Megan Schoeman
Masters Theses, 2020-current
This thesis project attempts to identify and address outdated interpretation and education programs of the Daniel Harrison House, a historic house museum commonly known as Fort Harrison, in Dayton, Virginia. The project consists of two parts, a written component and an online digital exhibit. The written component of the project evaluates the Daniel Harrison House’s current educational programs and provides updated suggestions to reflect current trends within the heritage education and public history fields. The Interpretation Plan identifies the organization’s existing interpretation methods, historical content, artifact collection, education programs, staff and volunteers, accessibility of information to the public, and development …