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Deaccessioning In Small Museums: A Historical View And Lessons From The Past, Kristin Lapos 2016 Seton Hall University

Deaccessioning In Small Museums: A Historical View And Lessons From The Past, Kristin Lapos

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Deaccessioning is a frequent topic of conversation in even small and mid-sized museums in the twenty-first century. With collections costs soaring, budgets dwindling, and space ever more limited, museums must deaccession to survive and prosper. However, deaccessioning and disposal have become hugely controversial, both among museum professionals and with the general public in the past few decades. Scholars like Stephen Weil and Marie Malaro argue that deaccessioning and disposal were non-issues prior to the 1970s. Is this true? If so, how did museum professionals handle deaccessioning and disposal of objects from their collections before this time?

This thesis explores the …


Herbert Andrew Williams Sr., 2016 Georgia Southern University

Herbert Andrew Williams Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Serving The Public First: Archives 2.0, Matthew D. LaRoche 2016 Gettysburg College

Serving The Public First: Archives 2.0, Matthew D. Laroche

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

The hallmarks of contemporary archival philosophy, known casually as “Archives 2.0,” have everything to do with making archives open, attractive resources for researchers of all persuasions. These rotate around a few main assertions. First, that archivists should endeavor to make their repositories as attractive as possible to users—this means offering friendly, all-inclusive access, being responsive to user desires, being tech-savvy, and leaving some discovery and processing of collections to the researcher. Secondly, modern archiving stresses accessibility—having a standardized way of organizing collections that will be easily understood by visiting researchers, utilizing language familiar to average people for finding aides, and …


Yonder Stands Jackson Beyond Reproach, Kevin P. Lavery 2016 Gettysburg College

Yonder Stands Jackson Beyond Reproach, Kevin P. Lavery

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Yonder, he stands, a lone sentinel of stone amidst the fallow fields of Henry Hill. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, his nom de guerre earned here on the fields of First Manassas, rides tall in the saddle of his steed. The statue’s commanding presence on Henry Hill anchors a memory of that battle that emphasizes the triumph of Jackson, his brigade, and the Confederate army in the defense of Southern soil. It is an embodiment of idealized notions of Southern courage, honor, and martial spirit. At the same time, the monument serves to depoliticize Jackson and the Confederate war effort—yet in doing …


August 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center 2016 University of Southern Maine

August 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Kiddush Levana; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; L-A Jewish Federation; A Bissel of Maine; Community Notices


Shaken, Not Stirred: Espionage, Fantasy, And British Masculinity During The Cold War, Anna Rikki Nelson 2016 University of Southern Mississippi

Shaken, Not Stirred: Espionage, Fantasy, And British Masculinity During The Cold War, Anna Rikki Nelson

Master's Theses

This project seeks to define and explore the development of Cold War British masculinity and national identity in response to decolonization. Following World War II, Great Britain experienced a time of political and cultural rebuilding. This project argues that following World War II, Britain had to renegotiate gender and national identity within the context of decolonization, the rise of the welfare state, and Britain’s diminished role in global politics, and the tensions within gender and national identity were expressed in Britain’s interest in espionage narratives both real and fictionalized. British spy novels by Ian Fleming, Desmond Cory, and John Le …


"A Part Of, Rather Than Apart From" : Louisville's Black Arts Scene In The Mid-Twentieth Century., Wesley Sawyer Cunningham 2016 University of Louisville

"A Part Of, Rather Than Apart From" : Louisville's Black Arts Scene In The Mid-Twentieth Century., Wesley Sawyer Cunningham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the role that three predominantly black art organizations – Gallery Enterprises, the Louisville Arts Workshop, and the West Side Players – played in Louisville, Kentucky’s black community during the mid-twentieth century. Working from the integrated and cooperative nature of the long Black Freedom Struggle in Louisville, Kentucky, local black artists formed integrated organizations around the arts and promoted black identity, inclusivity and creativity through community-building and consciousness-raising. Furthermore, by defining the varying uses of the term “political” in reference to black art, this work shows that the politicization of artwork can best be understood using a spectrum …


Kathryn "Queen" Heyward-Butler, 2016 Georgia Southern University

Kathryn "Queen" Heyward-Butler

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Otis Mcbride, 2016 Georgia Southern University

Otis Mcbride

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Vonzie Lee Hodges Dansby, 2016 Georgia Southern University

Vonzie Lee Hodges Dansby

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Joe Ann Devine Bacon, 2016 Georgia Southern University

Joe Ann Devine Bacon

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Barbara Jean Alexander Shields, 2016 Georgia Southern University

Barbara Jean Alexander Shields

African American Funeral Programs

Interment at Edgewood Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida


Tyrone "Rex" Jeff Sr., 2016 Georgia Southern University

Tyrone "Rex" Jeff Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Catherine Duncan, 2016 Georgia Southern University

Catherine Duncan

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Jacqueline O. Sibley, 2016 Georgia Southern University

Jacqueline O. Sibley

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


The 'Angel Of Marye's Heights' And Civil War Memory, Jonathan G. Danchik 2016 Gettysburg College

The 'Angel Of Marye's Heights' And Civil War Memory, Jonathan G. Danchik

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

In 1862, the small Virginian town of Fredericksburg found itself between two opposing armies. The Federal Army of the Potomac sat restlessly, eagerly awaiting means with which to cross the Rappahannock River, while elements of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia were called to take defensive positions in and behind Fredericksburg. What ensued was a bloody spectacle that claimed thousands of lives, and tempered the fighting spirit of the armies for the remainder of the Civil War.

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Lakisha Wiggins, 2016 Georgia Southern University

Lakisha Wiggins

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.


Mrs. Angela Katrice Gillis, 2016 Georgia Southern University

Mrs. Angela Katrice Gillis

African American Funeral Programs

Mrs_Angela_Katrice_Gillis.pdf - Funeral program for Mrs. Angela Katrice Gillis


Otlin Whitfield "Big O" Stuart, 2016 Georgia Southern University

Otlin Whitfield "Big O" Stuart

African American Funeral Programs

FP for Otlin Whitfield "Big O" Stuart on July 16, 2016 at First Baptist Church


"Of The Human Heart": Personal Significance And The Key To Interpretation, Alexandria J. Andrioli 2016 Gettysburg College

"Of The Human Heart": Personal Significance And The Key To Interpretation, Alexandria J. Andrioli

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

About seven months ago, I was asked during an interview for my current internship what I thought the National Park Service could do to gain the interest of more millennials. This question was posed to me in light of the fact that I am a member of the millennial generation. And what was my incredibly insightful answer, you may ask? “I don’t know.” There were some rambling and incoherent sentences before I finally delivered that bombshell of a response, but that was my final answer, much to my embarrassment. Now that I am almost a month into my second National …


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