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Ellis, Jack - Awards, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

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Library - Rowan County, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

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Mcbrayer's Furniture Store, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

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Korean War, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

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Maggard, Elisha Edward, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

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Medical Community - Morehead, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

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Morehead State University - Trail Blazer, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

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Police - City & University, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

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Politics - Rowan County, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

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Tobacco - Rowan County, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

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World War I Scrapbook, Jack D. Ellis

Jack D. Ellis Rowan County History Collection

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“To Fly Is More Fascinating Than To Read About Flying”: British R.F.C. Memoirs Of The First World War, 1918-1939, Ian A. Isherwood

Civil War Institute Faculty Publications

Literature concerning aerial warfare was a new genre created by the First World War. With manned flight in its infancy, there were no significant novels or memoirs of pilots in combat before 1914. It was apparent to British publishers during the war that the new technology afforded a unique perspective on the battlefield, one that was practically made for an expanding literary marketplace. As such former Royal Flying Corps pilots created a new type of war book, one written by authors self-described as “Knights in the Air”, a literary mythology carefully constructed by pilots and publishers and propagated in the …

Dan Sickles, William H. Tipton, And The Birth Of Battlefield Preservation, John M. Rudy

Adams County History

Thirty years after the battle of Gettysburg, the small Pennsylvania town was once again besieged—only this time, the invaders were not rebels, but entrepreneurs with an unquenchable thirst for profit. The most visible sign of their voracious commercialism was an electric trolley line (“from which the shouts and songs of revelry may arise to drown the screams of the suffering”) belting the battlefield. The Gettysburg Electric Railway Company’s venture raised a host of new questions regarding the importance of battlefield preservation. Most significantly, it prompted Americans to ask if they had any obligation to set aside for posterity the land …

Auschwitz As A Site Of Memory, Emma Needham

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

Auschwitz is known as the most substantial site of the Holocaust namely because Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest concentration camp in Europe, and it is estimated that about 960,000 Jews and 125,000 others were murdered there.¹ Not only was the process of creating the memorial at Auschwitz filled with controversies, but the site also remains questionable today with regards to dark tourism, or thanatourism, “the tourism of death.”² For some, the thought of traveling to a place subsumed in death and despair sounds troubling as the consumption of dark tourism involves a process of “confronting, understanding and accepting death.” …

Sites Of Memory, Tonya Schmehl, Sherry Dixon

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

Photo Essay.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: A Memorial, Nichole Delasalas

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

In the 1940s, Nazi Germany was an unstoppable force spreading throughout Europe. Hitler’s agenda was to take control of Europe and make it part of his pure Aryan race. As a result of his actions and his “final solution”, many people suffered. The concentration camp of Auschwitz I was created out of an old Polish military compound for three main reasons. The first was to incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime and the German occupation authorities in Poland for an indefinite amount of time.¹ The second was to have available a supply of forced labor for …

Michigan Historical Marker Application: Meridian-Baseline State Park, Allison Savoy

Historic Preservation Final Projects

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"The Flow Of History Along Ridley Creek" Presentation To The Delaware County Institute Of Science, Walt Cressler

University Libraries Faculty Publications

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George M. Leader, 1918-2013, Michael J. Birkner, Charles H. Glatfelter

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

George M. Leader (1918-2013), a native of York, Pennsylvania, rose from the anonymous status of chicken farmer's son and Gettysburg College undergraduate to become, first a State Senator, and then the 36th governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A steadfast liberal in a traditionally conservative state, Leader spent his brief time in the governor's office (1955-1959) fighting uphill battles and blazing courageous trails. He overhauled the state's corrupt patronage system; streamlined and humanized its mental health apparatus; and, when a black family moved into the white enclave of Levittown, took a brave stand in favor of integration.

After politics, Leader …

04 Town-Gown Time Capsule, James Jones

History of West Chester, Pennsylvania

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