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Adm 36/9943 Muster Table Of Hm Armed Storeship Supply, Part 2, British Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Ships Carrying Returning Germans, 1783

No abstract provided.

Nmm Por-F-16, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

James Gambler Letters

No abstract provided.

Dragoner Regiment Prinz Friedrich, Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, Bestand 10 A Nr. 83:7, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Dragoner Regiment Prinz Friedrich

No abstract provided.

The Grizzly, October 27, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Sean Mcginley, Marie Sykes, Isabel Wesman, Ryan Divergilis

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Our 2022 Homecoming King and Queen! • Historic Trees Become Nasal Nuisance • Halloween Cartoon • The Film Club Satisfies Student Interests • Halloween Word Search • Opinions: President Hannigan Made Me Cry (And Frankly, I Loved It) • Golf Teams' Fall Season Brings Hope for Spring • Jack Psenicska: Smashing Ursinus Football Records

First Church Of Christ, Scientist - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3654. “Historical Record of First Church of Christ, Scientist,” a narrative by Kate (Topmiller) Hunt outlining the formation and growth of a Christian Science Society in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and the chartering of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in 1925. Includes a list of the early members and a photograph of the church building at 11th and Center Streets in Bowling Green.

Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. John, A Slave (Sc 3653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3653. Record from the Warren County (Kentucky) Equity and Criminal Court, of John, a slave, charged with the murder of Harriet Porter, the wife of his owner Uriah Porter. After being convicted in Allen County, John was granted a new trial at which he was acquitted.

Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History Of The World’S Greatest Hero By Roy Schwartz, Gabriel C. Salter

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

In Is Superman Circumcised?, Russell Schwartz provides a historical overview of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's creation of the comic book character Superman, arguing that Siegel and Shuster's backgrounds in Jewish immigrants gives a particularly Jewish subtext to their character. Schwartz builds on this argument with a larger historical overview of American comic book publishing, showing how Judaism and Jewish-American immigrant experiences have informed that industry from its earliest days.

America’S Mothers: How The Mobilized Women Of Berkeley Harnessed The Power Of Women To Support The Great War And Challenge The Government, Christy Gordon Baty

Great Plains Graduate Review

This paper examines how middle-class and upper-class women of Berkeley, California harnessed their already-established roles as community organizers and leaders to support the United States Government and their efforts in World War I. These women used the imposed limitations of their role as domestic protector in order to change the scope of their sphere from private to public, and assert their political voice by highlighting their reciprocal relationship with the federal government. In their founding document, the Mobilized Women of Berkeley state that “All of the 151 women’s organizations of Berkeley are willing to give their sons, husbands and brothers …

Poetic Commodities: Exploration Of The Familial Impacts And History Of Indigenous Food Insecurity In “Why I Hate Raisins”, Katarina Rothhorn

Conspectus Borealis

This essay looks at Natalie Diaz's poem "Why I Hate Raisins" and the historical and contemporary implications of Native American reliance on government commodity programs.

The Grizzly, October 13, 2022, Layla Halterman, Erin Corcoran, Julia Paiano, Marie Sykes, Chase Portaro, Tatiana Kent, Kate Horan

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Meet Arthur Artene, Student Government President • Petite Filet in my Wismer? More Likely Than You Think • A Note From the Editor • Dr. Len Lawson, Award-Winning Poet and Scholar • Alex Peay '09 and Rising Up • Opinions: Plans for Fall Break Fun • Understanding Stress and Preventing Burnout

Improving As An Editor, Growing As A Historian: Analysis Of Primary Sources Through Digital Edition, Carol Lynne Hemmingway

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

While digital humanists have often discussed how digital editing develops students’ abilities to read closely and analyze sources, historians adjacent to the discipline have underexamined the benefits of the practice on their own students. This article seeks to provide a perspective supporting the existence of such benefits for history students. It examines an application of ideas regarding the use of digital documentary editing to train students as historians. Using my own experience as a student editor and historian, I argue that digital editing especially facilitates close reading which, in turn, enables highly specified primary source analysis. To accomplish this, I …

Save Your Local Government Committee - Louisville, Kentucky (Sc 3652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding and and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3652. Flyer issued by the Save Your Local Government Committee, Louisville, Kentucky, outlining its objections to the proposed new state constitution and urging voters to vote against its adoption on 8 November 1966.

Grayson, Donald Spalding, 1940-2022 (Sc 3651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3651. Letters to Donald S. Grayson, Louisville, Kentucky, from Kentucky politicians. They mostly reply to his interest in legislation for the treatment of hemophilia and in legislative responses, including a Constitutional amendment, to the abortion ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. Includes campaign material from candidate for Governor Tom Emberton and U.S. Senate candidate Wendell Ford, and an invitation to a business forum from Louisville mayor Harvey Sloane.

Barnes, Marvin Richard "Rod," 1922-1983 And Grace Barnes, 1927-2021 (Sc 3650), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3650. Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Rod Barnes, Bardstown and Radcliff, Kentucky, from U. S. Senator Walter “Dee” Huddleston and Kentucky Governor Wendell H. Ford. They respond to the Barnes’s expressions of concern on matters of environmental protection, the improvement of U.S. Highway 31-E between Bardstown and Louisville, congressional pay raises, and tax treatment of small businesses.

Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 (Sc 3649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3649. Letters from then-U.S. Senator from Kentucky Alben Barkley and his secretary to Miss Dorothy DeLong, Louisville, Kentucky, regarding her search for a job in Washington, D.C., her veteran brother, and a recommendation for a friend’s son. He also thanks her for her expression of concern during his hospitalization.

Chelf, Frank Leslie, 1907-1982 (Sc 3648), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3648. Letter, 16 March 1955, from U. S. Congressman Frank Chelf to Mrs. Laura Hornback [sic], Bardstown, Kentucky, extending congratulations on her 95th birthday. Affixed to the letter is a postage stamp-sized photograph of Chelf.

Wagon Tracks Volume 36, Issue 6 (August 2022)

Wagon Tracks

Contents

2 On the Cover: Guardian of the Trail by Bill Meek and Denneen Peterson

4 Insights from your President

5 Joanne’s Jottings

6-7 2022 Rendezvous, 2023 Symposium

8-10 Trail News

11 Fire!

13-17 Mrs. S. B. Davis: Proprietress of the Exchange Hotel in Santa Fe and the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas by Doyle Daves

18-24 Odometers: Distance Measurement on Western Emigrant Trails by Norman E. Wright

25-27 Using Wagon Odometer Data in Trail Research by Gerald T. Ahnert

28 Chapter Reports

29 Membership Form

32 Calendar

Logan, Marvel Mills, 1874-1939 (Sc 3647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3647. Diary of Marvel Mills Logan, later a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, kept during his practice of law in Bowling Green. He writes of his office and courtroom work, clients and professional travel, and records his campaign and election in August 1926 as a justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Logan, Leland Hallowell, 1905-1980 (Mss 744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 744. Correspondence and papers of Bowling Green, Kentucky attorney Leland H. Logan. Includes some personal material regarding his law practice and draft status, diaries for 1944 and 1945, and a small group of files representing his legal work, especially for the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation.

The Grizzly, October 6, 2022, Layla Halterman, Amelia Kunko, Allia Proctor, Kate Horan, Jenna Smith, Quadai Brown

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Remembering Adam Walton '25 • Fall 2022 Editorial Staff • Meet Dr. Rebecca Lyczak and Her Research Team • Get Your Life in Shape With Laura Cunningham • Opinions: First-Year Athlete Check-in • Men's and Women's Tennis Back on Their Home Courts! • Mary Lauren Franz Scores Two Goals Against WAC! • New Health Hub Coming Soon! • Upcoming Games