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Ethj Vol-52 No-2

East Texas Historical Journal

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Trinidad De Salcedo: A Forgotten Villa In Colonial Texas, 1806-1813, Bradley Folsom

East Texas Historical Journal

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East Texas Historical Journal

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East Texas Historical Journal

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"Railroads, Commerce, And Energy- We've Got Everything You Could Ever Want", George M. Cooper

East Texas Historical Journal

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Once Upon A Time In Matagorda: The Death Of Samuel Rhoads Fisher, Diana F. Compton

East Texas Historical Journal

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Golden Arches & White Spaces: Race In Early Fast Food Places, Angela Jill Cooley

History Department Publications

Much attention is given to the role of the lunch counter in the years leading up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But what about the fast-food chain, which was rising to national prominence at the same time? Angela Jill Cooley addresses this question in an excerpt from her book, To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South, forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press.

Justice Not Long Delayed: Historical Perspective And The Twenty-First Century Fight For Gay Rights, Charles O. Boyd

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

This paper attempts to formulate the best comprehensive strategy for achieving equal rights under the law for gays and lesbians. One of the main ways this paper attempts to formulate such a strategy is by looking at the tactics that allowed previous movements, such as abolitionism and the Civil Rights Movement, to succeed. This paper considers which of the tactics of these movements should be adopted by gay rights activists. Some tactics, such as civil disobedience, are determined to be useful for gay rights activists. Others, such as violence (which was avoided by the Civil Rights Movement but used by …

Digitally Mapping The Growth Of The Railroads In The United States, Michael Weaver

Yale Day of Data

As part of my dissertation, I creating digital maps of the extent of the railways in the United States during the late 19th century (1880 to 1910) on a yearly basis. While other researchers have created digital maps of the railways in approximately 10-year intervals, this misses out on the rapid change in the railways in the interim. These previous digitization attempts have relied on using detailed maps created of the railways at a given time. But accurate maps were not made on a yearly basis and only exist for roughly every 10 years. However, during the 19th century, people …

Henderson, Wathen Board, 1877-1957 (Mss 516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 516. Typescripts of “‘Old Timer’s’ Timely Topics,” a column by Wathen B. Henderson that appeared in the Breckinridge (Kentucky) News. The columns chiefly look back on the people, families and history of Breckinridge County and include Henderson’s own reminiscences.

The Grizzly, September 25, 2014, Rachel Brown, Ayesha Contractor, Deana Harley, Maxwell Bicking, Olivia Z. Schultz, Evan Hill, Andrew Mackin, Dysean Alexander, Jordan Dunnigan, David Slade, Dennis Shull, Steve Valverde, Mark Branca, Drae Lewis, Brooke Overly

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

UC OSOS Plans Events for Year • Memorial Honors Fong • Organic Farm Expands • Raphael Speaks on Campus • Externship Program Changes • Summer Fellows Profile: Dancing for Social Awareness • Adjusting to Another Country • Cooking at Ursinus College Made Easy • Opinion: Consumers Should Know What They're Buying; Bigfoot in American Pop Culture: Fact or Fiction? • Megan Keenan Leading the Way • Dual-Sport Athlete Shines • Fresh Start: Women's Soccer Looking to Rebound

Laplant, Alvira (Sc 2860), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2860. A home furnishings project completed for a high school home economics class by Alvira LaPlant. Using “The Michigan” bungalow as a prototype, she includes pictures of selected furniture, fixtures, and decorative items for the home accompanied with prices, and floor plans.

Fridy, Wilford Eugene, B. 1934 (Mss 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 384. Correspondence, class materials, published and unpublished papers, and research material collected by Dr. Wilford E. Fridy in his study of Robert Penn Warren and his writings. Includes an untitled and unpublished novel by Robert Penn Warren, correspondence between Fridy and Warren, and photos of Warren and Guthrie, Kentucky, Warren’s hometown.

Miller, John A., Sr., 1840-1905 (Mss 514), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 514. Receipts, correspondence, bills of lading ledger, 1870-1874, and account book, 1864-1866, for Miller’s jewelry businesses in Alton, Illinois and Paducah, Kentucky. Miller later operated a jewelry store in Cairo, Illinois.

New Semester, New Stories..., Heather L. Clancy

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Greetings, fellow Civil Warriors!

As Managing Editor of the Civil War Institute’s student blog, The Gettysburg Compiler, I would like to welcome everyone to a new semester of exciting debate, original research, academic discourse, and on-site reporting on all things Civil War. This academic year, we look forward to expanding the range of both topics and perspectives explored on our blog as we welcome Matt LaRoche ’17, Megan McNish ‘16, Ryan Nadeau ‘16, Jacob Ross ’15, and Cassie Wells ‘16 to our team of fellows/writers. [excerpt]

Cherry, Thomas Crittenden, 1862-1947 (Mss 512), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 512. Writings of Thomas Crittenden Cherry, a Bowling Green, Kentucky educator. Includes manuscript drafts of his books Kentucky, the Pioneer State of the West and The Story of Kentucky, other historical monographs, and correspondence relating to the publication and sales of Kentucky, the Pioneer State of the West. Also includes a 1912 reunion program for the Orphan Brigade (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).

The Grizzly, September 18, 2014, Rachel Brown, Deana Harley, Olivia Frymark, Sydney A. Dodson-Nease, Jaime Bocanumenth, Steve Valverde, Maxwell Bicking, Caitlin Tillson, Rayleen Rivera-Harbach, Kristen Costello, Bryce Pinkerton, Mark Branca, Aliki Torrence

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

New Leadership • Celebrating Bobby Fong • Bear Bucks Denied • UC Printing Goes Mobile • New Rabbi Makes Changes on Campus • Family Day Draws in Crowd • Alumni Share the Value of Liberal Arts • Take a Break with Lassie • Don't Hibernate, Participate in Campus Traditions • Opinion: Female Athletes Not Just Sexy; NFL Domestic Violence Scandal was Poorly Handled on All Fronts • Volleyball Looks to Improve in 2014 • Loftier Goals

Enhanced Interrogation: Torture Policies Of The United States, Philip A. Quigley

e-Research: A Journal of Undergraduate Work

Over the last decade the US Government has worked tirelessly to combat terrorists, insurgents, and those who intend harm to the US, its interests, and its allies and their interests. The US Military and the US Intelligence Community have used many tactics as part of a more complex strategy for waging a worldwide war against al-Qaeda, other terrorist organizations, and their base of support. No tactic has garnered as much public attention, media outcry, and political debate as the use of torture, or more euphemistically referred to in US Government documents, "enhanced interrogation." The use of this tactic has strained …

The Grizzly, September 11, 2014, Rachel Brown, Yongshi Li, Evan Hill, Maxwell Bicking, Aliki Torrence, Olivia Frymark, Jaime Bocanumenth, Ayesha Contractor, Dana Feigenbaum, Matt Maldanado

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Remembers Bobby Fong • Student Government Changes Executive Board • Wismer Adds Food Station • UC Professors Show Work at Berman • Do You Smell That? Wismer Gets a New Composting System • Bring on the Local Food Trucks • Opinion: Is Yik Yak All That?; Argument Against Wet Campus is a Slippery One • Gridiron Gang Primed for Solid Season in 2014 • Trying Hard: Men's and Women's Club Rugby Squads Looking Forward to the Fall Slate

Donahue Family, Susie Van Kirk

Susie Van Kirk Papers

Compilation of field notes, newspaper references, census reports and list of vital records; bulk dates 1880-1930's but includes information through 2005.