Transnational Influence In The Poetry Of Sarah Piatt: Poems Of Ireland And The American Civil War, 2013 University of Washington - Tacoma Campus
Transnational Influence In The Poetry Of Sarah Piatt: Poems Of Ireland And The American Civil War, Amy R. Hudgins
Global Honors Theses
Sarah Piatt, a recently recovered nineteenth century poet, is best known, where she is known at all, as an American poet. While this label is certainly appropriate, it should not obscure Piatt’s decidedly international focus, or more precisely, her transnational focus, especially in regard to Ireland. Piatt’s verse, considered by some to be the best poetry of her time second only to the work of Emily Dickinson, is remarkable for its quantity and breadth, but more importantly, for its subversive use of genteel style. Though her poems are generally divided into four overlapping categories, the two thematic classes of her …
From A Northern Home To A Southern School: Cultural Imperialists Or Just Stubborn Yankees, 2013 Georgia Southern University
From A Northern Home To A Southern School: Cultural Imperialists Or Just Stubborn Yankees, Janel Janiczek Smith
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the cultural influences on the lives of northern teachers in southern schools. During the 1860s, white, northern, middle-class women traveled to southern homes to begin and maintain schools for the recently freed slaves. Each woman carried with her an independent set of cultural systems that predetermined her perspective for educating the African American students. Furthermore, the northern relief agencies, Freedmen's Bureau agents, southern white citizens, and southern freedmen all had their own opinions for the education of the students. Although much time has elapsed between the 1860s and 2013, the same topics …
Building Up: A History Of Montana Tech Library 1900 - 2006, 2013 Selected Works
Building Up: A History Of Montana Tech Library 1900 - 2006, Ann F. St. Clair
Ann St. Clair
This paper traces the history of the Library of the Montana State School of Mines from its inception in 1900 to 2006. The history includes sketches of the library directors over 106 years, and the library’s various campus locations and emerging collections and services.
Naccs 40th Annual Conference, 2013 San Jose State University
Naccs 40th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
Advancing From Sea to Shining ¡Sí!: Learning From Our Past, Defending Our Rights in the 21st Century
March 20-23, 2013
Omni San Antonio Colonnade
Warren County Kentucky Homemakers Project (Fa 82), 2013 Western Kentucky University
Warren County Kentucky Homemakers Project (Fa 82), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 82. These interviews examine the lives of rural women through their membership in the Warren County Homemakers Extension Program. Former extension agents and members recall their experiences in the organization and the significance of the education programs in preparing them to adapt to new technologies and to move from farm life to public work.
Crump, Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz, 1857-1920 (Sc 980), 2013 Western Kentucky University
Crump, Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz, 1857-1920 (Sc 980), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 980. Letter written by Mary Norton (Underwood) Poyntz Crump, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to a Miss Symmes, regarding Bowling Green’s participation in the planned Kentucky Room at the 1893 World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition) in Chicago.
Promis/Ciudad: Projecting Pornography, Mapping Modernity, And Sexualizing Space, 2013 Butler University
Promis/Ciudad: Projecting Pornography, Mapping Modernity, And Sexualizing Space, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
No abstract provided.
"These Usurping Vain-Glorious Women:" Two Perspectives On Female Preaching And The Position Of Women In Early Modern England, 2013 Georgia State University
"These Usurping Vain-Glorious Women:" Two Perspectives On Female Preaching And The Position Of Women In Early Modern England, Elizabeth A. Felker Miss
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference
No abstract provided.
Black Women And Apartheid: Oppression, Resistance And The Post-Apartheid Struggle, 2013 Georgia State University
Black Women And Apartheid: Oppression, Resistance And The Post-Apartheid Struggle, Erika Levy
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference
No abstract provided.
Memory Pictures, 2013 Lawrence University
Memory Pictures, Lucinda Darling Colman
Selections from the Archives
Lucinda Darling Colman (1835-1930) was one of three women in the first class to graduate from Lawrence University in 1857. She wrote this account of her life in her late eighties and nineties, from about 1920 to 1930. In this work, she recalls Lawrence in its earliest days, including memories of classes and student activities, the Academy building fire in 1857, and the first Commencement ceremony. She also recounts her family history; her childhood in Brockport, New York and Racine, Wisconsin; her marriage to Henry Colman and raising their four children; and her extensive travels around the country from 1906 …
Expectant At Seneca Falls, 2013 University of Massachusetts Boston
Expectant At Seneca Falls, Sherry Penney, James Livingston
Sherry Penney
This is a biographical sketch of Martha Coffin Wright of Auburn, New York, one of the organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention. She was active in the abolition movement and remained a leader in the women's rights movement until her death in 1875, when she was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Washington, Mary (Ball), 1708-1789 (Sc 672), 2013 Western Kentucky University
Washington, Mary (Ball), 1708-1789 (Sc 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 672. Printed copy of the will of Mary Washington, mother of President George Washington, as registered in the Clerk’s Office at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 669), 2013 Western Kentucky University
Hines, Margaret Gates (Nicholls), 1878-1941 (Sc 669), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 669. History of the Current Events Club, formed in 1902, written by Mrs. Margaret (Nicholls) Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a typescripted 1931 newspaper article with club history.
Britain’S Kitchen Front: British Perceptions Of The Food Situation And Women’S Attitudes During The Second World War (February 1942), 2013 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Britain’S Kitchen Front: British Perceptions Of The Food Situation And Women’S Attitudes During The Second World War (February 1942), Marissa Nicole Millhorn
History
No abstract provided.
Jones, Virginia, 1861-1937 - Letters To (Sc 890), 2013 Western Kentucky University
Jones, Virginia, 1861-1937 - Letters To (Sc 890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 890. Letters, 1885-1889 (13), written to Virginia “Jennie” Jones, New York City, from suitor lawyer Robert Scott Bevier, Owensboro, Kentucky, discussing their relationship, family, political aspirations, and timely topics. Also, letter, 1901, from future husband Peter Chapman Ritchie and letters, 1992-1993 (2) containing data about the letters.
Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 887), 2013 Western Kentucky University
Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 887), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 887. Letter written by Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mina Weber, Los Angeles, California, in response to Weber’s request that she write a supporting letter to radio host Ralph Edwards of “This is Your Life,” concerning Bowling Green's Ida Hodges and her contributions to society. Also carbon copy of Weber’s letter to Edwards.
Interview With Dorothy Otto, 2013 The Texas Medical Center Library
Interview With Dorothy Otto, Dorothy Otto M.S.N., Ed.D., Anef
Texas Medical Center - Women's History Project
Interview with Dorothy Otto, Associate Professor at the School of Nursing, University of Texas Houston Health Science Center.
Burgess, Sarah Edward, 1876-1924 - Letters To (Sc 2667), 2013 Western Kentucky University
Burgess, Sarah Edward, 1876-1924 - Letters To (Sc 2667), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2667. Letters to Sarah “Sally” Burgess, addressed to her in Davis (Scott County), Kentucky, Georgetown, Kentucky, and Newton, Illinois. Young men extend invitations, a niece writes of her social activities, and her sister Ella invites her to a “cantata” in Georgetownand describes her clothing needs. Another friend writes of social activities, including attendance at “negro minstrel”
shows, for which she was “ashamed.”
Interview With Anna Steinberger, 2013 University of Texas Medical School in Houston
Interview With Anna Steinberger, Anna Steinberger Ph.D.
Texas Medical Center - Women's History Project
An oral interview with Dr. Anna Steinberger, who taught and conducted basic research in Reproductive Biology and served as Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs at UT Medical School-Houston. Her research yielded over 250 scientific articles, books, and book chapters for which she received numerous awards and recognitions in the USA and abroad.
Interview With Dianna Milewicz, 2013 The Texas Medical Center Library
Interview With Dianna Milewicz, Dianna Milewicz M.D., Ph.D.
Texas Medical Center - Women's History Project
An oral interview with Dianna Milewicz, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and Director of the M.D./Ph.D. Program and co-Director of the Biomedical Engineering Center. Her research interests include the genetic basis of cardiovascular diseases, and understanding the effect of identified mutations on protein function. She has recently established a genetic core laboratory to provide molecular biology and genetic expertise to clinicians who want to initiate genetic studies on their patient populations.