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Changing Magic : Evolving Conception Of Witchcraft In Essex County, Elizabeth Kiel Boone 2010 University of Richmond

Changing Magic : Evolving Conception Of Witchcraft In Essex County, Elizabeth Kiel Boone

Honors Theses

In 1579, a court in Essex, England arraigned thirteen-year-old Thomas Lever for acting as an assistant to William Randall, a conjurer suspected of leading a group of male witches. The court claimed young Thomas “mixed potions and was familiar with all [of Randall’s] workings.”1 Yet for Raphael Holinshed, the commentator on the trial, the case was unique only in the age of the defendant. Holinshed gives a stark example of a common view of the witch trials by noting “That her Majesty is sore oppressed by these witches and devil- mongers is now common knowledge, but that a child should …


Bataclanismo! Or, How Deco Bodies Transformed Postrevolutionary Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis 2010 Butler University

Bataclanismo! Or, How Deco Bodies Transformed Postrevolutionary Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In the spring of 1925, Santa Anita's Festival of Flowers seemed to follow its tranquil trend of previous years. The large displays of flowers, the selection of indias bonitas (as the contestants of beauty pageants organized in an attempt to stimulate indigenism were known) and the boat-rides on the Viga Canal, all communicated what residents of neighboring Mexico City had come to expect of the small pueblo in the Federal District since the Porfiriato: the respite of a peaceful pastoral, the link to a colorful past, and the promise that mexicanidad was alive and well in the campo. Unfortunately, …


Anticipated Effects Of The U.S. Mexico City Policy On The Attainability Of The Millennium Development Goals And Future Development Efforts In Sub-Saharan Africa, Katherine Clare Alexander 2010 Portland State University

Anticipated Effects Of The U.S. Mexico City Policy On The Attainability Of The Millennium Development Goals And Future Development Efforts In Sub-Saharan Africa, Katherine Clare Alexander

Anthós

In the low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the performance of pyramidal reproductive health and family planning services with public outreach initiatives has not met the expectations or the needs of the communities they serve. Insufficient case management, limited management capacity and referral and communication failures are challenges faced on the delivery level, while on the policy level these health clinics face insufficient coordination among organizations and weak links between programs (Schneider, 2006). The Mexico City Policy, first introduced by President Reagan in 1984, only exacerbated these challenges for organizations that offer comprehensive contraception and family planning programs by denying any …


Cissie Fairchilds, Women In Early Modern Europe, 1500—1700, Fiona WILLIAMSON 2010 Singapore Management University

Cissie Fairchilds, Women In Early Modern Europe, 1500—1700, Fiona Williamson

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Cissie Fairchilds offers a comprehensive synthesis of the main categories associated withgender history in early modern Europe. In particular, she draws attention to the uneasy relationship between patriarchal theory and the real lived experience of women who negotiatedand subverted masculine worlds during their everyday social interactions. Fairchilds has notintended this book to be a work of original research, but a textbook to present and reflectupon the major themes of gender history over the last few decades. As such, it is written in anengaging and accessible style, with clearly defined sections enabling the reader to understandthe aims and intent of each …


Browning Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Browning Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and photograph (Click on "Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Collection 301. Constitutions, minutes, club histories, membership and program materials of the Browning Club, a women's literary club founded in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1895.


Over Here, Over There (Fa 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Over Here, Over There (Fa 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 480. Collection contains recorded interviews and transcriptions conducted by David Baxter and Laura Harper Lee. The interviews contain information about the war effort at home and, for those who served, their experiences with the military and their combat experiences specifically.


Davis, Martha Anne, 1936-2010 (Mss 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Davis, Martha Anne, 1936-2010 (Mss 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 303. Three volumes of autobiographical musings, generally in poetic form, related to the life of Martha Anne Davis, the producer of a comedy show titled "2 Funny" which aired on local access cable television in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1991 to 2001. A title index to the writings is available, as well as one of Davis's business cards.


Welborn, Annie E., B. 1869 (Sc 2160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Welborn, Annie E., B. 1869 (Sc 2160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2160. "The Story of My Life," autobiographical essay by Annie E. Welborn, born in Todd County, Kentucky. She describes her early married life, farming, her children and grandchildren, and a trip to Montana and Washington.


Stephenson, Bertha C., 1885-1977 (Sc 2159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Stephenson, Bertha C., 1885-1977 (Sc 2159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2159. Letters (some incomplete) to Bertha C. Stephenson, of Milton, Trimble County, Kentucky, from friends, relatives and sweethearts in Kentucky, California and Florida. They write of gifts and photographs exchanged, mutual friends, travel, romances, and Stephenson's upcoming wedding. Includes a handwritten notice from the Board of Health requiring Stephenson and her pupils to be vaccinated in order to conduct school (click on "Additional Files" below for scan).


Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2147. Paper: "Jennie Green: Portrait of a Progressive Kentucky Woman" written by Karen Wolford for a Western Kentucky University history class.


Marriage Vows And Economic Discrimination: The Married Teacher Problem, Sabrina Thomas 2010 Marshall University

Marriage Vows And Economic Discrimination: The Married Teacher Problem, Sabrina Thomas

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This study analyzes the rapid increase of economic discrimination against married women teachers in the early twentieth century, particularly during the Depression. It challenges the notion that economic discrimination against married women teachers was simple, easy, and largely was unchallenged. I argue that the creation and proliferation of marriage bars in the early twentieth century involved a compounded and multifaceted set of economic and social concerns. Support for this argument is accomplished by examination of the national debate on marriage bars as well as careful investigation of the local debate illustrated in Huntington, West Virginia.


Ua19/12 Tennis, WKU Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Ua19/12 Tennis, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by tennis coaches regarding schedules.


Ua19/10 Softball, WKU Archives 2010 Western Kentucky University

Ua19/10 Softball, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the softball coaches.


“There Was Nothing In Sight But Nature, Nothing...”: Nineteenth-Century Gendered Perceptions Of The Overland Trail, Andrea J. Savadelis 2010 Gettysburg College

“There Was Nothing In Sight But Nature, Nothing...”: Nineteenth-Century Gendered Perceptions Of The Overland Trail, Andrea J. Savadelis

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

One hundred and seventeen years ago, between 1841 and 1867, the Overland Trail saw approximately 350,000 Oregon and California bound North Americans traverse its landscape. This westward migration painted the American frontier with a white sea of wagon covers, spotted the grassy plains with brown patches of oxen herds, and lighted the night sky with open cooking fires. Men and women Overlanders experienced this life-changing event in different ways, which are crucial to understanding the dynamics and interaction between these people and their frontier context. Gender-specific roles and social standards of masculinity and femininity carried from emigrants’ previous lives influenced …


Women Of New France 2: Needle Arts, Stacey Moore, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project 2010 Western Michigan University

Women Of New France 2: Needle Arts, Stacey Moore, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 2. Clothing Production and Repair, Weaving, and Sewing.


Women Of New France 3: Clothing And Dress, Stacey Moore, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project 2010 Western Michigan University

Women Of New France 3: Clothing And Dress, Stacey Moore, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 3. Adornment, Articles of Dress, Caps and Hats, Garments and Shoes.


Farmville, 1963: The Long Hot Summer, Jill Ogline Titus 2010 Gettysburg College

Farmville, 1963: The Long Hot Summer, Jill Ogline Titus

Civil War Institute Faculty Publications

On July 9, 1963, a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch informed his readers that black protesters had attempted two sit-ins in the college town of Farmville, the hub of rural Prince Edward County. Obviously shocked by these developments, he termed the events at the College Shoppe restaurant and the State Theater "the first reported Negro movement in this Southside Virginia locality, which has gained prominence in recent years as the focal point of a struggle over the closings of Prince Edward County's schools." In this writer's mind, and perhaps many of his readers' as well, social movements were synonymous with …


Women Of New France 1: Introduction, Stacey Moore, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project 2010 Western Michigan University

Women Of New France 1: Introduction, Stacey Moore, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 1. Introduction to Exhibit on Women of New France.


Women Of New France 5: Music, Dance, And Diversions, Stacey Moore, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project 2010 Western Michigan University

Women Of New France 5: Music, Dance, And Diversions, Stacey Moore, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 5. Music, Dance, and Diversions.


Women Of New France 8: Women And Servitude, Stacey Moore, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project 2010 Western Michigan University

Women Of New France 8: Women And Servitude, Stacey Moore, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Panel 8. Women of New France Who Served as Slaves and Servants.


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