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Activity - How To Make A Whirlygig, Historical Administration 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Activity - How To Make A Whirlygig, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


Activity - Make A Stick Doll, Historical Administration 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Activity - Make A Stick Doll, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

No abstract provided.


Text And Textiles: Guy And Irene Buzzard - Web Pages, Historical Administration 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Text And Textiles: Guy And Irene Buzzard - Web Pages, Historical Administration

Text and Textiles: Guy and Irene Buzzard - Audio Tour, Docs, & Videos

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Experiences Of The Illinois Civil War Soldier - Web Pages, Historical Administration 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Experiences Of The Illinois Civil War Soldier - Web Pages, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

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Experiences Of The Illinois Civil War Soldier - Design Brief, Historical Administration 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Experiences Of The Illinois Civil War Soldier - Design Brief, Historical Administration

Experiences of the Illinois Civil War Soldier - Docs & Podcasts

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Text And Textiles: Guy And Irene Buzzard - Design Brief, Historical Administration 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Text And Textiles: Guy And Irene Buzzard - Design Brief, Historical Administration

Text and Textiles: Guy and Irene Buzzard - Audio Tour, Docs, & Videos

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Soldiers Of Science--Agents Of Culture: American Archaeologists In The Office Of Strategic Services (Oss), Despina Lalaki 2013 The New York City College of Technology

Soldiers Of Science--Agents Of Culture: American Archaeologists In The Office Of Strategic Services (Oss), Despina Lalaki

Publications and Research

"Scientificity" and appeals to political independence are invaluable tools when institutions such as the American School of Classical Studies at Athens attempt to maintain professional autonomy. Nonetheless, the cooperation of scientists and scholars with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), among them archaeologists affiliated with the American School, suggests a constitutive affinity between political and cultural leadership. This relationship is here mapped in historical terms, while, at the same time, sociological categorizations of knowledge and its employment are used in order to situate archaeologists in their broader social and political context and to evaluate their work not merely as agents …


Coordination And Symbolic Convergence At The Candles Holocaust Museum And Education Center, Jessica McDonald 2013 Eastern Illinois University

Coordination And Symbolic Convergence At The Candles Holocaust Museum And Education Center, Jessica Mcdonald

Masters Theses

Using Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) and Symbolic Convergence Theory (SCT), this study examines the ways in which meaning is managed between the messages of the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center and the visitors of the museum. The research shows that the museum and the museum visitors work together in order to create an overall rhetorical vision of the museum's main message, both within the museum space and beyond. Using the metaphor of conversation, this study demonstrates the three ways through which the museum and its visitors achieve the rhetorical vision: historical conversation, personal conversation, and residual conversation. In …


Review Of Michel & Nosch, Eds., Textile Terminologies In The Ancient Near East And Mediterranean From The Third To The First Millennia Bc., Carol Bier 2013 Graduate Theological Union

Review Of Michel & Nosch, Eds., Textile Terminologies In The Ancient Near East And Mediterranean From The Third To The First Millennia Bc., Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Textile production comprised the major manufacturing industry of the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, yet it has received relatively little scholarly attention. As garments and furnishings, textiles may provide warmth and utility, but they are also indicators of status, objects of trade and tribute, products of technology, and economic generators. The role of textiles is both pervasive and complex, yielding rich and specific vocabularies that do not easily transcend time and space for contemporary understanding. This brilliant volume offers a compilation of twenty-two papers that result from an exciting collaboration between the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile …


Singer's Handbook, Third Edition, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus 2013 SUNY Buffalo State University

Singer's Handbook, Third Edition, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Handbooks

The third edition of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus Singer's Handbook.


Crescendo!, Autumn 2013, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus 2013 SUNY Buffalo State University

Crescendo!, Autumn 2013, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Crescendo! The Newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Autumn 2013 issue of Crescendo!, the newsletter of the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus.


Barnett Directs The University Museum At Siue, Aldemaro Romero Jr. 2013 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

Barnett Directs The University Museum At Siue, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

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Entertaining, Informing, Persuading: Figures Of Speech To Prepare For Health And Safety, David H. Lee, Frederick Steier, Wit Ostrenko 2013 CUNY New York City College of Technology

Entertaining, Informing, Persuading: Figures Of Speech To Prepare For Health And Safety, David H. Lee, Frederick Steier, Wit Ostrenko

Publications and Research

The public mandates science center exhibits that are entertaining as well as informative. In addition, exhibits can also be performative, in that they act back upon the visitors with an injunction to change their ways. We give examples from two exhibits that not only inform, but also open up space for changes in behavior and perception, particularly in arenas of public health. We look at two recent and ongoing exhibits at MOSI – “Disasterville” and “The Amazing You” - and examine the affordances suggested by figures of speech such as eponymy, hyponymy, hypernymy and retronymy. Tropological research into museum exhibits …


Memories Of College Hill: A Historical View, Emily Marie O'Loughlin 2013 University of Northern Iowa

Memories Of College Hill: A Historical View, Emily Marie O'Loughlin

Honors Program Theses

A thesis project," ... gives Honors students the opportunity to explore a scholarly area of interest and engage in original research or creative work under the guidance of a faculty member." Typically, a history or philosophy student will write a thesis paper on a topic of personal or academic interest. I was interested in pursuing a more creative option, which complemented my intention of pursuing work in the field of public history after I graduate. This interest, combined with previous volunteer work in museums and a desire to learn more about museum work, led to the decision to produce an …


Cool Yule, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus 2012 SUNY Buffalo State University

Cool Yule, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus

Programs

We are so excited for you to join us this tonight as The Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus proudly presents Cool Yule. Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, or just revel in the winter season, we have something special planned just for you.


The Whole War In One Photo, John M. Rudy 2012 Gettysburg College

The Whole War In One Photo, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

Broken chains and muskets: the very essence of the slaveholder's rebellion. The war was caused by a blind, stalwart defense of slavery. The war hinged upon the future of slavery in America. The war shattered slavery in the United States forever. [excerpt]


At The Meadows - Fall 2012, Southern Methodist University 2012 Southern Methodist University

At The Meadows - Fall 2012, Southern Methodist University

Member Magazine

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Veritas: The Power Of The Real, John M. Rudy 2012 Gettysburg College

Veritas: The Power Of The Real, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

There's something about touching the actual thing, something about contacting the real that makes a distant world come immediately to life. There's an excitement about that moment when you see and touch something a piece of another world. A Thomas the Tank Engine character reminded me of this fact recently. Watch the young boy's face as he picks Stanley back up in a cornfield after his favorite toy travels to space and back. [excerpt]


The Kanga, A Cloth That Reveals- Co-Production Of Culture In Africa And The Indian Ocean Region, Phyllis A. Ressler 2012 Webster University

The Kanga, A Cloth That Reveals- Co-Production Of Culture In Africa And The Indian Ocean Region, Phyllis A. Ressler

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The Kanga is one of Africa's least understood textiles. As a simple cotton, colorful, hand and machine printed cloth it embodies dynamic historical co-production of culture throughout African and Indian Ocean trade networks. Exploring African mercantile trade history, the coproduction and exchange of iconography, the diverse use and meanings of the Kanga, suggests a valuable discursive role for this textile. Despite its longevity of more than 150 years, its significant role in creation of identities, and its contribution to communication through design and social meaning, the Kanga, receives limited attention in textile research. Though seen by many as a simple …


The Parenthetical Notation Method For Recording Yarn Structure, Jeffrey C. Splitstoser 2012 Huaca Prieta Archaeological Project

The Parenthetical Notation Method For Recording Yarn Structure, Jeffrey C. Splitstoser

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Until now, describing yarn structure has been more art than science, especially for complex yarns and cordage like those encountered at Cerrillos, a Paracas (ca. 900-100 B.C.E.) site in the Ica Valley of Peru, where yarns and cordage frequently involve multiple colors, sub-structures, and materials (e.g., Image 1). My early attempts at describing yarn structures using notation were essentially undecipherable to others. Likewise, narrative methods proved too wordy and no less confusing. (For instance, a narrative description of the structure of specimen 2001-L185-B1654- S001, a rope-like yarn pictured in Images 2 and 3, would be: Twelve Z-spun-singly-ply yarns Ztwisted with …


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