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Another Day In Confederate Gettysburg, Scott Hancock

Africana Studies Faculty Publications

Today the Sons of Confederate Veterans ‘celebrated’ the confederate flag at the Peace Light Memorial on the battlefields of Gettysburg. The same battlefields where some of their ancestors suffered a pivotal defeat, and then kidnapped free Black Americans as they fled south. When I found out the SCV had obtained a permit from the National Park Service, I did likewise so I could stand up there with my homemade sign that connects the confederate flag to some of its most seminal moments in history: fighting for slavery in 1863, fighting for segregation in 1962, and murdering nine black South Carolinians …

The Grizzly, March 3, 2016, Brian Thomas, Courtney A. Duchene, Valerie Osborne, William Diciurcio, Jay Farrell, Chenyu Yin, Sarah Hojsak, Tyler Arsenault, Maddie Mathay, Erin Mckinney, Jordan Ostrum, Berett C. Babrich, Hunter Gellman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

UC Reveals Plans for Semester in Philly, New Coffee Shop • Professor Romano Elected to National Book Critics Circle • Business Students Win Competition in Philadelphia • Relay for Life Gets Ready • International Perspective: Cultural Differences in Driving Practices • Falling in Love with Ursinus' Unique History • Ping Pong Club Bounces Back • Using the Present to Prepare for the Future • Opinions: New Barbie Figures are Anti-Progressive; UC Second-Ever Musical Wows Audience • Freshman Phenom • Baseball Ready to Slug Away

March 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Purim Celebration; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Bissel of Maine; Community Notices

Challenging Lincoln: How Gettysburg’S Lincoln-Centric Emancipation Narrative Has Overshadowed Local Black History, Jeffrey L. Lauck

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

When it comes to symbols of emancipation, President Abraham Lincoln is king. No other person is more associated with the abolition of slavery than "The Great Emancipator" himself. This holds true in Gettysburg just as much as it does throughout the country. Only last September, Gettysburg College erected a statue of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation in the hope that it would "promote the discussion of race relations in America today." Yet when it comes to commemorating and remembering the struggle for emancipation, Lincoln is far from the only face that we should look to in our historic town. …

The Grizzly, February 25, 2016, Brian Thomas, Deana Harley, William Diciurcio, Leighnah L. Perkins, Tingyue Gong, Valerie Osborne, Tyler Arsenault, Briana Keane, Johnny Cope, Hunter Gellman, Bryce Pinkerton

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Students, Faculty Talk About Changes to CIE • Community Celebrates Life of Michelle Buck • Community Comes Together During Norovirus Outbreak • Learning More About Housing • International Perspective: Differences Within the Classroom and Without • Double Trouble • The Woman Behind the Screen • Opinion: Advice on Studying Abroad • Men's Lacrosse Looks to Ride Dominant Defense to Another Record-Breaking Year • Porada and Polimeni Partner Together to Join 1,000 Point Club • Women's Swimming Three-peats

The Grizzly, February 18, 2016, Brian Thomas, Deana Harley, Courtney A. Duchene, Valerie Osborne, Jay Farrell, Johnny Myers, Hunter Gellman, Tyler Arsenault, Madelyn Franklin, Erin Mckinney, Bryce Pinkerton

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Norovirus Sickens 200+ • Ursinus Remembers Dr. Richard King • Rainbow Resource Center Comes Back • Mid-term Recharge Created to Help Students Through Slump • Renowned Author Visits Campus • Quaker Group Formalizing • Activities, Meals and Deals for Students Without Wheels • From Bike Lanes to BWC • Opinions: Wismer Wasted by Health Code Violations; Admin Response to Illness Strikes Controversy • For Hot-Shooting Knowles, Injury Ends Season Early But Future Still Shines Bright • Norovirus Keeps Wrestling Team Away from CC Championships

Dick Hanson And Bert Henningson: Rural Activists In The 1980s, Cory Schroeder

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

Although the title of this presentation may seem relatively straightforward, I encourage you all to think a little deeper about two important words in the title of this presentation: rural and activists. Questions that come to mind include: what does it mean to be rural? What does a rural individual look like? What is activism? Who can be an activist? Can you be rural and an activist? Does rural activism look different than other forms of activism? Maybe most importantly, can someone be an activist for more than one cause? If you asked Dick Hanson or Bert Henningson that question, …

From Russia With Love: John And Nadine Turchin, Ryan M. Nadeau

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

In August 1856, Ivan Vasilievitch Turchaninov and Nedezhda Dmitrievna Lvow arrived in the United States. The two had been married for only three months, and were both natives of the Russian Empire. Ivan was descended from a family of Cossacks with a strong military background in whose footsteps he followed by attending military school in St. Petersburg. He had served as an army captain during the Crimean War, stationed in the critical port city of Sevastopol, and was part of the forces sent to put down rebellions in both Poland and Hungary. It was while stationed in Russia that he …

Great Emancipator Was Radical Of His Day: Lincoln Opposed Economic Injustice, Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,” Abraham Lincoln said in 1864. “I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.”

Yet there has always been doubt about just how great an emancipator he really was. Why did he wait for two years into his presidency to issue his Emancipation Proclamation? And why didn’t that Proclamation free all the 3.9 million African-Americans then held in bondage? [excerpt]

The Grizzly, February 11, 2016, Brian Thomas, Deana Harley, Courtney A. Duchene, William Diciurcio, Johnny Myers, Lisa Abraham, Mami Shimanuki, Valerie Osborne, Tyler Arsenault, Emily Jolly, Joy Jones, Jay Farrell

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Campus Safety Officers to Increase Reimert Presence • Preparing for More Snow • Ursinus Hires New VP of Admissions • Improv Troupe Set to Perform • UC Hosts Title IX Meeting • International Perspective: School vs. Work • Exploring the 80's • New Spin on SPINT • Opinions: End the 21-Meal Plan; Is it Appropriate to Culturally Appropriate? • More Than Just a Trainer • Women's Swimming Posts Third Perfect Season

The Grizzly, February 4, 2016, Brian Thomas, Leighnah L. Perkins, Deana Harley, Alexandria Sutton, William Diciurcio, Jay Farrell, Jim Yichi Zhang, Jordan Ostrum, Rachel Dickinson, Maddie Mathay, Joy Jones, Andrew Tran, Hunter Gellman, Cory Rogers

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus to Host Popular Author • Clearing the Path to a Career • Companies and Grad Schools Seek Out Ursinus Alumni • International Perspective: Cultural Differences in Parties • Businesses Offer Student Discounts • Talking About Depression with Nuance • Fighting Off the Freshman Fifteen • Ups and Downs of Being an RA in Reimert • New Face on Campus • Opinion: The Elephants Aren't in the Room: Poll Probes Pupils on Pressing Politics • From Across the Atlantic • Dynamic Duo

February 2016, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Touched by Water Screening; From the Rabbi; Announcements; President's Message; Community Notices; Book Group; Hiram Bingham Postage Stamp

The History Of Public Education In New Orleans Still Matters, Al Kennedy

History Faculty Publications

Ten years after the flood waters from negligently constructed federal levees inundated New Orleans, public education reformers have unhitched their narrative from the pre-Katrina history of the Crescent City. They cleverly placed the blame for the condition of the schools on the backs of the teachers--and their union. The reformers contend that New Orleans was a “blank sheet of paper” upon which they put in place a successful system of charter schools. Perhaps the reference to the “blank sheet of paper” makes more sense as an effort to paper-over a long and painful history that includes the lingering effects of …

Export / Import: The Promotion Of Contemporary Italian Art In The United States, 1935–1969, Raffaele Bedarida

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Export / Import examines the exportation of contemporary Italian art to the United States from 1935 to 1969 and how it refashioned Italian national identity in the process. I do not concentrate on the Italian art scene per se, or on the American reception of Italian shows. Through a transnational perspective, instead, I examine the role of art exhibitions, publications, and critical discourse aimed at American audiences. Inaugurated by the Fascist regime as a form of political propaganda, this form of cultural outreach to the United States continued after WWII as Italian museums, dealers, and critics aimed to vaunt the …

The Grizzly, January 28, 2016, Brian Thomas, Deana Harley, Jay Farrell, Chi-E Low, Yuqing Liu, Valerie Osborne, Sarah Hojsak, Berett C. Babrich, Sean Campbell, Johnny Cope, Hunter Gellman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Student Raises Funds to Prevent Suicide • Tragedy Prompts Main Street Changes • Ursinus Introduces Open Access Publishing System • Ursinus Welcomes Alumni as Entrepreneur-in-Residence • International Perspective: Differences in Friendships Across Cultures • "Rare Bird" Exhibit Migrates to Berman • Coasting Through Costa Rica • Opinions: Everyone's an Activist on Facebook; Letter from an Alumnus: Guns; Film Review: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Rates 7 / 10 • Women's Indoor Track and Field Ready to Run • Vaulting Into Action

Sexual Healing: Nurses, Gender, And Victorian Era Intimacy, Anika N. Jensen

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

In the first episode of the new PBS series Mercy Street, nurse Anne Hastings is seen applying a plaster cast to a wounded soldier’s bare legs before a captivated audience of surgeons and hospital workers. This action seems trivial today, even unquestionable, but as the show progressed and more scenes portrayed this seemingly insignificant concept of touch, of intimacy between a female nurse and her male patients, its true magnitude became apparent. [excerpt]

An Early Black Cemetery On York Street, Andrew I. Dalton

Student Publications

Many are familiar with William H. Tipton, a well-known local photographer who recorded iconic views of the town, battlefield, and monuments surrounding Gettysburg. What many people may not know is that Tipton built a house in the early 1900s right on top of Gettysburg’s first African-American cemetery. [excerpt]

This Month In Civil War History: January 2016, Jeffrey L. Lauck

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Transcript:

Welcome to The Civil War Institute’s "This Month in Civil War History for January."

In January of 1861, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana joined South Carolina in seceding from the Union. In their articles of secession, the states made explicit references to defending the future of slavery in their reasons for seceding. [excerpt]

Nyle Fort Interview, Jennifer Thomson

Bucknell: Occupied

No abstract provided.

Sargent, George Henry, 1828-1917 (Mss 564), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan of a portion of a diary (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 564. Diary kept by George Henry Sargent from 1 May 1851 to 10 January 1853. The Harvard student writes on a variety of subjects, including education, religion, historical events, travel, etc. Of particular interest is a three-month sojourn in 1852 with his sister, Lucy Baldwin (Sargent) Rupert in Louisville, Kentucky. While in Kentucky, he also visits Henderson and Mammoth Cave.

How The Federal Government Went From Realtor To Landlord In The American West, Randall K. Wilson

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Disputes over public land rights have a long history in the United States. But the past 18 months have seen a growing number of confrontations over Western federal lands, culminating in the current standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. [excerpt]

South African Marriage In Policy And Practice: A Dynamic Story, Michael W. Yarbrough

Publications and Research

Law forms one of the major structural contexts within which family lives play out, yet the precise dynamics connecting these two foundational institutions are still poorly understood. This article attempts to help bridge this gap by applying sociolegal concepts to empirical findings about state law's role in family, and especially in marriage, drawn from across several decades and disciplines of South Africanist scholarly research. I sketch the broad outlines of a nuanced theoretical approach for analysing the law-family relationship, which insists that the relationship entails a contingent and dynamic interplay between relatively powerful regulating institutions and relatively powerless regulated populations. …

Take Me Out To The Ball Game (And Away From Camp): How Soldiers Used Sports To Cope During War Time, Anika N. Jensen

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Snowball fights during the Civil War were a pretty big deal.

In fact, sports and fitness in general played a role in shaping ideals of honor, courage, and idolization among the Armies of the Potomac and Northern Virginia, and they proved to have an impact on the life of the individual soldier by distracting him (or possibly her) from the monotonous routine of camp life and establishing bonds of comradeship. [excerpt]

Nexus: The Great War's Grain Crisis And The Coming Of Prohibition In America, Keith J. Muchowski

Publications and Research

One of the most immediate reasons for the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment was the Grain Crisis of the First World War. The shortage of this food staple enabled Temperance activists to advocate for limits on the brewing of beers and malt beverages. Herbert Hoover oversaw the Commission for Relief in Belgium during this period. Prohibition became law just after the Great War.

Slavery In Rhode Island: Awakening A Forgotten Past (Poster), Abudu Adeboye, Cassandra Caggiano, Cassandra M. Chisolm, Marisa Delfarno, Brian Nicholas

Black Studies Student Scholarship

This map serves to raise awareness about the history of slavery in Rhode Island. Despite having played an active role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Rhode Island’s involvement is often overlooked or omitted from what we are traditionally taught in historically influenced classes at Providence College. Instead of integrating local history and knowledge into our own curriculum, we learn about slavery through a Eurocentric, Westernized lens. We aim to challenge our narrow teachings about slavery and widen our perspectives by constructing alternative narratives that go against the metanarrative. This map displaces the untold narratives of four areas in Rhode Island: …

7: Public Archaeology At Fort St. Joseph, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project practices community service learning.

Missouri Democrat [St. Louis], January-December 1864, Vicki Betts

By Title

Selected articles from the Missouri Democrat, published in St. Louis, Missouri, taken from the period January through December, 1864.

Mississippian (Weekly, Semi-Weekly And Daily) [Jackson, Ms], January 3, 1860-July 10, 1864, Vicki Betts

By Title

Selected articles from the Mississippian (weekly, semi-weekly, and daily), published in Jackson, Mississippi, from the period January 3, 1860 through July 10, 1864.

Mobile Daily Register, January-June 1860, Vicki Betts

By Title

Selected articles from the Mobile Daily Register, published in Mobile, Alabama, covering the months January through December, 1860.

Hex Workers: African American Women, Hoodoo, And Power In The Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century U.S., Ann Kordas

The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs

No abstract provided.