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To The Ice: George Bird Grinnell's 1887 Ascent Of Grinnell Glacier, Richard Vaughan

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This article discusses a climbing expedition undertaken by U.S. conservationist George Bird Grinnell to ascend what would come to be known as Grinnell Glacier in Montana. Grinnell’s efforts to establish Glacier National Park are detailed. Grinnell’s previously unpublished descriptions of the glacier and its surrounding area are analyzed by the author.

It Hastened What We All Fought For, The End Of The War: General Sherman's Campaigns Through Atlanta, Georgia, And The Carolinas And How They Impacted The Civil War, Thomas J. Birmingham

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

“It hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war: General Sherman’s campaigns through Atlanta, Georgia, and the Carolinas and how they impacted the Civil War” is my collection of research of the importance of Sherman’s campaigns through Atlanta, Georgia, and the Carolinas to bring the end of the war. My project is in fulfillment of the History 451: Proseminar within the requirements of a Bachelor’s Degree in history. My thesis paper covers those three campaigns and their importance in bringing the Civil War to an end. I have used primary and secondary evidence to provide facts and …

Values In Transition: The Chiricahua Apache From 1886-1914, John W. Ragsdale Jr.

American Indian Law Review

Law confirms but seldom determines the course of a society. Values and beliefs, instead, are the true polestars, incrementally implemented by the laws, customs, and policies. The Chiricahua Apache, a tribal society of hunters, gatherers, and raiders in the mountains and deserts of the Southwest, were squeezed between the growing populations and economies of the United States and Mexico. Raiding brought response, reprisal, and ultimately confinement at the loathsome San Carlos Reservation. Though most Chiricahua submitted to the beginnings of assimilation, a number of the hardiest and least malleable did not. Periodic breakouts, wild raids through New Mexico and Arizona, …

The Literary Fictioning Of John Gregory Bourke's Imperial Nostalgia, Toni K. Mcnair

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Nineteenth-century Army Captain and American ethnographer John Gregory Bourke (b. 1846 - d. 1896) meticulously described and documented a vast amount of information on military life, geography, ecology, and people on both sides of the Mexican-American border, offering observations and opinions of American, Mexican, Mexican-American, Apache, Pueblo, Zuni and Plains Indian cultures. Because of his ethnographic studies of Mexican-Americans along the Rio Grande, cultural studies scholars, José E. Limón and José David Saldí­var have identified John Gregory Bourke as complicit in the U.S. government's imperialist project. Referring to Renato Rosaldo's anthropological theory of imperialist nostalgia, These authors declare Bourke's work …

Fifth Grade Student Learning And Interest In The American Revolution Through Reading Graphic Novels Compared To Reading Biography Or Other Nonfiction Books, Kari Bosma

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to examine student recall of facts, along with enjoyment of reading and interest in the topic when using graphic novels as compared to illustrated nonfiction prose in social studies content area reading. Twenty-two fifth grade students (13 f, 9 m) in a public school in a Midwestern state participated in the study. Half of the students read about the Boston Massacre and Patrick Henry through graphic novels and read about Paul Revere and the Boston Tea Party with illustrated nonfiction texts, with the other half doing the opposite. The mean number of correct ideas …

The Rhetoric Of Destruction: Racial Identity And Noncombatant Immunity In The Civil War Era, James M. Bartek

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

This study explores how Americans chose to conduct war in the mid-nineteenth century and the relationship between race and the onset of “total war” policies. It is my argument that enlisted soldiers in the Civil War era selectively waged total war using race and cultural standards as determining factors. A comparative analysis of the treatment of noncombatants throughout the United States between 1861 and 1865 demonstrates that nonwhites invariably suffered greater depredations at the hands of military forces than did whites. Five types of encounters are examined: 1) the treatment of white noncombatants by regular Union and Confederate forces; 2) …

Hart Crane In Akron And Cleveland 1919-1923: Ohio Roads And Bridges To The Bridge, Olivier Alexis

Cleveland Memory

"It is the 1920's. A young poet stands on a bridge at midnight. Below him the river slides black and mysterious, beyond him the lights of the city sparkle. He looks up and raises his arms towards the sky in speechless communion. His fingers 'spread among stars.' He is consumed with the visions which in a few years will culminate in The Bridge. Who might the poet be? Hart Crane, of course. And the bridge and city? The Brooklyn Bridge in New York, right? No, wrong! The bridge is the Detroit- Superior Bridge and the city is Cleveland." — from …

The Price Of Conflict: War, Taxes, And The Politics Of Fiscal Citizenship, Ajay K. Mehrotra

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Since 2003 American political leaders and lawmakers have been committed to the simultaneous pursuit of tax cuts and military excursions abroad. Just a few decades ago, when military hawks were also deficit hawks, such a position would have seemed incongruous. This essay reviews, War and Taxes, a provocative and fascinating new book that seeks to explain the apparent dissonance of recent American wartime tax policy. In contrast to conventional wisdom which presumes that wartime patriotism has always and everywhere trumped self-interest, War and Taxes shows that the history of U.S. wartime taxation is not quite such a heroic tale. By …

The Grizzly, December 10, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Andrea Magnolo, Liz Kilmer, Maryanne Berthel, Lisa Jobe, Michael Delaney, Bridget Resetco, Gianna Paone, Cory Kram, Elizabeth Mahoney, Joshua C. Walsh, Helen Ann Coin, Zach Shamberg, Matt Campbell, Kate Lechleitner

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Escape Velocity Performs Winter Show: Celebrate! • Management Teams Tally Up Their Profits • Sustainability: Dreaming of a Green Christmas • Ursinus Hosts "America Reads" for the Tenth Annual Holiday Celebration • UC United Brings Inspirational Speaker Nancy Hunter Denney to Ursinus • Dangerous Effects of Tanning Beds • New Mammogram Recommendations • Bizarre Foods: The Fabulous Five Dollar Festive Feast • Opinion: Present Your Partner with the Perfect Present: Holiday Gift Ideas • Breaking School Records and Then Some

The Grizzly, November 12, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Liz Kilmer, Ashley Mccomeskey, Gianna Paone, Lisa Jobe, Alex Doll, Rebecca Smyth, Andrea Magnolo, Ellen Bernhard, Abbie Cichowski, James Kilduff, Jason K. Mullins, Seika Ueda, Zach Shamberg, Kate Lechleitner, Christopher Michael

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Picasso at the Lapin Agile Draws in Audiences • Ursinus Awarded Teagle Grant • H1N1: How Ursinus is Battling the Swine Flu • Health Stats on the Ursinus Campus • Guest Speaker Addresses Urban (Dis)order • Four Students Hope to Pursue their Dreams with Watson Fellowship • Philly's Practically Single Proves Pop-Punk Prevails; Set to Play Ursinus Friday • Veterans: The Brave Who Allow Us to be Free • Ghost Hunter Gives Presentation on Campus • Opinion: Hamid Karzai: Further Complicating Issues in Afghanistan; Ursinus' Need for an Intro to Writing Class • Field Hockey Hoists C.C. Trophy for Sixth …

The Grizzly, November 5, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Liz Kilmer, Andrea Magnolo, Gianna Paone, Lisa Jobe, Rebecca Smyth, Ellen Bernhard, Jonathan Edward Barber, Seika Ueda, Joe Walsh, Colin Hart, Matt Whitman, Kate Lechleitner, Luke Benko

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Escape Velocity Performances are "Timeless" • Dr. William Keim Inspires with Humor • National Deficit May Favor Health Care Reform • Second Annual Greek Activities Fair Held in Wismer Parents Lounge • Sophomores Learn About the ILE • Behind the Scenes: Association for Computing Machinery • Educational Effect of the International Film Festival • Haunted Ursinus: Good ole' Ghost Stories • Opinion: Where Did the Lounges Go? The Cramped UC Community; Texting and Facebook IM: Our Generation Conversation; Drop the Natural Light and Expand Your Beverage Horizons • UC Athletics Spotlight: Alyssa Thren of Field Hockey

The Grizzly, October 29, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Alex Doll, Christopher Wierzbowski, James Kilduff, Lisa Jobe, Jonathan Edward Barber, Seika Ueda, Gianna Paone, Ellen Bernhard, Maryanne Berthel, Zach Shamberg, Carly Siegler, Abbie Cichowski, Andrea Magnolo, Christopher Michael

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Senator John C. Rafferty Speaks in Olin • Mid-term Aftermath • Students Enjoy the PA Renaissance Fair • Copyright Infringement on Rise Among College Students • Berman Museum Receives Gifts from Expressionist Painter • Healthy Spin on America's Economic Recession • Kindle: Electronic Reading Device Next iPod? • Recycling Made Easier on Campus Next Week • Opinions: Textual Relations: Double-edged Sword; Wet vs. Dry College Campuses • Football Moves Into Tie for First Atop Centennial Conference

The Grizzly, October 22, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Abbie Cichowski, Liz Kilmer, Seika Ueda, Lisa Jobe, Christopher Wierzbowski, Andrea Magnolo, Jonathan Edward Barber, Cory Kram, Elizabeth Mahoney, Maria Beazley, Gianna Paone, Ellen Bernhard, Zach Shamberg, Luke Benko, Kate Lechleitner

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Big Brothers, Big Sisters: UC's New Chapter • WVOU is Ursinus' Hidden Treasure • Freelance Journalist Offers Students Advice • Ursinus Focuses on Pedestrian Safety, Adds More Lights to Main Street • USGA Meeting Talks Senior Halloween and New Clubs • Technology and its Role in College Student Recruitment • Dollar Store Bizarre Foods • Sophomore Week Celebration 2009 • Opinions: HPV Vaccine: "One Less" Reason for Some to Think That Protection is Necessary? • Men's Basketball Comes Together for Another Great Season • UC Intramurals Give More Athletic Options

The Grizzly, October 15, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Liz Kilmer, Gianna Paone, Abbie Cichowski, Lisa Jobe, James Kilduff, Jonathan Edward Barber, Seika Ueda, Roger Lee, Ashley Mccomeskey, Jason K. Mullins, Helen Ann Coin, Carly Siegler, Kate Lechleitner, Alex Doll

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Draws in Large Audiences • MRSA Awareness Month • UC Student Hit by Car on Main Street, Makes $50 • Omega Chi Sponsors Blood Drive • E-Mail Outsourcing and its Effects on the Ursinus Community • Study Abroad Programs Create Great Opportunities for Students • $10,000 Grant Brings Danny Buraczeski's Swing Concerto to Dance Students • Senior Halloween Party Planners Leave Under 21-Year-Olds Out • Opinions: Obama's Nobel Prize: Criticism Warranted?; Assisted Living: Call it "Assisted Dying" for Many • Women's Rugby Gets Down and Dirty for 2009 Season • Record Falls After the Bears' …

1815 Log House: Interpretive Manual, Timothy Mullin

Library Faculty Publications

It is important to understand the different types of house museums and their purposes before we offer information about our own house museum.

There are three basic types of house museums: Documentary, Representative, Decorative. Each type has its purpose and distinct interpretive thrust.

Having very little information about the Felts family, it is impossible to present our museum as the documentary Felts House. A much more realistic interpretive goal is as a representative 1815 Log House. We have used what little bits of information we have about the Felts family, and the rest of our interpretation is taken from the …

Ethj Vol-47 No-2

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Trans-Mississippi Miasmas: Malaria & Yellow Fever Shaped The Course Of The Civil War In The Confederacy's Western Theater, Andrew M. Bell

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Private Trials Of A Public Man: Jimmie Allred And The Vicissitudes Of Family, L P. Hughes

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Jubal Early’S Trains: The Battle Of Lynchburg In Historical Memory, John G. Marks

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

On June 18, 1901, Charles Minor Blackford, brother of Battle of Lynchburg veteran Eugene Blackford, made a speech commemorating the thirty-five year anniversary of the Lynchburg Campaign. In the Battle of Lynchburg, as a part of the wider Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864, General Jubal Early and the Confederate force defended the city from General David Hunter and the Union in a two-day engagement, marked mostly by skirmishing. Blackford stated in this speech that, “During the night of the 17th, a yard engine, with box cars attached, was run up and down the Southside Railroad, making as much noise as …

Pet Milk Company, 1949-1957 (Mss 263), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Two annual field reports, 1951 and 1954, profiling dairy farmers and their operations in Warren and Simpson Counties in Kentucky as well as Robertson County, Tennessee; also includes miscellaneous copies of the newsletter "Pet Dairy Chats", 1949 to 1957.

The Grizzly, September 17, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Maryanne Berthel, Rebecca Smyth, Lisa Jobe, Christopher Wierzbowski, Gianna Paone, Michael Delaney, Ellen Bernhard, Helen Ann Coin, Karin Zerella, Kim Klee, Abbie Cichowski, Deborah Yanessa, Greta Martikainen-Watcke, Patrick Hayakawa, Emily Mercadante, Luke Benko, Andrea Magnolo

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Recycling Team Takes Action Against Campus Waste • Annual Activities Fair Starts the Year Off • Campus Safety, Police Relations: Battle of Jurisdiction • Berman's New Exhibit: "Muriel's Moores" • Is the Power Plant Damaging More Than Our Eardrums? • Restaurant Review: Iron Hill Brewery • Club Spotlight: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship • Hidden Treasures in the Berman and Myrin • Opinion: Liberal Arts, Limited Choices?; Facebook Friends: How Far is Too Far?; Obama's Administration and the Takeover of the Communist Czar Regime; Socialism is the New Word for Progress • UC Men's Soccer Coach Adds Sustainability Coordinator to His Title …

The Grizzly, September 10, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Zach Shamberg, Gianna Paone, Roger Lee, Lisa Jobe, Kristin Cichowski, Liz Kilmer, Emily Arndt, Maryanne Berthel, Eva Bramesco, Carly Siegler, Kate Lechleitner, Jarod Groome

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Barack Obama Dating Game: "Czar" Power • Do Deals at the Bars Mean Bad News for Your Health? • Escape Velocity is Rising to New Heights: 2009 Preview • Discover the Unknown Through the International Film Festival • Over 300 Students Receive Social Host Training by Fellow Students • Purple Door 2009 • Green Lane Scottish-Irish Festival This Weekend • Freshmen Orientation Gets a Face Lift • Opinions: Outreach to Fellow Pagans in the UC Community • Missed Opportunities But Still Optimistic for Rest of Season • UC Football Gets Hit with a Loss from Albright College

The Grizzly, September 3, 2009, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Liz Kilmer, Roger Lee, Laurel Salvo, Ryan Collins, Nick Hanford, Zach Shamberg

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Summer Fellows: Students Skip the Beach and Hit the Books • UCTV Returns: Bringing Back the News • Theft on Campus: Tips to Keep You Safe • Four Big Changes Hit Campus This Summer • Interning with Joan Jett: Taking Advantage of the UC Opportunity • UC Community Service Center: Encouraging Benevolence on Campus • Bridging the Gap Between 2010 and 2013 • Dan Mullen '94 Named Mississippi State Head Coach • John Noonan: Full Court Press to Europe, Summer 2009

The Origins Of The Modern Religious Lobby In Virginia, 1968-1980, Kenneth Skipper

All Theses

The 1960s conservative movement of Barry Goldwater gave rise to a politically active and influential block of voters that came to be known as the religious Right. Disillusioned with the direction of America and a government that seemed hostile to their views and values, religious-minded Americans began to organize to fight for the issues that were important to them. Virginia was an important battleground in the fight over these important social issues due to its unique demographic make-up with a more liberal and urban northern part with the rest of Virginia more conservative and rural. The organization of politically minded …

An Environmental Biography Of Bde Ihanke-Lake Andes: History, Science, And Sovereignty Converge With Tribal, State, And Federal Power On The Yankton Sioux Reservation In South Dakota, 1858–1959, David Nesheim

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Lake Andes sits at the center of the Yankton Sioux Reservation in south-central South Dakota and might be described as a prairie pothole, except it encompasses nearly 5,000 acres when full of water, stretching twelve miles long by a mile to a mile and a half wide in a quasi-crescent shape. Originally carved out by a receding glacier during the Wisconsin glaciations, for its entire history the lake has gone dry during low precipitation -- a cycle interrupted after the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) commissioned several artesian wells beginning in 1896. As the lake expanded, the U.S. Fish Commission …

Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: August 2009, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2009

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from August 14 and 28, 2009.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Wyatt, Albert F., 1861-1943 (Sc 1959), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1959. Letter, 14 April 1908, from A. F. Wyatt, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky to H. R. Cowles, Statesville, North Carolina regarding the availability of horses for sale.

Errands Into The Metropolis: New England Dissidents In Revolutionary London, Jonathan Beecher Field

Publications

Errands into the Metropolis offers a dramatic new interpretation of the texts and contexts of early New England literature. Jonathan Beecher Field inverts the familiar paradigm of colonization as an errand into the wilderness to demonstrate, instead, that New England was shaped and re-shaped by a series of return trips to a metropolitan London convulsed with political turmoil. In London, dissidents and their more orthodox antagonists contended for colonial power through competing narratives of their experiences in the New World. Dissidents showed a greater willingness to construct their narratives in terms that were legible to a metropolitan reader than did …

Grades 4-5 The Iroquois, Dana Stabile

Social Studies

This is a social studies lesson for fourth and fifth graders on the Iroquois. . Through the lesson, students will understand where the Iroquois Tribe of the Eastern Woodlands lived in relation to modern day New York. Students will also be able to understand the practices, values, traditions, and daily life of the Iroquois tribe. In addition, students will understand the contributions these tribes have made to our nation today. This lesson spans over ten days and offers a variety of projects using a tic-tack-toe chart on three tiered levels where students can choose their favorite activity in each subject …

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: July 2009, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2009

LSUHSC Dailly Facilities Updates from July 2009.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.