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Signs Of Culture: Deafness In Nineteenth-Century America, Rebecca A. Rourke '90

Fenwick Scholar Program

While there is an abundance of research on twentieth-century manifestations of Deaf culture, the nineteenth-century roots have been largely overlooked. The creation of residential schools for the deaf gave the Deaf population a place to meet and share ideas, for the first time in American history. The close and sustained contact generated cultural development. This thesis addresses the development of a cultural identity among the Deaf population by attempting to compare the experiences and opinions of the Deaf and hearing communities as they existed in nineteenth-century America.

1990-04-06 Morehead News, Morehead News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Morehead News published on April 6, 1990.

Franco-American Relations And The Emergence Of French Nuclear Armament, 1939-1962, Regis Hugues Philippon

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

France and the United States stand out as two major pioneer countries in the development of nuclear science. It was logical for France to join the nuclear club. But due to the extended responsibilities such an option implies, a lengthy difference of opinion developed between France and the United States. The former asserted its rights and its worldwide influence heedless of the decolonization process. The latter, heavily committed to the Western defense and its global interests, opposed the development of a strike force that it could not control. This disagreement led France to make specific reservations toward decision-making of the …

Book Reviews

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

1990-02-20 Morehead News, Morehead News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Morehead News published on February 20, 1990.

Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog 1990-1991, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog

The Kentucky Humanities Council is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities committed to providing programs and services that facilitate an understanding and appreciation of Kentucky’s cultural heritage and future. The Council’s program catalog features scholars from across the Commonwealth who make presentations on a myriad of humanities topics. Later, costumed actors, who delivered dramatic monologues about Kentucky’s famous, infamous, and composite personalities, were added. The catalog has gone by various titles over the years: Kentucky Humanities Resource Center, Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, Whole Humanities Catalog, and Humanities Catalog. This …

History Of North American Trapping: How Fur-Trading Developed Our Continent, Daniel E. Mcallister Jr., Shirley A. Merrill

Maine Collection

History of North American Trapping: How Fur-Trading Developed Our Continent

by Daniel E. McAllister, Jr. & Shirley A. Merrill

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Augusta, Maine, 1990.

Where Did The Nez Perces Go In Yellowstone In 1877?, William L. Lang

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

Examines the events surrounding the surrender of the Nez Perces tribe in the Nez Perce War of 1877 in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. The tribe surrendered in Montana, only about 40 miles from the safety of the border with Canada, after allowing General Nelson A. Miles's troops to catch up while they spent two weeks in Yellowstone. Why the tribe made this stop, and what they did while in Yellowstone has puzzled historians. A popular explanation based on the testimony of a hostage of the tribe has been that the tribe became lost in Yellowstone, but a reconstruction of the …

1989-11-14 Morehead News, Morehead News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Morehead News published on November 14, 1989.

1989-10-06 Morehead News, Morehead News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Morehead News published on October 6, 1989.

The Warp And The Weft: An Overview Of The Social Fabric Of Mexican Texas, Felix D. Almaraz

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Ethj Vol-27 No-2

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

1989-06-27 Morehead News, Morehead News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Morehead News published on June 27, 1989.

1989-05-30 Morehead News, Morehead News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Morehead News published on May 30, 1989.

1989-05-16 Morehead News, Morehead News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Morehead News published on May 16, 1989.

The People Of Avery Point: Memories As History

Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Containment, Cliency And The Revolution In Vietnam, Deborah Tompsett-Makin

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis addresses the question, why does U.S. foreign policy contribute to political instability in developing nations? To ascertain the answer, it analyzes the post-World War II administrations from Truman through Johnson. One mode of containment, cliency, a foreign policy relationship between a major power and a weaker state, is developed within the framework analyzing containment. The cliency model provides a theoretical basis for explaining how the domestic structure of the client state is systematically distorted by the patron's actions in pursuit of its global interests. The cliency model is also linked to the pattern of development and stability of …

The Alabama-Coushatta And Their Texas Friends, Jere Franco

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

The 316th Air Division (Defense) In Morocco: Operations Section 1957-1960, Michael W. Price

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Social Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History by Michael W. Price in February of 1989.

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

The Wisconsin Swiss: A Portrait, Ernest Menolfi, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Few regions of the United States of North America have attracted as many Swiss as did the State of Wisconsin. It registered their steady increase among its foreign-born until 1920, and its southern region became well known for its Swiss American presence. Yet the Swiss remained throughout a rather small group among Wisconsin's people. The 1850 U. S. census, for example, counted a total of 304,756 inhabitants; of these 54,312 were born in Wisconsin, 139,166 in other parts of the Union, and 110,471 were foreign-born; among these 1,244 Swiss were counted (the nativity of 807 people remained 1 unknown).

"A Sense Of Their Own Power": Self-Determination In Recent Writings On Black Virginians, Philip J. Schwarz

History Publications

Discusses historical visibility of African American Virginians from 1619 to the present in relation to the concept of self-determination and power.

The Vanguard (Vol. 36, No. 3), May-Jun 1989, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

AMERICA'S LARGEST RELIGION IS more often blamed for creating our environmental problems than credited with helping to solve them. Indeed, ever since historian Lynn White, Jr., published "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis" (Science magazine in 1967), the anti-earth nature of Christianity has become standard doctrine in environmental circles. (Mother Earth News, Nov/Dec issue, repeated this truism in their "Open Road" column.)

The quote above from the first chapter of Genesis forms the backbone of White's-and others'-arguments that Christianity is an anti-ecological religion. And certainly, the notion of subduing the earth and taking dominion over its creatures does sound …

Local Merchants And The Regional Economy Of The Connecticut River Valley, Gerald F. Reid

Sociology Faculty Publications

This paper focuses on valley/hill town interactions and regional economic processes in the upper Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Merchants, those individuals involved in the trading and movement of commodities, are an especially useful point of departure for investigating such concerns because they operated in the economic space between communities, towns, and regions. Attention to their activities is likely to tell us a good deal about economic interaction across space and" over long distances in early America and, specifically, about economic interactions between valley towns and hill towns in the Connecticut River …

More Studies In Brownsville History, Milo Kearney

Studies in Rio Grande Valley Regional History Series

Resacas and bancos in Brownsville history / Antonio N. Zavaleta -- An American “melting pot” in the Coahuiltecan homeland / Roberto Mario Salmon -- De la Garzas, Ballis, and the political history of the region that would later become Cameron County / Milo Kearney -- The corridos of Mexico and South Texas: modern variations on Medieval themes / George K. Green -- O todo o nada / Manuel F. Rodriguez Brayda -- Asi paga el diablo / Manuel F. Rodriguez Brayda -- Point Isabel and the Mexican War / A.A. Champion and Henry G. Krausse, jr -- An historic hail …

1988-10-21 Morehead News, Morehead News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Morehead News published on October 21, 1988.

Reopening The Fair Gate, Toshihiro Tanioka

History Theses & Dissertations

On July 27, 1952, the Congress of the United States of America passed, over President Harry s. Truman's veto, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, more commonly known as the McCarran-Walter Act. The act codified almost all existing laws relative to immigration and naturalization and newly incorporated more strict exclusion provisions.

This paper analyzes the legislative process from the passage of the act in 1952 to its major revision in 1965. The paper analyzes that the act was a mere reaffirmation of the pre-war immigration policy and thus not reappraisal or reformation in the drastically changed world milieu. The …

1988-07-12 Morehead News, Morehead News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Morehead News published on July 12, 1988.

1988-05-27 Morehead News, Morehead News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Morehead News published on May 27, 1988.

1988-04-19 Morehead News, Morehead News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Morehead News published on April 19, 1988.