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Revolutionary Education Considering Multiple Perspectives On The War, Morgan Bryson

Scholar's Day

To what extent were the colonists justified in their revolt against the British Empire?

Dietz Little Giant No.100, R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz Little Giant no.100, circa 1956. The Dietz Little Giant is an alternative form of the Dietz Little Wizard. The Little Giant features a larger fuel tank and alternative wicks (the area that holds the flame of the lantern). The Little Giant is most often stamped with the company who purchased it to deter theft, it was used in similar fashion to the Dietz 8-day lantern by traffic and construction companies on barricades. This lantern is a variation of the original Little Giant and lasted only a short time before the rebranding of the model into the Little Wizard.

The …

Paull's No.0 Lantern (2), Wheeling Stamping Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Paull's no.0 Cold Blast Lantern, circa 1903. This lantern is believed to have been manufactured by the Wheeling Stamping Company, also sometimes referred to as the 'Nail City Lantern Company'. The company originated in 1877 Wheeling City West Virginia where it produced around 100 lanterns a day in the form of two variations called "Leader" lanterns. The lanterns were created entirely of raw materials available to the factory except for the globes, which were created at the Buckeye Glass Works, in Martin's Ferry Ohio.

This lantern features a patented date of July 30th, 1903 on the brim. On the fuel …

Dietz No.2 D-Lite Lantern (4), R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz No. 2 D-Lite Lantern, circa. 1919. The No. 2 D-Lite replaced its predecessor the original D-Lite which proved to be unaffordable due to its top lifting telescopic chimney. The No. 2 D-Lite combined the D-Lite and No. 2 Wizard to create a side lifting lantern that was more affordable.

The globe of this lantern is a LOC-NOB, LOC-NOB refers to the pair of ears on a Dietz lantern globe used to keep the globe from falling out when tilting the globe plate for lighting or trimming of the wick. The red tint of the globe would have been used …

Dietz Acme Inspector Lantern, R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz Acme Inspector Lantern, circa. 1900-1960. The Acme Inspector was one of if not the most popular inspection lantern sold by Dietz for use on railroads. The lantern was the last model of square tube "hot blast" lanterns with its production ending in or around 1960.

Information provided is altered from W.T. Kirkman Lanterns. https://lanternnet.com/

Armspear 1925 Lantern (3), Armspear Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Armspear 1925 Lantern, circa. 1925. This artifact is a post World War 1 Armspear Lantern. The 1925 model lantern was Armspear's introduction into the short globe lantern market. This would continue to be the major model in production by Armspear until production was contracted to the Adams and Westlake manufacturing company, who produced an Armspear line very similar to the Adlake "Kero" model of lanterns.

The globe of this lantern seems to be a replacement globe produced for an Adlake Kero lantern, and it is stamped with C&O which most likely signaled the use of the globe and a previous …

Handlan Signal Lantern (6), Handlan Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Handlan Kerosene Signal Lantern, circa. 1930's-1940's. This lantern is different from other Handlan products, it features a style similar to traffic lanterns made by the Dietz company though it is only estimated that this would be its use. The Handlan company produced mostly kerosene signal lanterns out of St. Louis Missouri. The red globe of this lantern would have been used to signal stop or danger.

Aguila Lux Kerosene Lantern, Aguila Lux Stamping Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Aguila Lux Kerosene Lantern, circa. 1953. This lantern is a product of the same tooling that was originally used by the Embury Lantern Company for their Air Pilot lanterns. When the company was sold to the R.E. Dietz Manufacturing Company in 1953 the tooling was sold to a stamping company in Monterrey Mexico. The globe features an Eagle which is known as and Aztec mark. Aztec marks are used in multiple lantern productions that were sold to Mexican stamping companies.

Dietz Vesta (3), R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz Vesta Lantern circa, 1906. There are four versions of the Dietz Vesta all with different sized globes and choices of manufacturing. This lantern is estimated to be the second or third type of the model which stands around 10 inches tall.

Stamped on the lid is the phrase New York Central, this is estimated to mean that the lantern was used by the New York Central Railway system.

Information provided is altered from W.T. Kirkman Lanterns. https://lanternnet.com/

Dietz No.999 Lantern, R.E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz No.999 Lantern, circa. 1929. This lantern is one of the more rare Dietz lanterns that shares qualities similar to the Adlake "Kero" model of lanterns. This lantern would be used mostly by railroad companies. This particular lantern is stamped N.Y.C.S which is an abbreviation of the New York Central System.

Information provided is altered from W.T. Kirkman Lanterns. https://lanternnet.com/

Habeas Corpus As A Means For Economic Freedom In The Progressive Era, Janana Khattak

Digital Legal Research Lab

Habeas corpus protects individual freedom by allowing detained individuals proper trial. Economic liberty, or the “right to earn a living in an occupation of choice without unnecessary government interference,” is a key component of individual freedom. Following the depression of 1893, the Progressive Era ushered in a sharp increase in productivity. This was in part because of an immigration boom. While immigrants sought economic opportunities for the betterment of themselves and their families, ideologies of nativism rose.

Advisor: Katrina Jagodinsky

Transimperial Networks And East Asia: Timeline, Menglu Gao, Sophia Hsu, Waiyee Loh, Hyungji Park, Jessica R. Valdez, Adrian S. Wisnicki, Rae X. Yan

English and Literary Arts: Faculty Scholarship

To help instructors and students who may be unfamiliar with the history of East Asia and its transimperial exchanges with the Anglophone world, the creators of the “Transimperial Networks and East Asia” lesson plan cluster built this timeline, which includes some major historical events from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. This timeline comes out of our many discussions about the methodological issues that arise when the field of Victorian Studies seeks to expand its traditional geographical scope. As we quickly realized in the process of creating our cluster, the usual boundaries of the long nineteenth century (the French Revolution …

Article From Daily Compass, Mundt Bill Is Threat To U.S., Says Langer, Ca.1950, Daily Compass

William Langer Papers

This article from Daily Compass dated ca.1950 titled "Mundt Bill Is Threat To U.S., Says Langer" states Senator William Langer's opposition to the Mundt-Ferguson Bill. Senator Langer claims it is "the greatest threat to American civil liberties since the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798".

A Select List Of Books In Mexican-American History (2022 Update), John R. Chavez

History Faculty Publications

This bibliography of secondary sources includes surveys and monographs, but few collections or biographies; while some works may overlap disciplines, their content is historical on the whole and focused significantly on ethnic Mexicans in the United States.

Book Review: Kathleen A. Cairns' At Home In The World: California Women And The Postwar Environmental Movement, Molly Mcclain

History: Faculty Scholarship

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Missouri Soybean Exports And The Democratizing Market Force, David D. Hammons

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

A commonly held assumption of America’s post-Cold War place in the world is that prolonged contact with American capitalism and democracy will lead to the adoption of these systems in all nations that participate in international trade. This paper attempts to verify or disprove that assumption by examining a specific traded commodity between two specific nations, the institutions that support this trade, and the people actively participating in it. The growth of soybean exports from the state of Missouri provides this vehicle for examining the trade history between the United States of America and China, and provides evidence that disproves …

El Intento De Asesinato A Tancredo Martínez: Frances Grant Y Los Discursos Comunistas, Nelson Santana

Publications and Research

El Trujillato (1930-1961) abarcó casi cuatro décadas, en parte gracias a una serie de herramientas y mecanismos centrados en las influencias y redes de la dictadura fuera de la República Dominicana. La red internacional de espías de Trujillo hizo posible que el Trujillato identificara y vigilara a cualquiera que amenazara el régimen. Así, los tentáculos del dictador se extendieron más allá de República Dominicana hacia naciones y territorios como Costa Rica, Cuba, México, Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos. Para combatir estas redes, los exiliados dominicanos colaboraron con aliados no dominicanos residentes en países extranjeros.

Este ensayo es parte de un …

The Tancredo Martínez Assassination Attempt: Frances Grant And Communistic Discourses, Nelson Santana

Publications and Research

The Trujillato (1930-1961) spanned almost four decades, in part, due to a series of tools and mechanisms centered around Trujillo’s influences and networks outside of the Dominican Republic. Trujillo’s international network of spies made it possible for the Trujillato to identify and keep tabs on anyone who threatened Trujillo’s reign. Thus, Trujillo’s tentacles extended beyond the Dominican Republic and into nations and territories such as Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United States. In order to combat Trujillo’s network, Dominican exiles embraced non-Dominican allies to combat Trujillo’s tentacles.

This essay is part of a larger project that aims …

Our Metropolitan Separations: The Case For Metropolitan Public Schools In The Commonwealth Of Virginia, Marvin T. Chiles

History Faculty Publications

This research uses published reports from think tanks, statistical data from the Virginia Department of Education, newspaper articles, and court cases to argue for the creation of metropolitan school districts in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Framing this article's importance is the undeniable fact that almost seventy years after the famous Brown v. Board of Education decision (1954), American public schools still legally operate on a racially segregated basis. Virginia contributes to this issue by having some of the highest rates of racial segregation within its major metropolitan area school districts. This racial segregation has resulted in disparate educational outcomes between …

Democracy's Shield: Voices Of Wwii, Michael J. Birkner, Grace E. Gallagher, Rachel I. Main

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

Based on a body of 700 oral history interviews archived at Gettysburg College, Democracy's Shield relates the American military experience through the voices of those who served – from early awareness of the conflict in Europe and East Asia to the dropping of the atomic bomb, victory, occupation and homecoming.

The text is illustrated with images of artifacts from the library's Special Collections.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Portents of War
Pearl Harbor
Draft Status and Volunteering
Exams, Induction, Training
Heading to the Front
Attitudes about the Enemy
Race, Gender and the War Effort
GI Joe
Aboard Ship
Up in …

Towards A Psychological Science Of Abolition Democracy: Insights For Improving Theory And Research On Race And Public Safety, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Phillip Atiba Goff

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

We call for psychologists to expand their thinking on fair and just public safety by engaging with the “Abolition Democracy” framework that Du Bois (1935) articulated as the need to dissolve slavery while simultaneously taking affirmative steps to rid its toxic consequences from the body politic. Because the legacies of slavery continue to produce disparities in public safety in the U.S, both harming Black people and the institutions that could keep them safe, psychologists must take seriously questions of history and structure in addition to immediate situations. In the present article, we consider the state of knowledge regarding psychological processes …

Psychoactive Revolution And Transnational Networks, Menglu Gao

English and Literary Arts: Faculty Scholarship

The connection and clash between Asia and the Anglophone world were, in part, facilitated by what David T. Courtwright calls the “psychoactive revolution,” a process in which hunger, the need for food, was replaced by desire and addiction in the modern world. Networks between these regions deepened and proliferated as stimulants and sedatives such as tea, opium, and coffee became increasingly accessible and popular around the globe.

Meeting Unmet Needs: The Evolution Of Housing And Aid In New London 1910-1950, Madison Taylor

History Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Entry Nr. 025 Marguerite, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.

Entry Nr. 019 Magdalene Beulah Brockden, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.

Entry Nr. 180 Tomás Mandinga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.

Entry Nr. 240 Vicente Bibí, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Entry Nr. 125 Francisco Alves De Souza, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Entry Nr. 308 Malade, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

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Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog Of Published Accounts By Africans Enslaved In The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

Faculty Books & Book Chapters

The importance of published accounts by African slave ship survivors is well-known but not their existence in large numbers. Fogleman and Hanserd catalog nearly five hundred discrete accounts and more than 2,500 printings of them over four centuries in numerous Atlantic languages. Short biographies of each African, print histories of the complete or partial life story. Five Hundred African Voices an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, students, and others wishing to study transatlantic slavery using African Voices.