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C&O Ry Lantern, Chesapeake And Ohio Railway

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Lantern. This artifact is of unknown use and origin. The body of the container seems to act as a font leading up to a cloth end with scorch marks, on the base of the artifact is a stamp spelling C&O RY. One speculation for the use for the artifact is that it may have served as a tunnel torch for lighting tunnels.

Embury No.2 Air Pilot Lantern, Embury Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Embury No.2 Air Pilot Lantern, circa. 1939-1953. The maker's marks on each side of the tank read as follows: "Embury No. 2 Air Pilot" and Embury MFG. Co, Warsaw, NY USA. The "Air Pilot" line of lanterns was introduced in 1939 to replace the "Supreme" model of lantern.

The "Embury Manufacturing Company" was incorporated on November 27, 1908 and located at 189 Platt Street, Rochester, NY. The company later sold to the R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company in 1953.

Handlan Signal Lantern (1) (Mopac), Handlan Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Handlan Kerosene Signal Lantern, circa. 1930's-1940's. Lantern features a steel cage with the Handlan manufacturing stamp on the top and bottom of the lantern. Stamped on the brim of the cap and on the globe are the letters MOPAC which signals the use of this lantern by the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

Higher Command: An Examination Of African American Leadership In The Vietnam Era, Amanda Abulawi

Master's Theses

Since the founding of the United States, African Americans have sacrificed their lives to uphold the nation’s democratic ideals, all while being denied equal access to voting, education, employment, and housing rights at home. Military service appealed to many African Americans who hoped it would lead to social and economic advancement for themselves and their race. Despite African American military participation throughout the nation’s history, these soldiers were treated as outsiders through segregated units and often relegated to non-combative duties, until the Vietnam War. This was the first major conflict in which African Americans had been deployed in large numbers …

Civil Rights Enforcement And Fair Housing At The Environmental Protection Agency, Jennifer Thomson

Faculty Journal Articles

This article analyzes the EPA within the broader history of federally-sponsored residential segregation, as well as the criminalization of and disinvestment from urban areas contemporaneous with the agency’s founding. It offers a detailed analysis of EPA’s first decade of recalcitrance regarding its own obligations under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title VII of the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The EPA developed a pattern of responding to scrutiny by rearranging its internal office structure and launching new initiatives tangential to the substantive issues of civil rights. Through this detailed interpretation, the article demonstrates how EPA’s first ten …

Raphael Semmes' Long Flight Home, John A. Rodgaard

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Alabama's Favorite Southern Belle, Marjorie Ann Reeves

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Letter From Thomas Jefferson To Thomas Freeman, David Byers

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

The Huntsville Historical Review, Vol. 46, No. 2, Fall-Winter 2021, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

What Happened To The Huntsville Jaycees?, John H. Allen, John H. Ofenloch

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Sinister To Sweet: Msu In The 90s, Alana Berryman, Skylar Smith

100 Years at Morehead State Poster Archive

A poster describing the decade of the 1990s at Morehead State University. The poster was created by Alana Berryman and Skylar Smith and titled Sinister to Sweet: MSU in the 90s.

Shirley Ann Williams And Joseph L. Williams Jr. -- Part 1, Kelli Johnson

Oral Histories – NPS AACR Civil Rights In Appalachia Grant

Part 1 of Kelli Johnson's oral history interview with Shirley Ann and Joseph L. Williams Jr..

This oral history is part of the National Park Service African American Civil Rights History and Appalachia Grant Program.

Brown, James (Sc 3615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3615. Notes written to Bowling Green, Kentucky merchant James Brown, mainly requests to supply goods to the bearer on account.

Women In Higher Education - Primary Source Set, Freddy Enrique Moran

Lesson Plans

Higher education in America prior to the 19^th century looked a specific way, white and male, and while there have been many advancements in medicine, and teaching medicine, since then. An equally impressive jump forward socially for education happened during these time periods. Education as a whole saw drastic changes between the 19^th and 20^th century with the increasing enrollment of women in higher education. The evolution of higher education between 1870 and 1930 saw drastic changes to women enrollment within universities, going from 5% to 14% female enrollment at a higher professional degree seeking university. Even …

Martin Puryear: 40 Years Since Sentinel, Merlyn I. Maldonado Lopez, Shannon Egan

Schmucker Art Catalogs

Artist Martin Puryear’s commitment to seeing objects as connected to history and culture resonates with a moment when Gettysburg College reflected on the significance of its own historical place and time. As the College approached the sesquicentennial anniversary of its founding, it decided to mark the occasion not with a ball or parade, but with “an intelligent artifact,” a permanent marker that both recognizes its maker and offers its own history. In 1980, Associate Dean of the College Robert Nordvall suggested to President Charles Glassick that they ought to commission a monumental sculpture on campus. Glassick then created the Ad …

Amjambo Africa! (October 2021), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Afghanistan................................2

Refugees......................................3

Freedom & Captivity...........3/39

Election special. .....................4-7

Editorial/Xenophobia ...............8

Translations...............9-13/30-31

News from Burundi ................14

Fishermen feeding Mainers...15

Beautiful Blackbird Festival ...17

Hope Acts.................................17

Education............................18/19

Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed

Valerie Laure Bilogue

Bez Mendelsohn

Health&Wellness ...............20-28

Substance abuse & addiction Covid and Delta In English & translation

New Voices columns ...16/34/35

Rupal Ramesh Shah (16),

Roseline Souebele

Nsiona Nguizani

Coco McCracken

Shay Stewart-Bouley

Zabrina Richards

Columns ............................29/32

Maine Equal Justice ILAP• MIRC

Business Insurance

Financial literacy... ............33

ProsperityME ....................36/37

Moore, George, 1771-1812, And Robert Moore, D. 1819 (Sc 3614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3614. Warren County, Kentucky court documents pertaining to or signed by brothers George and Robert Moore, considered to be the founders of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes summons issued by George Moore as Justice of the Peace; receipts; settlements of accounts; and a bond given in connection with an attachment.

No Tolerance For Cowards Or “Yankees:” The Letters Of Reuben Allen Pierson, A Confederate Officer, Erica L. Uszak

Student Publications

Confederate officer Reuben Allen Pierson was a single well-to-do Louisiana slaveholder. He enlisted early in the Ninth Louisiana Infantry, insisting that he joined the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to defend his freedom, family, and new country. He turned his back on the United States, convinced that his Northern counterparts were subhuman and dishonorable. This paper argues that Reuben Allen Pierson remained steadfast in his convictions about Southern duty and honor, arguing in the Confederacy’s favor even in bleak times. The writer will examine why he clung desperately to the Confederacy and how he was influenced by ideas of honor, …

Russel Nye And The Unending Struggle To Keep Government Representative, Nancy Unger

History

In his invitation to participate in this symposium on Russell Nye’s Midwestern Progressive Politics: A Historical Study of Its Origins and Development, 1870-1950, Jon Lauck gave us free rein. He did, however, suggest that we comment on how the book has aged and what Nye missed; how the reform era can be seen in regional terms; and whether Midwestern reform was moderate or radical. To address his first possibility: upon re-reading this classic, my overall reaction was decidedly mixed. In many ways, the book is emphatically a product of 1951. In contrast to today’s political histories, the lacunas are …

Oregon Trail, Heading Out West, Freddy Enrique Moran

Lesson Plans

Oregon Trail. Students will use a primary source journal and maps to build a picture of the hardships many individuals and groups faced on their trek out west and what are some push and pull factors that led to the decision to go.

Grade Level: 7-8

Lesson Length: 55 minutes

Purpose: Students will explore migration and be able to identify push and pull factors that applied to those embarking out west by using primary source documents from the Oregon Trail.

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will be able to list specific push and pull factors that led to people heading out …

Warfare In The 19th Century, Freddy Enrique Moran

Lesson Plans

Students will be learning about 19^th century warfare and challenges nations faced when fighting a war. The lesson will be accomplished through primary source journal entries and graphs.

Grade Level: 9-12

Lesson Length: 60 minutes

Purpose: Students will read the excerpt from multiple sources and will compare and contrast warfare from the 19^th century and the 20^th century.

Learning Outcomes:

• Student will have the ability to point to specific reasons as to what could have made the Civil War so deadly a conflict.
• Students will give specific examples as to how the Civil War changed/impacted …

Through The Ivory Curtain: African Americans In Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Before The Fair Housing Movement, J. Mark Souther

History Faculty Publications

This article examines the largely neglected history of African American struggles to obtain housing in Cleveland Heights, a first-ring suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, between 1900 and 1960, prior to the fair housing and managed integration campaigns that emerged thereafter. The article explores the experiences of black live-in servants, resident apartment building janitors, independent renters, and homeowners. It offers a rare look at the ways that domestic and custodial arrangements opened opportunities in housing and education, as well as the methods, calculations, risks, and rewards of working through white intermediaries to secure homeownership. It argues that the continued black presence laid …

History Of The Probate Court In Alabama, Frank Barger

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Back Matter, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Covert Imperialism: The Eisenhower Administration And Cuba, Patrick R. Sullivan

Student Publications

This paper tracks the Eisenhower Administration’s shifting policy towards Cuba and its use of covert imperialism to obtain its objectives. The policy considerations of the United States centered around a convenience for American interests. The support for the Batista regime, despite its oppression, exacerbated anti-American sentiments in the Cuban Revolution and put it on a collision course with American interests. As engagement failed, Cuba nationalized, and tensions escalated, the Eisenhower Administration initiated a campaign of covert imperialism that sought a government more in line with its interests. The covert operations implemented included economic and political sabotage, assassination attempts, and the …

Evaluation Of The Federal Writers' Project, Brenna M. Hadley

Student Publications

This essay examines an interview with a former slave, Sarah Graves. The interview is a product of the Federal Writers' Project, a government funded program created during the Great Depression. I address the possible problems that arise when working with this type of memory source (an interview), and how to work around them. This essay also ponders the reasoning why certain bits of information were included in the interview, and why others were excluded.

The Sarah Gudger Interview: An Analysis, Mckenna C. White

Student Publications

During the Great Depression, a New Deal project intended to create jobs was the Federal Writer's Project. One aspect of this project, the Slave Narrative Project, involved the interviews of over 2,000 former slaves and culminated in a federal collection of information on the lives of enslaved people. This paper focuses on the interview of Sarah Gudger, a 121 year-old former slave from North Carolina. It includes an overview of the content included and excluded from the interview in addition to an analysis of the interview including factors that may have positively or negatively impacted the interview's content, as well …

Eisenhower And The Interstate, Brian H. Berry

Student Publications

By passing the Federal Highway Act of 1956, 34th U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower would go down in history as the father of the American Interstate Highway System. It was Ike’s determination to execute his ‘Grand Plan’ for a modernized road network that initiated the monumental effort to produce the roads we as Americans use every day. However, today’s highway network is a far cry from what Ike had in mind when he first envisioned the plan. Congressional dissent and special interests did much to undermine the success of Ike’s ‘Grand Plan,’ forcing him to compromise significantly on the issue. …

For Just Business, It’S Pretty Personal: The Impact Of Money On The Early Republic’S Economically Elite Families, Abigail L. Adam

Student Publications

This essay examines the Adam Family Papers as a case study representing the Early American Republic’s economic elite. It argues that individual business practices affected the relationships between relatives—sometimes positively, other times negatively. The first section concerns other historians’ work on the family and on the Salisbury Iron District. The second section discusses women’s roles within their male relatives’ businesses. The third section relates to gift exchanges, while the fourth concerns business transactions between family members. The fifth section regards the economic hierarchy that emerged within the Forbes & Adam family. Letters concerning Samuel Forbes, John Adam Jr., Abigail Adam, …

Ursinus Magazine, Fall 2021, Jill Leauber Marsteller, Ed Moorhouse, Jennifer Meininger Wolfe, Abigail Peabody, Ann Karreth

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Search for our 19th President • Dedicating the Commons • Partnership honors Lenape people • COVID-19 and inequity • Ursinus selected for passport program • Getting to know: Alan Morrison • Keeper of Atlanta's great apes • Leading with grace • Unfinished business • Ursinus College's leading lady • Welcome Week 2021 • Family Weekend 2021 • In memoriam • Class notes • Marriages • Births • Burning question: What keeps women from running for public office?