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Review: 'More Desired Than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots Of Christian Zionism', William Vance Trollinger

History Faculty Publications

The degree of American “affinity with the State of Israel,” to use Robert O. Smith’s language in his enlightening book, is simply remarkable. As Smith documents, polling results over the last few decades make abundantly clear that American Christians — led by white evangelicals — consistently and overwhelmingly side with Israelis and against Palestinians. Regarding U.S. policies in the Middle East, while polls show that a majority of people throughout the rest of the world — including, as revealed in a 2003 poll, Israelis themselves — believe that American foreign policy is unfairly tilted toward Israel, Americans maintain that U.S. …

Beware: Teachers Who Blog, Charles J. Russo

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

A recent case from Pennsylvania, Munroe v. Central Bucks School District (2014), raises fresh questions about the free speech and expression rights of public school teachers as they use the Internet. In Munroe, when a board terminated a high school teacher’s employment for making controversial postings about her students and colleagues on her personal blog—postings that proved disruptive—a federal trial court rejected the educator’s claim that she was dismissed in retaliation for exercising her right to free speech.

Before reviewing the facts and judicial opinion in Munroe, it is worth noting that blogs (a term coined in the late 1990s …

Flyer News, Vol. 62, No. 11 (Nov. 18, 2014), University Of Dayton

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Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Woolf: ‘A Room Of One's Own’

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A brief commentary prepared by Sheila Hassell Hughes, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
1929; first trade edition; presentation copy

Sheila Hassell Hughes, professor of English, reads a selection.

Wollstonecraft: ‘A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: With Strictures On Political And Moral Subjects’

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A brief commentary prepared by Mary Sanderson, PhD, Lecturer, History, on the following work:

Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
1792; first edition; original publisher boards

Wheatley: ‘Poems On Various Subjects, Religious And Moral’

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A brief commentary prepared by Sheila Hassell Hughes, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Phillis Wheatley
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
London, 1773; first book published by an African American; frontispiece illustration of author is by African American slave artist Scipio Moorhead

Here, Hughes reads a selection from Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America."

You can also hear Hughes read a selection from Wheatley’s “On Virtue.”

Twain: ‘Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn’

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A brief commentary prepared by Kara Getrost, PhD, Lecturer, English, on the following work:

Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884 and 1885; first British edition (1884) and first American edition (1885)

Herbert Woodward Martin, professor emeritus of English, reads a selection.

Tolkien: ‘The Lord Of The Rings’

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A brief commentary prepared by Miriamne Ara Krummel, PhD, Associate Professor, English, on the following work:

J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
London, ca. 1953-1955; page proofs of the first edition with author’s final revisions; binding by Don Glaister

Shakespeare: ‘Comedies, Histories, And Tragedies’

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A brief commentary prepared by Elizabeth Mackay, PhD, Lecturer, English, on the following work:

William Shakespeare
Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
1632; Second Folio

Remarque: ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’

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A brief commentary prepared by Patrick Thomas, PhD, Assistant Professor, English, on the following work:

Erich Maria Remarque
Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
1928 and 1929; Corrected galley proofs in author’s hand (1928); first edition (1929)

O'Connor: ‘A Good Man Is Hard To Find’

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A brief commentary prepared by Brother Tom Wendorf, S.M., PhD, national vocation director, Marianist Province of the United States, on the following work:

Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find
ca. 1955; first edition

Sheila Hassell Hughes, professor of English, reads a selection.

Newton: ‘Opticks’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

Two brief commentaries prepared by Robert Brecha, PhD, Professor, Physics, and H. Angus Macleod, DTech, University of Arizona, on the following work:

Isaac Newton
Opticks: Or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light
London, 1704; first edition

Marx: ‘Das Kapital’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Alex Macleod, PhD, Lecturer, English, on the following work:

Karl Marx
Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy)
Hamburg, 1867; volume 1; first edition

Malcolm X: ‘The Autobiography Of Malcolm X’

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Excerpted from The New York Times, November 5, 1965, on the following work:

Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1963; written with Alex Haley; original typed draft

Maimonides: ‘The Guide Of The Perplexed’

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A brief commentary prepared by Patrick Thomas, PhD, Assistant Professor, English, on the following work:

Moses Maimonides
Moreh Nebukhim (The Guide of the Perplexed)
Possibly Rome, ca. 1469; first edition; translated from Judeo-Arabic into Hebrew by Samuel Ibn Tibbon

Lincoln: Political Debates Of 1858

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A brief commentary prepared by Margaret Strain, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Abraham Lincoln
Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Columbus, 1860; first edition; first issue; presentation copy.

Herbert Woodward Martin, professor emeritus of English, reads a selection.

Goethe: ‘Faust’

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A brief commentary prepared by Margaret Strain, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
Leipzig, 1790; first edition

Freud: ‘The Interpretation Of Dreams’

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A brief commentary prepared by Andrew Slade, PhD, Associate Professor, English, on the following work:

Sigmund Freud
Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams)
Leipzig, 1900; first edition; presentation copy

Frank: ‘Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl’

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A brief commentary prepared by Sandra Yocum, PhD, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, on the following work:

Anne Frank
Het Achterhuis (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl)
Amsterdam, 1947; New York, 1952; first edition in Dutch; first edition printed in the United States

Sheila Hassell Hughes, professor of English, reads a selection from May 18, 1943.

Hear another reading by Hughes: "Reading of ‘Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,' July 15, 1944"

Ellison: ‘Invisible Man’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by John McCombe, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
1952; first edition; presentation copy

Herbert Woodward Martin, professor emeritus of English, reads a selection.

Dostoevsky: ‘Brothers Karamazov’

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A brief commentary prepared by Masha Kisel, PhD, Instructor, English, on the following work:

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bratya Karamazovy (Brothers Karamazov)
St. Petersburg, 1881; first edition

Descartes: ‘Discourse On The Method’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Margaret Strain, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

René Descartes
Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method)
Leiden, 1637; first edition

Chaucer: ‘Canterbury Tales’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Miriamne Ara Krummel, PhD, Associate Professor, English, on the following work:

Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
London , ca. 1492; from the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan

Carroll: ‘Alice's Adventures In Wonderland’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Margaret Strain, PhD, Professor, English, on the following work:

Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
New York, 1969; portfolio of illustrations by Salvador Dalí; signed by the artist

Blake: ‘Illustrations Of The Book Of Job’

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A brief commentary prepared by William Marvin, MA, Lecturer, Philosophy, on the following work:

William Blake
Illustrations of the Book of Job
London, 1825; original boards

Austen: ‘Pride And Prejudice’

Commentaries on the Exhibit’s Works

A brief commentary prepared by Laura Vorachek, PhD, Associate Professor, English, on the following work:

Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
1813; One of only five copies in the original boards

Aquinas: 'Summa Theologica, Pars Prima'

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A brief commentary prepared by Patrick Thomas, PhD, Assistant Professor in the English department, on the following work:

Thomas Aquinas
Summa theologica, pars prima
Venice, 1484; second of the three editions printed by Antonius de Strata

Flyer News, Vol. 62, No. 9 (Nov. 4, 2014), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Premedical Programs Newsletter, November 2014, University Of Dayton

Pre-Health Resource Center Campus Communications

Newsletter for students, staff, and faculty in the premedical and predental programs.

Flyer News, Vol. 62, No. 7 (Oct. 21, 2014), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.