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Paper, Papermaking & The History Of Libraries, Patrick F. Roughen Jr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article traces the history of the relationship of papermaking and paper to libraries over time. Paper was first made in China and is traditionally considered one of that nation’s four greatest inventions, along with gun powder, printing, and the compass. Papermaking was often associated with archives in its early development in China, as well as when it was introduced to Japan, where it came to be a part of some Shinto and Buddhist temples, and later governmental agencies. Under Islam, the availability of paper was linked to increased literacy and growth of libraries. In early modern Europe, before the …

Farms Through The Years, Part 3: A Conversation With Daniel Peterson And Daniel Oswald

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

When did you first become involved with FARMS? Peterson: In the late 1970s and early 80s, Stephen Ricks and I and, a little bit later, Bill Hamblin and I began to talk about the need for an organization like FARMS. We didn't realize that Jack Welch was already launching the Foundation. My actual involvement with FARMS began on a very low level while I was a doctoral student in California, and then accelerated rapidly when I became a member of the BYU faculty in the fall of 1985.

Gag Rule Bibliography, Erik J. Chaput, Russell J. Desimone

Dorr Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Gag Rule And The Politics Of Slavery: A Brief Overview For Students And Teachers, Erik J. Chaput, Russell J. Desimone

Dorr Scholarship

A Note for Students and Teachers: This overview essay should be read before embarking on projects dealing with primary source material on Rhode Island in the Gag Rule. The essay, which includes digital primary and secondary source material in the footnotes for students and teachers, details the national debate over the abolitionist mailings and petitions in the mid-1830s in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. The essay also sets up the debate in Rhode Island over the abolitionist agenda, especially in the final pages. The essay is designed to provide students and teachers with detail not found …

Making Morbidity Multiple: History, Legacies, And Possibilities For Global Health, Justin Dixon, Emily Mendenhall, Edna Bosire, Felix Limbani, Rashida A. Ferrand, Clare I R. Chandler

Brain and Mind Institute

Multimorbidity has been framed as a pressing global health challenge that exposes the limits of systems organised around single diseases. This article seeks to expand and strengthen current thinking around multimorbidity by analysing its construction within the field of global health. We suggest that the significance of multimorbidity lies not only in challenging divisions between disease categories but also in what it reveals about the culture and history of transnational biomedicine. Drawing on social research from sub-Saharan Africa to ground our arguments, we begin by describing the historical processes through which morbidity was made divisible in biomedicine and how the …

Spectrum, Volume 50, Issue 5, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: A Slice of Politics with Senator Blumenthal -- MSU the Target of Another Mass Shooting in 2023 -- Car Break-Ins Affecting SHU Students -- Opportunities with iHub -- An Internship that Gives Back to the Community -- Student Nurses Helping Make a Change -- Men’s Volleyball Makes Statement NEC Win

Spectrum, Volume 50, Issue 4, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Earthquake Leaves Turkey and Syria in Rubble -- SHU Alumnus Todd Cassler Speaks to WCBT -- Your Career Begins Here! -- Not Your Average Tour Guide -- Audrey’s Corner -- Your Friendly, Neighborhood Spider-Man -- Little Theatre Presents “Moon Over Buffalo” -- Chikara Hanzawa Breaking through the Ice -- Chiefs Take Super Bowl LVII

Why I Am No Longer A Jew, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.

Spectrum, Volume 50, Issue 3, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Wi-Fi Issues Plaguing the Sacred Heart Campus -- President Biden Delivers the State of the Union -- Prof. Gillespie Ready to Lead Students on the Pioneer Journey -- Get to Know Maurice Nelson -- No, You Can’t Touch My Hair -- New Hockey Rink: What’s on the Menu? -- Harry’s House Filled With Hardware

International Intrigue In The American Colonies, Arianna Vicinanza

Graduate Research Conference (GSIS)

Spies have always been a subject of intrigue, nowadays we are surrounded by films, tv series, and books based on undercover business. Usually espionage is associated with WW2 or the Cold War, two periods of times in which espionage and secret agencies were essential in order to gather critical information about the enemy. Despite common belief that secret services developed one century ago, espionage and Spy Rings are as old as time. Espionage is the oldest profession in the world, kings used spies to monitor the enemy or to discover plots going around the royal court. In the American Revolution, …

Spectrum, Volume 50, Issue 2, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: The Power of an Empty Canvas: On Feb. 2, the Narrative Art Exhibition opened -- Community Theater Welcoming Christopher Grundy -- Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr -- Calling All Future RSAs: Applications Open Now! -- Todd Gibbs: Engaging Alumni -- From the Theater to the Red Carpet: nominees for the 95th Oscar Awards Ceremony -- Women Behind the Scenes: National Women in Sports Day -- SHU Cheerleading wins their fourth consecutive title in the Open All-Girl Game Day division -- Legendary SHU fencing alumni Khristopher White hired to be the new coach.

On Wide Seas: The U.S. Navy In The Jacksonian Era, Richard Norton, Claude Berube

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 50, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Marijuana Officially Legal in Connecticut -- A Week of Service for 16 Sacred Heart Students -- US Soccer announces program to ensure player safety -- Morgan Craig: Proud to (Finally) Be an American -- Avatar Sequel Grosses Over $2 Billion -- Pio’s On The Rise as Mannetti Pins 100 NEC Wins.

Tennessee State Museum Winter 2023 Newsletter & Calendar Of Events, Tennessee. State Museum.

Tennessee State Museum

No abstract provided.

Thirty Years On: Reflections On Haydn’S “Farewell” Symphony By James Webster, L. Poundie Burstein, Elaine Sisman, W. Dean Sutcliffe, James Webster

HAYDN: Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America

It has been just over thirty years since James Webster published his influential monograph Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style: Through-Composition and Cyclic Integration in His Instrumental Music (Cambridge University Press, 1991). To honor the anniversary of Webster’s groundbreaking book, the Encounters with Eighteenth-Century Music: A Virtual Forum steering committee asked L. Poundie Burstein, Elaine Sisman, and W. Dean Sutcliffe to offer perspectives on the book, and James Webster to respond to their perspectives. The interesting online session occurred on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, and included a lively open discussion following the presentations and Webster’s response. The …

New Resource On Ancient Maya Writing Released

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

A new volume published under the Institute’s Research Press imprint is A Thematic Bibliography of Ancient Maya Writing, by Stephen D. Houston and Zachary Nelson. “Many people don’t know about the quantity of research on ancient Maya writing,” says Houston, a BYU professor of anthropology who is an authority on Maya writing. “In fact, the literature is overwhelmingly large. This bibliography provides a roadmap through that literature.”

Speculative Constitutions In Ursula K. Le Guin’S Hainish Cycle And The Rights Of Nature, Ted Hamilton

Faculty Journal Articles

This paper examines two speculative examinations of humanity as a unified species and agent of ecological change: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle and the rights of nature movement. Le Guin’s Cycle imagines the slow interplanetary reintegration of human polities against a backdrop of cultural and environmental difference. I read the novels of the Cycle as an allegory for the rights of nature movement, which seeks to synthesize traditional and modern knowledge in a legal solution to ecological crisis. Both discourses, I argue, productively imagine a new historical understanding of humanity’s place on Earth, but they provide a weak theory …

Project Report: Chiasmus Archive

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Over three decades ago, John W. Welch’s publication of “Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon” opened a new chapter in Mormon studies. The 1969 article in BYU Studies announced his 1967 discovery of the presence of this literary form in the Book of Mormon. From that time to the present, the significance of Welch’s extraordinary observation has been discussed at many levels by Latter-day Saint lay readers as well as career academicians.

Book Review: Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History Of Food, From Sustainable To Suicidal, Miguel A. Quintana

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Children And The Cold War: Race & Hypocrisy Amid Fear Of Nuclear War, Richard D. Mctaggart Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

During the Cold War, American propaganda centered the wellbeing of the child in its messaging warning of atomic attack at the hands of the Soviet Union. However, despite American claims that all children were valued by the United States, this was proven untrue by its unequal treatment of Black children.

Revolutionary Women, Fredgy Noël

Theses and Dissertations

Revolutionary Women is a five screen video installation that honors five women leaders of the Haitian Revolution that lasted from August 22, 1791- January 1, 1804. Women revolutionaries are almost non-existent in its historical documentation in spite of their important roles as fighters, military leaders, and spiritual guides. Revolutionary Women aims to fill this gap. It re-inserts these erased women into the history of the Revolution through telling the stories of Cécile Fatiman, Dédée Bazile, Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière, Victoria "Abdaraya Toya" Montou, and Sanite Bélair. The video installation takes an experimental mixed-media approach to tell their dynamic stories. The five screens …

Bill And Mike: How Two Irishmen Slaked The Thirst Of California’S Great Cities, Glen Gendzel

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Los Angeles and San Francisco, with nearly 20 million residents in their combined metropolitan areas, are California’s two most famous cities. Yet neither city has anything close to an adequate water supply within hundreds of miles. Tremendous feats of hydraulic engineering are necessary to store and transport water from California’s inland mountain rivers to big cities on the state’s semi-arid coast. In the early twentieth century, a pair of Irish immigrant engineers named Bill and Mike took charge of building these water systems for Los Angeles and San Francisco. William Mulholland (“Bill”) was a self-taught school dropout whose projects bringing …

An Alternative To The Independent State Legislature Doctrine, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals

The Necropolis Guard, Maya Abouelnasr

Papers, Posters, and Presentations

A lone Necropolis guard, Hassan, decides to take a short trip to the abandoned hillside community of Qurna where his mother was from, only to find himself traveling through the ancient Egyptian underworld to make up for sins that precede his lifetime. To make it back to the land of the living, he’ll have to dodge fire-breathing serpents, survive a boiling lake, and collect offerings to present to the spirits of three nobles. But Hassan isn’t alone. A friendly, familiar face guides him as he confronts the harsh reality that his beloved grandparents possibly were not as faultless as he …

The Openness Of Talmud, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.

The Origins Of Democracy In Switzerland, Thomas Quinn Marabello

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Switzerland is one of the world’s oldest continuous democracies. Since the Middle Ages, Swiss cantons engaged in democracy at the local level, which led to the Federal Charter of 1291. This important document laid the foundations for the Swiss Confederacy, an alliance of cantons that eventually became a unified democratic nation in the heart of Europe. For over seven centuries, Swiss democracy has impacted people and institutions in Switzerland and elsewhere. America’s founders were well versed in Swiss political institutions and borrowed from them when creating the Constitution of the United States. As democracies come under attack and see their …

Table Talk: Short Talks On The Weightier Matters Of Law And Religion, John Witte Jr.

Center for the Study of Law and Religion Books

“Table talks” have long been a familiar genre of writing for jurists, theologians, politi­cians, and novelists. In this little volume, thirty sage reflections on how to thrive in law school and in the legal profession are offered: short commentaries on controversial matters of faith, freedom, and family; pithy sermons on difficult biblical texts about law and justice; and touching tributes to a few of his fallen heroes. Most of the thirty texts gathered here were made at seminar tables, academic roundtables, editorial tables, and Eucharist tables. Cast in avuncular form, these texts probe what makes life worth living, work worth …

Sahs Website Report, Richard Hacken

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The Website of the Swiss American Historical Society is one of the Society’s show windows to the world. The site consists of seven main pages.

About Us, the landing site and first web page, gives our mission statement and goals along with other general information and long-term announcements, such as the dates and locations of annual meetings for the next three years. There is also a listing of the officers of the Society with contact emails and a stand-alone “Contact” button for easy and rapid access to the Society from curious visitors.

The Limited Scope And Legacy Of The Doctors' Trial, Annie Foreman

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 91-96

History @ Eiu (June 2023), History

History at Eastern

No abstract provided.