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Review Of Religion As Resistance: Negotiating Authority In Italian Libya, Shira Klein

History Faculty Articles and Research

A review of Eileen Ryan's Religion as Resistance: Negotiating Authority in Italian Libya.

Mr. Charlie Owens

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

The Forgotten Sins Of Robert E. Lee: How A Confederate Icon Became An American Icon, Jennifer Page

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

After the Civil War, Charles Sumner said of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, "hand him over to the avenging pen of history." But has history been so been so avenging to Lee? In "The Forgotten Sins of Robert E. Lee: How a Confederate Icon Became an American Icon," this thesis argues that textbooks, public memory, and popular culture have collectively obscured the historical reality of Lee. In the years following the Civil War, the complex and tangled history of Lee as a slaveholding southerner were overlooked and, in many instances, erased in an effort to reunify North and South. In …

Lablanche Hagins

African American Funeral Programs

Interment: Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Brooklet, Georgia.

Augustus Strong Jr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Exploring Rockingham County’S Past: Recapturing Local History And Promoting Accessibility, Kayla Heslin

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

In 2018 Exploring Rockingham’s Past (ERP) launched. ERP is an online repository created to house local records from the Rockingham County, Virginia circuit court. Just a little over a year before its launch, Clerk of the Court, Chaz Haywood entreated facility and graduate students within the history department of James Madison University to help develop community access to the records housed within his institution. Sadly, over the decades the records of the courthouse had fallen into disarray, rendering them useless. Seeing this as a significant loss of culture and heritage, Haywood and James Madison University began developing a platform that …

Chapman's Berlin Wall As A Display Of Tribal Victory, Cameron Steiner

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

From early contact between hunter-gatherer tribes, through the Middle Ages and to even modern times, societies in conflict would frequently engage in the intimidation tactic of severing the heads of their rivals and placing them upon spikes or poles. More than a means to warn away those who came upon it, these displays would exhibit the power and superiority of one tribe over the other. While the most explicit forms of this custom are no longer in widespread use, their gestures of dominance continue to be practiced in objects and figures that are given symbolic significance, typically representing the victory …

Charles Eugene Milton

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Curtis Rudolph Battle

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Amjambo Africa! (December 2019), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

New American Leaders .............p. 2

Ladder to the Moon Conference p. 3

Appeal from 350 Maine .............p. 3

Asylum Seekers & Work Permits p. 4

Palaver Strings ............................ p. 9

Ikirenga Cy'Intore .................... p. 11

New Deal for New Americans Act .............p. 13

Coffee by Design Supports Arts ..........................p. 18

DACEP & ILAP in Lewiston...... p. 18

Mid Coast New Mainers Group ............................................... p. 19

Housing Scams ......................... p. 19

History Takes Flight: Evaluating The Cache Valley: An Airminded Community Exhibition, Landon O. Wilkey

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

A regularly overlooked but vital element of Cache Valley history is the impact of aviation. Just eight short years after the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight, the first aircraft arrived in Logan to perform for the masses eager to catch a glimpse of this burgeoning technology. From that point on, aviation has been a relevant topic to community leaders and members. This fervor for all things flight-related has been coined “airmindedness.”

To bring the discussion of airmindedness to the forefront, I created a traveling exhibit that could be used throughout the community to shed light on both the vibrant history …

Racial Prejudice In The Criminal Justice System, Tori Cooper

Jessie O'Kelly Freshman Essay Award

Racial prejudice against African Americans has been the leading cause of high incarceration rates amongst the African American community. Within the United States, the census reported that African Americans make up about 17.9 percent of the population, with one-third of the people making up the incarcerated population in America. The disparity in those numbers highlights the current situation that is plaguing the nation. Blatant cases of racial profiling that have received media attention are a true testament of the broken law enforcement system from coast to coast. Racial prejudice cases have affected the black American community since the beginning of …

Audrey Cone-Jones

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Patrick Maurice Gibson

African American Funeral Programs

Mr_Patrick_-Maurice-_Gibson.pdf - Funeral program for Patrick Maurice Gibson

Brother Christ "Christopher Cheever, Jr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Mrs. Jannie Mae Palmer

African American Funeral Programs

Mrs_Jannie_Mae.pdf - Funeral program for Jannie Palmer

Belinda Gail Stokes

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Belinda Gail Stokes on Nov. 23, 2019 at Crossroads Community Church

Mrs. Rosa Mae Hagins

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Mr. Jatavier "Jock" Jackson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Charles E. Best

African American Funeral Programs

Interment: Bulloch Memorial Gardens in Statesboro, Georgia.

The People Of The Cumberland Plateau: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow

Symposium of Student Scholars

The area of East Tennessee that lies between the Appalachian and Cumberland Mountains is called the Cumberland Plateau. This area reaches from Chattanooga to Bristol. Many people not from this region label it as redneck, back-woods, or hillbilly. Many don’t consider it to be a place that holds modern values, such as conservation and education. Through archival research, I will study this area during the Great Depression to explore how this place’s reality is different.

During one generation, the Plateau changed from a place defined by isolation and limited education to a hub of scientific research and a major provider …

Etta Simmons Wiggins

African American Funeral Programs

Etta_Simmons_Wiggins.pdf - Funeral program for Etta Simmons Wiggins

St. Mary's Independent Methodist Church Cemetery, Alvin D. Jackson

Tour Programs

No abstract provided.

Little Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Alvin D. Jackson

Tour Programs

No abstract provided.

Daisy Pearl Thomas

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Everlena Ware Mcmillan

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Speaker Interview: The Civil War In The West, Ashley Whitehead Luskey

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Megan Kate Nelson is a writer and historian living in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Her new book, The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West, will be published by Scribner in February 2020. This project was the recipient of a 2017 NEH Public Scholar Award and a Filson Historical Society Fellowship. Nelson is the author of two previous books: Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Georgia, 2012) and Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (2005). She has also written about the Civil War, the U.S. West, and American …

Recovering Abiquiú’S Lost Church Records, Samuel E. Sisneros

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

In early 2016, an elderly couple came into UNM’s Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections determined to donate six hide-covered books to the archives. They confessed they did not know their contents and that even though the books were in the care of the family for many years, they thought UNM would be a suitable place for them to be preserved and studied. I immediately realized that these antique books were the long lost baptismal, marriage and burial registers (1777-1861) from the Mission Church of Santo Tomás Apóstol de Abiquiú and that the rightful repository for them was the …

Mrs. Brenda Baldwin Deloach

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Helen M. Edwards "Chic"

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.