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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Horn Studio, Huntington Horns, Marshall University Apr 2010

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Horn Studio, Huntington Horns, Marshall University

All Performances

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Artifacting An Intercultural Nation: Theatre Replacement's Bioboxes, Kim Solga Apr 2010

Artifacting An Intercultural Nation: Theatre Replacement's Bioboxes, Kim Solga

Department of English Publications

At first, BIOBOXES, by Vancouver's Theatre Replacement, seems like straightforward multiculti fare—theatre celebrating Canada's cultural mosaic. But then you step inside the tiny boxes and find yourself a spectator to your own investments in multicultural performance.

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Full Issue, Byu Studies Apr 2010

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Boise Foothills Learning Center, Cindy Holley, John Kuhn, Raluca Serban Apr 2010

Boise Foothills Learning Center, Cindy Holley, John Kuhn, Raluca Serban

Service-Learning Program

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Shakespeare & Service Learning, Tiara Thompson, Sandra Loera, Phil Bode Apr 2010

Shakespeare & Service Learning, Tiara Thompson, Sandra Loera, Phil Bode

Service-Learning Program

Because Shakespeare holds such a prominent position in English-speaking world culture, it is important to open and expand access to understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of Shakespeare to a constituency as wide-ranging as possible. To achieve this goal, Service-Learning students in ENGL 345 – Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Histories in Spring 2010 partnered with Lowell Elementary School for a fun and educational after-school program Over six weeks undergraduates in ENGL 345 taught a group of fourth through sixth graders about Shakespeare primarily through directing the elementary-school students in a shortened version of The Tempest

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Head Start, Hailey Wall Apr 2010

Head Start, Hailey Wall

Service-Learning Program

The purpose of my service project was to help the ‘English only’ teacher interact with and teach the bilingual or ‘Spanish only’ speakers at Head Start. I also got to spend a lot of time with the children. ¡Muy divertido! The learning goals of my service project with Head Start include: to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Hispanic language and culture, to serve the Boise community, to know the community and interact with people from other countries, and finally to help create an international community where different cultures and languages can thrive together

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Book Review. Diamond, Heather A. American Aloha: Cultural Tourism And The Negotiation Of Tradition, Jo Farb Hernandez Apr 2010

Book Review. Diamond, Heather A. American Aloha: Cultural Tourism And The Negotiation Of Tradition, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

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Santa Clara Review, Vol. 97, No. 2, Santa Clara University Apr 2010

Santa Clara Review, Vol. 97, No. 2, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Review

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Selected Writings Of Victoria Woodhull, Victoria C. Woodhall Apr 2010

Selected Writings Of Victoria Woodhull, Victoria C. Woodhall

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Suffragist, lecturer, eugenicist, businesswoman, free lover, and the first woman to run for president of the United States, Victoria C. Woodhull (1838–1927) has been all but forgotten as a leading nineteenth-century feminist writer and radical. Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull is the first multigenre, multisubject collection of her materials, giving contemporary audiences a glimpse into the radical views of this nineteenth-century woman who advocated free love between consensual adults and who was labeled “Mrs. Satan” by cartoonist Thomas Nast. Woodhull’s texts reveal the multiple conflicting aspects of this influential woman, who has been portrayed in the past as either a …

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Lamb Bright Saviors, Robert Vivian Apr 2010

Lamb Bright Saviors, Robert Vivian

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

“Robert Vivian’s prose is lyrical and harrowing—harrowing in the Biblical sense,” Sven Birkerts said of The Mover of Bones, the first book in Vivian’s Tall Grass Trilogy. That same lyrical power carries this new volume to a place of hard-won hope and redemption at once both spiritual and earthly. Lamb Bright Saviors begins as an apocalyptically inclined itinerant preacher staggers across the Nebraska prairie. With his young assistant, Mady, in tow hauling a wagon stacked with bibles, it’s not long before the preacher finds he’s come to the final fulfillment of his self-proclaimed life’s work: to die in front …

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In The Remington Moment, Stephen Tatum Apr 2010

In The Remington Moment, Stephen Tatum

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

For most people, the work of Frederic Remington conjures an antiquarian world of all things “western.” Why this is so, and whether it should be so, are two of the critical questions raised in this book. Stephen Tatum closely considers selected paintings from Remington’s last four years of life—his so-called years of critical acclaim. Tatum’s purpose is twofold: first, to understand these paintings, both formally and thematically, within their historical, aesthetic, and biographical contexts; and second, to account for what endows them today—after marking the centennial of Remington’s death in 1909—with continuing aesthetic and cultural significance. To this end, Tatum …

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Rescue And Flight, Susan Elisabeth Subak Apr 2010

Rescue And Flight, Susan Elisabeth Subak

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

When Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the impact the organization had made during World War II. After years of research, Subak uncovers the little-known story of the Unitarian Service Committee, which rescued European refugees during World War II, and the remarkable individuals who made it happen. The Unitarian Service Committee was among the few American organizations committed to helping refugees during World War II. The staff who ran the committee assisted those endangered by the Nazi regime, from famous writers and …

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1921, Lyle Spatz, Steve Steinberg Apr 2010

1921, Lyle Spatz, Steve Steinberg

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, two teams emerged to fight for the future of the game. They were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city rose in dramatic fashion to the pinnacle of the baseball world. 1921 captures this crucial moment in the history of baseball, telling the story of a season that pitted the New York …

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In The Neighborhood Of Zero, William V. Spanos Apr 2010

In The Neighborhood Of Zero, William V. Spanos

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of his first battle, what would later become legendary as the Battle of the Bulge, he was separated from his antitank gun crew and taken prisoner in the Ardennes forest. Along with a procession of other prisoners of war, he was marched and conveyed by freight train to Dresden. Surviving the brutal conditions of the labor camps and the Allies’ devastating firebombing of the city, he escaped as the losing …

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The Imagined Moment, Inderjeet Mani Apr 2010

The Imagined Moment, Inderjeet Mani

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance a story, illuminate its role in our daily lives, and help us understand how events unfold. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Inderjeet Mani uses recent developments in linguistics and computer science to analyze the use of time in narrative form. The Imagined Moment outlines directions for an emerging discipline of “corpus narratology,” an approach involving the computer analysis and interpretation of multimillion-word collections of narrative text. This approach, Mani explains, could alter the very foundations of narrative theory. Accordingly, he develops a computer representation for timelines and applies it to …

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Never Land, W. Scott Olsen Apr 2010

Never Land, W. Scott Olsen

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

According to W. Scott Olsen, there are two reasons for flying. The first is just to get somewhere. The second has nothing to do with destination. It is this second reason, expressing our deepest curiosity and our longings for infinity, grace, and clarity, that Never Land explores. At once frankly philosophical and engagingly practical, the book combines accounts of touring in the air, the history of flight, the sensations of flying, and the technical acts and facts of navigating, piloting, lifting off, and landing. As it brings together many views on flight, Never Land also chronicles Olsen’s own personal journey—his …

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Cinema In An Age Of Terror, Michael F. O'Riley Apr 2010

Cinema In An Age Of Terror, Michael F. O'Riley

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Cinema in an Age of Terror looks at how cinematic representations of colonial-era victimization inform our understanding of the contemporary age of terror. By examining works representing colonial history and the dynamics of spectatorship emerging from them, Michael F. O’Riley reveals how the centrality of victimization in certain cinematic representations of colonial history can help us understand how the desire to occupy the victim’s position is a dangerous and blinding drive that frequently plays into the vision of terrorism. Films such as The Battle of Algiers, Days of Glory, Caché, and recent works by Maghrebien filmmakers all …

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Rooney, Rob Ruck, Maggie Jones Patterson, Michael P. Weber Apr 2010

Rooney, Rob Ruck, Maggie Jones Patterson, Michael P. Weber

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901–88) dabbled in semipro baseball and boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing sports but in promoting them. Though he was at the center of boxing, baseball, and racing in Pittsburgh and beyond, Rooney is best remembered for his contribution to the NFL, in particular to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team he founded in 1933. As Rooney led the team in the early years, he came to be known as football’s greatest loser; his influence, however, was instrumental in making the NFL …

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Test Ride On The Sunnyland Bus, Ana Maria Spagna Apr 2010

Test Ride On The Sunnyland Bus, Ana Maria Spagna

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement’s lesser-known stories. In January 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other young men waited to board a city bus called the Sunnyland in Tallahassee, Florida. Their plan was simple but dangerous: ride the bus together—three blacks and three whites—get arrested, and take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifty years later Ana Maria Spagna sets off on a journey to understand what happened and why. Spagna travels from her remote mountain home in the Pacific Northwest to …

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A Doctor Among The Oglala Sioux Tribe, Robert H. Ruby Apr 2010

A Doctor Among The Oglala Sioux Tribe, Robert H. Ruby

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

In 1953 young surgeon Robert H. Ruby began work as the chief medical officer at the hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He began writing almost daily to his sister, describing the Oglala Lakota people he served, his Bureau of Indian Affairs colleagues, and day-to-day life on the reservation. Ruby and his wife were active in the social life of the non-white community, which allowed Ruby, also a self-trained ethnographer, to write in detail about the Oglala Lakota people and their culture, covering topics such as religion, art, traditions, and values. His frank and personal depiction …

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Excavating Nauvoo, Benjamin C. Pykles Apr 2010

Excavating Nauvoo, Benjamin C. Pykles

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, reveals the roots of historical archaeology. In the late 1960s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsored an archaeology program to authentically restore the city of Nauvoo, which was founded along the Mississippi River in the 1840s by the Mormons as they moved west. Non-Mormon scholars were also interested in Nauvoo because it was representative of several western frontier towns in this era. As the archaeology and restoration of Nauvoo progressed, however, conflicts arose, particularly regarding control of the site and its interpretation for …

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Seminole Voices, Julian M. Pleasants, Harry A. Kersey Jr. Apr 2010

Seminole Voices, Julian M. Pleasants, Harry A. Kersey Jr.

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

In a series of interviews conducted from 1969 to 1971 and again from 1998 to 1999, more than two hundred members of the Florida Seminole community described their lives for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. Some of those interviews, now showcased in this volume, shed light on how the Seminoles’ society, culture, religion, government, health care, and economy had changed during a tumultuous period in Florida’s history. In 1970 the Seminoles lived in relative poverty, dependent on the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tourist trade, cattle breeding, handicrafts, and truck farming. By 2006 they were …

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Natalie Curtis Burlin, Michelle Wick Patterson Apr 2010

Natalie Curtis Burlin, Michelle Wick Patterson

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Natalie Curtis Burlin (1876–1921) was born to a wealthy New York City family and initially trained for a career as a classical concert pianist. But in 1903, she left her family and training behind to study, collect, and popularize the music of American Indians in the Southwest and African Americans at the Hampton Institute in the belief that the music of these groups could help forge a distinctive American identity in a time of dramatic social change. Michelle Wick Patterson examines the life, work, and legacy of Curtis at the turn of the century. The influence of increased industrialization, urbanization, …

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Quotidiana, Patrick Madden Apr 2010

Quotidiana, Patrick Madden

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Reflecting on Montaigne, Virginia Woolf remarked, “The most common actions—a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard—can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind.” In Quotidiana, Patrick Madden illuminates these common actions and seemingly commonplace moments, making connections that revise and reconfigure the overlooked and underappreciated. Focusing on the search—for meaning, for approximate knowledge, for hints and intimations of the larger world—Madden ponders the finite by counting fruit at the local supermarket or estimating the number of grains of sand on the earth or celebrating linguistic and grammatical miscalculations. He muses on the origins …

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Swords From The Sea, Harold Lamb Apr 2010

Swords From The Sea, Harold Lamb

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Vikings, pirates, heroes, rogues, and explorers . . . all have heard the siren call of the sea, and master storyteller Harold Lamb chronicled some of their most daring exploits. This single volume contains all of Lamb’s historical seafaring stories, drawn from rare and fragile pulp magazines. Never before collected, these short stories and novels are a treasure trove of adventure. Best known for his stirring tales of Cossacks and crusaders, Lamb was no stranger to swashbuckling, and his sea stories deliver it in buckets. Sail with John Paul Jones as he fights to save the crippled Russian fleet from …

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Swords From The East, Harold Lamb Apr 2010

Swords From The East, Harold Lamb

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Their conquest was measured not in miles but in degrees of longitude. They smashed the gates of empires, overthrew kingdoms, diverted rivers, and depopulated entire countries. They were the Mongols of Genghis Khan, swift and merciless but also resourceful, bold, and cunning. Their tale has seldom been told in the West, and never by an author with the acumen of Harold Lamb. Ride with young Temujin as he outwits schemers and assassins and rises to conquer Asia as Genghis Khan. Venture to the land beneath the northern lights on a mission of vengeance with Maak the Buriat. Stand with Aruk …

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For Home And Country, Celai Malone Kingsbury Apr 2010

For Home And Country, Celai Malone Kingsbury

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

World War I prompted the first massive organized propaganda campaign of the twentieth century. Posters, pamphlets, and other media spread fear about the “Hun,” who was often depicted threatening American families in their homes, while additional campaigns encouraged Americans and their allies to support the war effort. With most men actively involved in warfare, women and children became a special focus—and a tool—of social manipulation during the war. For Home and Country examines the propaganda that targeted noncombatants on the home front in the United States and Europe during World War I. Cookbooks, popular magazines, romance novels, and government food …

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Journeys West, Virginia Kerns Apr 2010

Journeys West, Virginia Kerns

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Journeys West traces journeys made during seven months of fieldwork in 1935 and 1936 by Julian Steward, a young anthropologist, and his wife, Jane. Virginia Kerns identifies the scores of Native elders whom they met throughout the Western desert, men and women previously known in print only by initials and thus largely invisible as primary sources of Steward’s classic ethnography. Besides humanizing Steward’s cultural informants—revealing them as distinct individuals and also as first-generation survivors of an ecological crisis caused by American settlement of their lands—Kerns shows how the elders worked with Steward. Each helped to construct an ethnographic portrait of …

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From The Hilltop, Toni Jensen Apr 2010

From The Hilltop, Toni Jensen

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen’s stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries set for American Indian characters: migratory, often overlooked, yet carrying tradition with them into a future of difference and possibility. Drawing on American Indian oral traditions and her own Métis upbringing, Jensen tells stories that mix many lives and voices to offer fleeting perspectives on a world that reconfigures the tragedy and disconnection often found in narratives of American Indian life. A brother falls off the roof of an abandoned …

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Driving With Dvorak, Fleda Brown Apr 2010

Driving With Dvorak, Fleda Brown

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

All our lives are made of moments, both simple and sublime, all of which in some way partake of the cultural moment. Fleda Brown is that rare writer who, in narrating the incidents and observations of her life, turns her story, by wit and insight and a poet’s gift, into something more. This is an unconventional memoir. A series of lyrical essays about life in a maddeningly complex family during the even more maddeningly complex fifties and sixties, it adds up to one woman’s story while simultaneously reflecting the story of her times. A strange and erratic father, a resigned …

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