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Blanket Statements, Issue 120, Summer 2015

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 120, Summer 2015

Ua68/8 History Alumni Newsletter, Wku History

WKU Administration Documents

WKU History Department alumni newsletter reporting activities of the department, faculty, staff and students.

Miss Piggy's Feminism: Redefining Human Relationships Through Martial Arts, Samantha Brennan

Data and Test Instruments

No abstract provided.

Groom And Govern: Nineteenth-Century Native Interlocutors On Russian Colonial Frontiers, Michael Khodarkovsky

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Early Flags Over The Purchase

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Early Flags Over the Purchase

Hugh L. Brady

The Battle Of Paducah

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Battle of Paducah

John Philip Cashon

Camp Beauregard, Ky: Military Unit Presence, Illness, And Death Reports

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Camp Beauregard, KY: Military Unit Presence, Illness, and Death Reports

Gregory S. Miller and William L. Wells

Jphs Nomination, Kentucky Dam: Power For The People

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Article edited by Sarah Brady Strange

JPHS Nomination, Kentucky Dam: Power for the People

Excerpt From "Barn Danes And Jamborees Across Kentucky": The Jackson Purchase

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Excerpt from "Barn Danes and Jamborees Across Kentucky": The Jackson Purchase

J. D. Wilkes

Buckskin Bill's Wild West Show

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Buckskin Bill's Wild West Show

Richard D. Parker

Warren Thomas, The Organizer

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Warren Thomas, The Organizer

Jeannette Dean

Voices Of A Border State: Editorials Of The Civil War Kentucky Press

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Voices of a Border State: Editorials of the Civil War Kentucky Press

Melonie Shemberger

Poetry Book Review: The Power Of Poetry

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Poetry Book Review

The Power of Poetry

Sarah Brady Strange

Poets In The Purchase

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Poets in the Purchase

Sarah Brady Strange

2015 Illinois Shakespeare Festival Program, School Of Theatre And Dance

Illinois Shakespeare Festival

38th Season. The Theatre at Ewing. Love's Labor's Lost by William Shakespeare. Richard II by William Shakespeare. Q Gents by GQ and JQ. Love's Labor's Won by Scott Kaiser.

Posh And Tawdry: Rethinking E.J. Bellocqs' Storyville Portraits, Christian Waguespack

Art & Art History ETDs

In this thesis I examine the contextual framework in which New Orleans photographer E.J. Bellocqs Storyville Portraits have been placed, and resituate Bellcoq's oeuvre in a vernacular context. Bellocq was a commercial photographer working in the nineteen-teens who photographed the prostitutes of New Orleans red light district, Storyville. After his death, Lee Friedlander purchased these now damaged negatives and reprinted the full plates, and in 1970 MOMA exhibited Friedlander's new prints in a formulaic, modernist fashion. The Storyville Portrait's recontexualization by MOMA, converted them from commercial erotic advertisements for prostitution in Storyville to fine art photographs, raises issues of how …

"The Four Horseman Of The Late Capitalist Apocalypse": U.S. Comic Books, Ideology, And Trauma In Post-9/11 Society, Kathryn Manis

Art & Art History ETDs

In the contemporary United States apocalypse, dystopia, and catastrophe are commonplace. Indeed, both the increasing presence of fictional apocalypse in art and popular culture and the tone of apocalypticism in U.S. political, environmental, and social rhetorics, have been noted by writers and thinkers from a wide range of fields. Scholars of neoliberalism in particular have traced this popularity to the economic and political realities of late-capitalism and the ideological contradictions embedded in the evolution of capitalism to its current, immersive iteration. What has gone undiscussed, however, is the relationship of this anxious preoccupation to a prevailing, national condition; a condition …

The Ideal Citoyenne: Women, Class, & The French Revolution In Philibert Louis Debucourt's Fine-Art Prints, Kelsey Martin

Art & Art History ETDs

Philibert Louis Debucourt's (1755 - 1832) fête galante and domestic genre prints treated women, their social positions, and their experiences of love and relationships as a primary subject, and participated in the rapidly shifting political, economical, and social structure of the years surrounding the 1789 Revolution. These prints aided in the construction of appropriate and inappropriate female behavior of the ideal citoyenne through the representation of eighteenth-century beliefs regarding female sexuality and its class associations. It is in Debucourt's domestic genre scenes that the virtue and serenity of women are clear, validating women's prominence as wives and mothers within the …

Searching For Their Real Home: Dependent Black Children In Indianapolis, 1910-1940, John D. Ramsbottom

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Concerns about the future for young people, reflected in contemporary headlines, were equally prominent in Indianapolis a hundred years ago. Then, as now, children whose parents neglected or abandoned them posed a special problem. In the midst of rapid social change that seemed to threaten traditional family stability, a small corps of professionals and volunteers worked to provide a nurturing environment.

Review Of Tim Brady, A Death In San Pietro: The Untold Story Of Ernie Pyle, John Huston, And The Fight For Purple Heart Valley, Jared Dockery Ph.D.

Faculty Research & Publications

No abstract provided.

A Multi-Institutional Analysis Of Greek Affiliation And Academic/ Involvement Outcomes For African American College Students, Donald Mitchell Jr., Ph.D., John A. Gipson

Executives, Administrators, & Staff Publications

The academic and social outcomes of college fraternities and sororities remain unclear. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the characteristics and experiences of African American college students (AACSs) attending seven institutions across the United States, using Greek affiliation as the primary measure of comparison. Quantitative data were used to explore how Greek affiliation influences various academic and social involvement outcomes for AACSs. Findings suggest that involvement in fraternities and sororities is not associated with grade point average, among other academic outcomes. Findings also suggest that involvement with fraternities and sororities was associated with involvement in student organizations …

Funding Undocumented Latino/A Students In Public Higher Education Institutions In The United States, Bianca Ortiz, Donald Mitchell Jr., Ph.D.

Executives, Administrators, & Staff Publications

While undocumented students are provided free access to a K-12 education, many undocumented students access U.S. higher education with no financial assistance. In this article, the authors evaluate three state-level policy alternatives—state DREAM Acts, state aid using “dummy” Social Security numbers, and state partnerships with Hispanic-serving institutions— to determine which alternative might be the best option for providing undocumented Latino/a students with financial support. The authors conclude by offering a policy recommendation and suggestions regarding implementation.

Review Of A Cultural History Of Japanese Buddhism By Brian Ruppert And William E. Deal, Ronald S. Green

Philosophy and Religious Studies

No abstract provided.

Political Contributions By Asian Americans: An Analysis Of The 2014 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Campaign, Michael Liu, Paul Watanabe

Institute for Asian American Studies Publications

The Institute for Asian American Studies’ report on political contributions by Asian Americans in the 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign represented the first time that these contributions were systematically reported and analyzed.1 In that election, Asian Americans constituted 1.0% of all individual contributions. In terms of dollar value, those contributions accounted for 1.1% of the total dollar amount contributed. This report follows that initial study by examining Asian American political contributions to candidates for governor in 2014.

The 2014 governor’s race was energized by the fact that two-term incumbent Deval Patrick chose not to seek re-election. Patrick’s decision touched off a …

Introduction. Stars, Water Wings, And Hairs. Bernini’S Career In Metaphor, Claudia Lehmann, Karen J. Lloyd

Art Faculty Books and Book Chapters

Examining Bernini's works from 1665 on, from Paris and Rome, this book demonstrates the wealth of material still to be drawn from close visual and material examination, archival research, and comparative textual analysis. On the whole, this collection deals with Bernini's position as the leading creator of portraits - in oils, marble, monumental architecture, and metaphor - of some of the most powerful political players of his day. These studies speak to the growing distance of Gallic absolutism from the fading dreams of papal hegemony over Europe, and to the complexities of Bernini's role as mouthpiece, obstacle, and flatterer of …

Why Such An Interest In Priests?, Eamon Maher

Articles

Before dealing with any more representations of the priest in modern literature, I thought it might be useful to share some personal experiences which give a context to the origin and inspiration of this series.

Review Of The Book Guide To Reference In Genealogy And Biography, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book Guide to reference in genealogy and biography.

Monaden Im Diskurs. Monas, Monaden, Monadologien (1600 Bis 1770) By Hanss-Peter Neumann (Review), Brandon C. Look

Philosophy Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Performing Transformation In The Community University Of The Rivers (Part 2), Dan Baron Cohen

Journal of Urban Culture Research

In this two-part article, I seek to present our emerging Community University of the Rivers through the languages of storytelling (poetry, song, image and theatre) to bring to life the context and pedagogy of Transformance in action, in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco (Portuguese: Dry Hair), founding community of Marabá city, Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. I use this strategy to ensure that you meet and might identify with my collaborators in our Community University of the Rivers, as living subjects. By privileging human narration, I do not mean to privilege action over reflction, as our dramatic performances and …

Contemporary Textiles For Urban Living - Patterns Derived From Thailand's Lanna Culture, Jaipak Burapajatana, Porsanong Vongsingthong

Journal of Urban Culture Research

This research project aimed to establish guidelines to develop traditional woven textiles in the Tai Yuan and Tai Lue style which is a renowned heritage art form from Thailand's Lanna region for incorporation into contemporary living spaces. First, the unique characteristics of Tai Yuan and Tai Lue weaving were determined by specialists. Their analysis revealed that the uniqueness of Lanna textiles were the result of the combination of weaving techniques, materials, colors and patterns. Secondly, a survey of preferences for culture-based textile products was conducted by consumer orientated questionnaires administered to elicit contemporary pattern preferences. This survey revealed that respondents …