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Measles, Movements And Medical Exemptions: How California Learned To Lead The Way, Joseph Bishop

Madison Historical Review

In 2000, the United States celebrated the elimination of measles. Yet within twenty years, measles epidemics had sprung up throughout the country. This article examines the factors responsible for measles’ return to the United States and argues for a state policy that effectively reduces potential outbreaks. The growing anti-vaccination movement and vaccine misinformation largely account for the increase in vaccine hesitancy, leading to measles epidemics. California’s Senate Bill 277, a school-entry vaccination policy, demonstrates how withholding religious and philosophical exemptions increased vaccination rates in unprotected communities. By decreasing vaccine hesitancy with effective vaccine exemption policies, the United States can be …

Carolina Sunset, Cuban Sunrise: A Comparative Study Of Race, Class, And Gender In The Reconstructed South And Colonial Cuba, 1867-1869, Eric Walls

Madison Historical Review

The loss of the American Civil War and the consequence of Reconstruction literally turned the South on its head, profoundly altering the dynamics of race, class, and gender that previously defined antebellum Southern society. The letters of Harriet Rutledge Elliott Gonzales reveal one formerly elite South Carolina family’s struggle as they faced a new social landscape that forced them to adapt to new challenges, particularly surrounding emancipation and the drastic reversal of the norms that previously characterized Southern society that development entailed. Harriet Rutledge Elliot Gonzales never abandoned a sense of her “aristocratic” origins and “good blood,” despite the hardships …

Books As Objects Of Exchange: A Study Of Cross-Cultural Interaction And Connected Systems Between The Mughals And Ottomans, Ankita Choudhary

Madison Historical Review

The cross-cultural relations between the Ottomans and their contemporaneous Islamic states of the Mughals, Uzbeks, and Khans of Crimea have mainly remained a desideratum, obscured by the modern boundaries of a nation-state. An examination of existing communication networks and cultural linkages renders a global dimension to the medieval Islamic empires united by a prevalent literary culture and shared connective systems. The availability of Persian manuscripts of South Asian origin in the Turkish museum, existing diplomatic ties with the Mughals alluded by Naimur Rahman Farooqi (Mughal-Ottoman Relations), and the confrontation with the Safavids indicate that conduits of interactions existed at both …

Economic Populism In Post-Soviet Lithuania, Scott Cichowlas

Madison Historical Review

In 2003, the Economist published a lauding article about Lithuania called Baltic Tiger. This was the nickname given to the Baltic states during their economic boom in the early 21st century. A popular perception that the Baltic countries quickly transformed after independence into capitalist systems had become prevalent. In actuality, the transition to a free market economy was tumultuous, marred by ideological shifts in the electorate. This research explores the motivations behind Lithuanian political activism. Why has Lithuania supported different political ideologies instead of favoring one consistently? Why did the ex-Communists return to power so soon after independence? What motivates …

"The Violence Of Place And Pen" Identities And Language In The Twentieth-Century Historiography Of King Philip's War, Kevin A. March

Madison Historical Review

This article traces the twentieth-century historiography of King Philip’s War, a destructive eleven-month conflict between New Englanders and their “Praying Indian” allies and a loose alliance of Southern Algonquians led by the Wampanoag sachem Metacom, or King Philip. Although widely impactful across New England, the war attracted little scholarly attention until the late 1950s, when historian Douglas E. Leach wrote Flintlock and Tomahawk. Leach’s book reignited the historical profession’s interest in the conflict and launched two significant and wide-ranging historiographic debates that are the subjects of this article. The first of these historiographic debates concerned the relationship between categories of …

Letter From The Editor, Lara Ressler-Horst

Madison Historical Review

Letter acknowledging editorial board and previewing this years journal.

Madison Historical Review: Volume 17 Full Issue

Madison Historical Review

Attached is the complete publication of the Madison Historical Review, Volume 17.

St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church And Center For The Deaf Sunday Bulletin, August 16, 2020

Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Landover Hills, MD

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin Finding Aid

St. Benedict Parish For The Deaf Church Bulletin, August 16, 2020

Saint Benedict Parish for the Deaf Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in San Francisco, CA

Saint Benedict Parish for the Deaf Church Bulletin Finding Aid

Tracing The Human-Avian Relationship In Iceland, Melanie Sua

Theses and Dissertations

An in-depth investigation explores the history of birds in Iceland and the interaction between birds and humans from the 9th through the 19th century, with the help of archaeological evidence, traditional and historical materials.

St. Augustine Parish Sunday Bulletin, August 16, 2020

Saint Augustine Parish Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Cleveland, OH

Saint Augustine Parish Sunday Bulletin Finding Aid

St. Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin, August 16, 2020

Saint Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Chicago, IL

Saint Francis Brogia Deaf Center Church Bulletin Finding Aid

The Inklings, The Victorians And The Moderns: Reconciling Tradition In The Modern Age (2020), By Christopher Butynskyi, Thomas Honegger

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review, by Thomas Honegger, of The Inklings, the Victorians and the Moderns (2020) by Christopher Butynskyi

The Law Of Black Mirror - Syllabus, Yafit Lev-Aretz, Nizan Packin

Open Educational Resources

Using episodes from the show Black Mirror as a study tool - a show that features tales that explore techno-paranoia - the course analyzes legal and policy considerations of futuristic or hypothetical case studies. The case studies tap into the collective unease about the modern world and bring up a variety of fascinating key philosophical, legal, and economic-based questions.

Safekeeping: Slavery, Capitalism, And The Carceral State In Washington, D.C., 1830-1863, Brandon Wilson

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

By the 1830s, incarceration emerged as a two-pronged solution for racial control and economic expansion. Local and federal government built jails around the District of Columbia to detain "rowdy negro boys," men, and women, as a means to stymie their rapid movement and fuel a burgeoning domestic slave trade. People were jailed, fined, and often sold to the Deep South, providing a wellspring of capital for enslavers, justified through the lens of criminality. For the crime of petty theft, missing free papers, or in at least one case "using foul language," black people of the Washington region could find themselves …

‘Nouns That Cut Slices’: The Ontology And Ethics Of Stereotypes And Implicit Bias, Christiane Merritt

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Stereotypes and implicit bias have long been objects of psychological study. Recently, philosophers, too, have attempted to understand stereotypes and implicit bias: what kinds of mental states or objects are they? Are stereotypes epistemically deficient or ethically suspect? How do implicit biases affect behavior, and how might these biases be changed? This dissertation takes up these and related questions, advancing accounts of stereotyping and implicit bias informed by evidence from psychology.Chapter 1 sets the stage by conducting a critical survey of the history and development of today’s most widely used measures of implicit bias. Although the history of the different …

Don Quixote And Catholicism, Michael Mcgrath

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

Four hundred years since its publication, Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The universal and timeless appeal of the novel, however, has distanced its hero from its author and its author from his own life and the time in which he lived. The discussion of the novel’s Catholic identity, therefore, is based on a reading that returns Cervantes’s hero to Cervantes’s text and Cervantes to the events that most shaped his life. The authors and texts McGrath cites, as well as his arguments and interpretations, are mediated by his religious sensibility. Consequently, he …

Uni Community Music School Summer 2020 Recital, August 15, 2020 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

The Uses Of Character: Modernism And The Politics Of Characterization, Jared Matthew Klemp

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

In The Uses of Character: Modernism and the Politics of Characterization, I analyze experiments with character in the British and Irish fiction of the early twentieth century. I argue that, though they are frequently treated as monolithic and apolitical, such experiments are heterogenous attempts to rehabilitate or revise national identities in response to historical and political pressures. Taking two emblematic figures of high modernism, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and another figure who is frequently left out of discussions of modernism, Flann O’Brien, I demonstrate that a shift in the construction of character reveals a shift in the author’s relationship …

Bishop Archie Farley

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Mother Ella Grace Youmans

African American Funeral Programs

Mother_Ella_Grace_Youmans.pdf - Funeral program for Mother Ella Grace Youmans

Spanish Language And Culture In Buenos Aires And Córdoba, Argentina, Sarah Eidt

Capstone Collection

The Spanish Language and Culture in Buenos Aires and Córdoba, Argentina program is a theoretical faculty-led multi-site semester-long program that is designed for Boston University students for the fall semester of 2022. The purpose of the program is to give student participants the opportunity to learn Argentine history and culture at two distinct locations with different sets of host families and speaking partners, while visiting contrasting regions around Argentina in order to obtain a more complete understanding of the country. Students will become more proficient in the Spanish language and gain a greater understanding of Argentine culture by immersing in …

Mammoth Cave Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

This is a list of collections in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives holdings of WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections that contain materials relating to Mammoth Cave. Our collections include descriptions of the Cave by visitors and guides, operation of the Cave as a tourist attraction, archaeology at the Cave, and the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park.

On Journeys And Crossroads, Roberto Conrado O. Guevara

Magisterial Lectures

In Part 1 of this lecture, Bobby Guev discusses the Exodus narratives and draws parallels between the plight of the enslaved Israelites in the story and the realities of our present day. In Part 2, he delves deeper into the concept of 'fear' in the context of the story and the state of our country today.

Speaker: Dr. Guevara is an associate professor in the Department of Theology and was the recipient of the 2012 Henry Lee Irwn Memorial Teacher Award. He earned a doctoral degree in Theology, with a concentration in Sacred Scriptures. He has taught courses on …

World War I Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

This is a list of collections in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives holdings of WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections that relate to World War I. Included are letters and diaries of soldiers and civilians, military records and papers, research projects, photographs, scrapbooks and other, mostly unpublished material. Our collections are particularly strong in documenting the experiences of Kentuckians at home and overseas, and of others who found themselves in Kentucky (most notably, at Camp Zachary Taylor, the Army training facility in Louisville) during the war and its immediate aftermath.

Church Records Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

This is a list of collections in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives holdings of WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections that consist of church records. Most of the churches are in Kentucky, but the collection includes a few records of churches in other states.

Unjust Universities: Part Ii, Zachary S. Ritter, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt

Faculty Publications

Dr. Zachary S. Ritter and Dr. Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt explore the challenges that faculty diversity workers face in institutions that are suffering from toxic whiteness.

This essay originally appeared as part of Conditionally Accepted, a career advice blog for Inside Higher Ed providing news, information, personal stories, and resources for scholars who are, at best, conditionally accepted in academe. Conditionally Accepted is an anti-racist, pro-feminist, pro-queer, anti-transphobic, anti-fatphobic, anti-ableist, anti-ageist, anti-classist, and anti-xenophobic online community.

Alumni Association Ephemera Collection, 1972-1986, Alumni Association

University Archives Finding Aids

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Usawc Parameters

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Shaker Collections In Manuscripts & Folklife Archives At Western Kentucky University, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

This is a list of collections in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives holdings of WKU’s Department of Library Special Collections that relate primarily to the United Believers in the Second Coming of Christ, commonly known as the Shakers. Most of the collections relate to the Shaker society at South Union in Logan County, Kentucky, but materials relating to other societies are also included.