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Comic Literature And Graphic Novel Uses In History, Literature, Math, And Science, James O. Barbre Iii, Justin Carroll, Joshua Tolbert Nov 2022

Comic Literature And Graphic Novel Uses In History, Literature, Math, And Science, James O. Barbre Iii, Justin Carroll, Joshua Tolbert

SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education

Graphic novels and comics have a rich history and have long served as a medium for both education and entertainment. Although we live in an increasingly technology-rich era which offers abundant visual stimulation to compete with comics, graphic literature is arguably a more immediate and robust resource than ever before. The following paper highlights specific applications of graphic literature to pedagogical purposes, including implications for the use of comics in teaching history, world languages, English as a new language, science, and mathematics. Across these areas, a wide degree of application exists for teachers, in both K-12 and post-secondary settings. In …


Amjambo Africa! (November 2022), Kathreen Harrison Nov 2022

Amjambo Africa! (November 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Nigerian Community .............. 2

Amjambo Arts.......................... 3

Moonglade .............................4-5

Education ..................................6

Publisher’s editorial ..................7

Financial literacy ..........8-13, 19

In 7 languages

World Market Basket ......14-15

Election special .................16-17

All about the Workforce ........18

Community Happenings ...... 20

News from Africa. .............22-23

Health&Wellness. ..............24-31

Topic: Loneliness

In 7 languages

Community columns .......32-33

New Voices ........................34-35

Tips & Info ........................36-37

Afghan Adjustment Act ........ 38


Lg Ms 107 Karen Bye Papers, Katelynn Paul Nov 2022

Lg Ms 107 Karen Bye Papers, Katelynn Paul

Search the Manuscript Collection (Finding Aids)

Biographical Note

Karen Bye was born and raised in Stonington, Maine on Deer Isle in 1952. Karen enrolled at the University of Maine’s Orono campus, joining the class of 1975. Karen was a member of the queer community and went on to join Gay Support and Action (GSA), a community organization located in Bangor, Maine. Karen advocated for GSA to start a group at the university, but was initially denied. Nevertheless Karen persisted and continued to advocate, and eventually formed a group of students that would soon become the Wilde-Stein Club. Karen held the role of secretary, and had been …


We4: Leisure Quotes, Lance Gibbs Phd Nov 2022

We4: Leisure Quotes, Lance Gibbs Phd

We Exist Series 4: Quotes

Welcome to the fourth exhibit in the series of “We Exist”. In this section we have selected quotes that represent and explain how Maine’s Black residents’ create the processes behind their engagement in particular leisure activities. The quotes also highlight the particular types of leisure activities that Maine’s Black residents suggest that they are involved in. The quotes are taken from transcripts of the oral history project "'Home Is Where I Make It': African American Community and Activism in Greater Portland, Maine”. The interview subjects are all native to Maine or are longtime residents of Maine. The original intent of …


Volume 15 - Issue 1: La Créole - A Journal Of Creole History & Genealogy, Clara G. Stillman, Darryl G. Barthé Jr., Carol Mills-Nichol, Curtis M. Graves, Melissa Daggett, Ingrid R. Stanley, Givonna Joseph, Leah Jones, Fatima Shaik, Kathryn Coleman Labat Oct 2022

Volume 15 - Issue 1: La Créole - A Journal Of Creole History & Genealogy, Clara G. Stillman, Darryl G. Barthé Jr., Carol Mills-Nichol, Curtis M. Graves, Melissa Daggett, Ingrid R. Stanley, Givonna Joseph, Leah Jones, Fatima Shaik, Kathryn Coleman Labat

La Créole - A Journal of Creole History & Genealogy

The Louisiana Creole Research Association, Inc., known as LA Creole, was founded on August 21, 2004 as a New Orleans-based, non-profit family research and educational organization. Its purpose is to assist Creoles of Color in researching their ancestry, to educate the general public about Creole history and culture, and to celebrate the contributions and legacy of a unique, sometimes forgotten people. La Créole, the Association’s journal is published annually.


Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History Of The World’S Greatest Hero By Roy Schwartz, Gabriel C. Salter Oct 2022

Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History Of The World’S Greatest Hero By Roy Schwartz, Gabriel C. Salter

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

In Is Superman Circumcised?, Russell Schwartz provides a historical overview of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's creation of the comic book character Superman, arguing that Siegel and Shuster's backgrounds in Jewish immigrants gives a particularly Jewish subtext to their character. Schwartz builds on this argument with a larger historical overview of American comic book publishing, showing how Judaism and Jewish-American immigrant experiences have informed that industry from its earliest days.


Amjambo Africa! (October 2022), Kathreen Harrison Oct 2022

Amjambo Africa! (October 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Election special .....................2-3

Moonglade .............................4-5

Amjambo Arts.......................... 6

Credential equivalencies ....8-10

In 7 languages

Ask the doctor ........................11

In 7 languages

Housing update ......................12

Editorial ...................................13

Market Basket ................... 14-15

Beautiful Blackbird .......... 16-17

All about the Workforce ........18

Community Happenings..20-21

News from Africa ..............22-23

Health & Wellness .............24-31

In 7 languages

Community columns .............32

Financial literacy ....................33

New Voices columns ........34-35

Tips & Info ........................36-37


“Started By A Mouse” An Examination Into The Character Of Walt Disney, And The Company That He Built., Micah P. Bellamy Sep 2022

“Started By A Mouse” An Examination Into The Character Of Walt Disney, And The Company That He Built., Micah P. Bellamy

Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History

Walt Disney's legacy reaches all over the world, which is a far stretch from his humble beginning delivering newspapers in Kansas City. This study will examine Walt Disney's life, starting with his humble beginnings on the farm, his early days as a cartoonist, to the rise of the Walt Disney Corporation. The examination will look at the man, Walt Disney, focusing on his upbringing and the various challenges that he faced throughout his life that shaped the leader that he would later become, and will reveal how, despite the adversities, obstacles, and challenges that Walt faced, and how they shaped …


Birth Control And The Sixties: The Dialogue Surrounding The First Oral Contraceptive, Eden E. Baize Sep 2022

Birth Control And The Sixties: The Dialogue Surrounding The First Oral Contraceptive, Eden E. Baize

The Cardinal Edge

No abstract provided.


Amjambo Africa! (September 2022), Kathreen Harrison Sep 2022

Amjambo Africa! (September 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Moonglade............................. 4-5

Education............................. 6-10

In 7 languages

General Assistance ...........11-13

In 7 languages

Market Basket ...................14-15

All about the Workforce ........18

Community Happenings ......20

Amjambo Arts ........................21

Ugandan athletes ....................22

Rwandan hero .........................23

Health & Wellness.............24-31

In 7 languages

International & Maine updates .................... 33

New Voices feature........... 34-35

Financial literacy ....................35

Nonprofit updates ............36-37

Tips & Info.............................. 38


A Discourse, Delivered At Plymouth, December 22, 1820. In Commemoration Of The First Settlement Of New-England (1821), Daniel Webster, Paul Royster , Ed. Sep 2022

A Discourse, Delivered At Plymouth, December 22, 1820. In Commemoration Of The First Settlement Of New-England (1821), Daniel Webster, Paul Royster , Ed.

Zea E-Books in American Studies

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Mayflower Pilgrims’ Landing at Plymouth Rock, Daniel Webster (1782–1852), former congressman and future senator and secretary of state, delivered this long discourse to the assembled members of the Pilgrim Society. Always the consummate New Englander, Webster sketched 200 years of American history, surveyed the present era, and projected grand future prospects for a nation barely 40 years old, but with deep roots in Reformed Protestant values and English constitutionalism. Underlying all was his belief that “The character of their political institutions was determined by the fundamental laws respecting property.” Webster’s stories highlight the …


Debt-Driven Settlerism: Small Farmers And Bankers In The Trans-Appalachian South, 1800–1820, Phil Agee Sep 2022

Debt-Driven Settlerism: Small Farmers And Bankers In The Trans-Appalachian South, 1800–1820, Phil Agee

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis examines how indebted small farmers contributed to the territorial expansion of the United States into Native lands of the trans-Appalachian South during the formative decades of the US republic. Taking on debt to purchase land and pay for the operating costs of farming, small farmers, the vast majority of whom were white, faced insolvency, land forfeiture, imprisonment, precarity, and poverty. In their struggles to manage debt, they operated under a creditor-friendly regime rooted in monetary and credit innovations of the colonial period. Indebtedness repeatedly compelled many small farmers to reenter the cycle of migration and settlement, serving as …


Pioneers Of Evacuation, Pioneers Of Resettlement: The Photographic Archive Of The Japanese American Incarceration And The Settler Colonial Imaginary, Christina Hobbs Aug 2022

Pioneers Of Evacuation, Pioneers Of Resettlement: The Photographic Archive Of The Japanese American Incarceration And The Settler Colonial Imaginary, Christina Hobbs

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reexamines the photographic archive of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II produced by the US government, arguing that these images “restage” the evacuation, incarceration, and resettlement periods through a settler colonial “pioneer” mythology, thereby obscuring the precarity of Japanese Americans' racial positionality between “settler” and “native.”


Amjambo Africa! (August 2022), Kathreen Harrison Aug 2022

Amjambo Africa! (August 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Amjambo Arts ......................2/3

Moonglade .............................4/5

Education .............................6-10

Free Community College

In 7 languages

Immigration fraud .................12

In 7 languages

Market Basket ...................14/15

Tips & Info ..............................16

All about the Workforce ........18

Community Happenings .20/21

Girls & women in Africa........22

Central America news ...........24

Health&Wellness. ..............26-27

In 7 languages

Service organization columns 32

Financial literacy ....................33

New Voices feature ...........34/35

Nonprofit updates .............36/37


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society 2019 Annual Meeting and Symposium; The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Frontiers Television; Changes at the FHQ; FHQ Website; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly on Facebook; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly; Guidelines for e-FHQ Publication


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Bossy, ed., The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina. by Jonathan Hancock; Monaco, The Second Seminole War and the Limits of American Aggression. by John Campbell; Horovitz, Gamble Rogers: A Troubadour's Life. by Geoffrey Vernon Cravero; Wiegand and Wiegand, The Desegregation of Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Right and Local Activism. by Sara E. Morris; Rolph, Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989. by Elizabeth G. McRae; McSwain, Petroleum & Public Safety: Risk Management in the Gulf South 1901-2015. by Joseph England


Men Of The West: Entrepreneurs And American Expansion In The East Florida Borderlands, 1812-1845, Matthew Saionz Jul 2022

Men Of The West: Entrepreneurs And American Expansion In The East Florida Borderlands, 1812-1845, Matthew Saionz

Florida Historical Quarterly

On July 16, 1844, Robert Christie, a London businessman, wrote to his distant relative, Floridian James Ormond III. "You men of the West," he observed, "certainly surprise the folk of the East by your perseverance and intrepidity of character."1 Although the particular nature of his relationship with Ormond is unclear, Christie's commentary on the character of "men of the West" stands out in a letter that, on the whole, consists of rather mundane personal matters. In this instance, Christie posits an interesting dichotomy that casts the decidedly more enterprising Americans (men of the West) opposite the British, or, more generally, …


Tampa's Multi-Purposed Waterway: An Environmental History Of The Hillsborough River, 1950-1980, Brad Massey Jul 2022

Tampa's Multi-Purposed Waterway: An Environmental History Of The Hillsborough River, 1950-1980, Brad Massey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hillsborough River State Park rangers Mike Evans and Brian Polk could not bear it anymore. For three weeks in February of 1981 they watched hundreds of dead fish float underneath the live oak-canopied Hillsborough River waters of their wilderness park, their bloated carcasses bobbing in the water and putrefying the air. Now, determined to find the cause of the slaughter, they boarded a canoe and paddled into Blackwater Creek, a Hillsborough River tributary. They did not make it far.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 97, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


"The Greatest Dissemblers In The World": Timucuas, Spaniards, And The Fall Of Fort Caroline, Christophe J.M. Boucher Jul 2022

"The Greatest Dissemblers In The World": Timucuas, Spaniards, And The Fall Of Fort Caroline, Christophe J.M. Boucher

Florida Historical Quarterly

At dawn, September 20, 1565, four hundred Spanish soldiers under the command of the Adelantado (military governor) Pedro Menendez de Aviles launched a surprise attack on Fort Caroline, a French outpost located in the lower reaches of what is today the St. Johns River in northern Florida. The assault could not have come at a worse time for the fort's residents. Ten days earlier, most of the fighting men in the settlement had sailed south to St. Augustine with Jean Ribault to launch a preemptive strike against Menendez, who had just landed in the area. What could have been a …


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society 2019 Annual Meeting and Symposium; The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Frontiers Television; Changes at the FHQ; FHQ Website; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly on Facebook; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly; Guidelines for e-FHQ Publication


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Juricek, Endgame for Empire: British-Creek Relations in Georgia and Vicinity, 1763-1776. by Robert Paulett; Watson, Peacekeepers and Conquerors: The Anny Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1821-1846 by Joseph G. Dawson III; Haveman, Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, & Ethnic Cleansing in the American South. by James E. Seelye Jr.; Lopez, Jose Marti: A Revolutionary Life. by Francis J. Sicius; Manganiello, Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region. by William D. Bryan; Shields, Southern Provisions: The Creation & Revival of a Cuisine by Ashley Rose Young; Feldman, The Great …


Book Review Essay: The Gulf: The Making Of An American Sea By Jack E. Davis, Christopher F. Meindl Jul 2022

Book Review Essay: The Gulf: The Making Of An American Sea By Jack E. Davis, Christopher F. Meindl

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. By Jack E. Davis. (New York: Norton, 2017. Acknowledgements, illustrations, maps, notes, index. Pp. x, 592. $29.95 cloth.)


Camp Blanding In World War Ii: The Early Years, George E. Cressman, Jr. Jul 2022

Camp Blanding In World War Ii: The Early Years, George E. Cressman, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

The history of Camp Blanding, a World War II training facility, has its origins in the Florida National Guard. Beginning in 1907, the Florida National Guard trained at Black Point on the St. Johns River, just southwest of Jacksonville. The War Department held an adjacent site where many ranges were located. Training involved some monthly drill periods, but focused primarily on summer encampments.


The Path To No-Fault: Florida Automobile Insurance To 1971, Karl Miller Jul 2022

The Path To No-Fault: Florida Automobile Insurance To 1971, Karl Miller

Florida Historical Quarterly

Within a short period at the start of the twentieth century, the automobile emerged in Florida, rapidly displacing other modes of transportation and dramatically transforming the state. The arrival of automobility, however, brought widespread bodily injury and property damage to Floridians. In order to help mitigate the economic cost of these accidents, automobile insurance arose. The interaction of the Florida government and the automobile insurance industry over several decades culminated in the passage of the Florida Automobile Reparations Reform Act of 1971, a landmark legislative act that comprehensively formalized Florida's handling of the automobile insurance industry. This article attempts to …


New Deal Public Works In The Florida Panhandle, 1933-1940, Robert Krause Jul 2022

New Deal Public Works In The Florida Panhandle, 1933-1940, Robert Krause

Florida Historical Quarterly

The 1930s represented a time of profound change in the South as it did across the nation. An examination of New Deal agencies and their public works in the Florida Panhandle highlights the dynamic character of federal projects and their impact upon human and natural landscapes. Federal aid in the form of public works projects in the sixteen western panhandle counties created a visibly-new world for residents. 1 The construction of roads and towns in previously-raw coastal timberlands led to a transformation of place and the emergence of not only new commercial and recreational spaces, but the development of a …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 97, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 96, Number 4, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 96, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Florida Historical Society Archaeological Institute (FHSAI); Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; "The Florida Historical Society Presents: Florida Frontiers": The Television Series; Florida Historical Society Awards; FHQ Website; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Available on JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly on Facebook; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly; Guidelines for e-FHQ Publication


Index To Volume 96, Florida Historical Society Jul 2022

Index To Volume 96, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.