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Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gentry, Martha Beck "Mattie" (Spangler), 1862-1940 (Mss 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 733. Journal, 1878-1880, of Mattie (Spangler) Gentry, Covington, Kentucky, chronicling her attendance at Lexington’s Hamilton Female College and at boarding school in Orléans, France; also her journal, 1889-1898, recording her life as a music teacher and her courtship and marriage. Includes photographs and a letter to Mattie in France from the president of Hamilton College (Click on "Additional Files" for typescript).
Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal, Jj Fisher
Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal, Jj Fisher
Public History Journals
Journal submitted from the first Public History 2020 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective.
Winchel, Beulah Rhea, 1912-2015 (Mss 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Winchel, Beulah Rhea, 1912-2015 (Mss 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 609. Correspondence, photographs, travel materials, genealogy, and other personal papers of Beulah R. Winchel, a Breckinridge County, Kentucky, native and a teacher and librarian who served in Japan, Germany and France with the U.S. Army Special Services and the Department of Defense Dependents Schools.
Introduction To New Work On Immigration And Identity In Contemporary France, Québec, And Ireland, Dervila Cooke
Introduction To New Work On Immigration And Identity In Contemporary France, Québec, And Ireland, Dervila Cooke
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided for the introduction.
Thematic Bibliography To New Work On Immigration And Identity In Contemporary France, Québec, And Ireland, Dervila Cooke
Thematic Bibliography To New Work On Immigration And Identity In Contemporary France, Québec, And Ireland, Dervila Cooke
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Jules Verne Constructs America: From Utopia To Dystopia, Dana L. Radu
Jules Verne Constructs America: From Utopia To Dystopia, Dana L. Radu
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In my dissertation, I examine visions of the United States in Jules Verne’s (1828-1905) Voyages extraordinaires (1863-1905). Of the sixty-four novels that make up that series, twenty-three, over one-third, feature American characters or take place on American soil. I demonstrate that in his early novels (1863-1886), he presents the United States in an optimistic and utopian light, while in his later novels (1887-1905), his depictions of the United States take on a pessimistic and dystopian aspect. In also showing that Verne had been influenced by utopian socialists Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825), Charles Fourier (1772-1837) and Étienne Cabet (1788-1856), I provide …
Algerian, Tunisian, And Moroccan Students Abroad In France: The Importance Of History In Understading The International Student Experience, Hannah M. Ulrich
Algerian, Tunisian, And Moroccan Students Abroad In France: The Importance Of History In Understading The International Student Experience, Hannah M. Ulrich
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
In the wake of two major terrorist attacks in the past year, the presence in France of a large Arab-Muslim population has gained new global attention. Whether or not the perpetrators of these events held French or other European nationalities, their names and faces all said “Arab” to the public and raised questions about immigration, terrorism, Islam and the presence and status of Arab-Muslims in France. These questions are nothing new, even if they seem to take on new urgency. Since North Africans began coming to France in significant numbers in the 1920s and 1930s their place in France has …
Interview Of Diana Regan, M.A., Diana Regan M.A., Melissa Nichols
Interview Of Diana Regan, M.A., Diana Regan M.A., Melissa Nichols
All Oral Histories
Diana Regan was born in Philadelphia, on an undisclosed date, and grew up in Bryn Mawr, where she has spent her entire life with the exception of a brief time in the 1960s when she lived in New York City. Her father had his own business distributing home heating fuel oil, and her mother worked with him. She had one brother who is now deceased. Regan attended St. Thomas Aquinas elementary school in South Philadelphia, followed by high school at Mater Misericordiae Academy (now Merion Mercy Academy) in Merion, Pennsylvania. In pursuing her higher education, Regan first attended Immaculata College …
Temple Family Papers (Mss 241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Temple Family Papers (Mss 241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 241. Correspondence; financial and legal papers; genealogy and other material related to the Temple family of Warren County, Kentucky, particularly that of Adalaska L. and Mary Camilla (Miller) Temple and their daughter Ruth Hines Temple. Over 400 pieces of artwork on paper by the latter are found in the collection, including pencil, as well as, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, pastels, and other graphic and creative design work.
2001 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Senior Class
2001 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Senior Class
The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020
A digitized copy of the 2001 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.
Running Sore: An Inquiry Into Napoleon's Peninsular Campaign (Part Two), Louis Y. Van Dyke
Running Sore: An Inquiry Into Napoleon's Peninsular Campaign (Part Two), Louis Y. Van Dyke
Pro Rege
For Part 1, see Pro Rege 5:2-8, June 1977. For Part 3, see Pro Rege 6:2-7, December 1977.
The Ursinus Weekly, February 12, 1976, Ruth Von Kummer, Judith James, Stephen M. Lange, Jill Leauber, George Geist, Andrew Schwartz, Donald R. Whittaker, Alan Stetler, Nancy Weatherwax, Cindy Poots, Jina Jones, Deborah Finestone, Mary Beth Kramer, Joseph Saraco
The Ursinus Weekly, February 12, 1976, Ruth Von Kummer, Judith James, Stephen M. Lange, Jill Leauber, George Geist, Andrew Schwartz, Donald R. Whittaker, Alan Stetler, Nancy Weatherwax, Cindy Poots, Jina Jones, Deborah Finestone, Mary Beth Kramer, Joseph Saraco
Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978
Students and Board meet • U.S.G.A. to be elected: Pres. qualifications amended • English Dept. upholds quality • ETS changes • Attorney named bequest chairman • Two Ursinus grads look back from Penn • Editorial: Schedule change - aid to program? • Civil Service testing set • Letter to the editor: A different opinion • Rich Swartz discusses his U.C. career • Movie review: "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" • Shakespeare trip offered in June • Reflections on France • Forum review: Duo pianists • Lorelei news • Good: Badminton! • Our Bears do wrestle! • We have a …
The Ursinus Weekly, October 4, 1973, John T. Fidler, Kitt Turner, Elizabeth Tibbitts, Joseph Van Wyk, Cynthia Fitzgerald, Ann Lavelle, Richard Whaley, Elsie Van Wagoner, Eva Morgan, George Geist, Helen Ludwig, Jeff Fegely
The Ursinus Weekly, October 4, 1973, John T. Fidler, Kitt Turner, Elizabeth Tibbitts, Joseph Van Wyk, Cynthia Fitzgerald, Ann Lavelle, Richard Whaley, Elsie Van Wagoner, Eva Morgan, George Geist, Helen Ludwig, Jeff Fegely
Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978
Freshman class energetic; Brings new atmosphere to U.C. • Open dorm extension refused, frosh cuts limited to 6 • Bomberger Hall finally opens after lengthy renovations • Professor publishes • Union plans discussed • Editorial: And the train keeps a-rollin’ • Philadelphia Folk Festival presents music and workshops • Letter to the editor: Give us a chance • Presenting Mr. Gaglio • U.C. coeds travel to France • Hockey Bearettes on their way to successful season • Hopeful hoopla • New tennis courts ready for use • Bears drop two
The Ursinus Weekly, November 6, 1961, John Swinton, Geoffrey Bloom, Robin L. Stevenson, Carol Flood, Cynthia Morris, Gerald Morita, Carol Taney, Craig Garner
The Ursinus Weekly, November 6, 1961, John Swinton, Geoffrey Bloom, Robin L. Stevenson, Carol Flood, Cynthia Morris, Gerald Morita, Carol Taney, Craig Garner
Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978
Juniors elect Ruby editors; O'Donnell, Wurster named • Fashions and fabrics constitute WSGA's Design for Living show • Ursinus' Minnich representative at fitness meeting • Twelve men sign fraternity bids • PSEA schedules Eugene Bertin for speech tomorrow • Forum features Senator Clark Wednesday night • Duryea girls' display Homecoming's finest • Sandy Holl chosen Fall queen; Bears win Homecoming tilt • U.C. Newman Club to hear Pottstown's Father Heim • Editorial: Dropped column; Extra edition • Ferguson, Wirth chosen '65 MSGA representatives • Katharine Gibbs School offers two national grants • Bloom on the Gordon-Davis towel • Ursinus in …
The Ursinus Weekly, November 10, 1958, Frederick L. Glauser, Tom Mccabe
The Ursinus Weekly, November 10, 1958, Frederick L. Glauser, Tom Mccabe
Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978
ACES banquet for seniors features outstanding men • Y seminar Nov. 19; SWC to sponsor forum on religion • Local concert schedule for area announced • Group plays presented Tues. in Bomberger • Freshmen hold election amid sophomore interference Wednesday • Dr. Donald Helfferich inaugurated President • Anderson's play to be staged November 21-22 • Editorial: "Facts" • I do not agree • College rules • Bear's eleven drop sixth straight to Haverford 38-6 • Basketball team begins practice for '58-'59 season • U.C. belles tied by West Chester; J.V. team wins • Soccer squad whips Hens; Drexel wins 8-2 …
The Ursinus Weekly, April 23, 1951, Mary Yost, Donald Brown, Dick Hector, Mary Ann Simmendinger, Irene Schweitzer, Helen T. Garrett, Jonni Graf, Richard Mckey, Sarah Canan, Robert Jordan, Paul M. Jones, Eugene A. Pascucci, Nelson M. Fellman Jr., Ed Klein, Roy Foster
The Ursinus Weekly, April 23, 1951, Mary Yost, Donald Brown, Dick Hector, Mary Ann Simmendinger, Irene Schweitzer, Helen T. Garrett, Jonni Graf, Richard Mckey, Sarah Canan, Robert Jordan, Paul M. Jones, Eugene A. Pascucci, Nelson M. Fellman Jr., Ed Klein, Roy Foster
Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978
Students elect Hartzel, Hall, Ely, Landis: Women's government, YM-YWCA, WAA choose new organization heads • Drs. Armstrong, Mattern, Baker to be speakers • Pa. Dutch film scheduled for benefit show • Nancy Bare and Jackie Keller to share big "Arsenic" role • Six juniors receive Cub and Key memberships for outstanding work • Lantern deadline set for Friday • Barbara Crawford crowned queen of Junior Prom; 4 attendants named • Editorials: Nominations open; Voting results analyzed • French situation reversed • Truman vs MacArthur • Letters to the editor • "Weekly" back issues yield untold wealth of pertinent advertisements • …