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“I Don’T Mean To Be Defiant Or Anything…”: Instructional Films For Girls, 1945-1960, Jill Anderson

Jill E. Anderson

No abstract provided.

Buffalo Hunt International Trade And The Virtual Extinction Of The North American Bison, M. Scott Taylor

M. Scott Taylor

In the 16th century, North America contained 25-30 million buffalo; by the late 19th century less than 100 remained. While removing the buffalo east of the Mississippi took settlers two centuries, the remaining 10 to 15 million buffalo on the Great Plains were killed in a punctuated slaughter in a little over 10 years. I employ theory, data from international trade statistics, and first person accounts to argue that the slaughter on the plains was initiated by a foreign-made innovation and fueled by a foreign demand for industrial leather. Ironically, the ultimate cause of this sad chapter in American environmental …

International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

"Terrorism" is a term that cannot be given a stable defintion. Or rather, it can, but to do so forstalls any attempt to examine the major feature of its relation to television in the contemporary world. As the central public arena for organising ways of picturing and talking about social and political life, TV plays a pivotal role in the contest between competing defintions, accounts and explanations of terrorism. Which term is used in any particular context is inextricably tied to judgemements about the legitimacy of the action in question and of the political system against which it is directed. …

Liberdade, Ética E Direito, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Further than Ethics concieved as mere obedience, Republican Ethics expresses the idea of duty for freedom and Liberty. After Law concieved as only duty and imperative norms from power to the subjects, there is the possibility of a fraternal law, in new patterns. This article explores several ways in a new ethics and a new law paradigms, after the objective Roman Law and the subjective modern Law.

Teaching Urban History, Steven Corey

Steven H. Corey

No abstract provided.

Armchair Archaeology

Nicholas Tripcevich, Ph.D.

Interviewed for an article in The Economist about the use of satellite imagery in Andean archaeology at the Chivay source.

No Time For Adolescence: Growing Up In War-Torn London, Daphne Freeman, Dale Freeman

Dale H. Freeman

Memoir of UMB Archivist Dale Freeman's mother, Daphne G. Freeman (1925- ) about her growing up in London during the Blitz and first hand account of World War II.

The Persistence Of Stereotyped Dialect Features Among Portuguese-American Immigrants From São Miguel, Azores, David J. Silva

David Silva

Big Bobby Bonaduce: Still Searching For The Rink Of Dreams, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

Ethnic Democracy And Its Ambiguities: The Case Of The Needle Trade Unions, Gerd Korman

Gerd Korman

[Excerpt] During the years between World War I and World War II the conduct among well-known Jewish labor leaders seems to have foreshadowed events in the history of America’s nationality following the tumult of the 1960’s. In the 1920’s and 1930’s America’s elected or appointed officials still used a pecking order based on assumed inequalities of race, ethnicity, and gender in making policy decisions. They presumed that their private interests, those of the “insiders,” the “leading groups,” or “controlling minorities,” were the only appropriate ones for determining public policy. It was then, especially in the Depression years, when the New …

Grounded History: A Keynote Address To The 14th Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

No abstract provided.

Stomping The Shadow: The Elevation Of Snowboarding To The Olympic Pedestal From A Jungian Perspective, M. Popovic, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

The Anfal Campaign Of Genocide Against Kurds In Iraq: Historical Context And Overview, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.

When Beef Was King. Or Why Do Colombians Eat So Little Pork?, Shawn Van Ausdal

Shawn Van Ausdal

This article seeks to understand why Colombians, compared to many other Latin Americans, have traditionally eaten so much more beef than pork. The article first points to the development of a culinary tradition that favored beef. The bulk of the argument, though, centers on the fact that, historically, beef has been substantially cheaper than pork. This price difference, in turn, is rooted in the low productivity of Colombian agriculture, which made corn, often used to fatten hogs, expensive. Additional factors that favored beef include a receding agrarian frontier, a small hog population, the various advantages of cattle, a conflict–ridden history …

Pan-African Writings On East Africa And The Marginalization In Western Scholarship, Jesse Benjamin

Jesse Benjamin

No abstract provided.

Vision For "A New Human Being" And A "Human Synergistic Movement": A New Humanistic Movement Aligned With Transformational Archetypal Energies, Carroy U. Ferguson

Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.

In previous writings, I spoke of the “Path of the Bridger: AHP’s Role in Co-Creating a New Reality for Human Togetherness and the Evolution of Consciousness,” “The Voices of Transformational Archetypal Energies: The Psychic Energy behind AHP’s Mission,” and “The Gift and Challenge of ‘Free Will’: The Connection to Transformational Archetypal Energies.” I wanted to remind us of how and why AHP came into being as a “Mother Organization,” arguably to give birth to an organized focus on validating the dignity of the Human Spirit, maximizing Human Potential, and planting seeds for Well Being and the Evolution of Consciousness. In …

Gender Audits As An Input To Engender Governance: Vibhuti Patel, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

‘gender audit’ is referred to as ‘mainstreaming’ public policy, including legislation, regulations, allocations, taxation and social projects, from the point of view of their effect on the status of women in a given society. Gender audits also analyse the income and expenditures of the government from a gender perspective. The basic assumption of a gender audits is that public policy impacts differently on men and women. The variance stems from the different roles of women and men in the family and from the lower economic status of women. The purpose of gender audits is to lead to changes in public …

"Social Security", Max Skidmore

Max J. Skidmore

No abstract provided.

Co-Editor, With Maria-Pia Di Bella, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

I have been a co-editor of Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing since 2008. This interdisciplinary journal appears twice a year and is published by Berghahn Books (New York and Oxford).

Context And Contingency: The Post World War Ii History Of Nursing Scholarship, Julie Fairman

Julie A Fairman

No abstract provided.

Stomping The Shadow: The Elevation Of Snowboarding To The Olympic Pedestal From A Jungian Perspective, Megan Popovic, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

Who Is Served And Who Is Serving: Race?: Healthcare, And Health Care Professions Training At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century, Pg, Co-Investigator, $6,000, Leonard Davis Institute, University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa (Amy Hillier, Ph.D., Principal Investigator), Julie Fairman

Julie A Fairman

No abstract provided.

The Department Of Veterans Affairs Pre And Post-Doctoral Nurse Fellowships: Diverse Opportunities For Research, J Hobss, M Shively, J Bormann, L Johnson, A Alt-White, Julie Fairman

Julie A Fairman

No abstract provided.

Reimagining Nursing’S Place In The History Of Clinical Practice, Julie Fairman, P D'Antonio

Julie A Fairman

No abstract provided.

Working With Primary Sources: An Overview, Julie Fairman, Mages K

Julie A Fairman

No abstract provided.

Refugee Camps In The Palestinian And Sahrawi National Liberation Movements: A Comparative Perspective, Randa Farah

Randa R Farah Dr.

Drawing on ethnographic field research, this analysis compares the evolution of refugee camps as incubators of political organization and repositories of collective memory for Palestinian refugees in Jordan and Sahrawi refugees of the Western Sahara. While recognizing the significant differences between the historical and geopolitical contexts of the two groups and their national movements (the PLO and Polisario, respectively), the author examines the Palestinian and Sahrawi projects of national consciousness formation and institution-building, concluding that Palestinian camps are “mapped” in relation to the past, while political organization in Sahrawi camps evidences a forward-looking vision.

Securing America's Future: A Bold Plan To Preserve And Expand Social Security, Max Skidmore

Max J. Skidmore

Analysis of the American system of Social Security, with proposals for expansion and for universal health care.

How Angleterre Came To Be The French Country Name For England In The Eleventh Century, George Beech

George T. Beech

No abstract provided.

Making Of A People: The Past 150 Years Of Civic Growth In Allen County, Indiana, Cheryl B. Truesdell

Cheryl B. Truesdell

The “Making of a People: the Past 150 Years of Civic Growth in Allen County, Indiana” grant brought together as partners the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society, IPFW Center of Excellence: Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics and Helmke Library, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Together they provided documents related to Fort Wayne’s early government: Fort Wayne’s Annual Reports, Fort Wayne Ordinances and Codes, Allen County Election Return Books, and photographs of Fort Wayne’s early government for digitization.

Commemorating The Naksa, Evoking The Nakba, Leila Farsakh

Leila Farsakh

No abstract provided.