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Troubling Times For A Cultural Ambassador: Kuno Francke’S Attempt To Reconcile America To German Culture During The First World War, Kevin Ostoyich

Kevin Ostoyich

No abstract provided.

The ‘Spirit Of Science’ And Migration: The Intersection Of Science, Racism, And Migration In Germany And America From 1890-1914, Kevin Ostoyich

Kevin Ostoyich

No abstract provided.

What Does A Mercenary Leave Behind? The Archaeological Evidence For The Estates Of Owain Lawgoch, Spencer Smith

Spencer Gavin Smith

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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 …

Bottom-Up Organizing In The Trades: An Interview With Mike Lucas, Ibew Director Of Organizing, Jeff Grabelsky

Jeffrey Grabelsky

[Excerpt] Like the bottom-up organizers who built the IBEW 100 years ago by traveling from city to city, working at their trade and preaching the union creed, Lucas has been around the block. From Florida to Oklahoma, Indiana to Tennessee, he worked from 1954 to 1959 as a member of the Laborers and Teamsters unions. He began his organizing career in the utility construction industry, and first volunteered his talents to the IBEW in 1960 by organizing the manufacturing workers at a new Studebaker plant in Bloomington, Indiana, which he had recently helped build as a union electrician. He served …

The Trial Of Queen Caroline And The Impeachment Of President Clinton: Law As A Weapon For Political Reform, Daniel H. Erskine

Daniel H. Erskine

This article explores the calculated use of legal mechanisms to impact national politics and the effect such utilization had on accomplishing deliberate political reform. In answering why political actors use legal procedures as political weapons and whether such use is effective, this paper analyzes two historical examples to illustrate that law as political weapon is extremely successful in accomplishing political change. In the early 1800’s, England’s King sought to defrock his politically radical heroine Queen Caroline through the parliamentary mechanism of a Bill of Pains and Penalties, which caused a flourish of public criticism and call for political revolution. Public …

Trapped In The Creation Museum, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

Into the swampy debate over evolution has waded the new Creation Museum, in Petersburg, Ky. In an America divided between those who accept Darwin's theories and those who believe God created the world in six days, it seeks to win moderates and compromisers over to its side. Shortly after the museum opened last spring, I made a pilgrimage to witness this quirky new spectacle of Americana...

The Face Of Africa: Looking Beyond The Shadows, Stan Chu Ilo

Stan Chu Ilo

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Iraq And The Challenge Of Counterinsurgency, Thomas Mockaitis

Thomas R Mockaitis

This book situates the Iraq War within its regional context and the history of US counterinsurgency campaigns. It argues that after a failed attempt to take a conventional approach to an unconventional conflict, the US military developed an effective counterinsurgency strategy.

Mountains, Cities, And Plains: Does Place Matter In Current Mexican Historiography?, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

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"Social Security", Max Skidmore

Max J. Skidmore

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“Jean Jacques Dessalines”, Marc Prou

Marc E. Prou

Biography of Jean-Jacques Dessalines

The Black Hawk War Of 1832, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

Because it is most often viewed as the last display of violent resistance to American expansion in the Old Northwest, the conflict dubbed the Black Hawk War has received attention from numerous individuals over the past 170 years. Even Black Hawk felt it necessary to explain the war’s causes and events in writing. Patrick J. Jung’s book is the most recent addition to the historiography that examines the Sauk Indian Black Hawk and the conflict of 1832 that has long borne his name. It also follows close on the heels of Kerry Trask’s Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart …

Visualising The Unseen, Imagining The Unknown, Perfecting The Natural: Art And Science In The 18th And 19th Centuries, Andrew Graciano

Andrew Graciano

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Understanding Minority Serving Institutions, Marybeth Gasman, Caroline Turner

Marybeth Gasman

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The Gnadenhutten Effect: Moravian Converts And The Search For Safety In The Canadian Borderlands, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

In 1782, 96 Moravian Indian converts, mostly Munsee Delawares, were systematically massacred at the Gnadenhutten settlement on the Muskingum River in Ohio. After the massacre, they struggled to find a new home in the Great Lakes region. Often finding themselves living in a war zone, the Moravians and the Indians were subject to raids, rumors, and misunderstandings, and in 1792 they made the decision to cross into Canada, where they established a successful settlement on the Thames River in Ontario. Ironically, during the War of 1812, the Battle of the Thames destroyed their settlement, but in 1815 they returned to …

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).

The Power Of Representation: Publics, Peasants And Islam In Egypt, Michael Gasper

Michael Gasper

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Noms De Personne, Noms De Lieux Et Noms De Peoples Dans La Tapisserie De Bayeux: Une Perspective Francaise, George Beech

George T. Beech

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

Julie A Fairman

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

Donald Morrow

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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

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Afterword: Audiences Near And Far, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

A reflection on the acquisition and display of medieval art in museums of the American Midwest and on the appearance of medieval works of art from Midwestern museum and library collections in international loan exhibitions.

Review Of The Third Reich In Power By Richard J. Evans, Kevin Ostoyich

Kevin Ostoyich

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Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children And Visions Of The Future After Slavery, Mary Niall Mitchell

Mary Niall Mitchell

The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery’s abolition. As a member of the first generation of African Americans raised in freedom, the black child—freedom’s child—offered up the possibility that blacks might soon enjoy the same privileges as whites: landownership, equality, autonomy. Yet for most white southerners, this vision was unwelcome, even frightening. Many northerners, too, expressed doubts about the consequences of abolition for the …

Pioneering Lobster Aquaculture In Rhode Island, Michael Rice

Michael A Rice

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Exploring The Wild Kingdom, Bernard Mccoy, Bruce Mitchell, Carol Cornsilk

Bernard R. McCoy

McCoy was producer, co-writer and researcher with co-writer/researcher Carol Cornsilk, videographer/editor Bruce Mitchell, narration Rick Alloway.

The documentary explored the rich history and broad impact of “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom,” the most popular wildlife program in television history and the program’s Nebraska-born creator Don Meier.

Production support: NET Nebraska. The documentary, involved extensive film archival retrieval, three production trips to Illinois, one to Colorado and one to New York over a three year period.

Costumed Words: Humanism, Diplomacy, And The Cultural Gift In The Italian Renaissance, Brian Maxson

Brian J. Maxson

J. C. Penney: Missouri Man, Wyoming Institution, David Kruger

David Delbert Kruger

Traces the business career of James Cash Penney (1875-1971), founder of the national chain of J. C. Penney stores. Born in Missouri, Penney came to Wyoming in 1902 and became partners with Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan, owners of the small chain of Golden Rule stores. Penney opened a store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that was immediately successful. A deeply religious man, Penney believed in making his store a part of the community rather than exploiting the customers. Business quickly expanded and more Golden Rule stores opened, and, eventually, Penney bought out his partners. At its peak the Penney chain numbered …

Suva Under Steam: Mobile Men And A Colonial Port Capital, 1880s–1910s, Frances Steel

Frances Steel

No abstract provided.