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Antonio Jose De Sucre (1745-1830), Janet Butler Munch

Publications and Research

Antonio Jose de Sucre was a military leader and statesman in the 19th century Spanish American independence movement against Spain.

Orville Elias Babcock (1835-1884), Janet Butler Munch

Publications and Research

Orville Elias Babcock (1835-1884) was an army general, engineer, and a private secretary to Ulysses S. Grant..

Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917), Janet Butler Munch

Publications and Research

Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) was a trial lawyer and diplomat.

(Abbott) Vaughn Meader, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Vaughn Meader was a Grammy-award winning comedian known for his uncanny mimicry of President John F. Kennedy.

Making The Italian Other: Blacks, Whites, And The In Between In The 1895 Spring Valley, Illinois, Race Riot, Caroline Waldron Merithew

History Faculty Publications

This essay takes the Spring Valley, Illinois, race riot and observes how blacks, Italians, and other new immigrants attempted to empower themselves and lay claim to status at the "nadir" of race relations ill this country. The events leading up to the riot, the assault on the African-American community, and the aftermath of the attack led to vocal outcries against oppression. What constituted oppression, however, was open to interpretation. Furthermore, no group defined itself, or its other, in isolation. Rather, each side responded to the rhetoric of its "opponents" as well as of middle-class whites who became involved in the …

Within And Beyond The Pale: Research In Odessa And Birobidzhan, Robert Weinberg

History Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Remembering Vietnam Veterans: Lesson Plan For Grade 10, Matt Doran

Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention

The lesson plan is designed to teach students about Vietnam Veterans and the importance of remembering their time in service.

This lesson plan was part of the Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention project which was sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and was a National Endowment for the Humanities We The People project.

This lesson plan was created between 2003-2005.

Delaney Amendment, Eric S. Yellin

History Faculty Publications

In 1958, U.S. Representative James Delaney of New York added a proviso to the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act declaring that the Food and Drug Administration cannot approve any food additive found to induce cancer in a person or animal.

Columbine School Massacre, Eric S. Yellin

History Faculty Publications

On 20 April 1999, in one of the deadliest school shootings in national history, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Jefferson County, Colorado, killed twelve fellow students and a teacher and injured twenty-three others before committing suicide. Eric Harris, age eighteen, and Dylan Klebold, age seventeen, used homemade bombs, two sawed-off twelve-gauge shotguns, a nine-millimeter semiautomatic rifle, and a nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol in a siege that began shortly after 11 A.M.

Sabotage, Eric S. Yellin

History Faculty Publications

A term borrowed from French syndicalists by American labor organizations at the turn of the century, sabotage means the hampering of productivity and efficiency of a factory, company, or organization by internal operatives. Often sabotage involves the destruction of property or machines by the workers who use them. In the United States, sabotage was seen first as a direct-action tactic for labor radicals against oppressive employers.

Sacco & Vanzetti Case, Eric S. Yellin, Louis Foughin

History Faculty Publications

Nicola Sacco, a skilled shoeworker born in 1891, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler born in 1888, were arrested on 5 May 1920, for a payroll holdup and murder in South Braintree, Massachusetts. A jury, sitting under Judge Webster Thayer, found the men guilty on 14 July 1921. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on 23 August 1927 after several appeals and the recommendation of a special advisory commission serving the Massachusetts governor. The execution sparked worldwide protests against repression of Italian Americans, immigrants, labor militancy, and radical political beliefs.

Tickets, Concerts And School Fees: Money And New Christian Communities In Colonial Zimbabwe, Carol Summers

History Faculty Publications

It is worth exploring how this new identity emerged. In standard mission history narratives, European missionaries emphasized their own role and that of God, appealing for more funds from Europe and America within a heroic evangelical narrative which characterized missionaries as pioneers harvesting African people, like ripe grain, for Jesus. This theme has been echoed by African church historians who have tended to focus on church leadership and the ways officials overcame challenges and built institutions.² More recently, anthropologists and historians have emphasized how communities under pressure from colonial contact, conquest, and institutionalization found in Christianity a way of …

The "Unidentified Pioneers": An Analysis Of Staffordshire Mormons, 1837 To 1870, Stephen G. Arrowsmith

Theses and Dissertations

The evidence presented in this thesis advocates an increased level of scholarly interest in English working-class Mormon converts. To illustrate who these people were, and what their roles were as part of Mormon story, this regional study introduces and makes available over twelve hundred Staffordshire Mormons, and asks questions of the collected statistical information. The conservative Staffordshire Mormons clearly assisted the establishment, and continuation, off a Zion in the American West. Much of the data confirms previous scholarship; however, those with “differing visions” of Mormonism (for example, the RLDS Church) attracted Staffordshire converts in larger numbers than previously suggested. The …

At The Head Of The Aboriginal Remnant: Cherokee Construction Of A "Civilized" Indian Identity During The Lakota Crisis Of 1876, Paul Kelton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1876 the bilingual Cherokee diplomat and lawyer William Penn Adair expressed great pride in the level of "civilization" that his nation had achieved. Defining civilization as commercial agriculture, literacy, Christianity, and republican government, Adair believed that his society had reached a sophistication that equaled and in certain areas surpassed that of the United States. Speaking before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Territories, the diplomat claimed that his people produced surpluses of "every agricultural product that is raised in the neighboring States of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Texas." Schools in the Indian Territory, he added, produced a vast …

Park City Daily News Obituary Index For 2003, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Research Collections

No abstract provided.

So Far From God And So Close To Stonewall Jackson: The Executions Of Three Shenandoah Valley Soldiers, Peter S. Carmichael

History Faculty Publications

Mount Pisgah Church had long been a place where Orange County Baptists sought salvation and spiritual comfort. Wars have a way of turning such holy places into brutal scenes of killing. Although a battle was never fought on the sacred ground of the church, Pisgah witnessed man's inhumanity on 19 August 1862, when a firing squad executed three deserters from Brig. Gen. William B. Taliaferro's division of Stonewall Jackson's command - all of whom were conscripts from the Shenandoah Valley. Until that depressing afternoon, when veterans formed a hollow square and waited for the condemned, no deserters in Jackson's command …

Carraco, Arthur, 1873-1964 (Sc 1370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1370. Hospital fee statements received by Arthur Carraco, Carrollton, Kentucky, after treatment at the Kentucky Baptist Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky.

Rogers, Odie Floyd, Jr. 1921-1957 (Sc 1386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1386. World War II diary kept by Odie Floyd Rogers, Jr. (1921-1957) Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, who was a member of a flight crew that evidently was stationed in Sicily. They bombed chiefly Italian targets. Rogers completed 66 missions. Includes a 2001 letter with data on planes flown by Rogers.

Hunting For Everyday History: Introduction, Marjorie L. Mclellan

Hunting for Everyday History

This introduction to Hunting for Everyday history outlines how to use the guide, how to use artifacts in the classroom, as well as directing educators and students to other resources.

Hunting For Everyday History Theme 1: Toys And Games, Marjorie L. Mclellan

Hunting for Everyday History

The first theme guides students to test out concepts and strategies for historical inquiry using toys and games.

Hunting For Everyday History: A Field Guide For Teachers, Marjorie L. Mclellan

Hunting for Everyday History

Hunting for Everyday History is a hands-on guide comprised of Ohio history lessons and activities for students in third, fourth, and fifth grade. It was designed by teachers and some of Ohio's leading history experts to give students a chance to think and act like historians and curators.

Hunting For Everyday History Theme 2: History At Home, Marjorie L. Mclellan

Hunting for Everyday History

In the second theme students are introduced to the many ways that the process of industrialization changed the nature of housework. They will learn about basic human needs and how they remain the same over time but are met in different ways.

Hunting For Everyday History Theme 3: Neighborhood History, Marjorie L. Mclellan

Hunting for Everyday History

The third theme focuses on map skills, architectural history, the built environment, and populations. The hunts in this section integrate history, economics, geography, and anthropology. Students will explore the local setting in search of architectural history, the history of technology, and changes in family life.

Hunting For Everyday History Theme 4: Souvenirs, Marjorie L. Mclellan

Hunting for Everyday History

The fourth theme focuses on popular amusements, politics, and celebrations. At the end of this section students will be able to use primary sources, conduct an oral history interview, produce organized reports based on their research and more.

Hunting For Everyday History: Transparencies, Marjorie L. Mclellan

Hunting for Everyday History

This section contains transparencies of various toys, games, artifacts, and more to be used in conjunction with the previous themes in Hunting for Everyday History.

Moving Along: Learning American History At Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretative Center/Wright Memorial: Grade 5 Field Trip Model, Timothy Binkley

Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention

The lesson plan is designed to teach students about how different forms of transportation aided in the expansion and development of the United States.

This lesson plan was part of the Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention project which was sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and was a National Endowment for the Humanities We The People project.

14 Burials In St. Mark's Episcopal Cemetery, James Jones

History of West Chester, Pennsylvania

No abstract provided.

The Courts And The Making Of A Chinese Immigrant Community In Portland, Oregon, 1850-1910, Sarah Marie Griffith

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis studies the development of the Portland, Oregon Chinese immigrant community between 1850 and 1910. Chinese immigrants first arrived in Portland in the mid-1850s and quickly created businesses as well as social institutions they transplanted from China to the U.S. West. They also established intricate relationships among themselves and with members of the surrounding white community. County and state court records held at the Multnomah County Courthouse and National Archives in Seattle, Washington, reveal much about the Chinese immigrant community in Portland and provide a window into a society that left few written records. Through the analysis of hundreds …

The Failure Of Maternal Domesticity: An Evaluation Of Frankenstein As A Didactic Source, Keith R. Swaney

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

Is man inherently good or evil? Nineteenth century Romantics, inspired by the doctrine of Jean Jacques Rousseau, hypothesized that man is a product of his or her environment. Middle class society imputed the mother as the gateway by which a child learns to become a model human being. This theory held that mothers nurture their offspring naturally. Children learn proper morals and social conduct based upon a female-inspired education. Without this domestic influence on their lives, children fall into the trap of an “eye for an eye” ideology. The monster that Mary Shelley conceives in Frankenstein defies the domestic conception …

Ursinus Magazine, Winter 2003, Wendy Greenberg, Jay Miller, Carol Shumate, Sally Widman, Ellen Cosgrove, Dave Kurtz, Aaron Ranck, Dan Reimold

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art calendar • The play's the thing on campus • Ursinus selected as model for other colleges • Ursinus receives prestigious Mellon Grant • Belly's up • Myrin features student art work • Chiming in • Ursinus bestows honorary degree on scientist • The Lantern keeps burning • Faculty achievement • Vietnam revisited • Star practitioners • Joseph M. DeSimone: Changing lives through chemistry • It's a hit! New Ursinus website draws millions of clicks • Redirected goals: Success for field hockey's first Division III season • Anders gets it done on both …