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Autograph Album (Sc 1664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1664. Autograph album kept by a girl named "Nellie" and signed by a number of her friends in Carterville, Missouri.

Jones, Edwina Chandler, 1911-2002 (Sc 1661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1661. Correspondence between Edwina Chandler Jones and Betty Boyd Lyne, chiefly related to their families and mutual friends, Jones's travel and church activities, and her move from Bowling Green to Lakewood Manor Baptist Retirement Home in Richmond, Virginia.

Alford, Florence (Marshall), 1920-2001 (Sc 1662), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1662. Copy of letter to Florence Alford, Bowling Green, from Larry H. Embry, Bowling Green, related to his illness. Also, her written account of the 1991 fire at Bowling Green's First Baptist Church where she was a member.

Rumor And The Sichuan Earthquake, Steve Smith

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

One of the intriguing aspects of the appalling crisis created by the earthquake in Sichuan on May 12—whose death toll as I write is over 40,000 and still rising—has been the role played by rumor. Just four days before the quake, the Sichuan provincial government issued a notice designed to quell “earthquake rumors.” Three days after it, on May15, Xinhua news agency announced that seventeen people had been arrested for circulating malicious rumors, and the Ministry of Public Security revealed that its bureaus in eleven provinces and municipalities had discovered more than forty messages on the internet that “spread false …

Disaster Relief: Material And Spiritual

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Last night, the members of one of the Buddha’s Light International Association (國際佛光會) relief teams returned to Taiwan, most in tears due to the horrifying devastation they had witnessed. They also reported a disturbing new development: an increasing number of survivors are starting to take their own lives.

To a certain extent, this should not be too surprising. Inland earthquakes often devastate economically deprived regions, where the livelihood of most people hangs by a thin thread even before a disaster strikes. This was the case for Taiwan’s 921 Earthquake, which was also followed by a rash of suicides. Now that …

James Hughes Interview, Professor Emeritus, Department Of English, Wright State University, Lewis Shupe, James Hughes

Wright State University Retirees Association Oral History Project

Lewis Shupe interviewed James Hughes on May 22, 2008 about the founding of Wright State University and the development of the English program. In the interview Dr. Hughes discusses his career and his decision to come to Wright State as a founding faculty member.

A Mid-Week Reader

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

1. If it isn’t already part of your media China blog circuit (it has just become part of ours), check out the Wall Street Journal’s China Journal. Run by Sky Canaves, the blog apparently draws on more than twenty journalists, and even ran a recent entry on Beijing’s air quality (that’s a favorite Western media story that has slipped out of sight lately).

2. Tim Johnson’s blog, China Rises, has a few moving recent on-the-ground reports from Sichuan. Zhongnanhai also has reports from an individual in Sichuan. For detailed information about the earthquake and its casualities (including maps), see the …

Blair Family - Ciphering Book (Sc 1659), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1659. Ciphering book created by Blair family member in Fleming County, Kentucky. Although undated, the book contains several mathematical problems with dates ranging from 1792 to 1796. Fleming County, which is noted in one of the problems, was established in 1798.

History Of Chinese Red Cross: Part Ii, Caroline Reeves

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

As Chinese rush to aid their countrymen and other countries rush to aid the Chinese, it is important to note that Chinese participation in mutual aid and in the international relief community is not new. Here I continue with part II of the earlyhistory of the Chinese Red Cross Society.

At the turn of the twentieth century, China was being torn apart not by the movement of tectonic plates, but by political, social and intellectual currents. In a world shaken by the new imperatives of Social Darwinism (that posited a divide between “modern” nations that would thrive and “backward” ones …

Letters From Sichuan, Peter Hessler

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

On May 13th, I filed a web report on the New Yorker’s site, based on what I heard from former students in the early days of the disaster. Since then, I’ve continued to receive notes, and I’ve copied a few below.

When I lived in Sichuan, I was most impressed by the sense of place. The landscape was rugged and beautiful, and the people had a distinct character. They seemed more emotional than in other parts of China; they laughed more freely and their street arguments were more vicious. It wasn’t any surprise that in 1999, after NATO bombed the …

St. Paul's Indian Burial Mounds, Paul Nelson

Staff Publications

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Boyd, Gilbert, Jr., B. 1950 (Sc 1657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1657. Letters from Gilbert "Randy" Boyd, Jr., serving as a Chief Warrant Officer in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War, to his wife Reba in Bowling Green. He comments on his fellow soldiers, the beginning of the war and a trip to Kuwait.

Chinese Responses To Disaster: A View From The Qing, Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Media reports of this week’s devastating earthquake in Sichuan highlight trends seen as impressive and new in terms of PRC responses to disaster. The quick response of state leaders symbolized by Premier Wen Jiabao’s much-heralded arrival in the disaster area only five hours after the earthquake hit on Monday, for instance, stands in stark contrast to the PRC’s handling of major catastrophes during the Mao-era, when Chairman Mao and other top leaders failed to act on reports that people were starving to death by the thousands during the Great Leap Famine of 1959-61. An estimated 30 million people died as …

Ada News - 05/19/2008, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Ccu Newsletter, May 19, 2008, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

Coastal Carolina University's weekly on-campus newsletter.

James (Big Jim) Williams

African American Funeral Programs

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Freddale Vanbuen Brown

African American Funeral Programs

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History Of Chinese Red Cross: Part I, Caroline Reeves

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Among the scenes of devastation—small bodies in shrouds; crumpled buildings and bridges; dazed survivors—another image flashes across the screen: something familiar, something reassuring to international viewers. Out of the chaos appears the symbol of the Red Cross, on the arm of a medic, on the side of an ambulance: a sign that there might be some hope—or at least some comfort—for these victims of China’s horrific earthquake.

As we watch the unreal footage of a natural disaster that has, so far, claimed almost 30,000 lives, we are brought back to our own comfort zone by the presence of that familiar …

Events & Outreach; 2008-05-18; New Hope Baptist Church, Women Of Today, Catherine Collins

Events and Outreach

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Big Brown And The Troubled State Of Racing, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Big Brown's victory at The Preakness yesterday has set the stage for a possible Triple Crown winner. At Belmont Park on June 7, and in the three weeks leading up to it, there will be much excitement and speculation in anticipation of Big Brown's big race. Ten horses have made it to this stage over the past three decades only to fall short at the Belmont Stakes. Nearly all of these ten, and now Big Brown, were felt to have an excellent chance to join the elite group of Triple Crown winners.

Interview 9 Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Lynnita Brown, Murdo Maclennan

MacLennon, Murdo

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Teaching Resource You Shouldn’T Miss

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Susan Glosser, professor of Chinese history at Lewis and Clark College and one of the first people to teach me about China in my undergrad years, has a delightful little publication that all manga afficionados and history teachers ought to know about. “Li Fengjin: How the New Marriage Law Helped Chinese Women Stand Up” is Susan’s very clever means of getting an authentic and appealing primary source into English-language classrooms. Her full translation is highly suitable for both secondary and tertiary classrooms, and it’s a steal for only $6.95.

A Saturday morning trip to a Shanghai antique bazaar in 1993 …

Further Reading Recommendations On China Earthquake

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

1. David Bandurski has written an interesting comparison of official and commercial coverage of the earthquake in China at China Media Project.

2. Increasingly, Chinese people are calling for probes into why so many schools collapsed in the earthquake. Recent coverage includes a report by Richard Spencerfor the Telegraph and several from AFP: one here and another here.

3. Meanwhile, domestic Chinese media has begun to report that Western media is praising China’s relief efforts. Indeed, Monroe Price at Huffington Post (we have linked to several of his columns recently) writes about Western media’s “Olympic truce” with China.

4. For …

2008 Commencement Program, Columbia College Chicago

Commencement Programs

The commencement program of the 2008 Columbia College Chicago graduation ceremonies.

Charles Henry Bostic

African American Funeral Programs

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New Olympics Blog

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

In yet another sign of the China-centered media hoopla certain to accompany this summer’s Olympic Games, The New York Times started a blog last week, “Rings: The 2008 Olympics.” The blog will draw on reporters from a variety of desks and bureaus, though much of the early coverage has been done by Jeff Z. Klein (who keeps the Times’ blogs on soccer and hockey) and sports columnist George Vecsey (who promises future China reading recommendations). So far, about half the blog’s posts have centered on athletic news–a good reminder after the torch relay, protests, and other Olympics-related coverage of recent …

Interview No. 1601, Esteban Chavez

Combined Interviews

Mr. Chavez recalls that in 1943 he tried to go as a bracero but was rejected because of his age; once he turned eighteen he was contracted along with his two older brothers; he recalls it taking two days to sign his contract, consequently they slept on the floor near the train; he recalls the health check by Mexican doctors, having their hands inspected, and being disinfected for lice; he recalls working in El Paso, making .40 cents a pound, and driving large machinery; he remembers fifty men sleeping in a barrack, using the river to bathe, and not having …

More Links For Reading On The Earthquake

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

1. This BBC “Day in History” piece gives a feel for how the 1976 earthquake was covered.

2. Shanghaiist, which has had coherent as-it-happened coverage since Monday, has a feature of side-by-side Youtube clips of coverage from Al Jazeera, AP, and others. The Al Jazeera report, by Melissa Chan, receives a well-deserved nod fromShanghaiist. (You can view more of Chan’s reports for Al Jazeera here, here, andhere. They are filled with unique footage.)

3. Wieland Wagner’s opinion piece for Der Spiegel contrasts Wen Jiabao’s megaphone-amplified voice (the prime minister has been touring disaster areas to comfort victims) with the political …

Helm, Virginia Stockton (Beck), 1900-1992 (Sc 1647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1647. Letters, programs, and clippings related to musical events in Warren County and information related to musicians and composers Franz Joseph Strahm, Roy Harris, and John Vincent, who had all been faculty members at Western Kentucky University.

Helm, David Maury, 1927-1994 (Sc 1649), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1649. Three deeds of conveyance related to pieces of property in Smiths Grove, Warren County, Kentucky that were owned by the Helm family. Also includes two plat maps.