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The Chanticleer, 2008-09-29, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Lanthorn, Vol. 43, No. 12, September 29, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 43, July 10, 2008 - June 7, 2009

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Coal Miner’S Daughter

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

One of the most recent targets of China’s self-appointed net detectives—practitioners of the pernicious phenomenon known as the “human flesh search” (ren rou sou sou)—is not an unfaithful husband, a kitten killer, or a Tibet-friendly Chinese student. Instead she is someone who is, supposedly, a comely young woman whose father owns a coal mine and who recently immigrated to Seattle, cash, flashy cars, and Louis Vuitton luggage in hand. Definitely not from Butcher Holler. And, as it turns out, a fake.

The human flesh searchers, who mete out internet justice and facilitate the harassment of those who fail their moral …

Interview With Lijia Zhang

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

On Iowa Public Radio’s “The Exchange” (follow that link to stream the mp3 recording). Zhang is currently a participant in the University of Iowa’sInternational Writing Program. She discusses her book, Socialism is Great!, her life experiences, and China in the late twentieth century (as well as her book as a possible gift for Sarah Palin).

Her most recent piece at China Beat is “Ode to the Communist Song.”

Additions And Corrections, Lynnita Brown, Murdo Maclennan

MacLennon, Murdo

No abstract provided.

Ashley N. Drummer

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Coming Distractions: Speaking To History

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Paul A. Cohen, professor of history emeritus at Wellesley College and also an associate at the Harvard Fairbank Center, has long been interested in not justwhat happened but also how historians tell the stories of the past. As one of the strongest advocates for China-centered historical work, Cohen has explored this tension between history and its telling in works that sometimes reveal unknown stories and sometimes confound the traditional tellings of well-known historical events. These earlier works include China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past, History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth,China and Christianity, and …

Groves, James (Sc 39), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 39. Bill of sale for three slaves, Edy, about five years old, Cyntha, about two years old, and Stepen, about seven months old, sold for $600 to W.W. Milliken, Simpson County, Kentucky, and letter concerning the bill of sale, 1948.

Hanor, Elizabeth Jane, 1850-1927 (Sc 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 38. Loom weaving draft, "Nine Snowball Draft," made by E. Jane Hanor, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Coverlet draft.

Political Conventions - Democratic, 1852 (Sc 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 40. Letter to Dr. W.P. Reyburn from four Louisiana state delegates to the National Democratic Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, June 1852, appointing him their representative and instructing him to vote for General Lewis Cass for President.

Moore Collection (Sc 37), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 37. Copy of the will of Samuel Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, written 29 September 1846 and recorded 6 December 1850 in Hickman County Court, and an incomplete, undated and unsigned deed for land in Allen County, Kentucky, conveying land to David A. Porter by Robert Moore.

Morning Collection (Sc 36), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 36. Deeds conveying land in Anderson County, Kentucky, to Robert Carlton by John and Nancy Morning, 1847, and by Thomas and Mary J. Morning, 1856.

Crusader, September, 26, 2008, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

The student newspaper for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Articles include coverage of campus events and issues, sports, editorials and special features.

Interview No. 1589, Bill Stone

Combined Interviews

Discusses using Mexican labor from 1954 to 1959 to pick cotton. Difficulties with Labor Department inspectors prompts family to discontinue using Mexican labor and to purchase cotton picker. Discusses sending money home for the Mexicans.

Lanthorn, Vol. 43, No. 11, September 25, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 43, July 10, 2008 - June 7, 2009

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Hale, Louise (Brown), 1917-2001 (Sc 1623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1623. In her unpublished account, "Memories," Louise (Brown) Hale describes rural life in the Daviess County, Kentucky, community of Whitesville between the world wars. She recalls family and community members, farm and home chores, her marriage, and her eventual move to California. Also includes two New Years letters to her grandchildren.

Biggers, Covella (Houchens), 1921-2022 (Sc 1610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1610. Three handwritten sermons by Episcopalian clergyman John Wesley Venable, and one early nineteenth-century ciphering book (unbound) executed by Burrell Adams.

Predicting The Past: The Utah War's Twenty-First Century Future, William P. Mackinnon

Arrington Annual Lecture

No abstract provided.

Trail Blazer - Volume 83, Number 4, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on September 25, 2008.

Adams, George Bradley, 1819-1854 (Sc 35), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 35. Incoming business letters of George B. Adams, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from various firms and individuals, including one from George B. Kinkead, Kentucky Secretary of State, 1846.

Interview No. 1588, Wonda Lou Wonicar, Norma Emison

Combined Interviews

Born Caraway ARK Oct 10 1939. Many family farms. Parents farmed. Went to school in Caroway grades 1-4-5-12. During school year had to chop and pick cotton. Split school term. Father employed Mexicans during 50's. Formed an association and one man would go to the border and bring large number back on Murphy farm approx. 25. Would fix up houses accommodation for them. Farm owner would do this. Mexicans were a great help on the farm. Doesn't remember other than Mexicans being contracted to the farm. Norma worked at a store in Caraway. Mexicans would buy good such as clothes …

Interview No. 1602, Fred Bourland

Combined Interviews

He remembers working on his father’s farmland; he picked cotton, soy beans, and wheat alongside Mexican workers; buses would bring in black men who worked as choppers, while white migrant workers, worked as pickers; Mexican workers were brought in when extra labor was needed, they would be subcontracted out to smaller farms; he remembers seeing 50 to 100 men working alongside one another; the Mexican workers were housed in barracks and slept in army cots; he recalls the Farm Bureau and Extension Agents in the fields, inspecting the conditions of the workers; he states that Mexican men were hard working …

Interview No. 1580, James Bourland

Combined Interviews

Mr. Bourland said his father did not employed braceros on their farm, so he had no direct contact with them.

Interview No. 1582, Sam Mcneill

Combined Interviews

Farmer in England, Arkansas, who employed Bracero in late 1950’s. Employed 90 Mexicans. Housed in old school. Dispute over wages settled by Mexican Consulate. He learned well digging techniques. Worker purchased gun and accidently shot himself in leg.

The Grizzly, September 25, 2008, Kristin O'Brassill, Gabrielle Poretta, Salia Zouande, Jameson Cooper, Elizabeth Macdonald, Matt Monteverde, Abigail Raymond, Erec Smith, Serena Mithboakar, Eva Bramesco, Christopher Schaeffer, Roger Lee, Zach Shamberg

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Another Fantastically Fun-Filled Family Day for Ursinus College • Worcester High School Pregnancy Pact Fact? • So Long Shea Stadium • Lower Draws Crowds • Ursinus Students to Attend Activist Workshop at Swarthmore • UC Writing Center? What's That? • UC Fringe Cabaret Strikes a Chord with Music, Improv and Acrobatics • Abroad in Germany: Culture Shock! • Up 'Til Dawn Awareness Week at UC

Interview No. 1599, Dolores Atkins

Combined Interviews

She recalls that Parkin was a farm community and everyone worked in the fields; her parents encouraged her and her six siblings to get an education, but states that no one went to school during picking season; she explains that on Saturday families would take their children to pick cotton and would get to keep what they earned; she details the segregation in town, explaining how they ordered food from a service window marked blacks; she remembers that everyone stuck with their own race; consequently, Mexicans only came into town for liquor and food, then returned to their barracks; she …

Culture And Collapse Revisited, Pierre Fuller

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

In May of this year I wagged a few fingers at British writer Simon Winchester for an op-ed piece he penned in the wake of Sichuan’s devastating quake. Appearing as it did both in the New York Times and in its global edition, the International Herald Tribune, his attempt at posing a supposedly quake-fit “West” or “America” against a Chinese people who had collectively all “turned their back” as early as the 16th century on science and construction know-how begged immediate comment.

I soon found myself in the bowels of the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies’ …

Rodes Collection (Sc 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 33. Letter (facsimile) written by Andrew Jackson, U.S. President, 1845, Hermitage, Tennessee, to Major William B. Lewis, regarding national politics, and an invitation to Mr. & Mrs. John G. Barrett, Louisville, Kentucky, to a reception for President and Mrs. Hayes at the Galt House, Louisville, Kentucky, 1877.

Lewis, Norman Victor, 1917-1999 (Mss 215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and correspondence address list (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 215. This collection consists almost exclusively of letters sent from Lewis to his girlfriend and subsequent wife, Bettie Gibson (Phelps) Lewis. They include courtship letters, correspondence documenting Lewis's World War II service and military life, and letters containing information about family matters.

Interview No. 1592, Marion Haynes

Combined Interviews

Discusses interaction with Mexican laborers. The Mexican Barracks on the Stallings farm and the ‘frame time’. Activities of the laborers