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Women For A Peaceful Christmas: Wisconsin Homemakers Seek To Remake American Culture, Nancy Unger

History

In the autumn of 1971, sixteen Madison homemakers, including Nan Cheney and Sharon Stein, began "Women for a Peaceful Christmas" (WPC), a unique attempt to do nothing less than remake American culture. Under the slogan "No More Shopping Days 'Til Peace," WPC organized ostensibly powerless homemakers into a "quiet revolt against 'an economy which thrives on war and the destruction of our earth's resources.'' WPC urged the public (especially women, the sex that did the vast bulk of holiday shopping) to take economic, political, and environmental matters into their own hands. "If you don't want your Christmas celebrations to be …

Bush's Adventures In National Service Policy And Five Lessons For President Obama, Richard Holtzman

History and Social Sciences Faculty Journal Articles

As candidates, both Barack Obama and John McCain criticized George W. Bush’s failure to call for sacrifice and service from the American people in the wake of 9/11. However, criticizing the mistakes of a past president is not the same as learning from them. Obama has referred to service as the “cause of my presidency.” If Obama is indeed committed to following through on this campaign rhetoric, what lessons can he learn from Bush’s experiences? This essay offers an analysis of Bush’s adventures in national service policy and, in particular, his failures of presidential leadership in this arena. Its purpose …

We Know No North, No South, No East, No West: Mormon Interpretations Of The Civil War, 1861-1865, Richard Bennett

Faculty Publications

While peace reigns in Utah, civil war, with all its horrors, prevails among those who earnestly desired to see the soil of these valleys crimsoned with the blood of the Saints, and, if we are mistaken in the signs of the times, before the conflict between the North and South shall have ended, all they unitedly desired to see meted out to the Mormons, will be poured out without measure upon those who have initiated the war of extermination, and are now carrying it on with all the energy they severally possess. So read the lead editorial in the Salt …

Those Magnificent Men Or Their Flying Machines?: Tradition And Modernity In The 1928 National Air Races, Joshua James Waddle

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The history of aviation in the United States between 1920 and 1940 describes two phases--the dangerous aeronautic stunts and cross-country flights of the 1920s and the regulation of the 1930s—but does not analyze how the transition between the two occurred. The beginning of this transition occurred in the latter 1920s. First, American businesses, attempting to establish commercial air travel, downplayed the perceived danger as they marketed the flying experience to the general public. Second, women pilots showed that planes did not require mystical, unidentifiable masculine qualities in order to be flown and landed safely. The actual transition, however, took place …

A Companion To Hume: Book Review, Eva Dadlez

Religion in the Age of Enlightenment

Blackwell's fortieth Companion to Philosophy is a splendid and long-overdue Companion to Hume, expertly pulled together by Elizabeth Radcliffe, a former editor of the journal Hume Studies. Although the Blackwell Companions are promoted as a student reference series, this particular volume is clearly of considerable value to serious scholars as well and probably accessible only to advanced students with a strong philosophical background.

A Political Turn: Highways And Mass Transit In American Mobility History, Michael R. Fein Ph.D.

Humanities Department Faculty Publications & Research

Mark Rose’s Interstate: Express Highway Politics (1979) and Bruce Seely’s Building the American Highway System: Engineers as Policy Makers (1987) signaled the opening of U.S. highway politics as a field for sustained scholarly investigation. In Interstate, Rose examined the political competition among interest groups, such as truck operators, that produced the landmark 1956 highway legislation. Seely’s focus was the road engineers themselves, led by Thomas MacDonald, whose uncanny ability to present themselves as ‘apolitical’ experts paradoxically allowed them to dominate the highly politicized drafting of the main contours of American highway policy. Together these two texts opened a range of …

Yellow Fever And Huntsville, David Byers

Huntsville Historical Review

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Front Matter, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

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History Of The Development Of Monte Sano, James B. Hill Jr.

Huntsville Historical Review

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A Hoosier In The Heart Of Dixie, Ken Carpenter

Huntsville Historical Review

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The Huntsville Historical Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2009, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

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Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior To Southern Redeemer, By Rod Andrew, Jr., Fritz Hamer

Faculty and Staff Publications

A review of Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer, by Rod Andrew, Jr.

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 3 Winter 2009, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

Utpa Undergraduate Catalog 2009-2011, University Of Texas Pan American

UTPA Archives - Course Catalogs

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Utpa Graduate Catalog 2009-2011, University Of Texas Pan American

UTPA Archives - Course Catalogs

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2009 Railsplitter, Lincoln Memorial University

Railsplitter 2000-2014

Table of Contents

Introduction..................................................................4

Student Portraits..........................................................7

Faculty.......................................................................36

Academic...................................................................46

Student Life................................................................54

Sports........................................................................78

Clubs and Organizations...........................................94

Closing.....................................................................120

The United Arab Emirates Political Stability And Economic Growth, William Chandler

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Review Of From Colony To Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, Michael F. Russo

Faculty Publications

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Ua45/2 Registrar Student Registers, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Student registers of varying types. Student registers contain name, address and county. Enrollment books also contain the number of hours a student has completed. Aviation Cadet records include name, rank, serial number, course(s) taken and grades.

Auto Racing, John Alfred Heitmann

History Faculty Publications

As a consequence of new sponsors, personalities, race tracks, and television exposure, automobile racing — and in particular NASCAR — reached unprecedented popularity during the 1990s. Indeed, NASCAR became a "way of life" for many Americans.

Business Plan Center For Historic Preservation, Jenna Reed Walker

Historic Preservation Final Projects

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Driving Modernity, Meredith Long

Historic Preservation Final Projects

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Rafinesque, Transylvania’S Famous Naturalist, Charles T. Ambrose

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

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Test 1952: John Deere 7330 Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …

Nebraska Summary: S746 Massey Ferguson 8680 Iegr, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …

Nebraska Summary S709: Massey Ferguson 5475, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …

Roosevelt's Oglethorpe Speech Resonates

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article talks about a famous speech delivered by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1932, in which he touched on the economic difficulties of the day. It notes that the original documents of the historic speech was displayed at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia in October 2008. It describes the features of the original document.

Planters In The Making: The Brown Family's Alabama Years, Ricky L. Sherrod

Huntsville Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Back Matter, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

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The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime Refugees In Shanghai, Thomas D. Curran

History Faculty Publications

Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Ristaino, M. R. (2008). The Jacquinot safe zone: Wartime refugees in Shanghai. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804757935