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Mr Lonnie Eugene Woods

African American Funeral Programs

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Comfort Women: A Comparative Study Of Societal Origins, Ramya Kumaran, Thomas Lutze, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

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Marriage Reforms In Communist China: A Successful Break With Tradition?, Emily Vock, Thomas Lutze, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Lake Forest: A Community's Search For Perfection In The Progressive Era, Caitlin Carr, Robert Schultz, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

The Revolving Door: An Examination Of Sino-U.S. Trade Treaties After The Implementation Of The U.S. Open Door Policy, Catherine Hunter, Thomas Lutze, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

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U.S. Military Aid And Revolutionary Nationalism In China, Michael Kozak, Thomas Lutze, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Ohio Academy Of Medical History Annual Meeting Program, April 10, 2010, Ohio Academy Of Medical History

Annual Conference Programs

This tri-fold program is from the annual meeting of the Ohio Academy of Medical History held on April 10, 2010 at the University of Cincinnati Vontz Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The program details the events and presentations of the meeting.

Book Talk(S)

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Finishing up work on China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, which is due out in a few days from Oxford University Press, and then more recently preparing for a series of public events that are linked in some way to its publication, set me thinking about the varied ways that books incorporate things that have gone before them. The many kinds of building blocks, from tales told to things written down, that authors use to create something new.

I’ve never written a novel, but I’ve heard that these can easily grow out of a tale told …

Mr. Joe Lewis Mack

African American Funeral Programs

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Esther Grant Lee-Slater

African American Funeral Programs

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Rosa Mae Simpkins

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Muhlenberg Presbytery - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Sc 2237), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2237. Minutes of two meetings of the Muhlenberg Presbytery, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, 22 September 1959 and 31 October 1960.

Mt. Moriah Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2235), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2235. Listing of those members of the African American community buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1940-1978. Section and lot numbers for the graves are given, but death dates are given only occasionally.

Socialist Cosmopolitanism: China Beat Event

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

On Wednesday, April 7, the China Beat was pleased to co-host (with the Humanities Collective) a talk at UCI by Nicolai Volland, who teaches Chinese Studies at National University of Singapore. Volland spoke on “Socialist Cosmopolitanism: China’s Other ‘Age of Openness’ in the 1950s.” ReferencingFrank Dikötter‘s recent book on Republican China, The Age of Openness: China Before Mao, Volland argued that 1950s China can also be seen as “open,” if not to the U.S. and Western Europe. Volland explored cultural exchanges within the socialist world to provide evidence of China’s continued international engagement during the early Mao years. Interested readers …

Maxine Lebkuecher Drexler, Maxine Lebkuecher Drexler '46 And '57, Amy Uden '11

All oral histories

Professor Drexler received both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Music from IWU. She was an adjunct faculty member, specializing in Voice, at IWU for 32 years.

Interview No. 1640, Thomas Edward Dent, Mary Helen Dent Trammell

Combined Interviews

He describes the schools growing up, and how they were all named after famous Texans, such as Davey Crocket and James Bowie. Mrs. Trammell describes how her mother was forced to work because of her father’s age and failing health. Her father had asthma and eventually suffered a stroke. The family lived in a rural area, where they kept chickens, cows, and other animals. Mr. Dent describes the fear that existed when WWII broke out, as he was still in elementary school. Both siblings describe the process of making phone calls at this time, and dealing with operators. There were …

Walter Louis Byrd

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Though I Am Gone

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

In his review of Andrew Walder’s Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement, John Gittings discusses the July 1966 murder of Bian Zhongyun, deputy principal of the Beijing Normal Girls’ High School. Gittings mentions that Bian’s story has been told in a moving documentary that features interviews with her husband, who shares photographs that he took at the time of her death. The entire movie, Wo sui siqu (我虽死去 Though I Am Gone), is available on YouTube; below, we’ve embedded the first section of the film (in Mandarin with English subtitles).

Holocaust Remembrance Day, South Dakota State University

Ethnic History

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from South Dakota State University.

Trail Blazer - Volume 85, Number 9, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on April 8, 2010.

Flossie Belle Gibson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

The Grizzly, April 8, 2010, Caitlin Dalik, Katie Callahan, Ashley Mccomeskey, Jarod Groome, Lisa Jobe, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Joshua C. Walsh, Sara Hourwitz, Gianna Paone, Stefanie Moyer, Carly Siegler, Zach Shamberg, Christopher Michael

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

First Annual Backwards Beauty Pageant Held • Ursinus Senior to Travel Abroad for a Year with Watson • Kappa Alpha Psi and Seismic Step Emerge on Campus • UC Welcomes New Field Hockey Coach • Sex on Wheels Documentary Screening • Volunteering with St. Christopher's Children's Hospital • Feeling Good in "The Skin We're In" • The Sacrifice Your Body Makes for [Better] Grades • Opinion: "Kyleigh's Law" Profiles Drivers by Age in New Jersey • Upper Classmen Off-Campus Living • UC Gymnastics Closes Season with Success

Nathaniel Grant

African American Funeral Programs

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Listen At Home To Peter Hessler And Ken Pomeranz

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Earlier this year, UC Irvine hosted a conversation between Peter Hessler and Ken Pomeranz, centering on a discussion of Hessler’s new book, Country Driving. A podcast of that event is now available, jointly produced by The China Beat andMaking History Podcast (a site run by Jana Remy, a UCI History graduate student and friend of the blog). Check it out at the MHP website, or on iTunes.

Sachs, Emanie (Nahm), 1893-1981 (Sc 2241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2241. Letters of Emanie Nahm Sachs, written from New York City and Bowling Green, Kentucky, to John Wilson Townsend, Lexington, Kentucky. Sachs discusses research for her (never published) history of Kentucky and comments on Kentucky authors. Includes Sachs's newspaper advertisement soliciting information for her history. Also includes a letter from Townsend's widow regarding donation of the letters.

Morton, May Belle - Compiler (Sc 2233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2233. Biographical sketches of Revolutionary War soldiers with connections to Logan County, Kentucky. Compiled by Daughters of the American Revolution, Committee on Revolutionary Soldiers in Logan County, Kentucky, May Belle Morton, Chairman. Includes introductory note on land grants to soldiers after the war.

Naccs 37th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Chicana/o Environmental Justics Struggles for a Post-Neoliberal Age
April 7-10, 2010
Grand Hyatt

Mr. Carl Mcneil

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Mr. Carl McNeil on April 7, 2010 at Lakeside First Baptist Church

Interview No. 1438, Sebastián Ruíz Ávila

Combined Interviews

Sebastian Ruíz Ávila lived there up until his late teens. He worked as baker helper in Matamores until he learned about the braceros. He worked at Lamesa, Texas. He was able to help his family back in México by working in the cotton fields everyday. His payment was based on the amount of cotton he would pick up. He worked 6 years as a bracero for the same person. Mr. Ruíz didn’t know English during his time working as a bracero. After having a family in Mexico, Mr. Ruíz stayed there working as a brick-maker. Then, he became a politician, …

Just One Child Wins Post-1900 Levenson Prize

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Though China Beat contributors come from around the globe, the blog’s editorial team is based at UC Irvine. For that reason, we take special pride in announcing that at last month’s Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, UCI Professor of Anthropology Susan Greenhalgh won the Joseph Levenson Prize for Best Book on China Post-1900. Professor Greenhalgh’s book, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China, was published by the University of California Press in 2008, and attempts to answer several questions that have permeated her work as a population specialist during the era of the one-child policy:

Why? Why …