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Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 39, February 4, 2010, Grand Valley State University

Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 10, 2010

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

American Commemorative Panels: Distinguished Sailors, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Informational page for Distinguished Sailors (Doris Miller) Commemorative Stamp – American Commemoratives Panels, includes images of the stamps, information about the physical stamp and information about the Distinguished Sailors (Doris Miller). First issued February 4, 2010.

Six Takes On Martin Jacques, Jeffrey Wasserstrom

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

I have a commentary that’s just appeared online at time.com (it’s in print as well in Time Asia’s February 8 issue), in which I focus on the distinction between what I call “Big China Books” (with “titles that cry out to be put in bold type”) and the quite different works that take a “worm’s eye” rather than “bird’s eye” view of the country, and which usually avoid predictive assertions. I state my preference for the latter genre, which I call forays into “scholarly reporting,” taking my cue fromAndrew Ross.

While I mention several books falling into each category, the …

Smiths Grove Presbyterian Church - Smiths Grove, Kentucky (Mss 304), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 304. Minute books of Smiths Grove Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of meetings (1857-1974) and registers of deacons, elders, members, baptisms, marriages and deaths. Also includes a special 1924 edition of the "Smiths Grove Times."

South, Lillian Harreld, 1879-1966 (Sc 2180), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2180. Application to secure historical highway marker for Bowling Green, Kentucky native Lillian H. South, a female physician with a distinguished career as State Bacteriologist with the Kentucky State Board of Health. Includes application and supporting material.

Logan County, Kentucky - Election Certificates (Sc 2177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2177. Two election certificates from different precincts in Logan County, Kentucky, verifying tallied votes for election of state and local officials held on 9 May 1903. The totals are filled in and the certificates are signed by election officials.

Kirby, Jacob Quince, Sr., B. 1875 (Sc 2169), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2169. Letter from Jacob Quince Kirby, Sr., a former city clerk, to Mary (Taylor) Moore, describing his efforts to transfer old records of the City of Bowling Green to the Kentucky Library. Includes some incidents of Kirby family history.

Mrs. Hattie Mae Brown Lee

African American Funeral Programs

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Excesses Of The Super Bowl, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

From its modest beginnings in 1966 at the AFL-NFL Championship Game in Los Angeles down to Super Bowl XLIV, it has become increasingly apparent that Super Sunday has grown exponentially and in the process has become a bloated monster. Over the past quarter century or more Super Sunday has illustrated the ability of a sporting event to offer a distorted and exaggerated version of social reality and social values in America and the Super Bowl has done this on a grand, glorious, and obscene scale.

Coming Distractions: Country Driving, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

I made my initial foray into China studies in the fall of 2000, when I took a course called “Travelers in History.” Beginning with The Travels of Marco Polo, we moved forward through the centuries, reading a sampling of China-related travel narratives as well as works by historians looking back at those who had journeyed to and from China (such as The Question of Hu by Jonathan Spence and Peter Hopkirk’s Foreign Devils on the Silk Road). For the “modern” period, we read Paul Theroux’sRiding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China(1988). Although I thoroughly enjoyed Theroux’s book, and thought …

Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee (Bouvier), 1929-1994 (Sc 2166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full text of card (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2166. Printed card of thanks sent to A. C. Wareham, Bowling Green, Kentucky from Mrs. Kennedy, New York, expressing her appreciation for an expression of sympathy after her husband's assassination. The card and envelope were laminated.

Kentucky Building - Guest Book (Sc 2167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2167. Guest book kept for the Kentucky Building at its opening in 1939 and for special events. The book was donated by the Western Kentucky State Teachers College class of 1935. It is housed in a tooled leather slipcover featuring the seal of Kentucky and inscribed "Distinguished Guests, The Kentucky Building."

Koger, Sara Jane (Crabtree), 1890-1991 - Collector (Sc 2172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2172. Pastor's report from Charles Driver, "preacher in charge of Byrdstown Circuit" in Tennessee, 1900; family photographs (2); and incomplete letter from G.W. Franklin to Sara Jane Koger, his niece, giving information about his family.

Lampkin, Clifton Wallace, 1884-1959 (Sc 2173), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2173. Materials related to Clifton Wallace Lampkin, the mayor of Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1953-1959. Includes correspondence, award certificates and appreciations of his philanthropy, a photograph, and a resolution passed on his death by American National Bank and Trust Company. Also includes letters from two post-World War II refugees thanking him for aid packages.

Book Review: The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers In Interwar Japan. By Ken C. Kawashima, Jinhee Lee

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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Golo Mann: A Literary Historian, Axel Fair-Schulz

Swiss American Historical Society Review

T he German Postal system honored the 100th anniversary of Golo Mann's birth in 2009 with a new stamp, which displayed his face with the caption Literarischer Historiker, meaning literary historian. This apt description captures much about the essence of his thinking and work as a historian, as he was a uniquely gifted writer and thus bridged the gap between scholarly historical research and thoughtfully composed literature. In addition to Germany, Switzerland also lays claim to Golo Mann , as he had lived there for many years after returning from American :xile, when Nazi Germany was finally defeated by the …

Jean-Rene Bory, 1928s-2009

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The Foundation for the History of the Swiss Abroad has lost its "founding father" and former president. Jean-Rene Bory died peacefully on 28 June 2008 at his home in Coppet (Vaud, Switzerland) after a series of years in which recurrent health problems forced him to substantially reduce his workload.

Karl Friedrich Meyer, 1884-1974, Urs Gessner

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Karl Friedrich Meyer, the veterinarian scientist, the medical microbiologist and pathologist,theecologist,theepidemiologist, the public health promoter, and inspiring teache-the Swiss genius in the USAwhat an incredibly active, brilliant, and prodigious personality he was!

Table Of Contents

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Centers For Excellence 2010: We Succeed When Our Student Succeed, Lindenwood University

University Documents

Promotional booklet for Lindenwood University.

Ada News - 02/01/2010, 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.

The Chanticleer, 2010-02-01, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

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

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 2149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2149. Letter from Robert Edward Lee to Colonel Robert P. Blount, Provost Marshal at Guiney Depot [Guiney's Station], Virginia. Lee instructs him to hold the position, declines to provide artillery support, and refers to the transportation of prisoners. Includes copies of Confederate postage stamps and currency. Poor quality photostatic copy.

The Battle Of Murten, Albert Winkler

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Frequent warfare was a harsh political reality in central Europe in the late Middle Ages as ambitious states tried to extend their power and influence by attacking and subjugating other territories. As a result of this frequent aggression, success on the battlefield was necessary for the survival and independence of many nations and peoples, including the Swiss Confederation. The most critical threat to the existence of the Swiss alliance in the fifteenth century was the invasion in1476 by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, one of the most powerful rulers in Europe. In two stunning victories, Granson (Grandson in German), …

A Special Tercentennial Invitation, H. Dwight Page

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Ir is with great joy that I, Dr. Dwight Page, Editor of the Swiss American Historical Society Review and a native of Laurinburg, North Carolina, invite you all to a very special meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society in New Bern, North Carolina, on Saturday, December 11, 2010, in honor of the Tercentenary of New Bern.

Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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History @ Eiu (February 2010), History

History at Eastern

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Book Review: The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers In Interwar Japan. By Ken C. Kawashima, Jinhee Lee

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

The Experience Of The 756th Tank Battalion In World War Two: A Microcosm, Scott Millenbach

Senior Theses

December 7, 1941, "a day which will live in infamy," was the moment that the United States was plunged into the largest conflict that the world had ever seen. The sovereignty of the United States was being threatened at two ends of the globe by tyrannical leaders on the continent of Europe and the islands of the Pacific. In the years to come, the U.S. would have to fight to stop the spread of Emperor Hirohito's army in the Pacific and Hitler's Nazi Wermacht in Europe. It would take all the resources our mighty country could muster and the fighting …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 19, February 1, 2010, Grand Valley State University

2009-2010, Volume 34

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.