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Potential Conflict: The Confluence Of Race And Economics During The Administration Of Ernest 'Fritz' Hollings, 1959-1963, Phillip Mullinnix

All Theses

This work is about the administration of South Carolina Governor Ernest 'Fritz' Hollings, who served as the state's chief executive from 1959-1963. It specifically deals with his plans for industrial and economic development and how the civil rights movement and integration impacted those plans. The thesis of this work is that the Hollings administration devised a peaceful solution to racial integration that left the state's industrial and economic development pursuits unharmed and untarnished. This work deals with the persistence of poverty and lack of development that plagued the state following the Civil War and the importance and need for development …

The Last Victorian Knight: A Study Of T.E. Lawrence And The Arab Revolt, Nancy Nicole Nicholls

Master's Theses

Despite the enormous amount ofliterature written about T.E. Lawrence and his exploits in Arabia, he continues to be one of the most mysterious and elusive figures in modern history. Historians have analyzed almost every aspect of Lawrence's life from his early childhood to his death in 1935. Lawrence's upbringing in the late Victorian era shaped his outlook on life as it did for many men of his generation, but Lawrence saw the contradictions of Victorian society and pushed the boundaries of acceptable behavior for men of his class. Lawrence was not a masculine paradigm of the traditional hypermasculine constructs of …

The Solitary Place Shall Be Glad For Them: Understanding And Treating Mormon Pioneer Gardens As Cultural Landscapes, Emily Anne Brooksby Wheeler

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The gardens of early Mormon pioneers are a unique cultural resource in the western United States, but little guidance has been provided for understanding or providing landscape treatments for Mormon landscapes. Mormon pioneers came to Utah and the Great Basin to escape religious persecution and build their own holy kingdom. In relative geographical isolation, they built towns that have a distinctive character delineating a Mormon cultural region in the West. Self-sufficiency was an important feature of these towns and of the religious culture of early Mormons, both because of their geographical isolation and their desire to be independent of the …

Recreating Religion: The Response To Joseph Smith’S Innovations In The Second Prophetic Generation Of Mormonism, Christopher James Blythe

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, was assassinated. In the wake of his death, a number of would-be
successors emerged. Each of these leaders - part of what I call the second prophetic
generation - established a unique vision of Mormonism.

In 1844, Mormonism was in the middle of a major shift in its character. Joseph
Smith’s death left numerous theological and practical questions unresolved. This thesis argues that, rather than merely a succession struggle of competition and power, a principal function of the second prophetic generation in Mormonism …

A New, Post-Lee Kuan Yew Era, Tan K. B. Eugene

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Eugene Tan, asst prof of law at SMU writes a commentary on Minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew's departure and how it reinforces the belief that the Singapore systems is based on institutions, not personalities.

Mr. Jerry Love Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

Funeral Program for Mr. Jerry Love Sr. on April 30, 2011 at Historic Mt. Pleasant M.B. Church

Reverend Leon Alex Lee, Jr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Hendricks, John, D. 1814 (Sc 168), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 168. Certified transcripts (1856), of Warren (County, Kentucky) Circuit Court records for two lawsuits involving title to land: James Bell v. John Hendrick (1815, commenced 1806) and George M. Bibb v. John Hendrick (1816, commenced 1815 against Hendrick's heirs).

Trevathan, Ben Lomond, 1894-1967 (Sc 2445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2445.  Letter of Ben Lomond Trevathan, cashier of the Bank of Marshall County, Benton, Kentucky, to members of the Dark Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association.  The letter refers to the bank’s financing of a proposed warehouse and its lending practices to growers, and solicits growers’ patronage.

A “Revolution Of The People”: Developing The Social Context Of The American Revolution, Alex Jablonski

Honors Projects

No abstract provided.

The Answer To A Maiden’S Prayer: Homer Cummings And The Origins Of The 1937 Court Packing Plan, Jason Carmichael

Theses and Dissertations

On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt submitted to Congress “The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1937,” often simply called the Court-packing bill. The president hoped to circumvent the Court, which for years had been overturning New Deal programs, by appointing six new justices. However, the bill disguised its true intentions behind a veil of improving judicial efficiency. This misdirection backfired; the bill failed and Roosevelt’s popularity plummeted just months after a landslide reelection. This thesis examines the origins of the infamous Court-packing bill. It argues that Roosevelt was largely a background figure in the development of the plan, as he …

Kevin Lee Brown

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Watwood, Warren G., 1922-1996 - Collector (Sc 167), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 167. Civil War disability exemption certificate of Felix Crady, LaRue County, Kentucky, 1864; Simpson County, Kentucky deed, 1868; statement of Nazareth College, Nelson County, Kentucky, 1868; and an agreement concerning construction of the foundation for Franklin Female College, Franklin, Kentucky.

Conversations With West Memphis: A Sense Of Place And Heritage, Simon Rosewall Hosken

Student Theses and Dissertations

When Crittenden Memorial Hospital opened in 1951, it was the first hospital in Arkansas to be constructed with Hill-Burton funds. Using various sources I wanted to investigate why the hospital had been built in this small but growing city. Well into this research, however, circumstance unfolded that precluded access to hospital documents and records. As the analysis of the hospital ended I expanded the project to address the larger community of West Memphis. I investigated the impact of the hospital upon the locals' sense of place and heritage and sought to ascertain whether the racial tolerance implied by the newspaper …

Mckenzie, George Anna (Duncan), B. 1935 (Sc 2442), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2442.  Reminiscences of George Anna (Duncan) McKenzie from her early childhood in Bowling Green, Kentucky to 2010.  Includes information about her parents and husband and her work in catering and fashion merchandising.  Eventually she and her husband returned to Bowling Green and restored an old family home and operated it as a bed and breakfast.

The Economics Of The Atomic Bomb: Cost And Utilization, Jonathan M. Davis Mr.

Senior Honors Theses

Few moments in human history can be compared to the culmination of events that brought the atomic bomb into creation.  It is incredible to contemplate that while a nation was fighting a two front war that spanned from Europe into the Pacific, that the United States was able to utilize the time, energy, brains, materials, manpower, and capital to complete a project in four years. That under any other circumstances would have taken greater than half a century to complete.

First, this thesis will discuss breakthroughs in research that led scientists to believe that the atomic weapons could be built, …

Victor Garcia Interview For A Wright State University History Course, Elise Kelly, Victor Garcia

Dayton and Miami Valley Oral History Project

On April 28, 2011 Elise Kelly interviewed Victor Garcia, a former professor and president of the non-profit Del Pueblo Inc., for a class project dealing with oral histories and capturing the history of the Miami Valley. During the interview Victor discussed arrival in the United States, his work at Antioch as a professor, and his community work with Del Pueblo Inc.

How To Interpret History To The Sci-Fi Fan: My Favorite Civil War Novel, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

I often struggled to find an answer to the comment often leveled by visitors that, "they were so backward back then," or that, "we know so much more now." Getting across the fact to visitors that much of science, especially the basics of Newtonian physics and electromagnetic, has been understood at their elemental level for generations is sometimes a tough order of business. I found myself at times trying to explain Alessandro Volta's invention of the Voltaic battery in 1800 or the use of the Turtle during the American Revolution. Still, compared to the explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the …

Lois Carolyn Hayes Taylor

African American Funeral Programs

Lois_-Carolyn-_Hayes_Taylor.pdf - Funeral program for Lois Carolyn Hayes Taylor

The Grizzly, April 28, 2011, Katie Callahan, Allison Nichols, Liz Kilmer, Taylor Sparks, Lisa Jobe, Sara Hourwitz, Laura Faith, Ryan Sullivan, Jeff Centafont, Sarah Bollert, Brooke Haley, Sara Sherr, Kyu Chul Shin, Nick Pane

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

New U Hosts "Spring Into Wellness" Month • College Campuses are a Hotbed for Theft • Take a Little Break with Activities from Around Collegeville • Relay for Life Benefits American Cancer Society • Active Minds Hosts Art Festival • Senior Reflection: The Past was Worth the Future • Students Uncover Papers from the Third Reich • Internship Spotlight: Sierra Guerin • Opinions: The Magic is in the Turning of the Page; Books and Electronic Books can Coexist; A New (Satirical) Take on Racial (In)equality at Ursinus • Looking Past Senioritis: Importance of Giving Back to UC • Senior Spotlight: …

Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 - Collector (Sc 2443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2443. Letter, 17 October 1863, to Ellen Fort from two Confederate soldiers imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Illinois; correspondence of Nell Bate Baird regarding her membership in the American Federation of Musicians, 1930; and 1936 federal income tax return of H. H. Baird and Nell Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Heckscher, Robert Valantine, 1883-1928 (Sc 2444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2444. Letter of English poet Robert Valantine Heckscher, postmarked 5 January 1914, to Curtis H. Page, a professor of English at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He thanks Page for praise of his book of poems, Rose Windows, and contrasts its favorable reception by the public and literary community with that of the general press.

Jennings, Oscar Ben, 1907-1996 (Mss 366), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 366.  Personal correspondence, news clippings, estate video, event programs, and sundry materials collected by Oscar Ben Jennings of Henderson, Kentucky.  Several folders of material relate to the 50th reunion of the Barret Manual Training High School class of 1925.  Also includes information about the Henderson Rotary Club.

Stark Family Papers (Sc 166), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 166. Letter from Elizabeth Stark Alvis, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Alfred Leland Crabb, Nashville, Tennessee, with biographical information on her father, John W. Stark, and his descendants. Includes biographical and genealogical material on the Stark family of Allen County, Kentucky and Pike County, Missouri.

Phillips, Clem Benjamin, 1894-1970 (Mss 365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 365.  Letters of Clem Benjamin Phillips of St. Peters, Missouri, written during his World War I military training in Kansas and New Jersey and while serving in France.  Includes correspondence of other Phillips family members and relatives.

The Chanticleer, 2011-04-25, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

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

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 035, Number 31, April 25, 2011, Grand Valley State University

2010-2011, Volume 35

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

An Evening With Madame F: Performance By Claudia Stevens [Poster], University Of Northern Iowa. Center For Holocaust And Genocide Education.

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Documents

A poster announcing a performance of An Evening with Madame F. created and performed by Claudia Stevens.

Lanthorn, Vol. 45, No. 60, April 25, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 45, July 8, 2010 - June 9, 2011

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

Annie Lee Jackson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.