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Female Sexism, Tasha Choi, Sirikwan Pitalkwaltanakul

Festival of Communities: UG Symposium (Posters)

Sexism in the sciences is not just relevant to the sciences but in all fields of study. Woman are steadily on the rise, many going to college, and much more graduating with a degree in sciences and other male dominated fields. But despite the increase of female academic success, there are still fewer females in careers like science and professorship. Many factors contribute to sexism in the sciences, those factors being motherhood and family commitments, social interactions of female and male from early youth, social barriers in the field, and possible biological theories.

Exploratory Studies Into Possible Uses Of Calcareous Dolostone On The Shivwits Plateau, Jennifer Durk, Lauren Falvey, Karen G. Harry

Festival of Communities: UG Symposium (Posters)

Excavations at pueblo habitation sites on the Shivwits Plateau suggest that calcareous dolostone was regularly procured and used by the inhabitants of the Mt. Dellenbaugh region. Calcareous dolostone, a soft, powdery calcium carbonate, is not local to these sites but was presumably procured from somewhere beneath the rim of the Grand Canyon. In this poster, we present the results of exploratory experiments into possible uses of this resource. Specifically, we evaluate the performance characteristics of powdered dolostone with reference to two activities: pigment production and ceramic manufacture.

Governor Wise's War: Loose Lips (Part 2), John M. Rudy

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

When last we left Ex-Governor Henry Wise, he was exceedingly impatient at the Virginia secession convention's failure to act immediately and swiftly after the firing on Fort Sumter. The power broker who had stared down John Brown now called upon personal loyalties to get the job done where politics had failed. An account by John Imboden has the Governor querying the future Brigadier General, asking whether he remembered the charge Wise made upon presenting two brass cannon to a Staunton militia unit. Imboden recalled the Governor had told him, "he was bound to obey the call of Wise for those …

Maria Juanita Goeser Interview For A Wright State University History Course, Elise Kelly, Maria Juanita Goeser

Dayton and Miami Valley Oral History Project

On April 15, 2011 Elise Kelly interviewed Maria Juanita Goeser, for a class project dealing with oral histories and capturing the history of the Miami Valley. During the interview Maria discussed her childhood, working in Texas after college, her work with the Ohio Bureau of Employment, and more.

Browne Family - Account Book, 1872-1948 (Sc 211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 211. Account book that lists expenditures for Edmonia, Susie, and James Harvey Browne of Bardstown, 1872-1884; also, for Mary Marshall and Susie Beauchamp, 1882-1884. Book includes the will of Sue Browne Elliott, recipes, and a tuition receipt from the Bardstown Female Academy, 1873. A 1948 letter relates to the Browne family.

Metcalfe, Thomas, 1780-1855 (Sc 215), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 215. Appointment of William Guthrie as sheriff of Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Thomas Metcalfe, 13 November 1831? Kentucky state seal is affixed.

A Community Giving A Helping Hand: Tri-State District Tornado, Andrew Prater

Theory and Practice: HIST430

On the evening of February 24, 1935, a deadly tornado ravaged through the Tri-State District towns of Commerce, Douthat, Picher, Hockerville, Ok, Shoal Creek, Stapleton, MO, and Baxter Springs, KS. The total number of people impacted from the rare February tornado totaled 286. This disaster did not happen at an ordinary time in history, it happened at a time when many families were struggling to feed and cloth their families and at a time when the national unemployment rate exceeded twenty-five percent during the "Great Depression." During this time of great distress and unemployment, a community that was centered around …

Desha, Joseph, 1768-1842 (Sc 214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 214. Appointment of James Harlan as Justice of the Peace for Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Joseph Desha, 28 June 1827. The state seal of Kentucky is affixed.

Greenup, Christopher, 1750-1818 (Sc 213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 213. Appointment of Thomas Freeman as sheriff of Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor Christopher Greenup and Secretary of State John Rowan, 6 December 1804.

Adair, John, 1757-1840 (Sc 212), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 212.  Notary public commission of Gabriel Tandy, Mercer County, Kentucky, signed by Governor John Adair and Secretary of State Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, 8 November 1821.  The state seal of Kentucky is affixed.

Smith, Cornelia Stanley (Allen), B. 1839? (Sc 2437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2437.  Letters from various magazine editors, literary agents and publishers in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Rochester, New York and Augusta, Maine to Cornelia Stanley (Allen) Smith, who submitted prose and poetry under the pen name "Clio Stanley."

Gallaudet At 150: Chapter One, Meredith M. Peruzzi

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

No comprehensive history of Gallaudet University has been published since 1985. Although more recent works have focused on specific events since that time, it has been nearly 30 years since Gallaudet’s history has been examined as a whole. No book about Gallaudet’s history has ever been created for a general, non-academic audience, in an accessible, “coffee table” style. This book uses that format to present the first 16 years of the college’s existence with sections on Architecture, Academics, Student Life, and Notable People. It is the first chapter of a future publication that will honor the institution’s sesquicentennial anniversary.

Crusader, April 15, 2011, 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.

Lanthorn, Vol. 45, No. 57, April 14, 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.

Trail Blazer - Volume 87, Number 10, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on April 14, 2011.

Hymn To Freedom: Obama's 150th Proclamation, John M. Rudy

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

This post is about the President's proclamation on Tuesday. I was heartily pleased by this action from the White House. It phrasing brings to mind an intellectual fusion not unlike that crafted through Daniel Webster's 1830 pronouncement of, "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable." Certainly the 19th century conception of Liberty and our modern conception of the term, as adeptly pointed out in the most recent episode of Backstory with the American History Guys, are not the same. Still, Obama's proclamation keenly joins the two Northern war aims and war outcomes at the hip. "The meaning of …

The Grizzly, April 14, 2011, Katie Callahan, Jessica Long, Sara Sherr, Lisa Jobe, Sara Hourwitz, Allison Nichols, Sarah Bollert, Katie Haldeman, Joshua C. Walsh, Kyu Chul Shin, Anna Larouche

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Enjoys Sixth Annual CoSA Event • Students Participate in 30 Hour Famine • Haverford Professor Guest Lectures on Physics Theory • Dr. Ruth Rosenberg Speaks on Holocaust Remembrance • Ursinus Welcomes Patti Smith • Tips on Surviving and Salvaging Bad Internships • Hypnotist Brings Laughs • How to Avoid Allergy Season • Linking Up with LinkedIn • Internship Spotlight: Lindsay Budnick • Opinions: Response to Article "Segregation in the 21st Century"; Verizon's DroidX-R2D2 has Cool Features But is Not for Me; President Obama Sends CIA Agents to Libya • How Far Ursinus Goes to Keep Students Safe on Main …

My Adventures In Helicopters!, Dwayne Williams

ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program

Hear the remarkable story of a lifetime flying helicopters, from a flight test pilot for Bell, Heritage Aviation Ltd. and MD helicopters.

University Scholar Series: Jonathan Roth, Jonathan P. Roth

University Scholar Series

Roman Warfare

On April 13, 2011 Jonathan Roth spoke in the University Scholar Series hosted by Provost Gerry Selter at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Jonathan Roth is a Professor in the History Department at SJSU. In this seminar, he examines the evolution of Roman war over its thousand-year history. He highlights the changing arms and equipment of the soldiers, unit organization and command structure, and the wars and battles of each era.

Rosa Torres Caskey Interview For A Wright State University History Course, Elise Kelly, Rosa Torres Caskey

Dayton and Miami Valley Oral History Project

On April 13, 2011 Elise Kelly interviewed Rosa Torres Caskey, a coordinator for the Migrant Head Start Program in Piqua, Ohio, for a class project dealing with oral histories and capturing the history of the Miami Valley. During the interview Rosa discussed her early life in Texas, moving to Ohio, starting a chapter of LULAC in Ohio, and more.

Thompson, Harry Edgar, 1865-1964 (Sc 165), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 165. Materials related to education and teaching career of Harry Edgar Thompson. Includes commencement invitation and program of Southern Normal School, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1888; letters of recommendation, 1888-1893; Kentucky and Texas teaching certificates, 1885-1891; clippings; photographs; and autobiographical note, 1958, of Thompson, later a chiropractor in McPherson, Kansas.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 (Sc 164), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 164. “Love’s Calendar,” handwritten poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The Atlantic Monthly, of which Aldrich would later become editor, published the poem under the title “Snow” in its March 1866 issue.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 035, Number 29, April 11, 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.

Lanthorn, Vol. 45, No. 56, April 11, 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.

Allen, C. W. (Sc 206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 206. Photocopy of letter, 10 November 1868, written by C.W. and M.E. Allen, Big Coon, Alabama, to their cousin John W. Campbell. They comment on family matters as well as economic and political conditions in Alabama.

Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928 (Sc 2436), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2436. Letter of George Otto Trevelyan to Joseph H. Choate, 18 March 1912, written on the publication in the United States of Trevelyan’s book George the Third and Charles Fox. Trevelyan remarks on the book’s favorable reception in Britain and gives news of his family.

Smith, Benjamin Bosworth, 1794-1884 (Sc 209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 209. Letters, 10 July 1826 and 15 April 1835, from Benjamin Bosworth Smith, an Episcopal clergyman and first bishop of Kentucky, to Reverend and Mrs. T. Edson, Lowell, Massachusetts. The first letter relates to the printing of one of Edson’s sermons. In the second letter, Bosworth expresses his regrets in declining an invitation from the couple.

Farnsley, Alexander Pericles, 1832?-1906 (Sc 208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 208. Facsimiles of courtship letters from Alexander Farnsley, Louisville, Kentucky, to Mary E. E. Thurman, also of Louisville, and one of her replies. They both comment on the growing sectional feeling and the approaching Civil War. Also includes a 1962 newspaper article related to the letters, written by a Farnsley descendant.

Kentucky Council On Archives (Mss 364), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 364. Correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, photographs and audiotapes regarding the Kentucky Council on Archives, a statewide professional organization for archivists, records managers, manuscript curators, and others interested in the preservation and use of public records and manuscript collections in Kentucky.

Richardson, Lewis George, 1829-1906 (Sc 207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 207. Copy of 1 February 1852 letter from Lewis George Richardson, a medical student at the University of Louisville, to his father, Reverend George Richardson, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky. He writes of his schooling, the Louisville winter, and his prospects for the future. Also includes a biographical sketch of Dr. Richardson written by a grandchild.