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Wood, Jonathan, 1795-1873 (Sc 824), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Wood, Jonathan, 1795-1873 (Sc 824), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 824. Letter, 8 January 1865, from Jonathan Wood, Smithfield, Pennsylvania, to his son, Union soldier Pliny Wood. He writes with sympathy for the soldiers’ hardships, instructs him on saving postage, criticizes the privileges of congressmen, expresses contempt for the treason of Jefferson Davis and the Confederates, and remarks on the suffering of prisoners of war at Andersonville, Georgia; nevertheless, he hopes for reconciliation with ordinary Southerners after their defeat and repentance.

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Ground, Frankie, 1930-2020 (Sc 822), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Ground, Frankie, 1930-2020 (Sc 822), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 822. Three autograph albums of Frankie Ground, Warren County, Kentucky, containing signatures of classmates, teachers, friends, and family from Three Forks Schools, 1941-1944 (two separate albums), and North Warren High School, 1949.

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Green County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 775), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Green County, Kentucky - Records (Sc 775), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 775. Photocopies of Kentucky state militia captaincy commission of Daniel Williams, which was signed by Governor Christopher Greenup, 1805; and broadside informing slave owners to enroll their slaves in Greensburg, Kentucky, 1863.

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Valentines (Sc 830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Valentines (Sc 830), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 830. Original handcut valentine with poetry written in circular fashion to William [Carson?], ca. 1850. Also included is typescript of the text.

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Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950 (Sc 829), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950 (Sc 829), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 829. Correspondence between Belmont Forsythe, University City, Missouri, and Harold Joseph Laski, London, England, July-August 1949, including comments on American entrance into World War II; letter from William Ebenstein, Princeton, New Jersey, to Forsythe, 12 September 1949, discussing Laski’s visit to the United States and relevant biographical entries, 1948.

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Ragland, Florence, 1861-1949 (Sc 827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Ragland, Florence, 1861-1949 (Sc 827), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 827. Fairview Cemetery, Bowling Green, Kentucky, lot certificate of A. J. Ragland estate, 6 April 1906. Also included is a typescript copy of Florence Ragland’s obituary, 1949.

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Williams, Thomas (Sc 776), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Williams, Thomas (Sc 776), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 776. Survey, 2 November 1793, done for John McAdams for 100 acres of land on the Big Barren River, which was awarded by a military warrant and assigned to Thomas Williams.

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Gerard, Camilla Herdman, 1895-1977 - Letters To (Sc 826), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Gerard, Camilla Herdman, 1895-1977 - Letters To (Sc 826), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 826. Original unsigned letter written to Camilla Herdman Gerard, Bowling Green, Kentucky, describing the 1937 Louisville, Kentucky flood as the female writer experienced it. She expresses her thanks for Gerard’s hospitality in bringing her to Bowling Green to provide for her. Also included are a typed copy of the letter and a photocopy of two photographs showing the flood’s damage (original photographs are housed in the Gerard Photo Collection).

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Taliaferro, Lucy, 1844?-1893? (Sc 828), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Taliaferro, Lucy, 1844?-1893? (Sc 828), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 828. Letter, 19 October 1892, from Lucy Taliaferro, Nashville, Tennessee, to Harriet “Hattie” Taliaferro and Nannie regarding her plans for returning to the Shaker community at South Union, Kentucky. Includes biographical data on Harriet Taliaferro compiled by her grandson, Clem L. Pope.

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Hancock, Elizabeth Ann (Moore), B. 1924 (Sc 906), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Hancock, Elizabeth Ann (Moore), B. 1924 (Sc 906), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 906. New Year’s greeting, designed using family members’ photos, of Elizabeth Ann (Moore) Hancock, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Constance Mills, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and data about each family member’s 1993 activities. Mrs. Hancock is the daughter of Kentucky author Janice Holt Giles.

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25425 & 20500: Zip Codes For A Revolution, John M. Rudy Jan 2013

25425 & 20500: Zip Codes For A Revolution, John M. Rudy

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

I put on my coat and headed out the door today around lunchtime. My excuse was to grab a sandwich to munch on at my desk, but I was really hunting something very different. The Post Office is right along High Street down the block from work and Tuesday was the first day they've been open this year. [excerpt]

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Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 (Sc 819), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 (Sc 819), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 819. Facsimile of letter, 22 September 1814, written by Robert Fulton, New York, to Governor Isaac Shelby, Frankfort, Kentucky, requesting militia or volunteers to assist in the removal of the steamboat Vesuvius from a sandbar 200 miles below the mouth of the Ohio River. He also expresses fear of an Indian attack.

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Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 818), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Bramlette, Thomas Elliott, 1817-1875 (Sc 818), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 818. Facsimile of proclamation issued by Governor Thomas Elliott Bramlette to the people of Kentucky, to observe 4 May 1865 as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer because of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

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Drawn Out In Love: Religious Experience, The Public Sphere, And Evangelical Lay Women's Writing In Eighteenth Century England, Andrew O. Winckles Jan 2013

Drawn Out In Love: Religious Experience, The Public Sphere, And Evangelical Lay Women's Writing In Eighteenth Century England, Andrew O. Winckles

Wayne State University Dissertations

"Drawn Out in Love: Religious Experience, the Public Sphere, and Evangelical Lay Women's Writing in Eighteenth Century England" explores the writing of eighteenth century evangelical lay women in print, poetry, and educational material. Through careful attention to both the content and materiality of their texts I reveal how the women of the evangelical revival used subjective spiritual experience as an impetus for entry into the public discourses of print, and in turn, how their religious narratives were shaped by these discourses. Chapters on women's conversion narratives, moral literature for children, and religious poetry demonstrate the ways that personal spiritual experience …

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"Il Signor Mengele Di Bolzano": L'Alto Adige Come Via Di Fuga Dei Criminali Nazisti (1945-1951), Gerald Steinacher Jan 2013

"Il Signor Mengele Di Bolzano": L'Alto Adige Come Via Di Fuga Dei Criminali Nazisti (1945-1951), Gerald Steinacher

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Il tecnico altoatesino Richard Klement, il meccanico bolzanino Helmut Gregor: apparentemente semplici cittadini emigrati in Argentina dopo le devastazioni della seconda guerra mondiale. Ma questi nomi ne celano altri ben più noti: Adolf Eichmann e Josef Mengele. Sono solo due delle migliaia di nazisti che dopo la sconfitta, attraverso l'Alto Adige e il porto di Genova, riuscirono a raggiungere terre più sicure come Spagna, Sudamerica, Medio Oriente. Eichmann e Mengele si erano avvalsi per la loro fuga oltreoceano nel 1950 di documenti rilasciati loro in Alto Adige dopo aver assunto una nuova identità. Perché il prototipo del "burocrate dello sterminio" …

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Book Review Of Schubert, Täufertum Und Kabbalah. Augustin Bader Und Die Grenzen Der Radikalen Reformation, Stephen G. Burnett Jan 2013

Book Review Of Schubert, Täufertum Und Kabbalah. Augustin Bader Und Die Grenzen Der Radikalen Reformation, Stephen G. Burnett

Department of History: Faculty Publications

August Bader has traditionally been considered one of the most bizarre figures of the Radical Reformation, but Schubert argues that his messianic consciousness is an understandable outgrowth of both the apocalyptic thought of his teacher Hans Hut and also Jewish Kabbalistic thought. After experiencing several visions, Bader became convinced that he was a prophet and ultimately, in 1530, the Messiah (p. 14). He had special clothing and regalia of gold made to befit his status, which his accusers took to mean that he was a would-be political rebel as well as a heretic (p. 248). Using the interrogation records from …

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A Testament To Power: Mary Woolsey And Dolores Rodriguez As Trial Witnesses In Arizona's Early Statehood, Katrina Jagodinsky Jan 2013

A Testament To Power: Mary Woolsey And Dolores Rodriguez As Trial Witnesses In Arizona's Early Statehood, Katrina Jagodinsky

Department of History: Faculty Publications

In 1913, two women made history when they testified before the all-white, all-male jury of the Superior Court of Yavapai County in the State of Arizona v. Juan Fernandez murder trial. Mary Woolsey, an elderly Yavapai widow, and Dolores Rodriguez, a Mexican single mother of three, established the legal precedent for allowing non-English-speaking, non-citizen women to testify in state courts in Arizona when many other western states still did not grant such privileges to indigenous residents. Woolsey and Rodriguez showed that Arizona's indigenous population were competent, if somewhat problematic, members of Arizona's body politic, and their historic involvement in the …

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Front Matter Jan 2013

Front Matter

Quidditas

No abstract provided.

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On Reading Julian Of Norwich, Luke William Mills Jan 2013

On Reading Julian Of Norwich, Luke William Mills

Quidditas

This essay focuses on Julian’s intended audience, claiming that it is more limited than one might at first assume. This leads to a discussion of Julian’s use of paradox, her abrupt changes in modes of discourse, and the conclusion that unless her work is read according to the Augustinian rubric of love, it will be misunderstood.

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Herreshoff Marine Museum: Historical Analysis, Jake Getz, Dylan Matteo, Alexander Rudkin, Arnold Robinson, Susan Bosco Jan 2013

Herreshoff Marine Museum: Historical Analysis, Jake Getz, Dylan Matteo, Alexander Rudkin, Arnold Robinson, Susan Bosco

History

These methods that Herreshoff utilized can be classified as early stages of the LEAN manufacturing concept which is used today in a majority of America’s leading manufacturers. Herreshoff made sure that his entire inventory was used and nothing was wasted. By reducing/eliminating waste, Nat preserved the value of his products and increased the efficiency of operation.

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Reliance: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Arnold Robinson, George Dalton, Sean Damico, Eric Doremus, Brian Fortier, Jeffrey Goncalo, Arthur Lee Jan 2013

Reliance: Herreshoff Marine Museum, Arnold Robinson, George Dalton, Sean Damico, Eric Doremus, Brian Fortier, Jeffrey Goncalo, Arthur Lee

Engineering and Construction Management

The Roger Williams University Reliance team is working in cooperation with the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, RI to create a 1/6th scale model of the 1901 Americas Cup defender, the Reliance. The project can be broken up into two sub-projects. The first, to design a museum-quality cradle to hold the 24ft fully rigged model at a 15O angle. The second sub-project is to perform full strength/structural analysis of all the critical components on the model to ensure that their strength is great enough to withstand the applied forces. This second sub-project is going to be the focus of the …

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An Identification Of The Last Battlefield Of The Civil War And Its Preservation, Richard Gardiner Jan 2013

An Identification Of The Last Battlefield Of The Civil War And Its Preservation, Richard Gardiner

Faculty Bibliography

No abstract provided.

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Book Review: Robert Oppenheimer: A Life In The Center, By R. Monk, Paul Rubinson Jan 2013

Book Review: Robert Oppenheimer: A Life In The Center, By R. Monk, Paul Rubinson

History Faculty Publications

Review of the book Robert Oppenheimer: A Life in the Center, by R. Monk.

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'How Very Wrong They Are, How Little They Know:' Diary-Keeping, Private Anguish, Public Bodies, And Modern Female Subjectivity, Margaret A. Lowe Jan 2013

'How Very Wrong They Are, How Little They Know:' Diary-Keeping, Private Anguish, Public Bodies, And Modern Female Subjectivity, Margaret A. Lowe

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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A History Of The Early Fairfield Town Lots, Timothy H. Smith Jan 2013

A History Of The Early Fairfield Town Lots, Timothy H. Smith

Adams County History

In 1732 Charles Carroll of Maryland received a grant of 5000 acres of land in present Adams County, Pennsylvania, from the authorities of Maryland. Soon after, a survey of that land, known as “Carroll’s Tract” or “Carroll’s Delight,” was conducted. At that point in time there was still some dispute over the location of the boundary between the two states. A temporary line was agreed upon in 1739, and a more permanent line (very near that temporary boundary) was surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon during the 1760s. And even though it was established that Carroll’s Tract was in …

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Southeasterly Town Lot Histories Of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, Timothy H. Smith Jan 2013

Southeasterly Town Lot Histories Of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, Timothy H. Smith

Adams County History

Each lot history give the original lot number, original owner, the current address, the owner of the lot in 1860, a description of the lot or dwelling in 1860, a recital of ownership with as much detail as is known, a comprehensive lot history, any known residents in 1860 (may be different than lot owner), and any family notes on any residents mentioned in the lot history. The research is comprehensive, but not necessarily exhaustive. Thorough information for all lots was not always available to the researcher.

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Adams County History 2013 Jan 2013

Adams County History 2013

Adams County History

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Presentation Of The Early Fairfield Town Lots, Timothy H. Smith Jan 2013

Presentation Of The Early Fairfield Town Lots, Timothy H. Smith

Adams County History

What follows is a preliminary study of the Fairfield town lots, focusing on the owners and appearance of the lots up through the American Civil War. Because the existing records are sporadic, some of the lots were more difficult to research than others and will require further research at some future time. This was anticipated going into the project. But it is hoped that this study will provide a foundation for that future research. Undoubtedly, there are many surviving Fairfield deeds still in private hands. It is anticipated that this study will bring attention to the subject and lead to …

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Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 1-2, Horry County Historical Society Jan 2013

Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 1-2, Horry County Historical Society

The Independent Republic Quarterly

A journal of the Horry County Historical Society, Conway, S.C. Contains local history articles and information covering the entire county. ISSN:0046-8843.

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Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 3-4, Horry County Historical Society Jan 2013

Independent Republic Quarterly, 2013, Vol. 47, No. 3-4, Horry County Historical Society

The Independent Republic Quarterly

A journal of the Horry County Historical Society, Conway, S.C. Contains local history articles and information covering the entire county. ISSN:0046-8843.

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