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Martin L. Stoever: Moving His Abolition Needle, John M. Rudy

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

Two letters appeared in the Lutheran and Missionary in the late summer of 1864 signed, "M.L.S."

The summer session had ended at Pennsylvania College. The campus was quiet, the classrooms were empty. For professors at the college, the brief breaks between semesters were a much-needed respite from the daily grind of professorial life. Any sane professor would use the few brief moments to unwind. [excerpt]

The Grizzly, October 10, 2013, Sabrina Mcgettigan, John Parry, Dana Feigenbaum, Bethany Mitchell, Nicholas Dimuzio, Amanda Frekot, Shawn Hartigan, Adebayo Adeyemo, Mary Deliberti, Briana Keane, Deana Harley

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Annual Ursinus College Crime Report Released • Homecoming 2013 Preview • Religious Faith on Campus • Student Affairs' New Mission Statement • Student Retention • Ursinus' Grizzly Gala Returns • CSCG Features Speaker • Opinion: Ursinus Curates its Web Presence Poorly; We All Need the Stress Management Course • Carty Balances Football and Pre-Law • Golf Prepares for Spring During Fall Season • Football Sits at 5-0, Men's Soccer Takes a Loss

Clagett, John Gay, 1818-1899 (Mss 481), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 481. Account book of John Gay Clagett, Rough Springs, Grayson County, Kentucky, primarily for sales of agricultural products. Includes business correspondence and loose items found therein.

Man’S Quest For Freedom: A Case Study Of The Belgian Patriot Count Egmont, Benjamin A. Johnson, Dr. Donald Harreld

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My goal was to investigate the significance of the beheading of Count Lamoral Egmont, a popular Dutch patriot who opposed foreign Spanish rule in Brussels in the late sixteenth century. Egmont, chief magistrate of the southern Netherlands, stood for tolerating Protestants and was executed for opposing the Spanish overlords. Egmont’s death largely mobilized the Dutch speaking peoples’ desire for independence from Philip II, the Spanish king.

Most Maimonides: A Study Of How Islamic Society Helped To Produce Judaism’S Most Influential Philosopher Of The Middle Ages, James Duncan Gilchrist, Dr. Glen Cooper

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Mahmood Darwiish, a contemporary Palestinian poet, described what Al-Andalus (an area of Muslim Spain, now called Andalusia) meant to its last inhabitants before the Spanish reconquista, in his poem, In the Last Night upon this Land. He describes it as a beautiful country of mountains and clouds, on the brink of occupation by invaders from afar. Although a long siege had been fought, fate ultimately transferred ownership to the invaders. Unprepared to depart, yet forced to by circumstances, Darwish offers a strange hospitality to the invaders as if he himself was a resident at the time. He invites them to …

You Can’T Fire Me; I Quit! South Africa And The Common Wealth Nations, Audrey Spear, Dr. Douglas F. Tobler

Journal of Undergraduate Research

On March 3, 1961, the South African Prime Minister, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, departed for a Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference in London in high spirits. By 1961, the inclusion of independent states in the British Commonwealth of Nations was an established principle, and there was no reason to suppose that they would deny South Africa membership in that body because of her new republican status. Nevertheless, he returned later that same month, having withdrawn South Africa’s applications for membership. This was merely one step in South Africa’s troubled path from a pillar of the Allied cause to a pariah in international …

Joiner, William C., 1933-2009 (Mss 480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 480. Log books kept by William C. Joiner, 1959-1973, while he was master and pilot of tugboats on the Green and Barren Rivers in Kentucky, his operator’s license, navigation charts, and newspaper clippings.

Is Jefferson A Founding Father Of Democratic Education? A Response To "Jefferson And The Ideology Of Democratic Schooling", Johann Neem

Democracy & Education

This response argues that it is reasonable to consider Thomas Jefferson a proponent of democratic education. It suggests that Jefferson's education proposals sought to ensure the wide distribution of knowledge and that Jefferson's legacy remains important to us today.

“Wrecked Cars And Suffering Humanity”: The Fortunes Of The 33rd Illinois, Bryan G. Caswell

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

The men of the 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry were out of their minds with boredom in the closing months of 1864. Those veterans who remained from the campaigns of the year before could recall the proud service of their regiment. Mustered into service at Camp Butler, Illinois in September of 1861, the 33rd has spent the first year of its war fighting minor skirmishes in the trans-Mississippi theater. Then, in the late fall of 1862, the 33rd Illinois was transferred to the First Brigade, First Division, XIII Corps of the Army of the Tennessee. [excerpt]

Langston, Luke Alvah Leigh, 1870-1965 (Mss 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 479. Teacher’s registers with lists of pupils, accounts, and school regulations, kept by Luke A.L. Langston for various schools in Calloway County Kentucky, from 1890-1913.

America's Pastime: Base Ball's Battlefields, John M. Rudy

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

Somewhere in a field just north of the Pennsylvania College campus, a hurler threw a ball to a striker. The air was undoubtedly crisp. Novembers in Gettysburg can be cool. The local papers were already predicting that the winter of 1865-66 would come on early and bitter. Standing on the bases, men readied to run home and score another point for their team. [excerpt]

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 14, October 7, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 48, July 1, 2013 - June 2, 2014

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

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 038, Number 07, October 7, 2013, Grand Valley State University

2013-2014, Volume 38

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

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Soldiers From - Tennessee (Sc 1119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1119. Telegrams (7), 1971, to Susan E. Powell, Martin, Tennessee, informing her of her husband's war injuries and his well-being; telegram from husband Lt. William E. Powell, Jr., to Susan; and clipping expressing the couple's thanks to their friends for kindnesses shown them.

Street, James William, 1858-1944 (Mss 478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 478. Account books and journals of James William Street, recording his activities and local events, primarily in Henderson and Lyon counties in Kentucky. He also records the 1908-1909 activities of the Night Riders in the region.

Walton, Charles Potter, 1876-1971 (Sc 1120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1120. Sermon notes and Spanish-American War discharge certificate of Simpson County, Kentucky native, Charles Potter Walton, who served as a Methodist minister in the south central Kentucky area. Several items related to the Spanish-American War can be viewed in full-text (Click on "Additional Files" below).

Ada News - 10/07/2013, 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.

Fairview Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2771), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2771. Cash book of Fairview Cemetery, Bowling Green, Kentucky, recording payments for labor and other operating expenses.

2013-10-07 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for October 7, 2013.

Can’T Buy Me Love: The Importation And Impact Of Hollywood Films In The Gdr In The 1970s, Gerd Horten

CUP Faculty Research

Still riding high on the wave of international recognition and athletic successes of the early 1970s, East Germany celebrated another first in late 1975. In the latter part of November 1975, the first Film Week of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was held in the United States, hosted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Twenty-one East German films were exhibited to American audiences, many of them for the first time. Six years in the making and coming just one year after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, this was clearly a momentous occasion …

Keirns, Harry Austin, 1917-2000 - Collector (Sc 1199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1199. Stories collected by Harry A. Keirns from American prisoners of war in Germany, describing the downing of their planes in German occupied areas during World War II.

Disher, John Lee, 1938-2019 (Sc 1183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1183. Letter from John Lee Disher of Summerville, South Carolina, to his sister Nancy Disher Baird, Bowling Green, Kentucky, describing the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo.

Caley, Charles C., 1839-1901 (Sc 1181), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1181. Letter, 18 December [1862], written by Union soldier Charles Caley, stationed in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his wife in Mentor, Lake County, Ohio. He discusses his illness, his arrival in Bowling Green Green from Louisville with six hundred troops, and their encampment in an old sawmill.

2013 Annual Dinner Program, The O'Callahan Society, College Of The Holy Cross

O'Callahan Society Annual Dinner Program

Thirteenth in a series of speaker events sponsored by the O'Callahan Society at its annual dinner. The keynote speaker is Vice Admiral Barry Costello USN (Ret.) '73.

Willie B. Parker

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Runner, William Elgin, 1839-1895 (Lg 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 31. Original land grant, 9 December 1871, by which Preston H. Leslie, Governor of the Commonwealth of of Kentucky, granted to William Runner, W.M. Houchin, and W.B.Thompson, assignees of Thomas L. Randal, 200 acres in Edmonson County.

Destinee Lashae Stewart

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 1744, Jaime Creel

Combined Interviews

Jaime Creel was born in Mexico City. He was son of Salvador Creel Terrazas the smallest in the family of his grandfather Enrique Cuilty Creel former governor of the state of Chihuahua and Foreign Affairs Secretary during the last presidency of Porfirio Díaz, which was married to Ángela Terrazas Cuilty, daughter of General Luis Terrazas the biggest landowner in the state. He recalls his family origins in Ireland and the United States and mentions that his great grandfather came as a U.S. consul to Chihuahua City, Mexico. He remembers general things about his grandfather Enrique C. Creel and his family, …

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 13, October 3, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 48, July 1, 2013 - June 2, 2014

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

Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Mss 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 159. Family correspondence, greeting cards, handicrafts, and newspaper clippings of Mary Kimbrough, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also items from various family members.