History Commons^™

Depictions Of Manualist Deaf Women In Deaf Magazines, 1900-1950, Jennifer Campbell Matthews, Dr. Rebecca De Schweinitz

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In the United States around the early to mid-19th century a debate about the best method to teach the deaf arose which only intensified into the 20th century. The debate consisted of pure oralists who believed that the deaf should be taught speech and lip-reading to the exclusion of signs, manualists who believed that sign-language was a valuable tool for the deaf and should be included, and a number of people who fell somewhere in between the two extremes. For the two decades before and after the turn of the 20th century most deaf leaders as well as a majority …

Scientific Superstions: The Rationale Of Harvest Rituals In Anglo-Saxon Medicine, K. Jane Hughes, Dr. Glen Cooper

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I originally applied for an ORCA grant in order to further my research toward my Honors thesis — a cultural study of Anglo-Saxon medicine. I realized that I would not be able to create a viable paper on the subject with the limited sources available to me in an already limited field. To this end, I put the money toward BYU’s Direct Enrollment program at Cambridge University, where I would have access to the imposing University Library as well as the chance to work one-on-one with an expert on my subject. This was the most rewarding – and also the …

The General’S Last Gift To The Empire: Douglas Macarthur And The Rearming Of Japan, 1945-1950, Clifford David Gravett, Dr. Aaron Skabelund

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The purpose of this research was to establish the role of General Douglas MacArthur in the process of rearming Japan following World War II. My question was how MacArthur’s opinions regarding Japanese military evolved during his tenure as Supreme Commander for Allied Forces in the Pacific (SCAP) and head of the occupation of Japan. Documentary evidence demonstrated that MacArthur maintained a stance of permanent disarmament for Japan from 1945 to 1950. The most telling evidence of MacArthur’s interest in an unarmed Japan was his insistence that a no-war clause be included in the 1947-1948 revisions of the Japanese constitution. On …

Research In The Sacred Space Of The Archive: Moving From Undergraduate Training To Professional Duty, Laura Judd, Paul Kerry

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Archives function as a sacred space of the scholar. They preserve the fragile remains of the past, offering access only to the most respectful readers. Perhaps this is why, for the undergraduate history student, the relationship between historian and archive often remains veiled. A typical history student at BYU interacts with the archive mainly through information collected in books; for that student, the archive is understood abstractly as a source of historical knowledge. As my undergraduate education drew to a close, I had the opportunity in July of 2008 to visit some of the most well established archives in the …

The Consolidation Of The Consociational Democracy In Lebanon: The Challenges To Democracy In Lebanon, Micheline Germanos Ghattas

Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation looks at democracy in Lebanon, a country that has a pluralistic society with many societal cleavages. The subject of this study is the consolidation of democracy in Lebanon, described by Arend Lijphart as a "consociational democracy". The research question and sub-question posed are:

1- How consolidated is democracy in Lebanon?

2- What are the challenges facing the consolidation of democracy in Lebanon?

The preamble of the 1926 Lebanese Constitution declares the country to be a parliamentary democratic republic. The political regime is a democracy, but one that is not built on the rule of the majority in numbers, …

Lifting The Veil Of Violence: The October Crisis, 1970., Jef R. Palframan

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

This work explores the uses of violence during the October Crisis of 1970 in Québec, Canada. The author questions the current state of historiographical approaches to the October Crisis and posits a new approach. Violence, seen as a language, permeates the events surrounding the kidnapping and later murder of Pierre Laporte. The reaction of the Québécois public at large is examine in response to the uses of violence by the belligerent parties. The work concludes that the FLQ did not possess the requisite capacity for violence to effectively compete with the Canadian Federal Government and other insights into the legacy …

Union And States’ Rights: A History And Interpretation Of Interposition, Nullification, And Secession 150 Years After Sumter, Neil H. Cogan

University of Akron Press Publications

Edited by Neil H. Cogan, who is a well-versed legal scholar of constitutional law, civil rights, and civil and criminal procedures, this volume is a collection of papers on a central issue of governance in the United States; namely, what is the power of the States to object to and cancel Federal law with which they disagree. For eighty-one years, from the ratification of the Constitution to the end of the Civil War, this issue of State power was the central issue of governance. Chapters address the history and legal arguments for three assertions of such State power: interposition, nullification, …

Morality, The Sacred And God In Ghanaian Hip- Hop, Harry N. K. Odamtten

History

The adoption of Hip-Hop by the world’s youth is a turning point in the history of youth culture in particular and global public culture in general. The embracing of Hip-Hop in the West African country of Ghana is exemplary of this worldwide transformation. The indigenous Ghanaian version of Hip-Hop is Hip-Life. This Ghanaian musical genre is a combination of Hip-Hop and High-Life. High-Life is also a Ghanaian genre with West African and Afro- Diaspora roots. It emerged in Ghana as part of the anti-colonial struggle in West Africa, and has spawned of many varieties until the emergence of Hip- Life. …

Repairing The World: Sam Fried, Holocaust Survivor, Jim Fried, Waitman Wade Beorn

History Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

A speech by Jim Fried to the Rotary of Omaha about his father, and Holocaust survivor, Sam Fried. Forward by Waitman Wade Beorn.

Smith Family (Sc 2763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2763. History and genealogical data on the Smith family of Butler and Ohio counties in Kentucky and related families. Includes data on Thomas and Vicy (Weeks) Smith, the great-grandparents of Wyatt Earp.

Thorpe, Herbert C., 1873-1904 (Sc 2764), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2764. Letters of Herbert C. Thorpe, General Manager and Assistant Treasurer, United States Gas, Coal, and Coke Company, to his wife and father. Writing from Sturgis and Paducah soon after his arrival in Kentucky from New Jersey, Thorpe describes the stresses of his new management responsibilities and the challenges to the company in the event of a miners’ strike, and criticizes the work ethic of the miners. Thorpe died in Paducah of typhoid fever on 31 July 1904.

The Rest Of The Dream, Julian Maxwell Hayter

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

I was born roughly 12 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his momentous "I Have a Dream" speech. My generation, raised on the first wave of hip-hop music and odes to Malcolm X, was angry with King. We thought his overtures to interracial cooperation were a mid-20th-century brand of "Uncle Tom-ing," what my mother's generation called "shuffling." We found it difficult to reconcile King's dream with the rise of crack cocaine, urban blight and black incarceration.

Many of my childhood friends parlayed that anger into prison, gang life, absentee fatherhood, and what Iceberg Slim called the "poison of street …

Compton, Dorothy Hinman, 1923-1982 (Sc 1107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1107. Various drafts of a travel journal kept by Dorothy Hinman Compton, Bowling Green, of a July 1939 trip to Washington, D.C., and New York City that she made with her mother and other family members. Includes related material.

Lind, Jenny, 1820-1887 (Sc 1109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1109. Letter written 7 April 1851 by “Will,” Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Lydia Amanda Boadley (he calls her “Sis”, but he was in fact a beau). He refers to a rival for her affections and consoles her on the death of a schoolmate. He also mentions seeing the singer Jenny Lind, who “took tea” as she passed through Bowling Green after a performance in Franklin, Kentucky, and pronounces her “not pretty.”

Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Sc 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1112. Transcript of an interview with Mary Julia Neal, Bowling Green, Kentucky, conducted by Gina Claywell. Claywell was interested chiefly in Neal’s experiences as a student at Bethel College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and as a teacher at Western Kentucky University in the 1930s and 1940s.

Morgan, Billy Brandon, B. 1929 (Sc 1111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1111. Diary kept by Billy Brandon Morgan, Benton, Marshall County, Kentucky, of a mission trip that he and Charles Cavitt took to French West Africa. They represented the Benton Church of Christ eldership as they visited and evaluated the evangelistic work being done there, especially in organizing and operating a Bible Training Center in Benin. Includes report of 2006 trip to the training center.

Joseph Smith, The Prophet-Editor, Joshua Wheatley, Dr. Grant Underwood

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I focused my research on an effort to better understand Joseph Smith’s process of revelation, in light of the many revisions that he later made to his own revelations. I decided that my primary source material would be the revelations that Joseph recorded between 1828 and 1831. The goal of my research was to compare variant texts of each revelation, tracking the revisions that were made to each text. My hypothesis was that, by using historical context and by critically analyzing patterns of revision that reoccurred in many revelations, it would be possible to classify the revisions into categories. I …

Sexual Psychology: Eighteenth-Century Gender Theory And The Philosophy Of Friedrich Schiller, Jeffrey Tucker, Paul E. Kerry

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Perhaps the most difficult thing about doing scholastic research is coming up with a good question. The philosopher Imre Lakatos has suggested that the modern research programme works by establishing positive and negative heuristics which dictate the questions that are and are not profitable to ask. As Thomas Kuhn has claimed, there are moments when scientists (and, I would argue, scholars) choose to break from tradition, but for the more part scholarship tends to follow the pattern of that which comes before it. When I submitted my ORCA proposal in the Fall of 2008 I thought I had found something …

“Is This Racial Freedom?”: Student Perceptions Of The Civil Rights Movement At Brigham Young University, Ardis Smith, Dr. Rebecca De Schweinitz

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Over the week of 11-15 February 1959, the front page of Brigham Young University’s the Daily Universe featured four articles on a campus anti-littering campaign. Organized by several freshmen, the campaign was for the winter and spring quarters, and it emphasized the significance of keeping the campus clean, because “Clealiness [sic] is next to Godliness at BYU, as well as anywhere else.” The catchphrase for the campaign was “Lynch the Litterbug,” and the chairman for the campaign stated that students who littered would be placed “on the ‘most wanted for lynching’ list.”

Goolsby, Robert L., 1854-1936 (Sc 1108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1108. Letter written by Robert L. Goolsby, Greenfield, Tennessee, to James J. Shannon, Lebanon, Tennessee. Goolsby, tongue-in-cheek, outlines a lawsuit that he wants filed against the town of Lebanon, where Shannon is attending school. He also relates some family news. Includes Goolsby biographical material.

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Slaughtering Of Animals (Sc 1113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1113. Document comprising the timeline of hog and cattle slaughtering by members of the Shaker Society at South Union, Logan County, Kentucky from 1 December 1814 to 16 December 1891, compiled from Shaker journals and other original sources. Entries often indicate the number of animals butchered, their weight, and the purpose of the butchering.

Bringing The Nauvoo Temple To Life, J. Mark Hiatt, Dr. Richard D. Draper

Journal of Undergraduate Research

After the Saints were forced out of Nauvoo, angry vandals, fearing the Saints would return, destroyed the magnificent temple left behind. The temple the mobsters destroyed took five years to build and every sacrifice imaginable for the Saints to complete. Since the temple does not exist today, a noble effort is being made to resurrect the structure using modern technology. My job was to acquire and transfer all necessary data to Andrew Teasdale, who would create a computer generated virtual reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple.

Calamity Jane: Latter-Day Saint Women And The Teton Dam Disaster, Emily Willis, Dr. Rebecca De Schweinitz

Journal of Undergraduate Research

On June 5, 1976, the almost-completed Teton Dam, a Bureau of Reclamation project, broke, sending millions of gallons of water thundering through the Upper Snake River Valley in Southeastern Idaho. The flood destroyed hundreds of houses and left thousands of people homeless. As soon as the waters receded, cleanup began, involving every man and woman in the most menial and, at times, nontraditional tasks.

‘The Good Minister’: Emerson, Hedge, And Transcendental Religion, Ryan Tobler, Paul Kerry

Journal of Undergraduate Research

It is usually literary historians, not religious ones, who address the American Transcendental movement of the early 19th century. Best known for the literary works and figures it produced, Transcendentalism is remembered as loose coalition of forceful thinkers that challenged and enhanced American conceptions of nature, ideal society, and intellectual culture. Some even regard the movement as the vehicle or the expression of America’s intellectual independence – the critical point of departure from derivative (European) strains of thought and the genesis of a distinctively American intellectual tradition. These high estimations make it critical to understand what Transcendentalism actually was, and …

Case Study In Religious Sacrifice, April Reber

Journal of Undergraduate Research

“Whatever their fate in life, the burghers of Endigen succeeded in constructing a meaningful and moving story out of what would otherwise have been just another reminder of the violence and meaningless of life. Fragmented events now acquired a unifying structure in the ritual murder discourse; violence transformed into relics, tragedy into triumph, and death into life” (Hsia 40 The Myth of Ritual Murder). What exactly is the process of turning tragedy into triumph, meaningless suffering into sacrifice for deity? Often, religion seems to answer (or at least provide an explanation for) human suffering. Thus the question I hope to …

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 03, August 26, 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.

Obituary; 2013-08-25; Young, Patricia Pettiford, Hopewell Baptist Church

Hopewell Baptist Church

No abstract provided.

Cleo Hall

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Sisters And Sorelle: A Comparative Analysis Of The Women’S Movement In Italy And The United States, Erin K. Knutson, Dr. Rebecca De Schweinitz

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Feminism is a global phenomenon but not a monolith. Its goal of a more liberated, self-directed existence for women is common, but the methods employed to make this a reality vary among cultures and individuals. The United States, though full of radical feminist activity, has no hegemony on feminism. Italian feminism, along with other feminisms, have “fallen victim to a kind of cultural imperialism”. Though certainly influenced by the United States’ version of feminism, Italian feminism “nevertheless remains distinctly Italian”. Placing feminism in a global context allows for exploration of common tactics utilized by women across cultures and exposes strategies …

A Mother’S Legacy: The Economic Impact Of Women And Their Inheritance In A Small Spanish Village, Deborah Gurtler, George R. Ryskamp

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Garganta la Olla is a small town in the Extremadura region in Spain where partible inheritance was practiced. Each child received an equal share of the family inheritance which had economic implications for the women of the village. Their share of the inheritance often included property. This project studied the impact women had on their community economically because of their ownership of inherited property. Were the women of the village really sharing equally in the family patrimony with their male siblings and if so, did this allow them to have an impact on the community economically? These are the questions …