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Old Testament Costume Resource Guide, Rory R. Scanlon
Old Testament Costume Resource Guide, Rory R. Scanlon
Faculty Publications
This report offers visual costume research support for artists working on Old Testament Bible projects, with an historical overview of Mesopotamia and how to understand its historical clothing pieces, an annotated listing of the best research sources, a list of garment and fabric terms for the 4000 BC to 0 AD period, and sample sketches from historical artifacts to suggest how to interpret the original research images the artist will encounter.
Book Of Mormon Costume Resource Guide, Rory R. Scanlon
Book Of Mormon Costume Resource Guide, Rory R. Scanlon
Faculty Publications
This report offers visual costume research support for artists working on Book of Mormon projects, with an historical overview of Mesoamerica and how to understand its historical clothing pieces, an annotated listing of the best research sources, a list of garment and fabric terms for the 2000 BC to 600 AD period, and sample sketches from historical artifacts to suggest how to interpret the original research images the artist will encounter.
A New Patriotic Song For Switzerland Based On Brecht's Children's Hymn, Elmar Holenstein
A New Patriotic Song For Switzerland Based On Brecht's Children's Hymn, Elmar Holenstein
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In 2013, the Schweizerische Gemeinnutzige Gesellschaft (SGG I Swiss Society for Public Utility) announced a competition for a new national anthem. 1 Within a year, more than 200 entries were submitted. At the end of March 2015, six to be discussed nationwide were released. Once sufficiently distributed and found to be popular, the winning version was to be recommended to the federal government as the new national anthem.
Book Review: Against War And Empire: Geneva, Britain, And France In The Eighteenth Century, Eric Rexroat Ph.D. Candidate
Book Review: Against War And Empire: Geneva, Britain, And France In The Eighteenth Century, Eric Rexroat Ph.D. Candidate
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Book Review: The Hutterites In North America, Christopher Cumo
Book Review: The Hutterites In North America, Christopher Cumo
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
New Books And Articles Concerning Leo Lesquereux (1806-1889), Donald Tritt
New Books And Articles Concerning Leo Lesquereux (1806-1889), Donald Tritt
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Nine years ago the SwissAmericanHistorical Society sponsored publication of the book Leo Lesquereux, Letters from America 1849- 1853 (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 2006), a translation from the French by H. Dwight Page of Lesquereux 's Lettres d' Amerique 1849- 1853 with editing and commentary by Wendy Everham. I offered to write a biography for this work, titled "Leo Lesquereux: The Arduous Path of a Nineteenth Century Natural Scientist" (pp.1-122). In addition to being a biographical narrative, this section also contained six appendices that list Lesquereux 's publications, secondary references to his works, the titles in his library, and archival collections …
The Swiss Of Louisville, Kentucky In The Late 1880s, Adelrich Steinach
The Swiss Of Louisville, Kentucky In The Late 1880s, Adelrich Steinach
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In the state of Kentucky, there are two larger Swiss colonies , one in Louisville, the other in Bernstadt, as well as various places that were settled by Swiss families.
A Genealogical Gold Mine: The Harold B. Lee Library At Byu, Therrin C. Dahlin
A Genealogical Gold Mine: The Harold B. Lee Library At Byu, Therrin C. Dahlin
Faculty Publications
This article highlights the vast resources available in the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University (BYU) for those conducting genealogical research. The BYU Family History Library and other library departments provide extensive collections of genealogical records in print and online as well as experienced librarians, missionaries, and staff to help genealogists find needed information about their ancestors.
Asian Values-Swiss Values?, Elmar Holenstein
Asian Values-Swiss Values?, Elmar Holenstein
Swiss American Historical Society Review
For years one is reading of "Asian values." Traveling through Asia, one is rubbing one's eyes. The whole of Asia, from the Bosporus and Ural all the way to the Pacific Ocean, is thrown into one great pot, as if they all, Turkic peoples and Mongols, Arabs, Iranians and Malaysians as well as Chinese, Koreans and Japanese had been educated by Confucius. Business people as well as political scientists who tell us of "Asiatic values" are flying in twelve hours from Frankfurt and Zurich to Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo. Those shortcuts therefore?
Swiss In The American Civil War A Forgotten Chapter Of Our Military History, David Vogelsanger
Swiss In The American Civil War A Forgotten Chapter Of Our Military History, David Vogelsanger
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In no foreign conflict since the Battle of Marignano in 1515, except Napoleon's Russian campaign, have as many soldiers of Swiss origin fought as in the American War of Secession. It is an undertaking of great merit to rescue this important and little known fact from oblivion and it is a privilege for me to introduce this concise study by my friend Heinrich L. Wirz and his co-author Florian A. Strahm. The Swiss, mostly volunteers, who went to war either to preserve the Union against the secession of the southern States or for the independence of those same States , …
Book Review: Beyond The Lens Of Conservation: Malagasy And Swiss Imaginations Of One Another, John H. Barnhill Ph.D.
Book Review: Beyond The Lens Of Conservation: Malagasy And Swiss Imaginations Of One Another, John H. Barnhill Ph.D.
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
"Greet Me The Homeland!" Marguerite Nerny-Stager-The Oldest Swiss Canadian Turns 110 Years, Susann Bosshard-Kalin
"Greet Me The Homeland!" Marguerite Nerny-Stager-The Oldest Swiss Canadian Turns 110 Years, Susann Bosshard-Kalin
Swiss American Historical Society Review
She emigrated 86 years ago because of Eugene. At the end of June 1929, the Vaudois Marguerite Stager was traveling by herself on the Empress of Australia to Canada. Love for her betrothed from Yverdon, who years before had found work as a baker in Montreal, gave her unshakeable confidence. She dared to face an uncertain future in a foreign land . Today, the oldest Swiss woman abroad in North America is living in a retirement home about an hour outside of Montreal. In the company of Maurice, her 83 year-old son , a short visit of Marguerite became possible. …
Einsiedeln Elsewhere A 2015 Report About Re-Activating Ties With Louisville, Kentucky, Susann Bosshard-Kalin
Einsiedeln Elsewhere A 2015 Report About Re-Activating Ties With Louisville, Kentucky, Susann Bosshard-Kalin
Swiss American Historical Society Review
For years the idea has pursued me to look for the traces of Swiss from the town of Einsiedeln who had settled in the city of Louisville situated on the lower Ohio River. In the year 2006 when I was on a journalistic assignment for the Neue Zlircher Zeitung related to the Benedictine monastery St. Meinrad in southern Indiana, I was fortunate to meet people with ancestors from my hometown Einsiedeln. I met eight descendants-Kaelins, Schoenbaechlers, Birchlers, Bisigs-for coffee and I thought already then how fascinating it would be to take a closer look at the trails of those emigrants …
Elmar Holenstein: Portrait Of A Swiss Philosopher
Elmar Holenstein: Portrait Of A Swiss Philosopher
Swiss American Historical Society Review
From 1964 to 1972 El mar Holenstein, born 7 January 193 7 in Gossau, Canton St. Gallen, studied philosophy, psychology, and linguistics at the universities of Louvain/Leuven, Heidelberg, and Zurich. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with the phenomenology of the pre- and non-conceptual human experience as explored by Edward Husserl (1859-1938), the German founder of the phenomenological movement in philosophy. Holenstein gained professorial status (habilitation) by a book on the phenomenological structuralism of Roman Jakobson.
Barry Cunliffe, Europe Between The Oceans: 9000 Bc To Ad 1000, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Barry Cunliffe, Europe Between The Oceans: 9000 Bc To Ad 1000, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Civilizational Trauma And Value Nihilism In Boccaccio's "Decameron", David J. Rosner
Civilizational Trauma And Value Nihilism In Boccaccio's "Decameron", David J. Rosner
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
John Keegan, The First World War, Laina Farhat-Holzman
John Keegan, The First World War, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Andrew Targowski, The Deadly Effect Of Informatics On The Holocaust, Peter Hecht
Andrew Targowski, The Deadly Effect Of Informatics On The Holocaust, Peter Hecht
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Stephen Fuller: Jamaican Planter, British Ambassador, Closet Abolitionist, Garrett Nagaishi, Dr. Matthew Mason
Stephen Fuller: Jamaican Planter, British Ambassador, Closet Abolitionist, Garrett Nagaishi, Dr. Matthew Mason
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The 1780s witnessed the rise of abolitionism within the British Empire. In its Two Reports…from the Committee of the Honourable House of Assembly of Jamaica (1788), the Jamaican government, which greatly profited from slavery and the slave trade, responded to claims made against its treatment of slaves. The report attempted to demonstrate by logic and eyewitness testimony that slavery was valuable and consistent with moral principles. Shortly thereafter, Jamaica’s ambassador to British Parliament, Stephen Fuller, published Notes on the Two Reports from the Committee of the Honourable House of Assembly of Jamaica (1789). This tract, which did not contain Fuller’s …
Obrajes, Andean Workers, And The Spanish Elite: Hegemony And Hierarchy In Peru’S Late-Colonial Era, Taylor Cozzens, Dr. Jeffrey Shumway
Obrajes, Andean Workers, And The Spanish Elite: Hegemony And Hierarchy In Peru’S Late-Colonial Era, Taylor Cozzens, Dr. Jeffrey Shumway
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Obrajes were textile shops in early Latin America. From the mid-1500s onward, Spanish colonists in Mexico and Peru established obrajes to produce fabrics for local societies. Labor for these shops was often coerced. My research focused on the Peruvian obrajes of the late-colonial era (roughly 1770 to 1820), wherein Andean communities were required to provide tributary laborers. I specifically looked at the changing relationship between the Andean workers and the Spanish elite.
Book Review: Slow Train To Switzerland, Robert Sherwood
Book Review: Slow Train To Switzerland, Robert Sherwood
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
The Swiss In The American Civil War 1861-1865
The Swiss In The American Civil War 1861-1865
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
A Personal Introduction, Heinrich L. Wirz
A Personal Introduction, Heinrich L. Wirz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
For the first time, this study presents biographical data on l 06 men who were of Swiss nationality or descent, and who participated in the American Civil War. Most of these men were officers. The American Civil War froml861 to 1865 has largely been forgotten in Switzerland. The significance of the war is often overlooked including its sociopolitical impact as well as its military strategic, operational, and tactical importance. This study presents data relating to important Swiss military personnel. At the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the conflict in 2011, a few newspaper articles in Switzerland appeared discussing the …