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Emmett Till, History And Memory, Elliot Gorn

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago kid murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, is well known in its broadest outlines today. In fact, Emmett Till’s name has become shorthand for the horrors of white supremacy and Jim Crow segregation, much as Anne Frank’s name signals the destruction of innocence in the holocaust. But it wasn’t always that way. The most surprising thing about the Till story is how totally forgotten it was for over 30 years, among white Americans that is, even as African-Americans kept his flame alive. Till’s is an important example of how …

Women’S Suffrage Is “Nothing Less Than Treasonable:” An Analysis Of Rural Women And Their Group Activism In The Women’S Suffrage Movement In The Jackson Purchase Area, 1838-1940, Ashleigh Deno

Honors College Theses

The 1910s was a decade characterized by technological advancement, World War I, and a global movement for women’s suffrage, which would eventually culminate with legislation, most notably the 19th Amendment in the United States. In the United States, women staged protests throughout the country and were known to stand outside of the White House with taunting signs for President Woodrow Wilson to read. This movement came to the United States from other parts of the globe, particularly Britain, and suffragists from other countries were known to travel to the States to give presentations and provide guidance to suffragists on this …

The American Public’S Reaction To The Japanese American Internment, Nicholas Taylor

West Virginia University Historical Review

The American public voices its concerns over fundamental issues, like the justice system, that pertain to the US Constitution. The American public in World War II, however, faced many challenges in voicing its concerns over the Japanese American internment due to the dominance of racism at the time. This paper explores the background of Executive Order 9066, the document that provoked mass evacuation, in order to understand why President Franklin D. Roosevelt enforced it and why most people, particularly on the West Coast, advocated for Japanese American evacuation. More fundamentally, the bulk of the paper centers on the argument that …

The Role Of Women Within The Mine Wars, Kirsten Hylton

West Virginia University Historical Review

This paper examines the impact that the Mine Wars had on women who lived within the mine camps directly affected by labor unrest. While women were usually not the ones on the front lines of the Mine Wars, they still were impacted by and involved with the action. Just like the men of the camps, women were evicted from their homes, brutalized by mine guards, and were forced to change their lives. Assuming that the events of the Mine Wars were perceived in the same way by both men and women would be leaving out a large portion of the …

China’S Illegal Organ Trade: From Executed Prisoners To Organ Tourism To Falun Gong, Adrienne Thompson

West Virginia University Historical Review

As worldwide populations continue to rise, the constant necessity for life-saving organs for terminally and chronically ill patients has become extremely vital and profitable to medical centers across the globe. Since China’s preliminary debut in the international organ donation and transplantation system in the late 1960s, various scholars, journalists, and health professionals across the globe have demonstrated outright shock at the massive influx and seemingly endless supply of transferable organs emanating from Chinese transplant centers and hospitals. Investigations have shown that China has been actively harvesting organs from recently executed prisoners and incarcerated Falun Gong practitioners. Regardless of numerous outside …

Determining The Impact Of The Anabaptists Using Bullinger’S Propaganda Strategies In Von Dem Unverschampten Fräfel, Jovanna Shirky

West Virginia University Historical Review

Many scholars of the Reformation contend that the Anabaptist movement did not significantly impact the society of its day. However, my analysis of Heinrich Bullinger’s anti-Anabaptist work Von dem unverschampten fräfel, ergerlichem verwyrren unnd unwarhafftem leeren der selbsgesandten Widertöuffern indicates that the Anabaptists did pose a significant threat to the socioreligious structures that both the mainstream Reformation and Catholicism endorsed. By analyzing Bullinger’s propaganda strategies within the work, I find that the beliefs and practices of the Anabaptists challenged the most basic structures of society, thus alarming Bullinger and others who opposed the movement. Bullinger’s language within the work and …

Japanese Economic Aggression, Organized Labor’S Resistance, And The Path To World War Ii, Thomas Miles

West Virginia University Historical Review

This paper examines economic aggression from the Japanese fishing fleet beginning in 1936 and the response from organized labor in America prior to the famous attack on Pearl Harbor. The focus of this is research is primarily from the perspective of American labor, drawing heavily on the Voice of the Federation newspaper, which was a publication owned by the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. The US government was aware of encroachment of Japanese floating canneries in 1936, but took little action against Japan in order to avoid worsening tensions between the two nations. However, in 1937 Harry Stuhr, the head …

Riots Contra Global Capital: Globalization And The Bangladeshi Workers’ Movement, Adam Benjamin

West Virginia University Historical Review

“Fast fashion” and “globalization,” often mentioned in the same sentence, make their way to the headlines fairly frequently. While the conditions of low-wage garment workers are a subject of criticism for clothing brands, few know of the active workers’ movement in Bangladesh to better them. This movement, often unorganized and violent, takes place against the backdrop of urban growth, rapid industrialization, and factory disaster. Riots and piecemeal wage negotiations often go hand in hand in Bangladesh, as the pressures of the world economy exert themselves on Bangladesh’s fragile and unstable garment industry. This paper examines the history and developments of …

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West Virginia University Historical Review

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Bowling Green Rose Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 712), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 712. Minutes, correspondence, show programs, and miscellaneous records of the Bowling Green Rose Society. The bulk of the material is from the 1980s and 1990s.

Mapping Flat, Deep, And Slow: On The 'Spirit Of Place' In New Cinema History, Jeffrey Klenotic

Faculty Publications

This essay engages in a creative, heuristic, and reflexive consideration of the ‘localities’ of cinema audiences by exploring New Cinema History as a place. New Cinema History is conceptualised as a place continually produced in and through its interactions with the heterogeneous multiplicities of situated audiences and experiences of cinema that form the topoi of its landscape of inquiry. In reflecting on how this placialised landscape has been and might be represented, I argue that New Cinema History’s ‘spirit of place’ is most productive when rendered within a ‘splatial’ framework that draws upon practices of flat, deep, and slow mapping …

The Grizzly, November 12, 2020, Simra Mariam, Ava Compagnoni, Morgan Grabowski, Layla Halterman, Griffin Banks, Maggie Frymoyer, Shelsea Deravil

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Enters New Pre-Engineering Partnership • Creating Art in a New Way: Ursinus College Dance Company • Notable Alum Profile: Kim Guadagno • A Bear in the Woods • Opinion: Residence Life - Big Brother is Watching You; Outside Morning Noises Near North Hall are Obnoxious • Intramural Cornhole Makes Impression at UC • Students' Fantasy Football

Webster, Pauline (Martin) Tabor, 1905-1992 (Sc 3571), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3571. Audiocassette recording of Bowling Green, Kentucky madam Pauline Tabor Webster’s appearance on The Dick Cavett Show on 8 March 1972.

Lesson Plan, Government, 12th Grade, Graciela Alonso

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): Govt: 2A, B 3B 13A, B, C, 15A History: 9A-F, I

Lesson objective(s): 1.Analyze different points of view of political parties and interest groups such as the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), on important contemporary issues 2.Understand the impact of the Civil Rights Movement by describing the role of organizations that promoted rights 3.Evaluate the changes in the United States that have resulted from the civil rights movement, including increased participation of minorities in the political process.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: graphic organizers, Multisensory approach, class discussion Q & …

Tommie Lee Williams

African American Funeral Programs

Tommie_Lee_Williams.pdf - Funeral program for Tommie Lee Williams

Using Monuments To Teach About Racism, Colonialism, And Sexism, Susan Phillip

Publications and Research

This chapter examines how an interdisciplinary high-impact practice approach to teaching and learning using selected contested monuments can reveal intersections of racism, colonialism, and sexism, and lay the foundation for students’ civic engagement. In place-based and virtual experiences, students observe and investigate local and national monuments, integrating knowledge from multiple disciplines, including history, psychology, art, culture, and tourism. Students make critical analyses about how monuments reveal power relationships in our society. Students from various disciplines explore the origin of contested monuments, the evolving national and local debates around them, and their effect on students’ learning to evaluate historical, contemporary, and …

Liminal Liberation: Courtesans And Embodied Anxieties In Sixteenth-Century Venice, Mandonesia Carter

LSU Master's Theses

Invectives against the courtesan—a more educated, erudite, and socially elite version of the ordinary prostitute—were commonplace in early modern Venice. A metropolitan center by the sixteenth century, Venice had become one of the most tolerant cities in Europe, allowing the courtesan to rapidly rise far past her social standing. The courtesan, through strategic self-fashioning and self-promotion, blurred the boundaries of gender roles, class roles, and the conventional social hierarchy. This precipitated attacks from critics seeking to provide clarity of the courtesan’s place and protect the interests of their patriarchal society. This thesis examines representations of the sixteenth-century Venetian courtesan in …

President Barack Obama, 50 Obama Birthday Celebration, Republic Of Palau Postal Service

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Palau,, Sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

44th President Of The United States, Barack Obama, Maldives Post

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Maldives, sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

The Gambia, Gambia Postal Services Corporation

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

"President Barack Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden", Gambia, Sheet of 2 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

U.S. President Barack Obama, London, England, General Post Office (Tuvalu)

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

President Obama with HM Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, Tuvalu, sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

55th Aniversário Da Organizaçã Da Undade Africana, Correios Da Guiné-Bissau

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Guine-Bissau , sheet of 5 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

Barack Obama, 44th President Of The United States, Svg Postal Corporation

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.' , Bequia, Grenadines of St. Vincent, sheet of 4 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

Barack Obama, 44th President Of The United States, Svg Postal Corporation

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.' , Bequia, Grenadines of St. Vincent, sheet of 4 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina (Fa 1377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 1377. Research materials for a history of the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina, compiled by Dr. James M. Gifford.

Searching For Answers: Examining Historical Christianity In Nineteenth Century Europe Through Kierkegaard & Nietzsche, Robert Jones

Theses

The Europe of the 1800s saw remarkable change. Previously unthinkable ideas and 'isms' made their way to the forefront of exploration in European society, forcing Christianity to a crossroads it had never before experienced. This thesis examines the fusion of politics and religion into a sort of surrogate religion for the Post-Enlightenment world. Above all, it examines historical Christianity through precedent-setting writers Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. Given the unique process of secularization in the nineteenth century, both writers offer something often overlooked; the inevitable progress or decline of the Lutheran tradition depends, in true existentialist fashion, on the individual.

Fred Hall

African American Funeral Programs

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Women In Palestinian Folk Tale, Mohammed Dawabsheh

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

This paper examines the wemen are portrayed in the Palestinian folktales. Of special interest are the so-cial spiritual, psychological and sexual portrayal of women in the roles they assume: mother, sister, wife, daughter, daughter-in-law and fellow wife. It also investigates both the negative and positive mythical depictions of women in Palestinian folk tales. Later, the paper draws a comparison between this portrayal and the way women are featured in modern social and psychological science. Inspired by the relevant approaches, particularly the mythical ap-proach, the paper used the descriptive analytical approach.

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 2nd Grade, Erika Faubion

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 2.4 The student understands how historical figures, patriots, and good citizens helped, shape the community, state, and nation. 2.20 The student uses problem-solving and decision-making skills, working independently and with others, in a variety of settings. The student is expected to: (B) use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, generate options, predict outcomes, act to implement a decision, and reflect on the effectiveness of that decision.

Lesson objective(s): 1. The Learner will (TLW) make connections using problem solving strategies. 2. TLW use prior knowledge to connect to …