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Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 3, Winter 2021, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

Gold Mining Districts And Path Dependence, Jason T. Dunn

Honors Theses

This paper applies quantitative spatial analysis to the long-term impact of Western gold rushes, studying the effect of 19th century US mineral districts on modern (2010) population density, as a proxy for long-term economic growth. OLS regression estimates show positive effects for areas adjacent to historic mining districts. Census tracts within 15 miles of a mineral district but not containing one are 29.8% more dense than other tracts. Additionally, capital-intensive/large-scale mining was more persistent than labor-intensive/small-scale methods, and path dependence is achieved mainly through agglomeration. This research corroborates historical arguments focusing on the development of Western infrastructure for long term …

Golden Mountains: Pike's Peak, Western Capitalism, And The Making Of The Colorado State: 1858-1876, Jason T. Dunn

Honors Theses

Explores the nonlinear imposition of capitalist ideologies in Western systems, using the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and development in Colorado from 1858-1876 as a case study.

Contributors To This Issue

The Bridge

No abstract provided.

Little Denmark In Nebraska, David Hendee

The Bridge

No charming Old World architecture. No Main Street decorated with Danish flags flapping in the breeze. No annual ethnic festival celebrating Danish roots. And it can’t be found on a map. But a small cluster of farms and ranches carved out of the prairie by Danish immigrants in sparsely settled western Nebraska in the late nineteenth century has maintained its identity as “Little Denmark” long after the homesteaders and their families assimilated into American culture. This obscure and remote Little Denmark was founded, flourished, and faded in the shadows of other Nebraska communities with vibrant Danish populations and institutions— Blair, …

Jackson Ranch, Undated, Hidalgo County Historical Commission

Hidalgo County Historical Collection

From Hidalgo County Historical Commission Collection, Series I, Historical Markers I, 1964-2013, consists of applications and research pertaining to historical markers and historical cemeteries.

[Working papers--] Jackson Ranch, undated, Container: 79, Box: 7, Folder: 27. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus. https://archives.lib.utrgv.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/78380

Searching For Africa: The Map Collection Of Dr. Jack Franke, Ben W. Huseman

Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography Gallery Guides

Gallery Guide for the exhibit featuring 190 items relating to the history of Africa, largely drawn from the map collection donated by Dr. Jack Franke (UTA Distinguished Alumnus, class of 1983). Items range in date from 1493 to 1916.

The guide introduces Dr. Franke's collection, focusing upon the context of the maps' and images' production, with some minimal discussion of the African subject matter.

Artificial Reefs: A History, A Science, A Technology, Mairead D. Farrell

Honors Theses

Over the past 60 years, artificial reefs have expanded beyond the definition of a technology, and in turn have developed into a unique branch of marine science. To better emphasize this growth and separation, a brief history of artificial reef development and usage in chapter two shows some of the key shifts over time in this technology’s purpose and the materials used to achieve that goal. Likewise, to indicate the scientific development of artificial reefs as a branch of marine science, their usage for discovery and research is recorded in chapter three, along with the exponential increase in published scientific …

งานเขียนเกี่ยวกับการเดินทางของชนชั้นนำกับการสร้างความเป็นไทย ทศวรรษ 2440 – ทศวรรษ 2500, นพปฎล กิจไพบูลทวี

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์เรื่องนี้ต้องการศึกษาประวัติศาสตร์ของการสร้างความเป็นไทยผ่านงานเขียนเกี่ยวกับการเดินทางของชนชั้นนำไทยในช่วงทศวรรษ 2440 ถึงทศวรรษ 2500 โดยมุ่งพิจารณาความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประสบการณ์การเดินทาง วิธีวิทยา และบริบททางประวัติศาสตร์ของผู้เขียน การศึกษาพบว่ากระบวนการสร้างความเป็นไทยของชนชั้นนำไทยในช่วงเวลาดังกล่าวเป็นการผสมผสานระหว่างวาระทางการเมืองและเศรษฐกิจ การประมวลความรู้ที่สั่งสมอยู่ก่อน กับการใช้ข้อมูลที่ได้จากการมีประสบการณ์เชิงประจักษ์จากการเดินทาง วิทยานิพนธ์ให้ความสำคัญกับงานเขียนที่เกี่ยวกับการเดินทางในฐานะเครื่องมือที่สำคัญอย่างหนึ่งของการสร้างความเป็นไทยทั้งในแง่ของการสร้างคำนิยามและการกระจายความรู้ ผลจากการศึกษาพบว่า ชนชั้นนำประกอบสร้างความเป็นไทยอย่างสัมพันธ์กับบริบททางประวัติศาสตร์ที่เปลี่ยนไปใน 4 ช่วงเวลา ได้แก่ (1) ช่วงทศวรรษ 2440 ถึงทศวรรษ 2470 เมื่อชนชั้นนำต้องเผชิญกับความท้าทายที่มากับภาวะความเป็นสมัยใหม่และต้องการธำรงสิทธิธรรมในการปกครอง จึงพยายามใช้ประวัติศาสตร์และโบราณคดีมาค้นหาและยืนยันที่มาของความเป็นไทยในประเทศ (2) ช่วงทศวรรษ 2460 ถึงทศวรรษ 2470 การเติบโตของทุนนิยมและปัญหาทางเศรษฐกิจหลังสงครามโลกครั้งที่หนึ่งทำให้ชนชั้นนำต้องการสำรวจทรัพยากรและศักยภาพทางเศรษฐกิจทั่วประเทศ กสิกรรมถูกนำเสนอภาพไม่เพียงในฐานะกิจกรรมสำคัญที่สุดในการพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจไทย แต่ยังถูกยกย่องในฐานะเครื่องแสดงอัตลักษณ์ของความเป็นไทยที่มาจากการสั่งสมภูมิปัญญาของบรรพบุรุษ (3) ช่วงทศวรรษ 2470 ถึง ทศวรรษ 2480 ด้วยบริบทการเปลี่ยนแปลงการปกครอง พ.ศ. 2475 และการพิพาทเชิงดินแดนกับประเทศเพื่อนบ้านในช่วงสงครามโลกครั้งที่ 2 ชนชั้นนำกลุ่มใหม่หันมาใช้แนวคิดเรื่องเชื้อชาติอธิบายความเป็นไทย ซึ่งกระตุ้นให้เกิดการเดินทางไปค้นหากลุ่มคนเชื้อชาติไทยนอกประเทศ และถูกใช้ในการเรียกร้องดินแดนคืนจากเจ้าอาณานิคมตะวันตก (4) ช่วงทศวรรษ 2490 ถึงทศวรรษ 2500 รัฐบาลปรับเปลี่ยนการอธิบายความเป็นไทยจากที่ยึดโยงกับแนวคิดเรื่องเชื้อชาติมาเป็นวัฒนธรรมไทยที่มีลักษณะเฉพาะตัว อันเป็นผลจากการปรับตัวให้เข้ากับระเบียบโลกหลังสงคราม ความต้องการลดความขัดแย้งกับประเทศเพื่อนบ้าน และการลดแรงเสียดทานจากขบวนการลัทธิคอมมิวนิสต์และแบ่งแยกดินแดนในประเทศ ความเป็นไทยถูกนำเสนอบนฐานของ “เอกภาพทางวัฒนธรรมบนความหลากหลาย”

Korean War Coverage In High School History Textbooks, Zarek Nolen

Masters Theses

This content analysis investigated coverage of the Korean War in recent high school U.S. history textbooks. Open coding techniques applied to six textbooks yielded data for the following categories: background of the war, the outbreak of the war, the sequence of the war, the conclusion of the war, the devastation of war, the effects of the war, U.N. and U.S. politics, the Chinese intervention, General Douglas MacArthur, and African Americans in the military. Data from these categories were compared and scrutinized against historians’ knowledge using axial coding techniques. This study's findings support past research on Korean War coverage in high …

Scientific Development Vs. Political Strategy: Nasa’S Commitment To Science Following The First Moon Landing, Sean Van Buskirk

Masters Theses

This work looks at the scientific program of NASA during the Space Race. (1961- 1975) During this period of the Cold War, NASA shifted it role from a political asset of the United States strategy to an agency of scientific discovery. This was not a smooth transition due to political opinions on the wastefulness and role of NASA. Many politicians, citizens and even scientists had doubts about the scientific potential of NASA’s manned missions to the Moon. Despite the power politics, the administrators at NASA were able to break out of the political arena and create a balanced program where …

La Voz Winter 2021, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies

La Voz

In this issue you will find:

• MA Student Researches Takeover in Providence Schools
• Indigenous Language Survival in Colombian Amazon
• "Rise of the Latinx Vote"
• La Colectiva Virtual Conversation
• Mark Healey Wins SCHARP Award

Imagining A New Nation: Patriotism And National Identity In The Writing Of Late-18th Century American Women, Aysia S. Brenner

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Benedict Anderson defined the nation as “an imagined political community” that is “imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.” The research for this paper began with a desire to know how American women in the time leading up to, during, and immediately after the American Revolution and War of Independence did or did not imagine themselves as members of the newly emerging political community eventually known as the United States of America. As tensions between the Colonies and Great Britain increased, as tea was dumped in Boston harbor, and as independence was declared in 1776, how did women make sense …

Voices Of Courage: A Comparison Of The Treatment Of Evangelicals And Dissidents Under Khrushchev, Abigail Coker

Senior Honors Theses

Nikita Khrushchev’s time in power from 1953-1964 has often been thought of as a period of “thaw” in the Soviet Union, as he allowed a certain degree of freedom of expression for artists and writers. However, this view of the Khrushchev “thaw” ignores the blatant human rights violations enacted by the Soviet Union during this time, specifically in its treatment of evangelicals and other dissidents. This work examines Khrushchev’s treatment of evangelicals and other dissidents with the goal of refining modern perceptions on Khrushchev’s time in office. The timelines and methods of both the anti-religious campaign of 1959-1964 and the …

Spanish From The "East Side" Of Las Vegas: Simplification Of Tense/Aspect Distinction In Ser And Estar In Spanish Heritage Speakers Of Sunrise Manor, Nathalie Martinez

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

Spanish heritage speakers in the United States are a reflection of the influence of linguistic and sociolinguistic pressures that creates variation across linguistic generations. This exploratory investigation seeks to fill this gap of linguistic knowledge in the Spanish-speaking community of Las Vegas, Nevada through a sociolinguistic study of the process of simplification of the simple forms of the past tense in Spanish heritage speakers of Sunrise Manor (Clark County, Nevada, USA), locally known as the “East Side”. The investigation focuses on the tense-aspect semantics in the verbs ser and estar of 9 heritage speakers between the ages of 18 and …

Review: The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices From The Fight For Atomic Justice, By Trisha T. Pritikin, Andy Kirk

History Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Redefining Belonging: Memory And Place-Making For Peruvians Of Chinese And Japanese Descent In The 21st Century, Tiffany Wang , '21

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

The first arrival of Chinese migrants to Peru was documented over 170 years ago; today, third-, fourth-, and fifth-generation Peruvians of Chinese and Japanese descent have carved a space for themselves in Peruvian society, celebrating both their Peruvian identity and Chinese or Japanese heritage. My thesis discusses the process of identity formation among third- and fourth-generation Peruvians of Chinese and Japanese descent through retellings of family histories and personal experiences living in Peru and abroad. I center my work on seven people, three who speak to their Japanese heritage and four to their Chinese heritage. I think through how events …

Memories: The Crew Of The Uss Abner Read Dd-526 (Second Edition), Mary Elizabeth Downing-Turner, Michael Davis

Monographs

Memories: The Crew of the USS Abner Read DD-526 captures the experiences of sailors who served aboard the USS Abner Read. Collected over the course of decade, this collection features more than 120 interviews with sailors who fought aboard the Abner Read during the War in the Pacific. First-hand accounts of life on the ship, the incident at Kiska, and the sinking of the ship during the Battle of Leyte Gulf all feature prominently in this edited volume. There are amusing anecdotes, mundane details, and graphic descriptions of the horrors of war. Though only in service for twenty-one months, …

“An Emergency Job Well Done”: Friends Of Freedom Libraries And The Mississippi Freedom Libraries, Suzanne Marie Stauffer

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/67 Alpha Kappa Alpha, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Ua88 Wku Women's Alliance, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Unprocessed records created by the WKU Women's Alliance.

Book Review: Christopher I. Beckwith. The Tibetan Empire In Central Asia, Constance Wilkinson

Comparative Civilizations Review

The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia was brought into being by polyglot polymath philologist MacArthur Fellowship recipient and stupefyingly wide-ranging medieval Central Asian civilizations-ist scholar Christopher I. Beckwith as the "first detailed narrative history of the Tibetan Empire in Central Asia written in any language" (vii). By 1993, Princeton University Press had released a 4th printing/1st paperback edition (with a new afterword by Beckwith), suggesting a widening readership for what some might regard as a rarified subject.

Jennifer E. Sessions. By Sword And Plow: France And The Conquest Of Algeria, Thomas Deltombe, Manuel Domergue, And Jacob Tatsitsa. Kamerun! Une Guerre Cachée De La Françafrique (1948-1971), Thomas Deltombe, Manuel Domergue, And Jacob Tatsitsa. La Guerre Du Cameroun: L’Invention De La Françafrique 1948-1971, Leland Conley Barrows

Comparative Civilizations Review

The legacy of the colonial period continues to weigh on France. Recently, President Emmanuel Macron called for the creation of a “Memories and Truth Commission” to lay to rest the lingering questions, bitterness, and controversies surrounding the French occupation of Algeria, the independence war, and the country’s accession to independence. Questions regarding the brutality of French colonial conquests and colonial rule in tropical Africa are also being raised. Immigration from Algeria and other formerly French territories is provoking controversy as is also the fact that France has the largest Muslim population of any European country. Many French citizens, particularly those …

Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence And The Tropics: Critical Inquiries From Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences, Anita Lundberg, Kalala J. Ngalamulume, Jean Segata, Arbaayah Ali Termizi, Chrystopher J. Spicer

History Faculty Research and Scholarship

The Tropics have long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a geographical region virtually uninhabitable to temperate peoples due to the hostility of its climate, and persisted in colonial imaginaries of the tropics as pestilential latitudes requiring slave labour. The tropical sites of colonialism gave rise to urgent studies of tropical diseases which lead to (racialised) changes in urban planning. The Tropics as a region of pandemic, plague and pestilence has been challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The novel coronavirus did not (simply) originate in …

Hollywood Imagines Revolutionary Haiti: The Forgotten Film Lydia Bailey (1952), Judith E. Smith

American Studies Faculty Publication Series

This essay explores the history of Lydia Bailey, the only US studio-made film to depict the Haitian Revolutionary period. It asks why, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such an unlikely project might have seemed commercially promising enough to justify a significant production budget. The essay draws on private studio memos as well as public press discussions to shed light on the high stakes in debates over racial representation and colonialism/decolonization in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and to illuminate everyday assumptions of white supremacy as these shaped the making of the film and its promotion. Production files …

Reams, Radicals And Revolutionaries: The 'Illinois Staats-Zeitung' And The German-American Milieu In Chicago, 1847-1877, Sebastian Peter Wuepper

Dissertations

This dissertation analyzes how a large, German-language newspaper, the Illinois Staats-Zeitung served the German-American immigrant community in Chicago in the second half of the nineteenth century. The German diaspora in the United States was not a secluded, separated, and isolated entity, but a node in a transnational network of cultural exchange that crossed national and natural boundaries. Newspapers contributed significantly to the creation and maintenance of this cultural sphere. The editors of the Staats-Zeitung were refugees of the failed 1848 democratic revolutions in Germany. In Germany they had been academics, intellectuals, lawyers and journalists. They brought their political convictions with …

Nebraska Summary: S1149a Fendt 1046, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …

Test 2234: John Deere 8rt 310, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …

Test 2238: John Deere 7r 350 Ivt, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …

Test 2229: Claas Xerion 5000 T5, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …