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Profit, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Profit family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Simmons, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Simmons family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Wyatt, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Wyatt family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Walker, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Walker family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Cogswell, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Cocheran family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Caudill, Tilden H., Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Tilden H. Caudill family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Burgess, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Burgess family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Mcbrayer, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the McBrayer family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Mcanespy, Rowan County Genealogical Society

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the McAnespy family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

“1000 Acres Of Restricted Land”: The Larger Implications Of Roland Park On Baltimore, From 1891 To The Present, Madison Rose O’Donnell

Theses and Dissertations

This study addresses the circumstances that led to and the long-term consequences of racially exclusive suburban developments in Baltimore City during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 1891, British investors and urban planners joined together to build the Roland Park District, one of the nation’s first planned suburban neighborhoods to include a racially restrictive covenant. Ideally located on the Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore developed a high-functioning port, which in turn supported westward expansion, progress, industrialization, and immigration. Located just north of Baltimore’s 1888 city limits, which would later expand to absorb Roland Park in 1918, Roland Park was built as an …

Making Sense Of Chaos: Populism In The United States And The Crisis Of Modernity, Juan David Halberstadt-Velasco

Theses and Dissertations

In 2016, Donald Trump achieved a surprising victory in the general election, despite a series of scandals that would have ended any other politician’s career. In the aftermath of the election, Trump’s base has shown steady support and borderline devotion to the president despite scandals, criminal indictments, and a double impeachment. Why? This research seeks to elucidate the sources of Trump’s apparent political infallibility by using the theoretical framework generated by Eric Voegelin. Voegelin’s perspective allows the identification of two main sources of support for Trumpism: blue collar industrial workers who have seen a decline in their economic prospects due …

How Did Anastasia Survive For So Long - A Conspiracy, Darya Mcdevitt

Student Research Poster Presentations 2024

This poster explains had the conspiracy about Anna Anderson being the long lost Romanov Grand Duchess Anastasia was able to last for so long. Also explaining what made it so captivating and interesting.

The Shocker, Grand Valley State University

The Shocker

Literary publication collecting writings and art from the Thomas Jefferson College "Make-It" program and via student submission.

Alderson, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Alderson family in Rowan County, Kentucky

Estep, Mildred H., Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Mildred H. Estep family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Dean-Creech, Volume 17, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Dean-Creech family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Leuman, Volume 4, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Leuman family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Branham, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Branham family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Brinegar, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Brinegar family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Young, Robert, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Robert Young family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Red Dyes From West To East In Medieval Europe: From Portuguese Manuscript Illuminations To Romanian Textiles, Irina Petroviciu, Paula Nabais, Maria J. Melo

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

Red is the color par excellence, its symbolism being linked with protection and magic through its primary attributes, fire and blood. It was the predominant color from the earliest times, certainly during the Greek and Roman periods and into Medieval Europe, until blue became a competitor around the 13th century. Mineral pigments, like iron oxides, were the first red sources, used to draw lines, dots, or spots on cave walls or stones. Later, other mineral red pigments were also exploited: Cinnabar, natural mercury sulfide, since the Neolithic, and realgar, arsenic trisulfide, in Ancient Egypt. Scientific investigation revealed that, although …

Searching For The Exotic: Textiles, Orientalism, And Identities, Ana Cabrera, Roxana Coman, Karolina A. Kulpa, Tim Parry-Williams

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

Textiles, with their economic, sartorial, and identity-constructing functions, have long been at the center of cultural discourses, whether narrative or visual. Objects of desire, but also objects of curiosity, textiles have been the topic of costume books, offered in diplomatic exchanges, collected by private collectors and museums alike, and have traveled, sometimes as sample books. Their Othering function did not only differentiate between members of different civilizations, but also the members of the same society, where clothing was used to signal rank and function. The case studies presented intend to elaborate further on the role and symbolism associated with textiles, …

Clothing In Transition: Social, Symbolic, And Legal Aspects Of Garments From Prehistory To The Early Byzantine Period, Tina Boloti, Francesca Scotti, Cristina Cumbo, Petra Linscheid

Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia

Since ancient times, garments served a wide range of purposes: Either functional, providing protection by covering the body, or symbolic, as an element of non-verbal communication and marker of identity. In particular, this stimulates the development of specific characteristics in shape, decoration, or material composition, which generate distinctions among garments, as acknowledged by Roman jurists too.

These distinctions are determined by various factors. One important factor is the social meaning of clothing: There are garments for public life, garments expressing rank, garments suited for special professions, or garments intended for sacred/priestly rites reflecting particular religious symbols. And, of course, clothes …

The Real Story Behind Lindenwood University's Recent Decisions, John Porter

John Porter

President Porter's explanation for the decision to eliminate some sports programs.

The Power Of Law Codes, Legal Tradition, And Administrative Institutions And The Rise Of The Kingdom Of Sicily From Norman To Aragonese Rule, Joseph Mancuso

Theses and Dissertations

The Kingdom of Sicily, founded in 1130 by Roger II de Hauteville, is an example of a medieval European kingdom with an advanced understanding of law, judicial processes, and administrative offices that developed from its creation by the Norman kings to its incorporation into the Crown of Aragon. A state rarely focused on in medieval European studies, its advanced understanding of law is reflected through the law codes of Roger II, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and the Aragonese kings James II, Frederick III, and Peter II of Sicily. These kings knew that in order to effectively grow the …

Winning Project: The Intersectionality Of Childless Women Between 1900 And 1950, Chelsea Kiefer

2024 Lynn Haggard Undergraduate Library Research Award

Throughout American history, society has had stereotypes of a woman’s role being a wife and a mother. In fact, when doing research, a librarian asked me what I was studying, and when I told her I was reading about childless women in the early 1900s, she said she did not think any existed. The fact is, though, that women without children have always existed in America, for a variety of reasons. Environmental scientist Dr. Rachel Carson, poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author Edith Wharton, activist Angelina Weld Grimké, and playwright Maurine Dallas Watkins are a few notable American women who went …

Cartel Del Mes Nacional De La Salud Dental Infantil "¡Hábitos Saludables Para Sonrisas Saludables!" [Spanish Language Version: Healthy Habits For Healthy Smiles] (2024), American Dental Association Foundation

National Children's Dental Health Month

No abstract provided.

Hood, John B., Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the John B. Hood family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Kelly, Jonathan, Volume 2, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Jonathan Kelly family in Rowan County, Kentucky.

Padgett, Rowan County Genealogical Society.

Rowan County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the Padgett family in Rowan County, Kentucky.