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Stifled Voices: World War Ii From The Upper Peninsula, Elijah H. Croschere

HS 390 Primary Research Papers

Academic scholarship on World War II is primarily based around letters and correspondence between soldiers and their families. A large body of such correspondence exists for both the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan; yet, most scholarship on the state’s connection to World War II is centered around strictly the Lower Peninsula. This is especially strange when comparing the data on enlisted soldiers from both Peninsulas, as we find the percentage of the population who enlisted in the US Army from the Upper Peninsula is roughly double that of the percentage for Lower Peninsula enlistments. There are clear reasons as …

Resistance, Adaptation, And Assimilation: Native American Responses To Christianization In The Great Lakes Region, 1800-1900, Noah S. Danforth

HS 390 Primary Research Papers

Analysis of the relationship between Native Americans and missionaries shifted from an early broad, sweeping praise of the missionaries, to overwhelming condemnation of their actions in the post Civil Rights political climate. Since the time of European contact, histories often fell into Hagiography; extolling the virtues of the missionaries, and their God-ordained work to save the soul of the perceived heathen Native. In the mind of many, the conversion of the Native was merely a natural result of the superiority of European-descended American culture. However, as a result of the Civil Rights Movement, a pivot away from lauditive analysis took …

Making Waves: Depression Era Violent Crime In The Upper Peninsula And The United States, Zoe Jancek

HS 390 Primary Research Papers

The Great Depression overlaps with several other important historical eras, all of which had their own impact on crime. This study looks at stressors throughout the decade of the Great Depression to attempt to understand how they affect people and therefore, how they affect the amount of violent crimes committed in both a broad and specific sense. Using statistics and historical accounts, this research analyzes topics such as culture, mental and physical health, substance abuse, gangs, and the effects of Prohibition. The fluctuations can be attributed to economic, social, and cultural factors such as Prohibition and the rise of organized …

Life, Liberty And Property: Property As A Weapon Utilized Against Native Peoples And As A Tool To Strengthen Native Sovereignty In The Upper Midwest, Jacob R A Ludwig

HS 390 Primary Research Papers

While many Americans today recognize the continuing paternalism of the federal government towards Tribal governments, much still remains unknown to the public regarding the specific laws, policies and treaties that have provided the continuing legal authority for this paternalism. Throughout American history, the relationship between the federal government and Native American tribes can be seen through the use of violence both in law, and outside of it. Treaties, the basis for removal, have been used by both the federal government and subsequently tribal governments to assert their authority over land. In the Upper Midwest, various Anishinaabe tribes signed several treaties …

The March Of The Naples Soldier: A Look Into The Spanish Flu Pandemic 1918-1920, Javier Pena Reyes

HS 390 Primary Research Papers

This paper dives into the memory of Spanish Influenza from 1918 to 1920. It will analyze and deconstruct the fear caused or absent during that time and later in the records and literature. The comparison of the time of the Spanish Flu will be contrasted with the memory of the time period with the including of Pale Horse, Pale Rider, which was written in 1939. It will compare these two times and conclude with the recent COVID-19 pandemic from 2019 to 2021.

It was November 2019, and reports of a new respiratory disease from Wuhan, China, began to trickle …

Rolling The Dice: The History Of Indian Reservation Gambling In The Upper Peninsula, Xavier Binkley

HS 390 Primary Research Papers

The History of Indian reservation gambling in the Upper Peninsula is of a struggle for expectance from the state government, and of the people in the state. The positive economic gain of states being one of the reasons behind why the rise of the gaming industry needed to happen. With the passing of The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act helping the regulation of reservation gambling and breaking down what was not allowed under the act. Newspapers and an interview with Frederick Dakota, give a personal look into the rise of the gaming industry and the struggle that the people were having …

The Lumberman, The "General," The Watchman, And The Comeback Queen: The Afterlife Of Slavery In The Bayou City From 1861 To The Present, Karen Kossie-Chernyshev

Faculty Publications

Using oral history and genealogical research, this essay examines the historical ties of a lifetime resident of Houston's historic Fifth Ward community to selected members of William Marsh Rice’s family from the period of slavery to freedom. This narrative reaffirms the role that oral history plays in our understanding of the afterlife of urban slavery in Houston, Texas, the nation’s 4th-largest city.

Sagallo: Russia’S Forgotten African Colony And Its Modern Implications, Kadee Swanson

2025 Honors Council of the Illinois Region

Imperial Russia is infamous for its rapid and unrelenting colonization efforts in central Asia and Western Europe. However, an oft-overlooked aspect of the Russian Empire’s colonial aspirations was its interest in establishing overseas colonial holdings in North America and Africa. One such holding was that of the colony of Sagallo, or New Moscow, in modern-day Djibouti, established in 1889 during an ill-fated mission led by notorious Cossack Nikolai Ivanovich Ashinov and a group of accompanying Russian Orthodox pilgrims. The mission was religious in nature and held the primary goal of establishing both an ecclesiastical and economic connection with the Orthodox …

World History To 1500, Kelsey J. Utne

ATU Faculty OER Books and Materials

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Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 35. Natural Selection By Evolution., Charles H. Smith

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823?1913) is remembered, with Charles Darwin, as the co-originator of the concept of evolution by natural selection. But Wallace’s framing of the idea increasingly became one in which natural selection itself was regarded as a law of nature, not a theory per se.

Gibson's Point Battery Graphs, Morehead State University. History Department.

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Graphs of soil layers taken during the archaeological survey of Gibson's Point Battery in the spring of 2025.

012-S2-L1-125.014, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Curved clear glass body with small piece of neck - Excavated between March 17-19, 2025

011-S2-L1-125.028, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Curved amber glass - Excavated between March 17-19, 2025

010-S2-L1-125.027, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Clear glass, slight curve - Excavated between March 17-19, 2025

009-S2-L1-125.020, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Curved piece of an amber bottle - Excavated between March 17-19, 2025

008-S2-L1-125.029, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Clear curved glass piece - Excavated between March 17-18, 2025

016-S2-L1-125.019, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Top of an amber glass bottle neck - excavated between March 17-19, 2025

015-S2-L1-125.011, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Glass bottle bottom - excavated between March 17-19, 2025

014-S2-L1-125.022, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Curved amber glass - Excavation between March 17-19, 2025

013-S2-L1-125.025, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Thin amber glass with slight curve - Excavated between March 17-19, 2025

022-S2-L1-125.023, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Amber glass, bottom piece - excavated between March 17-19, 2025

021-S2-L1-125.042, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Curved amber bottle piece - excavated between March 17-19, 2025

020-S2-L1-125.004, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Ring, possibly to container - excavated between March 17-19, 2025

019-S2-L1-125.016, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Clear curved glass piece - excavated between March 17-19, 2025

026-S2-L1-125.037, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Small amber glass piece, slightly curved - excavated between March 17-19, 2025

018-S2-L1-125.018, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Clear glass piece, flat - excavated between March 17-19, 2025

025-S2-L1-125.032, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Bottom corner of amber glass bottle - excavated between March 17-19, 2025

024-S2-L1-125.001, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Amber beer bottle neck - excavated between March 17-19, 2025

023-S2-L1-125.021, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Small amber glass piece - excavated between March 17-19, 2025

022-S2-L1-125.013, Morehead State University History Department (Morehead, Ky)

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

Amber glass, part of neck to bottle body - excavated between March 17-19, 2025