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Erasmus Seen By A Historian, Andreas Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

For many and various reasons the complexity of Erasmus of Rotterdam will never cease to give substance to historical meditation. One might be fascinated, as were the great writers of the Enlightenment, by his opposition to every kind of inessential traditionalism in religion and philosophy or by the cosmopolitan radiation of his thinking among his contemporaries at a period of growing nationalism. Theologians and scholars of antiquity will continue to reappraise how this man of fervent religiosity and profound classical learning succeeded in his lifelong endeavor of bringing about, with the newly discovered tools of philological inquiry, a new understanding …

The Total State: A Study Of Totalitarianism Based On Selected European Novels Of The Twentieth Century, Catherine Arveson Thoma

History Theses & Dissertations

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Joseph Priestley: An Eighteenth Century Unitarian, Carol Lynn Knight

History Theses & Dissertations

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Southern Minnesota Reaction To Policies Of Nazi Germany, 1936-1939, Frederick Karl Knudsen

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Before World War II broke out in Europe in September, 1939, Nazi Germany had acted aggressively for several years in pursuing its objective of world domination. First of all, Germany remilitarized the Rhineland, which was a part of the overall rearmament program. Secondly, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the unification of all German-speaking people, those in Austria and the Sudeten Germans in parts of Czechoslovakia. Involved in the latter problem was the infamous Munich Conference, where the word "appeasement" became a term associated with treason.

Hitler then launched his third step to world domination, Drang Nach Osten, with the …

American Governmental Response To The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Martin Ivan Elzy

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Special Issue "Willkommen In Der Schweis" Of The N.Y. Staats-Zeitung U. Herold Of July 28th. 1968

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

We owe this gift to our member Fritz Blum in New York who collected the material for this special issue. Even if he does not like to admit it in his modesty, he obviously has been the driving force behind this enterprise. We should like to draw your special attention to the interviews on pages 10 and 11 with 12 Swiss graphic artists working in the New York area, with the fitting title: "Ein neuer Schweizer Exportartikel: Graphiker", but also to the genealogical article on page 15 on the Swiss ancestry of the astronaut Walter M. Schirra and of President …

To The Members And Friends Of The Sahs,, Lukas F. Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

One of the main purposes of the Swiss American Historical Society and of its Newsletter is to draw the attention of Swiss and friends of Switzerland, who are interested in Swiss American history and cultural relations, to recent publications in this field. We again have a good occasion to do this. Professor Leo Schelbert, our Secretary, has kindly arranged for us reprints of his recent article on the emigration of the Swiss Mennonites to America (see under II.). Our member Fritz Blum has given us copies of a special issue on Switzerland of the New York paper for which he …

Captain Henry Wirz And The Andersonville-Trial, Rolf Kieser

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This article was first published in German in the "Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Geschichte", Band 18, Heft 1, 1968. As a subscriber to this review I immediately inquired, after having read the article, about the possibility to get reprints for our members, but it was already too late. Dr. Kieser, however, kindly made an English version of his article for the benefit of our readers. We thank Dr. Kieser for this fine contribution to our Newsletter. For the many scholarly notes to this article we refer to the German original in the Schwei zerische Zeitschrift fur Geschichte which, on this occasion …

A Raeto-Romance Language And Literature Course In Rumein, Surselva, Grisons From June 24 To July 11, 1969

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

As a Professor of Median and Minor Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina, Professor Maissen occupies a unique position for fostering interest in the Raeto-Romance language of his native Grisons. This center of comparative :ttemtures and linguistics enables him to use Raeto-Romance as a key for the understanding of the whole language group related to it, from Catalan to Rumanian. Despite of its small territory, Raeto-Romance, because of the consciousness with which our compatriots in the Grisons defend this linguistic heritage, plays a crucial role in these studies .

The Fifth Annual Meeting Of The Reactivated Swiss American Historical Society, Lukas F. Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The Morning Meeting from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM in the Malmaison Room No. 6 of the Americana Hotel, 7th Avenue and 52nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019, was dedicated to two lectures and attended by about fifty members and guests.

Book Review: Man And His Images. A Way Of Seeing, Lukas F. Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This beautifully illustrated book is the product of an unusual cooperation between an art writer and teacher and a company president who, together with his wife, is deeply concerned with living art and artists. W11oever approaches the seat of Geigy Chemical Corpor ation near the village of Ardsley, New York, is struck by a bold metal sculpture, the work of the Swiss artist Bernhard Luginbuhl. Entering the office of the President of Geigy, the visitor finds himself in the middle of modern works of art. The same is true for other offices. These paintings and sculptures have one thing in …

Eighteenth Century Migration Of Swiss Mennonites To America, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

You all know Professor Schelbert's unique familiarity with Swiss emigration history from his earlier publications and lectures. Here he treats a subject of particular interest to us, i.e. the history of a significant group of immigrants from Switzerland driven out of their home country by religious motivations to a new continent in which they were allowed to live according to their religious convictions and where , by their genuinely honest way of life, they have made a lasting contribution to the development of that idealistic touch in the American character upon which much of our hope for a more peaceful …

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Ua68/10/1 Sociological Symposium No. 1 – The Sociology Of Death, Wku Sociology

WKU Administration Documents

Table of Contents

• Fulton, Robert L. & Gilbert Geis. Social Change & Social Conflict: The Rabbi & the Funeral
• Kane, John J. The Irish Wake: A Sociological Appraisal
• Loveland, Glenn G. The Effects of Bereavement on Certain Religious Attitudes & Behaviors
• Morgan, Al. The Bier Barons
• Porter, William H., Jr. Some Sociological Notes on a Century of Change in the Funeral Business
• Salomone, Jerome J. An Empirical Report on Some Controversial American Funeral Practices
• Spilka, Bernard, Robert J. Pelligrini & Kathryn Dailey. Religion, American Values & Death Perspectives
• Strauss, Anselm L., Barney G. Glaser & Jeanne C. Quint. The Nonaccountability …

The Changing Attitudes Towards The Jews Of England 1066-1660, Bernard Glassman

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Pages From The History Of The New York Swiss, Dr. Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In the course of my work on U.S.-Swiss relations I often comes across the name of New York and the activities of the Swiss living in that city or its neighborhood. New York was the place where the earliest permanent official contact was established between the two countries when a consulate was opened under Henri Casimer de Rham of Ynerdon in the summer of 1822. New York was the first consular district in the U.S. to become a permanent consulate general in 1933. New York was the place that received first the majority of Swiss immigrants to the United States …

Reminiscenses And Reflections, Alphonse A. Kubly, Dr. Leo Schelbert, L. B.

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Before the advent of Mr. Collier, Everglades had been a sport-fisherman's outpost. There was an inn, the Rod & Gun Club, catering to yacht-borne fishing enthusiasts, and three or four small bungalows harbored families who made their modest living as guides. Now Everglades was going to be reshaped in a manner to do honor to its role as Country seat. There were many reminders of Mrs. Collier's favorite field of action: New York City. Approaching by boat, a street sign with the incongruous legend "Riverside Drive" had come into view. There also was the unavoidable Broadway. Along the boat pier …

Letter, Dr. Lukas Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

To the Members and Friends of the SAHS ,

1 ) This issue of our Newsletter is entirely dedicated to the autobiography of one of our members , the civil-engineer Alphonse Kubly from Netstal in the canton of Glarus whose home is now in New York. It is a fascinating document, full of thoughtful observations on his youth in a typical Glarner milieu, where he grew up under the high moral standards of a family prominent in the tratidional textile industry, on his adolescence in the chaotic period of the twenties in Switzerland and in Germany, and on his new …

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The Fourth Annual Meeting Of The Reactivated Swiss-American Historical Society, Dr. Lukas Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The Business Meeting

1) Attendance

The fourth Annual Meeting of the reactivated Swiss-American Historical Society, to which the members had been invited by circular letters of September 12 and of the latter part of that month, took place in the Conference Hall of the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1967.

Letter, Dr. Lukas Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Dear Member,

In the enclosure I am sending you:

1) Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the SAHS

2) List of SAHS Officers, Honorary and Board Members for 1963

3) Revised SAHS Membership List as of April 1963

4) "Pages from the History of the New York Swiss" by Dr. Heinz K. Meier from the Amerikanische Schweizer Zeitung

A Survey Of Prussian Foreign Policy As Formulated By Otto Eduard Leopold Von Bismarck And Resulting In The Unification Of Germany And The Creation Of The German Empire, Wayne Ray Moore

Theses & Honors Papers

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Germany's Rise To Power: Role Of The House Of Krupp In German Militarism, Marian Mathison Desrosiers

Class of 1968 Legacy Project

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Seminar 400, May 24, 1968.

Reconstructing Shabazz : Images Of The Black Man In Four Black Plays, William Charles Thompson

Master's Theses

When Elizabeth I ascended the throne in 1558, she was confronted with a changing economic situation. English industry, which had for centuries been localized in the towns under guild control, was maturing and becoming national in scope. In accordance with the prevailing economic precepts of the age, Elizabeth desired to bring industry under a system of national regulation. Such a system of regulation was, however, even for the strongest and most ingenious of the Tudor autocrats, a difficult and elusive goal. Plagued throughout her long reign by a shortage of funds, Elizabeth simply could not afford to involved the state …

Monopolies During The Reign Of James I., William Charles Thompson

Master's Theses

The Statue of Monopolies or 1624 occupies a prominent place in the economic history of England. It was the first national patent law to contain all the essentials, and thereby made a large contribution to England's later technical progress.

The Soviet System And The Historian: E.V. Tarle (1875-1955) As A Case Study, Sidney Robert Sherter

Wayne State University Dissertations

Ever since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Soviet leaders have viewed the field of history as the most political of the social sciences. Soviet historiography, as a result, has been conditioned by political events; and Marxist-Leninist ideology, also affected by politics, has been used as its philosophical justification.

The flexibility of Soviet ideology has created an almost insurmountable obstacle for the historian. The ra­ tionale behind historical scholarship has been and still is utility, with the historian being used as a tool in support of ideological or political platforms proposed by the Party. As an employee of the state, the …

The Reconciliation Of Science And Religion In Symbolo-Fideism, Shirley Brown Moon

Wayne State University Dissertations

From the publication in 1859 of On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, religion was in open warfare against science. By the end of the century the war was not going well for religion. Biology, anthropology, archeology, the "higher criticism" united in an attack on Christian premises, while "applied science" — technology-provided, the materialistic comforts which made Christian promises utopian and unnecessary. The reaction of some Protestant and Catholic leaders to this threat from science was a retreat into funda­mentalism. Others hastened to show that the recent discoveries were not really in conflict with religious truths at …