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“Drinking” About The Past: Bar Culture In Antebellum New Orleans, Mindy M. Jarrett

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Women in antebellum New Orleans have often been memorialized as Voudou queens, slave-torturers who continue to haunt houses, prostitutes, and light-skinned concubines to wealthy, white men. This study focuses on women’s contribution to New Orleans’s economy through the hospitality industry as female bar owners from 1830-1861. In addition, it provides an overview of the role that alcohol and beverage consumption patterns played among men and women of all races, classes, and cultural backgrounds in antebellum New Orleans. Antebellum tourists, in addition to cotton and sugar, were an important source of income for many New Orleanians before the Civil War. As …

Images, Art, And Paraphernalia: Analyzing Tactics Of The United Farm Workers And The Coalition Of Immokalee Workers, Felicia Viano

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

What do grapes and tomatoes have in common? Both of these foods have been or are major points of contention for influential farm worker movements. The United Farm Workers formed by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilbert Padilla in 1962 has become a hallmark of success in labor history. This movement used traditional yet innovative methods of social movement strategy, eventually branding themselves as a household name. The images and paraphernalia such as buttons, bumper stickers, and posters distributed during the Delano Grape Strike seemed like a simple concept at the time, but there were strategic decisions made to incorporate …

2018-12-03 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for December 4, 2018.

2018-12-03 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for December 3, 2018.

Schendel And Cunninghams' "Calling And Vocation: From Martin Luther To The Modern World Of Work" (Book Review), Stefana Dan Laing

The Christian Librarian

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The Historiography Of Black Workers In The Urban Midwest: Toward A Regional Synthesis, Joe William Trotter, Jr.

Studies in Midwestern History

Focusing on Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Milwaukee, this article explores the transformation of research on black workers in the urban Midwest from the foundational years of the early 20th century through recent times. While much work remains to be done, a century of innovative research on different time periods, topics, and themes provides an excellent opportunity to craft a regional Midwestern synthesis of black labor and working class history.

This article is based upon Professor Trotter's keynote address, "Toward a Regional Synthesis of the Black Working Class: The Urban Midwest from the American Revolution to the Postindustrial Age," …

2018-11-05 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for November 5, 2018.

2018-11-05 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for November 5, 2018.

British Motives In The Settlement Of German Palatines In Colonial New York, Adam G. Novey

Bound Away: The Liberty Journal of History

In 1710, a group of German Palatine refugees landed in the New World courtesy of Britain’s Queen Anne. While British propaganda boasted charitable and religious motives behind the Palatine relocation to America—particularly in light of the Catholic-Protestant feud gripping Europe at that time—the historical record paints an alternative picture. Based on the evidence, the move was predominantly an act of convenience and profit to the Crown. Britain had a need to remove excess poor from its midst, make its northerly Colonies profitable, and ensure Colonial security in the face of Iroquois threat. England viewed the Palatines as an ethnically homogenous …

2018-10-30 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message from the President issued to university employees on October 30, 2018.

2018-10-29 Memo From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Memo issued to the employees of Morehead State University by the president on October 29, 2018.

Sez Who? Critical Legal History Without A Privileged Position, John Henry Schlegel

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 30 in Oxford Handbook of Historical Legal Research, Markus D. Dubber & Christopher Tomlins, eds.

Scholars active in the Critical Legal Studies movement of the 1980s regularly attacked the scholarship of liberal legalist scholars by using a variety of then contemporary epistemological theories that argued for the impossibility of any observer attaining a neutral position from which to observe social activities. Somewhat surprisingly, liberal legalist scholars seldom turned this criticism back at the work of CLS scholars who themselves never criticized their own work as they did that of other scholars. The examination of several pieces of …

2018-10-15 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message from the President issued to university employees on October 15, 2018.

Archiving The Stories Of The 2018 West Virginia Teachers' Strike, Ian Harmon

Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference

In February of 2018, teachers and school personnel across West Virginia went on strike, shutting down schools in all 55 of the state’s counties. As the school year ended, teachers began to reflect on their experiences, and many expressed the desire to have their stories recorded. To answer this need, an interdisciplinary group at West Virginia University began developing a digital exhibit that provides the strike’s participants with a platform where they can share their stories by contributing photos, videos, oral recordings, social media exchanges, and written accounts of the events. This exhibit provides both researchers and the public with …

2018-10-01 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress

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Staff Congress newsletter for October 1, 2018.

2018-10-01 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for October 1, 2018.

2018-09-27 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message from the President issued to university employees on September 27, 2018.

2018-09-11 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message from the President issued to university employees on September 11, 2018.

2018-09-10 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for September 10, 2018.

2018-09-10 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for September 10, 2018.

2018-09-05 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message from the President issued to university employees on September 5, 2018.

Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, And The Shaping Of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945, Johnathan Thayer

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation argues that merchant seamen, because of their inherent transience, diversity, and the unique nature of their work, occupied a marginal position in U.S. society, and that that marginalization produced a series of confrontations with shoreside people, communities, institutions, and the state, most specifically over the nature and definition of citizenship. This argument is developed through examination of a series of encounters and negotiations that merchant seamen provoked from the piers, back alleys, and boardinghouses of the nation’s “sailortowns” from the 1830s through World War II, including: 1) nineteenth century maritime ministry projects in the Port of New York …

2018-08-16 Joint Resolution Of The Staff Congress And Faculty Senate, Morehead State University. Staff Congress., Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

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A Joint Resolution of the Staff Congress and Faculty Senate addressing budgetary and employment issues at Morehead State University. Signed by the chairs of both the Staff Congress and Faculty Senate on August 16, 2018.

2018-08-06 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for August 6, 2018.

2018-08-06 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for August 6, 2018.

Mississippi’S First Statewide Teachers’ Strike, Emily Doyne Smith

Master's Theses

This thesis argues that the Education Reform Act of 1982 (ERA) inadvertently led to Mississippi’s first statewide teachers’ strike in 1985 because of the Southeastern pay average clause recommending that the teachers’ pay should reach the average of the southeastern states, if possible. The teachers’ associations in Mississippi used this clause to lobby and promote teachers’ pay to that average. However, after two years of stagnated pay raises, the teachers’ associations led a state statewide teachers’ strike. The strike successfully raised the teachers’ salaries and moved state legislators to consider the teachers’ pay issue carefully afterwards. However, the pay raise …

Civil Rights Or Sovereignty Rights? Understanding The Historical Conflict Between Native Americans And Organized Labor, Colleen O'Neill

Occasional Papers

Unions have played important roles in Indigenous struggles in Latin America and in campaigns that fueled civil rights movements in the United States, including efforts to organize agricultural, hospitality, and health care workers. But, Native Americans have had less of a connection with organized labor. Indeed, in the current climate, labor and tribes seemed to be locked in an adversarial relationship. Tribal leaders see unions as a threat to their sovereignty. Unions, such as Unite-HERE and the United Food and Commercial Workers, clearly see their rights to organize as part of a larger civil rights struggle. Examining struggles between tribal …

2018-07-09 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for July 9, 2018.

2018-07-09 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for July 9, 2018.

2018-06-04 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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The Staff Congress newsletter for June 4, 2018.