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Student Leaders, The University Of The Free State, And The 2012 Global Leadership Summit: An Introductory Note, Regennia N. Williams

The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs

No abstract provided.

Rattlers Remember - Stmu Oral Histories With George Montague, Peter Coons

Rattlers Remember

In this interview, Fr. George Montague reflects on his time serving as a professor and chaplain at St. Mary’s University. His former office was in the Marianist Heritage House in Pecan Grove, a building he described having served over time as a laboratory, then an office, and now a storage space.

Rattlers Remember - Stmu Oral Histories With Jim Jakely, Euris Morales

Rattlers Remember

In this interview, Brother Jim Jakely narrates his experience burying Marianist in the St. Mary’s University Cemetery. He describes the different characteristics that make the Marianist Cemetery unique, then goes on to explain the requirements for individuals to be buried there, as well as the various incidents that have occurred in the cemetery throughout the years.

Rattlers Remember - Stmu Oral Histories With Scott Sleder, Kacey Diaz

Rattlers Remember

In this interview, Scott Sleder shares his experience catching pokemons around various locations of St Mary’s University, including iconic landmarks such as the Bell Tower. Sleder describes the process of capturing different Pokemon characters and reflects on the personal benefits that this activity can provide.

Rattlers Remember - Stmu Oral Histories With Earl Leistikow, Euris Morales

Rattlers Remember

In this interview, Earl Leistikow reflects on the many personal stories behind all those individuals buried in the St. Mary’s University Cemetery. He discusses the requirements for someone to be buried in the cemetery and highlights several Brothers whose dedication and contribution have left a lasting impact on St. Mary’s University.

Rattlers Remember - Stmu Oral Histories With Franz Schorp, Euris Morales

Rattlers Remember

In this interview, Franz Schorp discusses the history of the St Mary’s University Cemetery. He explains the requirements for being buried in the Marianist cemetery, including for those individuals who are not part of the Marianist order. Schorp also talks about future plans to continue the tradition of burying Marianist and other individuals who have significantly contributed to St. Mary’s University.

Post-Partition Sikh Immigrant Experiences In The United States, Athamjit Singh Dhaddey

History

The project titled, "Post-Partition Sikh Immigrant Experiences in the United States," begins to explore the different factors that contributed to the migration of Sikhs to the United States. Beginning during the first decade of the 1900s, Sikhs began to migrate to the United States for a variety of reasons. It wasn't until the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 that we began to see these numbers increase dramatically. The main primary sources in this paper are oral histories from three of those immigrants during that time. With their stories, we are able to dive deeper into the different experiences …

Recollection And Social Status, Edward Brennan

Books/Book chapters

Television sets appeared in homes across the world during the 1950s and 1960s. Early audiences were researched in terms of ratings and so on, but the perceptions and experiences of early television viewers went unrecorded. There are no ready-made, bottom–up companion pieces to top–down institutional histories. In the absence of such work, life- story research offers one of our best means of attempting to capture the experiences of early viewers. This chapter offers an argument about the nature of memory. It argues that personal recollection, in memory interviews and other contexts, is practical; that people announce their pasts in a …

Two Poems: Stop Time Before; Forsaken Ones, Ánh-Hoa Thị Nguyễn

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

This creative work features two poems: Stop Time Before; Forsaken Ones

Rattlers Remember - Stmu Oral Histories With George Montague, August Guzman

Rattlers Remember

In this interview, Father George Montague speaks of his time as a chaplain for the St. Mary’s University Assumption Chapel. He discusses various renovations made to the chapel over the years, how the chapel has been used, and describes notable elements inside the Assumption Chapel.

Ethnic Migration And Cultural Maintenance In Eastern European Ethnic Enclaves In Nebraska: The Poles In Omaha, Germans From Russia In Lincoln, And Czechs In Wilber From 1860-1920, Paige Mccoy

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This thesis examines whether three Eastern European ethnic enclaves within Nebraska assisted in cultural maintenance and stalled assimilation, looking specifically at enclaves of the Germans from Russia in Lincoln, the Poles in Omaha, and the Czechs in Wilber. These groups were selected due to differences in their location, with a larger city (Omaha), the capital city (Lincoln), and a small rural town (Wilber). In order to narrow down the time frame, this thesis focuses on the years from 1860-1920 in these enclaves. First, I determined that these clusters of immigrants were indeed ethnic enclaves, by using a primary source base …

Rattlers Remember - Stmu Oral Histories With Franz Schorp And Leticia Morales-Bissaro, August Guzman

Rattlers Remember

Franz Schorp spoke about his experiences attending The Assumption Chapel while being a student at St Mary’s University. In this narration Schorp talks about serving in daily mass, the history of the chapel, and architectural designs of The Assumption Chapel.

August also interviewed Leticia Morales-Bissaro who spoke on her experience with the ministry faculty and life commitments she made to the Assumption Chapel.

Rattlers Remember - Stmu Oral Histories With Earl Leistikow, Peter Coons

Rattlers Remember

In this interview, Earl Leistikow discusses the history of the Heritage House located in Pecan Grove. He explains the different uses the Heritage House has served over the decades, from being a space for faculty offices, computer center, and now a storage room. Leistikow also highlights various buildings across campus that are significant parts of St. Mary’s history.

"Sometimes You Have To Be The Leader": A Minnesota Oral History On Fighting Sexual Exploitation, Trudee Able-Peterson

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

Prostitution survivor Trudee Able-Peterson used oral histories to research and document the efforts of women and men to respond to the sexual exploitation of women and children in Minnesota. Her findings illustrate the leadership needed to overcome centuries of commercial sexual exploitation to obtain a beginning societal response. Respondents indicated the importance of their interaction with pioneer leaders in other locales. Their comments also illustrate the many issues and challenges still facing the community.

Immigration, Small Business And Assimilation: Three Stories Of Small-Time Capitalism On The Lower East Side, Marcus Hillman

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Small businesses in New York City have often been a catalyst to assimilation for individual immigrants, their families and their communities. For this capstone project, I have recorded conversations with three small-time entrepreneurs on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and created a narrative audio piece that explores some of the important and study-worthy characteristics of New York City including economic opportunities in the city, immigration, assimilation and the ways that New Yorkers share space, just to name a few. These themes are threads that ran through all three of the conversations that I had and are crucial elements of …

One Rule Of Law Project In Post-Soviet Russia, Albert E. Scherr

Law Faculty Scholarship

"One Rule of Law Project in Post-Soviet Russia" is published as Chapter 9 of the book At Home Abroad: Friendship First - A Look at Rule of Law Projects and Other International Insights, (ed. Joseph Nadeau, New York: Austin Macauley Publishers LLC, 2019). This book provides personal insights into an international cooperative effort to promote the rule of law in emerging democracies around the world. Professor Scherr's chapter examines the cultural context within a study of the rule-of-law project that was conducted between 1999 and 2004 in Vologda, Russia.

Kata Ostojic, Marija Maracic, Josipa Karaca

SICANJE

No abstract provided.

Janja Majstorovic, Marija Maracic, Josipa Karaca

SICANJE

No abstract provided.

Mara Bojic, Marija Maracic, Josipa Karaca

SICANJE

No abstract provided.

Anica Maric, Marija Maracic, Josipa Karaca

SICANJE

No abstract provided.

Zora Mendes, Marija Maracic, Josipa Karaca

SICANJE

No abstract provided.

Sima Maric, Marija Maracic, Josipa Karaca

SICANJE

No abstract provided.

Paper Presented At The National Council Of Preservation Education Conference, Samuel E. Sisneros

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Historic preservation’s principles and practices directly correlate and support the charge of librarians and archivists to provide resources for the public and contribute to scholarship and community building. This paper, presented at the National Council of Preservation Education conference in Denver, Colorado (Oct. 10-12, 2019), will discuss the research methodologies, historical context and preservation issues of a recovery project of an historic site in New Mexico.

Jagoda Duvnjak & Ana Komso, Marija Maracic, Josipa Karaca

SICANJE

No abstract provided.

History Speaks From The Soil: A Case Study Of Commons Enclosure In The Clearance Era On North And South Uist, Anna Rachel Herrington

Theses and Dissertations--History

This thesis argues that commons enclosure in the Clearance Era on the Uist island group in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland was a direct result of the Clearances on those islands in the 18^th and 19^th centuries and how the enclosure of commons on these islands was catastrophic to those communities who had functioned, worked, and thrived in those regions for millennia. Commons and commons systems are those resources such as land, water, and produce either from agriculture or natural harvesting which contribute to human habitation and existence in a particular geographic area. Commons and commons systems on …

World War I And The People Of The Purchase, Caroline Mikez, David Pizzo

Posters-at-the-Capitol

Title: World War I and The People of the Purchase

Author: Cari Mikez

Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Pizzo

Department: Murray State History Department

ABSTRACT

The extensive impacts of World War I pervaded society on a global scale during the early twentieth century. The United States officially joined the international conflict in April of 1917 by aligning with the Triple Entente composed of Britain, France and Russia in the fight against the central European powers of Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. In a similar fashion as the other warring nations, the American war effort depended on the development of a …

A Conversation With Keith Plummer

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2017.

A Conversation With Mario A. Leiva

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2014.

2018-07-16 Oral History With Myrtle Ross, Matthew R. Griffis

Oral History Archive

Myrtle Jackson Ross was born in 1929 in Austin County, Texas, where her father worked as a cotton-picker. When she was about eight years-old, Ross’s family moved to Houston, settling on Mason Street in the city’s Fourth Ward. There, her father worked at a hospital and her mother worked as a homemaker. Ross graduated from the Gregory School on Victor Street before attending Booker T. Washington High School on West Dallas Street.

Ross was in high school when she began visiting Houston’s Colored Carnegie Library, which was situated directly behind Booker T. Washington High School. For Ross, the library served …

A Conversation With Emily Breakell

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2017.