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Ships Named Huntsville, Dex Nilsson

Huntsville Historical Review

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A Good Union Man, Norman M. Shapiro

Huntsville Historical Review

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Back Matter, Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society

Huntsville Historical Review

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Book Review: The Confederate States Of America: What Might Have Been, By Roger L. Ransom, Hartwell Lutz

Huntsville Historical Review

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From Out Of The Ashes - The Joel Eddins Home, Jacquelyn Procter Reeves

Huntsville Historical Review

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Gen Ms 20 Jane And Robert Pickett Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper

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Description:

Robert Stanley Pickett and Jane Niles Pickett attended Gorham State Teacher's College from 1949 to 1953. The Papers contain materials concerning academic, athletic and student social activities at Gorham State Teacher's College in the early 1950s, including a scrapbook and newspaper clippings.

Date Range:

1949-1953

Size of Collection:

0.5 ft.

Visual Representations Of Student Life At San Jose State University; Building Visual Critical Thinking Skills, Danelle L. Moon

Faculty and Staff Publications

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Gen Ms 19 Fitts Family Collection Finding Aid, Daniel Draper

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Bertha Rice Fitts was born in 1870, in Waterford, Maine. After graduating from Gorham Normal School in 1894, she became Master’s Assistant and eighth-grade teacher in Westbrook, Maine, before accepting a similar position at a grammar school in Quincy, MA. While in Quincy, she boarded with Mrs. Calvin Fitts, and in 1899 married her son, Arthur Fitts. She was involved in the Southern Branch of the Gorham Alumni Association for many years. The Collection consists of primarily late 19th c. commercial photographs of teachers and students of Gorham Normal School, plus photos of Gorham Normal School buildings, Bertha Fitts …

Gen Ms 23 Esther Wood Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper, Megan Turner

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Esther Wood taught Social Sciences and History at Gorham Normal School from 1930 to 1972. She regularly wrote columns for the Christian Science Monitor and received many awards, including “Woman of the Year” from the Blue Hill Chamber of Commerce and a Doctorate of Humane Letters honoris causa from Colby College. In 1973, the University named a dormitory building on the Gorham campus in her honor. The Papers consist of her lecture notes on the history of New England from the 16th century through the colonial period and the Revolutionary War to the founding of the State of Maine …

The Octofoil, July/August/September 2007, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

Gen Ms 22 Hayden Anderson Papers Finding Aid, Daniel Draper

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Hayden L. Anderson was a prominent Maine educator and Maine historian. He graduated from Gorham Normal School in 1925, and subsequently earned degrees from Boston University and Bates College, as well as doing graduate work at Harvard University. He served as principal and superintendent in schools in central and northern Maine, and as Dean of Instruction at Farmington State College. He also worked in the State Department of Education and served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine. He was a student of local history, editing the bicentennial history of Litchfield, Litchfield Yesteryears, and writing a …

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 30, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

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Traces Volume 35, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.

The Vanishing Purchase: Jewish Temple

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Vanishing Purchase

Jewish Temple

John E.L. Robertson

The Vanishing Purchase: Fulton Train Depot

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Vanishing Purchase

Fulton Train Depot

Berry Craig

Revisiting A Public Spectacle: The Hanging Of Willie Deboe

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Revisiting a Public Spectacle: The Hanging of Willie DeBoe

Tim Perdue

The Vanishing Purchase: Hotel Craig

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Vanishing Purchase

Hotel Craig

Jay Siska

The Vanishing Purchase: Lochridge And Ridgway, Inc. Building

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Vanishing Purchase

Lochridge and Ridgway, Inc. Building

Dr. William Wells

Morris Eugene Crain: Medal Of Honor Recipient

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Morris Eugene Crain: Medal of Honor Recipient

Robert K. Ford

Who Are You? A Study Of Graves County Kentucky During The Decade 1860-1870

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Who Are You? A Study of Graves County Kentucky During the Decade 1860-1870

Sarah Strange

Wkctc Announces The Allan Rhodes, Sr. History Award Recipient

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

WKCTC Announces The Allan Rhodes, Sr. History Award Recipient

William Wade

The Fulton Depot

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Fulton Depot

Berry Craig

The Vanishing Purchase: Before The Funeral Home

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Vanishing Purchase

Before the Funeral Home

Jay Siska

Nichter On Kurthen And Menéndez-Alarcón And Immerfall, 'Safeguarding German-American Relations In The New Century: Understanding And Accepting Mutual Differences', Luke A. Nichter

Presidential Studies Faculty Articles and Research

A review of Safeguarding German-American Relations in the New Century: Understanding and Accepting Mutual Differences edited by Hermann Kurthen, Antonio V. Menéndez-Alarcón, and Stefan Immerfall.

Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, And Baptists In Texas (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

History Faculty Publications

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Barton, Paul. Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. ISBN 029271291X1

A Border Community's Unfulfilled Appeals: The Rise And Fall Of The 1840'S Anti-Abolitionist Movement In Cincinnati, Julie Mujic

History Faculty Publications

This essay explores the nature of the anti-abolition sentiment in Cincinnati, Ohio, through an analysis of a short lived anti-abolition organization and newspaper. The two institutions developed in response to the race riot of 1841 and attempted to address the social and economic concerns of certain Cincinnati citizens.

How William F. Cody Helped Save The Buffalo Without Really Trying, David Nesheim

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Many historical accounts of the restoration of the American bison omit an important piece of that phenomenon. Most historians have focused their attention on two elements: western ranchers who started the earliest private herds and eastern conservationists who raised funds and lobbied for the creation of the first national preserves. However, the perpetuation of the image of buffalo in the hearts and minds of Americans was equally important in the eventual recovery of the species. No one was a more effective popularizer than William F. Cody, despite his belief that bison neither could nor would recover. Buffalo Bill's Wild West …

[Introduction To] With The Weathermen: The Personal Journal Of A Revolutionary Woman, Susan Stern, Laura Browder

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Drugs. Sex. Revolutionary violence. From its first pages, Susan Stern's memoir With the Weathermen provides a candid, first-hand look at the radical politics and the social and cultural environment of the New Left during the late 1960s.

The Weathermen--a U.S.-based, revolutionary splinter group of Students for a Democratic Society--advocated the overthrow of the government and capitalism, and toward that end, carried out a campaign of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots throughout the United States. In With the Weathermen Stern traces her involvement with this group, and her transformation from a shy, married graduate student into a go-go dancing, street-fighting "macho mama." …

Ursinus Magazine, Summer 2007, Wendy Greenberg, Richard T. Schellhase, Joseph F. Pirro, Ellen Cosgrove, Bruce Clark, John Henry Augustus Bomberger

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art calendar • Alumni forum: A serendipitous surprise; Ursinus pranks • NSC alumni volunteers enhance Class of 2011 • Senior Vice President retires • Two faculty to retire: Curtis Allen, Ted Xaras • The Meistersingers abroad! • Ursinus students win prestigious fellowships • Field hockey comes home! • Commencement 2007 • Civic engagement: Not quite a major, but a major commitment • Rising stars • Students echo alumni civic engagement • The healing artist: Jay Bosniak 1962 • Profile: Jill Sherman 1978 • Another successful Alumni Academy and reunions 2007 • Class notes • …

Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: July 2007, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2007

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from July 6 and 20, 2006.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.