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That Others May Live: The Cold War Sacrifice Of Ellenton, South Carolina, Samuel Ritchie

All Theses

The forced evacuation of Ellenton, South Carolina, beginning in November 1950 was the direct result of increasing international tension following the Soviet acquisition of an atomic weapon. Facing the loss of the American monopoly on nuclear weapons and an increasing Communist threat, the Truman administration authorized the construction of a nuclear facility near Ellenton, South Carolina, which would prove vital in the development of a hydrogen bomb. The people of Ellenton and the surrounding towns of Dunbarton, Meyers Mill, Robbins, and Leigh were required to sacrifice their homes and communities to provide land for the Savannah River Plant. The reaction …

Program: Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission Preservation Awards

Textual material from the Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Papers

Jacksonville Historical Preservation Commission awards held on May 1, 2009

Conservative Conservationists: Water Rights, Wilderness, And Idahoan Political Identity, Kelly M. Orgill

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Idahoans' unique and contradictory history of conservation politics reveals deep tensions between expectations of individual water rights, a shared regard for natural beauty, and a deep-seated fear of government intervention. From its earliest settlers to its Sagebrush Rebels to its modern day miners and lumber crews, Idaho has teemed with those eager to profit from the state’s natural resources. The post-war interest in recreation and the environmental movement of the 1970s, however, promoted concern and support for preservation in Idaho. Coupled with the Idahoan obsession with water rights, Idaho environmentalism prompted the conservative Republican state to elect environmentally-minded Democrats Cecil …

A Struggle Between Brothers: A Reexamination Of The Idea Of A Cohesive Conservative Movement Through The Intellectual Life And Personal Conflict Surrounding L. Brent Bozell, Kevin Michel

Kaplan Senior Essay Prize for Use of Library Special Collections

The conservative movement, while ultimately successful, was actually a story of failures and fracture. This reality is captured in the life of Brent Bozell. Historians should recognize that when writing the history of conservatism it is as important to look at the schismatic and often extreme experience of Brent Bozell as it is to consider the life of the leader of mainstream conservatism, William F. Buckley Jr. It is unfortunate that no biography has been written on Brent Bozell because his criticisms of mainstream conservatism can shed some light on the underlying reasons for the recent electoral demise of the …

The Restriction Of Civil Liberties During Times Of Crisis: The Evolution Of America's Response To National Military Threats, Matthew D. Fairman

Government and International Relations Honors Papers

This treatise explores the nature and significance of the threat posed to civil liberties during times of major national military crisis and evaluates changes in the nature of wartime repression over the course of American history. It tests the thesis that the evolution in Americans’ response to such crises has not been a simple progression toward increasing restraint on the part of federal, state, and local policymakers, as is sometimes assumed. Rather, major twentieth and twenty-first century developments related to the nature of threats to American national security and government capabilities to covertly repress dissent have interacted with evolutionary changes …

Traditions In Transition: Basques In America, Alissa Peterson

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The Basque Museum & Cultural Center’s newest corridor exhibit, Traditions in Transition: Basques in America, is an interpretive exhibit based primarily on material culture artifacts, photographs and literature. The exhibit provides a physical and thematic transition between the museum’s entryway exhibits and the main gallery exhibit. Traditions in Transition uses six corridor cases to exhibit six topics under an overarching theme of Basque migration and expression of their ethnicity through various cultural artifacts, practices, and traditions. This pattern is common largely among European immigrant groups’ later generations. The exhibit addresses how the Basque immigrants adapted these cultural practices to their …

The Plunge Into Secession: The Presbyterian Schism Of The Reverends. Charles Hodge, James Henley Thornwell And Benjamin Morgan Palmer, Deborah Jane Rayner

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The Presbyterian Church had one of the largest pro-slavery clergy of any antebellum Protestant church. These men extracted verses and passages from the Bible to prove God sanctioned slavery. Many Southern Presbyterian ministers including Charles Hodge, James Henley Thornwell and Benjamin Morgan Palmer used the pulpit to defend slavery and advocate secession, collapsing political and religious boundaries. I focus on the 1855-1861 debates about slavery in the Presbyterian Church led by Charles Hodge, James Henley Thornwell, and Benjamin Morgan Palmer. I reorient the argument from the usual political and economic accounts of the antebellum secession discussions and build upon current …

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Update: May 2009, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2009

LSUHSC Dailly Facilities Updates from May 2009.

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.

Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: May 2009, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2009

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from May 8 and 22, 2009.

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.

Briley, Aimee (Fa 435), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 435. Documentary film (on DVD) about Jonesville, Kentucky, an African American community that was absorbed by Western Kentucky University via urban renewal, produced by Aimee Briley for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

The Grizzly, April 30, 2009, Kristi Blust, Gabrielle Poretta, Eva Bramesco, Caitlin Dalik, Liz Kilmer, Lisa Jobe, Roger Lee, Jeremiah Long, Zach Shamberg, Christopher Schaeffer, Spencer Jones, Katie Callahan, Nick Pane

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

UCDC: A Bright Present and Future • Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancies on Rise • CoSA: Research, Course Work and Talent • Earth Day Celebrations Go On All Week Long Here at Ursinus • Embodying the UC Experience: Dance, Sports and Biology • Jennifer Washington: Reflections on the UC Experience • Bringing the Midwest to the Northeast • Men's Tennis Wraps Up Another Season • Remembering the Late Harry Kalas

Hardcastle, Mildred (Tucker), 1894-1994 - Collector (Sc 1891), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1891. Typescript of a 1924 news clipping about the Smiths Grove Baptist Church and a holographic listing of information related to churches in Bowling Green and Warren County.

Hardcastle, Mildred (Tucker), 1894-1994 (Sc 1899), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1899. Index to records of the Johnson Funeral Home, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1945-1957, compiled by Hardcastle.

Swigert, Anne Howe, 1825-1845 - Letter To (Sc 1892), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1892. Letter, 22 September 1840, from "Nannie," Paris, Kentucky, to her classmate Anne Swigert, telling of her vacation, her reading materials, and general gossip about her classmates.

Law, Robert Cornwell, B. 1937 (Sc 1894), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1894. Genealogical material compiled by Robert C. Law related to the Helm family; also includes Bible records for the Carson and McAllister families (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans) and information about the McReynolds Cemetery in Christian County, Kentucky.

Hancock, Elizabeth Ann (Moore), 1924-2019 (Sc 1900), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1900. Letters and portions of letters written by author Janice Holt Giles, Knifley, Adair County, Kentucky to her daughter Elizabeth, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Includes references to her family and friends, her daily life, and her writing habits.

Oakland Christian Church - Oakland, Kentucky (Sc 1890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1890. Abstracted sections from church minutes, 1840-1888, and a list of members from 1835-1908 compiled by Mildred (Tucker) Hardcastle; also a commemorative history, 1974.

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Churches - Presbyterian (Sc 1893), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1893. A typed list of members of Bowling Green's Presbyterian Church from 1819 to 1888; includes membership, baptisms, ordinations, dismissals, etc.

Hawkins, Jeff (Sc 1898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1898. Newsletters from Jeff and Lou Ann Hawkins concerning their ministry in eastern Kentucky at Cody Bible Church, Viper, Perry County, Kentucky, and Twin Rocks Bible Camp, Red Fox, Knott County, Kentucky.

Bush, Brendan David (Fa 175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 175. Paper: "Millennium Virus," written by Brendan David Bush for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. The Washington Post and the New York Times are referenced.

2008-2009 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University

Honors Convocation Programs

2008-2009 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation

Forgy, Samuel Walton, 1866-1927 (Mss 254), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 254. Correspondence related to the legal career of Forgy, of Todd County, Kentucky, as well as to his personal business dealings. Includes political correspondence related to Kentucky’s 1915 governor’s race.

The Grizzly, April 23, 2009, Kristi Blust, Gabrielle Poretta, Gianna Paone, Caitlin Dalik, Lisa Jobe, Serena Mithboakar, Liz Kilmer, Roger Lee, Laurel Salvo, Zach Shamberg, Chris Capone, Christopher Schaeffer, Jonathan Edward Barber, Karin Swartz

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Breakaway Productions Holds Annual One-Act Play Festival • Red in the Face? Blushing May Indicate More Than Sheer Embarrassment • Are You Contributing to Violence in Congo? • Taking the Industry by Storm: Ms. Jazmine Sullivan • Thinking of Becoming a Vegetarian? Here's the Lowdown • Trocadero Goes Punk with Bayside and New Found Glory • Frustrated by Incessant Insomnia? Improve Sleep with These Tips • Opinions: Breakaway in the Eyes of a Senior: Exciting and Eye-Opening • Let's Talk Tennis' Successful Season

White, Vernon, 1915-2008 (Mss 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 255. Correspondence, research notes, slides, and photographs related to Vernon White's interests: covered bridges, hominy holes, archaeology, and grave covers, chiefly in Kentucky. Also includes drafts of his books and information about the White family of White Mills, Hardin County, Kentucky as well as information about White's participation in World War II. To view a selection of illustrative material from the White Collection go to this website: http://www.wku.edu/library/dlsc/vernonwhite.php

Campbell, D'Ann, B. 1949 (Sc 1928), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1928. Letter to friends from D'Ann Campbell and her husband, Richard Jensen, concerning their family's move to West Point where they both are teaching for the year.

Investigating The Mind With Heller, Vonnegut, And O'Brien: Psychological Trauma And Narrative Structure In The American War Novel, Daniel Trump

Theses & Honors Papers

The 'American war novel' is an exceedingly broad genre. If taken at its simplest form, it can encompass titles ranging from James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy to Tom Clancy's latest addition to his Rainbow Six series. Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato are novels that very simply could be filed away somewhere in that American war novel ether that exists between a high-school library and an airport bookstore, but that would be a disservice to Heller, Vonnegut, and O'Brien. What sets their novels apart from the general milieu of the American war novel …

Hearn, Emily (Sc 1895), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1895. Chiefly e-mails from Morehead, Kentucky native Emily Hearn to friends and family related to her work with the Peace Corps in Jordan.

A Tale Of Two Freedmen: Comparing Black Self-Determination In Atlanta And Salvador, Caitlin Wells

Latin American Studies Honors Projects

After emancipation, African-Americans in Atlanta, Georgia, sought self-determination through formal political means, whereas Afro-Brazilians in Salvador da Bahia pursued self-determination through cultural expression. To determine why, I have synthesized secondary sources into an original comparative narrative based in the different experiences of slavery, the different emancipation processes, and the different post-emancipation socio-political situations of each region. These contrasting histories led Afro-Brazilians in Bahia to organize much in the ways they had under slavery, whereas African Americans in Georgia were drawn into formal politics through opportunities presented under Radical Reconstruction. Unfortunately, white supremacy was quickly restored in Georgia under Redemption, leaving …

Easterly, Jason & Tiffany Hatcher (Fa 387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 387. Interviews related to the history of race relations in and around Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee.

Legal Services; Supreme Court And Banking Law; Supreme Court And Land Law; Zoning, Commercial., Howard Bromberg

Book Chapters

Contributions by Howard J. Bromberg to Historical Encyclopedia of American Business