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On Lewis Sorley's Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis

History Faculty Articles and Research

A review of Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam, by Lewis Sorley.

Review Of Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council And The Origins Of Native Activism. By Bradley G. Shreve. Foreword By Shirley Hill Witt, Bruce E. Johansen

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

While many histories of the "Red Power" movement trace its origins to the founding of the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis during 1968 and the occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay a year later, Bradley G. Shreve offers a compelling case that youth activism began during the 1950s, most notably in the Southwest. The Kiva Club (University of New Mexico), the Tribe of Many Feathers (Brigham Young University), and the Sequoyah Club of Oklahoma, among others, joined into the Regional Indian Youth Council in 1959 and the National Indian Youth Council in 1961. In contrast to AIM, which …

Review Of Light From Ancient Campfires: Archaeological Evidence For Native Lifeways On The Northern Plains. By Trevor R. Peck., Matthew Boyd

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Despite the relatively long legacy of professional archaeological research in the northern Great Plains, few comprehensive syntheses of the region's 13,000- year human history have been produced in recent years. This is particularly the case for the Canadian side of the region, which has tended to be overlooked in most scholarly summaries of Great Plains prehistory. The shadowy nature of the Canadian prairies to the wider community of Plains archaeologists is not due to a lack of archaeological research in the region-Alberta, alone, has over 35,000 registered sites-but instead reflects the poor dissemination ofCRM (Culture Resource Management) reports and other …

Review Of Sex, Murder, And The Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style. By Bill Neal., Paul N. Spellman

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

"If, as has often been contended, truth is the first casualty of traditional warfare, then logic, it appears, is the first casualty of sexual warfare." And with that thematic statement in hand, author Bill Neal is off to the proverbial races with an often delightful, sometimes troubling, and generally entertaining legal discourse on the so-called "unwritten law": that a cuckolded husband or a woman wronged has the God-given right to avenge or be avenged, even to redress by murder. With a curiously dispassionate, or at least overly serious, foreword by Cal State-Fullerton professor Gordon Morris Bakken, Neal's tales of adultery, …

Review Of The North American Journals Of Prince Maximilian Of Wied, Volume 2: April-September 1833 Edited By Stephen S. Witte And Marsha V. Gallagher, Michael G. Noll

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The travel accounts of Prince Maximilian of Wied have long been considered one of the finest early scientific and ethnographic descriptions of North American landscapes. Maximilian journeyed with the Swiss painter Karl Bodmer through the United States in 1832-34 to study its natural environments and Indigenous peoples. His keen observations were published in German in 1839-41, were translated into other languages in the following years, and have been harvested ever since for their factual information. Maximilian's publication, however, left out a good portion of his original observations.

With this, the second of three volumes of Maximilian's journals, Stephen S. Witte …

Review Of The Johnson~Sims Feud: Romeo And Juliet, West Texas Style By Bill O'Neal, Robin C. Sager

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In The Johnson-Sims Feud, Bill O'Neal describes how interactions soured between two West Texas families due, in part, to an unfortunate marriage. Joining numerous scholars who have traced the presence of violence in frontier areas, O'Neal contends that the bad blood between the Johnsons and the Simses escalated into a feuding state that lasted for decades.

The work begins in the late 1870s with the arrival of early settlers "Billy" Johnson and Dave Sims, two men determined to "create cattle empires in the rugged vastness of West Texas." Embracing the intricacies of ranching life, they both met with great …

Review Of Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum In American Indian Literature By Christopher B. Teuton, Lindsey Claire Smith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Christopher Teuton's study of four American Indian writers-No Scott Momaday (Kiowa), Gerald Vizenor (Anishinabe), Ray A. Young Bear (Meskwaki), and Robert J. Conley (Cherokee}-offers a useful model for theorizing the interdependence of oral and written traditions within Indigenous communities. In Teuton's view, a limiting separation between oral and written discourse has prevented scholars from recognizing the balance among various forms of signification that, reflecting community histories and identities, has long been a mainstay for Native peoples amid contexts of both tradition and change. This unnecessary divide, which he terms the "oral-literate binary," has informed scholarly practice, comprising "oral-literate theory." Despite …

Review Of Reopening The Frontier: Homesteading In The Modern West By Brian Q. Cannon, Mark Engler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

FREE LAND was the Cry! For 123 years the Homestead Act provided millions of people the opportunity to pursue the American Dream of land ownership. Moreover, it had a tremendous impact beyond individual people or families, profoundly changing the nation and the world.

Brian Q. Cannon's Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West is one of several recent titles exploring America's epic homesteading story. Within Cannon's book readers will find events tying back to the early years of the homestead movement that have been repeated time and again. While one may believe that modern homesteading between 1946 and 1966 …

Review Of Cowboy's Lament: A Life On The Open Range By Frank Maynard, Kenneth L. Untiedt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Jim Hoy, who edited this volume of the Voice in the American West series, discovered a gold mine when he happened upon Frank Maynard's unpublished autobiography and personal papers. Cowboy's Lament, comprising these documents, is a beneficial resource for Great Plains historians, scholars researching the literature of the American West, and even folklorists. Maynard, who is credited with penning the lyrics to what most people recognize as "The Streets of Laredo," was a mostly self-educated "rangIer" who had the good sense to record his adventures on the frontier. Although he had limited success in publishing his narrative during his lifetime, …

Review Of Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles By Panthea Reid, Cinzia Biagiotti

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The large book by Panthea Reid (449 pages, 16 chapters, a prologue, epilogue, and three appendices) tracks Tillie Olsen's long life (1912-2007) step by step, beginning from the Jewish-Russian origins of both her maternal and paternal families, up to her death on January 1, 2007.

The book could have been a useful addition to Olsen scholarship, if not for the biographer's insistent efforts to destroy the image of a writer and a woman who was committed so extensively to unhinging the political, social, and cultural stereotypes built up to contain the action of women in America and elsewhere.

Review Of Beyond Mount Rushmore: Other Black Hills Faces Edited And Introduced By Mary A. Kopco, David A. Wolff

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 2010, the South Dakota State Historical Society celebrated its fortieth year of publishing the award-winning journal, South Dakota History. Over the years, South Dakota History has published about 500 articles, an impressive number. As with most journals, once an article appears, it soon disappears into past volumes, almost forgotten. But good articles can have a second life, and Beyond Mount Rushmore provides that for ten articles that appeared in South Dakota History between 1993 and 2009. These essays relate to the Black Hills, a popular topic among book buyers, but what ties them together is their focus on …

Review Of West And West: Reimagining The Great Plains By Joe Deal, Larry Schwarm

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The geography of the Great Plains defies conventions of what a beautiful landscape is supposed to be. There are no mountains, forests, or pristine streams and lakes. It is mostly a flat horizon line, broken by an occasional tree, and bodies of water are almost always muddy ponds. To the untrained eye, it appears featureless.

It takes a special understanding to appreciate its vastness and subtleties. It requires an especially acute sensitivity to be able to translate these qualities to a photographic image. Most photographers approach this landscape looking for atypical qualities, anomalies rather than the common.

Joe Deal in …

Review Of The Rhythm Boys Of Omaha Central: High School Basketball At The '68 Racial Divide By Steve Marantz, Amy Helene Forss

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the school year of 1967-68, African American basketball sensations John Biddle, Willie Frazier, Dwaine Dillard, Roy Hunter, and Phil Griffin electrified the predominantly white student body, coaches, and administrators of Omaha Central High School. These five "Rhythm Boys" and the racially tense times they lived through inspired Steve Marantz, a 1966 Omaha Central graduate, to write an examination of the first-string basketball players and the surrounding discrimination and racism they faced on and off the court. It was a year in which their high-school principal, J. Arthur Nelson, privately referred to black students as "Smoky Swedes" and employed only …

The September 11 Digital Archive, Stephen Brier, Joshua Brown

Publications and Research

This article focuses on the creation and subsequent development of the September 11 Digital Archive (www.911digitalarchive.org), currently one of the largest digital repositories of historical materials on the September 11 attacks. The article reflects on archival and methodological questions and on issues raised by the efforts of staff members at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and at the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP) at the City University of New York Graduate Center to preserve and present via the Internet digital resources related to the epochal events of …

Ursinus Magazine, Fall 2011, Wendy Greenberg, Kathryn Campbell, Ellen Labrecque, Bobby Fong, Gerald Edelman, Erika Compton, Joseph H. Melrose, Joseph F. Pirro

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Dr. Fong speaks on the future of Ursinus • Pre-Law Center begins at Ursinus • New faces on court and field • Good night Irene: A rainy move-in • Let's dance: Visiting artists will teach • Math and Computer Science Department professor awarded grant • Do you blog? • Dr. Fong receives 2011 Pioneer Award • Fond farewells • Focus of international math conference is disease control • Noise of change on campus • The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art exhibitions on view • Friends old and new celebrated Alumni & Reunions Weekend • Mapping the mind • …

Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: October 2011, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2011

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from October 7 and 21, 2011.

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 Daily Updates: October 2011, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2011

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates from October 2011.

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.

The Grizzly, September 29, 2011, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, Jacquelyn Heikel, Jordan Demcher, Lisa Jobe, Rosie Clark, Leah Mele, Sarah Bollert, Michele Snead, Jenna Yaich, Emily Duffy, Kahlil Pitman, Dave Muoio, Kyu Chul Shin, Sara Sherr

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Fringe Festival Mixes Students, Pros • Homecoming Welcomes Clear Skies, Alumni • Pre-Law Program Offers New Opportunities • Harvard Professor Speaks on "Gilgamesh" • Internship Profile: Shelter Overseas • New Lantern Editor Appointed • Investment Club Undergoes Revival, Expansion • Steer Your Career in the Right Direction • UC Bike Share Returns • Opinion: Abbas' Bid for Palestinian State Raises Questions • UC Honors Hall of Fame Class of 2011 • Bears Sneak by in Wins on Homecoming Weekend • Bears Terrorize McDaniel in Homecoming Win

"That All Men Are Created Equal...": Universal Relevance And The Civil War, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

One of my favorite movies is Back to the Future III. I know that is a terrible choice in some folks' eyes. The response I usually get is an, "ugh!" and a snarl of the lip. Still, I think there is so much going on in that film, from the struggle between fatalism and free will to the themes of love and sacrifice, heartache and heartbreak.

The reason Back to the Future III comes up in my mind today, though, is because of a dialogue within the public history world that appears to be heating up, thanks in part to …

American Commemorative Panels: Romare Bearden, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Informational pages for Romare Bearden Commemorative Stamp – American Commemorative Panels, includes images of the stamps, information about the physical stamp and biographical information for Romare Bearden. First issued September 28, 2011.

Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 2480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2480. Brief notes of an interview conducted by Nanch Disher Baird on 11 December 1975 with Dr. Zacharia Keele (Z.K.) Jones, an African American physician of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Jones mentions his family, early life, education and influences. He also names other African American phyicians who practiced in Bowling Green.

Baird, Nancy Disher, B. 1935 (Sc 2480), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2480. Brief notes of an interview conducted by Nancy Disher Baird on 11 December 1975 with Dr. Zacharia Keele Jones, an African American physician of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Jones mentions his family, early life, education and influences. He also names other African American physicians who practiced in Bowling Green.

Rising, Clara Lucille, 1923-2010 (Sc 2479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2479. Letter, 8 September 1987, from Clara Lucille Rising, Irvine, Kentucky to Sandy Griffin, Louisville, Kentucky. She thanks Griffin for her hospitality during a recent visit and reports on her purchase of a cemetery plot in Lexington, Kentucky near the graves of the family of John Hunt Morgan, the subject of her recent novel.

Shuler, Evelyn, 1899-1967 (Sc 2478), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2478. Letter, 7 October 1926, to Henry H. Denhardt, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Evelyn Shuler, a reporter for the Philadelphia Ledger. She forwards clippings and photographs (not included) of Kentucky Day exercises at the U.S. Sesquicentennial exposition held in Philadelphia, and comments on the event.

Fleming, Rose Ellen (Cottrell), 1917-1984 (Sc 2477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2477. Letter of Rose Ellen (Cottrell) Fleming, Jackson, Mississippi, to Jane (Hines) Morningstar, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 22 December 1969. She relates news of family and mutual friends.

The Grizzly, September 22, 2011, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, Jordan Demcher, Rosie Clark, Lisa Jobe, Michael Schmidt, Jenna Yaich, Sarah Bollert, James Noebels, Annabel Clarance, Connor Gregory, Sara Mohler, Sabrina Mcgettigan, Christiana Gross, R. Erich Bassler, Marina Mccann, Victoria Cameron

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Hundreds Gather for Family Day • Fefu Offers Questions, not Answers • Phonathon Raising the Bar • Internship Profile: The Hill School • New Psychology Professor Looks to Promote Research • Woman to Watch: Kelly Reynolds • Campus Alcohol Policies Being Strongly Enforced • Organization Helps with Self-Esteem Issues • Opinion: Students Should Question the Meaning of Education; Academics Should Take Precedence Over Parties; Letter to the Editor: "An Open Letter" Too Closed-Minded, Rude • Coach's Corner: Meet Diana Clavin • Turf Field Among New Traditions of Homecoming • Field Hockey Aims to Continue Championship Ways

Speaking A Different Language, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

[Video available below] OK, so what are we looking at? First and foremost, we are looking at someone who has thought deeply about the meaning of Lincoln's words at Gettysburg. "President Lincoln changed history / he honored the dead but did so much more / he changed the meaning of the Civil War." MC Lala gets the deep meanings of the two minutes Lincoln spent on a platform in Gettysburg. MC Lala grasps the deep importance of Lincoln's re-dedication of America at Gettysburg using the Declaration of Independence's ever inspiring promise that, "all men are created equal." [ …

Fennell Collection, 1869-1957 (Mss 348), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 348. Account books of Cynthiana Horse Boot Company; materials related to Kentucky Hemp Brake Company of Cynthiana, Kentucky; correspondence of Cynthiana attorneys Chester M. Jewett, J. J. Osborne, William J. Osborne, McCauley C. Swinford, and William Wilson Van Deren.

Brashear, William Helm, 1855-1942 (Mss 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 14. Manuscripts of William Helm Brashear's poems, essays, play, and eulogy of Clarence Underwood McElroy. A few letters (6) and many clippings of his published works are included. Also scrapbooks have published poems pasted in them (3). Brashear was from Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Black Heritage Stamp Series: Barbara Jordan, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Informational pages for Barbara Jordan Commemorative Stamp – Black Heritage Series, includes images of the stamps, information about the physical stamp and biographical information for Barbara Jordan. First issued September 16, 2011, 34th in a series.