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Review Of Historic Photos Of Nebraska Text And Captions By Ted Stryker, Charles A. Braithwaite

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

One of the salient features of Great Plains Quarterly is its inclusion of an extensive array of illustrations, maps, and photographs along with most articles. These images are meant to enhance their essays and enrich the reader's understanding of their contexts. Occasionally, pictures say so much that one wishes for more photographs and less text. That's not a weakness of Historic Photos of Nebraska, which contains 192 photographs in its 216 pages.

This is Turner Publishing's second book focused on the region's photographs; the first was Jeffrey Spencer's Historic Photos of Omaha (2007). Using images selected from the Boys …

Review Of Hancock's War: Conflict On The Southern Plains By William Y. Chalfant, Steven C. Haack

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Major General Winfield Scott Hancock headed west from Fort Riley in late March of 1867, well prepared to engage the Cheyennes in western Kansas. Seven companies of infantry, eight of cavalry, and an artillery battery accompanied him. A man with political ambitions, he also brought the press along to publicize his efforts. Hancock had neither knowledge nor curiosity about the culture of the people he sought. He wanted to fight them. "I think it would be to our advantage to have these Indians refuse the demands I intend to make, a war with the Cheyennes would answer our purpose."

Traveling …

Review Of Native American Performance And Representation Edited By S. E. Wilmer, T. Christopher Aplin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Modern Native American artistic performances originated in the widespread North American ceremonial complexes that combined community-based oral tradition and musical practice with the visual performative arts. Growing out of a 2002 "Ritual and Performance" workshop hosted by editor S. E. Wilmer, Native American Performance and Representation illuminates the links that bind American and Canadian Indigenous traditions to their correlate modernities, their diverse ceremonial rituals to expressive artistic performances. This edited volume casts its net broadly, attempting to "review and assess the changing nature of Native performance strategies in a multicultural society." But it essentially focuses on post-1960s theatrical performances and …

Great Plains Quarterly Volume 31 / Number 2 / Spring 2011

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Contents

Book Reviews

Book Notes

Notes and News

Acting For The Camera Horace Poolaw's Film Stills Of Family, 1925-1950, Hadley Jerman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the late 1920s, American technology historian Lewis Mumford drafted these words in a manuscript that would become Technics and Civilization. At the same time, Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw began documenting daily life in southwestern Oklahoma with the very technology Mumford alleged altered the way humanity saw itself. As Poolaw began making dramatically posed, narrative-rich portraits of family members, Mumford asserted that the modern individual now viewed him or herself "as a public character, being watched" by others. He further suggested that humankind developed a "camera-eye" way of looking at the world and at oneself as if continuously on display. …

Some Thoughts On "Taking" Pictures Imaging "Indians" And The Counter-Narratives Of Visual Sovereignty, Morgan F. Bell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Soon after its inception the camera became the primary vehicle for producing images of Native Americans. Without question, late nineteenth and early twentieth-century images of Native Americans have been integral in forming the stereotypical ideal of "Indian." For many imaginations, these images have frozen North America's indigenous people, not only in a timeless past but, in essence, outside time. This essay examines photographic images that illustrate this phenomenon and some that dismantle it. The fact that indigenous people picked up the camera long ago to commission and produce their own images, although long overlooked, is a topic that has received …

Lsuhsc Facilities Daily Updates: April 2011, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates: 2011

LSUHSC Facilities Daily Updates from April 2011.

April 4, 2011 is listed as a daily update but that page is blank in all seven instances captured by Archive.org

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: April 2011, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2011

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from April 8 and 22, 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.

Dunn, James L. (Sc 160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 160. Miscellaneous receipts, primarily for taxes paid by James L. Dunn in Breckinridge (1893-1908), Grayson (1862-1887) and Ohio (1891) counties in Kentucky. Includes railroad tax receipts (1870-1881) and notice to J. D. Dunn regarding delinquent taxes in Breckinridge County (1918).

Herdman Collection (Sc 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 124 and full text of Camilla Herdman's 1897 diary (Click on "Additional Files" below. Collection includes diary, 1897, kept by Camilla Herdman, proprietress of the Morehead House, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and unpublished essays, 1926, titled "Spotlights on Life" written by her son, Carl D. Herdman.

The Grizzly, March 31, 2011, Katie Callahan, Tim Jordan, Sara Hourwitz, Jarod Groome, Lisa Jobe, Eva Bramesco, Katie Haldeman, Julia Fox, Jessica Orbon, Sarah Bollert, James Shelton, Sean Miller, Kyu Chul Shin, Anna Larouche, Shane Eachus, Christopher Michael

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

SIFE Wins Regionals for Second Year in a Row • Career Webinar Series Comes to Ursinus College • Director Domenick Scudera Presents Two Woody Allen Plays • John Prendergast Talks About Human Rights • "The Vagina Monologues" • Culture Shock While Studying Abroad in Spain • Internship Spotlight: Bob Wise • Opinions: Response to a Past Article; Give Artist a Break; United Nations Take Action Against Gaddafi; It's More Than Fruit: Rant About Women Power • Ursinus Community Celebrates Ground Breaking

The Civil War Centennial: Inspiration For The Civil Rights Movement?, John M. Rudy

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

I read Richard Williams' Old Virginia Blog, not because I agree with what he has to say but explicitly because it gets me so corking mad. Interspersed with tea party rants and modern political diatribes, Williams is an interesting (and sometimes frightening) voice of modern Confederatism and Southern exceptionalism.

Sloss Family Papers (Sc 159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 159. Deed of division among heirs of Thomas L. Sloss involving lands in Simpson County and Warren County, Kentucky, 1845; writ of execution to Logan County, Kentucky sheriff, 1868; power of attorney regarding administration of estate of Edward E. Sloss.

Naccs 38th Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Sites of Education for Social Justice
March 30-April 2, 2011
The Westin Pasadena

Holder, R. D. - Collector (Sc 124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 124. Letters, 1864, written by John P. Hill, Civil War prisoner at Rock Island, Illinois, to his uncle, John Meadows, Tompkinsville, Kentucky, concerning his imprisonment, and his miscellaneous family letters, 1861.

Mckenna, George (Sc 2430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2430.  Letters to George McKenna, of Brooklyn, New York, written while he was serving with the 101^st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and in Vietnam.  Friends write of their college, military, work and social lives.  McKenna’s mother provides family news.  Includes two of McKenna’s letters to a friend and to a young woman he met while on leave in Australia.

Forgy, James Newton, Sr., 1825-1923 (Sc 123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 123. Business papers, 1852-1919 (103 items), mainly receipts and chiefly of James Newton Forgy, Sr., a blacksmith of Butler County, Kentucky; a few family letters, primarily from his son, Thomas Jefferson Forgy, a Church of Christ minister of Texas, 1881-1899 (5); and Forgy biographical material.

Holcomb Family Papers (Sc 122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 122. Receipts, promissory notes and other business papers, 1825-1867, of the Holcomb family, Caswell County, North Carolina and Butler County, Kentucky. Also notice for sale of slaves and items about slave trade in North Carolina, 1841-1845.

Walker Family Papers (Sc 158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 158. Papers relating to U. S. Representative David Walker (1763-1820) of Logan County, Kentucky, including partial text of speeches, ca. 1804-1809 (3); 1816 broadside regarding his candidacy for Congress; plat of land on Drakes Creek in Allen County, Kentucky; and excerpts from published biographical sketches. Also includes wills of John, James and Lucy Hawkins, 1778-1835; Walker genealogy chart; published biographical sketches of Walker family members; and correspondence with Walker’s descendant concerning the papers, 1942-1953.

Hays, L. M. (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 120. Slave bill of sale, 1822, and incoming letters, 1852, 1854 (2), of the Allen family of Warren County and Edmonson County, Kentucky; and letter and receipts, 1829, 1845 (3), of the Mallory family of Warren County, Kentucky.

Fennell-Disher Collection (Mss 362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 362.  Letters of Mary Whitlock (Fennell) Disher, a teacher from Harrison County, Kentucky, and Isaac Clinton Disher, an engineer from Mason County, Kentucky, written in the 1930s during their courtship and marriage.  Includes typescripts with family data, photos and other illustrative information.  Also includes miscellaneous Fennell family correspondence.

Hardcastle, Paul (Mrs.) - Collector (Sc 119), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 119. Listing of notes owed to estate of Robert Craddock, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1837, and survey for Mordecai Cole for 1 1/2 acres of land in Warren County, Kentucky, 1905.

Slinker Family Papers (Sc 157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 157. Papers relating mainly to the Slinker family of Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Includes Metcalfe County deeds, 1868-1905 (8) and survey, 1871; tax receipt, 1870; and mortgage of livestock, 1875. Also includes Hart County survey, 1821; request for deposition, 1819; minutes of trial testimony, 1880; three letters, 1881-1903; and an undated declaration against aliens and Catholics.

"...The Way Things Were Back Then": Why Making Excuses For Slavery Doesn't Work, John M. Rudy

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

Presentism. Aside from historical revisionism, it is perhaps the 'epithet' with which the modern historian find themselves branded the most. I've been reading again a series of screeds by Bill Vallante, a Confederate reenactor and SCV member from Commack, NY (thanks to John Hennessy). I've read these pages before, but this time around was struck by the abject vitriol which oozes from the language employed. A line in one piece in particular stood out to me as quite angry:

"Add a heavy dose of presentism (judging or interpreting the past according to the standards of the present), mix thoroughly and …

The Grizzly, March 24, 2011, Katie Callahan, Brett Cohen, Jessica Orbon, Nikhil Popat, Lisa Jobe, Dixon Speaker, Kristen Wampole, Eva Bramesco, Allison Nichols, Sarah Bollert, Traci Johnson, Fran Macera, Anna Larouche, Kyu Chul Shin, Thomas Nucatola, Nick Pane, Sara Hourwitz

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Phi Kappa Sigma Wins Airband 2011 • Music Department Visits Ireland During Spring Break • Students Give Back Through Philadelphia Reads Program • Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky Speaks • "Playing Favorites" with Bobbi Block • UC Community Comes Together to Break Ground for New Stadium • Planned Parenthood No Longer Able to Provide Services • Jamaica Welcomes Bonner Leaders for Spring Break • Junior Jumpstart • Diversity through Film • Theater Review: "Playing Favorites" • Opinions: Japan Equipped to Rebuild after Natural Disaster; Facing Segregation in the 21st Century Through Campus Programs • Women's Lacrosse Looks for Return …

Cuppy, John W. (Sc 1080), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1080. Letter, 19 December 1862, from John W. Cuppy, serving in Bowling Green with an Illinois regiment, to Dr. Samuel Wiley in Earlville, Illinois. Cuppy writes of his illness and describes conditions in Bowling Green, particularly respecting hospitals and patients. He also comments on Confederate sympathies in the city and troop readiness for an attack. Includes a summary of another letter by Cuppy to Wiley dated 19 September 1862 describing his regiment’s activities near Louisville.

Siddens Family Collection (Sc 156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 156. Allen County, Kentucky tax receipts, 1872-1925 (26), chiefly of the Siddens and Long families; Bowling Green, Kentucky tax receipts, 1910, 1919 (2); Cumberland & Ohio Railroad tax receipts, 1878, 1880 (3); and receipt for coffin, 1899.

Hagerman, Bettie (Robertson), 1867-1926 (Sc 116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 116. Papers of Bettie Hagerman, Bowling Green, Kentucky, City Food Chairman of the Red Cross of Warren County, Kentucky, which relate to an endeavor to raise $10,000 by combining with the Fair Association and serving food contributed by donors.

Eubank, Frank - Letters To (Sc 115), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 115. Letters to Frank and Nancy Eubank, Temple Hill, Barren County, Kentucky, from various relatives which contain chiefly family news.

Lewis Family Papers (Sc 155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 155. Memorandum of Waller Lewis, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, itemizing property given periodically to his children and to be taken into account upon division of his estate, 1790-1817; letter written by Sam Hill, Fincastle, Virginia to his wife, Nancy in Henrico County, Virginia, while traveling, 1810.