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The Success Of Project Mercury Through The Persona Of The Mercury Seven, Cameron D. Reagan May 2023

The Success Of Project Mercury Through The Persona Of The Mercury Seven, Cameron D. Reagan

Lux et Fides: A Journal for Undergraduate Christian Scholars

There has been no shortage of literature written on the Mercury Space Program, focusing on many different aspects ranging from the personnel, technology, politics, and achievements of the program. The prevailing discussion of the space program focuses on the astronauts themselves as they gained celebrity status long before they had done anything to merit it. The vast body of scholarship on the topic takes the popularity of the Mercury Seven astronauts as matter-of-fact rather than viewing it as manufactured by NASA in order to bolster support for a largely unproven space program. By emphasizing the “everyman” aspect of the astronauts, …

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Wolford, Hulda Belle (Murray), 1885-1959 (Sc 3692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2023

Wolford, Hulda Belle (Murray), 1885-1959 (Sc 3692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3692. Two letters, 5 April 1931, of Hulda (Murray) Wolford, Indianapolis, Indiana, to her sister Mallie and niece Louise; letter, 21 June 1945, to Hulda from Louise in Belle Plaine, Kansas. The letters relate personal news and the activities of family and friends. Typescripts of the letters include annotations with family information.

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History And Implications Of The Missouri Test-Oath Case, Matthew X. Wilson May 2023

History And Implications Of The Missouri Test-Oath Case, Matthew X. Wilson

The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era

Cummings v. Missouri (1867) is often overlooked in modern legal history, and very little scholarly literature exists chronicling the case’s implications for contemporary constitutional jurisprudence. When awareness does exist, there is a tendency to classify Cummings as simply a Civil War-era religious liberty case—a mischaracterization which reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the ruling’s background and modern relevance. In reality, born out of post-war paranoia over loyalty and past Confederate allegiances, the Cummings case is most notable as landmark judicial precedent in defining the U.S. Constitution’s proscriptions of bills of attainder and ex post facto laws, and possesses very little significance …

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Chaos In Congress: Masculinity And Violence In The Congressional Struggle Over Kansas, Ian L. Baumer May 2023

Chaos In Congress: Masculinity And Violence In The Congressional Struggle Over Kansas, Ian L. Baumer

The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era

According to Joanne Freeman's recent book on congressional violence, in the years between 1830 and 1860, members of Congress engaged in 'manly' violence against one another more than seventy times. However, no issue caused more violent personal disputes in the legislature than slavery. In particular, the debate over the legal status of slavery in the Kansas Territory caused a panoply of incidents in Congress, including near-duel between John C. Breckinridge and Francis Cutting in 1854, Preston Brooks' caning of Charles Sumner in 1856, and a brawl in the House of Representatives in 1858. This article examines how these lawmakers' views …

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A Stolen Ship: Robert Smalls’ Daring Escape To Freedom, Riley M. Neubauer May 2023

A Stolen Ship: Robert Smalls’ Daring Escape To Freedom, Riley M. Neubauer

The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era

This paper discusses Robert Smalls’ daring escape to freedom on the morning of May 13, 1862. Smalls was an enslaved worker on the Confederate ship the Planter. Along with other enslaved members of the Planter’s crew, Smalls commandeered the ship and sailed past Confederate forts and ships in the Charleston Harbor until they reached the Union. I argue that the story of Robert Smalls validates arguments that enslaved people were not bystanders in the quest for emancipation; rather, the unique circumstances of the Civil War and the morning of May 13, 1862, allowed Smalls to enact his carefully …

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Sartorial Representations Of Trans Men In The Post-Frontier West: A Case Study In Gender, Class, And Concepts Of Societal Degeneration, Rose Caughie May 2023

Sartorial Representations Of Trans Men In The Post-Frontier West: A Case Study In Gender, Class, And Concepts Of Societal Degeneration, Rose Caughie

University Honors Theses

Clothing is communication. How it is perceived reveals a society's values and anxieties. In the post-frontier American west, moralistic laws against cross-dressing combined with fears of societal degeneration, resulting in the formation and enforcement of normative visions of gendered dress. When trans men Harry Allen and Milton Matson were arrested, images of them were published in newspapers across the nation. Allen's working class wear and close criminal contact with racial minorities reflects one perceived source of degeneration while Matson's high class look and British immigrant status reflects the other. This essay will consider how these men's clothing and bodies were …

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A Confluence Of Cultural And Water History With The Seli’Š Ksanka Qlispe’ Dam Formerly Named The Kerr Dam, Allisen A. Hansen May 2023

A Confluence Of Cultural And Water History With The Seli’Š Ksanka Qlispe’ Dam Formerly Named The Kerr Dam, Allisen A. Hansen

2023 Symposium

The Seli’š Ksanka Qlispe’ Dam (SKC Dam), formerly known as the Kerr Dam is the first Native American tribally owned dam in the United States. Located on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes(CSKT) of the Flathead Reservation, on the Flathead River in Montana, the dam was once considered the blight of the Whiteman’s landgrab and genocide of culture and language. Now it is a source of hope to the tribe to help its members and improve its future. Completed in 1938, it is one of two dams on the Flathead River, just south of the Flathead Lake. By following the …

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Reproduction: The Ultimate Enemy Of Racial Passing In Harlem Renaissance Literature, Veronica Kordmany May 2023

Reproduction: The Ultimate Enemy Of Racial Passing In Harlem Renaissance Literature, Veronica Kordmany

Student Theses

"In this essay, I examine three texts that consider the repercussions of passing for Black Americans. Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) serves as a namesake for this general idea, as two light-skinned African American women represent the divisionary approach to racial passing. In George S. Schuyler’s Black No More (1931) we see a passing Black man’s virility being tested as he enters an ‘alternate universe’, in which a scientific invention grants him full access to the wondrous white world he’d always dreamed of entering. Finally, in the middle of this textual spectrum is Angelina W. Grimké’s 1919 short story, “The Closing …

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Dance/Movement Therapy Used As An Intervention To Heal Racial Trauma Within The Black Community: A Literature Review, Jennifer Noboise May 2023

Dance/Movement Therapy Used As An Intervention To Heal Racial Trauma Within The Black Community: A Literature Review, Jennifer Noboise

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

The history of dance within the black community has served an important role while living through a racist and discriminatory society. Dance has been used to express anger, grief, and joy during hardships and moments of rejoicing from the black experience. African American people have endured years of trauma and abuse from oppressive systems. Research has been conducted to demonstrate that dance/movement therapy has been effective in treating those who have experienced a form of trauma since the trauma is stored in the body. Examining trauma symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and substance use, the research found these symptoms diminished …

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Green, Robert - Inventory And Appraisment Of The Personal Property Of The Late Robert Green, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Green, Robert - Inventory And Appraisment Of The Personal Property Of The Late Robert Green, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Inventory of the personal property of the late Robert Green, deceased, appraised by Robert Moore, John B. Taylor and Adam Bingamon 28th April 1812. 1 Negro Boy $400 1 Negro woman + child $450 2 Horses $70 1 Table $4 1 Bedstead $4 [total] $928 Due the estate 310.74 [final total] 1238.74

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Green, Robert - Estate Administration Record, Louis Bingamon For Robert Green, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Green, Robert - Estate Administration Record, Louis Bingamon For Robert Green, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Account of Louis Bingamon Administrator on the estate of Robert Green, deceased. Includes a reference to the delivery of one unnamed enslaved boy.

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Green, Robert - Power Of Attorney Of William Green Of Henry County, Kentucky, Granted To Son Joseph Green, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Green, Robert - Power Of Attorney Of William Green Of Henry County, Kentucky, Granted To Son Joseph Green, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Power of attorney of William Green of Henry County, Kentucky, granted to son Joseph Green, in order to transact any business in which he may be concerned in Mississippi, and in particular to obtain whatever he might be entitled to as the father of Robert Green, deceased.

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Bruner, Michael - Record Of Charges For Goods And Services, Michael Bruner To James Tobin, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Bruner, Michael - Record Of Charges For Goods And Services, Michael Bruner To James Tobin, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Record of charges for goods and services, Michael Bruner to James Tobin, 1802-1810

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Green, Robert - Estate Of Robert Green, Deceased, With Louis Bingamon, Admr., Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Green, Robert - Estate Of Robert Green, Deceased, With Louis Bingamon, Admr., Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Envelope for probate records of Robert Green, deceased.

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Bruner, Michael - Estate Administration Record For The Estate Of Michael Bruner, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Bruner, Michael - Estate Administration Record For The Estate Of Michael Bruner, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Record of credits and expenditures on behalf of the estate, by Ebeneezer Hpwell. Includes a reference to an enslaved woman named Beck, who is recorded as being appraised but not sold.

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Bruner, Michael - Inventory And Appraisement Of The Estate Of Michael Bruner, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Bruner, Michael - Inventory And Appraisement Of The Estate Of Michael Bruner, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

A true and perfect Inventory and appriasement of all the goods and chattels and personal property or estate of Michael Bruner late of Adams County deceased as shewn to us by the administrator this 18th day of May 1814. The property of the copartnership of Bruner + Swayze was appraised at the prices opposite to each article[.] [List of stock of leather, as well as cutting and tanning tools, folows.] Also this day is shewn to us by the administrators, as not of the copartnership, the Goods and Chattels and Personal Property of the Estate of Michael Bruner deceased appraised …

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Bruner, Michael - Estate Administration Record For The Estate Of Michael Bruner, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Bruner, Michael - Estate Administration Record For The Estate Of Michael Bruner, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Ebenezer Hpwell and Gabriel Swayze in right of his wife as executor of the estate of Michael Bruner. Record of expenditures on behalf of the estate. Also includes a note that an enslaved woman named Beck was claimed by Mrs. Bruner the mother of the deceased by a proper bill of sale.

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Bruner, Michael - Charges Assessed To White Turfin (?), Sherriff Of Adams County, Mississippi Territory, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Bruner, Michael - Charges Assessed To White Turfin (?), Sherriff Of Adams County, Mississippi Territory, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Record of unpaid fees charged to imprisoned individuals for board at the Adams County Jail. One of the prisoners was accused of stealing an enslaved person.

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Bruner, Michael - Estate Of Michael Bruner, Deceased, With Savil L. Winston Administrator, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Bruner, Michael - Estate Of Michael Bruner, Deceased, With Savil L. Winston Administrator, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Envelope for the probate records of Michael Bruner, deceased

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Bruner, Michael - Inventory And Appraisal Of The Estate Of Michael Bruner, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Bruner, Michael - Inventory And Appraisal Of The Estate Of Michael Bruner, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Inventory and appraisal of the estate of Michael Bruner, deceased, including an enslaved woman named Beck who is recorded as being appraised as the property of the firm of Bruner + Swayze. There is also a second note stating that Beck has been delivered by mistake on the part of Mrs. Bruner, the widow of the deceased.

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Brown, Sarah - Order For The Inventory And Appraisal Of The Estate Of Sarah Brown, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brown, Sarah - Order For The Inventory And Appraisal Of The Estate Of Sarah Brown, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Order for the inventory and appraisal of the estate of Sarah Brown, inluding one enslaved boy about eight years old named Solomon, and an enslaved woman named Lacy.

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Brown, Sarah - Estate Of Sarah Brown, Deceased, With S.W. Butler + John Corn Admr., Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brown, Sarah - Estate Of Sarah Brown, Deceased, With S.W. Butler + John Corn Admr., Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Envelope for the probate records of Sarah Brown, deceased

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Brower, William - Receipt For Medical Services, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brower, William - Receipt For Medical Services, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Receipt for payment for medical services for an enslaved man named Charles, for treatment and medication for venereal disease

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Brower, William - Sales Of The Personal Estate Of William Brower, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brower, William - Sales Of The Personal Estate Of William Brower, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Sales of the personal estate of William Brower, deceased, including one enslaved boy named Charles, sold to H. Gridbey, and one enslaved boy named George, sold to P. Brill.

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Brower, William - The Account Of Adam Brower, Executor Of The Estate Of William Brower, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brower, William - The Account Of Adam Brower, Executor Of The Estate Of William Brower, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Estate administration record for the estate of William Brower, deceased, covering expenditures of the estate

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Brower, William - Estate Of William Brower, Deceased, With Adam Brower, Executor, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brower, William - Estate Of William Brower, Deceased, With Adam Brower, Executor, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Envelope for the probate records of William Brower, deceased

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Brower, William - Order For The Inventory And Appraisal Of The Estate Of William Brower, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brower, William - Order For The Inventory And Appraisal Of The Estate Of William Brower, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Order for the inventory and appraisal of the estate of William Brower, deceased

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Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, Mrs. M.P. Brooks, 1836, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, Mrs. M.P. Brooks, 1836, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Receipt for taxes paid on real and personal property including 4 enslaved persons.

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Brooks, William - Memorandum Of Evidence, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Memorandum Of Evidence, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Memorandum of evidence Nuse Ireys (?) in relation to the petition filed by Mrs. Brooks to account of Sam'l Ivey one of the Executors of the estate of William Brooks. Includes statements that Ivey never took possession of the enslaved woman named Isabella, or the enslaved woman named Mary, nor did he think he had the right to do so.

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Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1836, Chancery Court Of Adams County May 2023

Brooks, William - Tax Receipt, 1836, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Receipt for taxes paid on real and personal property including 365 acres and 14 enslaved persons.

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