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Book Review: Kentucky And The Great War: World War I On The Home Front Jul 2017

Book Review: Kentucky And The Great War: World War I On The Home Front

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Book Review

Kentucky and the Great War: World War I on the Home Front

George Humphreys


Book Review: The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History Jul 2017

Book Review: The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Book Review

The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History

Matthew Himel


Book Review Of, Embracing A Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849 - 1950 By Ellen Eisenberg, Natan M. Meir Jul 2017

Book Review Of, Embracing A Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849 - 1950 By Ellen Eisenberg, Natan M. Meir

Judaic Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Natan M. Meir is the Chair of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University. Here he reviews the book "Embracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849 - 1950" by Ellen Eisenberg.


Traces Volume 45, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jul 2017

Traces Volume 45, 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 The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.


Editor's Remarks Jul 2017

Editor's Remarks

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Editor's Remarks

James S. Humphreys


Friends Of Humanity, Enemies Of Bondage: Kentucky's Antislavery Evangelicals And Their Legacy Jul 2017

Friends Of Humanity, Enemies Of Bondage: Kentucky's Antislavery Evangelicals And Their Legacy

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Friends of Humanity, Enemies of Bondage: Kentucky's Antislavery Evangelicals and Their Legacy

Andrew Landreth


The Historical Context Of The Mexican Expedition Of 1916 Jul 2017

The Historical Context Of The Mexican Expedition Of 1916

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Historical Context of the Mexican Expedition of 1916

William Schell, Jr.


Memories Of Mayfield, Kentucky During World War Ii: An Interview With Mrs. Frances Bennett Jul 2017

Memories Of Mayfield, Kentucky During World War Ii: An Interview With Mrs. Frances Bennett

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Memories of Mayfield, Kentucky during World War II: An Interview with Mrs. Frances Bennett

Megan Dobrose


Book Review: Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, And The Household In Civil War Missouri Jul 2017

Book Review: Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, And The Household In Civil War Missouri

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Book Review

Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri

Melony Schemberger


Book Review: Forrest: On The Way To Fort Pillow Jul 2017

Book Review: Forrest: On The Way To Fort Pillow

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Book Review

Forrest: On the Way to Fort Pillow

Marvin Downing


President's Remarks Jul 2017

President's Remarks

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President's Remarks

William H. Mulligan, Jr.


Book Review: The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War And The Remaking Of The American Middle Border Jul 2017

Book Review: The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War And The Remaking Of The American Middle Border

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Book Review

The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border

Carl C. Creason


Book Review: Paducah And The Civil War Jul 2017

Book Review: Paducah And The Civil War

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Book Review

Paducah and the Civil War

Brent Taylor


2016-17 Meetings Of The Jackson Purchase Historical Society Jul 2017

2016-17 Meetings Of The Jackson Purchase Historical Society

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

2016-17 Meetings of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society

William H. Mulligan, Jr.


Does Quilting Matter? Jul 2017

Does Quilting Matter?

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Does Quilting Matter?

Bobbie Smith Bryant


Book Review: Andrew Jackson, Southerner Jul 2017

Book Review: Andrew Jackson, Southerner

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Book Review

Andrew Jackson, Southerner

John R. Burrow


Book Review: Farming In The Black Patch Jul 2017

Book Review: Farming In The Black Patch

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Book Review

Farming in the Black Patch

George Humphreys


Lincoln’S Forgotten Middle Years, Allen C. Guelzo Jul 2017

Lincoln’S Forgotten Middle Years, Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

It would be difficult to find two books on Abraham Lincoln published in the same year and yet more unalike in their conclusions than Sidney Blumenthal’s Wrestling with His Angel (the second installment in his multi-volume survey of Lincoln’s “political life”) and Elizabeth Brown Pryor’s Six Encounters with Lincoln. Blumenthal’s narrative of Lincoln’s “wilderness years,” from 1849 to 1856, begins with Lincoln at the lowest pitch of his professional life, returning to Illinois from his solitary term in Congress, an embarrassment to his fellow Whigs, only to rise, phoenix-like, from the firestorm of the controversy over slavery in “Bleeding …


Free Labor: The Civil War And The Making Of An American Working Class By Mark A. Lause (Review), Joanne Pope Melish Jul 2017

Free Labor: The Civil War And The Making Of An American Working Class By Mark A. Lause (Review), Joanne Pope Melish

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Hell In The Snow: The U.S. Army In The Colmar Pocket, January 22 - February 9, 1945, Clinton W. Thompson Jul 2017

Hell In The Snow: The U.S. Army In The Colmar Pocket, January 22 - February 9, 1945, Clinton W. Thompson

History Theses

In December of 1944 and January of 1945, as Allied forces fought to slowly regain their footing in the Battle of the Bulge, another fierce engagement raged to the south in Alsace and became known as the Battle of the Colmar Pocket. Although overshadowed by the more famous fight to the north, the Colmar Pocket nevertheless played a pivotal role in the war in Europe. Yet the engagement which made Audie Murphy famous remains at the periphery of our understanding of the intense fighting in the winter of 1944-45. This thesis is about the overlooked story in the Allied struggle …


Changing The Message: Battered Women's Advocates And Their Fight Against Domestic Violence At The Local, State, And Federal Level, 1970s-1990s, Clara Amy Van Eck Jul 2017

Changing The Message: Battered Women's Advocates And Their Fight Against Domestic Violence At The Local, State, And Federal Level, 1970s-1990s, Clara Amy Van Eck

History Theses & Dissertations

This thesis analyzes congressional hearings, reports to Congress, government statistics, acts of Congress, Supreme Court rulings, and newspaper articles to examine how, in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, battered women's advocates altered their rhetoric when dealing with local, state, and federal governments in order to change policies, laws, and to obtain funding for domestic abuse shelters. In the 1970s, battered women's advocates used anti-patriarchal language to help survivors of sexual assault and of domestic violence understand the pervasive and systemic nature of violence against women to liberate survivors from the belief that the violence was their fault. In the 1980s, …


Book Review - Slavery And Freedom In Savannah, Latiffany D. Davis Jul 2017

Book Review - Slavery And Freedom In Savannah, Latiffany D. Davis

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Earliest American Map Of The Northwest Coast: John Hoskins's A Chart Of The Northwest Coast Of America Sketched On Board The Ship Columbia Rediviva ... 1791 & 1792, James V. Walker, William L. Lang Jul 2017

The Earliest American Map Of The Northwest Coast: John Hoskins's A Chart Of The Northwest Coast Of America Sketched On Board The Ship Columbia Rediviva ... 1791 & 1792, James V. Walker, William L. Lang

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

Between 1790 and 1793, John Hoskins created a map of the Northwest Coast of North America that included ninety-one place names documenting Native communities. The map is the earliest example of such detailed documentation by an American and was rediscovered in 1852 at the Cartographic Archives Division of the National Archives and Records Administration. In this research article, James Walker and William Lang provide a historical context for the map, including comparative charts that break down the Native names that Hoskins documented into seven cultural groups. According to Walker and Lang, the map “opens a window to what American traders …


Book Review Of, Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company On The Pacific Slope, 1800-1820 By Lloyd Keith And John C. Jackson, William L. Lang Jul 2017

Book Review Of, Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company On The Pacific Slope, 1800-1820 By Lloyd Keith And John C. Jackson, William L. Lang

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Woman Energy: How Our Lesbian Past Informs Our Lesbian Future, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz Jul 2017

Woman Energy: How Our Lesbian Past Informs Our Lesbian Future, Shawn(Ta) Smith-Cruz

Publications and Research

Sinister Wisdom Issue 3, published the year 1977 holds an essay by poet Adrienne Rich, titled, “It is the lesbian in us...”; The cover of the same issue has art by photographer Tee Corinne. Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal. This non-fiction creative essay written by Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz reflects on the first year of Sinister Wisdom's publication as a celebration of 40 years through this special edition anniversary print for which only 1000 have been printed. The essay remarks on the shift in lesbian identity and community and the potential impact of the Sinister Wisdom journal …


Settlement In The Old Northwest Frontier And The Merging Of Culture, 1750 -1790, Sandra K. Ellefsen Jul 2017

Settlement In The Old Northwest Frontier And The Merging Of Culture, 1750 -1790, Sandra K. Ellefsen

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

SETTLEMENT IN THE OLD NORTHWEST FRONTIER

AND THE MERGING OF CULTURE, 1750 -1790

An Abstract of the Thesis by Sandra Ellefsen

During the late 1700s, the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountain Chain became the main corridor that precipitated settlement into Kentucky. Along this frontier line, settlers had to contend with various Native American tribes, and settlement on the frontier from the beginning of colonization irrevocably altered the Native American way of life. Warfare, encroachment, and disease caused the Native American population to decline drastically in the process of contact; often as a result, Native tribes chose to adopt many …


Oral History: Jayne Bausis Cotter Jun 2017

Oral History: Jayne Bausis Cotter

Zycie w Ameryce: A Collection of Polish-American Oral Histories

This conversation is an oral history interview with a former member of Worcester's Polish community. The interview touches on many facets of community life from the importance of the Polish language, of the Church, as well as Polish pride, the experience of immigrants, and John Paull II.

Interview keywords: immigrant, language, church, college, pride.


A Case Study Analysis Of The “Letter From Birmingham Jail”: Conceptualizing The Conscience Of King Through The Lens Of Paulo Freire, Tremaine T. Sails-Dunbar Jun 2017

A Case Study Analysis Of The “Letter From Birmingham Jail”: Conceptualizing The Conscience Of King Through The Lens Of Paulo Freire, Tremaine T. Sails-Dunbar

Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee

The pedagogical qualities of Martin King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” can be observed through the lens of Paulo Freire as his illustration of thematic universe’s can be used as a framework to contextualize the conscience of King. King encountered obstacles, in his contemporary context, to his self-actualization that once cognitively subjugated were transformative to his being. Three questions are explored: What manifestations led to the writing of the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”? What were King’s transformative actions? Will an answer to the first help make sense of the second? I endeavor to briefly examine the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” through …


New Design Principles For Mobile History Games, Owen Gottlieb Jun 2017

New Design Principles For Mobile History Games, Owen Gottlieb

Presentations and other scholarship

This study draws on design-based research on an ARIS–based mobile augmented reality game for teaching early 20th century history. New design principles derived from the study include the use of supra-reveals, and bias mirroring. Supra-reveals are a kind of foreshadowing event in order to ground historical happenings in the wider enduring historical understanding. Bias mirroring refers to a nonplayer character echoing back a player’s biased behavior, in order to open the player to listening to alternative perspectives. Supra-reveals engendered discussion of historical themes early in the game experience. The results showed that use of a cluster of NPC bias mirroring …


A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The 21st Century, Peter R. Bales Jun 2017

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The 21st Century, Peter R. Bales

Open Educational Resources

A humorous but entirely factual account of American history from the beginning up to the present.