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A Visit To The Battlefield, Michael J. Birkner, Richard E. Winslow

Adams County History

This piece was transcribed and edited by Michael J. Birkner and Richard E. Winslow.

With fighting concluded at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, the enormous task of burying the dead, treating the wounded, and rehabilitating the town began in earnest. Although Gettysburg looked and smelled worse than it ever had or ever would again, thousands of people arrived on the battlefield in the days and weeks following General Robert E. Lee's retreat. Some came to minister to the sick and reclaim the bodies of neighbors and loved ones; others scavenged souvenirs of the battle. Of the many visits to the …

Freedom Of The Will, Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

The exact nature of the human will is, like the nature of human consciousness, a question so subjective and so interior that no one is ever likely to arrive at a satisfactory judgment about how it functions or even what it is-which may be the best proof that philosophy is not a science, and the best evidence that those social sciences which try to measure, quantify, and control aspects of human consciousness are not sciences either. Still, there is no denying that we are aware of a power or an impulse within us which transJates thought into action, or at …

Thinking About Elites In The Early Republic, Andrew M. Schocket

History Faculty Publications

This essay is a conceptual exploration designed not only to provoke further consideration and discussion of how we might better analyze elites, but also, by extension, to offer a framework for investigating class and class differences in the early years of America’s nationhood.

Account Books (Sc 1445), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1445. An account book, 1795-1800, evidently kept by someone in central/south central Kentucky. Entries pertain to land, children attending school, work done on a farm, settling of accounts, etc.

Is Teaching History Reasonable, Worthwhile, And Beneficial In The Elementary Grades?, Jill Johnson

Graduate Research Papers

The literature review paper provided reassures the reader that in fact it is beneficial and most importantly, vital to teach historical knowledge to students. Through extensive research, multiple studies confirmed the importance of history instruction in the elementary classroom accompanied with worthwhile, meaningful lessons that allow the students to truly analyze, explore, and internalize the material.

In attempt to provide a quality education for all American students, we must take the following steps: implementing and analyzing more research in regards to history instruction in the elementary classroom; ensure that all educators have an adequate wealth of background knowledge in the …

Dayton Public Schools 5th Grade Social Studies Instructional Guide. Dayton Teaching American History. Unit 6: American Revolution, Dayton Public Schools

Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention

This instructional guide is from unit 6 of Dayton Public Schools' 5th grade social studies course, which covers the American Revolution.

This guide was part of the Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention project which was sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and was a National Endowment for the Humanities We The People project.

Dayton Public Schools 8th Grade Social Studies Instructional Guide. Dayton Teaching American History. Unit 7: Road To Civil War, Dayton Public Schools

Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention

This instructional guide is from unit 7 of Dayton Public Schools' 8th grade social studies course, which covers topics on the events that lead up to the Civil War.

This guide was part of the Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention project which was sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and was a National Endowment for the Humanities We The People project.

Dayton Public Schools 8th Grade Social Studies Instructional Guide. Dayton Teaching American History, Dayton Public Schools

Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention

This instructional guide is from Dayton Public Schools' 8th grade social studies course.

This guide was part of the Gateway to Dayton Teaching American History: Citizenship, Creativity, and Invention project which was sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and was a National Endowment for the Humanities We The People project.

Crime Pays: The Role Of Prohibition And Rum Running Along Us 112 In The Transformation Of The Michigan State Police, Timothy Weber

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The Michigan State Police were first organized to protect the state’s infrastructure and quell labor disputes during World War I. Structured along the lines of a paramilitary organization, the State Police quickly developed a reputation for Nativism and anti-radical agendas. By the 1930s, the force had transformed into a state wide investigation and policing agency with broad support in the population and state government. Here, archival records and police publications are used to ascertain the role of Prohibition and rum running in the force’s transformation.

Examination begins with an overview of the national movement to establish state policing agencies, and …

Crume, Charles Thomas, Sr., 1894-1981 (Sc 1441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 1441. Address book, 1909, kept by Crume, Bardstown, Kentucky, which evidently was his "little black book," containing addresses of young ladies, especially from Louisville and the central Kentucky area. Also, a humorous letter written to soldier "Joe," an "unfortunate married draftee," in Korea (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).

Kavanaugh, Franklin James, 1934-2016 (Sc 1444), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1444. Dr. Frank J. Kavanaugh writes, at the request of a Kentucky cousin, about his Washington, D.C. associations, chiefly with presidential wives. He comments about the presidents, too, especially the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Kavanaugh was with the George Washington University Medical Center. Also associated items.

Richardson, Sarah "Sally" Pickett, 1944-2023 (Sc 1443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1443. Autograph book, 1953-1954, of Richardson, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Braber, Thomas Cornelius, 1922-2008 (Sc 1437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1437. World War II poem written by U.S. soldier Thomas C. Braber about the Omaha Beach battle (6 June 1944) on the European battlefront. Also printout of a photo of Braber and his salvage group on Omaha Beach, and related data.

Duncan, Kathryn Ann, B. 1931 (Sc 1418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1418. Baby book kept for Kathryn Ann Duncan, daughter of Claude W. Duncan, Jr. and Kathryn (Ham) Duncan, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Also includes some newspaper clippings.

Eades Family Bible Records (Sc 1415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1415. Bible records of the Eades family of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, which give birth, marriage and death information. Includes typescript with related data.

Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Ohio And Mclean Counties, Kentucky (Sc 1409), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1409. Register kept of Methodist Episcopal Church, South circuit that included Ohio County churches in Centertown, Ceralvo, Cromwell, Equality, Hopewell, McHenry, Point Pleasant, Providence, Rockport, and Taylor Town; and a McLean County church in Island. Mostly membership lists, but also includes names of ministers, baptisms, and marriages.

Religious Tolerance In Sixteenth-Century Switzerland, Edmund J. Campion

Swiss American Historical Society Review

People do not generally associate the sixteenth century in Europe with religious tolerance and such an attitude is understandable, but it overlooks the small but relatively tolerant country of Switzerland. Elsewhere in Europe there was then, in fact, a great deal of religious intolerance and persecution. A few examples will illustrate very nicely how intolerant other European countries were at that time toward other religions.

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

Sahs Annual Report 2004: Obituaries

Swiss American Historical Society Review

An obituary for Charles E. Ziegler (1929-2004) written by Philip R. Gelzer on September 16, 2004.

End Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

Memory And Pluralism On A Property Law Frontier, The Contested Landscape Of New Mexico's Costilla Valley, Gregory A. Hicks

Articles

This article describes the decades-long dispute between Hispano settlers of the Costilla Valley in northern New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Land Grant and the succession of entrepreneurial owners of the grant during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through the U.S. Freehold Land and Emigration Company and its successors, the new Dutch and American owners sought to replace patterns of land and resource use developed during the Mexican period with patterns of use intended to support Anglo colonial settlement and intense development of the region's natural resources. The Dutch and American owners faced continuing resistance from the area's Hispano …

Response To Edmund Campion's Film Review Of Luther, Christian P. Stehr

Swiss American Historical Society Review

After the success of the film BONHOEFFER: AGENT OF GRACE, with over 13 million viewers on U.S. Public Television,63 the same German-American production partners (NFPteleart Berlin and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans) took up a much larger project in 1999: an epic movie about the historic Martin Luther. The goal was to portray Luther in such a way that he would appeal to the young generations of the 21 st century, while making them understand why the man showed up on countless top ten lists of millennial figures. This essentially meant taking Luther off his pedestal to tell the real-life story …

The End Of The Reformation In Valais, Theol. Gerda Altpeter, Margot Durrer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

At the time of the Reformation, Valais was under the jurisdiction of France, Savoy and Spanish Milan. In the last decade of the 16th century and then more intensely in the 17th century, it became a theater for the dynamics of this power. Valais stood in a close relationship with their Savoyard neighbors that had evolved from a relationship of competition into a more friendly union by the 16th Century. The first accord came in 1528 when the Duke of Savoy withdrew from the district of Saint-Maurice, (conquered in 1475). In 1536 Valais engaged with Bern in a concentrated battle …

Sahs Annual Report 2004

Swiss American Historical Society Review

41st SAHS ANNUAL MEETING

Embassy of Switzerland

2900 Cathedral Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

1. AGENDA FOR THE BUSINESS MEETING

2. REPORTS

A. Minutes of the Meeting,

B. President's Report

C. Nominating Committee Report

D. Special Report: New Glarus Committee

E. Membership Report

F. Treasurer's Report

G. Publications

3. PROGRAM FOR THE AFTERNOON MEETING

4. OBITUARIES

Sahs Annual Report 2004: Agenda

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Agenda for the Forty-First Annual SAHS Business Meeting

Sahs Annual Report 2004: Reports

Swiss American Historical Society Review

SAHS Annual Reports

A. Minutes of the Forty-First Annual Business Meeting

B. President's Report

C. Nominating Committee Report

D. Committee Report on the Swiss Center of North America in New Glarus, Wisconsin

E. Membership Report 2003-2004

F. Treasurer's Report

G. Report on Book Publications

Sahs Annual Report 2004: Program For The Afternoon Meeting

Swiss American Historical Society Review

SAHS Annual Report: Program for the Afternoon Meeting including presentations from Dr. Edmund J. Campion and Dr. Raoul Blindenbacher

Appendix: Swiss-American Organizations, Sites And Events

Swiss American Historical Society Review

A list of Swiss-American Organizations, sites and events organized by state.

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

Stamper - Miscellaneous Information, Carter County Genealogical Society

Carter County Genealogy Collection

A Stamper family history of miscellaneous information from Carter County, Kentucky.