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Full-Text Articles in Women's History
“In Her Shoes”: Victorian Lady Explorers In Imperial Africa And Their Relationship To Contemporary Travellers Of A Commercialized, Nostalgic Landscape, Mary Smith
History & Classics Student Scholarship
Smith uses the framework of the Cape to Cairo trek to illuminate both the problematic maternalist feminism of early 19th century women, and to draw parallels with contemporary nostalgia for a romanticized and racialized past.
The Deans' Bible Bibliography, Angie Klink
The Deans' Bible Bibliography, Angie Klink
Supplementary Content for The Deans' Bible: Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality
This bibliography lists the resources used when researching The Deans' Bible: Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality.
Documenting Women’S Civil War Experiences In The Ohio Valley At The Filson, Eric Willey
Documenting Women’S Civil War Experiences In The Ohio Valley At The Filson, Eric Willey
Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library
This collections essay describes archival collections of the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. These collections document women and their experiences in the American Civil War.
Rave Reviews The History Of Akron's Tuesday Musical, Thomas Bacher, Cynthia Harrison, Sharon Cebula
Rave Reviews The History Of Akron's Tuesday Musical, Thomas Bacher, Cynthia Harrison, Sharon Cebula
University of Akron Press Publications
The Tuesday Musical Club was founded in 1887 by thirteen young Akron women who had an overwhelming desire to share their love of music. With further support of Gertrude Penfield Seiberling, the wife of industrialist Frank Seiberling, the organization grew like many other musical organizations across the country. Unlike similar clubs, the Akron-based entity continued to expand and is one of a very few that have survived. Among the artists who have appeared as a part of the rich history of Akron's Tuesday Musical Organization are Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Yascha Heifetz, Glenn Gould, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, …
Documenting 'Herstories' In The Ohio Valley At The Filson, Eric Willey
Documenting 'Herstories' In The Ohio Valley At The Filson, Eric Willey
Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library
This collection essay describes archival collections held by the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. The collections described document women’s contributions to the region’s history, their struggles and triumphs, and the contours of their daily lives, including interactions with family, peers, neighbors, and business associates.
Education And Legislation: Affluent Women's Political Engagement In The Consumers' Leagues Of The Progressive Era, Scott R. St. Louis
Education And Legislation: Affluent Women's Political Engagement In The Consumers' Leagues Of The Progressive Era, Scott R. St. Louis
Grand Valley Journal of History
This paper examines the extent to which the National Consumers’ League and similar localized leagues provided middle- and upper-class women with new opportunities for involvement in American politics during the early Progressive Era, or roughly the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. These organizations undertook various efforts – including “list” and “label” campaigns – to educate the consuming public about the poor working conditions suffered by retail employees and especially factory workers in the garment industry, with a focus on employed women and child laborers. Later on, the leagues provided their female members …
Interview Of John Lukacs, Ph.D., John Lukacs Ph.D., Leo Wong
Interview Of John Lukacs, Ph.D., John Lukacs Ph.D., Leo Wong
All Oral Histories
John Lukacs was born in 1924 in Budapest Hungary. He grew up in a middle class family raised by a Roman Catholic Father, and a Jewish mother. While he received most of his education in Hungary, he went to high school in Great Britain during his teenage years. During the Second World War, he was drafted into a forced labor battalion for much of the war. When German troops occupied Hungary in late 1944, he had to avoid getting sent to death camps by avoiding German patrols. In addition, he had to avoid being caught in the crossfire during the …
Building Up: A History Of Montana Tech Library 1900 - 2006, Ann F. St. Clair
Building Up: A History Of Montana Tech Library 1900 - 2006, Ann F. St. Clair
Ann St. Clair
This paper traces the history of the Library of the Montana State School of Mines from its inception in 1900 to 2006. The history includes sketches of the library directors over 106 years, and the library’s various campus locations and emerging collections and services.
Review Of Marriage In Premodern Europe: Italy And Beyond, Brian Maxson
Review Of Marriage In Premodern Europe: Italy And Beyond, Brian Maxson
ETSU Faculty Works
Jacqueline Murray's Marriage in Premodern Europe collects a wide-ranging series of essays on marriage covering nearly four hundred years and almost the entire European Continent.
Daughters Of The America Colonists, St. Philip's Parish Chapter Records, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Daughters Of The America Colonists, St. Philip's Parish Chapter Records, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Finding Aids
This collection includes annual scrapbooks documenting the history of the activities of the Daughters of the American Colonists, St. Philip’s Parish chapter from 1975-2017. Materials include chapter minutes, papers and photographs for chapter activities and events, fundraisers, memorial services, newspaper clippings, chapter yearbooks, and several copies of the organization’s yearly journal, The Colonial Courier.
Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog.