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Publication American Land Rush: “A Lonely Homesteader” Searches for Security in the Montana Homestead Boom(2020) Gregg, Sara M.This Virtual Exhibition features one of the millions of small stories of homesteading in the US West. Lily Bell Murray Stearns Schuld Lampp overcame early tragedy in Illinois that left her an orphan, moving through Saskatchewan and Iowa before she arrived in Montana to claim 320 acres (129.5 hectares) of “free land” under the terms of the 1909 Enlarged Homestead Act. Stearns’s saga captures both the risks and the opportunities of the Great Plains during the early twentieth century. Stearns was one of 14,891 homesteaders who successfully proved up in Montana in 1917, the year of greatest homestead success during the long homestead era (1863–1986), but her experiences evoke how the erratic fortunes of farm life reflected the abundant economic, political, and personal whims of the era. This exhibit is derived from research conducted for a book project, Little Piece of Earth: The Hidden History of the Homestead Era, that uses microhistorical methods to excavate the multiple histories of areas that achieved high rates of homesteading success, reclaiming the histories of the land and peoples on which these land claims were sited. Lily Stearns’s story, placed within the largest successful homestead rush in history, foregrounds the personal saga of one woman who struggled to find security and a sense of pace within the sweeping demographic and geopolitical changes of her day.Publication Beyond Stories: Geospatial Influences on the Practice of Environmental History(The University of Alabama Press, 2019) Gregg, Sara M.Scholars using quantitative and spatial methods have revisited some of the foundational texts in environmental history over the past decade, demonstrating that new technologies permit scholars to revisit some of the pivotal interpretative questions that helped to establish the field. This essay investigates the new opportunities as well as the perils that historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) present for environmental historians, and examines the ways in which scholars have crafted and redirected historical questions using new techniques in the spatial humanities. This essay explores the impact of scientific knowledge, and more specifically, HGIS, on reshaping our ideas about historical contingency and the use of evidence in environmental history, focusing on the ways data sets and digital technologies now permit a dramatically different approach to historical investigations. Environmental historians have been using HGIS in order to assess the long-term effects of agricultural policy and land use change on a range of landscapes, as well as to survey urban and marine regions with an eye to addressing new questions about development and sustainability. This essay evaluates the role of spatial studies in environmental history, examining the new types of data that recent technological developments have made usable for scholars in the humanities.Publication A Question of Treason? Confederate Generals and U.S. Army Post Names(Council on America's Military Past, 2019-12-01) Hill, Michael A.The naming of U.S. Army posts after Confederate generals is vital in understanding the process of reconciliation after the Civil War. The honoring of Confederate generals in such a manner was made attractive not only by a desire for sectional reconciliation, but by an understanding of the Civil War shaped by the Lost Cause. In choosing to name Army posts after those some might considered traitors, U.S. Armyleaders not only reflected national attitudes toward the Civil War, but shaped that attitude as well. Additionally, one must ask how the continued memorial to the Confederate cause as illustrated in U.S. Army installation names continues to influence the perception of Americans in regard to the Civil War, why it was fought, and what it achieved.Publication A Question of Treason? Confederate Generals and U.S. Army Post Names(Adams State University, 2013-04-10) Hill, Michael A.This thesis explores the process by which present-day U.S. Army posts came to be named for Confederate officers of the Civil War through an examination of U.S. Army regulations dictating how and for whom installations are to be named as well as surveying the history of each of the current posts named for a Confederate officer. By searching Army regulations, published histories, and newspaper articles the attitudes of local communities and military leaders are ascertained so as to better understand how men who rebelled against the United States are now honored by the Army through one of the most selective means available. This thesis concludes that while financial concerns played an immediate role in the introduction of Army posts to Southern communities, the spread of Lost Cause mythology and its acceptance by U.S. military leaders, especially after the Spanish-American War, created an atmosphere that encouraged the Army to honor those who had been viewed as traitors only one generation prior.Publication Some Tasting Notes on Year-Old Sushi: Funazushi, Japan’s Most Ancient and Potentially Its Most Up-to-Date Sushi(University of California Press, 2020-02-03) Rath, Eric C.Abstract: Funazushi, a fermented food made with crucian carp, is often described as Japan’s most ancient form of sushi. This article evaluates these historical claims and offers some tasting notes, exploring traditional versions of the dish and new interpretations that offer a possible future for sushi. I could never write a global history of sushi without having eaten what has been called the most “ancient form” of sushi, the funazushi found in Shiga Prefecture (Hosking 1996: 43). So on a recent trip to Japan I set aside two days to try to eat as much funazushi as possible. This proved to be challenging for many reasons, not the least of which was the taste of funazushi, which many people find disagreeable. What I learned from the experience was less about sushi’s past than a possibility for sushi’s futurePublication Legislative History Story Map(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019-10-01) Gregg, Sara M.The 1862 Homestead Act Legislative History Story Map--see http://arcg.is/WDz9z--serves a crucial pedagogical need: Students in EVRN 332, Environmental Law, a required course for the KU Program in Environmental Studies, are required to develop a multi-media final presentation on the environmental law upon which they have conducted research during the semester. This Story Map provides a prototype for these presentations, building upon students’ legislative history research. The Story Maps for EVRN 332 allow students to step back from the complex story of legislative wrangling that they mastered during the research process, and to simplify the culmination of their research in crafting a five-minute visual presentation. I worked with the KU Libraries Research Sprint team to create the 1862 Homestead Act Story Map as a jumping-off point for developing an even more effective model for student presentations.Publication Contested Conquests: African Maroons and the Incomplete Conquest of Hispaniola, 1519–1620(Cambridge University Press, 2018-11-22) Schwaller, Robert C.On July 13, 1571, King Philip II of Spain, via a real cédula, authorized the Audiencia of Santo Domingo to enact plans to “conquer” a community of African cimarrones (maroons, runaway slaves) located about 36 miles from the city of Santo Domingo. The king offered to those who ventured forth compensation in the form of the cimarrones they captured as slaves. At face value, the substance of this order was not particularly unique. Since the 1520s, runaway African slaves had formed maroon communities in remote regions bordering Spanish conquests. By the 1570s, African maroons could be found in practically every part of Spanish America. The uniqueness of Philip's order comes from the choice of language, in particular the decision to label the expedition a conquest. In most cases, the monarch or his officials used words like ‘reduce’ (reducir/reducciones), ‘pacify’ (pacificar/pacificación), ‘castigate’ (castigar), or ‘dislodge’ (desechar) to describe the goal of such campaigns. By describing an anti-maroon campaign as a conquest, this cédula went against the dominant Spanish narrative of the sixteenth century, in which resistance, especially by Africans or native groups, signified a punctuated disturbance of an ostensibly stable and coherent postconquest colonial order. The wording of the cédula, and the maroon movements to which it responded, explicitly link anti-maroon campaigns to the process of Spanish conquest. This article suggests that Spanish-maroon contestation on Hispaniola should be construed as an integral piece of a prolonged and often incomplete Spanish conquest. More importantly, this reevaluation of the conflict reveals maroons to be conquerors in their own right.Publication From Breadbasket to Dust Bowl: Rural Credit, the World War I Plow-Up, and the Transformation of American Agriculture(University of Nebraska Press, 2015) Gregg, Sara M.Numerous scholars have surveyed the creation of a vulnerable agricultural landscape on the Great Plains during the years surrounding World War I, and especially the alterations to the landscape of crop production that precipitated the 1930s Dust Bowl. Most have missed the impact of the first government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), the federal land banks, and the role of government-seeded credit in radically shifting the farm mortgage market and production patterns in this region after 1917. This article adds the critical element of economic causality to the story of the Great Plains Plow-Up, arguing that federal credit policy, in the form of the 1916 Federal Farm Loan Act, created the financial mechanism for the pattern of surplus production that has challenged farmers and agricultural policymakers since the end of World War I. With this law the U.S. government launched into the mortgage market, and provided the essential start-up capital for farmers in historically undercapitalized regions, thus reshaping the form and scale of American agriculture. Using the financing provided under the Federal Farm Loan Act, Great Plains farmers were able to consolidate and mechanize their farms, and thus respond to the call to “plant more wheat” during the war years, thereby creating the unprecedented grain surpluses that paved the way for decades of overproduction. The high yields and increased cultivation of the postwar years forced farmers to further maximize production, even as surpluses drove prices down. The economic imbalance of production cycles during the 1920s led to repeated calls for government intervention in commodity markets, and eventually to the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act, which implemented the production control policies that have dominated U.S. agricultural policy ever since. The federal land banks contributed substantially to the mechanization and consolidation of American agriculture, and to the problem of surplus that has defined farm policy since the 1920s. “From Breadbasket to Dust Bowl” contextualizes the agricultural reforms of the 1910s, and demonstrates the expansive impact of this new form of federal aid to agriculture on the rural economy and American public policy into the 21st century.Publication Historical Reflections on Culinary Globalization in East Asia(University of California Press, 2017) Rath, Eric C.Publication A televideo exercise and nutrition program for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in maintenance therapy: design and methods(Dove Medical Press, 2015-07-29) Gibson, Cheryl A.; August, Keith J.; Greene, Jerry L.; Herrmann, Stephen D.; Lee, Jaehoon; Harvey, Susan P.; Lambourne, Kate; Sullivan, Debra K.Changes in nutrient intake and decreased exercise resulting from cancer therapies as well as their side effects may be contributing factors in the increased body weight and differences in physical fitness observed in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). This article will describe the study protocol for an intervention program designed to improve the physical activity and nutrition behaviors of ALL survivors. Twenty-four children aged between 4 years and 12 years with ALL will be randomized to a 6-month technology-based exercise and nutrition program (TLC4ALLKids) or to enhanced usual care (eUC). The participants randomized to the TLC4ALLKids will participate in weekly, 1-hour coaching sessions on nutrition and physical activity and 1-hour physical activity classes delivered by group video conferencing. Participants will be provided with iPad tablets loaded with video conferencing software and the Healthy Lifestyle Tracking calendar to track daily nutrition and physical activity goals and weight. Both groups will be provided with Fitbit™ Zip to monitor physical activity. To assess feasibility, participant recruitment (achievement of proposed sample size), attendance (per weekly online sessions/assessment sessions), and adherence (number of families at 3 and 6 months) will be evaluated. Outcome measures to assess the intervention will include anthropometrics (weight, height, and waist circumference), physical activity (accelerometry), energy and macronutrient intake (food records), sleep habits (Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire), and quality of life (Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory) will be obtained at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months. Semi-structured interviews will be used to gather information about ways to improve the program and overcome barriers to participation. If successful, the TLC4ALLKids intervention will provide a means to educate and improve the health behaviors of ALL survivors that can be delivered remotely and conveniently to participants.Publication The Fighting Man as Tourist: The Politics of Tourist Culture in Hawaii during World War II(University of California Press, 1996-11) Farber, David; Bailey, BethDuring World War II roughly a million soldiers, sailors, and war workers spent time in the territory of Hawaii. In order to mediate the potentially explosive tensions produced by this influx of homesick and battle weary men into an unfamiliar and highly diverse society, the U.S. military command and Hawaii's ruling elites tried to cast wartime visitors in a carefully constructed role-that of tourists.1 Tourists, as sociologist Dean MacCannell has pointed out, see difference as pleasurable, rather than threatening, and the unusual as affirming their own way of life rather than challenging it. 2 The paradigm of the fighting-man-as-tourist enabled wartime visitors to consume the "otherness" of Hawaii without risking loss of primary identity and without needing to directly confront or reject the "other." At least this was what military and civilian authorities hoped would occur. As they and the soldiers themselves discovered, the role of tourist was a contested one. While elites might proffer a certain model of tomistic behavior, it could be rejected or adapted to other purposes. During World War II, the paradigm of "tourism" in Hawaii was hotly contested and carried surprising political import.Publication Losing the War(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011-03) Bailey, BethPublication Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His Nueva corónica(University of Chicago Press, 2015) Cushman, Gregory T.Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s handwritten illustrated book, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno, from 1615—honored by UNESCO as a “Memory of the World” item—rewrote Andean history in accordance with his goals of reforming Spanish colonial rule in Peru. On the eve of the four-hundredth anniversary of Poma’s book, a renowned group of international scholars has been assembled to focus fresh attention on the work, its author, and its times. This volume brings together a range of established and younger scholars to explore the countless avenues of inquiry that emerge from Poma’s work, including Andean institutions and ecology, Inca governance, Spanish conquest-era history, and much more.Publication Guano Inside-Out(H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, 2016-02) Jones, Christopher F.; Gorman, Hugh; Soluri, John; Jones, Ryan Tucker; Brannstrom, Christian; Cushman, Gregory T.Publication Amenities in the Japanese Armed Forces(General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, 1945, 1945-11-15) Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. Allied Translator and Interpreter Section; Goodman, Grant K.Publication Neurofunctional Correlates of Environmental Cognition: An fMRI Study with Images from Episodic Memory(Public Library of Science, 2015-04-14) Vedder, Aline; Smigielski, Lukasz; Gutyrchik, Evgeny; Bao, Yan; Blautzik, Janusch; Poeppel, Ernst; Zaytseva, Yuliya; Russell, Edmund P.This study capitalizes on individual episodic memories to investigate the question, how dif-ferent environments affect us on a neural level. Instead of using predefined environmental stimuli, this study relied on individual representations of beauty and pleasure. Drawing upon episodic memories we conducted two experiments. Healthy subjects imagined pleasant and non-pleasant environments, as well as beautiful and non-beautiful environments while neural activity was measured by using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Although subjects found the different conditions equally simple to visualize, our results revealed more distribut-ed brain activations for non-pleasant and non-beautiful environments than for pleasant and beautiful environments. The additional regions activated in non-pleasant (left lateral prefrontal cortex) and non-beautiful environments (supplementary motor area, anterior cortical midline structures) are involved in self-regulation and top-down cognitive control. Taken together, the results show that perceptual experiences and emotional evaluations of environments within a positive and a negative frame of reference are based on distinct patterns of neural activity. We interpret the data in terms of a different cognitive and processing load placed by exposure to different environments. The results hint at the efficiency of subject-generated representations as stimulus material.Publication Nietzsche, Decadence, and Regeneration in France, 1891-95(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993-01-01) Forth, Christopher E.Publication Women's Labor History(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989-12-01) Helmbold, Lois Rita; Schofield, Ann M.No abstract is available for this item.Publication The Dedicatory Presentation in Late Antiquity: The Example of Ausonius(University of Illinois Press, 1992-03-01) Sivan, Hagith S.No abstract is available for this item.Publication Was Theodosius I A Usurper?(Akademie Verlag, 1996-01-01) Sivan, Hagith S.No abstract is available for this item.