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American Land Rush: “A Lonely Homesteader” Searches for Security in the Montana Homestead Boom
(2020)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 ... -
Beyond Stories: Geospatial Influences on the Practice of Environmental History
(The University of Alabama Press, 2019)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 ... -
A Question of Treason? Confederate Generals and U.S. Army Post Names
(Council on America's Military Past, 2019-12-01)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 Question of Treason? Confederate Generals and U.S. Army Post Names
(Adams State University, 2013-04-10)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 ... -
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)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 ... -
Legislative History Story Map
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019-10-01)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, ... -
Contested Conquests: African Maroons and the Incomplete Conquest of Hispaniola, 1519–1620
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-11-22)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 ... -
From Breadbasket to Dust Bowl: Rural Credit, the World War I Plow-Up, and the Transformation of American Agriculture
(University of Nebraska Press, 2015)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 ... -
Historical Reflections on Culinary Globalization in East Asia
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A televideo exercise and nutrition program for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in maintenance therapy: design and methods
(Dove Medical Press, 2015-07-29)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 ... -
The Fighting Man as Tourist: The Politics of Tourist Culture in Hawaii during World War II
(University of California Press, 1996-11)During 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 ... -
Losing the War
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Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma and His Nueva corónica
(University of Chicago Press, 2015)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 ... -
Guano Inside-Out
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Amenities in the Japanese Armed Forces
(General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, 1945, 1945-11-15) -
Neurofunctional Correlates of Environmental Cognition: An fMRI Study with Images from Episodic Memory
(Public Library of Science, 2015-04-14)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 ... -
Nietzsche, Decadence, and Regeneration in France, 1891-95
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Women's Labor History
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The Dedicatory Presentation in Late Antiquity: The Example of Ausonius
(University of Illinois Press, 1992-03-01)No abstract is available for this item. -