Author: Heather Giffen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738561103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This book is a chronicle of the history Muskingum College -- founded in 1837 by the Friends of Education, a group of men of who were of Scots-Irish heritage and members of various branches of Presbyterianism -- over the 172-year history of the college.
Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard
Author: William Kerrigan
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421407965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A fresh look at American icon Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman and the story of the apple. Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the meaning of Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman’s life and the environmental and cultural significance of the plant he propagated. Creating a startling new portrait of the eccentric apple tree planter, William Kerrigan carefully dissects the oral tradition of the Appleseed myth and draws upon material from archives and local historical societies across New England and the Midwest. The character of Johnny Appleseed stands apart from other frontier heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, who employed violence against Native Americans and nature to remake the West. His apple trees, nonetheless, were a central part of the agro-ecological revolution at the heart of that transformation. Yet men like Chapman, who planted trees from seed rather than grafting, ultimately came under assault from agricultural reformers who promoted commercial fruit stock and were determined to extend national markets into the West. Over the course of his life John Chapman was transformed from a colporteur of a new ecological world to a curious relic of a pre-market one. Weaving together the stories of the Old World apple in America and the life and myth of John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard casts new light on both.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421407965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A fresh look at American icon Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman and the story of the apple. Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the meaning of Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman’s life and the environmental and cultural significance of the plant he propagated. Creating a startling new portrait of the eccentric apple tree planter, William Kerrigan carefully dissects the oral tradition of the Appleseed myth and draws upon material from archives and local historical societies across New England and the Midwest. The character of Johnny Appleseed stands apart from other frontier heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, who employed violence against Native Americans and nature to remake the West. His apple trees, nonetheless, were a central part of the agro-ecological revolution at the heart of that transformation. Yet men like Chapman, who planted trees from seed rather than grafting, ultimately came under assault from agricultural reformers who promoted commercial fruit stock and were determined to extend national markets into the West. Over the course of his life John Chapman was transformed from a colporteur of a new ecological world to a curious relic of a pre-market one. Weaving together the stories of the Old World apple in America and the life and myth of John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard casts new light on both.
Never Just a Game
Author: Robert F. Burk
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807849613
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the first installment of a highly readable, comprehensive labor history of baseball, Robert Burk d
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807849613
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the first installment of a highly readable, comprehensive labor history of baseball, Robert Burk d
The Ethical Vision of the Bible
Author: Peter W. Gosnell
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830864792
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This introduction to the world of biblical ethics walks readers through the ethical teachings of key people and texts within the Bible. Instead of focusing on what the Bible says about various ethical issues, it emphasizes how the different parts of the Bible encourage its readers to think ethically about every issue.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830864792
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This introduction to the world of biblical ethics walks readers through the ethical teachings of key people and texts within the Bible. Instead of focusing on what the Bible says about various ethical issues, it emphasizes how the different parts of the Bible encourage its readers to think ethically about every issue.
Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust
Author: Laura Hilton
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299328600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable suffering. Yet it has also been used to teach tolerance, empathy, resistance, and hope. Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for students. Using a vast array of source materials—from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews—the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts. Each chapter provides pedagogical case studies for teaching content such as antisemitism, resistance and rescue, and the postwar lives of displaced persons. It will transform how students learn about the Holocaust and the circumstances surrounding it.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299328600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable suffering. Yet it has also been used to teach tolerance, empathy, resistance, and hope. Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for students. Using a vast array of source materials—from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews—the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts. Each chapter provides pedagogical case studies for teaching content such as antisemitism, resistance and rescue, and the postwar lives of displaced persons. It will transform how students learn about the Holocaust and the circumstances surrounding it.
Muskingum College Bulletin
Author: Muskingum College
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Much More Than a Game
Author: Robert F. Burk
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875376
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball. During what Burk calls baseball's "paternalistic era," from 1921 to the early 1960s, the sport's management rigidly maintained a system of racial segregation, established a network of southern-based farm teams that served as a captive source of cheap replacement labor, and crushed any attempts by players to create collective bargaining institutions. In the 1960s, however, the paternal order crumbled, eroded in part by the civil rights movement and the competition of television. As a consequence, in the "inflationary era" that followed, both players and umpires established effective unions that successfully pressed for higher pay, pensions, and greater occupational mobility--and then fought increasingly bitter struggles to hold on to these hard-won gains.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875376
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball. During what Burk calls baseball's "paternalistic era," from 1921 to the early 1960s, the sport's management rigidly maintained a system of racial segregation, established a network of southern-based farm teams that served as a captive source of cheap replacement labor, and crushed any attempts by players to create collective bargaining institutions. In the 1960s, however, the paternal order crumbled, eroded in part by the civil rights movement and the competition of television. As a consequence, in the "inflationary era" that followed, both players and umpires established effective unions that successfully pressed for higher pay, pensions, and greater occupational mobility--and then fought increasingly bitter struggles to hold on to these hard-won gains.
The Stick Soldiers
Author: Hugh Martin
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 193816007X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
At age nineteen, Hugh Martin withdrew from college for deployment to Iraq. After training at Fort Bragg, Martin spent 2004 in Iraq as the driver of his platoon sergeant's Humvee. He participated in hundreds of missions including raids, conducting foot patrols, clearing routes for IEDs, disposing of unexploded ordnance, and searching thousands of Iraqi vehicles. These poems recount his time in basic training, his preparation for Iraq, his experience withdrawing from school, and ultimately, the final journey to Iraq and back home to Ohio. Hugh Martin holds an MFA from Arizona State University. He is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 193816007X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
At age nineteen, Hugh Martin withdrew from college for deployment to Iraq. After training at Fort Bragg, Martin spent 2004 in Iraq as the driver of his platoon sergeant's Humvee. He participated in hundreds of missions including raids, conducting foot patrols, clearing routes for IEDs, disposing of unexploded ordnance, and searching thousands of Iraqi vehicles. These poems recount his time in basic training, his preparation for Iraq, his experience withdrawing from school, and ultimately, the final journey to Iraq and back home to Ohio. Hugh Martin holds an MFA from Arizona State University. He is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
You Must Play to Win!
Author: Donna J. Newberry
Publisher: McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781935778158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Donna Newberry was a legendary coach of women's sport at Muskingum College (now University) in New Concord, Ohio, from 1974 through 2010. During that time, she faced many challenges such as inadequate funding, heavy teaching and coaching responsibilities, budgets controlled by the men's athletic program, poor facilities, and team tragedies yet, with passionate determination and high standards, she transformed the women's athletics program at Muskingum into one that was consistently respected at the state, regional, and national levels. You Must Play to Win! is a collection of Donna Newberry's personal reflections on her hugely successful career of commitment to excellence and gender equality in sport during a time of dramatic change in women's collegiate athletics. The book was completed late in 2010 as Donna was dying of breast cancer.
Publisher: McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781935778158
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Donna Newberry was a legendary coach of women's sport at Muskingum College (now University) in New Concord, Ohio, from 1974 through 2010. During that time, she faced many challenges such as inadequate funding, heavy teaching and coaching responsibilities, budgets controlled by the men's athletic program, poor facilities, and team tragedies yet, with passionate determination and high standards, she transformed the women's athletics program at Muskingum into one that was consistently respected at the state, regional, and national levels. You Must Play to Win! is a collection of Donna Newberry's personal reflections on her hugely successful career of commitment to excellence and gender equality in sport during a time of dramatic change in women's collegiate athletics. The book was completed late in 2010 as Donna was dying of breast cancer.
Women and Men on the Overland Trail
Author: John Mack Faragher
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300153511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography. Praise for the earlier edition: "Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history."--Kathryn Kish Sklar "An enlightening study."--American West "A helpful study which not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but which also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history."--Journal of Social History
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300153511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography. Praise for the earlier edition: "Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history."--Kathryn Kish Sklar "An enlightening study."--American West "A helpful study which not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but which also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history."--Journal of Social History
Taming the Muskingum
Author: Emory Kemp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940425832
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
A tributary of the Ohio River and significant commercial route in the nineteenth century, the Muskingum River in southeastern Ohio presents a remarkable case study of how Americans have managed their waterways. In Taming the Muskingum, esteemed scholar Emory Kemp traces this history, emphasizing the engineering and construction aspects of river navigation and the fourteen related flood control dams built under the direction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Kemp's study ranges from early settlement and navigation of the uncontrolled Muskingum to the state-of-the-art engineering projects undertaken during the New Deal to more recent conservation and recreation uses. llustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps showing many aspects of the dam and reservoir system as well as the Muskingum slackwater navigation, Taming the Muskingum is a rich evocation of a navigation system that is today recognized as a national Historical Civil Engineering Landmark.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940425832
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
A tributary of the Ohio River and significant commercial route in the nineteenth century, the Muskingum River in southeastern Ohio presents a remarkable case study of how Americans have managed their waterways. In Taming the Muskingum, esteemed scholar Emory Kemp traces this history, emphasizing the engineering and construction aspects of river navigation and the fourteen related flood control dams built under the direction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Kemp's study ranges from early settlement and navigation of the uncontrolled Muskingum to the state-of-the-art engineering projects undertaken during the New Deal to more recent conservation and recreation uses. llustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps showing many aspects of the dam and reservoir system as well as the Muskingum slackwater navigation, Taming the Muskingum is a rich evocation of a navigation system that is today recognized as a national Historical Civil Engineering Landmark.