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Introduction to “\u27Cursed are the Peacemakers\u27 - James Buchanan: A Biography
No full textThe book this introduction is included within is a republication of Dr. Philip Shriver Klein’s 1962 biography of James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States. Published by LancasterHistory in collaboration with original copyright holder Dr. J. Douglass Klein, this new 2025 edition features Dr. Philip Klein’s original text, enhanced with a new book cover, interior photographs, and this introduction by Dr. Michael J. Birkner
A Consequential Education: Anti-Slavery Activism at Gettysburg College
No full textCollege campuses have historically existed as spaces of political activity. The academic environment of a college campus encourages students to question the status quo, propose new ideas, and critically engage with the political issues of the day. Gettysburg College, originally known as Pennsylvania College, was no exception. Throughout the antebellum era, the campus became embroiled in the national debate over slavery. Students argued with each other about slavery’s immorality. Professors publicly spoke out against slavery and founded local abolitionist organizations. From the janitorial staff to the Board of Trustees to an entire fraternity, members of the campus community risked imprisonment to help escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. And when the Civil War raged across their campus, Pennsylvania College students fought to determine whether the institution of slavery would persist. The College’s geographic position between the North and the South allowed for northern students to confront slavery and for southern students to be exposed to opposing ideas in a unique way not possible on most other campuses. Their consequential years at the College prepared students to take action against the injustices of slavery
An Implementation Science Analysis of an Ethanol Cooking Fuel Promotion Project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
No full textIn 2019, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) launched the “Promotion of Bio-Ethanol as Alternative Clean Fuel for Cooking in the United Republic of Tanzania” project with an aim to promote and distribute 500,000 bioethanol stoves in Dar es Salaam by 2024. The “Proof of Concept” Phase I of the project aimed to sell 110,000 stoves and establish a strong retail market for ethanol fuel. In this study, we conduct an implementation science analysis of Phase I of the project, describing the roll-out of this market-based bioethanol stove program. Leveraging program administrative data, individual interviews and focus-group discussions, we apply the RE-AIM framework to evaluate the successes and limitations of the project. Our findings point to a number of challenges that impeded the establishment of this new market for ethanol cooking technologies and fuels in Dar es Salaam, that were made substantially more difficult by the COVID-19 pandemic. While individual consumers valued the stove, the sale of stoves during Phase I fell far short of targets. Several factors played a role in this underperformance, including the ubiquity and convenience of alternative charcoal fuel, the initial and recurring costs of ethanol stoves and fuel refills, and the limited accessibility of ethanol retail outlets to consumers. Although the initial roll-out of bioethanol stoves in Dar es Salaam underperformed, representatives from UNIDO and stove distributors remain optimistic that the next phase of the project will yield improved results. Our review of this large-scale clean energy project provides key lessons for other similar initiatives, and emphasizes the importance of supportive policies in promoting clean energy
The Gallery Assistant: A Novel
No full textThis twisty and sinister thriller follows a New York art gallery assistant reckoning with her past and now trapped in a web of deceit after an up-and-coming painter is murdered—perfect for fans of Katy Hays and Julia Bartz.November 2001: Chloe Harlow wakes up late, with hazy memories of the party the night before but no recollection of how she got back to her Brooklyn apartment. Ever since the terrifying and catastrophic terrorist attack, it seems she has been on a collision course with destruction.When she finally arrives at the exclusive Upper East Side art gallery where she works, she is immediately called into her boss’s office. A pair of NYPD detectives greet her, also very curious to know how her evening ended…because the host of the party, a rising painter and the gallery’s newest artist, is dead.Navigating both the sophisticated high-stakes art world and her personal life in burgeoning Williamsburg, Chloe struggles to piece together a complete picture of that lost night. As she digs deeper, inconsistencies emerge between what she remembers and what people tell her actually happened, and more questions are raised. Everything begins to feel like a conspiracy and maybe it is. Because Chloe is the only one who glimpses the secrets the murdered artist left behind, and the closer she gets to the truth…the more deadly it becomes.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1215/thumbnail.jp
Echoes of the Goddess: Reclaiming Power-Within in the Modern Workplace
No full textThis work examines gender inequality in the American workforce as part of a broader cultural system that consistently devalues care, embodiment, and relational labor. Rather than treating issues such as the wage gap or the motherhood penalty as isolated problems, it situates them within a historical pattern shaped by patriarchal power, medical dismissal, and the domination of nature. Through an interdisciplinary feminist approach, this work traces how the suppression of the feminine influences women’s working lives, health experiences, and relationships to their bodies. By connecting labor inequality to burnout, ecological harm, and the erosion of inner authority, it argues that meaningful change requires more than policy reform. Instead, it calls for a cultural reorientation that restores interdependence, embodied knowledge, and care as central to collective wellbeing
Film Appreciation: The Steady Rear Guard of Taiwanese Film Culture
No full textThis chapter examines the longest lasting film journal in Taiwan\u27s otherwise volatile film culture. Representing the national film archive that publishes it, it has always recorded the key issues of Taiwanese and world cinema
Tracking Affordable Learning: Is Airtable Right For Your Institution?
Full text linkGettysburg College began tracking OER adoptions in a Google Sheet – and we quickly outgrew it. We migrated to Airtable (a web-based spreadsheet-database platform) in 2023 and immediately appreciated its advanced capabilities and potential for making sense of our complex data. As a result, we can now produce raw statistics and compelling data-based stories regarding OER use and zero-cost/low-cost courses for campus stakeholders at all levels. Learn more about how this platform works and how you might be able to benefit from it in your local context. Maybe Airtable is right for you
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1860-1862 The Effects of Military Occupation on Unionist and Secessionist Convictions
Full text linkLocal histories of Civil War occupation provide a human face to the larger history of the American Civil War. The interactions between citizens and outside occupiers furnishes greater clarity and revelations on the human cost of conflict. It also presents greater evidence, either supportive or not, on broader arguments expressed in scholarly works on the Civil War. This work examines how prior attitudes towards the Unionism and secessionism were provoked during the process of military occupation. It argues that in the town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the citizens’ allegiances and relationships were challenged by the occupation of both Union and Confederate armies. Prewar notions of honor and liberty were altered by close contact between occupiers and citizens. In many instances this contact further strengthened soldiers’ and citizens’ convictions about the Union and secession, causing community strife, violence and distrust. In these instances, this contact further strengthened occupiers and community members’ attitudes and opinions on what exactly liberty and honor meant to themselves and their country. This work begins by engaging with important secondary scholarly works on the American Civil War Historians such as James McPherson, Eric Foner, David Potter, Stephen Ash, Lorien Foote, and Daniel Croft providing the broader contextual arguments made within this narrow community history. However, primary sources are the heart of all historical studies and interpretations, and the local and state archives furnished a large amount of the diaries, letters, and newspapers used to write this narrative local history. The two most important source providers were John Cedric Spence and John Gibson Parkhurst. These two men were from the two opposing sections of the country during the war and gave the author abundant material to use in the form of letters and diaries. These sources offered fascinating stories and showed the strengths and vulnerabilities of the people living and occupying Murfreesboro during the war. The findings of this research paper demonstrate the complexities of human interaction and showed that stereotypes and ideologies are changed very little and often reinforced under extreme conditions
