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0891: Jean Edward Smith Collection, 1916-2015
Get PDFJean Edward Smith was a noted biographer and the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University. He graduated from Princeton University and earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University. For more than thirty years, he was a professor at the University of Toronto. His biographical subjects included Lucius D. Clay, George W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, Ulysses Grant, John Marshall, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Smith won the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize for his biography of Roosevelt and was the 2002 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography or Autobiography for Grant. Jean Edward Smith died on September 1, 2019.
Materials in the collection include correspondence with Bernard Brodie, George W. Bush, Lucius D. Clay, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, John Kenneth Galbraith, Harold MacMillan, and Llewellyn Thompson; articles, books, and speeches written by Jean Edward Smith; book reviews of his publications; the handwritten/typed manuscript for his biography of President George W. Bush; his personal book collection, including reunion publications for Princeton University and Harvard Law School; and documents relating to his tenure at Marshall University
Local Brews, Local Legends: Images of Race, Gender, and Exploitation in West Virginia Craft Beer
No full textGreenbrier Valley Brewing Company, located in Maxwelton, West Virginia, produces beers which are all, somehow, related to Appalachian history, folklore, or culture. Focusing on five of GVBC’s curren selections’ packaging and descriptions and related Appalachian Studies and literature I will explore themes of race, gender, and exploitation in Appalachia. By doing so, it will become evident that gender roles in Appalachia, while superficially appearing to be shallow reflections of the gender binary generally accepted in the larger society, are actually specific and multifaceted representations of masculinity and femininity in relation to place. Further, I will explore white Appalachians’ connection to race and how Appalachian identity has historically been racialized. Finally, the essay will examine the concept of adventure tourism and Appalachia’s complicated relationship with it. GVBC has carefully selected images which project a certain depiction of West Virginia and Appalachia at large; this essay will provide an analysis of those images in order to explore how citizens of the region imagine themselves and how the region presents itself to outsiders
The Rise of the Red Command
No full textThis paper will seek to examine the historical and political factors at play in the origin and rise of the Brazilian criminal organization and drug cartel the Red Commando. The analysis will focus on the impact of the surrounding context of Brazilian political unrest on the creation and eventual dominance of the organization, and it will also take into account the crucial broader political context of the Cold War and United States foreign policy during that era
Keeping My Religion: How College Students Keep or Reject the Religious Practices of Their Families
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Hospitality and Seminary culture: a phenomenological study on the presence and practice of hospitality between Seminary leaders and students
Get PDFWhile hospitality is a major biblical doctrine and a requirement of Christian living and outreach, few ministers begin their ministries recognizing the essence and essentiality of hospitality in ministry or intentionally highlight and model it to those they lead. One root cause for this may stem from the seminaries in which our ministers train, that our seminaries have no apparent agreement on a formal framework for teaching hospitality and too few seminaries are marked by a culture of hospitality. This study seeks to establish a formal framework for hospitality in seminary education. Such a framework could be used to instigate cultural shifts in seminary education resulting in more hospitable relationships among school personnel, so graduates will be better able to employ hospitable relationships in their future ministries. The study proposes to do this by first developing a propositional framework based upon the literature and then building upon that propositional framework through recommendations gleaned from interviews with seminary administrators and professors, pastors, and missionaries