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    A first look at "Who's the Murderer?" by Eleanor Sleath

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    "Who's the Murderer?" was published in 1802 by Eleanor Sleath, who is named as an author of one of the 'horrid novels' in Northanger Abbey. This paper discusses some details of what is known about Eleanor Sleath, and discusses the editing process as well as giving a short summary of the book and some of the gothic elements, with particular reference to Sleath's principal influence, Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udulpho

    Archival Research and Education: Selected Papers from the 2014 AERI Conference

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    The sixth annual Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI), hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences in July 2014, brought together doctoral students and faculty engaged in Archival Studies from around the world, although principally from the United States. Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, these institutes are designed to strengthen education and research, as well as support academic cohort building and mentoring in the archival community.\ud This publication features fifteen essays by both emerging and established archival scholars and faculty from four continents. Subjects include: dictatorship archives in Brazil, affect and agency in the archives of the countries of the former Yugoslavia, archival images in recent movies, archival systems interoperability research, cross institutional usages of EAD 2002 , Ernst Posner and archival scholarship in Washington, D.C., technical infrastructures and digital heritage preservation, the challenges of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, enabling Big Data curation in a non-archival organization, personal archiving of Web pornography, the history and future of archival education in the United States, innovative archival teaching methods in China, rights in records as a platform for participatory archiving, and archival readings of Derrida’s Archive Fever. These contributions reflect the range of new archival research, the continuing maturation of archival education, and the growing international collaboration among archival scholars and faculty.\u

    A Gisha

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    Doctor Eleanor J. Smith is an African American studies educator, musician, university system chancellor, author, and visual artist. Dr. Smith was faculty member of the University of Cincinnati’s Afro-American Studies Department and William Patterson University. After obtaining a doctorate in African American studies and becoming a university professor, Dr. Smith wrote and directed performances about the Black experience during the 1970s

    Dr. Eleanor J. Smith Black History Collection

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    Doctor Eleanor J. Smith is an African American studies educator, musician, university system chancellor, author, and visual artist. Dr. Smith was faculty member of the University of Cincinnati’s Afro-American Studies Department and William Patterson University. After obtaining a doctorate in African American studies and becoming a university professor, Dr. Smith wrote and directed performances about the Black experience during the 1970s

    Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Mary Tsukamoto, November 24, 1943

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    Typed correspondence from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mary Tsukamoto thanking her for her letter and inquiring about her future plans. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications

    Eleanor M. Cooper interview, 2023 November 28

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    Oral distory documenting the life of author, teacher, and activist Eleanor M. Cooper, in which Cooper discusses Chattanooga smog, the Al Gore and Bill Brock election, Chattanooga Mayor Olgiati's displacement of Black families, her time teaching English in Japan, her work with Chattanooga Venture, Children's International Summer Villages and the Ed Johnson memorial, and her novel Butterfly Dreams

    Eleanor M. Cooper interview, 2023 November 28

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    Oral distory documenting the life of author, teacher, and activist Eleanor M. Cooper, in which Cooper discusses Chattanooga smog, the Al Gore and Bill Brock election, Chattanooga Mayor Olgiati's displacement of Black families, her time teaching English in Japan, her work with Chattanooga Venture, Children's International Summer Villages and the Ed Johnson memorial, and her novel Butterfly Dreams

    Surveillance and slander : Eleanor Dark in the 1940s and 1950s

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    Examines the effects of national surveillance and local right-wing intimidation on the literary works of author Eleanor Dark during the 1940s and 1950s in Australia. Reason Dark was subjected to national surveillance and right-wing intimidation; Relationship of Dark with local and national security forces; Accusations against the Dark family; Censorship faced by writers

    Eleanor Wilner, 19th Annual ODU Literary Festival

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    Eleanor Wilner is the author of four books of poems, Otherwise, Sarah’s Choice, Shekinah (The University of Chicago Press), Maya (University of Massachusetts Press), and a book on visionary imagination, Gathering the Winds (The Johns Hopkins University Press). Her work appears in many anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Poetry 1996 and Best Poems of 1990 (Collier/Macmillan). Her awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Juniper Prize, The Warren Fine Poetry Prize, and The Edward Stanley Award (Prairie Schooner). She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, and has taught at many colleges and universities, most recently as Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawaii. She teaches in the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, is a contributing editor for Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, and a lifelong activist for civil rights and peac
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