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Entrevista a Jessica Neva
No full textEn Radiophonium, entrevista a Jessica Neva, historiadora y profesora de la Universidad del Rosario. Gracias a URosarioRadi
Neva Vandersall Oral History
No full textNeva Vandersall lived in Egypt from 1923 to 1961, the wife of science and mathematics professor Herbert “Van” Vandersall, who was the longest serving (1920-1961) of the American University at (in) Cairo’s first generation of faculty members. Neva Vandersall recounts how they met, her husband’s joining AUC in 1920 as the university opened, and their delaying marriage until he was appointed as a permanent faculty member in 1923. She recalls that after his year of graduate study in Chicago they married and moved to Cairo and started a family, having a baby son and daughter in the mid-1920s. Neva describes the residential arrangements for their family (like other AUC families), in an apartment in a building near the university and later in the School of
Oriental Studies Building on campus. She discusses aspects of raising her children in Cairo, like the orphaned Armenian girl they hired as a live-in nursemaid, their schooling, and AUC families with children spending time together. Social life and recreation are covered, from teas and formal dinners to desert field trips to summers spent in beach huts. She also tells of the baby health clinic in a poor neighborhood where she and others connected with AUC volunteered.
Neva Vandersall describes the AUC campus and offers a sketch of its student body in the 1920s, including their elite social background, students’ participation in athletics, and the enrollment AUC’s first female student, with comments on how coeducation resulted in the social interaction of young men and women which was uncommon in Egypt. Neva gives an account of her family’s experience of World War Two, including her son’s difficulty finding ship passage back to Egypt from a Boy Scout trip in Europe, their furlough in the United States from 1942 to 1944 and Van’s work for a period with the Manhattan Project in Chicago, their return to Cairo and then evacuation with other university personnel and families to Khartoum, Sudan in the summer of
1944, and the Vandersalls’ subsequent route back to the U.S. by air via Nigeria and South America. Their last years at the university are also recalled, from the diminished missionary aspect of AUC, the government’s restrictions on missionary work and the number of AUC
American faculty members, and Van’s retirement from AUC. She outlines her family’s life in the United States, Van’s teaching at a college in North Carolina, and the couple ultimately settling in Maryland. Finally, she tells about their participation in the life of the Christian Community Presbyterian Church in Bowie, Maryland, whose 25th Anniversary was the occasion for the oral history. There is no audio available for this interview
Economic vitality in a transition to sustainability
Get PDFThe good news is that many of the solutions to this extraordinary problem are within reach. Many of the solutions to global warming are not only feasible, they are economically and socially beneficial. While some claim that addressing global warming will have a negative impact on the economy, the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC") asserts that there is substantial economic potential for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decade. In fact, there is a growing global market to address global warming, and the United States must act now or risk being left behind.Climate change, mitigation, resilience
Oral History Interview with Neva Blanchard
No full textA recorded interview with Neva Blanchard, in English. A document which lists the topics and their time stamps is also included in English.Memories of Terrebonne is an Oral History Project conducted and produced by the Terrebonne Parish Police Jury and Cote Blanche Productions. The interviews were conducted over the span of two years, 1983-1984, and cover subjects such as the folklore and cultural traditions of the Parish as remembered by its long-time residents
[Correspondence Between Neva Watson and Barbara Jordan - June 1973]
No full textLetter from Neva Watson asking Barbara Jordan questions about the Congressional Black Caucus for a paper she's writing for a class with a reply from Jordan answering the questions
Postcard from Neva Broyles to Milton Wright from Gaston, Indiana ( Good Luck )
Get PDFA Gaston, Indiana postcard wishing good luck featuring carnations and swastika. Sent from Neva Broyles to Milton Wright in 1909.
Pre-WWII the swastika was a symbol of peace and good luck in many parts of the world. This meaning was stripped from the symbol in most of the world due to it\u27s association with the German Nazi regime during WWII.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms711_postcards/1030/thumbnail.jp
The river Neva and the imperial façade: Culture and environment in nineteenth century St. Petersburg Russia
No full textMy dissertation seeks to understand how the Neva River, the most important artery connecting St. Petersburg to the rest of the Russian Empire and Europe to the west, affected the political and social life of the imperial capital at the beginning of the nineteenth century. I imagine the river Neva as the lifeblood of an imperial capital, a river city in which I will examine the relation of water to historical actors that experienced it socially, culturally, and environmentally. I argue that the river had a paramount role in shaping life and events in the city even as generations of engineers attempted to convert it into a stately built environment, a watery counterpart to the capitals granite palaces, prospects, squares, and markets while at the same time enabling a capitalist transformation to occur along the banks. There is no question that the river defined Russia’s capital—physically and symbolically. Ever since the founding of Peter the Great’s “paradise” on the banks of the Neva in 1703, the foundations of the city, both physical and intellectual, have been anything but solid, as a volatile mix of social groups interacted with the inhospitable natural environment.
I propose that the river is a prism through which to examine the intersection of agendas of the Emperors and the new urbanites. The river is a site of struggle between state efforts at technological, social, and cultural control, and a burgeoning city population determined to claim the river as their own through work and leisure as they formed a new urban identity. This interdisciplinary history of the environmental and social spaces on and around the Neva will illuminate the nature of power and the power of nature at work in the city.
The environment has wreaked havoc on the city that grew around the islands that form the city’s center. Officials bent on conquering nature and empire with rational and systematic planning combated the river with flood controls, granite embankments, canals and bridges. These contests with nature provided the city with essential features of its image and made it a livable and productive, though dangerous site of commerce and transportation. Upon this precarious physical foundation, the river, frozen in the winter and free-flowing in warm months, gave rise to what I call a “river culture.” Sources show that the different social groups in the city invested experiences within the city with radically different meanings that reveal the fault lines of local identity and imperial power. Thus, various groups of citizens and the state sought to define the city through competing narratives, actions, and technologies that included grandeur, modernity, and doom.
My contribution to the historiography of Russian history is to use water as the lens to chart the transformation of St. Petersburg from the model city of the eighteenth century to the to a more cosmopolitan, capitalist city of the nineteenth. As the government sought to maintain its hold on the shape and order of the city, new groups of urban actors, including residents, entrepreneurs and engineers, inserted their specialized experience and knowledge into the public arena to shape the city that had been set out to imperial specifications. These battles were fought again and again in disputes about the meaning, use, and delivery of water in the city.
Chapter 1 explores the patterns of river use in the water network of the city, demonstrating the reasons why the river and waterways of the city reveal social, political, and cultural relationships of groups in the capital. Chapter 2, “The Mountain Came to Us: St. Petersburg and the Flood of 1824” serves as a case study of the November 7, 1824 flood that became seared in the memory of Petersburgers. The chapter considers not only the tumultuous events of that day, but the aftermath in which the government sought to redefine its notions of what Petersburg was and the contested memories that resulted. Chapter 3 examines the interaction between the state and key non-state groups at one particular site, the settlement at Galernaia Harbor near south end of Vasilevskii Island as the government sought to relocate the village after the 1824 flood. Chapter 4 follows a new professional class of engineers that maintained a lived city by engaging the saturation of water, and how they helped the state to define the river. These engineers were agents of the state, yet saw themselves as apart from the state at the same time, as they built the infrastructure that made the city functional and supported imperial claims of grandeur. Chapter 5 is the story of the haphazard, convulsive history of sanitation, piping, and water delivery in the city as professional and private initiative came into conflict with state interests in defining the needs for water and sanitation networks in the city. Public disputes show engineers engaged in a fragile civil society and actively participating in defining what was modern, moral, and clean.Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf ([email protected]) on 2010-08-19T16:10:16Z
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Neva Whaley Harding Papers
Get PDFNeva Marie Whaley Harding, born in 1872 in Illinois and later settling in South Dakota, lived a life marked by community engagement and cultural contribution. After she married Albert S. Harding, the couple became an integral part of Brookings, South Dakota, with Neva notably founding the Brookings Women\u27s Club and contributing to St. Paul\u27s Episcopal Church.
Jane Alexander was born in Brookings, South Dakota to Ruth Ann and William Alexander. She began her journey of community engagement during her high school years, forming a lasting friendship with Neva Harding. This connection inspired her to delve into Neva\u27s life, eventually leading to the expansion of Neva\u27s autobiography.
The Neva Whaley Harding Papers, curated by Jane Alexander, provide a detailed account of Neva\u27s life, family background, and community contributions. Comprising manuscripts, correspondence, interviews, certificates, diplomas, and audio recordings, the collection offers insights into Neva\u27s formative years, education, and active involvement in her community. Neva\u27s role in founding the Brookings Women\u27s Club and her dedication to St. Paul\u27s Episcopal Church are highlighted, alongside her later passion for painting and writing. Through Jane Alexander\u27s curation, the collection stands as a testament to Neva\u27s lasting impact and legacy in Brookings, South Dakota
Neva Whaley Harding Papers
Get PDFNeva Marie Whaley Harding, born in 1872 in Illinois and later settling in South Dakota, lived a life marked by community engagement and cultural contribution. After she married Albert S. Harding, the couple became an integral part of Brookings, South Dakota, with Neva notably founding the Brookings Women\u27s Club and contributing to St. Paul\u27s Episcopal Church.
Jane Alexander was born in Brookings, South Dakota to Ruth Ann and William Alexander. She began her journey of community engagement during her high school years, forming a lasting friendship with Neva Harding. This connection inspired her to delve into Neva\u27s life, eventually leading to the expansion of Neva\u27s autobiography.
The Neva Whaley Harding Papers, curated by Jane Alexander, provide a detailed account of Neva\u27s life, family background, and community contributions. Comprising manuscripts, correspondence, interviews, certificates, diplomas, and audio recordings, the collection offers insights into Neva\u27s formative years, education, and active involvement in her community. Neva\u27s role in founding the Brookings Women\u27s Club and her dedication to St. Paul\u27s Episcopal Church are highlighted, alongside her later passion for painting and writing. Through Jane Alexander\u27s curation, the collection stands as a testament to Neva\u27s lasting impact and legacy in Brookings, South Dakota
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