5,490 research outputs found
COOK, George
No full textTitle: Papers, 1855-1931 Description: .5 linear ft.
Notes: Author, educator. Includes correspondence, manuscripts, addresses, biographical sketches, memorials, photographs, a scrapbook and a song composed by William Weston Patton, President of Howard University. Gift, 1958.
Subjects: Business; Education; Washington (DC). Childers, Lulu V. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963; As correspondent Funeral rites and ceremonies; Cook, George William Howard University; Administration Howard University; Faculty; Cook, George William Howard University; Presidents; Patton, William Weston Howard University; Students; Cook, George William Howard University, Washington (DC); Faculty members\u27 papers Howard University, Washington (DC); School of Commerce and Finance Patton, William Weston Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; As correspondent Spingarn, J. E. (Joel Elias), 1875-1939 Tunnell, W. V. White, Walter F. (Walter Francis), 1893-1955; As correspondent Wilkinson, F. D. Woodson, Carter G. (Carter Godwin), 1875-1950
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.22 NUCMC Number: MS 83-122
MILLER, Kelly
No full textTitle: Papers, 1900-1940 Description: 4 1/2 linear ft.
Notes: Author, educator, and scholar. Relates chiefly to Miller\u27s efforts to establish a National Negro Museum. Correspondents include Edwin Embree, Lloyd Garrison, F. D. Patterson, Julius Rosenwald, William G. Thirkield, and O. G. Villard. Also contains biographical sketches of Miller, and obituaries, eulogies, funeral information and correspondence related to the death of Kelly Miller. Contains photographs, and numerous newspaper clippings of Miller\u27s writings. Gift, 1957.
Subjects: Authors; Miller, Kelly Blacks; Museums Educators; Miller, Kelly Embree, Edwin Rogers, 1883-1950 Garrison, Lloyd K. (Lloyd Kirkham), b. 1897 Howard University; Faculty; Miller, Kelly Howard University; National Negro Museum Museums; Blacks Museums and galleries; Washington, DC; National Negro Museum, Howard University National Negro Museum (Proposed) Newspapers; Sections, columns, etc.; \u27Kelly Miller Writes About\u27 Newspapers; Sections, columns, etc.; \u27Lest We Forget\u27 Patterson, Frederick D. (Frederick Douglass), 1901- Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932 Thirkield, William G. Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949; As correspondent
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.78 NUCMC #: MS 62-428
HENDERSON, Edwin Bancroft
No full textTitle: Papers, 1915-1976 Description:5 linear ft.
Notes: Afro-American athlete, educator, author, and administrator; d. 1977. Family papers, correspondence, biographical writings, programs, organizational affiliations, memorabilia, photographs, printed materials, and scrapbooks relating to Henderson\u27s activities as an activist in athletics and civil rights. Gift of Mr. Henderson, 1965-1977.
Subjects: Afro-American athletes. lcsh Afro-American civil rights workers. lcsh Afro-Americans -- Civil rights. Afro-Americans -- Recreation.
Location: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Washington, DC) NIDS Fiche #: 4.72.49 NUCMC #: DCLV96-A45
Views on Black Literature: An Interview with Clarence Major
No full textPoet-Novelist Clarence Major, who was writer-in-residence with the English Department during the 1975-76 academic year, was interviewed recently by E. Ethelbert Miller, director of the Afro-American Resource Center at Howard University and co-ed itor of Synergy: An Anthology of Washington, D. C. Black Poetry. Author of several literary works, Major\u27s latest book is Reflex And Bone Structure. His other books include, All Night Visitors (1969), The Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), Private Line (1971), The Cotton Club (1972), and Siaveship and Relationship (1973). In the following interview, Major discusses his writing, other Black experimental writers in America, and the problems of Black literature. Ed
Author Correction: Immediate neural impact and incomplete compensation after semantic hub disconnection (Nature Communications, (2023), 14, 1, (6264), 10.1038/s41467-023-42088-7)
No full text\ua9 2023, The Author(s).Correction to: Nature Communications, published online 07 October 2023 In this article Thomas E. Cope, Timothy D. Griffiths, Matthew A. Howard III and Christopher I. Petkov should have been denoted as equally contributing joint senior authors. The original article has been corrected
Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication
No full textScientific research is a competitive business – in order to secure funding, promotion and tenure researchers must demonstrate their work has impact in their field. To maximise impact researchers undertake high priority research, aim to get results first, and publish in the highest impact journals. The Internet now presents a new opportunity to the scholarly author seeking higher impact: s/he can now make their work instantly accessible on the Web through author self-archiving. This growing body of open access literature (coupled with new publishing models that make journals available for-free to the reader) maximises research impact by maximising the number of people who can read it, and making it available sooner. Open access also provides a new opportunity for bibliometric research. This thesis describes the relatively recent phenomenon of open access to research literature, tools that were built to collect and analyse that literature, and the results of analyses of the effect of open access and its effect on author behaviour. It shows that articles self-archived by authors receive between 50-250% more citations, that rapid pre-printing on the Web has dramatically reduced the peak citation rate from over a year to virtually instant and how citation-impact – now widely used for evaluation – can be expanded to include a new web metric of download impact
Rewriting history : postmodern and postcolonial negotiations in the fiction of J.G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie
No full textThis thesis is a study of the rewriting of history in the work of four novelists: J. G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie. I argue that their work occupies a particular position that is both within contemporary British fiction, yet at one remove from it.
Their work is situated within the context of critiques of history that are the source of a conflict between postmodernism and postcolonialism. I suggest that each writer engages with postmodemist aesthetics often in an attempt to produce critical histones that bear witness to the voices of those hitherto silenced in conventional historiography. However, these novelists remain anxious as to the potential consequences of mobilising postmodernist models of history, particularly as to the problems this creates concerning historical reference. The thesis aims to
identify the range of related attitudes to postmodernist critiques of history at this particular juncture of contemporary fiction in English.
I approach the specific position of the novelists under study through Homi Bhabha's work on the confluence of the postmodern and the postcolonial, focusing in particular on his suggestion that the postmodem refutation of Western epistemology enables a postcolonial space where a new range of histories emerge. Because each writer works between at least two cultures, and primarily within Britain, they negotiate from within received epistemology in an attempt to locate a space at its boundaries where conventional forms of knowledge no longer have efficacy. However, in contrast to Bhabha, these writers struggle to reach this space and remain sceptical as to the usefulness of postmodernism in making available new forms of
historiography. Ultimately, their work enables a critique of current ways of theorising the relationship between the postmodem and the postcolonial in literary studies
KINSLEY, Edward
No full textThe papers of Edward W. Kinsley (b. 1830 - d.?). Abolitionist, merchant, investor, and an agent for the state of Massachusetts, cover a period of approximately four years, from 1862 to 1865, when the Civil War was at its height. Kinsley, as a state agent and member of the committee which had been formed by the governor to recruit and fund the Massachusetts Colored Volunteers, was apparently one of those instrumental in supplying the black regiments as well as the white volunteer regiments. The papers were donated to Moorland-Spingarn in 1974 by Dr. John W. Blassingame, noted historian and author. The collection totals approximately « linear foot and consists primarily of correspondence. There are also official passes issued to Kinsley when he visited the camps of the Massachusetts volunteer regiments, receipts related to equipment purchase, and announcements relative to Kinsley\u27s mercantile partnership
2011 Aquatic Weed Surveys in Timothy Lake, Lake Harriet and North Fork Reservoir : final report
No full textPortland General Electric (PGE) was issued a new license by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the continued operation and maintenance of the Clackamas River Hydroelectric Project No. 2195 (Project) on December 21, 2010. This Project is located on both the lower 16 miles of Oak Grove Fork of the Clackamas River (Oak Grove Fork) and the mainstem of the Clackamas River in Clackamas County, Oregon. The effects of relicensing this Project were addressed in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) completed in December 2006 and included the issue of invasive aquatic weed species. The term “aquatic weed” is used here to refer to any non-native aquatic plant species. Surveys of Timothy Lake conducted by Portland State University (PSU) in 1996 and a subsequent survey of Timothy Lake and Lake Harriet in 2004 did not locate any problematic aquatic weed species. However, repeated monitoring is necessary to detect infestations in a timely fashion and, if noxious weeds are present, to allow treatment when weed cover is low and eradication efforts more cost effective. With that aim, PSU conducted aquatic vegetation surveys of Lake Harriet, Timothy Lake, and North Fork Reservoir between August 31 and September 13, 2011. The purpose of these surveys was to detect any populations of aquatic weeds occurring in the lakes while also establishing baseline information reading native aquatic vegetation abundance and distributions in each waterbody
Association between cigarette smoking and colorectal cancer in the Women\u27s Health Initiative
No full textThe evidence linking cigarette smoking to the risk of colorectal cancer is inconsistent. We investigated the associations between active and passive smoking and colorectal cancer among 146877 Women\u27s Health Initiative participants. Women reported detailed smoking histories at enrollment. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated for the association between smoking and overall and site-specific risk of colorectal cancer. Invasive colorectal cancer was diagnosed in 1242 women over an average of 7.8 years (range = 0.003-11.2 years) of follow-up. In adjusted analyses, statistically significant positive associations were observed between most measures of cigarette smoking and risk of invasive colorectal cancer. Site-specific analyses indicated that current smokers had a statistically significantly increased risk of rectal cancer (HR = 1.95, 95% CI = 1.10 to 3.47) but not colon cancer (HR = 1.03, 95% CI = 0.77 to 1.38), compared with never smokers. Passive smoke exposure was not associated with colorectal cancer in adjusted analyses. Thus, active exposure to cigarette smoking appears to be a risk factor for rectal cancer. © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press
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