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\u3cem\u3eUtah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History\u3c/em\u3e by Gary Topping
No full textGary Topping. Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Leonard J. Arrington: A Historian\u27s Life
No full textGary Topping, a professor at Salt Lake Community College, has previously published a number of books and articles on Utah environmental history and historians who have lived in Utah. In some ways, Topping\u27s article on Robert Dwyer and his book on historians Bernard DeVoto, Juanita Brooks, Wallace Stegner, Dale Morgan, and Fawn Brodie can be considered precursors to this book.
In other ways, this book is also somewhat of a new foray; unlike most of the other historians Topping has treated, Leonard Arrington was neither a non-Mormon nor a lapsed Mormon. He remained an active Latter-day Saint throughout his life. Arrington served in numerous ecclesiastical positions, including as a counselor in a stake presidency and Church Historian--the only person whom the First Presidency has called to the position who was not also a General Authority. President Gordon B. Hinckley asked Arrington\u27s widow, Harriet Horne Arrington, for permission to speak at his funeral, which she gladly gave.
In spite of the title, Topping\u27s book is a selective intellectual biography rather than a complete Historian\u27s Life. In the preface, Topping clearly states, I have confined my attention to those works that strike me as most important and also from which I can most efficiently and persuasively make the points I wish to make. This procedure results in a book that touches on Arrington\u27s early life and education but focuses almost entirely on his books and articles on Mormon topics, especially those about the nineteenth century. With the exception of Arrington\u27s biography of Brigham Young, the biographies Topping reviews are those commissioned by families, and all of them consider Latter-day Saints who lived in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While Topping examines works such as Building the City of God, The Mormon Experience, and Mormons and Their Historians, his book does not consider the extensive body of Arrington\u27s work, often written in collaboration with others, on twentieth-century Utah and Western economic and social history
Author Gary Gildner reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner reads "Sleepy time gal," "Pavol Hudak, the poet, is talking," and "Genealogy" then answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Dress, law and naked truth : a cultural study of fashion and form
No full textWhy are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face 'veil'? Why is law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits, wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the 'evident' and the need for justice to be 'seen' to be done? Why do we dress and obey dress codes at all? In this, the first ever study devoted to the many deep cultural connections between dress and law, the author addresses these questions and more. His responses flow from the radical thesis that 'law is dress and dress is law'. Engaging with sources from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Dickens and Damien Hirst, Professor Watt draws a revealing history of dress and civil order and offers challenging conclusions about the nature of truth and the potential for individuals to fit within the forms of civil life
Letter from Gary Okihiro, professor, Department of Asian American Studies at Cornell University to Michi Weglyn
No full textA letter from Asian American studies professor Gary Okihiro to Michi Weglyn apologizing for a critical review he wrote of her book "Years of Infamy" in 1977.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Portrait of Fred Hilmer [transparency] /
No full textCondition: Good.; Title supplied by artist, see acquisition file number 204/08/00063-02.; Part of the collection of photographs of portraits of prominent Australians. "Fred Hilmer (& Prof Lex Donaldson), Prof, associate dean author of the Hilmer Report, AGSM, University of New South Wales."--Note from artist
Portrait of Helen Hughes [transparency] /
No full textCondition: Good.; Title supplied by artist, see acquisition file number 204/08/00063-02.; Part of the collection of photographs of portraits of prominent Australians. Emeritus Professor of Economics Helen Hughes AO joined the CIS staff as a Senior Fellow in April 1998. Helen has had a long association with the Centre, and is co-author of the CIS Monographs Australias Asian Challenge and Working Youth. Helen has worked at the University of New South Wales, the University of Queensland and the World Bank before taking the position of Professor of Economics at the Australian National University in 1983. She was also Director of the National Centre for Development Studies, and presented the Boyer Lectures in 1985
Gary Clark
No full textGary Clark visited The College at Brockport in February 1980. He is an author and editor known for guidebooks and illustrated works.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo
Kentucky Travel Writer Gary P. West
No full textLeading Kentucky travel writer Gary P. West shared his travel secrets Bowling Green, Kentucky community audience and signed his books in the “Kentucky Live! Series” at the local Barnes & Noble Bookstore on Thursday, April 19, 2012.
Retiring in 2006 West has devoted himself to writing. He writes a syndicated column for seven Kentucky newspapers and is the author of eight books. His latest: Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association: The Real Story of a Team Left Behind was published by Acclaim Press in 2011. Two of his most popular books include Eating Your Way Across Kentucky: 101 Must Places to Eat (updated edition in 2006) and Shopping Your Way Across Kentucky (2008)
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