United States--Foreign relations--China; China--Foreign relations--United States; United States--Foreign relations--Taiwan; Taiwan--Foreign relations--United States; China--Foreign relations--Taiwan; Taiwan--Foreign relations--China
During the 2004 Presidential Election in the Republic of China, President Chen Shui-bian proposed two referenda. These referenda dealt with relations with the People's Republic of China. The People's Republic of China reacted very strongly against...
This dissertation explores how presidential inaugural speeches reflect the overarching mindset of the government, and how, in the postmodern era, this mindset manifests the same sort of African American erasure that has existed since Middle...
Louisville (Ky.)--History; Louisville (Ky.)--Social conditions; Cities and towns--Kentucky--History; Louisville (Ky.)--Economic conditions; Cities and towns--Growth--History--19th century
This thesis is a historical examination of the perception of Louisville as a southern city. The work begins with a discussion regarding Louisville's historical ties with the North and its acceptance as either a western or northern city. The thesis...
Cadman, S. Parkes (Samuel Parkes), 1864-1936; Radio in religion--United States--History; Religious broadcasting--Christianity--History; Religious broadcasting--United States--History; Christianity--United States--20th century
S. Parkes Cadman (1864-1936), a Christian minister at Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York from 1901 to 1936, was a popular religious figure in interwar America. From 1924 to 1928, Cadman served as president of the Federal Council of...
Jamestown Settlement--History; Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century; Leadership--History; Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
English experience gained from colonization attempts in the New World and in Ireland, as well as military expeditions to the European continent and the New World, helped make Jamestown more successful than any previous English colonial venture in...
Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919; Freer Gallery of Art
This qualifying paper examines the contradiction of a public museum dedicated to one man's vision of art collecting. Charles Lang Freer established the Freer Gallery of Art in 1906, regarded as the first national public art museum on the National...
One of the most nationally-recognized, two-year legislative reform initiatives in the U.S. began in Kentucky with the passage of the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997 (HB1). This exploratory, cross-sectional, correlational...
Government facilities; Buildings; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.); United States. Congress. House; Memorial rites & ceremonies; McKinley, William, 1843-1901
United States Capitol chamber filled with people during a eulogy for President William McKinley. The desks on the floor, the mounted desk, and the galleries above are full. Title: (6)-8961-A tribute to McKinley's memory-Secretary Hay's eulogy...
Portraits; Men; Government officials; Mayors; Presidents; Boats
William B. Harrison, Mayor of Louisville from 1927-1933, with United States President Herbert Hoover. They are both wearing bowlers and winter jackets. The photograph has been marred with discolorations and bent corners. Attached to back of image:...
Milburn house on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo; a brown brick house with green trim. A police officer stands on the sidewalk at the end of the walkway to the house. Text printed on verso reads, "On Sept. 5, 1901, President McKinley visited the...
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Exhibitions; Government officials; Men
Secretary of War William Howard Taft (third from left), President Theodore Roosevelt's representative at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri (and his successor as U.S. President, in 1909), exchanges greetings with local dignitaries: Thomas H....
Union Station (Louisville, Ky.); Railroad stations; Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company; Transportation
Crowds of people watch as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's train arrives. President Roosevelt is standing in the last Pullman car on which loudspeakers were attached. Cameramen try to get a good vantage point. One stands on a low stone wall by the...
In 1979, the U.S. President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies stated that to function successfully in the next century, all adults would need more knowledge about our interdependent world, awareness of other peoples, and...
Portraits; Men; Women; Government officials; Governors; Vice Presidents; Business people; Railroad stations
Governor Flem D. Sampson of Barbourville, Kentucky, who served as Governor of Kentucky from 1927-1931, standing beside a train with his wife, Susie Steele Sampson, U. S. Vice President (and former Kentucky Senator) Charles Curtis, Samuel A....
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); African American college students; College students; Education; African Americans--Education (Higher); College presidents; African Americans
Group portrait of President C. H. Parrish and Simmons University students in 1924. The back of the photograph reads: "President 1924." "Simmons University" is written at the top of the photograph and stamped at the bottom. The...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Kentucky Southern College; Dwellings; Houses;
Kentucky Southern College's President's House. Kentucky Southern College was a Baptist college that operated on what is now UofL's Shelby Campus from 1962 to 1969. Location: Shelby Campus. Former names: Junior Achievement. Former uses: Kentucky...
University of Louisville--Presidents; Radio stations; WLOU (Radio station : Louisville, Ky.); College presidents;
University of Louisville president Dr. John W. Taylor sits at a table with Mrs. John E. Messervy, president of the Louisville Broadcasting Co. and general manager of the newly established AM radio station WLOU; there are papers on the table in...
University of Louisville--Presidents; Radio stations; WLOU (Radio station : Louisville, Ky.); College presidents;
University of Louisville president Dr. John W. Taylor sits at a table with Mrs. John E. Messervy, president of the Louisville Broadcasting Co., and general manager of the newly established AM radio station WLOU. The other two gentleman are probably...
University of Louisville--Presidents; College presidents; University of Louisville--Faculty; College administrators; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School;
University of Louisville president Dr. John W. Taylor sits at a desk with Dean Ernst of the Speed School of Engineering and Dr. B. F. Dodge, chairman of the accrediting committee of the Engineering Council for Professional Development tasked to...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Social conditions; African American social workers; African American educators; African American college teachers; Segregation in education; Civil rights leaders; Lincoln Institute...
Oral history interview with Eleanor Young Love, conducted on October 2, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Dr. Love was a U of L professor and administrator, and sister of civil rights leader Whitney Young, Jr. Dr. Love discusses her parents, Laura and...
