This thesis is examines the imperial attachment to the Suez Canal from 1875 to 1956. It begins with the canal share purchase by the Disraeli Government and ends with the Suez Crisis. Traditional scholarship views relations between the Britain and...
Undertakers and undertaking; Business people; African American businesspeople; Politicians; African American politicians; Discrimination in public accommodations; Segregation--Law and legislation; Discrimination in employment; African...
Oral history interview with Goldie Winstead Beckett, conducted on September 12, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. In this interview, Mrs. Beckett discusses her life as well as her husband’s experiences as alderman in the city of Louisville in the late 1940s...
African Americans; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Education; Segregation in education; Race relations; Louisville Municipal College for Negroes (Louisville, Ky.); University of Louisville; Civil rights
Oral history interview with Mrs. Amelia Ray, conducted on August 25, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mrs. Ray discusses her early life and upbringing in Tennessee as well as her life in Louisville. Mrs. Ray moved to Louisville in 1934 and attended...
There has been an increasing use of Unconventional Therapies in the past decade. These refer to healthcare interventions representing either a compliment or alternative to traditional medicine to which many people have turned in hope of attaining a...
Football teams--Ratings and rankings; Ranking and selection (Statistics)
A new method to rank football teams with the concepts associated with the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) and Graph theory is developed in this thesis. A set of games is interpreted as a graph, in which every vertex represents a team, and every...
Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher); Academic writing--Study and teaching--Social aspects
Scholars in rhetoric and composition have heralded a new way of thinking about writing, referring to the change as a paradigm shift (Hairston, Young) or naming the new direction a "social turn" in rhetoric and composition (Bizzell,...
This thesis focuses on twentieth-century poet Frank O'Hara and his relationship to painting and painters in New York in the 1950s. An examination of the concept of ekphrasis functions as a theoretical frame and substantiation for the discussion of...
Charles B. Braitling, Warren LeRoy Bryan and Stanton Kenneth Bryan of Louisville, Kentucky wearing suits and ties. Handwritten on back of image: credit Walton Jones (Louisville photographer). Stamped on back: Herald-Post, Page No. 2, Photo No. 5,...
Portraits; Group portraits; Men; College administrators; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
Dean of the University of Louisville's Speed Scientific School, Bennett M. Brigman (left) of Louisville, Kentucky with National Leader of ASME, C.E. Davies, Chairman of Student Chapter of ASME, Kenneth Hess, and Assistant Professor of Mechanical...
Portraits; Men; Teachers; People associated with education & communication
Portrait of Kenneth Freer of Louisville, Kentucky, a teacher at Louisville Male High School. He is wearing wire-frame glasses and suit. The photograph has a large crease and a lot of discoloration. Handwritten on back of image: Male High director...
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. There is a tear down the center of each page of this issue and there are significant portions missing or that are...
Leather-bound guest book dating from 1948 to 2011, featuring signatures of attendees of Louisville Orchestra premieres; Grawemeyer Composition winners; and official guests of the School of Music.
African Americans; Social workers; Journalists; African American journalists; African American social workers; Beauty contests; African American newspapers; Newspapers; Louisville Defender (Louisville, Ky.); Civil rights demonstrations; Civil...
Oral history interview with Mrs. Vivian Clark Stanley conducted on August 5, 1985 by Janet Hodgson. She discusses her career as a social worker and her life with Frank Stanley, Sr., editor, manager, and publisher of the Louisville Defender. She...
African Americans; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Social conditions; African American college teachers; African American educators; African American newspapers; Integration; Segregation in education; Race relations; Baptists;...
Oral history interview conducted with sociologist Charles H. Parrish, Jr. on December 1 and 14, 1976 and February 21, 1977 by Dwayne Cox and William Morison. Dr. Parrish discusses his father, Charles H. Parrish, Sr., who was a Baptist minister and...
Learning and scholarship--Outlines, syllabi, etc.; English language--Rhetoric-- Outlines, syllabi, etc.; Education, Higher--Curricula; Instructional systems--Design
This dissertation is an investigation of composition's disciplinary conceptions of the course syllabus, from its often-relegated position as textual object to a more interactive and complex subject of our discipline. The course syllabus is an...
This project examines the Conservation in Action series, twelve texts produced by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) from 1947-1957 and developed and written by Rachel Carson and other agency employees. She developed the series to...
Nazi Saboteurs Trial, Washington, D.C., 1942; Trials (Sabotage)--Washington (D.C.); War and emergency powers--United States; Military courts--United States--History
For over two hundred years a major issue in the history of the United States is the contentious issue of military commissions. Military commissions are not new or specific to the United States, but the United States traces its first military...
Arylamine N-acetyltransferase 1 (NAT1) and 2 (NAT2) catalyze the detoxification and/or activation of aromatic and heterocyclic amine carcinogens by two pathways. This metabolism reaction can lead to the detoxification by Nacetylation, or...
This thesis traces the evolution of trends in stucco decoration during the late antique and early Byzantine periods. The focus of the thesis is to identify and explain the transition between the figural stuccowork trends of the fifth century and...
