| | 104 | Author: | Sanderson, Robert | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vietnam Powwow: The Vietnam War as Remembered by Native American Veterans  | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "John Luke Flyinghorse, Sr. - Marine Boot Camp Photo"
Photo of John Luke Flyinghorse, Sr. from Marine boot camp.
The following is a collection of narratives written or spoken by
Native American veterans about the Vietnam War. Currently, no such collection is
available, a surprising absence in that Native Americans were perhaps the most
widely represented group in the armed services during the time of the Vietnam
War. According to the 1980 U.S. Census, 82,000 American Indians served in the
military during the Vietnam era. Many, undoubtedly, found themselves in Vietnam.
Yet, no major study to date has identified Native American veterans as a
distinct socioeconomic group in that war. In fact, only recently has any
significant attention been given to the social, economic, and cultural needs of
Native Americans in general. It is time that Vietnam War era American Indian
vets and their families be provided a forum for expressing their views and
reflections on America's longest war. Hence, the purpose of this collection is
to present in their own voices the experience of Native Americans during the
Vietnam War era. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 105 | Author: | Sanger, Margaret | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Woman and the New Race | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE most far-reaching social development of modern times is the
revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the
remaking of the world is a free motherhood. Beside this force, the
elaborate international programmes of modern statesmen are weak and
superficial. Diplomats may formulate leagues of nations and nations may
pledge their utmost strength to maintain them, statesmen may dream of
reconstructing the world out of alliances, hegemonies and spheres of
influence, but woman, continuing to produce explosive populations, will
convert these pledges into the proverbial scraps of paper; or she may,
by controlling birth, lift motherhood to the plane of a voluntary,
intelligent function, and remake the world. When the world is thus
remade, it will exceed the dream of statesman, reformer and
revolutionist. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 108 | Author: | Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Abraham Lincoln : an essay | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | NO American can study the character and career of Abraham Lincoln without
being carried away by sentimental emotions. We are always inclined to idealize
that which we love,—a state of mind very unfavorable to the exercise of
sober critical judgment. It is therefore not surprising that most of those
who have written or spoken on that extraordinary man, even while conscientiously
endeavoring to draw a lifelike portraiture of his being, and to form a just
estimate of his public conduct, should have drifted into more or less
indiscriminating eulogy, painting his great features in the most glowing
colors, and covering with tender shadings whatever might look like a blemish. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 109 | Author: | Scott, Walter | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind
The Belief in the Immortality of the Soul is the main inducement
to credit its occasional re-appearance — The Philosophical Objections
to the Apparition of an Abstract Spirit little understood
by the Vulgar and Ignorant — The situations of excited Passion
incident to Humanity, which teach Men to wish or apprehend
Supernatural Apparitions — They are often presented by the Sleeping
Sense — Story of Somnambulism — The Influence of Credulity contagious,
so that Individuals will trust the Evidence of others in
despite of their own Senses — Examples from the "Historia
Verdadera" of Bernal Dias del Castillo, and from the Works of
Patrick Walker — The apparent Evidence of Intercourse with the
Supernatural World is sometimes owing to a depraved State of the
bodily Organ s — Difference between this Disorder and Insanity, in
which the Organs retain their tone, though that of the Mind is lost
— Rebellion of the Senses of a Lunatic against the current of his
Reveries — Narratives of a contrary Nature, in which the Evidence
of the Eyes overbore the Conviction of the Understanding
Example of a London Man of Pleasure — Of Nicolai, the German
Bookseller and Philosopher — Of a Patient of Dr. Gregory — Of an
Eminent Scottish Lawyer, deceased — Of this same fallacious
Disorder are other instances, which have but sudden and momentary
endurance — Apparition of Maupertuis — Of a late illustrious modern
Poet — The Cases quoted chiefly relating to false Impressions on the
Visual Nerve, those upon the Ear next considered — Delusions of the Touch chiefly
experienced in Sleep — Delusions. of the Taste — And of the Smelling — Sum of the
Argument. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 112 | Author: | Scull, Guy H. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Lassoing Wild Animals In Africa | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was a special train—loaded to capacity with horses and dogs, camp
baggage, moving-picture cameras, cowboys, photographers, and porters;
and when it pulled out of the Nairobi station on the way to the "up
country" of British East Africa, the period of preparation passed away
and the time of action began. As the faces of the people on the platform
glided by the window of the slowly moving carriage, there was good will
written on all of them; but also unbelief. There was no doubt as to
what they thought of Buffalo Jones's expedition that was setting out to
rope and tie and photograph the wild animals of the East African Veldt. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 113 | Author: | Seeger, Mary K. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charlotte Mary Yonge. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In the decade which filled the middle of the last century, a
number of writers whose names have long been familiar won, by the
publication of one novel, of a sudden a fame that was more or less
enduring. Thackeray led the list with Vanity Fair, and
Charlotte Bronte followed soon after with Jane Eyre. In
1850 Charlotte Yonge's most important book—The Heir of
Redcliffe—appeared. A little later John Halifax
achieved as sudden and brilliant a reputation, while Anthony
Trollope and Mrs. Oliphant came before the public with books that
are still read and liked. Scenes from Clerical Life and
Richard Feverel were not far behind; and time, which
reverses so many verdicts, has placed this last book at length very
high on the list. It has not been Miss Yonge's good fortune to
hold in all respects the place she made her own so early in life,
but it has been and still remains her distinction to have been,
among English novelists, the exponent of a movement that changed to
a great extent the life of the common people. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 116 | Author: | Shaw, Anna Howard | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Story of a Pioneer | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MY father's ancestors were the Shaws of
Rothiemurchus, in Scotland, and the ruins
of their castle may still be seen on the island of
Loch-an-Eilan, in the northern Highlands. It was
never the picturesque castle of song and story, this
home of the fighting Shaws, but an austere fortress,
probably built in Roman times; and even to-day
the crumbling walls which alone are left of it show
traces of the relentless assaults upon them. Of
these the last and the most successful were made
in the seventeenth century by the Grants and
Rob Roy; and it was into the hands of the Grants
that the Shaw fortress finally fell, about 1700, after
almost a hundred years of ceaseless warfare. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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