Eudora Welty’s love affair with Elizabeth Bowen begins to unfold in Welty’s 1951 letter to Bowen after her second visit to Bowen’s ancestral home in County Cork. Bowen’s letters match Welty’s joy in their intimacy. The phrase...
The politics of knowledge production reveals the exercise of power in societies, with narratives a key means to project national image. This article examines narratives used by Government of India representatives to frame...
Bryozoan epibiosis on lobster hosts has rarely been reported. This study documents bryozoan fouling of the American lobster (Homarus americanus Milne Edwards, 1837) from the Connecticut portion of Long Island Sound, USA. A...
This essay analyzes three later films of Arnold Fanck: S.O.S Eisberg (1933), Die Tochter des Samurai (1937) and Ein Robinson (1940). Best known for the classical mountain films (Bergfilme) which he, along with LeniRiefenstahl...
Although mountains have featured prominently in the history of cinema from its very beginnings to the present, the advent of
the mountain film is often associated with the Weimar cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. Arnold Fanck is...
Background: Resilience resources are predispositions that promote individuals’ abilities to cope with stress. Objective: The current cross-sectional study used path analysis with parallel multiple mediators to test...
The timing of Tiwanaku’s collapse remains contested. Here we present a generational-scale chronology of Tiwanaku using Bayesian models of 102 radiocarbon dates, including 45 unpublished dates. This chronology tracks four...
In early April of 2020, amidst astoundingly sudden suffering and disease, the novelist Arundhati Roy challenged the world with a provocative article, asking: Could the pandemic be a portal to better possibilities? Might we...
A 2019 Association of American Universities survey of undergraduate and graduate students found that almost 17% of respondents self-identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, queer, questioning, or selected more than one...
Through collaboration with more than 20 higher education institutions and civil society organizations, the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative put together online, open-access teaching resources that advance such a...
The Institute of International Education (IIE) and Dickinson College have produced a new publication, Models of Change: Equity and Inclusion in Action in International Education, summarizing their partnership to reimagine an...
In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 forced the suspension of most U.S. education abroad programs, study abroad students returned home, summer programs were canceled, and international educators pondered the unlikelihood of...
In 1875 Colonel Ranald Mackenzie -- a White US Army officer stationed in southwestern Indian Territory--conducted an experiment on Comanches and Kiowas living at Fort Sill. Relatively little is known about the experiment's...
Settler colonialism is a system by which a group overwhelms an existing population and imposes its culture upon the original population. The ownership of land is a key aspect of settler colonialism, as opposed to colonialism,...
The relationships between Indigenous peoples, cowboys, missionaries, and the US Army can be seen through the lens of an 1884 shooting that was recorded in a German-language newspaper. John Truden annotates this newspaper story,...
On July 12, 1975, two performing Asian elephants reacted t a loud noise at the Carson and Barnes Circus's off-season camp near Hugo, Oklahoma, and fled into the surrounding dense forest. Several circuses first established...
For many Oklahomans, Lake Thunderbird is familiar landscape. A manmade body of water in the center of the state, this reservoir and the surrounding forests have drawn naturalists, boater, bicyclists, campers, fishermen, and...
A traveling salesman in 1923 conned the Osage community and the federal government into giving him thousands of dollars to start an American Indian Steamship Company - he almost got away with it., Truden, John. "The American...
Neal Evans and Ben Clark built their lives on the rugged landscape of western Oklahoma—Evans as a storekeeper and Clark as a guide. John Truden uses the lives of the Evans and Clark families to demonstrate evolving systems of...