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A multi-disciplinary database containing full text for more than 4,600 journals, in addition to indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Academic Video Online: Premium
A multi-disciplinary database containing more than 60,000 videos that cover the arts, sciences, health sciences, social sciences, and history.
Full-text coverage of local, regional, national and international news from more than 5000 newspapers, newswires, blogs, journals, transcripts and video files.
1985-present; varies by title
Citations, abstracts and full text articles of 47 American Chemical Society journals and other publications all the way back to the first issue of publication. Includes the Journal of the ACS and the Journal of Chemical Education.
Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database
Includes the Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles from around the world in scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
Agricultural & Environmental Science Database
Search the AGRICOLA, ESPM and EIS databases jointly using this database. Provides full-text titles including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. The database also includes resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature to conduct comprehensive literature reviews in the discipline.
American National Biography Online
The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references and links to select web sites.
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts
ASSIA is designed to meet the information needs of the caring professions, and spans the literature of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. It has indexing and abstracts for 500+ journals from over 16 countries.
Multidisciplinary index of articles from the contents pages of over 16,000 journals. Describes one article, news story, letter or other item from a journal in each record.
ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Indexes citations and abstracts of all aspects of aquatic resources, including life sciences, economics, and social science/public policy aspects. Sources include journals, books, conference papers, reports, patents, dissertations, and maps.
Biblical Archaeology Society Archive
Search and browse the full text of 8 religion books and journals published by the Biblical Archaeology Society, including the Biblical Archaeology Review and the Bible Review.
With links to every article focused on any individual in nearly every WilsonWeb database, Biography Reference Bank offers a breadth and depth of information you'll find in no other biography database. It covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images!
Comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies not available in other databases.
This database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, genetics, microbiology, molecular biology, zoology, and some aspects of agriculture, medicine and veterinary science. Includes the databases Biological Sciences, MEDLINE and TOXLINE.
Provides a unique aggregation of 87 high-impact bioscience research journals from independent society and organizational publishers in the biological sciences, featuring timely content on a wide-array of today's most pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research, ecological and biodiversity conservation.
Full-text coverage to more than 2,800 scholarly journals and trade publications in business, economics, political science and public administration. Selected Datamonitor company reports and EIU country documents are also available.
The Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.
Provides full text for many of the most used nursing and allied health journals (more than 760) in the CINAHL index, with no embargo and dating back to 1937. In addition, it provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals in these fields. It offers complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League of Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, as well as health care books, nursing dissertations, standards of practice and much more.
Civil War Primary Source Documents
Presents unique manuscript material chronicling all aspects of the American Civil War from warfare on land, at sea, in hospitals and prison camps, and reactions and impressions of the War from the home front. The collection, comprised of over 110,000 pages, focuses on the War as it was fought from 1861 to 1865 and represents both Northern and Southern perspectives. It also contains important contextual documents leading up to War and after its conclusion. From The New-York Historical Society.
Citations from 2,600 scholarly Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study; indexing around 700 journals and containing full text for over 380 titles.
Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
Provides a comprehensive monthly update on the latest theoretical research and practical applications around the world. This database provides international coverage as well as coverage of numerous non-serial publications.
Provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Browse or search within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
An index of citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses.
Full-length articles on important issues today that include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research.
This database supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. It includes U.S. and international scholarly journals as well as correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other relevant materials.
Supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as law enforcement and security services. Includes the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database, plus indexing and full-text coverage of scholarly journals.
Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science
Cross-search the MGA and ASFA databases in this one database. Includes full-text titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter. Includes titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Harvard University Press and many others.
Education Collection (ProQuest)
Provides access to ERIC, the leading index for education research, in combination with the full-text Education Database. Includes indexing, abstracts and full text coverage of journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more.
Education Database (ProQuest)
Access over 900 top educational publications, with full text available for more than 600 titles, covering primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education.
Education Source (EBSCOhost)
Indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals, and full text for more than 1,800 journals and 550 books and education-related conference proceedings, as well as citations for over 100,000 educational tests. Coverage spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
Catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide. Contains descriptions of all the online electronic books cataloged by OCLC member libraries. The Doane University community has access to the full text of a limited number of these ebooks.
Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
Collection of scholarly journals that includes all of the original content and images of articles and bibliographic information for all journals. Allows you to view abstracts and full-text articles only from journals to which your library subscribes.
Electronics & Communications Abstracts
Tracks every relevant source of information necessary to keep abreast of this complex, highly competitive discipline. This database provides international coverage as well as coverage of numerous non-serial publications.
The EconLit database, produced by the American Economic Association, includes subject indexing and abstracts to 685 journals, books, dissertations, and working papers in the field of economics and allied disciplines.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Search the content of encyclopedias, a dictionary and thesaurus, a multimedia database with images, videos, and sound files, the Web's Best Sites, selected magazines and journals, country statistics from World Data Analyst, notable quotations, and Gateway to the Classics (a collection of works of Western history, literature, philosophy, and science).
Environmental Impact Statements
This one resource provides detailed abstracts of all of those statements, also indexing them for easy reference. It extracts the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. Major areas of coverage include: Air Transportation, Defense Programs, Energy, Hazardous Substances, Land Use, Parks, Refuges, and Forests, Research and Development, Roads and Railroads, Urban and Social Programs and Water.
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
This multidisciplinary database provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.
ERIC is the major index to literature in education. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, it provides full citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, curricula, government documents, dissertations, and research reports selected by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Full text is available for many research reports, and you may limit your search to show only results with free full text. Also available through ProQuest and FirstSearch.
Choose to search by subject area or in one of thirteen databases provided by FirstSearch. Includes ArticleFirst and WorldCat.
Gateway to North America: People, Places, and Organizations of 19th-Century New York
New York was long the country's focal point of industry, trade, commerce and immigration, and this collection features materials that track the city's inhabitants over time and place, where they lived, where they worked, and what they did. It also includes residential, trade, and occupational directories, membership lists for churches, professional groups, philanthropic and governmental institutions, ethnic organizations, and leisure clubs. From the New-York Historical Society.
Provides comprehensive and balanced research on crucial international issues and news headlines in a single search through more than 250 media-rich issue pages, 200 country pages, 400 international newspapers and magazines, and a multimedia library.
Government Publications Office Monthly Catalog
Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports.
See Oxford Art Online for more information.
See Oxford Music Online for more information.
Providing comprehensive up-to-date information through a global database of over 85 million companies, 90 million decision makers, 1,000 industries.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
The IBSS includes bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters in the areas of anthropology, economics, political science and sociology. International in scope, incorporating material in over 100 languages.
JoVE Science Education Library
These videos help students learn key concepts and fundamental techniques in the sciences at the undergraduate course level. Doane Library subscribes to the Biology collection only.
Full-text backfiles to almost 850 scholarly journals from more than 25 academic disciplines published between the 19th and 21st centuries in the JSTOR Arts & Sciences I - IV, Arts & Sciences VII, and Biological Sciences collections. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a "moving wall" of 3 to 5 years before the present year.
Legal Information Reference Center
Provides online full text for more than 310 top consumer legal reference books, publications, and legal forms. The database offers the necessary tools for the everyday user and detailed "how-to" instructions to independently address a range of legal issues including business law, financial planning, family law, property and real estate, and rights and disputes.
Library & Information Science Abstracts (ProQuest)
LISA abstracts and indexes over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 languages. Subjects covered include all aspects of librarianship, library users, information retrieval and more.
Library & Information Science Collection (ProQuest)
Combining Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) with full text articles for many titles, this collection covers all aspects of librarianship, library users, information retrieval and more. Includes titles from many different countries in over 20 languages.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes journal articles, books, research reports, and conference proceedings in librarianship, information management, search engines, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing.
Library Science Database (ProQuest)
Use this database to search full text articles of leading library and information science journals. Provides coverage of over 125 core titles included in Library and Information Science Abstracts.
Combines searching the Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) database with many full text titles. It covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
The LLBA database indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
Includes full text journals and other sources in linguistics, including many titles indexed in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA).
Comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works, from antiquity to the present day.
Provides full text for periodicals covering an extensive range of subject areas including business, health, education, fitness, sports & leisure, personal finance, general science, multicultural issues, DIY, fashion and much more. In addition, this database includes over 55,000 primary source documents and nearly 1,000 reference books.
Materials Research Database
Covers publications related to materials science, metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers, and engineering composites. Topics covered include raw materials, processing, refining, end uses, performance, and recycling, as well as business aspects of materials science. Databases begin in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s; select older references are included.
Materials Science & Engineering
Includes the METADEX and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
Mechanical Engineering Abstracts
Contains abstracts of the worldwide literature on mechanical engineering, engineering management, and production engineering.
The National Library of Medicine's index to scholarly literature in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the health care system, from 1994-present. MEDLINE links to the FirstSearch interface; this database can also be searched through the CSA interface and the NLM's free PubMed web interface.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the MMY provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Volume 9-present
Military Database (ProQuest)
This collection provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
MLA International Bibliography
The major research resource for information on English literature, foreign languages and linguistics. Includes references to scholarly articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, and dissertations from 1963 to the present.
Music Online allows users to cross search all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press to which we subscribe: American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Popular Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound.
Features a focus on people-based records, which contain information about both everyday people and prominent individuals across societies and periods of time. Access to information both about specialized topics (regions, time periods) as well as social, cultural, and political trends, with a wide scope.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
Covers literature related to research, policy and practice in criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. Includes U.S. and international publications -- federal, state and local government reports -- books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations and unpublished research.
This collection includes the Agricultural & Environmental Science, Biological Science, and Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science databases. It provides full-text titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
This is a readers' advisory for fiction and nonfiction, and links to other home pages and fiction related web sites; includes reviews and descriptions; reviews from Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus from 1996.
Catalog of digital resources such as digital books and articles, audio files, movies, and data sets from open archive collections. Provides direct links to items within the collections from over 1,000 providers.
This database covers the worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The database focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
Users have access to the more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links, and 5,500 images contained within Grove Art Online, as well as the more than 5,000 entries and 500 images from the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Concise Dictionary of Art Terms, and Oxford's Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
This reference source contains articles on composers, performers, styles, genres, world music, instruments, and much more. Incorporates the New Grove Dictionary of Music, which can be cross-searched with The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Over 100 full text language and subject dictionaries and reference works. Topics covered include general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities, social sciences, and business.
Covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, governments documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content and more.
Index of papers presented at conferences, symposia, workshops, etc., worldwide on a variety of subjects. From the British Library Document Supply Centre.
This database allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society.
PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress
A database with a goal to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage. From the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Points of View Reference Center
This database contains more than 370 topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument), and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students' ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.
Provides access to hundreds of political science and international relations journals, including full text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA), as well as recent full-text doctoral dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources.
Cross-searches databases PAIS and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA), covering the international literature in political science and public administration/policy, along with related fields. Provides abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, country reports, dissertations, think-tank reports, working papers, government documents and more.
Index of proceedings from workshops, conferences, meetings, etc., worldwide received by the British Library Document Supply Centre. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at the conference.
Search one or more databases on this platform such as Biological Science, Physical Education Index, Sociological Abstracts and others.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
This is a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
Full text access to the 43 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber, some going back to 1988. PsycARTICLES journals are indexed in the PsycINFO database.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This database provides extensive full-text coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines. It provides particularly strong coverage in child & adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling. It can be searched independently, but also allows users from subscribing institutions to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycINFO.
Citations and abstracts to articles from more than 1300 international journals in psychology and related fields, going back to 1840. This database covers all areas of psychology, including experimental, developmental, communications, social processes and issues, personality, physical and psychological disorders, professional issues, applied psychology, educational psychology, and behavioral literature in such related fields as law, business and medicine. Also includes citations for books and book chapters. Citations may include links to full text journal articles available through PsycARTICLES and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
The online version of the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature indexes 375 leading magazines published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
A supplemental database for customers of Business Source Complete. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications. It incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Revolutionary War Era Orderly Books
A collection of over 30,000 pages of historically unique material from more than 200 orderly books spanning from 1748 to 1817. The collection includes both British and American orderly books, a form of manuscript journals kept by military units containing their orders from higher-ranking officers in addition to other information essential to military operations, dating from the French and Indian War through the War of 1812, with the bulk representing the activities of American forces during the Revolutionary War. From the New-York Historical Society.
Science and Technology Collection (EBSCO)
This database contains full text for hundreds of leading scholarly journals covering a wide-array of scientific and technological subject areas. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 publications.
Indexes content of more than 2,500 core journals and 10,500 books in the scientific fields, and provides to Doane students full-text articles for the following journals: The Lancet, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Animal Behaviour, and Business Horizons.
SciFinder Registration / SciFinder Login (available to CURRENT students & faculty only)
SciFinder Scholar retrieves information contained in databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS): CAplus (more than 8,000 journals), CAS REGISTRY (32 million specific chemical substances), and CASREACT (reaction information for more than 5 million single- and multiple-step reactions). Chemical source and regulatory information from the CHEMCATS and CHEMLIST databases provided for many substances. Also includes citations from MEDLINE.
SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest)
This collection includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
Small Business Reference Center
This database offers a collection of state-specific resources supported with demographic data and other local information. Included in the database are business videos that provide information for business owners: interviews, 'lessons learned' features, lectures and 'how to' videos to help foster success in all aspects of managing a business.
Offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including athropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
Social Science Premium Collection
This collection provides access to databases covering international literature in social sciences, including politics, public policy, sociology, social work, anthropology,criminology, linguistics, library science, and education. Featured databases include the International Bibliography of Social Science, Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
A database of the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers.
Provides access to Sociological Abstracts in combination with other databases covering the international literature in sociology and social services, along with related fields.
Covers international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. Full text is provided for many core titles in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts
Covers all aspects of theory, production, and application of solid state materials and devices -- as well as the new high- and low-temperature superconductivity technology. Some of the topics covered are phase, crystal, and mechanical properties of solids, optical and dielectric properties, conductive and magnetic properties, exotic electronic structure and energy gaps, SQUIDs, impurity effects, flux structures and critical current, ceramics, twinning phenomena, and more.
Access from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) to more than 200 databases of published research, journal literature, patents, structures, sequences, properties, and other data. Since the library is charged per search and record(s) displayed, access is limited by username and password; contact Jayne Germer.
Technology Collection (ProQuest)
This collection includes the Advanced Technologies & Aerospace, Material Science & Engineering, and Military databases, and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
Find full text articles via thorough indexing of each issue of this newspaper, from 1984 to today's issue. This includes access to not only top news stories but also the information contained in the various sections of the paper -- companies, people, products, etc.
Provides access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources including SEC filings, Hoover's company profiles and records, major newspapers, trade journals, broadcast transcripts, law reviews and journals, federal and state court cases, state statutes and regulations, U.S. Code Annotated, and the Federal Register. Pop-up blocker must be disabled to use this database.
Includes over 40 million bibliographic records representing cataloged resources in 400 languages owned by libraries around the world. Materials date back to the 11th century. Owning libraries can be identified for books, journals, archival resources and electronic resources. The database can also be searched through its free web interface, at worldcat.org.
WorldCat Dissertations and Theses
Index of over 8 million dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by member libraries, including all subjects.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (ProQuest)
WSPA provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy -- from over 1,500 serial publications, books, dissertations and working papers


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TEL AVIV, Israel, July 19 (UPI) -- Israeli naval personnel boarded a French yacht heading for Gaza following its refusal to divert to Egypt or the port of Ashdod, the army said.
The Israeli army said soldiers did not encounter any resistance in the takeover and planned to tow the yacht to Ashdod.
The Dignite al Karame left Greece during the weekend, naming its destination as Egypt. But once in international waters, it changed course for Gaza, hoping to break the Israeli blockade.
Israeli ships surrounded the yacht Tuesday and military officials called on those on board to change course, warning if they ignored the request, they would be boarded, Israel Radio said.
"The boat is surrounded by at least four Israeli ships," Ynetnews quoted Julien Rivoire, a Paris spokesman for the activists, as saying.
Greek authorities thwarted efforts to leave port by about 20 boats that intended to head for Gaza. The French vessel was the only one that succeeded in heading toward Gaza after it told authorities it was heading for Egypt, Haaretz said.
Some 16 activists, including an Israeli journalist and a camera crew from al-Jazeera, are on the boat, Ynetnews said.
Israel has told those seeking to break the Gaza blockade they should head either for Egypt or the port of Ashdod where the goods can be unloaded and transferred overland to Gaza.

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For the third straight year, Maryland's public education system is ranked the nation's best overall when it comes to student performance and state policies.
Maryland received a B-plus grade on the annual report card issued by the news outlet Education Week. That was the best grade in the country. The rankings are based on student achievement, school finance and a number of education policies.
Meanwhile, Virginia's schools came in fourth with a B-minus, while the District ranked near the bottom of the list with a D-plus.
Experts say it's difficult to accurately compare the District with other state school systems because it's not a state.
Some also say the rankings of state school systems may vary depending on the criteria by which they are judged.
Most states received a grade of C-plus or lower.
Listen to the complete story at wamu.org
Copyright 2011 WAMU 88.5 - American University Radio. All Rights Reserved.


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Re: C. A. Dalin and A. L. Gleason ~ Lucas County, Iowa
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Re: C. A. Dalin and A. L. Gleason ~ Lucas County, Iowa
Deborah Stanley 9/16/04
The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, January 25, 1906
MRS. J.E. BROWN charmingly entertained a few relatives and friends at a dinner party yesterday in honor of the 74th birthday of her mother, MRS. REBECCA MCCOLLOUGH, who is one of Chariton's noblest women.
The Ess Ess Whist Club held an enjoyable meeting last Thursday evening with the MISSES FLORENCE and MARGARET MAPLE. Dainty refreshments were served and the usual good time was had. The club will meet tomorrow evening at the home of MR. and MRS. A.B. GOOKIN.
On Tuesday afternoon, MRS. J.E. MERRILL, who with her husband expects to move to southern Missouri in the near future, was given a pleasant surprise by the members of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Christian Church, who came in a body and spent the afternoon with her. They presented to her as a parting gift, a beautiful China salad dish. A pleasant time is reported by those present.
T.S. FRAZIER, who resides in southeast Chariton, was given an agreeable surprise Tuesday evening by a number of his neighbors and friends who called at his home and informed him that they had come to help him celebrate his brithday. The invaders brought with them a quantity of delicious refreshments which were soon disposed of and the remainder of the evening was spent in social conversation. When the guests departed for their homes it was with the wish that they might help him celebrate many more birthdays.
Last Friday evening GEORGE ISRAEL, manager for the Chariton Dry Goods Company, and his good wife entertained the employees in the store to a six o'clock dinner. The menu was an elaborate one and consisted of all the delicacies of the season. The evening was spent in a delightful manner and the guests are loud in their praises of the charming hospitality of their host and hostess. Those present were TOM PHILLIPS, GROVER BERGSTROM, MARION NOLAN, ADDA REECE, ALSIE NEWMAN, LILLIAN KEEN and DOT BECKER.
MESDAMES BERT YENGEL and W.H. BROWN entertained fourteen young ladies at a "plate shower" in honor of MRS. LOUISE GLEASON DALIN, whose marriage occurred recently. The affair was a complete surprise to her. Dainty refreshments were served and the evening was spent in a happy manner. Dancing was indulged in and splendid music was furnished by the "Rang Tang" orchestra. The gifts bestowed upon MRS. DALIN were beautiful and were dainty testimonials of the high regard in which she is held.
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Omne munus et iniquitas delebitur,
et fides in sæculum stabit. (Ecclesiasticus xl, 12)
There is not a more deeply Catholic nation in the world today, despite all its problems, than the land of the Poles. Yet, on this weekend of the feast of the Epiphany of the Lord, a transfixed laity watches a former collaborator of the Russian Communist invaders take over the see of Cardinal Wyszyński, named by a German Pope. As in so many moments of Polish history, ghosts from the past, as forces from the barbarous East and of the unpredictable West, seem to conspire to destroy the strengthened confidence of a fearless people.
It is hard to define exactly what is the most worrisome aspect of this sordid affair. Is it the new confirmation of an episcopal-picking process gone awfully wrong in the Roman Curia? Is it the lack of proper analysis of documents related to the past of prelates, especially those related to the problematic Communist past in Eastern Europe? Is it the notion that an informer-collaborator of the Communists is given a free pass in Poland, while at the very same time an unknown number of priests and bishops is being imprisoned, tortured, and killed by Communist governments in China and elsewhere?
Or is it perhaps the shamelessness with which Wielgus reacted to the first news of his dark past made public by the Polish press in December? Or is it perhaps the embarrassing lie made evident by a vigorous denial of any wrongdoing in the morning [of January 5, 2007], followed by a public "confession" of collaboration with the Communist regime in the evening of the same day, when overwhelming evidence could not be denied any longer?
As Archbishop Wielgus/"Agent Grey" is installed in Warsaw's Basilica-Cathedral of Saint John this Sunday, all documents related to his past are increasingly under scrutiny. His personal collaboration with the Atheistic regime, a collaboration which was voluntary, will eventually come entirely into the limelight. Other Polish priest-collaborators should be ready, as well as clueless or ill-meaning Vatican authorities: the light of Truth does not destroy the "mass media"; it destroys the phantoms of darkness, wherever they are. The blood of the martyrs and the suffering of the persecuted shall not have been in vain.Ecce advenit dominator Dominus:
et regnum in manu eius, et potestas, et imperium.
A Rorate Cæli Editorial: Ecce advenit dominator Dominus
7 comments:
- surge said...
He's quit, Laus Deo
- 07 January, 2007 09:38
- Iosephus said...
- 07 January, 2007 12:31
- bona gratia said...
Well stated and appreciated.
We should never be afraid to shine the light of truth into dark corners. The consequences of not exposing this corruption and deceit would have been devastating in a country that has already suffered so much.
- 07 January, 2007 15:40
- humboldt said...
¡Praise be to God! Atonement, reparations to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ. AMDG.
- 07 January, 2007 16:47
I watched theMass yesterday on PTV, the sermon by Card. Glemp was most moving and raised a number of issues including the fairness on using copies of copies of copies constructed by the SB with no witnesses or context; the fact that tens of thousands of highplaced individuals (media, etc.) were colaborators (what was their role)and the SB skill and malice in tring to destroy the church in Poland.
A very sad event to watch.
- 08 January, 2007 17:38
- Simon-Peter said...
It is sad, indeed, when Jesus has to permit His enemies to cleanse His bride, whether embezzlement, sexual abuse, or this.
Put the blame where it lies. Though, like Satan, they do not have the best interests of the Church at heart (and neither do some members in bad standing), they, like Satan, cannot actually escape doing the Will of God.
And another bites the dust:
- 08 January, 2007 18:04
- New Catholic said...
Exactly, Simon-Peter.
- 08 January, 2007 18:18


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Letter: Let's give St. Ann to Georgia parish
Let's give St. Ann to Georgia parish
It's disheartening to hear when a church is closing its doors, but more so when a church is being torn down. I have a proposal: Give St. Ann Church to the parish community in Atlanta, Ga., that wanted St. Gerard on Bailey Avenue. Instead of demolishing St. Ann, the church would be dismantled in stages – first, interiorly and then exteriorly.
The dioceses of Buffalo and Atlanta could cooperate and work together financially. The Buffalo Diocese will already be committing funds to tear it down, but the Atlanta Diocese already raised funds to dismantle a church. St. Ann would then be shipped south and reassembled while the Georgia parish community continues to raise funds but also, in the interim, repair and refinish the interior furnishings. When the church is being reassembled in Georgia, the east tower, which was damaged in a 1965 wind storm, could be made whole.
St. Ann will become a legacy to the German community of Buffalo, the city and diocese of Buffalo and all the worshippers who ever walked into the church. A bronze plaque could denote the cooperation of two dioceses in different parts of the country that worked together. Let's give it a try before St. Ann is pilfered and monies are made from the antiquities.
Robert G. Lewandowski


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Texas Republicans in risky territory
With the governorship and big majorities in the Legislature, Republicans control all the levers of redistricting in Texas. Even so, they might not be able to protect two of the state's three newly elected House GOP freshmen in the upcoming round of redistricting.
Because of factors ranging from geography to demography to the Voting Rights Act, GOP redistricting experts in Austin and Washington concede they have limited options in designing secure districts for first-term Reps. Francisco Canseco and Blake Farenthold — despite the fact that the state is gaining four congressional seats.
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Without safer districts, Canseco and Farenthold will be at serious risk in 2012, since each won with less than 50 percent against Democratic incumbents last November, benefited from low midterm turnout and rode a huge GOP tide.
"We didn't expect those two seats to become Republican," said GOP state Sen. Kel Seliger, who chairs the Senate redistricting committee. "Those were Democratic seats and majority-minority seats. Now, we have to look at whether there are enough Hispanics to create new districts."
Democrats and Hispanic activists believe federal judges will insist the VRA says there are enough Hispanics, even if the Legislature does not go along.
"Our goal is to create the largest number of districts where Latinos can elect their preferred candidate," said Nina Perales, Southwest regional counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She cited the 2006 Supreme Court case that forced a redrawing of what is now Canseco's district to include more Hispanics. "The lesson of that case is that it's not OK to dismantle a minority-opportunity district where the incumbent is not preferred," she said.
Given that Hispanics likely account for more than 60 percent of the 4.3 million new Texans in the past decade, some version of the Canseco and Farenthold districts in south Texas most likely will remain heavily Hispanic, whether or not the incumbents seek reelection. Plus, a Hispanic-majority district almost certainly will be created in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and another Hispanic district could be created in the Houston or Austin area.
"Republicans need to be very careful with the Voting Rights Act," said Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas). "They will try to protect Canseco and Farenthold with redistricting. But they can't violate the rights of the Hispanic community."
One option, Cuellar said, is that Farenthold could shift to a newly drawn, less Hispanic district north of his current Corpus Christi-based seat, perhaps into the Victoria area now represented by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). But that quite likely would mean a GOP concession of a new south-Texas-based district to Democrats.
Farenthold, a political novice, could be in trouble either way. Even in a more Republican-friendly district, he could face a competitive GOP primary. Canseco — who is Hispanic, unlike Farenthold — probably has fewer options for major changes to his district, but he could benefit from the removal of Democrats from his rapidly growing district, which sprawls from El Paso's outskirts to suburban San Antonio.
Reflecting the caution that comments they make about redistricting could be used against them in court, the two vulnerable incumbents were not available for interviews. Farenthold issued a brief statement: "I am committed to a fair and legal redistricting process. ... I feel confident that the state Legislature will work hard to create districts that are representative of the diverse populations within the great state of Texas."


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December 15, 2011
With President Obama read to sign away the freedoms of Americans by inking his name to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, opponents are already going after the lawmakers that made the legislation possible.
The act, abbreviated as NDAA FY2012, managed to make its way through Congress with overwhelming support in recent days, despite legislation that allows for Americans to be detained indefinitely and tortured by authorities for the mere suspicion of committing "a belligerent act." The Obama administration originally decreed that they would veto the bill, only for the White House to announce a change of heart on Wednesday this week.
With the passing of the act almost certain at this point, hackers aligned to the massive collective Anonymous are taking a stab at staking out the politicians that helped put the bill in the president's hands.
On Wednesday, Internet hacktivists gathered on the Web to find a way to take on the lawmakers, who have allowed for this detrimental legislation to make it all the way to the Oval Office desk. Upon discussion of routes to take to show their opposition to the overwhelming number of politicians who voted in favor of NDAA, Anonymous members agreed to begin with Senator Robert J Portman, a Republican lawmaker from the state of Ohio.


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Binoche joins new Godzilla project
Juliette Binoche is the latest star in talks to join Gareth Edwards' Godzilla reboot.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and Bryan Cranston have previously been linked to the project but details of the plot are being closely guarded.
Now Variety says that The English Patient star Juliette is in negotiations for another unknown role.
It was previously reported that Aaron would play a soldier, while Breaking Bad's Bryan is negotiating the role of his step-father.
Details about the movie are being kept under wraps, until the script - which has been written by Max Borenstein and Frank Darabont - is finalised. It is expected to be released in 2014.
Writer Frank has said he wants a Godzilla which returns to its roots as a "terrifying force of nature" and to expect "plenty of monsters."


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(Editor's note: To maintain the integrity of the Oklahoma Writers' Project, some of the verbatim quotes from the slave narratives contain misspellings and offensive subject matter, particularly the racial classifications. Research shows they were part of the vernacular in many instances in that time and would not be used in today's discourse. This article, based on original documents, provides a snapshot of a set of circumstances shared by emancipated slaves living in Depression-era Oklahoma City.)
Martha Ann Ratliff didn't know her birthday. She wasn't even sure of her age. Ratliff only knew she was born in Cotton Plant, Miss., and she figured she was nearly 100 years old in 1937.
From the cradle to the slave
Life on the plantation
Master and servant
Hunted by bloodhounds
Free at last
How accurate are the narratives?
Oklahoma City's ex-slaves
As J.S. Thomas interviewed Ratliff at her daughter's home on N.E. Sixth Street in Oklahoma City, the ex-slave told her story, from plantation life through emancipation to living in Depression-era Oklahoma. Firsthand accounts were told to field workers from the Oklahoma Writers' Project, which hired unemployed scribes as part of the Federal Writers' Project that operated under the Works Progress Administration umbrella.
Project personnel gathering these testimonies provided an oral history of those emancipated and living in the state during the Depression. They were published in the 1996 University of Oklahoma Press book "The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives," which was edited by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker.
Larry O'Dell, director of collections in the research division of the Oklahoma History Center, said these accounts are indispensable to the true fabric of American history.
"The WPA slave narratives provided a rare opportunity to gather the stories of an African- American generation all but lost to recorded, first-person history," O'Dell said. "The project also helped complete the story of ex-slaves who migrated to what they thought would be a kind of Utopia, Oklahoma."
The general public can access this typewritten reference material with a library card at the Oklahoma History Center, where the OU Press book was researched, said Jan Richardson, archivist in the center's research division.
Meta G. Carstarphen, who is working on a research project looking at the history of black and Native American newspapers in the 19th century, said the original narratives are an amazing treasure considering that literacy laws prohibited ex-slaves from learning to read, write or record their stories.
"I think there is an appreciation and an understanding of the historical significance of being able to have from the mouths of people who lived through great hardships what some of those experiences were like," said Carstarphen, Gaylord Family Endowed Professor and associate professor at the University of Oklahoma's Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
"As painful as they can be to read, it is vitally important that we never forget and that we also find a place in the historical record to account for those experiences. It is part of who we are."
She said publishing the narratives, which detail racism and the atrocities of slavery, will elicit a range of reactions from readers.
"I cannot speak for all black Americans, but I think the reactions are going to be varied and mixed, as it should be, because people are going to have individual responses depending upon their experiences " maybe their age, where they grew up and a whole host of factors," she said. "I would daresay that Anglo readers should have a mixed set of reactions to this as well."
From the cradle to the slave
Many OKC residents documented in these narratives were born into slavery. Raleigh, N.C., native Betty Foreman Chessier said her mother was Melinda Manley, slave of Gov. Charles Manley of North Carolina. Meanwhile, Lewis Jenkins, born to a mixed union in 1844 in Greene County, Ala., said his pregnant white mother was hidden away from her playmates.
"I never got a chance to nurse my mother," said Jenkins, who was taken away from her at childbirth and moved to Texas around age 7. "After she got up and come down, she wanted to see her baby. She looked in all the houses on the place for me, her baby. Then she commenced screaming, tearing her clothes off and tearing her hair out."
If families weren't separated at birth, they had to survive the auction block. Carrie E. Davis, a native of Winnsboro, S.C., said she was auctioned seven or eight times.
"Dey would have a large crowd of masters gathered 'round and dey would put de slaves on a stump or block and roll de sleeves and pants legs up and say, 'Dis is good stock; got good muscles, and he's good hard-working nigger,'" Davis said. "Why, dey sold 'em just like you see 'em sell stock now.
"If de woman was a good breeder she would sell for big money, 'cause she could raise children. They felt all over the women folks. Mr. Hughes, the official slave seller, would buy all the good looking nigger girls for him and his brother and take 'em home and put 'em in they private home, not they plantation, and raise families by them or just use 'em for they enjoyment, iffen they didn't have no children."
Nancy Gardner from Franklin, Tenn., described being sold "like cattle" in Memphis, Tenn.
"Dey sold me and ma together and dey sold pa and de boys together," Gardner said.
Healthier slaves were worth more. Stripped to allow potential bidders to see any visible scars, the slaves were chained together, with mothers tucked away from their week-old children to be sold separately, according to Jenkins.
"I have seen men sold from their wives and I thought that was such a crime," said Octavia George, a Louisiana native. "I knew that God would settle things someday."
Purchased slaves were loaded by wagon and transported to work on cotton farms. If a slave woman gave birth while traveling by boat to the farms, the baby was thrown into the river, according to Alice Douglass, a slave born in Sumner County, Tenn., in 1860.
Life on the plantation
Like many ex-slaves, Douglass did not have a formal education.
"In dem days you better not be caught with a newspaper, else you got a beating and your back almost cut off," she said.
Hal Hutson, a slave from Tennessee, learned clandestinely at an early age.
"Master Brown's boy and I were the same age you see (14 years old) and he would send me to school to protect his kids, and I would have to sit up there until school was out," Hutson said. "So while sitting there I listened to what the white teacher was telling the kids, and caught on how to read, write and figger " but I never let on, 'cause if I was caught trying to read or figger dey would whip me something terrible."
Jenkins, who had a white mother, said his youngest mistress (who happened to be his aunt) was nearly whipped to death when she was caught teaching him to read and write.
At the dinner table, Texas native Lewis Bonner recalled eating bacon, greens and potatoes with his mistress, Celia Swanson.
When George wasn't looking after the master's children in Louisiana, she fed the slave children.
"I remember quite well how those poor little children used to have to eat," George said. "They were fed in boxes and troughs, under the house. They were fed corn meal mush and beans. When this was poured into their box they would gather around it the same as we see pigs, horses and cattle gather around troughs today."
Ben Lawson, who was born in Danville, Ill., would eat table scraps on the back porch in the summer or in the kitchen during winter.
For clothing, Robert Burns wore only cotton shirts during summers spent working south of Nashville, Tenn.
"I never seed any under-wear until I wuz bout 12 years of age," Burns said. "We all wore hats made from wheat straw. Dare wuz no shoes for de slaves a-tall. In winter de women would tie dar feet up in rags."
Chessier said she didn't have any underclothes, either, and only owned two dresses: one calico and one gingham.
Doctors were too expensive on the plantation, according to Davis.
"De slaves had to take roots and herbs and make our own medicine," she said. "I 'member some of de slaves wearing charms but I never did believe in dem much, and dat's why I don't know nothing 'bout dem now."
Days were long. George recalled rising at 5 a.m. and working until dark.
"Then we would have to go home to do our night work, that is cook, milk, and feed the stock," said George, who would then go off to sleep on a homemade moss mattress.
Each slave family received one blanket in winter, according to Texas native Harriett Robinson.
"(The master's) barn was much better than the house we lived in," George said.
Other slaves recalled beds fashioned from cotton, straw, grass and leaves, while others had no mattresses.
"We slept on the floor like hogs," Hutson said.
Master and servant
Gardner was just a baby when the Civil War began, but she had fond memories of her master, Dr. Perkins.
"He was a rich man, and had a big fine house and thousands of acres of land," said Gardner, who lived on South Klein Avenue in OKC. "He was good to his niggers too. We had a good house too, better dan some of dese houses I see folks living in now.
"Course Dr. Perkins' niggers had to work, but dey didn't mind 'cause he would let dem have little patches of dey own such as 'tatoes, corn, cotton and garden. Jest a little, you know. He couldn't let dem have much, there was so many on Dr. Perkins' plantation."
Robinson said slaves would have to bow down to their master's children.
"The master would be over 'hind the bed and he'd say, 'Here's a new little mistress or master you got to work for.' You had to say, 'Yessuh Master' and bow real low or the overseer would crack you. Them was slavery days, dog days."
When work was deemed unsuitable, overseers would flog slaves with a red and blue bullwhip, said Sam Anderson during a 1937 interview at the C.L. Bryant Orphanage and Old Folks Home in OKC.
"We had a overseer back on Colonel Threff 's plantation and my mother said he was the meanest man on earth," said Alice Alexander from Louisiana. "He'd jest go out in de fields and beat dem niggers."
After repeated whippings, one slave turned the tables and killed his overseer, Davis said. For punishment, the retaliating slave was burned alive while his wife watched in agony.
"Dey tied his hand and feet to some stakes, poured turpentine all over his body and den stuck a match to it," Davis said. "It was awful! We couldn't look off, we had to look right at dat poor man. De poor fellow screamed three times and dat was all for him."
Hunted by bloodhounds
Slave patrollers would hunt for escapees, unmercifully whipping the fugitives upon capture, Burns said. Runaways smeared fresh cow manure on their feet to mask their scent from bloodhounds, said Sam Jordan, a quarter-Cherokee slave from Alabama. Some slaves would kill the hounds and escape, George said.
"De slaves would lie down in de dark and grunt like a hog and de patrollers would go on thinking dem to be hogs," Burns said.
Annie Young's aunt tried to elude sexual advances from her master, but hounds eventually tracked her.
"He knocked a hole in her head and she bled like a hog, and he made her have him," said Young, a Tennessee native. "She told her mistress, and mistress told her to go ahead and be wid him 'cause he's gonna kill you. And he had dem two women and she had some chillun nearly white, an master and dey all worked in de fields side by side."
With no jails, whipping became the only punishment, said George Conrad Jr. of Kentucky.
"If whipping didn't settle the crime the Negro committed " the next thing would be to hang him or burn him at stake," said Octavia George.
Marriage licenses were uncommon, Tennessee native Bert Luster said, as slaves received a permit from their master and jumped over a broomstick to tie the knot. Mississippi slave Charles Willis said his wife was sold for $800.
While Bonner claimed having "the best church" during slavery, Francis Bridges from Texas said the closest congregation was too far away to attend. Meanwhile, Davis did not have a church in South Carolina, where slaves stood outside waiting for the segregated service to conclude. Then the preacher would read the Bible to them on the outside steps.
"De white preachers who would call dem selves preaching to de slaves would only preach to de niggers about being good, obedient and work good and hard for dare moster," Burns said. "He would preach and tell de nigger dat dey didn't have any souls, and that niggers didn't go to heaven. Only white people had souls and went to heaven. He told dem dat niggers had no more souls than dogs, and dey couldn't go to heaven any more than could a dog."
Free at last
When news of emancipation arrived, George hid on the Mississippi River, roasting hand-caught fish for food. Meanwhile, Hannah McFarland's mother whipped her after the South Carolina girl had shown Yankee soldiers where affluent residents had hidden their valuables.
"I 'member when we was told dat we was free," Davis said. "It was the 19th of June. We danced all day and all night."
Bonner stayed with his master three years after emancipation.
"We got a little money, but we got room and board and didn't have to work too hard," Bonner said.
With the end of slavery, Burns said he hoped God would treat the ex-masters as they treated their slaves when the plantation owners arrived in hell. While the Yankees made sure the ex-slaves attended school, Jordan said, the Ku Klux Klan didn't thrive until Reconstruction, Hutson said.
Luster's master was driven off his plantation. After hiding in a cornfield, he finally arrived on a farm near OKC in 1891. Luster, who worked as an Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture clerk, won a blue ribbon for his cotton bales in Guthrie and was dubbed "cotton king."
George said a morning did not pass without donning a black armband to remember Abraham Lincoln after he was assassinated. Other ex-slaves had different opinions about the president, however.
"Lincoln was a durn fool man, but he was better'n John de Baptist; next to Christ," said George W. Harmon, a native of Lamar County, Texas. "Don't think much of Jefferson Davis. He's durn poor trash."
Alexander said she walked nearly the entire trek from Louisiana to Oklahoma in search of education.
"We come to Oklahoma looking for de same thing then that darkies go North looking fer now," Alexander said. "But we got disappointed. What little I learned I quit taking care of it and seeing after it and lost it all."
William L. Bethel documented in his autobiographical narrative that he moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1901, living in Kingfisher and Anadarko before arriving in OKC three years later.
"I am now an Honorable retired and Pastor Emeritus of the Bethany Presbyterian Church," wrote Bethel, an 1882 graduate of Lincoln University.
Georgia native Doc Daniel Dowdy, along with Davis, Douglass and Hutson, said they were members of Tabernacle Baptist Church, constituted in 1896 and noted in "The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives" as a prominent African-American institution.
"I love de Lawd and I think all de people should be Christians, 'case de Lawd lifted dat heavy burden of slavery from dere heads, and dat ain't all he do if de folks will only live by his teachings," Davis said. "And de main things is to treat your fellow men right, regardless of his color."
References: "The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives," edited by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker, University of Oklahoma Press; Library of Congress; Oklahoma History Center; "Ex-Slave Interviews and the Historiography of Slavery," Norman R. Yetman; and "The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, Vol. 12," George P. Rawick
How accurate are the narratives?
In his article "Ex-Slave Interviews and the Historiography of Slavery," Norman R. Yetman wrote about the subjectivity of personal recollection, noting those interviewed in the Federal Writers' Project's Slave Narrative collection were elderly and living in abject poverty during the Depression.
"They fondly described events and situations that had not been, in reality, so positive as they recalled them to be," wrote Yetman, professor emeritus at Kansas University's sociology department.
"It is apparent that some informants, mistaking the interviewer for a government representative who might somehow assist them in their economic plight, replied to questions with flattery and calculated exaggeration in an effort to curry the interviewer's favor."
Yetman also argued that the interviewer's race influenced the narratives by influencing ex-slaves to self-censor their stories.
"Because the etiquette of Southern race relations influenced the definition of the interview situation for these aged blacks, they may frequently have told the white interviewers, some of whom were even from the families of former slaveholders, 'what they wanted to hear,'" he wrote.
Yetman described the quality of the typewritten narratives as "grossly uneven," noting that some of the interviewers virtually ignored a questionnaire crafted by folklorist John Lomax, while others followed it too closely. Still, the narratives provide a corrective view of slavery that had been" and in some places still is " recalled through the lenses of a dominant group: the powerful.
"The distortions that resulted from the traditional white view of slavery as a paternalistic, 'civilizing,' and benevolent institution are demolished in the process of reviewing this collective portrait of a people and bares the reality of slavery in all its myriad forms and dimensions," Yetman said."Rob Collins
Oklahoma City's ex-slaves
The following provided slave narratives for the Oklahoma Writers' Project during the Depression. They are listed with birth information along with their age and place of residence in Oklahoma City at the time of the interviews. The links go to photos of the first page of their account, or a different transcription of their account. All photos/Mark Hancock.
Alice Alexander
Born 1849 in Jackson Parish, La.
Age 88 in 1937
409 E. Grand in OKC
Sam Anderson
Born 1839, location unknown
Age 98 in 1937
Interviewed at 501 N. Missouri, C.L.
Bryant Orphanage and Old Folks Home, in OKC
William L. Bethel
Born May 4, 1844, in Forsyth
County, N.C.
Age 92 in 1936
129-31 S. Klein in OKC
Lewis Bonner (aka L.B. Barner)
Born 1850 in Palestine, Texas
Age 87 in 1937
507 N. Durland in OKC
Francis Bridges
Born 1864 in Red River County,
Age 73 in 1937
314 N.E. Second in OKC
Robert Burns
Born March 1856 south of
Nashville, Tenn.
Age 81 in 1937
530 Mass. St. in OKC
Betty Foreman Chessier
Born July 11, 1843, in Raleigh, N.C.
Age 94 in 1937
624 N.E. Fifth in OKC
George Washington Claridy
Born Oct. 5, 1853, in Howard
County, Ark.
Age 84 in 1937
305 N.E. First in OKC
George Conrad Jr.
Born Feb. 23, 1860, in Connersville, Ken.
Age 77 in 1937
217 S. Ellison in OKC
Carrie E. Davis
Born May 8, 1842, in Winnsboro, S.C.
Age 97 in 1938
820 S.E. Sixth in OKC
Alice Douglass
Born Dec. 22, 1860, in Sumner
County, Tenn.
Age 77 in 1937
505 N. Fonshill in OKC
Doc Daniel Dowdy
Born June 6, 1856, in Madison
County, Ga.
Age 81 in 1937
1104 N.E. Seventh in OKC
Nancy Gardner
Born 1858 in Franklin, Tenn.
Age 79 in 1937
South Klein Avenue in OKC
Octavia George
Born in 1852 in Mansura, La.
Age 85 in 1937
709 S.E. Fourth in OKC
Robert R. Grinstead
Born Feb. 17, 1857, in Lawrence
County, Miss.
Age 80 in 1937
614 N. Kate in OKC
Mattie Hardman
Born Jan. 2, 1859, Texas
Age 78 in 1937
524 N. Bath in OKC
George W. Harmon
Born Dec. 25, 1854, in Lamar
County, Texas
Age 83 in 1937
528 Massachusetts in OKC
Ida Henry
Born 1854 in Marshall, Texas
Age 83 in 1937
530 N. Nebraska in OKC
Hal Hutson
Born Oct. 12, 1847, in Tennessee
Age 90 in 1937
605 N.E. Second in OKC
Lewis Jenkins
Born January 1844 in Greene
County, Ala.
Age 93 in 1937
18 S. Douglass in OKC
Sam Jordan
Birthday unknown in Crenshaw
County, Ala.
Age unknown in 1937
612 N. Missouri in OKC
Ben Lawson
Birthday unknown in Danville, Ill.
Age 84 in 1937
714 N. Wisconsin in OKC
Bert Luster
Born 1853 in Tennessee
Age 85 in 1937
512 N. Lindsay in OKC
Marshall Mack
Born Sept. 10, 1854
Age 83 in 1937
501 N.E. Fourth in OKC
Stephen McCray
Born 1850 in Huntsville, Ala.
Age 88 in 1937
Address unknown in OKC
Hannah McFarland
Born Feb. 29, 1853, in Georgetown, S.C.
Age 85 in 1937
Address unknown in OKC
Jane Montgomery
Born March 15, 1857, in Homer, La.
Age 80 in 1937
Address unknown in OKC
Amanda Oliver
Born Nov. 9, 1857, in Missouri
Age 80 in 1937
410 N.E. Fourth in OKC
Martha Ann Ratliff
Birthday unknown in Cotton Plant, Miss.
Age unknown in 1937
1335 N.E. Sixth in OKC
Red Richardson
Born July 21, 1862, in Grimes County, Texas
Age 75 in 1937
917 E. Sixth in OKC
Harriett Robinson
Born Sept. 1, 1842, in Bastrop, Texas
Age 95 in 1937
500 block N. Fonshill in OKC
Alfred Smith
Birthday unknown in Calhoun, Ga.
Age unknown in 1937
1021 N.E. Seventh in OKC
Charles Willis
Birthday unknown in Lawrence
County, Miss.
Age unknown in 1938
714 N.E. Fourth in OKC
Annie Young
Born 1851 in Sumner County, Tenn.
Age 86 in 1937
1304 N.E. Sixth in OKC


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Indian Field Methodist Campground is a camp meeting site for the Methodist Church in Dorchester County, South Carolina. It is on SC Route S-18-73, off US Route 15, about 5 mi (8 km) north of Saint George. Indian Field was built in 1848 and has been a site for religious gatherings for over 160 years. It was named a historic district of the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1973.[1][2][3]
Religious camp meetings played an important role in the growth of some Protestant denominations in the early 19th century in rural parts of the United States. These meetings served a much wider population than a single church. Camp meetings usually lasted around a week and were social as well as religious occasions for the participants. A typical camp meeting site started with a brush arbor surrounded by tents and wagons. Often a chapel or "tabernacle" was built to replace the arbor and wooden cabins called "tents" were built to replace actual tents.[4]
The Indian Field United Methodist Church is located on U.S. Highway 15 about 2 miles (3 km) north of the campground and just south of U.S. Highway 178.[5] This church began in 1787. Its first building was about 3 mi (5 km) east of the unincorporated Rosinville community at the intersection of U.S. Highways 15 and 178. The second church was built around 1819 near the current church. The third church was finished in 1886. The current church was completed in 1955.[6]
The first Indian Field Campground was held on a farm in the late 18th century. It was probably located near the first church building.[7] Bishop Francis Asbury noted in his journal that he preached at "Indian Fields" on December 21, 1801 and January 13, 1803. His journal does not say if he preached at the campground or the church.[8] Other sources indicate that this campground was established in 1810.[2][3]
In 1838, the campground was moved to the present site.[9][10][11] The existing campground was constructed in 1848.[2][3][7][11] It was restored in 1970.[7]
On February 25, 1995, an intentional fire burned several structures at the campground. The person who set the fire was never apprehended.[12]
The existing campground consists of the central tabernacle surrounded by ninety-nine cabins of wooden construction. These cabins are referred to as "tents". Although is frequently stated that the tents are arrayed in a circle,[2][3][11] they are actually arranged roughly in an octagon.[7][13]
The tabernacle [2][3][7][9][10][14] is a wooden pavilion with a gablet roof. The roof has exposed rafters and is supported by wooden posts. The pavilion has a raised preacher's stand at its northern end and three sections of wooden pews.[3] It seats over 1,000.[10]
The "tents" have a metal roof and are of two stories. The internal layout of each tent varies, but typically each has two upstairs bedrooms with a central stairway. The downstairs usually has a dining area towards the front and another bedroom at the rear. Historically the occupants of the upstairs bedrooms were divided by gender, while the downstairs bedroom was reserved for the older members of the family. The downstairs rooms may be connected with a hallway, or the rooms may have individual exterior doors. The downstairs areas have dirt floors that are typically covered with straw during camp meetings. The cooking area is below a shed attached to the rear of the tent. There is a wood-burning brick or cinderblock fireplace under the cook shed, and usually a small room for the cook's quarters. A typical floor plan of the larger cabin has been published.[3]
The single-story preacher's cabin is larger and taller than the other cabins. It has a four-panel door flanked by two-over-two light windows.[3]
There is a paved road around the campground.[13] Outside this road, each cabin has a privy.[3] Historically there were shared water wells in front of the cabins and stands for blazing pine knots to light the area at dark, however currently each tent has water and electric service.[9][11]
Additional pictures of the campground have been published.[11][14][15][16]
- ^ a b National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ^ a b c d e "Indian Field Methodist Camp Ground, Dorchester County (S.C. Hwy. 73, St. George vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 17 April 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Dixon, Caroline (28 July 1972). "Indian Field Methodist Campground" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. National Park Service. Retrieved 17 April 2009.
- ^ Edgar, Walter (2006). South Carolina Encyclopedia. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 125–126. ISBN 1-57003-598-9.
- ^ "Indian Field United Methodist Church St. George, South Carolina". Indian Field United Methodist Church. Archived from the original on 2009-08-09. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
- ^ "History of the Indian Field United Methodist Church". Indian Field United Methodist Church. Archived from the original on 2009-08-09. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Appleby, J. Gavin. "Indian Field United Methodist Campground History". Indian Field United Methodist Church Campground St. George, South Carolina. Archived from the original on 2009-08-09. Retrieved 17 April 2009.
- ^ Asbury, Francis (1852). Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury. III. New York: Lane & Scott. pp. 47, 98.
- ^ a b c Federal Writer's Program of the Works Progress Administration (1941). South Carolina: A Guide to the Palmetto State. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 101, 307.
- ^ a b c Betts, Albert Deems (1952). History of South Carolina Methodism. Advocate Press. p. 340.
- ^ a b c d e Julien, Carl; Chlotilde R. Martin (1954). Sea Islands to Sand Hills. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 71, 72, 115.
- ^ "Significant Wildfire Events in SC History Chronology by Year". Significant Wildfire Events in SC History. South Carolina Forestry Commission. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
- ^ a b "+33° 13' 22.00", -80° 32' 46.00"". Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
- ^ a b Baldwin, William P. (2007). Sacred Places of the Lowcountry. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press. pp. 147–151. ISBN 1-59629-346-2.
- ^ "Indian Fields Methodist Campground, SC Route 73, .7 mile from SC Route 15, Saint George vicinity, Dorchester County, SC". Historic American Building Survey. National Park Service. 1988. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
- ^ "Indian Field Methodist Campground, Chapel, SC Route 73, near US Route 15, Saint George, Dorchester County, SC". Historic American Building Survey. National Park Service. 1988. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
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