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2723) Engineering Eden: the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature
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"The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away...
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In The Revolution Has Come, Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, examining how its internal politics along with external forces such as COINTELPRO shaped the Party's efforts at fostering self-determination in Oakland's black communities.
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Scope and content: Postcards, most written by Volney Linck to members of the Binns, Gant, and Linck families of Nashville, Tenn. Although the collection as a whole spans from 1909 to 1958, the bulk of the collection and Volney's correspondence runs from 1909 to 1920. Volney traveled widely and the postcards depict and come from a variety of places, including: California and Los Angeles; Ontario, Canada; New York City; Taboga Island, Panama; Florida;...
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"Too long have others spoken for us". Presents a history of African-American newspapers and journalism from the mid-19th century through the 20th century. Tells of the struggles against censorship and discrimination and for freedom of the press, with commentary by historians, journalists, and photojournalists,
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 9th and 13th of February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Avery discusses the first automobile built in Nashville by George Preston Dorris and his subsequent manufacture of the St. Louis Car and the Dorris Car in St. Louis, Mo.; traveling and transportation...
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Scope and content: Audio recordings of four speeches given by James G. "Jimmy" Stahlman, 1937-1939, primarily on the topic of freedom of the press, and most given when he was president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. One unidentified speech, unrelated to Stahlman, concerns an election in Berry Hill, Tennessee in 1947.
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Abstract: These materials center on aviatrix Cornelia Clark Fort, the first female pilot to die on active military duty, during World War II. The collection chronicles Cornelia's career and death through correspondence, official documents, photographs, and a few artifacts, as well as oral interviews and other research collected by Doris Brinker Tanner and Rob Simbeck. The collection touches briefly on the extended Fort family and includes four letters...