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The Maturest Deliberation : Colonial Pennsylvania Currency in Depression and War

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Borden, John F.

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The purpose of this study is to review Pennsylvania's use of paper money through two distinct periods: the first seven years of currency issues starting in 1723 and concluding in 1730, and the second period encompassed by the French and Indian War in 1755-63. They represent two significant periods affecting...

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form of currency known as book credit. Book credit was the extension of credit in anticipation of
Analysis of two late-prehistoric archeological sites on the upper Applegate River of southern Oregon

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MacDonald, Lynne Bright

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Excavation of two archeological sites, 353A47 and 35JA49, in the upper Applegate River Valley of southwestern Oregon was conducted in 1978 by the Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University. Site 353A47 is a multi-component site, of which only the late-prehistoric stratum, containing one complete and two partial housepits and a...

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"Pushing for the Highline" : The Diffusion of Innovations in the Oregon Otter Trawl Fishery

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Stephenson, Garry Owen

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Implementation of. the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 affords opportunities for fishery expansion and economic development in the Oregon otter trawl fishery. The changes stimulated by the Act should occur, according to social science theorists, by the diffusion of innovations from innovative fishermen to less innovative fishermen, with...

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. Informants included working and retired fishermen, marine extension agents, fishing gear suppliers, fishery
The Works Progress Administration in Oregon : An Administrative Overview

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Butcher, Karyle S.

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The depression of the 1930s had an early effect on the state of Oregon. A decline in timber and agricultural production resulted in severe unemployment in the late 1920s. State and local charitable organizations attempted to care for the unemployed but they did not have the financial resources to do...

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Devil Dog Diplomacy and the abandonment of military tradition : United States Foreign Policy in Central America and the Caribbean, 1915-1934

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Geissler, Eric L.

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During the U.S. military interventions in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti between 1915 and 1934, Washington equipped members of the its armed forces with civil and political powers that represented a radical departure from the North American military tradition. This abandonment of tradition decisively contributed to both the disappointments...

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Museum education programs : Portland, Oregon

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Scherer, Leigh Anne Whitney

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In this study I explored the variety of educational opportunities available in museums. Next, I examined the museum education programs in the Portland, Oregon area and described what types of opportunities are available to teachers. Finally, I made suggestions for teachers on how to best access museum programs and for...

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in the future. For example, in 1916 the Cleveland Museum of Art established an extension division
Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

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Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.

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Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...

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Exploring Latinx Transfer Students' Experiences at a 4-Year University

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Rodriguez, Eduardo B.

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The number of Latinx students enrolling in higher education has grown significantly over the past two decades (Jabbar et al., 2019). This study explores a portion of that population by focusing on the experiences of Latinx transfer students at a 4-year institution within the Pacific Northwest of the United States....

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Ideology, reality, and rhetoric : Kenneth Burke's dramatism

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Beach, Josh M.

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The American philosopher and literary critic Kenneth Burke was an "ideologist" (although he never called himself this, and added to that, he spent most of his life avoiding the Marxist term of ideology to describe human "systems" of ideas). Burke instead used the terms "orientation," "rationalization," "perspective." "critical perspective," "way...

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" phase where decay seems to set in. Nietzsche went so far as to say that "truth," and by extension
Technological progress, disacculturation, and our public schools

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Morita, Sally J.

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The problems facing our nation's public schools today cannot be divorced from our enthusiasm for technology and the positive relationship we believe it shares with our perception of progress. Based on the second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy, author Jeremy Rifkin argues that the development of increasingly "efficient"...

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progress was both an extension and repu- diation of the idea of progress inherited from the Enlightenment

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Antisemitism in literature1
Applegate Valley (Or.) -- Antiquities1
Archaeological surveying -- Oregon -- Willamette River Valley1
Archaeology -- Oregon -- Kings Valley -- Methodology1
Arms race -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century1
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