Florence Smyth, piano teacher at Winthrop Training School, gives a music recital at the college. Pieces in the program include Mozart's Sonata in A Major Schubert's Impromptu and Hark; hark the Lark Chopin's Waltz and Ballade...
In his April 3, 2008 interview with Kristin Malone, John Chester details his service overseas in Europe during WWII. Included are stories of interactions with German soldiers and the rules and regulations of the United States...
Dr. John Hewson's appointment to Memorial University's Henrietta Harvey Chair in May 1997 marked 37 years of distinguished service as scholar, teacher and administrator.
Dr. Hewson, an APLA member since the early days of our...
Dr. John Hewson's appointment to Memorial University's Henrietta Harvey Chair in May 1997 marked 37 years of distinguished service as scholar, teacher and administrator.
Dr. Hewson, an APLA member since the early days of our...
John Bossy, who died on 23 October 2015 at the age of 82, had a
long association with Past and Present. He became a member of
the Editorial Board in 1973 and during the course of his career
published a number of seminal articles...
Imagine being a 14-year-old kid doing a project for history about a topic you enjoy. My group and I decided to research the history of baseball, but more specifically, the history of the Negro League. A league that solely for...
Imagine being a 14-year-old kid doing a project for history about a topic you enjoy. My group and I decided to research the history of baseball, but more specifically, the history of the Negro League. A league that solely for...
Imagine being a 14-year-old kid doing a project for history about a topic you enjoy. My group and I decided to research the history of baseball, but more specifically, the history of the Negro League. A league that solely for...
This interview was conducted by Dr. George Garrison with John Lee (Bird) Ellis for Dr. Garrison's project on the History of Emmett Scott High School. Emmett Scott was the segregated high school for African-Americans, which was...
The v-Crk oncogene product, while possessing no intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity, causes an elevation in levels of cellular phosphotyrosine as it transforms chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF). Because of this similarity to v-Src...
This is the introductory essay to a special issue of the South Atlantic Review focusing on John Gower. Guest editor for this issue is Kara L. McShane with the assistance of R. F. Yeager.
This paper provides an in-depth examination of the distribution of the Antipassive morpheme -si- in Mittimatalik, a dialect of !nuktitut spoken in North Baffin. It is demonstrated that the occurrence of the overt Antipassive...
This paper provides an in-depth examination of the distribution of the Antipassive morpheme -si- in Mittimatalik, a dialect of !nuktitut spoken in North Baffin. It is demonstrated that the occurrence of the overt Antipassive...
In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the capital convictions of Jackson Furman and other African American inmates sentenced to death, holding that the death penalty could not be applied lawfully given...
John Winthrop is an 11th-generation descendant of Winthrop benefactor Robert Charles Winthrop of Boston. Winthrop's talk will touch on the concept of building upon the foundation established by our predecessors.
A new phase V of hydrogen was recently claimed in experiments above 325 GPa and 300 K. Due to the extremely small sample size at such record pressures the measurements were limited to Raman spectroscopy. The experimental data on...
AbstractThe following Communication presents a newly discovered manuscript by John Locke. The manuscript dates from 1667–8 and it deserves notice as the most significant example of Locke's...
Trivalent metal hypophosphites with the general formula M(H2PO2)3 (M = V, Al, Ga) adopt the ReO3 structure, with each compound displaying two structural polymorphs. High-pressure synchrotron X-ray studies reveal a...
The term ‘priestcraft’ became fashionable in the 1690s. This essay explores its use among the anti-clericals in John Locke’s circle and examines the critique of priestcraft in Locke’s own Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)....
John Haugeland passed away suddenly in 2010 leaving behind an unfinished book manuscript on Heidegger. He was an analytic philosopher who specialized in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science; however, he had an “extensive...
John Haugeland passed away suddenly in 2010 leaving behind an unfinished book manuscript on Heidegger. He was an analytic philosopher who specialized in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science; however, he had an “extensive...
Ecocriticism is a multi-disciplinary critical theory that connects environmentalism and literary studies by looking at texts through their representations of nature and ecology. While the study of ecocriticism might seem to be...