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- The voice of Ireland: being an interview with John Redmond, M.P. and some messages from representative Irishmen regarding the Sinn Fein rebellion.
- Creator
- Redmond, John Edward, 1856-1918.
- Date Issued
- 1916
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3183892
- Subject Headings
- Ireland -- History -- Easter Rising, 1916 -- Personal narratives.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The soul of France : visits to invaded districts.
- Creator
- Barrès, Maurice
- Date Issued
- 1916
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2796194
- Subject Headings
- World War, 1914-1918 --Personal narratives.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Pseudoscience.
- Creator
- Shier, Mike., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Pseudoscience is a collection of nonfiction essays analyzing the origins and methodologies or various pseudoscientific practices against the backdrop of events from the narrator's life that mirror those practices in some way. Pseudoscience is unverifiable. Pseudoscience is unverifiable.
- Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359285
- Subject Headings
- Pseudoscience, Thought and thinking, Reasoning (Psychology)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Merging from the distance.
- Creator
- Rice, Ian, Scroggins, Mark, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Merging from the Distance offers a place to display the poems I have created during my tenure as a graduate student. The four sections found within represent different personal aesthetics. My thesis is also representational of a personal chronology, for it was my intention to demonstrate my efforts of contemporary poetry. Many of the poems seek to engage symbiosis by combining different languages, forms, and levels of diction.
- Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004323, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004323
- Subject Headings
- Rice, Ian--Personal narratives., American poetry--21st century.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Documentary theatre: pedagogue and healer health stories of Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor survivors.
- Creator
- Morris, Kathryn M., Gamble, Richard J., Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2011-04-08
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164639
- Subject Headings
- Theater and society, Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 --Personal narratives, Hiroshima-shi (Japan) --History --Bombardment, 1945 --Personal narratives
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Telomeres.
- Creator
- Oquendo, Nicole., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Telomeres is a manuscript-length lyric essay in many parts that traces the relationship of the narrator and her father as they both navigate the landscape of post-traumatic stress disorder after his return from Vietnam.
- Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359283
- Subject Headings
- Post-traumatic stress disorder, Fathers and daughters, VIetnam War, 1961-1975, Veterans, Mental health, Veterans, Mental health
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Between Waves.
- Creator
- Jensen, Rebecca, Schmitt, Kate, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Between Waves is a lyrical memoir that explores the changes I faced in transitioning into American life after growing up in rural England. The book is written in two parts; the first is set mostly in England, the second takes place primarily in Florida. I interweave a present, reflective voice through both parts to challenge the ideas of love, loss, and learning to say goodbye as well as attempting to illustrate how perceptions of each can change over time. The lyrical structure of the memoir...
Show moreBetween Waves is a lyrical memoir that explores the changes I faced in transitioning into American life after growing up in rural England. The book is written in two parts; the first is set mostly in England, the second takes place primarily in Florida. I interweave a present, reflective voice through both parts to challenge the ideas of love, loss, and learning to say goodbye as well as attempting to illustrate how perceptions of each can change over time. The lyrical structure of the memoir allows for swift transition between memories, themes, and locations without limitations of a chronological or linear storyline. The stories detailed throughout the memoir are meditative, subjective perceptions that intend to determine what it means to be a child, a parent, a transplant, and what it means to find home within it all.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004833, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004833
- Subject Headings
- Jensen, Rebecca., Immigrants--United States--Personal narratives., Memory--Social aspects.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Personality and perceptions of situations from the thematic apperception test: quantifying alpha and beta press.
- Creator
- Serfass, David G., Sherman, Ryne A., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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Theoretical models posit that the perception of situations consists of two components: an objective component attributable to the situation being perceived and a subjective component attributable to the person doing the perceiving (Murray, 1938; Rauthmann, 2012; Sherman, Nave & Funder, 2013; Wagerman & Funder, 2009). In this study participants (N = 186) viewed three pictures from the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT; Murray, 1938) and rated the situations contained therein using a new measure...
Show moreTheoretical models posit that the perception of situations consists of two components: an objective component attributable to the situation being perceived and a subjective component attributable to the person doing the perceiving (Murray, 1938; Rauthmann, 2012; Sherman, Nave & Funder, 2013; Wagerman & Funder, 2009). In this study participants (N = 186) viewed three pictures from the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT; Murray, 1938) and rated the situations contained therein using a new measure of situations, the Riverside Situational Q-Sort (RSQ; Wagerman & Funder, 2009). The RSQ was used to calculate the overall agreement among ratings of situations and to examine the objective and subjective properties of the pictures. These results support a twocomponent theory of situation perception. Both the objective situation and the person perceiving that situation contributed to overall perception. Further, distinctive perceptions of situations were consistent across pictures and were associated with the Big Five personality traits in a theoretically meaningful manner. For instance, individuals high in Openness indicated that these pictures contained comparatively more humor (r = .26), intellectual stimuli (r = .20), and raised moral or ethical issues (r = .19) than individuals low on this trait.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004059
- Subject Headings
- Discourse analysis, Narrative, Ethnopsychology, Personality assessment, Statistical hypothesis testing
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Prodigal Daughter.
- Creator
- Miller, Madison Michele, Schmitt, Kate, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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The following is a collection of personal essays exploring identity during the transformative period of the author's early adult life. It also examines themes of home, inheritance, grief, and loss of faith. It has elements of both humor and drama highlighted through unusual forms and elements of voice. It is about growing up and going home, mixing old traditions with new ones, bringing new insights to old problems, and about having faith, but always on one's own terms.
- Date Issued
- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004524, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004524
- Subject Headings
- Miller, Madison Michele--Personal narratives., American essays--21st century.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Progress, Regress.
- Creator
- Maher, Michelle., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Progress, Regress examines the narrator's journey through the world of mental illness. Psychologist Lisa James has a new client, six-year-old Megan Cooper, who has been diagnosed with child-onset schizophrenia. Megan's young age and the severity of her illness rattle Lisa, and make her question not only her role as a psychologist and a mother, but also her own mental state.
- Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3360951
- Subject Headings
- Mental illness, Mentally ill children, Family relationships, Schizophrenia in children, Patients
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Belongings.
- Creator
- McLean, Samantha, Hart, Sharon, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
- Abstract/Description
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Belongings hybridizes photography, sculpture, and printmaking through new laser technology. The exhibited work communicates a lingering sense of homesickness and maps a path through the objects discovered in my father’s wallet shortly after his passing.
- Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004870
- Subject Headings
- McLean, Sammi--Personal narratives., Symbolism in art., Time and art., Fathers and daughters--Personal narratives., Photography, Artistic., Digital media--Social aspects., Discourse analysis, Narrative.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A paper containing a statement and vindication of certain political opinions ; read before the Democratic Association, Chestnut Hill, Nov. 1862.
- Creator
- Reed, William B. (William Bradford) 1806-1876, Campbell, John 1810-1874
- Abstract/Description
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Statement and vindication of certain political opinions Notes: Ascribed to William Bradford Reed. Cf. Cushing, Sabin. Signed: W.B. Reed, page 28. Another issue without the statement on title page beginning "Read before ..." Includes bibliographical references. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 22 cm.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb20f24
- Subject Headings
- American Civil War (1861-1865), History, Personal narratives, Politics and government, Reed, William B. -- (William Bradford) -- 1806-1876, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- Evaluating the effects of data collection methodology on the assessment of situations with the riverside situational q-sort.
- Creator
- Frascona, Richard, Sherman, Ryne A., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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The practice of evaluating situations with the Riverside Situational Q-Sort (RSQ:Wagerman & Funder, 2009) is relatively new. The present study aimed to investigate the theoretical framework supporting the RSQ with regards to the potential confounds of emotional state and the use of Likert-type ratings. Data were collected from a sample of Florida Atlantic University students (N = 206). Participants were primed for either a positive or negative mood state and asked to evaluate a situation with...
Show moreThe practice of evaluating situations with the Riverside Situational Q-Sort (RSQ:Wagerman & Funder, 2009) is relatively new. The present study aimed to investigate the theoretical framework supporting the RSQ with regards to the potential confounds of emotional state and the use of Likert-type ratings. Data were collected from a sample of Florida Atlantic University students (N = 206). Participants were primed for either a positive or negative mood state and asked to evaluate a situation with the RSQ in either the Q-Sort or Likert-type response format. Results suggested that response format has a significant influence on RSQ evaluations, but mood and the interaction between mood and response format do not. Exploratory analyses were conducted to determine the underlying mechanisms responsible.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004195, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004195
- Subject Headings
- Sampling (Statistics), Statistical hypothesis testing--Methodology., Personality assessment--Methodology., Discourse analysis, Narrative., Riverside Situational Q-Sort.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Lived Experience of Suffering Through the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti.
- Creator
- Gullett, Diane L., Barry, Charlotte D., Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the lived experience of suffering through the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The experiences of 13 individuals who lived suffering through the 2010 earthquake in Haiti were elicited. Heideggerian hermeneutical phenomenology served as both the guiding philosophy and methodology for this research study, while Eriksson’s (1981) theory of caritative caring provided the caring science lens. Diekelmann, Allen, and Tanner’s (1989) seven-stage method of...
Show moreThe purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the lived experience of suffering through the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The experiences of 13 individuals who lived suffering through the 2010 earthquake in Haiti were elicited. Heideggerian hermeneutical phenomenology served as both the guiding philosophy and methodology for this research study, while Eriksson’s (1981) theory of caritative caring provided the caring science lens. Diekelmann, Allen, and Tanner’s (1989) seven-stage method of hermeneutical analysis provided the structure for data analysis. The relational themes that were interpreted were: Experiencing the Unimaginable, Awakening to a Changed Reality, Agonizing for Others, Compounding Losses, Finding a Way Forward, and Being Transformed. These six relational themes are illuminated and aesthetically re-presented in six watercolor paintings. The constitutive pattern Suffering With and For Others expressed the meaning of suffering for participants through the 2010 earthquake in Haiti as a lived experience.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005938
- Subject Headings
- Dissertations, Academic -- Florida Atlantic University, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010--Personal narratives., Heideggeriana., Hermeneutics--Research--Methodology., Eriksson, Katie
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Recurring vocabularies: Narrating voices in "Anne John", "Jasmine", and "Middle Passage".
- Creator
- Schlosser, Donna J., Florida Atlantic University, Lewis, Krishnakali
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis examines the first-person narrator's development of an autonomous identity, which is characterized by the individual's self-interest on the one hand and social engagement on the other, in the following novels: Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John (1983), Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989), and Charles Johnson, Middle Passage (1990). Examination focuses on autobiographical moments in which language discloses identity development as each narrator employs a unique vocabulary and rhetorical...
Show moreThis thesis examines the first-person narrator's development of an autonomous identity, which is characterized by the individual's self-interest on the one hand and social engagement on the other, in the following novels: Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John (1983), Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989), and Charles Johnson, Middle Passage (1990). Examination focuses on autobiographical moments in which language discloses identity development as each narrator employs a unique vocabulary and rhetorical strategies to build and maintain autonomous identity, establish social relationships, and infuse life with personal and collective meaning. Recurrent vocabularies and rhetoric produce narrative voices of distinction as well as of similarity in the negotiation of self and collective interests in a world of social and cultural structures that circumscribe identity.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1997
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15386
- Subject Headings
- Kincaid, Jamaica--Annie John, Mukherjee, Bharati--Jasmine, Johnson, Charles Richard,--1948---Middle passage, First person narrative
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Trauma and Telling: Examining the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma Through Silence.
- Creator
- Murray, Jennifer, Hagood, Taylor, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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In recent decades there has been a great deal of scholarly and scientific work examining both the impact and the transmission of trauma. The focus of this thesis is the transmission of the trauma of genocide and large-scale historical traumas, specifically that seen in the Holocaust and the missionization of the California Indians in the 18th century. Through the analysis of the autobiographical narratives composed by three generations of Holocaust survivors, as well as one composed by a...
Show moreIn recent decades there has been a great deal of scholarly and scientific work examining both the impact and the transmission of trauma. The focus of this thesis is the transmission of the trauma of genocide and large-scale historical traumas, specifically that seen in the Holocaust and the missionization of the California Indians in the 18th century. Through the analysis of the autobiographical narratives composed by three generations of Holocaust survivors, as well as one composed by a later generation descendant of the California Mission Indians, I argue that silence is not only a manifestation of trauma but also a tool of its transmission. I further argue that when this silence is broken and the stories are told we begin to see a shift in the traumatic memory away from re-traumatizing the later generations and toward preserving an accurate historical memory without the significant psychological cost to the later generations.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004616
- Subject Headings
- California -- History -- To 1846., Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects., Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives., Indians, Treatment of -- California -- History.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Lest we forget : the massacre of the Warsaw ghetto : a compilation of reports received by the World Jewish congress and by the representation of Polish Jewry.
- Creator
- World Jewish Congress.; Representation of Polish Jewry. American Division
- Date Issued
- 1943
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3091473
- Subject Headings
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw., World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Atrocities., World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Poland., World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish., World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish., Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw., Getto's., Joden.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Documentary theatre: pedagogue and healer with their voices raised.
- Creator
- Morris, Kathryn M., Gamble, Richard J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Theatre and Dance
- Abstract/Description
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The beginning of the new millennium finds documentary theatre serving as teacher and “healer” to those suffering and in need. By providing a thought provoking awareness of the “other,” it offers a unique lens with which to examine the socio-political similarities and differences between various cultures and ethnicities in order to promote intercultural understanding. Documentary is also used by teachers, therapists, and researchers as a tool for healing. By sharing personal stories of trauma...
Show moreThe beginning of the new millennium finds documentary theatre serving as teacher and “healer” to those suffering and in need. By providing a thought provoking awareness of the “other,” it offers a unique lens with which to examine the socio-political similarities and differences between various cultures and ethnicities in order to promote intercultural understanding. Documentary is also used by teachers, therapists, and researchers as a tool for healing. By sharing personal stories of trauma and illness with others who are experiencing similar difficulties, emotional pains are alleviated and fears are assuaged. Documentary theatre has expanded in definition from the “epic dramas” of German playwrights Erwin Piscator and Bertholt Brecht during the height of the German Weimar Republic to the recent “verbatim” scripts of playwrights such as Anna Deveare Smith, Emily Mann, and Robin Soans. The dramaturgical duties of the playwright along with the participatory role of the audience have grown in complexity. In verbatim documentary the playwright must straddle a fine line between educating and entertaining while remaining faithful to the words of the respondents as well as to the context in which they were received. The audience, by responding to questionnaires and by engaging in talk-back sessions, plays a pivotal role in production. Documentary serves as an important vehicle for informing and inspiring audiences from all walks of life. In 2010, researchers Dr. Patricia Liehr of the Christine E. Lynn School of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University and Dr. Ryutaro Takahashi, Vice Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, approached me to create a documentary based on their combined interviews of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima survivors. The resultant script, With Their Voices Raised, is included as an appendix to this dissertation as an example of the documentary genre and its unique capacity for research dissemination. With Their Voices Raised not only conveys the memories and fears of the survivors, but in its conclusion reveals how these victims of war have elected to live their lives in a quest for peace- choosing “hope over hate” in a shared world
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004142, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004142
- Subject Headings
- Atomic bomb -- Japan, Hiroshima shi -- Personal narratives, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Documentary mass media -- United States -- Social aspects, Experimental theater, Liehr, Patricia -- With their voices raised -- Criticism and interpretation, Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) -- Attack on -- 1941 -- Personal narratives, Takahashi, Ryutaro -- With their voices raised -- Criticism and interpretation, Theater -- Social aspects
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Writing to Exist: Transformation and Translation into Exile.
- Creator
- Martin, Angela F., Erro-Peralta, Nora, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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Silenced for almost half a century, testimonies of those who lost the Spanish Civil War are now surfacing and being published. The origin of this dissertation was the chance discovery that Martín Herrera de Mendoza, a Spanish Civil War exile living in the United States, was truly a Catalonian anarchist named Antonio Vidal Arabí. This double identity was a cover for the political activist dedicated to the fight for change in the anarchist workers’ union CNT (National Confederation of Workers)...
Show moreSilenced for almost half a century, testimonies of those who lost the Spanish Civil War are now surfacing and being published. The origin of this dissertation was the chance discovery that Martín Herrera de Mendoza, a Spanish Civil War exile living in the United States, was truly a Catalonian anarchist named Antonio Vidal Arabí. This double identity was a cover for the political activist dedicated to the fight for change in the anarchist workers’ union CNT (National Confederation of Workers) and the FAI (Federation of Iberian Anarchists). He founded the FAI chapter in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and planned a failed assassination attempt on General Franco’s life in an effort to avoid the military takeover in 1936. This dissertation is the reconstruction of Antonio Vidal Arabí’s life narrative. It is based on the texts written during his seventeen-month stay as a refugee in Great Britain. Copies of his writings were left in a suitcase with a fellow anarchist who he instructed to have sent to his family upon his death. In 1989, “The English Suitcase” was delivered to his children in Barcelona. Based on his own account, this study follows his service as an intelligence agent for the Spanish Republic during the War. When it was over, he attempted to evacuate his family from France, to save them from the threat of the Nazi invasion and reunite with them in England or America. The analysis of the letters he wrote to his wife and children in France documents how he hid from Franco’s spies using his dual identity. In his letters, always signed as Martín Herrera de Mendoza, he invents a persona in order to help his family. The present study narrates his transformation into the persona he created and the events that brought about his translation into his “other.” Antonio Vidal Arabí’s bilinguism and biculturality is underlined as the main factors in his change into Martín Herrera de Mendoza. His was a voyage into exile documented by his own words; a story of survival and reinvention.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004803, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004803
- Subject Headings
- Herrera de Mendoza, Martín--Correspondence., Spain.--Ejército Popular de la República., Spain--History--República, 1931-1939., Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Personal narratives., Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Refugees--Great Britain--Personal narratives., Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands : Province)--Personal narraatives., Anarchists--Spain--History--20th century., Exiles' writings, Spanish--20th century.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Hugh French to Paul and Rebecca Siebert, 1862.
- Creator
- Rockwell, Karanetta Lazarus
- Date Issued
- 1862
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT3166968p
- Subject Headings
- United States -- History --Civil War, 1861-1865 —Correspondence., Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) --History --John Brown's Raid, 1859., Holland, Samuel –Correspondence., United States --History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 --Personal narratives.
- Format
- Set of related objects