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    The American Revoluationary War: The British Perspective
    (2017-10-12) Wetzel, C. Robert
    Presentation given by Professor C. Robert Wetzel at the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) conference on October 12, 2017.
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    More than an Afterimage: Music as Holocaust Spatial Representation and Legacy
    (2023-03-30) Brown, Kellie
    Music occupies a unique and multi-faceted role in spatial representation of the Holocaust, both in terms of documenting its horrors and in cultivating legacy. This uniqueness derives from music’s dual temporal and physical essence as it is represented by written scores that serve as a blueprint, as sonic events that fill both time and space, and as musical instruments that operate as conduits for both. String instruments, in particular, have occupied a vital place in Jewish culture and, consequently, during the Holocaust. In the most tragic sense, some of these instruments even became actual containers of genocidal evidence as with violins played outside concentration camp crematoria that filled with the human ash that fell. This article will demonstrate that, when played, these instruments transform into living artifacts and musical witnesses, with voices that can speak for those who have been silenced, and that the resulting music that resonates from the printed page fills a sonic space that serves as a powerful medium for memory and representation. The phrase “bearing witness” often refers to representing the stories of people, places, and experiences through words, either written or spoken. But material culture also has a role to play in representation. While objects, art, and architecture certainly support language-based witness, they also provide their own unique lens and conduit for testimony. This seems especially true for music, which has the ability to exist as and cross between both words and objects. Nevertheless, music as material witness remains a complex and often understudied aspect of historical testimony. As a result, this paper will explore through an interdisciplinary approach the divergent nature of music as an aural form, as a creative art, and as a cultural artifact and will offer examples of how music can enhance, elucidate, and complicate Holocaust representation.
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    Dr. Hezekiah B. Hankal: May 10, 1826 – June 20, 1903: His Life, His Family, His Legacy
    (2023-09-11) Shaffer, Donald
    A biography of Dr. Hezekiah Hankal, a Black leader and physician in the community of Johnson City, Tennessee in the 1800s, particularly among the African-American churches and schools of Johnson City.
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    Widby → Woodbey
    (2024) Shaffer, Donald
    George Washington Woodbey was a Baptist minister and noted African American lecturer. He traveled widely on the lecture circuit in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, speaking on such subjects as “Why I Believe What I Believe,” “The Negro in Ancient History,” “The Young Negro of the Past and Present,” and “The Negro Schools,” as well as on social, economic, and racial issues in the United States. He was born into slavery in northeastern Tennessee in the mid-1850s and lived most of his childhood there before his parents moved their family to Kansas in 1870.1 This study carefully examines how early records of the Woodbey family in Upper East Tennessee shed light on the lives of its members while they still lived there, and how their experiences there may have contributed to the formation of George Woodbey’s thinking and passionately held convictions. It begins by attempting to discern the presence of George and his sister Mary and their parents, Charles and Rachel Woodbey, in censuses and other records from slave times, in spite of the fact that those records never give the names of any individual slaves. It then surveys the overall environment in which the members of this family lived and considers some of their recorded experiences in slavery, as well as attempting to imagine what some of the other aspects of their lives may have been like within that context. After attempting to reconstruct how this family experienced the transition from slavery to freedom and the circumstances under which the family came to move from Johnson County to Carter County, still in Upper East Tennessee, it concludes with a brief glimpse of their lives in Carter and Washington Counties. A fuller survey of their lives during the four years or so that they lived in Carter County, before they moved to Kansas, will appear in a separate study, “Taylor - Woodbey,” because in that period their lives were closely intertwined with those of a White family, the family of Dr. C. C. Taylor. (Studies by others examine the Rev. George W. Woodbey’s adult years, his labors and endeavors, his commitments and convictions, his passions and the causes he championed.)