Tag: history
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The Environmental Humanities Reading Group
The Environmental Humanities Reading Group acts as a support group, a voluntary seminar, a cool kids club, whatever you want to call it, that brings faculty from various departments together with a common interest in holding intellectual discussions concerning the environment. The Environmental Humanities Reading Group presents that there is an equal role that Humanists…
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Place Studies Summer Projects: Geographic Information Systems
This summer, Alexa Gorski and Henry Stann completed archival research to create, for the first time, a map of Native American locations within a five mile corridor of Susquehanna River’s West Branch. Alexa and Henry found the locations of the sites, and created the GIS map to make finding the sites on a map more…
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Place Studies Summer Projects: Saints of Coal Township
The sisters of St. Casimir are a community of women religious, a congregation founded by Venerable Maria Kaupas in 1907. To this day they continue the mission of Mother Maria Kaupas: ministering in the United States and across the world, and their faithful involvement in education, social justice ministries, parish, and health care, with a…
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Milton Murals ~ “Local Stories, Global Messages”
Images by Zach Matarazzo ’17 & Text by Kirsten Valentini ’17 – Place Studies Research Fellows
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