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  Gleaning Alex Haley's Scriptural "Roots"

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  Richard Newton Claremont Graduate University

  March 21, 2011

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  that “the novel’s advance print run of 200,000 [copies] sold out at once; 1.5 million copies were sold ... so doing, Roots prompts investigation into the complicated ways people learn about race from ...
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  The AMPTP vs. The World

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  December 18, 2007

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  the internet. The tone of their rhetoric has thus far run the spectrum from mock concern to mock ... AMPTP) run the show. As Nikki Finke shrewdly points out, this is a far cry from the situation in 1988, ...
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  The Public Good and Corporate Goodies: A Genealogical Snapshot

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  Joel Adams Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  March 25, 2008

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  corporate culture, many universities seem less interested in higher learning than in becoming licensed ...
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  The Canadian Good Life in Gunless

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  Andrea Braithwaite University of Ontario Institute of Technology

  April 29, 2018

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  Canada. On the run from a vengeful gang of American outlaws, the Montana Kid agrees to work in trade for ...
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  Curating the City

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  Mark Tebeau Cleveland State University

  May 25, 2012

  community partners in formal and informal learning, thru developing digital stories. Or, imagine extending ...
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  Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  February 26, 2008

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  E.W. Scripps’ legacy is that he trusted local editors to know best how to run local newspapers. Today, ...
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  Celebrating Kandy Fong: Founder of Fannish Music Video

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  Francesca Coppa Muhlenberg College

  November 19, 2007

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  Celebrating Kandy Fong: Founder of Fannish Music Video women visual essay stardom Star Trek slide show music video Leonard Nimoy Kandy Fong Joni Mitchell history fandom fan vids 1970s Curator's Note Remix culture didn't start with the Internet. ...
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  A24’s “Heretic” and The History of Mormonism in Cinema

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  Mickey Randle Georgia State University

  December 05, 2024

  leaders and artists alike must learn to reckon with the ever-present religious population in America so as ...
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  Making the Past Visible: Introduction

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  Ethan Thompson Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  March 15, 2015

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  Making the Past Visible: Introduction television making the past visible history archive Curator's Note From newly indexed collections in brick and mortar archives, to “official” online sources, to hidden or just under-funded collections, there is an ...
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  Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  February 28, 2008

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  Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional Educational Television regional media Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction history failure educational TV distribution airplanes 1960s 1950s Curator's Note The Midwest ...