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An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual violence, and spotlighting ways to make change. In football-obsessed Steubenville, Ohio, on a summer night in 2012, an incapacitated sixteen-year-old girl was repeatedly assaulted by members of the "Big Red" high school football team. They took turns documenting the crime and sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and...
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Scope and content: Two scrapbooks compiled by sports fan J.R. Heath, featuring news clippings, some photographs, and a few programs or other ephemera related to boys high school football and basketball teams at DuPont High School. Materials are compiled in two volumes. Volume 1 spans the time frame of 1943-1953; volume 2 runs 1953-1965. Basketball games were of special interest to Heath, as he frequently compiled box scores for every season, showing...
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Scope and content: A variety of materials, related mostly to the performing arts in Nashville, Tenn. in the early 1920s. Items include performance programs, news clippings, and other material. Some items have minor damage, and some appear to have been removed from a scrapbook or show other signs of having been glued down in the past. Many of the programs contain photographic illustrations.
Subjects include classical music, dance, and singing, including...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Nashville lawyer and judge Alfred Thompson Adams, conducted on the 16 Sept. 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Adams, who served Nashville as Chancellor of Part Two of the Davidson County Chancery Court from 1957-1970, discusses his childhood and education in Nashville; visiting the Beersheba Springs...
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Scope and content: Includes a wide variety of material relating to professional, amateur and recreational sports, individual sports teams, general sports activities (mostly for adults), seasonal and other recreational activities, amusement parks and similar location-based recreation, marathons and single-event sports, sports stadiums and venues, and related subjects. Formats include promotional material, programs, recreation guides, registration or...
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Scope and content: The collection includes written notes, transcripts, or reports based upon interviews done in 1980 by students with alumni who attended the school between 1913 and 1979. The questions are divided into seven sections. Questions range from factual (What years did you attend? How did you get to school? Did you have to take an entrance exam?) to opinion (Favorite subjects? Most difficult subjects? Teachers who stand out in your...
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Scope and content: Newsclippings, spanning dates from 1918-1941, sometimes including entire pages or nearly complete issues, from the Nashville Banner and Tennesseean newspapers. Early papers sometimes feature photogravure sections. A few clippings relate to members of the Andrews family, especially the three sons of James and Lula Andrews, and a few articles document James D. Andrews's interest in local aviation matters.
Topics include a wide...