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Title: Behind the Iron Curtain : western travelers and correspondents in East Germany 1945--1972
Creator: Machin, Bryan W.
Date: 2010
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Being Russia : the past, present and future of a superpower
Date: 2017-10-30
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: An interdisciplinary panel composed of Michigan State University faculty members participates in a discussion entitled, "Being Russia: the past, present, and future of a superpower." Panelists describe their individual research on the breakup of the former Soviet Union, the economic impacts in Russia and the newly independent countries, shifting geo-political ramifications, the internal power structure in Russia, and Russian aspirations for power and influence in Europe and on the world stage...
Show moreAn interdisciplinary panel composed of Michigan State University faculty members participates in a discussion entitled, "Being Russia: the past, present, and future of a superpower." Panelists describe their individual research on the breakup of the former Soviet Union, the economic impacts in Russia and the newly independent countries, shifting geo-political ramifications, the internal power structure in Russia, and Russian aspirations for power and influence in Europe and on the world stage. Panelists are: Lisa Cook, professor of economics in the Department of Economics and professor of international relations in James Madison College; Matthew Pauly, professor in the Department of History; Kyle Evered, professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences; and Sherman Garnett, professor in and dean of James Madison College. John P. Beck, Professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations, convenes the session and moderates questions from the audience with the help of Stephanie Cepak.
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Title: Belonging beyond boundaries : constructing a transnational community in a West African borderland
Creator: Glovsky, David Newman
Date: 2020
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: By treating colonial and postcolonial borders as suggestions rather than firm dividers, this dissertation argues that Fulbe people in West Africa built a cross-border community that questioned the relationship between citizenship, territory, and national belonging. In the borderlands of southern Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea (southern Senegambia), Fulbe created a semi-autonomous, transnational community outside of states. In the late nineteenth century, the French, British,...
Show moreBy treating colonial and postcolonial borders as suggestions rather than firm dividers, this dissertation argues that Fulbe people in West Africa built a cross-border community that questioned the relationship between citizenship, territory, and national belonging. In the borderlands of southern Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea (southern Senegambia), Fulbe created a semi-autonomous, transnational community outside of states. In the late nineteenth century, the French, British, and Portuguese colonial governments drew borders between the colonies of Senegal, the Gambia, and Portuguese and French Guinea to divide and separate the peoples of these countries. This work, based on oral histories and archival research in six countries, argues that colonial governments never successfully controlled these borders, and that precolonial territorial strategies and networks have continued to the present. Thus, this research calls for a rethinking of conceptions of territoriality and space in Africa by focusing on Fulbe concepts of space and territory rather than those of colonial and postcolonial states. This study shows how Fulbe people made and remade spatial networks for a variety of reasons, adjusting their geographies in the face of state efforts to control and monitor movement. Throughout the colonial and postcolonial periods, Fulbe concepts of space and place superseded those of local governments, who exercised little control over borders, and thus, movement. This study shows how Fulbe people made and remade spatial networks for a variety of reasons, adjusting their geographies in the face of state efforts to control and monitor movement. From the late nineteenth century, Fulbe people regularly moved between Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea for a variety of social, religious, political, and economic reasons. As a result of this movement, Fulbe citizenship came into question on a national level in Guinea and Guinea-Bissau during the 1960s and 1970s, leading to massive levels of emigration to neighboring countries like Senegal and the Gambia.Fulbe people often treated citizenship as fluid and flexible, laying claim to the rights of citizenship in multiple states. Through cross-border networks and ideas of belonging, they were able to mitigate some of the challenges of both the colonial and postcolonial periods. Their movement and refusal to categorize themselves along national lines subverts ideas that people belong to individual nation-states and offer a window for rethinking territorial belonging outside of the boundaries of modern states.
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Title: Benjamin Harrison speaks
Creator: Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Date: 1894/1899
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: The only known recording of President Benjamin Harrison presumably made years after his presidency by Giuseppe Bettini, sometime between 1894 and 1899. This modern recording features a narrator explaining how Harrison's voice was recorded and features the 1814 campaign song of Harrison's grandfather "Old Tippecanoe," President William Henry Harrison, which was resurrected for Benjamin's 1888 campaign. The Library of Congress says only one copy of the recording has been found and is located at...
Show moreThe only known recording of President Benjamin Harrison presumably made years after his presidency by Giuseppe Bettini, sometime between 1894 and 1899. This modern recording features a narrator explaining how Harrison's voice was recorded and features the 1814 campaign song of Harrison's grandfather "Old Tippecanoe," President William Henry Harrison, which was resurrected for Benjamin's 1888 campaign. The Library of Congress says only one copy of the recording has been found and is located at the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Home and this recording was made from that recording.
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Title: Berlin City Hall speech
Creator: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Date: 1964
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Address at the Berlin City Hall, "Ich bin ein Berliner." Speech recorded June 26, 1963.

Title: Bernhard von Bülow
Creator: Bülow, Bernhard, Fürst von, 1849-1929
Date: 1907-11-30
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: German Chancellor Prince Bernhard von Bülow speaks.

Title: Bert Lance reads a forty-nine page statement to vindicate himself before the Senate Committee on Banking
Creator: Lance, Bert, 1931-2013
Date: 1977-09-15
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Title: Big tricks
Date: 1980
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows caricature of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands wearing a helmet with face shield and topped with a townscape of five multi-storied buildings. She is shown with vampire fangs biting a 1980 Dutch guilder coin that is marked with a value of millions. The coin image is also stamped with a Dutch phrase meaning police state. In the center of the coin is a shield topped with a royal crown below which stands a lion also wearing a helmet and face shield. The lion is holding two...
Show morePoster shows caricature of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands wearing a helmet with face shield and topped with a townscape of five multi-storied buildings. She is shown with vampire fangs biting a 1980 Dutch guilder coin that is marked with a value of millions. The coin image is also stamped with a Dutch phrase meaning police state. In the center of the coin is a shield topped with a royal crown below which stands a lion also wearing a helmet and face shield. The lion is holding two unidentified objects in its front paws. At the time of the queen's 1980 investiture, there were riots due to poor housing conditions and an atmosphere of anti-monarchism because Beatrix had married a German noble who had been in the Hitler Youth.
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Title: Bill Clinton talks with Jim Lehrer on the eve of his last State of the Union Address
Creator: Clinton, Bill, 1946-
Date: 2000-01-26
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Bill Clinton previews his last State of the Union address giving the credit for economic improvement to the American people and Congress. Clinton talks about his administration's place in history, Middle-East peace, poverty reduction, health insurance, and opportunities for college education. He reacts to George Bush's comments about reversing Clinton Era policies. Clinton acknowledges his personal failures but criticizes the "Whitewater" investigation as bogus and expensive and...
Show morePresident Bill Clinton previews his last State of the Union address giving the credit for economic improvement to the American people and Congress. Clinton talks about his administration's place in history, Middle-East peace, poverty reduction, health insurance, and opportunities for college education. He reacts to George Bush's comments about reversing Clinton Era policies. Clinton acknowledges his personal failures but criticizes the "Whitewater" investigation as bogus and expensive and says it was all about power. He says he doesn't know if the outcome would have been different if he had been truthful about the Lewinsky affair. Clinton believe Hillary will be successful in her bid for the Senate. On "News Hour."
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Title: Bill Clinton's press conference, June 28, 2000
Creator: Clinton, Bill, 1946-
Date: 2000-06-28
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Clinton's press conference announces human genome mapping triumph, largest budget surplus, longest economic expansion, need to make drugs affordable, bills on China trade, hate crimes, school construction; answers questions on Cuba, Israel, death penalty, Al Gore, abortion, fuel production, boy scouts, missile defense, Northern Ireland, post-Presidency plans, Korea, budget differences with Congress.

Title: Birch Bayh speaking at a testimonial dinner for Marcus Grey
Creator: Bayh, Birch, 1928-
Date: 1975
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Birch Bayh talks about Philip Hart, Gerald Ford, and U.S. politics.

Title: Birth of a boundary : blood, cement, and prejudice and the making of the Dominican-Haitian border, 1937-1961
Creator: Paulino, Edward Ramon
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Birthplace of aluminum, cradle of crime : spheres of influence in the deindustrialization of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 1930-1970
Creator: Mazak-Kahne, Jeanine
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Britain confronts the Stalin revolution : the Metro-Vickers' trial and Anglo-Soviet relations, 1933
Creator: Morrell, Gordon Wayne
Date: 1990
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Calvin Coolidge's 1920 Fourth of July speech, delivered before he was nominated to run for Vice President
Creator: Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
Date: 1919/1920
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Recording begins with news coverage of Jack Dempsey beating Jess Willard in a boxing match on July 4, 1919.

Title: Campaign speech entitled "The right of the people to rule"
Creator: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Date: 1912
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: In this campaign speech, Roosevelt cautions against political extremes of the right and left.

Title: Campaign speech on popular unrest
Creator: Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Date: 1912
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Taft delivers a campaign speech entitled "Popular Unrest."

Title: Campaign speech on tariff and the regulation of trusts
Creator: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Date: 1912
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Wilson speaks about the tariff and the regulation of trusts, and the partnership of all people with the federal government. He opens with "We stand in the presence of an awakened nation."

Title: Campaign speech on the anti-trust laws
Creator: Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Date: 1912
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President Taft delivers a campaign speech on the anti-trust laws.

Title: Campaign speech on the interests of labor
Creator: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Date: 1912
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Wilson talks about the interests of labor and compares his views with those of the third party.

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