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  • How American Bandstand created the American teenager
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    American Bandstand (Television program); Teenagers; Race discrimination;
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    From a small studio in 1950's Philadelphia, American Bandstand became the first national television program directed at teenagers. The show brought rock and roll into American living rooms, shaped the way a generation danced and dressed, and...
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    2012-11-08
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  • Recent developments in geographic information systems at CGU
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    Claremont Graduate University; Claremont Colleges. Library; Geographic information systems; Geographic information systems - Study and teaching (Higher)
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    To recognize GIS Day, Brian N. Hilton, Advanced GIS Lab Director and Warren Roberts, GIS Specialist at Honnold/Mudd Library, will discuss innovative applications of Geographic Information Systems at the Claremont Graduate University, the Claremont...
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    2011-11-17
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  • Cues for snacks and soft drinks: a study of adolescent eating behaviors
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    Diet; Behaviour and health; Teenagers;
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    Memory can be said to deeply connected to our tastes in food -- what we've liked or disliked in the past creates associations that help trigger our current eating behaviors. In what might be seen as a scientific version of the beginning of...
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    2013-04-10
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  • The satisfactory midwife bag: midwifey regulation in South Carolina in the early twentieth century
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    Midwifery; South Carolina; Twentieth century; Childbirth
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    How did childbirth, once commonly administered in the household by lay midwives for women, become the domain of the hospital and the state? During the early 20th century, it was common for older African-American women -- Granny Midwives -- to...
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    2013-03-14
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  • Sabbatical in my garage: building a relpica of an 18th century printing press
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    Printing presses; Isaiah Thomas & Co. (Walpole, N.H.); American Antiquarian Society
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    During his sabbatical in 2011-12, Professor of Literature and HMC Dean of Faculty Jeff Groves studied a rare wooden printing press, built in 1747, as a Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. To obtain a practical knowledge of...
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    2013-02-28
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  • Public lands - public debates: a century of controversy
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    Public lands; United States. National Park Service; United States. Forest Service.
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    The U. S. manages a vast system of national forests, grasslands, parks, and refuges, landscapes that contain some of the most beautiful and resource-rich terrain in the country. Since their establishment beginning in the late 19th-century, these...
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    2012-10-31

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