Browsing Oakland University Archives and Historical Collections by Title
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Natives: Ambrotypes from the Digital Frontier
(Oakland University, 2010-10-01)After the invention of wet plate photography, the ambrotypist/ferrotypist traveled the Western frontier in wagons, photographing those living on the fringe of civilization. Nearly 160 years later, I travel the new frontier ... -
Needy and Greedy and Black Inside
(Oakland University, 2007-01-01)Review of three novels written by Ruth Rendell, one under her pseudonym Barbara Vine. -
Neighborhood scene with children and wagon
Two boys with a younger child in a wagon on an unpaved street in Rochester, Michigan. -
The New Academic Year
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New Day in a Troubled Land: Cambodia Rising
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Recollections of a three-day trip to Cambodia in February 1999. -
New Gift Commitments
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New Gift Commitments
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New Housing on Campus
(2012-12-04) -
New Poems and Glad Outings
(1907)Cover and title page of J. J. Snook’s privately printed book of poetry, New Poems and Glad Outings. -
New Student Convocation 2003
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New Student Convocation 2009
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New Year Update
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Not Your Grandfather’s Sherlock Holmes: Guy Ritchie’s 21st Century Reboot of a 19th Century British Icon
(Oakland University, 2013-01-01)Essay about filmmaker Guy Ritchie's film adaptions of Sherlock Holmes. -
Notes from the Dismal Science...And, where all the college teachers are above average
(Oakland University, 2004-10-01)Teacher evaluation options -
Notes from the Dismal Science: Are Corporations Evil?
(Oakland University, 2008-01-01)Friends and acquaintances have opined that the corporation, oriented to make profits, is inherently evil. Such comments led me to read the book, The Corporation, by a Canadian law professor, Joel Bakan, and to view the ... -
Notes from the Dismal Science: Does Social Capital Make People Healthier?
(Oakland University, 2007-01-01)My wish is that social capital will prove to be a significant cause of good health and that it will prove practicable to invest in a community’s social capital. -
Notes from the Dismal Science: Gas Prices: What’s Real and What’s Not?
(Oakland University, 2005-01-01)Historical trends in United States gas and oil prices. -
Notes from the Dismal Science: Growing and Shrinking University Budgets: Go Ask Alice
(Oakland University, 2002-10-01)A university or any organization makes most sense when it grows and contracts disproportionately but symmetrically. -
Notes from the Dismal Science: Just How Good is Oakland University
(Oakland University, 2008-10-01)Altogether, what is the answer to the initial question: “Just how good is Oakland University?” I think that the best thing to say was spoken by Gary Russi in his presidential address to faculty on January 31, 2007 in Varner ...