Browsing by Author "Brieger, Gottfried"
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“The Abstract and Brief Chronicles of the Time” A Study of Four Film Adaptations of Hamlet
Mitzelfeld, Pamela T. (Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Continuation of a symposium on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, by Oakland University faculty. -
Anatomy of a Failure: The Detroit Public School System
Brieger, Gottfried (Oakland University, 2011-01-01)For a few short years in the 1920s, a remarkable coalition of the city financial elite, politicians of all stripes, and the unions, united behind school improvement, and the system flourished, at least financially. Then ... -
And This the Latest!
Murphy, Brian (Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Continuation of a symposium on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, by Oakland University faculty. -
Art in Rome: 313 - 1300 A.D. Recognition, Reconstruction, Restoration
Ngote, Louisa C. (Oakland University, 2000-10-01)The influence of imperial Rome and Christianity on art and architecture in Rome from 313–1300 A.D, Emperors, kings, popes, and private citizens set policy, financed construction, and selected the best artists available. -
Ask the Professor: Especially One Who Knows the Answer
Garfinkle, David (Oakland University, 2001-10-01)Isaac Newton’s stunning success, the theory of gravity, seemed disturbing to many contemporaries; it required one to accept that heavenly bodies could act on one another at a distance with nothing intervening. To some, ... -
Bartering Books: Doing Research in Central Brazil
Karasch, Mary C. (Oakland University, 2000-10-01)The author describes some of the more interesting characteristics of doing historical research on a remote region of Brazil in the late colonial period. -
Basic Training
Carleton, Alice M. (Oakland University, 2003-10-01)A young woman's experiences in military basic training, -
Bibliophily In the USA
Gerulaitis, Leonardas V. (Oakland University, 2002-10-01)The state of bibliophily in the United States, starting with its colonial beginnings and tracing it to the present day. -
Book Review: Edmund Morris, Dutch
Appleton, Sheldon (Oakland University, 2000-10-01)Book review of a biography of Ronald Reagan. -
The Books I Wanted to Write
Brieger, Gottfried (Oakland University, 2016-01-01)Author lists book titles he would have liked to have written and humorous descriptions of them. -
Briefs
Brieger, Gottfried (Oakland University, 2004-10-01)Oakland Journal Issue 7 editorial briefs -
A Century of Dickinson Scholarship: Reflections of an Encyclopedist
Eberwein, Jane Donahue (Oakland University, 2000-04-01)Comments on editing an encyclopedia of more than a century’s worth of scholarship since Poems by Emily Dickinson first appeared in 1890, four years after the poet’s death. -
The Contributions of The Jam Handy Organization to American Commerce and Culture
Eberwein, Robert T.; Sandy, Bill (Oakland University, 2002-04-01)Film to Jamison Handy was not an end in itself, but a means to an end, one of many ways to reach out and penetrate into the mind of the viewer..Where Hollywood used film as a substitute for the stage, a way to entertain, ...