The MSU Authors Collection is an important part of the University Archives' holdings because the works in this collection document the intellectual heritage of the university and the contributions of MSU faculty, staff, students, and alumni to contemporary scholarship.
Beginning in 2008, the University Archives has hosted a biennial reception honoring MSU faculty, staff and emeriti faculty authors who had written and/or edited monographs, musical scores or recordings, films or videos. This digital collection showcases the books, scores, recordings, films or videos created by faculty and staff at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Where appropriate and where copyright allows, full-text versions are made available of certain MSU Authors' works.
For more information about the MSU Authors Collection, visit https://library.mnsu.edu/archives/collections/university-archives/msu-authors/ .
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Hope, Intolerance, and Greed: A Reality Check for Teachers
Debra J. Anderson, Robert L. Major, and Richard R. Mitchell
In many ways America is in worse shape than before the first Watts riots occurred over 25 years ago. Intolerance is still abundant; greed is very much alive; and hope held by many at the bottom has been dimmed, if not extinguished. For our country to become everything it is capable of becoming and everything our ancestors dreamed, education cannot continue as usual. Ours is a great country, but when even one of its citizens
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Collaborative Leadership: School Improvement Through Collaborative Leadership Program (ColeaP)
Brian Edward Boettcher and Kuo-Hw Lin
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Mankato State University: The Second Century: The First Twenty-Five Years, 1968-1992: An Interpretative Essay
Claire E. Faust
Donald Youel, in Mankato State College - An Interpretative Essay, commented on the development of this institution for its first one hundred years. He did not chronicle each event, but rather provided the reader with an understanding of what happened and what it meant for the College and for society. He organized this essay from different perspectives: "the developing program, the enrollment, students, the state governing board, administration and faculty." He made the point well
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The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature
JoAnna Stephens Mink and Janet Doubler Ward
Examines the significance of sibling relationships, or the lack of them, as portrayed in literature. Many of the 13 essays compare two or more novels, most of which are from the Victorian era or the 20th century.
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Communication and Women's Friendships: Parallels and Intersections in Literature and Life
Janet Doubler Ward and JoAnna Stephens Mink
Today, women need once again to develop the bonds of "sisterhood" which can provide the support which our families, our "significant other" relationships, and our social institutions have left void. One important way of doing this is to turn to examples of literary friendships. Eleven original essays offer a variety of perspectives on the changing ways in which women's friendships have been viewed. The contributors discuss the fundamental values of women's friendships and communication in
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Teacher Supervision that Works: A Guide for University Supervisors
Debra J. Anderson, Robert L. Major, and Richard R. Mitchell
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If Rock and Roll Were a Machine
Terry Davis
The guidance of two adults and his interest in motorcycles and writing help high school junior Bert Bowden regain the sense of self that had been destroyed by his fifth-grade teacher.
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The Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854-1863
Suzanne L. Bunkers
In 1854 Caroline Seabury of Brooklyn, New York, set out for Columbus, Mississippi, to teach French at its Institute for Young Ladies. She lived in Columbus until 1863, through the years of mounting sectional bitterness that preceded the Civil War and through the turmoil and hardships of the war itself. During that time, her most intimate confidant was her diary. Discovered in the archives of the Minnesota State Historical Society, it is published here for
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Joy!: 2-Part Mixed Chorus, Accompanied
David C. Dickau and Charles Wesley
Dr. David C. Dickau, professor of music at Mankato Sate University is greatly admired for his superb compositions and conducting work. He first arranged Handel's ''Joy to the World'' for 2 part voices, and now comes the SATB setting. Delightful energy, interesting rhythm and percussion make this a very fun selection for church or school.
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Centennial West: Essays on the Northern Tier States
William L. Lang
In 1889-1890, the admission to the Union of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota added more territory to the US than any admission since the original 13 colonies. These 12 essays, revised after their presentation at a centennial conference in Billings, Montana, June 1989, cover topics including law enforcement and the development of legal institutions, statehood and territorial politics, labor movements, life on Indian reservations, the development of railroad towns, and New
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Joinings and Disjoinings: The Significance of Marital Status in Literature
JoAnna Stephens Mink and Janet Doubler Ward
Joinings and Disjoinings illustrates the importance of marriage or singleness in short stories and novels and suggests the diverse perspectives the topic can provide on specific works and on analysis of the cultural importance of marriage and marital status. Essays discuss canonical and lesser-known works, providing social, historical, and literary context.
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A Pun My Word: A Humorously Enlightened Path to English Usage
Robert Oliver Shipman
Explains the differences between similar words and phrases, and provides examples of proper usage.
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Those Barracks Babies
Marcia Baer
This is a book about how a group of folks, in a time long ago, living in a small Minnesota college town, celebrated life. It is a story of reflection. Reflection into the past when times and people were - shall we say - different. The people were veterans returning from the war, the time was the middle of the century-1947 through 1964. The place was Mankato State College in Southern Minnesota. This is the
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Women's Movements in the United States: Woman Suffrage, Equal Rights, and Beyond
Steven M. Buechler
Steven Buecheler has written a comparative sociological analysis of the woman suffrage movement (1840s-1920) and the contemporary women’s movement (1960s to the present). His identification of similarities and differences between these movements reveals persistent feminist issues over time as well as the distinctive concerns of each movement in the sociohistorical context. Buecheler compares these two movements in terms of their origins, organizations, ideologies, class and racial diversities, countermovement’s, and outcomes. He uses resource mobilization theory.
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