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  • Sketch of instruction trenches at Camp Grant, Ill., Anderson Sector
    World War I Maps  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    United States. Army. Engineer Regiment, 311th
    Date
    1917
    Description
    From a reconnaissance by 311th Engineers, 86th Division, N.A.
  • Europe's future map: a vision of private Kutschkes of the German national guard
    World War I Maps  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Liberty Loan Committee. Publicity Department
    Date
    1917
    Description
    Likely published in 1917 or 1918.
  • The Macomb Daily By-stander, 6 October 1920 - Page 6
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1920
  • The Macomb Daily By-stander, 3 July 1920 - Page 6
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1920
  • St. Anne Record, 14 November 1918 - Page 6
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1918
  • The Cairo Bulletin, 10 October 1918 - Page 5
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1918
  • Daily Illini, 6 February 1946 - Page 3
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1946
  • Disney War
    College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Doble G
    Date
    2006
    Description
    Image view: General view.
  • Documents et Cheminements: tracing the postmemory of the second world war and the Algerian war of independence
    Scholarship
    Creator
    Charrat, Priscilla Carole
    Description
    This dissertation proposes ways out of traumatic silence in contemporary French and Francophone North African fiction. While silence has been the focus of trauma-centered texts in recent decades, I bring in the theoretical frameworks of affect theory, cultural translation, and new media as possible ways out of narrative rupture. These ways out of literary silence lead me to propose new mechanisms of empathy between victims, perpetrators, and their descendants in novels, films, and graphic novels depicting the aftermath of the Second World War, the Algerian War of Independence, or migration crises in France and Algeria. Specifically, this project will look at Leïla Sebbar’s novel La Seine était rouge, Zineb Sedira’s Mother Tongue, an art installation that uses video clips, Catherine Lépront’s novel Le Beau visage de l’ennemi, Patrick Modiano’s novel Dora Bruder, Boualem Sansal’s novel Le Village de l’Allemand ou le journal des frères Schiller, Pascal Jardin’s novel Le Nain jaune, Alexandre Jardin’s novel Des gens très bien, Yamina Benguigui’s documentary film Mémoires d’immigrés, Jérôme Ruillier’s graphic novel Les Mohamed, Albert Camus’s novels L’Etranger and La Chute, and Kamel Daoud’s novel Meursault, contre-enquête. This dissertation also focuses on the question of vectors of memory in France and Algeria, as well as intermediality in contemporary French and Algerian narratives. My guiding theoretical framework throughout the dissertation draws on Marianne Hirsch’s discussions of what she calls “postmemory.” However, while postmemory for Hirsch focuses on the transmission of the memories of an event from first to subsequent generations who have not lived the event directly, I use my first chapter to highlight – through the works of Leïla Sebbar – how specifically literary texts express silence, and the multiple implications such an expression can have beyond merely signaling trauma in the narrative. Can the various factors and causes of silence help us envision paths to self-understanding and self-authoring beyond the assessment of a crisis of transmission of memory? This chapter will therefore extend the existing discussion of postmemory—which focus on successful, albeit difficult, transmissions—by looking at non-linear heritage of memory despite or due to initial silence. Building on the idea that ruptures in postmemory—represented as literary silence— need not entail the loss of memory altogether, the second chapter suggests that rupture rather calls for postmemory’s recuperation through the use of memory prosthetics. To develop this point, I put Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory framework into dialogue with the “prosthetic memory” framework theorized by Alison Landsberg. Analyzing Catherine Lépront’s novel Le beau visage de l’ennemi on the postmemory of the Algerian War of Independence, this second chapter looks at how objects (photographs, diaries, letters, etc.) may assist the recuperation of postmemory, while also opening up the discussion about the limits of such prosthetic remediation. The third chapter complicates and rounds out the previous one by discussing literary instances where prosthetic remediation needs to be supplemented by an affective sense of belonging to the memorial community. While the second chapter investigated prosthetic memory-objects, the third chapter focuses on prosthetic memory-sites, which can act as affective links between those who participate in historical events and their would-be memorial inheritors born after the events. Patrick Modiano’s novel Dora Bruder offers an interaction with places that enable the narrator of his texts to invest affectively in a historical event. To explicate this, I introduce Michel de Certeau’s distinction between space and place which, I argue, clarifies the role embodied memory plays in the narrator’s walks in the city. The fourth chapter proposes a new concept—transcategorical postmemory—to supplement the existing framework of postmemory, by including the underdeveloped field of perpetrator postmemory. The proposed concept of transcategorical postmemory names the mechanism by which descendants of perpetrators can empathize with the victims of their forefathers. Through a reading of Boualem Sansal’s Le Village de l’Allemand ou le journal des frères Schiller, this chapter further distinguishes two modes of the concept: one pathological (melancholic transcategorical postmemory), one future-oriented (productive transcategorical postmemory). The fifth and last chapter analyzes three literary texts in order to illustrate how the concept of transcategorical postmemory coined in the previous chapter constitutes a generative theoretical tool for approaching rewrites of first-generation texts. Looking at three pairs of works involving postmemory (by Pascal and Alexandre Jardin; Yamina Benguigui and Jérôme Ruillier; and Albert Camus and Kamel Daoud), this chapter will not only show the concept of transcategorical postmemory at play, but also illustrate how attention to the dynamic between each pair of texts enables a richer reading of each work individually. The conclusion will summarize and situate this dissertation’s contributions within the field of postmemory studies, as well as show how these contributions can shed new light on familiar first-generation texts. The conclusion also highlights how the concept of transcategorical postmemory lays the foundation for further research on group identities that challenge the victim/perpetrator divide, and whose memory might have consequently fallen out of public discourses.
  • Weekly Gettysburgian, 26 September 2002 - Page 15
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    2002
  • Daily Illini, 25 February 1933 - Page 2
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1933
  • Daily Illini, 13 October 1951 - Page 1
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1951
  • Toluca Star-Herald, 26 September 1919 - Page 4
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1919
  • Daily Illini, 31 March 1962 - Page 7
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1962
  • World War II
    Carl Sandburg Collection  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1943
    Description
    Images were captured using an Epson 1640 XL flatbed scanner and Photoshop 7.0 and 8.0 imaging software. Master images were captured in TIFF format, 24-bit color or 16-bit black-and-white. Image size was 600 DPI for all master images. Master image size ranged from roughly 2.5 MB to 40.0 MB. Images were optimized using Photoshop 5.0. For this project image modification was kept to a minimum. Images were rotated and some borders were cropped to reflect the look of the original piece. Access images were created as JPEGS with minimum compression and sized to 1024x768 pixels.
  • """Mary Ruth"" Memories of Mobile... We Still Remember: Stories from the 91st Bomb Group"
    Scholarship
    Creator
    Getz, Lowell L.
    Description
    "The Eighth Air Force flew a total of 264,618 individual bomber sorties out of England during World War II. The 91st Bomb Group (Heavy), alone, flew 340 missions. Although many missions were routine, with little action, all too many were anything but routine. Formations often were subjected to continuous German fighter attacks, especially during the early months of the war. Anti-aircraft batteries sent up clouds of flak over most targets. Losses of planes and lives were severe. Many of the returning planes were so badly damaged that they barely were able to struggle back to their bases in England. Causalities among the crews were heavy. Even the ""milk runs"" were far from uneventful. Assembling the complex formations in the murky skies over England and flying the long distances at subzero temperatures to and from the target in aging, war weary planes was wrought with danger. Each mission presented its own unique drama about which any number of stories could be told. Unfortunately, only a few accounts of the events transpiring on specific missions have been recorded. The trauma, the terror, the manner in which the airmen responded to the situations are disappearing with the participants. We owe these men such a debt of gratitude, however, that an attempt should be made to record as many of the incidents of the time as possible. It is only through such accounts that later generations will understand and appreciate the dedication and sacrifices of the men who flew in the Eighth Air Force. In this short compilation of stories, I have put together just a sampling of the events of the time."
  • In “No man’s land”: Libraries in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Scholarship
    Creator
    Kasapović, Indira
    Description
    This paper presents the complex situation that libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina face and suggests possible avenues for improvement. After brief coverage of the history of libraries in the country from the Middle Ages to the communist period, the paper focuses on the devastation that occurred during the war that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995, which was formally brought to an end by the Dayton Peace Agreement. The problems that libraries have faced in the current period of peace cannot be understood without reference to this episode of the war. The most difficult problems they face today are the lack of adequate legislation, the politicization of library activities, and the war devastation. In addition, at the beginning of 2014, the library and information system of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is based on a computer program for cooperative cataloging, was split into two parts. The fragmentation of contemporary Bosnian and Herzegovinian society is evidenced by the damage and division that politics has managed to effect, which the war did not.
  • The Quill, 5 August 1919 - Page 3
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1919
  • Daily Illini, 22 January 1942 - Page 5
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1942
  • The Bowen Chronicle, 28 January 1915 - Page 6
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1915
  • Women in the war--for the final push to victory : women needed in war plants, in essential civilian jobs, and in the...
    HathiTrust  ·   Library Catalog
    Date
    1944
  • Franklin Reporter, 17 July 1919 - Page 6
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1919
  • The Ashton Gazette, 24 November 1921 - Page 2
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1921
  • American Eagle, 26 April 1961 - Page 4
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1961
  • Daily Illini, 16 August 1945 - Page 1
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1945
  • Bureau County Tribune, 6 August 1915 - Page 4
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1915
  • Urbana Daily Courier, 11 May 1935 - Page 19
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1935
  • Hoya, 25 October 1962 - Page 8
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1962
  • Better Farming, 1 November 1914 - Page 5
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1914
  • The Day Book, 5 August 1914 - Page 24
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1914
  • Daily Illini, 29 October 1959 - Page 2
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1959
  • The Day Book, 6 April 1917 - Page 1
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1917
  • Daily Illini, 20 July 1950 - Page 2
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1950
  • Nazi Prison Camps [ Presentation of the Illini Veterans of World War II ]
    WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Date
    1945
    Description
    Content is not Nazi Prison Camps, it is about "Our Stake in the Pacific" from a show called "Reviewing Stand". Archives note: "Cassette dub in 652 T
  • The Champaign Daily News, 9 February 1919 - Page 9
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1919
  • Chicago Livestock World, 22 August 1914 - Page 2
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1914
  • Oly Givon Interview
    Chuck Olin Digital Film Archive  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Olin, Chuck
    Date
    1996
    Description
    For more information on this collection, visit http://guides.library.illinois.edu/olin.
  • Carte-guide Campbell
    World War I Maps  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Creator
    Editions Blondel La Rougery
    Date
    1917
    Description
    Relief shown by shading and spot heights.
  • The Cairo Bulletin, 28 December 1918 - Page 3
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1918
  • True Republican, 11 August 1920 - Page 3
    Digitized Newspapers
    Date
    1920