Milligan Library Life

by the staff of P.H. Welshimer Memorial Library & Seminary Library

New Books and Media Received (November 2018)

The following Books and DVDs (200 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during November 2018.

Seminary Library

New Testament Seminar
Cognitive science and the New Testament : a new approach to early Christian research, 2017.

Lifting the veil : 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 in light of Jewish homiletic and commentary traditions, 2015.

Novum Testamentum Graecum : editio critica maior, Teil 1.1, 2017.

Archives
God of tomorrow : how to overcome the fears of today and renew your hope for the future, 2018.

Early Christian care for the poor : an alternative subsistence strategy under Roman imperial rule, 2018.

Messy grace : how a pastor with gay parents learned to love others without sacrificing conviction, 2015. 

Fine Arts
Likeness and presence : a history of the image before the era of art, 1994.

The Routledge handbook of early Christian art, 2018.

History
Behind the scenes of the Old Testament : cultural, social, and historical contexts, 2018. 

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Advent : the once and future coming of Jesus Christ, 2018.

Being human : bodies, minds, persons, 2018.

Biblical Greek made simple : all the basics in one semester, 2018.

Biblical prophecy : perspectives for Christian theology, discipleship, and ministry, 2014.

The Book of Jeremiah : composition, reception, and interpretation, 2018.

The church and its vocation : Lesslie Newbigin’s missionary ecclesiology, 2018.

The commentary of Origen on the Gospel of St Matthew, 2018.

Connections : a lectionary commentary for preaching and worship, Year C, Part 1, 2018.

Contextualizing the faith : a holistic approach, 2018.

Crafting a rule of life : an invitation to the well-ordered way, 2012.

Discovering the New Testament : an introduction to its background, theology, and themes, 2018.

Dying and the virtues, 2018.

Early Christian care for the poor : an alternative subsistence strategy under Roman imperial rule, 2018.

The end of preaching, by Thomas Troeger, 2018.

Everyday glory : the revelation of God in all of reality, 2018.

A failure of nerve : leadership in the age of the quick fix, 2017.

The fall of man and the foundations of science, 2007.

The four pages of the sermon : a guide to biblical preaching., 2018.

A handbook to Old Testament exegesis, by William P. Brown, 2017.

Heaven on earth : God’s call to community in the Book of Revelation, 2017.

Ingenuity : preaching as an outsider, 2018.

Jesus and the gospels : an introduction, 2016.

Jesus in Asia, 2018.

The kingdom of man : genesis and failure of the modern project, 2018.

Learning theology through the church’s worship : an introduction to Christian belief, 2018.

Liturgy for the whole church : resources for multigenerational worship, 2008.

Miracles : God’s presence and power in creation, 2018.

A new church and a new seminary : theological education is the solution, 2018.

New Testament Christological hymns : exploring texts, contexts, and significance, 2018.

Placemaking and the arts : cultivating the Christian life, 2018.

Poured out : the spirit of God empowering the mission of God, 2018.

Praying for the dawn : a resource book for the ministry of healing, 2000.

Reading the parables, 2014.

Resurrection as salvation : development and conflict in pre-Nicene Paulinism, 2018.

Violence in scripture, 2013.

What the Bible actually teaches on women, 2018.

Who lynched Willie Earle? : preaching to confront racism, 2017.

Why religion? : a personal story, 2018.

Womanist Midrash : a reintroduction to the women of the Torah and the throne, 2017.

Reference
The Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshitta version. Part II Fasc. 5. Proverbs; Wisdom of Solomon; Ecclesiastes; Song of songs. Edited on behalf of the International organization for the Study of the Old Testament by the Peshitta Institute, Leiden, 2018.

The Paulist biblical commentary, 2018.

Welshimer Library

Bibliography, Library Science, and Information Resources
Never use Futura, 2017.

Education
Critical educational psychology, by Stephen Vassallo, 2017.

Fine Arts
Animating the science fiction imagination, 2018.

Art of the Northern Renaissance : courts, commerce and devotion, 2018.

Hagia Sophia : sound, space, and spirit in Byzantium, 2017.

Michelangelo : divine draftsman & designer, 2018.

Rembrandt’s Holland, 2018. 

Geography
Living in the anthropocene : Earth in the age of humans, 2017.

History
Age of conquests : the Greek world from Alexander to Hadrian, 2018.

An autobiography or The story of my experiments with truth, 2018.

Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu, 2018.

Brutus : the noble conspirator, 2017.

Civil war in Syria : mobilization and competing social orders, 2018.

Creators, conquerors, and citizens : a history of ancient Greece, 2018.

The dead march : a history of the Mexican-American War, 2017.

Eisenhower : becoming the leader of the free world, 2018.

Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire, 2017.

The expanding blaze : how the American Revolution ignited the world, 1775-1848, 2017.

Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life, 2017.

From independence to revolution : Egypt’s Islamists and the contest for power, 2017.

Gorbachev : his life and times, 2018.

The historian’s narrative of Frederick Douglass : reading Douglass’s autobiography as social and cultural history, 2017.

A history of the future : prophets of progress from H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov, 2017.

Iran : a modern history, 2017.

Jah kingdom : Rastafarians, Tanzania, and pan-Africanism in the age of decolonization, 2017.

Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights, 2017.

Last of the Tsars : Nicholas II and the Russia revolution, 2018.

The last Ottoman generation and the making of the modern Middle East, 2017.

Lost kingdom : a history of Russian nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin, 2018.

A nation like all others : a brief history of American foreign relations, 2018.

The political economy of the Kurds of Turkey : from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic, 2017.

Power without victory : Woodrow Wilson and the American internationalist experiment, 2017.

The Republic for which it stands : the United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896, 2017.

Russia in revolution : an empire in crisis, 1890 to 1928, 2018.

Sea of the caliphs : the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world, 2018.

Seven myths of Native American history, 2018.

A socialist peace? : explaining the absence of war in an African country, 2017.

Southern reconstruction, 2018.

Stonehenge : the story of a sacred landscape, 2018.

Thinking about history, 2017.

This worldwide struggle : religion and the international routes of the Civil Rights Movement, 2017.

When the war came home : the Ottomans’ Great War and the devastation of an empire, 2018.

Language and Literature
Ancient rhetorics and digital networks, 2018.

Ascent : philosophy and Paradise lost, 2018.

The Cambridge companion to the writings of Julius Caesar, 2018.

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf, 2010.

The danger of romance : truth, fantasy, and Arthurian fictions, 2018.

Echoes of Emerson : rethinking realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather, 2017.

Graphic design discourse : evolving theories, ideologies, and processes of visual communication, 2018.

Henry David Thoreau : a life, 2017.

A history of the African American novel, 2017.

Ishiro Honda : a life in film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa, 2017.

James Friedrich and Cathedral Films : the independent religious cinema of the evangelist of Hollywood, 1939-1966, 2018.

Mercury’s wings : exploring modes of communication in the ancient world, 2017.

Milton and the making of Paradise lost, 2017.

The news untold : community journalism and the failure to confront poverty in Appalachia., 2017.

The Oxford handbook of classical Chinese literature (1000 BCE-900 CE), 2017.

The practices of hope : literary criticism in disenchanted times, 2017.

Projecting the world : representing the “foreign” in classical Hollywood, 2017.

Semi-detached : the aesthetics of virtual experience since Dickens, 2018.

Shakespeare’s fathers and daughters, 2017.

The sixties, center stage : mainstream and popular performances in a turbulent decade, 2017.

Spectacular men : race, gender, and nation on the early American stage, 2017.

Why Harry met Sally : subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian power, and the rhetoric of modern love, 2017.

The woman question in Plato’s Republic, 2017.

Written in blood : revolutionary terrorism and Russian literary culture, 1861-1881, 2017.

Law
Armed in America : a history of gun rights from colonial militias to concealed carry, 2018.

Living emergency : Israel’s permit regime in the occupied West Bank, 2018.

Supreme Court expansion of presidential power : unconstitutional leanings, 2017.

Supreme injustice : slavery in the nation’s highest court, 2018.

Medicine
Cognitive-behavioral therapy, by Michelle G. Craske, 2017.

A handbook for the study of mental health : social contexts, theories, and systems, 2017.

Occupational therapy in acute care, by Helene Smith-Gabai and Suzanne E. Holm, 2017.

Parent-child interaction therapy, by Cheryl Bodiford McNeil, Karla Anhalt, and Toni L. Hembree-Kigin, 2010.

Traditional Chinese medicine : heritage and adaptation, 2018.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
1517 : Martin Luther and the invention of the Reformation, 2017.

Assessing empathy, 2017.

Critical thinking about research : psychology and related fields, 2018.

The cross : history, art, and controversy, 2017.

C.S. Lewis, by Stewart Goetz, 2018.

Debating religious liberty and discrimination, 2017.

Embracing the darkness : a cultural history of witchcraft, 2018.

Existential threats : American apocalyptic beliefs in the technological era, 2017.

Faith and resistance in the age of Trump, 2017.

Hasidism : a new history, 2018.

The illusion of certainty : how the flawed beliefs of religion harm our culture, 2017.

On faith and science, 2017.

Pain, pleasure, and the greater good : from the Panopticon to the Skinner box and beyond, 2017.

Post-truth : peak bullshit and what we can do about it, 2018.

Pure : inside the Evangelical movement that shamed a generation of young women and how I broke free, 2018.

Rethinking political Islam, 2017.

Selected writings on ethics, 2017.

Søren Kierkegaard, by Alastair Hannay, 2018.

Tao and method : a reasoned approach to the Tao Te Ching, 1994.

Women and Asian religions, 2017.

Women who fly : goddesses, witches, mystics, and other airborne females, 2018. 

Political Science
The democratic coup d’état, 2017.

Demopolis : democracy before liberalism in theory and practice, 2017.

Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy, 2017.

The foundation of the CIA : Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang, and the origins of the Cold War, 2017.

The ideology of failed states : why intervention fails, 2017.

Poetic justice : rereading Plato’s Republic, 2018.

The polarizers : postwar architects of our partisan era, 2018.

Red fighting blue : how geography and electoral rules polarize American politics, 2017. 

Science
Artisanal enlightenment : science and the mechanical arts in old regime France, 2017.

Blockchain and the law : the rule of code, 2018.

First in fly : Drosophila research and biological discovery, 2018.

Forms, souls, and embryos : Neoplatonists on human reproduction, 2017.

Isaac Newton and natural philosophy, 2018.

Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming, 2010.

Observation and experiment : an introduction to causal inference, 2017.

The science of sleep : what it is, how it works, and why it matters, 2017. 

Social Sciences
Avoiding war, making peace, 2018.

Counting Americans : how the US Census classified the nation, 2017.

The development dilemma : security, prosperity, and a return to history, 2017.

The economization of life, 2017.

An essay on the principle of population : the 1803 edition, 2018.

Face value : the consumer revolution and the colonizing of America, 2017.

Famine in European history, 2017.

Getting a life : the social worlds of geek culture, 2018.

Handbook of culture and memory, by Brady Wagoner, 2018.

Infinite suburbia, 2017.

Making the Bible Belt : Texas prohibitionists and the politicization of southern religion, 2017.

The neoliberal diet : healthy profits, unhealthy people, 2018.

New criminal justice thinking., 2018.

The philosophical parent : asking the hard questions about having and raising children, 2018.

A study in monetary macroeconomics, 2017.

Working in a multicultural world : a guide to developing intercultural competence, 2017.

Technology
First exposures : writings from the beginning of photography, 2017.

How to write and present technical information, 2017.

The war and environment reader, 2017.

Archives

James Friedrich and Cathedral Films : the independent religious cinema of the evangelist of Hollywood, 1939-1966, 2018. 

DVDs
Dark city, 2001.

Take shelter, 2012. 

Reference
Ancient apocryphal gospels, 2017.

Biblical prophecy : perspectives for Christian theology, discipleship, and ministry, 2014.

Canon and creed, 2010.

Miracles : God’s presence and power in creation, 2018.

Money and possessions, 2016.

Reading the parables, 2014.

The sacraments in biblical perspective, 2011.

Violence in scripture, 2013. 

Scores
21st century musical theatre : 50 songs from shows since 2000, 2018.

Musical theatre for classical singers, 2011.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type. Soprano. Volume 1, 2000.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Baritone/bass. Volume 2 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type, 1993.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Mezzo-soprano/belter. Volume 2 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type, 2000.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Tenor. Volume 1 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type, 2000.

The Singer’s musical theatre anthology. Tenor. Volume 2 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type, 1993.

Donated Gift Items to the Milligan Libraries
The book of life, 2014. [DVD]


New Books and Media Received (October 2018)

The following Books and DVDs (127 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through the Acquisitions Budget and by donation during October 2018.

Seminary Library

New Testament Seminar
Divine and human agency in Paul and his cultural environment, 2008.

Exploring Johannine ethics : a rhetorical approach to moral efficacy in the Fourth Gospel narrative, 2017.

The Geneva Bible : a facsimile of the 1560 edition, 2007.

God’s library : the archaeology of the earliest Christian manuscripts, 2018.

Heavenly priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham, 2013.

Honoring the Son : Jesus in earliest Christian devotional practice, 2018.

The letter to the Galatians, 2018.

A New Testament Theology, 2018.

Novum Testamentum Graecum : editio critica maior, Teil 2 and Teil 3, 2017.

Novum Testamentum Graecum. Editio Critica Maior / Die Katholischen Briefe : Teil 1 und Teil 2, Gesamtwerk, 2013.

Yahoel and Metatron : aural apocalypticism and the origins of early Jewish mysticism, 2017.

Archives
Poured out : the spirit of God empowering the mission of God, 2018.

Who do the Ngimurok say that they are? : a phenomenological study of Turkana traditional religious specialists in Turkana, Kenya, 2018.

AV Video
Basics of Biblical Greek video lectures : a complete course for the beginner, 2013.

Fine Arts
Culture care: reconnecting with beauty for our common life, 2017.

History
Eccentric Culture A Theory of Western Civilization, 2008. 

Language and Literature
The collected poems of C.S. Lewis : a critical edition, 2015.

Medicine
Spiritual accompaniment and counselling : journeying with psyche and soul, 2015.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
The Bible and the environment, 2013.

Biblical theology, 2014.

The Contrarian’s Guide to Church Planting, 2018.

How new is the New Testament? : first-century Judaism and the emergence of Christianity, 2018.

The legitimacy of the human, 2017.

Playful awakening : releasing the gift of play in your life, 2017.

Preaching with cultural intelligence : understanding the people who hear our sermons, 2017.

Prophetic preaching : a pastoral approach, 2010.

Romans, 2018.

Since the beginning : interpreting Genesis 1 and 2 through the ages, 2018.

To bless the space between us : a book of blessings, 2008.

A wee worship book, 2015.

Who do the Ngimurok say that they are? : a phenomenological study of Turkana traditional religious specialists in Turkana, Kenya, 2018.

Whole and reconciled : gospel, church, and mission in a fractured world, 2018.

A world transformed : exploring the spirituality of medieval maps, 2015.

Welshimer Library

History
The African affairs reader : key texts in politics, development, and international relations, 2017.

The Apache wars : the hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the captive boy who started the longest war in American history, 2016.

Buried ideas : legends of abdication and ideal government in early Chinese bamboo-slip manuscripts, 2015.

Cherokee in controversy : the life of Jesse Bushyhead, 2017.

Diaries of John Quincy Adams, 1779-1848, 2017.

Fannie hardy eckstorm and her quest for local knowledge, 1865-1946., 2015.

The House of Government : a saga of the Russian Revolution, 2017.

In the shadow of statues : a White Southerner confronts history, 2018.

Rising out of hatred : the awakening of a former white nationalist, 2018.

The roar of the lion : the untold story of Churchill’s World War II speeches, 2015.

Streams of gold, rivers of blood : the rise and fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade, 2017.

Thin Light of Freedom : the civil war and emancipation in the heart of america., 2018.

Unsettling the West : violence and state building in the Ohio Valley, 2018.

Language and Literature
An anthology of traditional Korean literature, 2017.

Deeper magic : the theology behind the writings of C.S. Lewis, 2016.

Difficult women, 2017.

An encouraging thought : the Christian worldview in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, 2018.

The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of the lord of the rings, 2004.

Journalistic authority: legitimating news in the digital era, 2017.

Making sense : the glamorous story of English grammar, 2017.

Law
Impeachment : a citizen’s guide, 2017.

John Marshall : definer of a nation, 1998.

Medicine
Occupational therapy in acute care, 2017.

A practical guide to cultivating therapeutic presence, 2017.

Music
Acting in musical theatre : a comprehensive course, 2016.

Broadway musicals : show by show, 2014.

Dear Evan Hansen, 2017.

The enraged accompanist’s guide to the perfect audition, 2011.

Musical theatre song : a comprehensive course in selection, preparation and presentation for the modern performer, 2016.

The new Broadway song companion : an annotated guide to musical theatre literature by voice type and song style, 2009.

What do I do with my hands? : a guide to acting for the singer, 2015.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Appreciating the Chinese difference : engaging Roger T. Ames on methods, issues, and roles, 2018.

Billy Graham : American pilgrim, 2017.

Detour and access : strategies of meaning in China and Greece, 2000.

Essays on skepticism, relativism and ethics in the Zhuangzi, 1996.

Guanzi : political, economic, and philosophical essays from early China : a study and translation, 1998.

Having a word with Angus Graham : at twenty-five years into his immortality, 2018.

Hiding the world in the world : uneven discourses on the Zhuangzi, 2003.

Hunger : a memoir of (my) body, 2017.

In praise of blandness : proceeding from Chinese thought and aesthetics, 2004.

Not your parents’ offering plate : a new vision for financial stewardship, 2015.

On the universal, the uniform, the common and dialogue between cultures, 2014.

Social Sciences
Bad feminist : essays, 2014.

Deviced! : balancing life and technology in a digital world, 2018.

Evidence, 2017.

Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment, 2018.

Not that bad : dispatches from rape culture, 2018.

The total money makeover : a proven plan for financial fitness, 2013.

White fragility : why it’s so hard for White people to talk about racism, 2018.

Juvenile
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999.

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows, 2007.

Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, 2000.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003.

Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, 1999.

Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone, 1998.

The hate u give, 2017.

What color is my world? : the lost history of African-American inventors, 2013.

Compact Discs
The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Baritone/Bass. Volume 2 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type : the selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores, 2005.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Mezzo-soprano/Belter. Volume 2 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type : the selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores, 2005.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Soprano. Volume 1 : accompaniment CDs : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type : the selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores, 2005.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Tenor. Volume 2 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type : the selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores, 2005.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Tenor. Volume I : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type : the selections are presented in their authentic settings, excerpted from the original vocal scores, 2005.

DVDs
Buffy, the vampire slayer. Season seven, 2008.

Buffy, the vampire slayer. The complete fifth season on DVD, 2003.

Buffy, the vampire slayer. The complete first season, 2008.

Buffy, the vampire slayer : the complete second season on DVD, 2002.

Buffy, the vampire slayer. The complete sixth season on DVD, 2008.

Doctor Who. The complete tenth series, 2017.

The Good Place. Season one, 2017.

The Good Place. Season two, 2018.

High Noon, 2002.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 2013.

Scores
21st century musical theatre : 50 songs from shows since 2000, 2014.

Musical theatre for classical singers. Baritone/Bass, 2011.

Musical theatre for classical singers. Soprano, 2011.

Musical theatre for classical singers. Tenor, 2011.

The singer’s musical theatre anthology. Soprano. Volume 2 : a collection of songs from the musical stage, categorized by voice type, 2000.

Donated Gift Books to the Milligan Libraries
The architecture of the cosmos : St Maximus the Confessor : new perspectives.

The Cambridge history of moral philosophy.

Carl Jung and Maximus the confessor on psychic development : the dynamics between the ‘psychological’ and the ‘spiritual’.

Christ and evolution : wonder and wisdom.

Early Christian readings of Genesis one : patristic exegesis and literal interpretation.

A guide to missions : becoming a missions-driven church.

Hexaemeron.

Human knowledge according to Saint Maximus the Confessor.

In the footsteps of King David : revelations from an ancient biblical city.

Is God anti-gay? : and other questions about homosexuality, the Bible and same-sex attraction.

Silesia – a pearl in the Bohemian Crown : history, culture, art.

Sin : a Thomistic psychology.

The Typikon decoded : an explanation of Byzantine liturgical practice.


Milligan Libraries Book+Art 2018 Exhibit: Bringing New Life to Old Books!

Milligan Libraries is currently celebrating its sixth annual Book+Art exhibit, on display now at Welshimer Library. The exhibit, which occurs every Fall during Homecoming weekend, is one of two book-related Milligan community creative expression showcases the library hosts every year – every Spring, the library hosts Edible Books Festival.

Books are repositories of information, knowledge, and inspiration. As physical objects, however, books are fragile things. Many – especially children’s books – get literally love to pieces, while others get replaced with updated, more relevant versions. To celebrate their impact on our lives, the library invites the Milligan community to use discarded books and transform them into works of art.

This year we had 10 entries, displaying a variety of techniques and ideas. The winner of our random draw for a $25 Amazon gift card was Engineering student Korynne Taylor. Congratulations, Korynne! Milligan Libraries would like to thank everyone who participated in this year’s Book+Art exhibit.

We highly recommend dropping in to Welshimer and checking out the entries – the level of detail is awesome! But we realize not everyone can make it down, so here are photos of this year’s entries:

Milligan by Joy Drinnon

Word Flurry by Katie Banks

Variations on Merry by Mary Jackson

Praying By the Book: Anglican Rosary by Jude Morrissey

Faith by Joy Drinnon

Born of History by Korynne Taylor

Pumpkin by Joy Drinnon

 

Bibliobead Tree by Jude Morrissey

Creation of Adam: Part II by Sydney Rhoton

Cookbook Conversions by Kristy Lundholm


Holloway Archives Mounts New Archives Exhibit for Fall 2018

The Holloway Archives has installed a new exhibit for Fall 2018. “We Must Rebuild”: Milligan College’s Fire of 1918 focuses on the Milligan of one hundred years ago and the devastating fire that changed the college. “When I realized that it was exactly one hundred years since this pivotal event in Milligan’s history, I thought it would make a interesting exhibit,” says archivist Katie Banks. “While researching for the exhibit, I found some really fascinating items.”

The exhibit displays what Milligan College was like a hundred years ago. Henry J. Derthick had been president for about a year, and the campus was almost unrecognizable from what it is today. The Great War had also affected the school, including the introduction of the Student Army Training Corps, a program to train men to be officers while living on campus and attending the host institution. Just days after the war ended, the Administration Building–the main college building–burned, leaving students homeless and the college without its records, teaching materials, library, and classrooms. But through the perseverance and hard work of President Derthick, the college recovered and flourished with new buildings and improvements, including a new Administration Building–renamed years later as Derthick Hall.

The old Administration Building after the fire, circa 1918

This story is told through items such as photos, letters, and student publications. One item is a letter from Herbert Hoover, dated October 21, 1918, at the time representing the United States Food Administration, asking the college to help in a food conservation program. Another interesting item is a brick recovered during more recent Derthick Hall renovations believed to be from the old Administration Building that burned. The most sentimental item in the exhibit is a letter from President Derthick to Josephus Hopwood expressing his thoughts about the fire. “Milligan has been the object of your love for so long a time that I know you are deeply moved over the loss. We must rebuild and in a very large way. Your child must accomplish even greater things in the future than she has in the past.” [Derthick to Hopwood, 1918 November 19, Hopwood Correspondence, The Holloway Archives at Milligan College, Milligan College, TN] These lines reveal Derthick’s ambition to keep the college going and even strengthen it, which he ultimately would do.

Detail of the exhibit showing a brick believed to be from the old Administration Building.

Be sure to come check out this exhibit on the first floor of the Welshimer Library! Library hours are Monday-Thursday 7:45 AM-Midnight, Friday 7:45 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, and Sunday 2:00 PM-Midnight. You can also view other portions of the exhibit in MCStor, Milligan College’s institutional repository.

If you would like to know more about Milligan’s history, set up an appointment with archivist Katie Banks to visit The Holloway Archives!


Milligan Libraries Hosts Book Art Workshop

On Tuesday, October 16, Welshimer Library hosted our first-ever book art workshop!

Later this month, we’ll have our Sixth Annual Book+Art Exhibit, when we showcase works of art created from old books that need a new life by Milligan students, faculty, staff, and community members. This year, we coordinated with Dr. Jil Smith (Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy, skilled book artist, and frequent Book+Art exhibitor) to hold a drop-in workshop for those interested in learning how to turn books that have outlived their usefulness or been literally loved to pieces into something new. Dr. Joy Drinnon (Professor of Psychology, Director of Undergraduate Research, accomplished book artist, and inveterate Book+Art exhibitor) joined with Dr. Smith in providing suggestions and teaching techniques to bring their visions to life.

All materials were provided, and workshop participants were encouraged to think of way to incorporate various parts of the books, as well as other materials, to make something interesting.

We hope to see these creations and more in our Sixth Annual Book+Art Exhibit, which will be held, as usual, during Homecoming Weekend, October 26-28, at Welshimer Library. All are invited to participate – both to create something new and to come to see what others have made.