Urbanfest Table of Contents

List of Illustrations      
Acknowledgements
Biography of William L. Urban  
Books by William L. Urban
Notes on Contributors

Introduction by Thomas J. Sienkewicz and Jeff Rankin

Part 1: MONMOUTH COLLEGE       
Chapter 1    What Bill Urban Taught Me by Stacy Cordery|
Chapter 2    Coaching the Monmouth College Women’s Soccer Team by Simon Cordery
Chapter 3    The Continuing Saga of Monmouth College’s Storied Stone, OR  That’s How the Canopus Crumbles by
                        J. Richard Sayre

Part 2: THE CITY OF MONMOUTH
Chapter 4    Reliving the Past with Monmouth’s Dearly Departed: What We Can Learn Through a Cemetery Tour by Tom                        Best
Chapter 5    Warren Bunkerr: Monmouth’s Celebrated 19^th-Century Drag Queen by Jeff Rankin

Part 3: ILLINOIS AND THE MIDWEST

chapter 6    Befriending the Bereft: The Compassionate Legacy of Dr. George Zeller and the Peoria State Hospital
                       by Sylvia Shults
Chapter 7    After the Tractor Wars: Farm Equipment Manufacturers in 1929 by Neil Dahlstrom

Part 4. THE UNITED STATES       
Chapter 8    The Supreme Court: Originalism and Textualism by Daniel Cotter
Chapter 9    Flawed Leadership–the Coffin Nail of Grand Ventures in Economics, Education, Business, and Politics by
                         Kenneth G. McMillan
Chapter 10  How William Jennings Bryan Captured the 1896 Democratic Nomination for President by Bradley Nahrstadt
Chapter 11  Pressing the Case: Case Studies in the Use of Poetry in Sculptural Competition in Washington, D.C. by                        Julia A. Sienkewicz

Part 5: THE ROMAN EMPIRE, THEN AND NOW

Chapter 12  The Censorship of the Emperor Claudius by Joseph O’Neill
Chapter 13  Cruising on the Danube with the Romans by Vicki A. Wine and James E. Betts

Part 6: THE WORLD  
Chapter 14  A Journey Through Seven Countries Over Three Decades: The Relevance of 1990s Central Europe to the
                       Middle East of the 2020s by Brian Chabowski and Tiffany R. Chabowski
Chapter 15  The Intellectual Structure of the Journal of Baltic Studies: A Longitudinal Evaluation as a Foundation for Future
                       Research Possibilities by Brian Chabowski and Tiffany R. Chabowski
Chapter 16   Small Wars: The Case of Language and Education in Wales by Viv Edwards

Chapter 17   Between Washington and Cairo: Imamate Yemen’s Foreign Relations with the United States in the Post-
                        World War II Period by Richard Harrod
Chapter 18   Orsanmichele: An Anonymous Grain Loft by Janet Goodhue Smith
           
Part 7: LITERATURE  
Chapter 19   Nine Poems by Mary Hanford Bruce
Chapter 20   Cervantes’ Quijote as a Model as a Key to Unamuno’s Niebla by Fred Keller
Chapter 21   A Tale of Two Epics: Homer’s Odyssey and the West African Sunjata by Thomas J. Sienkewicz

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2026911731
ISBN: 978-1-7335866-7-2