J A Swisher

ORCID: 0000-0003-2270-4933
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  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Political Theory and Influence
  • American History and Culture
  • American Environmental and Regional History
  • Race, History, and American Society
  • Colonialism, slavery, and trade
  • Scottish History and National Identity
  • Historical Economic and Social Studies
  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology
  • European Political History Analysis
  • Archaeology and Natural History
  • Public Spaces through Art
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
  • Hemiptera Insect Studies
  • Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education
  • Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
  • Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research
  • Law in Society and Culture
  • Australian Indigenous Culture and History
  • History of Science and Medicine
  • Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies

University of Notre Dame
2021-2022

Being able to communicate effectively is an essential skill for statisticians and data scientists. Despite this, communication skills are not frequently taught or emphasized in statistics science courses. In this article, we describe a series of four workshops that were developed enhance the written graduate students. We also present results survey administered prior first workshop after last assess changes attitudes towards writing obtain student feedback improve workshops. Lastly, discuss...

10.1080/26939169.2022.2138800 article EN cc-by Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education 2022-10-26

The Iowa Department of the Grand Army Republic. Compiled by Jacob A. Swisher. (Iowa City: State Historical Society Iowa, 1936. x+194 pp. Illustrations.) Philip D. Jordan Miami University Search for other works this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal American History, Volume 23, Issue 2, September 1936, Pages 281–282, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893297 Published: 01 1936

10.2307/1893297 article EN The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1936-09-01

An uncompromising advocate of clean sports and athletics"

10.17077/0031-0360.25023 article EN public-domain The Palimpsest 1922-11-01

10.17077/0031-0360.24911 article public-domain The Palimpsest 1925-02-01

Insurance Comes to IowaInsurance is one of the most stabilizing influ ences in modern business and effective methods socializing economic risk.It not a phenomenon recent development.It an old institution gradual evolution through years.It had its origin ancient maritime trade.It came America with Pilgrims, crossed Alleghenies oxcart prairie schooner, into Iowa pioneers.The first insurance was fire insurance, response, no doubt, obvious need.On December 16, 1837, while still part Wisconsin,...

10.17077/0031-0360.24610 article EN The Palimpsest 1940-07-01

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10.17077/0031-0360.24617 article CY The Palimpsest 1940-05-01

Deer in IowaPrimeval Iowa was the natural habitat of deer.The evidence their early existence and impor tance is to be seen effigy mounds built by an cient Indians near mouth Wisconsin River.Marquette saw "deer cattle" as he paddled down Mississippi summer 1673.Lewis Clark, Long, other explor ers feasted on venison they passed western border various expeditions.A party fur traders shot deer hills proceeded slowly up Missouri River 1812.Hunters McGregor region 1834 would "watch for red it came...

10.17077/0031-0360.24599 article EN The Palimpsest 1940-12-01

The American Legion in Iowa, 1919–1929. By Jacob Armstrong Swisher. (Iowa City: State Historical Society, 1929. xi+303 pp. Illustrations. $3.) Get access John W. Oliver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of History, Volume 17, Issue 2, September 1930, Pages 340–342, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892618 Published: 01 1930

10.2307/1892618 article EN The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1930-09-01

10.17077/0031-0360.24470 article The Palimpsest 1927-01-01

The Case of RalphSlavery is one the oldest human institutions.Among ancient Assyrians, Persians, and He brews slaves were more numerous than free men, while in Greece Rome property man was regarded as essential to social welfare.In America, negro introduced at Jamestown before arrival Mayflower Plymouth, during colonial period importation from Africa constituted an important part for eign commerce.By dawn nineteenth century, civilization its westward course had reached banks Mississippi...

10.17077/0031-0360.22963 article EN The Palimpsest 1926-02-01

10.17077/0031-0360.23000 article EN The Palimpsest 1926-07-01
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