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God And Slavery In America: Francis Wayland And The Evangelical Conscience, Matthew S. Hill
God And Slavery In America: Francis Wayland And The Evangelical Conscience, Matthew S. Hill
History Dissertations
The work examines the antislavery writings of Francis Wayland (1796-1865). Wayland pastored churches in Boston and Providence, but he left his indelible mark as the fourth and twenty-eight year president of Brown University (1827-1855). The author of numerous works on moral science, economics, philosophy, education, and the Baptist denomination, his administration marked a transitional stage in the emergence of American colleges from a classically oriented curriculum to an educational philosophy based on science and modern languages. Wayland left an enduring legacy at Brown, but it was his antislavery writings that brought him the most notoriety and controversy. Developed throughout his …
Kaethe Kollwitz: Women's Art, Working-Class Agitation, And Maternal Feminism In The Weimar Republic, Jamie Dortch
Kaethe Kollwitz: Women's Art, Working-Class Agitation, And Maternal Feminism In The Weimar Republic, Jamie Dortch
History Theses
The German artist Kaethe Kollwitz challenged the cultural constraints placed on women during the Weimar Republic. My thesis analyzes the artwork of Kollwitz and the effects of maternal imagery within the political debates of abortion reform, sexual equality and pacifism in the 1920s and explores historians’ use of the ideas of maternal feminism to understand Kollwitz’s art. I challenge the social constructs of private versus public spheres to illustrate the diversity of experience and the agency of women like Kollwitz who manipulated these spheres. I argue that Kaethe Kollwitz gained a voice within the public domain by creating artwork and …