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Imagining A New Nation: Patriotism And National Identity In The Writing Of Late-18th Century American Women, Aysia S. Brenner

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Benedict Anderson defined the nation as “an imagined political community” that is “imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.” The research for this paper began with a desire to know how American women in the time leading up to, during, and immediately after the American Revolution and War of Independence did or did not imagine themselves as members of the newly emerging political community eventually known as the United States of America. As tensions between the Colonies and Great Britain increased, as tea was dumped in Boston harbor, and as independence was declared in 1776, how did women make sense …

Hollins Columns (2006 Feb 28), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• "Life is a cabaret, old chum"
• Hollins Health Fair 2006
• Career Corner
• Trip to Ireland brings choir together
• A Q&A with the Quadrangle staff
• Meet some of next year's SGA representatives
• "Mrs. Henderson presents" a success
• V: A Pretty Good Guy
• A few things I miss about the US
• A response to the letter "Quadrangle article misleading"
• MALS student seeks signatures for U.S. Senate candidate
• Finishing school myth to rest

Hollins Columns (2005 Dec 5), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Student race exercise promotes discussion
• Senate helps quiet rumors about alcohol policies
• HUtv focuses efforts on future projects with help of media services
• Student race exercise promotes discussion
• HUtv improves expands capabilities
• Harry Potter matures with fans
• Harry Potter Dictionary
• Dear Editor: "Rage Against the Dying of the Light"
• Johnny Cash: Real life music taken from real life experience
• Bad habits equal bad representation
• Oh, Hollins: Despite your flaws, I'll miss you
• Unfair judgement regarding sleeping
• Judicial system should be revisited
• Lacrosse gearing up for spring with fellow students
• Dear Editor: The class of 2006 isn't any …

Hollins Columns (2002 Nov 4), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Business slows at RAT
• Despite protests, Cotillion date unchanged
• Applicants are arriving; political science professor search is under way
• First Distinguished Speaker: Wade Davis has active crowd
• Bali: beauty to bombs
• Frank Beyer speaks at Hollins about film: 'Jakob der Lügner'
• 'The Ring' and 'Ringu' both thrilling films
• 'Jakob der Lügner' beautiful film, full of hope
• Grapheon plans for rest of year
• Hollins Events
• Roanoke Valley
• Roanoke Night Spots
• Radio station needs funds
• Battle of the fro: Angie Stone vs. Maxwell
• Writer's Harvest: Dillard matches profits
• Want something to do? Look no further...
• Don't insult Roanoke; use …

Hollins Columns (1999 Sept 20), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Hollins welcomes new Director of Residence Life
• Opening Exhibit Transforms Gallery
• Blues Women play it uppity at Hollins
• Campus scenes
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters off to a good start
• "The Sixth Sense" thrills audiences and critics alike
• Opera Roanoke Hits Center Stage
• Johnson's Hollins connections bring success
• Women's Center Spotlight
• Students make most of abroad opportunities
• Soccer team gets a vote of confidence
• Field Hockey Shows Promise
• A Random Thought
• Horoscopes
• Agony, Agony, Heartbreak
• High Anxiety

Hollins Columns (1996 Sep 24), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Hollins welcomes ninth president
• What's new about the Hollins Abroad Paris program
• So far, so good...
• Alum appalled at students loss of social graces
• Inmates seek companionship
• Inmate submits plea for info from single-sex institutions
• Alum thanks students for "Miss Kitty"
• Hollins: Where everybody knows your name...
• Interview with Nick Kiersey: "the Irish Guy"
• R.E.M.'s new adventures
• Lone Star shines in theaters
• RENT: changing our perception of the typical Broadway show
• Smashing Pumpkins: smashing through their summer tour
• Soccer team prepares for competitive season, with new faces
• Field hockey team inspired by coach
• Volleyball team ready for …

Hollins Columns (1995 Dec 11), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Maggie breaks it to us...she's leaving
• Students honor Anne Harper's life and mourn her death in memorial services, candlelight vigil
• The Last Word: Memories of Anne
• One final note...
• A letter of thanks to Freya from NEFA
• Lack of information is a frustration for some students
• Abroader reports from Kenya, thanks students for support
• Professor Spies on basketball and the White Gift Service
• Final plans unveiled for new campus library
• Renovations provide for "un-Pleasant" reorganization during spring semester
• Abroader Update: reports from Australia and Italy
• Casino: A Safe Bet
• Virginia gets new area code
• December named National …

Hollins Columns (1984 Sept 2), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• W&L goes coed!?
• Seniors, are you read to work?
• Roanoke irons out wrinkles
• Beginnings...
• Dear Class of 1988 and all New Students,
• Welcome Freshmen!!!!!!!!
• Where's the GDR?
• Reflections from '81
• Activities Fair: Something's going on
• McD's in Lexi
• Classes?
• Back in the USA
• In the beginning...
• Playtime!!
• Veteran's give advice
• The solution to your "boarding house blues"
• Things take shape for the center in Center in the Square
• Roanoke gets "malled"
• "Working With Fire and Steel" Have fun with China Crisis
• Choir Auditions to be held
• Coaches Express Optimism For '84-'85
• Hollins offers its fair share of …

Hollins Columns (1982 Apr 2), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Seventh President Inaugurated
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Jerrold Footlick, Visits Class and Conducts Discussions
• Hollins To Cost Average Of $10,000 A Year
• Hart Explains Emerging Consevatism
• New SGA Officers Look Ahead
• Spring Seminars Open To Sexes
• Sophomore Dies
• College Sued For Negligence
• State Funds Available
• ODK Seeks Leaders
• Vigils Renew Fire
• National Campus Survey Pins Concerns
• Columns Hosts Convention For Virginia Colleges
• Parent Bites The Budget
• Students Attack Hollins Apathy
• Points of View: Liquidate RA's
• Congressman Addresses Regulatory Reform
• Coalition Zeroes In
• Classics Symposium Discusses Saving Past
• Conservative Preservation Necessary
• Realities Face To Face
• Blithe Spirit Descends Upon …

Hollins Columns (1979 Apr 23), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Wier receives Guggenheim award
• Convocation to present awards
• Registration to end Friday
• SGA honors officers
• President announces Evitts as assistant
• Doctor offers women's services
• Wheeler reflects on time abroad
• College hosts part of pilgramage
• Rabbitt visits campus
• Students present science projects
• Forest of Arden: 'Mythical haven' or 'Disco'
• Boxwood preserves rustic elegance
• Main constructed over 19 years
• Roving reporter
• College opens campus
• Calendar
• Granger interprets opera
• 'Fun run' slated for May 3
• RLA announces CROP events
• Artist holds Monet, Hoffman ideas
• Orchesis offers Spring program
• Varsity lacrosse forges ahead

Hollins Columns (1978 Mar 13), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• College to remain open conservation continues
• Compton entertains large student crowd
• SGA Elections Tuesday
• Writers, poets gather for Festival
• Mt. Rogers trek
• Letter from the editors
• Letter to the editors
• Let students know too
• "So, who cares?"
• Gushee comments on Hege resignation
• St. Patty's Day party includes trip
• Festival features French films
• SGA Election Preview
• Dancer Mareneck combines two worlds
• Roving Reporter
• Overall view
• Tennis team begins season
• Lacrossers battle snow, Dartmouth

Hollins Columns (1977 Oct 7), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• 'Marigolds' to open in Little Theatre
• RLA looks for more participation
• Madden to read Monday
• Annual meeting of Alumnae Council seeks to reinforce relationship with college
• Forum attendance; participation urged
• Contents
• Scholarship deadline nears
• Here and There
• Seniors invite campus to celebrate Matty Cocke's 123rd birthday
• Tribute to Leon Smith
• Freya provides link with past, offers outreach to the future
• Freitag recounts journey to America
• Tinker Day!
• Too many rules
• Club provides gathering place
• Irish poet reads Oct. 10
• New Yorker gives recital
• Horror flick tops October agenda
• Area movie guide
• Fall weekend
• A collection of conversations …

Hollins Columns (1971 Mar 24), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Undercover agent poses as radical at Hobart
• Cooks discuss benefits
• Citizens refuse to pay war tax on telephones
• Petition on dorm autonomy to be presented April 15
• War Tax
• Dorm Division
• Student reviews book by Bernadette Devlin
• Line on Liberation
• Common Cause acts to keep people informed
• Professors publish books
• Linda Koch Serves on gubernatorial council
• Junior profits from short term in Boston
• Dean suggests new committee
• What's On
• Feminists talk on liberation
• Senior gives chapel recital
• Freshman colloquium discovers aesthetics
• Fashion show brings laughs

Hollins Columns (1970 Sept 22), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• TRUST to provide youth aid
• Summer conference teaches new methods
• Teach-in held on education
• Vietnam perspective shows history and facts of war
• Honor pledge to assist action
• Honors seminar
• 21 or over
• Simulation of college take-over viewed in campus crisis gone
• Several college participate in coeducational experiment
• Hollins adds faculty members
• Pres. Logan Outlines six aims for Hollins
• O'Brien advocates change, educational purpose stated
• Soc. leg. to consider parietals and alcohol

Hollins Columns (1969 Sept 23), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Grant has potential
• Academic Procession
• Committee leaders discuss new plans
• Douglass to return for recital
• "Both sides now"
• Communication--possible realization
• Observing tea day
• Four senior students discuss foreign studies
• Where is positive attitude?
• SGA presents changes
• Departments offer a varied selection
• Holland harbors precious fantasy
• Student poets to read works
• Rev. Hefner to deliver his sermon
• Hollins starts program
• Orientation emphasizes individuality
• Freshman dating game starts again

Hollins Columns (1968 Mar 19), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Invalid Election Is A Possibility
• Police Distressed By Demonstration
• 'Kultur' Appeals To Long
• Students Will Read Poetry
• Medal Winner Will Lecture
• Kirkwood Evaluates Library Facilities
• Art Annex Houses Von Essen Exhibit
• You Missed The Boat
• Tension Needs Relief
• Straws That Break...
• Pot Is Not A Must For Imagination
• Frazier Criticizes Isolation
• McGuigan Praises Donors
• Kennedy Seeks Nomination
• Election News
• Vice President of SGA
• Chairman of Judicial Court
• Chairman of House Board
• Chairman of Ac. Leg.
• President of Main
• Chairman of Social Legislation
• Legislative Secretary
• RLA Vice Chairman
• RLA Sec.-Treasurer
• President of West Annex
• President of Randolph
• President …

Hollins Columns (1967 Apr 18), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• American Studies Begins Next Year
• Rabbi Berlin Returns To Speak In Chapel
• Hugo To Be Topic Of Talk
• Carter Shows Bronze
• MSC To Hear Adebo Speak
• Prominent Psychologist Speaks Here
• Artist Riegel Will Teach At Hollins
• Just The Facts, M'am
• Need For Consistency
• The Dictatorial Buzz
• Topics To Give Headaches By
• May Day Features 'Pal Joey'
• Students Praise Dr. Pat
• Early Riser Hates Thinking
• Zeldin Contributes To Encyclopedia
• Student Is Named Finalist
• Students Discuss Big Wig Roommates
• Juniors To Spend Summer Abroad
• Burned Student Complains
• Regional Violinists To Attend Festival
• Onion Soup Brings Poetry To U Va. …

Hollins Columns (1966 Sept 29), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Science Building Delayed
• Traylor Rates Hollins, Stanford
• Cases Reviewed By Honor Court
• SGA Gives Ideas On Court System
• Woody Speaks On Honor Ideal
• Artist Play In Symphony
• Steere Wins H.A. Honor
• Gold Was Surprised Bowl Queen
• Safety Outweighs Rules
• Editors Dissent
• Philosophers Dispute Wilson's Statements
• SGA Lacks Real Powers
• Handbook Overlooks Poor ADA
• Constitution Revisions Planned
• Academic Procession
• Pannill Reviews Conference
• Hollins Inn Greeted With Song
• Sylvia Wilkinson's First Novel Praised
• "Work-Study" Program May Double Student Pay
• MSC Explains U.N. Events
• 'Mall Day' Overwhelms All
• Spinster Blasts Off For '67
• Chapel Emphasizes Strength
• Croon To The …

Hollins Columns (1965 Dec 9), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Orchesis Performs T.S. Eliot Tonight
• Interpretations Contain Food For Thought
• Freya Announces Membership
• 6 Fellows Elected To Grapheon
• White Gift To Benefit CARE, Indians, Harlem
• Kendall Is Elected To Be May Queen
• Mr. Wright Represents H.C. At National Meeting
• Christmas Is Time For Traditions
• Time Wasted
• Hallelujah
• Support Our Forces
• Stop Sacrificing Intellect
• Employment Deadline Set For Jan. 3
• Miss Helm Completes Second Visit
• The Columns Has Massive Subscriptions
• Oh Who Are You? Not Any Kin To Roo!
• Fincastle Usurps Williamsburg's Place of Architectural Importance
• Batten Nearly Bops Berentson's Brain
• International Pick Flicks Coming Soon
• Why Do …

Hollins Columns (1965 Nov 4), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• College Votes No To NSA
• Whitmore Plans Frank Sex Talk
• Folk Music Of Russia To Be Topic
• "View From Senior House" To Be Written By Poe
• W&L Chaplain To Speak At Sunday Chapel Service
• Yeats Festival Continues With Folk Song Program
• John Bunn To Follow Sinai Road
• Pianist Ray Jordan Will Perform Tues.
• Poor Show
• Not Again!
• Hollean's Dilemma Solved By Shirley
• Visiting Professor Taylor Likes American System
• Student Objects
• Terrell Explains
• MRA Events
• 1965 Abroaders Recover From The Luggage Limp
• The Look - "Yeh Yeh" In Clothes
• Which Is Really Nbbler? Leaping In, Out, or Under …

Hollins Columns (1965 Oct 14), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• 'Deirdre' Featured In Yeats Festival
• Rev. Terrien Guest Speaker On Sunday
• The Times Cites Jerome Neff As Critic for Roanoke Area
• Changes Made In MSC Dates Now April 7-10
• Poets Garrett and Slavitt To Read from Own Work
• Holmes To Speak On Spinoze: Empiricist?
• Fincastle, Va. Is Niederer's Book Topic
• Organist Marilyn Mason To Give Concert Monday
• On Giving New A Name: Mary Phlegar Smith Hall
• Objection To Placement In Lexington Is Voiced
• New Breed of Young Lions Rocking Traditional Campus
• Open Forums
• Blind Beauty Bumps Head With Banged Barley Oats
• New RLA Pres. Asks Support
• Literary …

Hollins Columns (1965 Apr 15), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• "Playground" Shown Here By Hilliard
• Russian Club To Sponsor Mr. Hanchett
• Changes In Freya Cause Discussion Among Students
• Galbraith, Williams Will Give Recital
• Services For Holy Week Feature Gordh, Beardslee
• Science Symposium Begins Tomorrow
• Susan Gray Is Awarded 2^ieme Degre
• Evaluate
• Interior Decorating Bothers Student
• Academic Procession
• Letters To The Editor
• Ambassador Discusses Vietnamese Problems
• Irish Peasantry And Myths Are Kiely Lecture Topics
• Colleges To Compete In Hollins Horse Show
• May Day Weekend To Include Comedy
• No Blood No Sweat No Tears

Hollins Columns (1965 Mar 11), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Panel Discusses Money Mediocrity And Morality
• Stribbling Is Eckley's Thesis Topic
• Advisory Committee Selected To Plan New Student Union
• Riddle And Terrell Will Lead S.G.A., Honor Court In 65-66
• W&L Schedules CONTACT Forum
• Second Slate Information Is Announced
• Follies Promise Idiotism
• Irish Story Chapel Topic Of Mr. Kiely
• Go Home?
• Academic Procession
• Joint Legislature Reflects A One-Sided Campus View
• Student Defends Campus Climate
• Founder's Day
• Beasts Makes Beauty At The Party Scene
• But "What a Way to Look At Life"
• Author Relates Poetry And Theater At Festival
• And What Do You Do In Your Spare Time?
• Off …

Hollins Columns (1968 Apr 4), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Cast Announced For May Day Production
• Professors To Leave Next Year
• Scholar Plans Chaucer Talk; First In Series
• Fedder Chosen To Take Part In Conference
• France Anders Will Speak On French Theater
• Russian Area Program To Air Conflict
• Hubbard To Lecture On U.S.S.R.
• Budget Confab Scheduled
• Swisher To Give Lecture
• Gaebelein To Preach On Sunday
• Nemerov Wins Brandeis Creative Arts Award
• "Alice In Wonderland" To Be Water Show Theme
• Reexamination Of Past SGA Budget Deemed Necessary
• Attire Still Disputed
• Unknown Committee Submits Anonymous Collection of Letters
• Automatic Inspector Suggested To Check Dining Room Dress
• Milton Turns In …

Hollins Columns (1961 Feb 23), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Three Speakers Highlight Week
• H.C. Choir To Sing In Opera
• Students Vote Yes For Judicial Court
• Schools Reject Negroes
• News Briefs
• Open Forum To Feature Candidates
• A Student Matter
• HC Graduate Is Teaching
• Retirement Brings Energetic Projects To Hollins Faculty
• Recession Nears End, Is Mildest In History
• Clancy Heads Grad Student Association
• Ruggles Attends Conference In N.Y.
• Grim Picture Painted Of Cuban Situation
• Beaman Best Dressed
• E. Dickinson's Life & Work Discussed by Dr. T.H. Johnson
• Book Reviews
• On Campus with Max Shulman

Hollins Columns (1960 Nov 17), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Fri. Marks Debut Of Sour Grapes
• Tenor Soloist To Sing With Hollins Choir
• 850 Will Attend Cotillion Events
• Hunter's Play To Be Seen In Richmond
• Research Program Selects 13 Students
• Weekend Activities
• Double Toil And Trouble
• Once Over Lightly
• Campus Voices Opinions
• This Week...
• More Letters To The Editor...
• Representation Without Election
• Some Flew East, Some Flew West
• New Year-Old Issue Any Change
• Exec. Council Investigate Sr. Proposals
• Hollins Festival Attracts Many Schools
• Lit. Festival Events Make Exciting Day
• Dickey, Jarrell, and Letcher Present Program of Poetry
• Dinner, Discussion Close Symposium
• Janeway Considers Novelist Important
• Hollins Graduate …

Hollins Columns (1958 Apr 17), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Monogram Club Takes in New Members
• Orchesis Club Elects New Officers
• Hodges to Speak in Thursday Chapel
• Kinstler to Lead Drama Association During Next Year
• Letcher and Taylor New Officers of Grapheon
• Stewart is Recipient of Research Fund
• Former Chaplain Of Hollins to be a Chapel Speaker
• Reid to Edit 58-59 Cargoes
• "Towards a Science Of Morals" is Title Of Crosby Address
• Parents to Become Students Again on Friday, May 2
• Magic, Comic Operas to be Presented
• Orchesis Club Plans Events
• Wedding Music To be Played
• Carpenter Announces Staff Members Of Spinster
• AA Board is Announced for …

Hollins Columns (1958 Mar 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Physicist to Visit Campus
• Orchestra to Appear
• Players to Give "Shadow and Substance"
• Two Freshman Win Awards in Physics, Chemistry
• Two College Publications In Virginia Criticized
• Skin As Medium of Communication Is Topic of Geldard Psychology Talk
• Cary White Appointed to Committee
• V.M.I. Glee Club To Present Concert
• Campus Activities Committee Decides to Revise Policy
• Comment on C.A.C. Policy
• Ecce Dollar Bill
• Enzyme Idea On Life on Other Planets Are Important
• Appreciation Expressed by Mr. Diercks
• Classical Era in Music Not Forgotten; Still An Influence
• Freshmen Commended
• Girls Seeking Jobs To Have Harder Time This Year
• Richardson …

Hollins Columns (1957 Mar 21), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Freshman Follies Are Forthcoming
• Bishop Hodges Will Speak in Chapel
• Dr. Marian Irish Will Address IRC
• Student and Professor Attended Conference
• "Dido and Aeneas" To Be Presented
• Rev. John Thomas Is Chapel Speaker
• Hollins Student May Apply For Seminar
• Tennis Clinic Is Announced
• Letter to Complainers
• Summary of Student Poll
• Are We Being Too Self-Righteous?
• Fashion Hints Offered
• Hungarian Students Relate Experiences
• Script Tease...
• Case Histories Illustrate Unrelieved Aches and Pains
• Some Are Just Blockheads

Hollins Columns (1955 Mar 3), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Students Give Lorca Tradegy
• Field Trip To Visit Towns Famous In American History
• Pi Epsilon Mu Elects Members
• Adams on Mlle. College Board
• Dublin Players Perform
• S.G.A. Food Committee Makes Menu Suggestions
• Why?
• Letters
• A Cross Section of Opinion on the Current Controversy
• The First Time I Saw Paris
• Successful Basketball Season Closes With Faculty-Student Game
• At the Flicks