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Lethality And Deterrence In Affairs Of Honor: The Case Of The Antebellum U.S. South, Tom Ahn, Paul Shea, Jeremy Sandford
Lethality And Deterrence In Affairs Of Honor: The Case Of The Antebellum U.S. South, Tom Ahn, Paul Shea, Jeremy Sandford
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Duels remained an important and surprisingly common means of settling disputes in the American South until after the Civil War. We examine two historical puzzles. First, why did dueling persist as a preferred tool to resolve conflicts in the South? Second, why did duelers use relatively inaccurate weapons when deadlier weapons were available? We construct a game theoretic model and conduct simulation exercises to find the following results. One, when the public views dueling as an appropriate means of mitigating the effects of libel, then it encourages socially desirable behavior such as reduced libel and more moderate behavior. Two, a …
The Bates Student - Volume 150 Number 02 - October 2, 2019, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 150 Number 02 - October 2, 2019, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
The Bates Student - Volume 147 Number 9 - December 7, 2016, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 147 Number 9 - December 7, 2016, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Bates Student - Volume 147 Number 6 - November 2, 2016, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 147 Number 6 - November 2, 2016, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Bates Student - Volume 143 Number 09 - November 20, 2013, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 143 Number 09 - November 20, 2013, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Bates Student - Volume 140 Number 07 - November 16, 2010, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 140 Number 07 - November 16, 2010, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 16 - March 23, 2010, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 16 - March 23, 2010, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 08 - December 8, 2009, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 08 - December 8, 2009, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 01 - September 22, 2009, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 01 - September 22, 2009, Bates College
The Bates Student
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Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Donald Eugene "Don" Nicoll was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1927, and grew up in the West Roxbury section of the city. He is the son of George and Mary Nicoll. He attended Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School and Boston English High School and graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1949, majoring in History with a minor in Government. Don met his future wife, Hilda Farnum, also a Colby student, when they worked in the resort town of Ocean Park, Maine, in the summer of 1944. Nicoll began his graduate work at Pennsylvania State College …
Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Donald Eugene "Don" Nicoll was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1927, and grew up in the West Roxbury section of the city. He is the son of George and Mary Nicoll. He attended Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School and Boston English High School and graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1949, majoring in History with a minor in Government. Don met his future wife, Hilda Farnum, also a Colby student, when they worked in the resort town of Ocean Park, Maine, in the summer of 1944. Nicoll began his graduate work at Pennsylvania State College …
The Bates Student - Volume 138 Number 04 - September 30, 2008, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 138 Number 04 - September 30, 2008, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
The Bates Student - Volume 137 Number 13 - February 5, 2008, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 137 Number 13 - February 5, 2008, Bates College
The Bates Student
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The Bates Student - Volume 137 Number 06 - October 30, 2007, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 137 Number 06 - October 30, 2007, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
The Bates Student - Volume 135 Number 22 - May 2, 2006, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 135 Number 22 - May 2, 2006, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
The Bates Student - Volume 134 Number 02 - September 21, 2004, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 134 Number 02 - September 21, 2004, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Donald Eugene "Don" Nicoll was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1927, and grew up in the West Roxbury section of the city. He is the son of George and Mary Nicoll. He attended Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School and Boston English High School and graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1949, majoring in History with a minor in Government. Don met his future wife, Hilda Farnum, also a Colby student, when they worked in the resort town of Ocean Park, Maine, in the summer of 1944. Nicoll began his graduate work at Pennsylvania State College …
Welsh, William "Bill" Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll
Welsh, William "Bill" Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
William Brownlee Welsh was born in Munfordville, Kentucky, on September 18, 1924. His mother, Mary Cox Welsh, was in charge of dining halls at Berea College in Kentucky. His father, Benjamin Tibbetts Welsh, worked in a labor program in Berea. William grew up around Berea and eventually attended Berea College. However, Welsh split time during his childhood between Kentucky and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where his grandfather worked on a dairy farm. Welsh spent every summer of his youth in Boothbay Harbor with his grandfather, until he went away to fight in World War II for three or four years. Welsh …
Kneeland, Doug Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Kneeland, Doug Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Douglas E. Kneeland was born in Lincoln, Maine, on July 27, 1929 to Bruce and Sally Kneeland. Through the Great Depression his family moved many times before settling in Somerville, Massachusetts. They lived in Somerville from the time Kneeland was in seventh grade until the beginning of his senior year in high school. After high school, Kneeland went into the Army for a couple years, and then went on to the University of Maine at Orono for four years. His father, Bruce Kneeland, had several odd jobs including working at the Bangor Daily News. When Doug was in school …
Hobbins, Barry Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Hobbins, Barry Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Barry J. Hobbins was born May 17, 1951 in Biddeford, Maine and grew up in Saco, Maine. Aside from two years that he spent at St. Michael’s College, he has lived in Saco all of his life. Hobbins became involved with politics in 1972 when he was elected to the Maine state legislature. He ran for the U.S. Congress in 1984, and served in the state senate from 1988 to 1990. He was also the state chairman at one time. He worked on Ed Muskie’s presidential campaign in 1972 and his senatorial campaign in 1976. At the time of this …
The Bates Spudent - [Volume 132 Number 21] - May 13, 2003, Bates College
The Bates Spudent - [Volume 132 Number 21] - May 13, 2003, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
The Bates Student - Volume 132 Number 17 - March 18, 2003, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 132 Number 17 - March 18, 2003, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
The Bates Student - Volume 132 Number 15 - March 4, 2003, Bates College
The Bates Student - Volume 132 Number 15 - March 4, 2003, Bates College
The Bates Student
No abstract provided.
Nelson, Robert Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Nelson, Robert Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Robert L. Nelson was born August 10, 1931 in Dover, New Hampshire to Albert and Alice Nelson. He grew up in Dover, and spent his summers in South Freeport, Maine where his mother was born. He attended MCI prep school for one year, then went on to Bates College. After two years at Bates, the Korean War began and Robert spent two years in the army. He then returned to Bates and graduated in 1956. He attended Georgetown Law School, and worked at the Library of Congress. Just before graduating he began working on the Commission on Civil Rights. He …
Shevis, Estelle "Stell" And William "Shev" Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Shevis, Estelle "Stell" And William "Shev" Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Mildred Estelle “Stell” (Beehner) Shevis was born on July 1, 1915 in Hartford, Connecticut to George and Mildred Beehner and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She attended Watertown High School before going on to the Massachusetts College of Art. Here she met her future husband William “Shev” Shevis. Shev Shevis emigrated from Scotland in 1928. He grew up in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts and graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1937. After they were married, Stell and Shev moved to Belmont, Maine to become freelance artists, where they were one of only 2 Democratic families in the town. They …
Stover, Dolores Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll
Stover, Dolores Oral History Interview, Don Nicoll
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Dolores Stover was born in Manhattan, New York on December 19, 1924 and grew up there, the oldest of ten children. Stover attended parochial school and then joined the Marine Corps in 1945. She was a magistrate in Virginia for seven years and then became Edmund Muskie’s secretary in 1972. Stover was later appointed Chief Clerk of the Post Office Committee. After that, she went to work for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and then later became the personal secretary to Edward “Ted” Kennedy.
Clifford, John, Iv Oral History Interview, Paul Brunetti
Clifford, John, Iv Oral History Interview, Paul Brunetti
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
John D. Clifford, IV was born December 26, 1951 in Lewiston, Maine. His parents were John D. Clifford, III and Athena (Kesaris) Clifford. His mother’s parents were Greek immigrants, and he is the grandson of Judge John D. Clifford, II. He attended Exeter High School and Bowdoin College and later the University of Maine, School of Law. Clifford’s family has been involved in Maine politics for several generations. At the time of this interview he practiced law in Lisbon, Maine.
Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Paul Brunetti
Nicoll, Don Oral History Interview, Paul Brunetti
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Donald Eugene "Don" Nicoll was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1927, and grew up in the West Roxbury section of the city. He is the son of George and Mary Nicoll. He attended Robert Gould Shaw Junior High School and Boston English High School and graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1949, majoring in History with a minor in Government. Don met his future wife, Hilda Farnum, also a Colby student, when they worked in the resort town of Ocean Park, Maine, in the summer of 1944. Nicoll began his graduate work at Pennsylvania State College …
Spiegel, Jack Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Spiegel, Jack Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Jack Spiegel was born in Salem, Massachusetts on November 6, 1917 to Lena Ann [Swig] and Charles Spiegel. His mother was a housewife and his father was a shoe wholesaler. Jack was educated in the Salem public schools. He graduated from Amherst College in 1939. After college, he became active in business, coming to Maine and operating Quoddy Moccasins, which he sold in 1971. Since then, he has been active in various community and philanthropic activities. He donated 160 acres of land to the Bradley Mountain State Park, and 1100 acres in Raymond to Lands for Maine’s future.
Cutler, Eliot Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Cutler, Eliot Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu
Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection
Eliot Raphael Cutler was born in 1946 in Bangor, Maine. His father was a physician and his mother was an economist. His father was responsible for the reorganization of the Maine university system and the Cutler Health Center in Orono, Maine is named in his honor. As a sophomore in high school, Cutler transferred from Bangor High School to Deerfield Academy. He attended Harvard University and Georgetown Law School. While at Harvard he was involved with the Harvard Lampoon. He worked as a legislative assistant and clerk for Muskie from 1967 to 1972, and was a senior staff person …