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Verboden: The Private Letters Of Ed Edson: An American Pioneer In A Dutch Community 1880-1944, Mollie Edson

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This is a senior project in History, English, and Political Science about the letters and correspondence of Ed Edson from 1880-1944. It includes letters, photos and scans of correspondence.

Ordinary Women: Government And Custom In The Lives Of New Hampshire Women, 1690-1770, Marcia Schmidt Blaine

Doctoral Dissertations

The prominence of patriarchy and common law has caused many historians to concentrate on the limitations placed on eighteenth-century Anglo-American women. The results often present women as objects, rather than subjects, of study. Using four major primary sources: Governor, Council and Assembly records, petitions, licensing materials, and treasury records, this study examines the relationship between ordinary women and the provincial government of New Hampshire in order to explain the customary options available to women in proceedings with the government. Even with a spouse still living, Anglo-American women acted as family agents and representatives when captured by the Native Americans and …

Analysis Of Impact And Value Of Neasc High School Accreditation Procedures On School Accountability And School Improvement From 1987-1997, George Allan Cushing

Doctoral Dissertations

From a 1983 federal study which concluded, as its title suggests, that America had become A Nation at Risk because of a failing public school system, the modern standards movement was born. This educational reform movement beginning in the 1980's and continuing through the 1990's brought about the development and establishment of many accountability and improvement initiatives aimed at public schools. Also during this time, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), through its Commission on Public Secondary Schools along with five other regional accrediting agencies across the country, was continuously engaged in the practice of evaluating and …

Confronting The War Machine: Draft Resistance During The Vietnam War, Michael Stewart Foley

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation recovers the history of the draft resistance movement in Boston during the Vietnam War. It is a blend of social, political, and cultural history that seeks not merely to assert the importance of draft resistance to our understanding of the antiwar movement and the Vietnam War era, but also to capture the experience of draft resisters and their supporters.

It is an actor-oriented history. The sources used include the personal private manuscript collections of participants, court records, underground newspapers, a 1997 survey administered to 310 former resisters and draft resistance activists (185 responded), and interviews with more than …

The Effects Of Medicaid And Maternal Depression On Prenatal Care And Infant Health, Lisa C. Defelice

Doctoral Dissertations

While in recent years, the infant health production function literature has expanded to incorporate behavioral inputs into the production of infant health current research fails to incorporate the Medicaid-private insurance choice into the mother's decision making process. This dissertation seeks to address this by treating private insurance and Medicaid as endogenous while considering the effects that the Medicaid eligibility rules have on both kinds of coverage. Medicaid and private insurance are entered directly into the health production function so that quality effects may be captured. In addition, a woman's state of mental health is also incorporated into the health production …

International Criminal Court: A United Nations Reform In Progress., Jill F. Blake

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine a cutting-edge reform initiative which the United Nations is in the process of developing, in order to decide if this is a practical reform idea. This reform began in 1989 with a General Assembly Resolution, submitted by Trinidad and Tobago, to establish an International Criminal Court. In June/July, 1998, a Plenipotentiary Conference was held in Rome to decide whether or not to proceed with the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC). Chapter One provides a brief analysis of some United Nations targets for reform and some proposals as to reform …

Entering A New Millennium: Does The Parliamentary Legislature In Canada Continue To Have Relevance?, Brandy L. Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This Project examined the relevance of the Parliamentary Legislature in Canada from the point of view of legislators. In order to gain primary resources pertaining to the question we and interviewed the legislators themselves to obtain insight into the current state of legislatures. Chapter One details the methodology behind them surveys and interviews. Chapter two contains the necessary examination of the literature available on what others had to say about the state of legislatures in the past. Chapter three examines whether or not simply reforming the current system of parliamentary legislatures in Canada will render the institution relevant in a …

Federal Regulation Of Telecommunications: The Demise Of The Pursuit Of Provincial Public Policy By Provincial Crown Corporations (Manitoba)., Merry Deirdre. Harper

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The thesis analyzes the impact of federal regulation of telecommunications on the pursuit of provincial public policy objectives by a provincially-owned telecommunications corporation. The Manitoba Telephone System (MTS) is used as a single case study to examine the effect of federal regulation on provincial public policy, in particular Service for the Future. The literature is analyzed to show how technological change resulted in the transformation of the Canadian telecommunications industry from a monopoly to a competitive environment. The thesis examines the subsequent effects of the technological changes to the legal and regulatory structure of Canadian telecommunications. The federal-provincial jurisdictional conflict …