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The Speeches And Self-Fashioning Of King James Vi And I To The English Parliament, 1604-1624, Megan Mondi '06
The Speeches And Self-Fashioning Of King James Vi And I To The English Parliament, 1604-1624, Megan Mondi '06
Honors Projects, History
Until recently, King James VI and I suffered from an excessively unforgiving reputation: Sir Anthony Weldon's hostile accounts and the English Civil War that erupted less than two decades after his death led many historians to assume James was an incompetent monarch. These Traditional, or Whig, historians believe that constitutional conflict escalated from the moment James ascended the English throne. Pauline Croft explains the Whiggish logic concisely when she says that the "catastrophic fall of the Stuart dynasty by 1649 seemed more easily explicable if the first Stuart to occupy the English throne could be ridiculed as drunken, homosexual, timid, …
Out Of The Movement And On To Today: The Contemporary Impact Of The Students For A Democratic Society, Lindsay M. Hawley '06
Out Of The Movement And On To Today: The Contemporary Impact Of The Students For A Democratic Society, Lindsay M. Hawley '06
Honors Projects, History
Given the substantial amount literature on the Sixties, it is only natural that much scholarship would exist on the Students for a Democratic Society, one of its largest protest organizations. Divisions abound in literature on SDS. Some view the group as the most vital force of"the Movement," the general term for the widespread political and social counterculture that emerged in the Sixties. Others, like Andrew Hunt, contest this strong focus on SDS as the dominant protest organization of the era. Historians like Todd Gitlin make broad claims to the immense practical impact of SDS on society-"as an amalgam of reform …
The Cult Of Millenial Motherhood And The Rhetoric Of Female Reform: Domesticity, The Millenium, And Gender Constructions In Antebellum America, Erie M. Roberts '06
The Cult Of Millenial Motherhood And The Rhetoric Of Female Reform: Domesticity, The Millenium, And Gender Constructions In Antebellum America, Erie M. Roberts '06
Honors Projects, History
Early American reform has long been a subject of study and interest for scholars of American history. The period between 1820 and 1850, during and directly after the Second Great Awakening, gave rise to myriad different reformers and reform movements, all with different agendas. Yet, within specific movements, and even among different ones, reformers held similar ideologies that wielded great influence over the movements they led. This was especially true of conservative female reformers, many of whom believed in domestic ideologies that prescribed a separate, yet equal sphere of influence for women. As Linda Kerber, Ruth H. Bloch, and Barbara …