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Divine Economy: George Rapp, The Harmony Society, And Jacksonian Democracy, James Tomney
Divine Economy: George Rapp, The Harmony Society, And Jacksonian Democracy, James Tomney
Masters Theses
Divine Economy: George Rapp, the Harmony Society, and Jacksonian Democracy is a chronological exploration of the sucesses achieved, conflicts encountered, and eventual demise of George Rapp's Harmony Society. During its one-hundred year existence as it awaited the Second Coming of Christ, three successful agricultural and manufacturing towns were created by the Society out of the wilderness. Also explored is the impact Jacksonian Democracy had on George Rapp's Harmony Society during the 1824 to 1847 period, as is the contribution the Society made to American industrialization after George Rapp's death in 1847.
Ella Deloria: A Dakota Woman’S Journey Between An Old World And A New, Susana Grajales Geliga
Ella Deloria: A Dakota Woman’S Journey Between An Old World And A New, Susana Grajales Geliga
Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The subject of this thesis is a Yankton Dakota Sioux woman named Ella Cara Deloria who lived from 1889 to 1972. The intent of this thesis is to use her own construct of an educated Indigenous woman to examine her personal and professional life as a middle figure between a world of Dakota traditionalism and a modern academic arena during an era of intellectual curiosity about Native Americans. She flowed between these worlds to become a distinguished author and accomplished Dakota woman who built bridges of understanding between cultures. Ella initially set out to follow the patriarchs in her family …
Jim Rockford Or Tony Soprano: Coastal Contrasts In American Suburbia, Carl Abbott
Jim Rockford Or Tony Soprano: Coastal Contrasts In American Suburbia, Carl Abbott
Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations
Both in television shows such as The Rockford Files and The Sopranos and in the fiction of writers such as John Updike, Richard Ford, and Douglas Coupland, popular culture draws a distinction between Atlantic Coast and Pacific Coast suburbs. The differences revolve around two themes. The first concerns the roles of place and space. The second is the varying weight of history, often as manifested through families and social ties. Eastern suburbs and suburbanites are commonly depicted as embedded in place, rooted in time, and entangled in social networks. Western suburbs and suburbanites are often imagined as the opposite—isolated in …
The Shanachie, Major Topic Index, 1989-2014, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie, Major Topic Index, 1989-2014, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie (CTIAHS)
Listing of major topics in each issue of The Shanachie from 1989-2014 (v.26 n.2)
The Shanachie, Volume 26, Number 3, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie, Volume 26, Number 3, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie (CTIAHS)
Contents: Museum in the Streets program planned for New Haven (Ethnic Heritage Center Project) -- Irish immigrants’ stories preserved for posterity (Sacred Heart University-CIAHS collaboration) -- An Irish link to the Hartford Courant’s 250th birthday ... but shame on the Courant for the job it did on the Irish
The Shanachie, Volume 26, Number 2, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie, Volume 26, Number 2, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society
The Shanachie (CTIAHS)
Contents: You can blame an Irishman from Limerick for all the uproar on the Connecticut shoreline in 1814 -- Folksy paper portrayed Waterbury’s Irish in the 1890s: Sketches and profiles are unusual, but valuable, historical records.
From The Iron Horse To Hell On Wheels: The Transcontinental Railroad In The Western, Kenneth Estes Hall
From The Iron Horse To Hell On Wheels: The Transcontinental Railroad In The Western, Kenneth Estes Hall
ETSU Faculty Works
Excerpt: "I'm crazy about trains! says Doc Holliday (Jason Robards) to his friend Wyatt Earp (James Garner) in Hour of the Gun (Sturges Ch. 6), explaining why he's waiting on the Contention train. Of course he's really there to help Earp get his revenge on Ike Clanton (Robert Ryan) - but then we never quite know with Doc Holliday.