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The Back Of The House As Viewed From The Front Of The House: Sarah Davis And The Irish Domestic Servants Of Clover Lawn From 1872 To 1879, Gina C. Tangorra
The Back Of The House As Viewed From The Front Of The House: Sarah Davis And The Irish Domestic Servants Of Clover Lawn From 1872 To 1879, Gina C. Tangorra
Honors Projects, History
This paper details the experience of Irish servants and servants of Irish-descent in late nineteenth-century Bloomington who were employed in the middle-class house on Clover Lawn (the David Davis Mansion). The house on Clover Lawn was divided into three regions: public, private, and the servant quarters. The back of the house was reserved for the servants’ living and working areas. The division between front-of-the-house, back-of-the-house is the American equivalent of the British “upstairs-downstairs” arrangement. The body of letters written between Sarah Davis and her family are a wealth of information on their servants, including their personalities, their duties, and her …
The Translation Of Radical Ideas Into Radical Action: The American Revolution And Revolutionary Philadelphia, Angela Skeggs '04
The Translation Of Radical Ideas Into Radical Action: The American Revolution And Revolutionary Philadelphia, Angela Skeggs '04
Honors Projects, History
The battle for the independence of the American colonies has been attributed to many competing motives and factors. Within the vast array of literature on the subject, there are different schools of interpretation. Progressive-era historians tend to focus upon economic motivations underlying the American Revolution.] Within this school of thought historians actually explored possible class conflict and the social ramifications of the revolution. An opposing school of thought arose out of reaction against the progressive historians. The Neo-Whig school of thought placed a higher value on constitutional principles and ideas during the American Revolution, and discounted other motives driving the …
"Everybody Drinks Water": Mark Twain's Critique Of Social Darwinism, Sarah Vales '04
"Everybody Drinks Water": Mark Twain's Critique Of Social Darwinism, Sarah Vales '04
Honors Projects, History
Mark Twain wrote during the time period from approximately 1860 to 1900, commonly known as the Gilded Age. Change defined these years as America industrialized, urbanized, and expanded. Along with the change came an array of social problems, which produced a dichotomy between the outward success of the changes and the inward turmoil wrought on society.
Chicago's Other Magnificent Mile: Howard Street's Growth And Its Effect Upon The Rogers Park Neighborhood, Ryan Mcguinness '04
Chicago's Other Magnificent Mile: Howard Street's Growth And Its Effect Upon The Rogers Park Neighborhood, Ryan Mcguinness '04
Honors Projects, History
The town sorts itself into neighborhoods spaces, into social classes, into languages and nationalities and colors, into parishes and school districts and shopping streets and block clubs and bus routes. And into hope and dreams, for that matter. It's a dreamers town, for all of its harshness. Some of it writhing, some waiting, some being reborn. It's passe, it's fresh, it's gone and it's coming, and as it sheds one skin it grows another. It's a town that never stops, a neighborhood for the world. The best place to put your finger on its pulse is on the streets where …
Regulating Babylon: Religion And Rebellion In Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina, Sarah E. King '03
Regulating Babylon: Religion And Rebellion In Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina, Sarah E. King '03
Honors Projects, History
Past historians have situated the Regulator conflict in largely economic or social terms. James Whittenburg and others claim that at the time of the Regulation, a new and vast social division was present in backcountry society. The established backcountry settlers-the agrarian, yeoman farmers of Hermon Husbands' ilk-resented their recent displacement by mercantile and political interests. The Regulation, then, simply "crystallized widespread anxiety over the swift economic and political changes taking place in the piedmont." The Regulators used fleeting issues of the moment to rectify their lessening influence in North Carolina. Rachel Klein similarly argues in Unification of a Slave State …
Quest For Empire: The United States Versus Germany (1891-1910), Jennifer L. Cutsforth '95
Quest For Empire: The United States Versus Germany (1891-1910), Jennifer L. Cutsforth '95
Honors Projects, History
The United States and Germany experienced difficulties beyond imperial ist competition during the final years of the nineteenth century. Tariff wars, naval growth, and the Anglo-American rapprochement only added to the German-American rivalry rooted in imperialism.
One Among Many: The Story Of Cavey Lambert Methodist Circuit Rider, Lana D. Lambert '63
One Among Many: The Story Of Cavey Lambert Methodist Circuit Rider, Lana D. Lambert '63
Honors Projects, History
Through the life of Cavey Lambert, I hope to show the importance of men such as him on the frontier - - the way they lived, the work that they did, and the influence that they had on American history as it develope d .