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Helping Wounded Soldiers And Anxious Families: The United States Sanitary Commission And The Origin Of Modern Philanthropy In The United States, Martin L. Novom May 2020

Helping Wounded Soldiers And Anxious Families: The United States Sanitary Commission And The Origin Of Modern Philanthropy In The United States, Martin L. Novom

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This thesis explores an aspect of the American Civil War, the federally authorized civilian effort to assist the Medical Department of the U. S. Army, known as the United States Sanitary Commission. This work covers its active years, 1861-1865, and the Commission leaders based in Washington, D.C., and New York City. It also pays attention to women throughout the North who populated some 7000 Ladies Aid Societies established to help support the Commission. The leaders and the women shared the same goal, to improve the health care for wounded and ill Union soldiers. The Ladies Aid Societies also created a …


Spiritual Development: An Exploratory Study Of Women's Views On The Connection Between Spirituality And Sexuality, Hannah C. Osborne Jan 2005

Spiritual Development: An Exploratory Study Of Women's Views On The Connection Between Spirituality And Sexuality, Hannah C. Osborne

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This study examines the spiritual dimension within human development by looking at the ways in which spirituality is defined, how growth may take place and how one aspect of its connection with other dimensions is experienced. In a survey designed to investigate connection between spirituality and sexuality, 33 women in mid-life and beyond reported experiencing such a connection. Information was obtained by means of a 25-question survey. Analysis of the surveys shows that for these respondents sexual experience does involve characteristics that are spiritual in nature. This study contributes to the foundation upon which further investigation may serve to expand …


New England Genealogies: The Life And Writings Of Mary Ellen Chase, William Orin Chesley Jan 2003

New England Genealogies: The Life And Writings Of Mary Ellen Chase, William Orin Chesley

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Mary Ellen Chase, one of the most popular American authors of the twentieth century, was born in Blue Hill, Maine in 1887. Her career as a writer spanned the period between 1909, when she left Maine to teach in the mid-West, and her death in 1973. Much of her literature was influenced by her early life in Blue Hill and by the various members of family. This thesis looks at the historical, biographical, and genealogical factors that gave impetus to a prolific literary output and won her a place among the leading Humanist writers in American literature during the middle …