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“No Place Is So Dear To My Childhood”: Evangelicalism, Nostalgia, And The History Of An American Hymn, Christopher D. Cantwell Sep 2023

“No Place Is So Dear To My Childhood”: Evangelicalism, Nostalgia, And The History Of An American Hymn, Christopher D. Cantwell

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This article tracks the surprising history of a love ballad about a lost sweetheart that went on to become a celebrated gospel hymn about the rural roots of America's greatness. Titled “The Little Brown Church,” but sometimes called “The Church in the Wildwood,” the song's evolution speaks to the ways in which nostalgia became central to the social and religious imagination of those American Protestants call themselves “evangelicals.” Though it first appeared in college songbooks after its publication in 1865, “The Little Brown Church” eventually became a favorite of evangelists, revivalists, and other gospel singers at the dawn of the …


“And There The Pagans Reigned”: Epideictic, Shared Appreciation, Social History, Stephen Schloesser Dec 2022

“And There The Pagans Reigned”: Epideictic, Shared Appreciation, Social History, Stephen Schloesser

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John W. O’Malley, S.J. highlighted the “pagan” origins of the texts recovered from classical antiquity by Renaissance humanists. Although these ancient writers had no relationship to either the Jewish or Christian religions of the Book, their writings were nevertheless valued for offering wisdom and moral insights. Thanks to the epideictic rhetorical genre, shared appreciation across boundaries was emphasized. However, O’Malley also avoided rigidity or literalism in applying principles of the past to contemporary circumstances. Ancient documents are one kind of source; the “social history” in actual practice and application of those documents is another kind of source. This essay surveys …


Psalms And The City: John Halgrin Of Abbeville And The Paris Context Of A Scholastic Psalms Commentary, Theresa J. Gross-Diaz Nov 2022

Psalms And The City: John Halgrin Of Abbeville And The Paris Context Of A Scholastic Psalms Commentary, Theresa J. Gross-Diaz

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Though they were at the core of monastic prayer and a staple of contemplative practice, the Psalms also lent themselves extraordinarily well to addressing the dangers and temptations of the active life. In this short essay I would like to explore scholastic exegesis of the Psalms as a means of addressing social and moral issues in the context of Paris in the early 1200s. The real-life context of medieval scholastic commentaries on the Psalms is something of which few modern scholars make note, and one might argue that these commentaries are not even "scholastic," as they lack significant "rational organisation" …


Home And Work, Tanya Stabler Miller Nov 2020

Home And Work, Tanya Stabler Miller

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Emmett Till, History And Memory, Elliot Gorn Nov 2020

Emmett Till, History And Memory, Elliot Gorn

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The story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago kid murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, is well known in its broadest outlines today. In fact, Emmett Till’s name has become shorthand for the horrors of white supremacy and Jim Crow segregation, much as Anne Frank’s name signals the destruction of innocence in the holocaust. But it wasn’t always that way. The most surprising thing about the Till story is how totally forgotten it was for over 30 years, among white Americans that is, even as African-Americans kept his flame alive. Till’s is an important example of how …


Vice, Crime, And Poverty: How The Western Imagination Invented The Underworld By Dominique Kalifa, Timothy J. Gilfoyle Sep 2020

Vice, Crime, And Poverty: How The Western Imagination Invented The Underworld By Dominique Kalifa, Timothy J. Gilfoyle

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Rebecca Yamin & Donna J. Seifert. 2019. The Archaeology Of Prostitution And Clandestine Pursuits. Gainesville: University Press Of Florida; 978-0-8130-5645-6 Hardback $85., Timothy J. Gilfoyle May 2020

Rebecca Yamin & Donna J. Seifert. 2019. The Archaeology Of Prostitution And Clandestine Pursuits. Gainesville: University Press Of Florida; 978-0-8130-5645-6 Hardback $85., Timothy J. Gilfoyle

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Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands Of Juan Cortina And Louis Riel In An Age Of National Consolidation, Benjamin H. Johnson Apr 2020

Reconstructing North America: The Borderlands Of Juan Cortina And Louis Riel In An Age Of National Consolidation, Benjamin H. Johnson

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Final Chapters [Margaret Garb Obituary], Timothy Gilfoyle Mar 2020

Final Chapters [Margaret Garb Obituary], Timothy Gilfoyle

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Cultural Production In Chicago: Making History Interviews With Barbara Gaines, Criss Henderson, And Carlos Tortolero, Timothy Gilfoyle Jan 2020

Cultural Production In Chicago: Making History Interviews With Barbara Gaines, Criss Henderson, And Carlos Tortolero, Timothy Gilfoyle

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Fiona J. Griffiths, Nuns’ Priests’ Tales: Men And Salvation In Medieval Women’S Religious Life, Tanya Stabler Miller Jan 2020

Fiona J. Griffiths, Nuns’ Priests’ Tales: Men And Salvation In Medieval Women’S Religious Life, Tanya Stabler Miller

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This work is a review of the book Nuns’ Priests’ Tales: Men and Salvation in Medieval Women’s Religious Life, written by Fiona J. Griffiths.


The Cult Of Mary Magdalen In The Medieval West, Theresa J. Gross-Diaz Oct 2019

The Cult Of Mary Magdalen In The Medieval West, Theresa J. Gross-Diaz

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Chicago-Born And Bred: Making History Interviews With Frank M. Clark, Jr. And Richard L. Duchossois, Timothy J. Gilfoyle Jul 2019

Chicago-Born And Bred: Making History Interviews With Frank M. Clark, Jr. And Richard L. Duchossois, Timothy J. Gilfoyle

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Sudan In Crisis, Kim Searcy Jul 2019

Sudan In Crisis, Kim Searcy

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Islam In Austria-Hungary, Edin Hajdarpasic Jun 2019

Islam In Austria-Hungary, Edin Hajdarpasic

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During the First World War, mobilizing Muslim soldiers and Islamic institutions became an important international concern for Austria-Hungary. This article looks at how the Habsburg Monarchy tried to regulate Muslim populations in Bosnia-Herzegovina after 1878 before considering a series of wartime Austro-Hungarian measures aimed at incorporating Muslim subjects.These ranged from recognizing Islam as a state religion to conscripting Muslim soldiers to fight on behalf of the Ottoman, Habsburg, and German empires.


Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting, Elliot Gorn Mar 2019

Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting, Elliot Gorn

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Cindy R. Lobel, 1970-2018: Historian Of New York; Aha Member, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Megan J. Elias Feb 2019

Cindy R. Lobel, 1970-2018: Historian Of New York; Aha Member, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Megan J. Elias

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North Side, South Side, All Around The Town: Making History Interviews With Anne Mcglone Burke And Josephine Baskin Minow, Timothy J. Gilfoyle Jan 2019

North Side, South Side, All Around The Town: Making History Interviews With Anne Mcglone Burke And Josephine Baskin Minow, Timothy J. Gilfoyle

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No abstract provided.


Claves Para Repensar La Violencia E Inseguridad En Mexico, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Rafael Fernández De Castro Jan 2019

Claves Para Repensar La Violencia E Inseguridad En Mexico, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Rafael Fernández De Castro

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Review Of Internment During The Second World War: A Comparative Study Of Great Britain And The Usa., Aidan A. Forth Oct 2018

Review Of Internment During The Second World War: A Comparative Study Of Great Britain And The Usa., Aidan A. Forth

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Remembering Cindy Lobel, Timothy J. Gilfoyle Oct 2018

Remembering Cindy Lobel, Timothy J. Gilfoyle

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On The Advantage And Disadvantage Of History For Life, Stephen Schloesser Sep 2018

On The Advantage And Disadvantage Of History For Life, Stephen Schloesser

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Breaking Chicago’S Glass Ceilings: Making History Interviews With Deborah L. Dehaas And Adele S. Simmons, Timothy J. Gilfoyle Jul 2018

Breaking Chicago’S Glass Ceilings: Making History Interviews With Deborah L. Dehaas And Adele S. Simmons, Timothy J. Gilfoyle

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What Price History: Politics, Commercialism, And Urban Preservation, Theodore J. Karamanski May 2018

What Price History: Politics, Commercialism, And Urban Preservation, Theodore J. Karamanski

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Historic preservation is the child of the city. In North America, the United States Conference of Mayors served as midwife to the birth of the modern historic preservation movement, when in January 1966, it issued the report With a Heritage So Rich. The report’s authors argued that in losing historic buildings and districts to urban renewal America was severing a vital link to the past. “Connections between successive generations of Americans—concretely linking their ways of life—are broken by demolition. Sources of memory cease to exist.” Part coffee-table book and part policy proposal, the volume laid the foundation for the …


Blood From The Sky: Miracles And Politics In The Early American Republic, Kyle Roberts Mar 2018

Blood From The Sky: Miracles And Politics In The Early American Republic, Kyle Roberts

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Early nineteenth-century Americans might not have lived in the “world of wonders” of their seventeenth-century forbears, argues Adam Jortner, Associate Professor of History at Auburn University, but they did inhabit a world where people still believed in the supernatural, where they discussed and debated those beliefs, and occasionally found themselves on the receiving end of persecution and violence as a result. In this valuable study, Jortner recovers the enduring presence of miracles, wonders, and other supernatural events in the decades following the American Revolution and challenges us to rethink how we interpret their place in the religious and political life …


A Midwesterner's Reflections On Teaching Public History In China, Theodore J. Karamanski Mar 2018

A Midwesterner's Reflections On Teaching Public History In China, Theodore J. Karamanski

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The Beginning Of Public History Ethics In The Usa, Theodore J. Karamanski Mar 2018

The Beginning Of Public History Ethics In The Usa, Theodore J. Karamanski

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Vin Scully: The Voice Of Los Angeles, Elliot Gorn, Allison Lauterbach Dale Feb 2018

Vin Scully: The Voice Of Los Angeles, Elliot Gorn, Allison Lauterbach Dale

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This chapter combines history and memoir. The authors are both historians and both grew up in Los Angeles as Dodgers fans. Gorn followed the team in the late 1950s and 1960s. Lauterbach Dale became a fan a generation later. With the realization that the voice of Dodgers announcer Vin Scully was their common tie to Los Angeles, they decided to write about his importance to the city.


Sister Carrie---Theodore Dreiser, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900, Elliot Gorn Jan 2018

Sister Carrie---Theodore Dreiser, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900, Elliot Gorn

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Facing the naturalistic, nonjudgmental rendering in Sister Carrie of the stresses of survival in Chicago and New York was seen by some as scandalous. Nonetheless, Theodore Dreiser’s first novel eventually became an American classic and has been published in countless editions. The Heritage edition (1937) includes illustrations by Reginald Marsh (1898– 1954), including one in which the main character, a country girl on a train bound for Chicago, is approached by a salesman whose mistress she will eventually become.


Chicago’S Global Entrepreneurs: Making History Interviews With John Canning And Ronald Gidwitz, Timothy J. Gilfoyle Jan 2018

Chicago’S Global Entrepreneurs: Making History Interviews With John Canning And Ronald Gidwitz, Timothy J. Gilfoyle

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No abstract provided.