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Lost In Space? Reconstructing Frank Willett’S Excavations At Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Rescue Excavations (1957–1958) And Trench Xiv (1962–1963)Lost In Space? Reconstructing Frank Willett’S Excavations At Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Rescue Excavations (1957–1958) And Trench Xiv (1962–1963), Léa Roth, Gérard Chouin, Adisa Ogunfolakan
Lost In Space? Reconstructing Frank Willett’S Excavations At Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Rescue Excavations (1957–1958) And Trench Xiv (1962–1963)Lost In Space? Reconstructing Frank Willett’S Excavations At Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Rescue Excavations (1957–1958) And Trench Xiv (1962–1963), Léa Roth, Gérard Chouin, Adisa Ogunfolakan
Arts & Sciences Articles
From December 1957 to January 1958, Frank Willett conducted a “rescue” excavation at Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife (Nigeria), to investigate the fortuitous discovery of rare brass artifacts by laborers preparing the land for a construction project. Ita Yemoo soon emerged as a significant site, and Willett conducted subsequent archaeological campaigns between 1958 and 1963. The site became famous for its “bronzes” and several terracotta heads excavated in situ, which became icons of Ife’s “florescence” period during the 13th and 14th centuries CE. However, the fame of the site contrasts with the absence of detailed published material on its archaeology. In this …
Constructing The Modern Warrior: The U.S. Army And Gender, Hyunyoung Moon
Constructing The Modern Warrior: The U.S. Army And Gender, Hyunyoung Moon
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The concept of “warrior” has become a centerpiece of the twenty-first century US Army identity. The term “warrior” dominates the Army’s various initiatives and programs and is central to the service’s values and ideals. Since the Army deploys the term so liberally, the term has been used in seemingly contrasting ways: sometimes in strict relation to ground combat positions and other times in reference to soldiers in nontraditional domains like cyber- and drone-warfare. In a similar vein, the Army uses the term both as an honorific for exemplary soldiers and as a generic substitute for the term “soldier.” This dissertation …
Solidarity And Solitude: Disrupted Memories Of Aids In The Hemophilia Community, William Hubbert
Solidarity And Solitude: Disrupted Memories Of Aids In The Hemophilia Community, William Hubbert
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This paper uses subaltern accounts of the hemophilia community's experiences with AIDS to more fully understand the extent, causes, and aftereffects of HIV in the blood supply. It argues that these accounts have been partially hidden by actors who would prefer to obfuscate their involvement in the creation and distribution of contaminated blood products, and uses that deliberate denial of the past as a starting point to consider the significance and ongoing legacy of the tainted factor crisis.
James Blair Historical Review Volume 10, Issue 2
James Blair Historical Review Volume 10, Issue 2
James Blair Historical Review
No abstract provided.
The Enslaved People And The Tylers Too: Why It Is Imperative To Discuss Slavery In Public History, Meredith Jackson
The Enslaved People And The Tylers Too: Why It Is Imperative To Discuss Slavery In Public History, Meredith Jackson
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This paper focuses on the intersection of slavery and public history in the present day, specifically researching how the Tyler family perpetuated slavery and the Lost Cause and the enslaved people at Sherwood Forest Plantation as a microhistory.
Revisiting British Zionism In The Early 20th Century, Benjamin Marin
Revisiting British Zionism In The Early 20th Century, Benjamin Marin
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Long considered irrelevant and unimportant to Zionist history, British Zionists played a necessarily important role in the movement in the early 20th century leading up to the 1917 Balfour Declaration and into the 1920s. Historical narratives that have embraced a reductive view of Zionist history that championed Dr. Chaim Weizmann's prominent role during this period have largely shaped this perspective. In this paper, I examine several British Zionists such as Moses Gaster, Leopold Greenberg, Leonard Stein, Frederick Kisch, and Alfred Mond and the roles they played during this pivotal period for Zionism.
The Republic Of Happiness: James Wilson, Political Thought, And The American Revolution, Kevin Diestelow
The Republic Of Happiness: James Wilson, Political Thought, And The American Revolution, Kevin Diestelow
Undergraduate Honors Theses
The moral quantity of “happiness” provides an organizing principle for understanding the political thought of James Wilson. By using happiness as a metric for understanding his thought, the Revolution can be conceptualized as an intervention in favor of human improvement. In his political thought, Wilson supported an actively empowered government which could take steps needed to support citizens’ moral and material advancement and ultimately, their happiness.
“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions Of Nature In Edith Wharton’S Fiction, Jonathan Malks
“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions Of Nature In Edith Wharton’S Fiction, Jonathan Malks
Undergraduate Honors Theses
I situate Edith Wharton’s guiding idea of “garden-magic” at the center of my thesis because Wharton’s fiction shows how a garden space could naturalize otherwise inadmissible behaviors within upper-class society while helping a character tie such behavior to a greater possibility for escape. To this end, Wharton situates gardens as idealized touchstones within the built environment of New York City, spaces where characters believe they can reach self-actualization within a version of nature that is man-made. Actualization, in this sense, stems from a character’s imaginative escape that is enabled by a perception of the garden as a kind of natural …
"Summer's Gone:" Rethinking The History Of The Beach Boys, 1961-1998, Grant Wong
"Summer's Gone:" Rethinking The History Of The Beach Boys, 1961-1998, Grant Wong
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis rethinks the history of American rock band The Beach Boys from 1961-1998 in terms of how its members tapped into the zeitgeists of the sixties, seventies, and eighties to create successful music and branding. In its analysis, it draws upon methods of cultural history, business history, and biography in order to dispel popular myths surrounding the band and consider the meaning of its impact within United States history and American popular culture as a whole. The Beach Boys, in recording innovative music and marketing a winning brand, created a durable pop cultural institution that defined its times just …
The Female Kirk: Women's Participation In The Early Scottish Presbyterian Church, Lydia Mackey
The Female Kirk: Women's Participation In The Early Scottish Presbyterian Church, Lydia Mackey
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Presbyterianism’s founder, John Knox, wrote his infamous The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women in 1558 arguing against female monarchs. Despite early modern Presbyterianism’s restriction of women’s formal religious roles, women used often conflicting rhetoric from the pulpit to negotiate a degree of power and autonomy. Rather than only being passive members of the Presbyterian Church, women often played an active role in the development and expansion of Presbyterianism between 1550 and 1690. This thesis will demonstrate how a study of women’s interactions with the Presbyterian Church outside of the kirk sessions, namely in their …
"Epic Poems In Bronze": Confederate Memorialization And The Old South's Reckoning With Modernity In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
"Epic Poems In Bronze": Confederate Memorialization And The Old South's Reckoning With Modernity In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Scholars of the American South generally end their studies of Confederate memorization just before World War 1. Because of a decline in the number of physical monuments and memorials to the Confederacy dedicated in the years immediately following the war, scholars appear to regard the interwar era as a period separate from the Lost Cause movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, to fully understand the complexity of developing Southern identities in the modern age, it is essential to expand traditional definitions of Confederate memorialization and the time period in which it is studied. This paper explores …
Unmasking Murder: Reconciling The Twin Depictions Of Viscount Castlereagh, Robert Warrick
Unmasking Murder: Reconciling The Twin Depictions Of Viscount Castlereagh, Robert Warrick
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Viscount Castlereagh is typically depicted in one of two ways. The traditional depiction is of a repressive, anti-liberal demon while the modern depiction is of a Machiavellian chess master who only adopted certain values to ensure his goal of British security. This thesis argues that the modern depiction has gone too far in removing ideology from Castlereagh's diplomacy. While he certainly desired British security, he was motivated by a fear of groups he considered to be "radical."
John Dickinson: The Development And Deployment Of A Legal Mind: 1754-1774, Sophie Rizzieri
John Dickinson: The Development And Deployment Of A Legal Mind: 1754-1774, Sophie Rizzieri
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis argues that John Dickinson’s political thought is best described as legal-minded. I define Dickinson as broadly “legal-minded,” with his use of statute-based arguments conveyed with oratorical skill, and his articulation of constitutional principles of natural rights and balanced government. Dickinson’s work during the period from 1764 to 1774 was concerned with deploying measured arguments and constitutional principles to convince American colonists to preserve their rights against encroachments from Great Britain. Using the letters he wrote to his parents while studying law at the Middle Temple in London in the 1750s, and various public writing and speeches from the …
A Voice From The Convent: Arcangela Tarabotti In Tridentine Venice, Zoe Connell
A Voice From The Convent: Arcangela Tarabotti In Tridentine Venice, Zoe Connell
Undergraduate Honors Theses
In 1617, at the tender age of 13, Arcangela Tarabotti was forced by her family to leave their home and enter the Venetian convent of Sant’Anna. As an advocate not only of gender equality, but female superiority, Tarabotti fought on behalf of women who suffered under Venice’s patriarchal institutions that robbed them of their liberty. This study aims to examine the intersection between the time and space in which Tarabotti lived and her experiences as expressed through her writings. In this thesis, I will examine the manner in which the contents of her writings — emotions, tone, self-image, and beliefs …
James Blair Historical Review, Volume 10, Issue 1
James Blair Historical Review, Volume 10, Issue 1
James Blair Historical Review
No abstract provided.
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 3, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 3, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 2, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 2, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 1, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 1, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
Oduduwa College Transparencies, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa College Transparencies, 2021, GéRard Chouin
Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site
No abstract provided.
From Defeat To Victory In Northern Italy: Comparing Staufen Strategy And Operations At Legnano And Cortenuova, 1176-1237., Daniel Franke
From Defeat To Victory In Northern Italy: Comparing Staufen Strategy And Operations At Legnano And Cortenuova, 1176-1237., Daniel Franke
Richard Bland Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
The Intersection Of Activism And Black Memory: Space, Memory, And Resistance In John Mitchell, Jr.’S Woodland Cemetery And Remembering Emancipation In Hampton Roads, 1917-1963, Timothy Allen Case
The Intersection Of Activism And Black Memory: Space, Memory, And Resistance In John Mitchell, Jr.’S Woodland Cemetery And Remembering Emancipation In Hampton Roads, 1917-1963, Timothy Allen Case
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
“Emancipation is an Act, Freedom is a State of Being”: Remembering Emancipation in Hampton Roads, 1917-1963. This paper traces the centralized organization and an activist turn in the commemoration of emancipation in the Hampton Roads region of Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. While considerable scholarship exists on African American freedom commemorations from the Civil War through its semi-centennial, the story told of twentieth-century emancipation memory is mostly one of marginalization and decline. Accounts of these celebrations in the local Black press reveals their persistence well into the twentieth century. Jim Crow and racial violence haunted the celebratory culture of …
Credit Is Due: African Americans As Borrowers And Lenders In Antebellum Virginia, Amanda White Gibson
Credit Is Due: African Americans As Borrowers And Lenders In Antebellum Virginia, Amanda White Gibson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation analyzes the credit arrangements of Black Virginians, enslaved and free, from the American Revolution to the Civil War. As democracy assured new rights for white men, Black Virginians, and especially Black women, saw the erosion of their legal access to civil and political rights. At the same time a new system of banks provided the capital for the expansion of enslavement. This dissertation examines different forms of debt at the moment when changing ideas about race and freedom and relationships of debt began to evolve into the “modern” banking system. Free and enslaved African Americans were active borrowers …
Virginia Society's Response/ Fancy Fantasy, Peighton Lynsey Young
Virginia Society's Response/ Fancy Fantasy, Peighton Lynsey Young
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Virginia Society’s Response to Revolution Era Manumission and Emancipation Legislation Through Petitions, 1782-1806 Using manumission petitions filed by or on behalf of enslaved Virginians seeking freedom, pro-manumission and emancipation petitions proffered by religious organizations, and anti-emancipation petitions submitted by local enslavers and politicians, this study examines how Virginians, both White and Black, free and enslaved, responded to Virginia’s 1782 manumission act. This law facilitated the liberation of thousands of people in bondage during the first twenty-four years of the early republic period. My analysis highlights a contentious period in Virginia’s early history – a period that began with tenuous hopes …
“Fighting Without Firing”/ “My Fellow Slaves”, Kevin Michael Fowler
“Fighting Without Firing”/ “My Fellow Slaves”, Kevin Michael Fowler
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
“Fighting Without Firing”: Massacre, Tactical Development, and Propaganda at Paoli and Tappan This essay examines the effects and tools of the American Revolutionary massacres at Paoli in 1777, and Tappan in 1778. These massacres were ordered by the same officer, Major General Charles Grey, and committed by the same soldiers. The essay argues that committing massacres and defining battles as “massacres” served British and American patriot causes during the American Revolution. Committing massacres provided models for tactical innovation and defining battles as massacre was a powerful propaganda tool for American revolutionaries. The essay secondarily argues that bayonets, night attacks, and …
Ulysses S. Grant In Popular Memory / Jewish Quotas At Elite Universities, Shea Simmons
Ulysses S. Grant In Popular Memory / Jewish Quotas At Elite Universities, Shea Simmons
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Ulysses S. Grant in Popular Memory. The time period from the 1880s (beginning shortly after his death) to the 1930s was crucial in regards to the popular memory of general and president Ulysses S. Grant. Accessible writings made available both to the public and historians cemented his image among informed readers as an incompetent president and simple-minded general. These included biographies, novels, popular histories and even academic writings, many taking heed of the Dunning School of thought in regards to Reconstruction. Through tracing his journey in popular memory, it becomes clear that many characterizations of Grant owed more to political …