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Heroism And Indeterminacy In Oliver Stone's Jfk And Don Delillo's Libra, Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Incarcerated, Transported And Bound: Constructing Community Among Transported Convicts From Britain To The Chesapeake, 1739-1776, Michael I. Bradley

Masters Theses

"Incarcerated, Transported, and Bound: Constructing Community among Convicts Transported from London to the Chesapeake, 1739-1776" explores the movement, migration, the malleability of identities, and development of communal ties among transported convicts. This thesis utilizes information on more than 3000 convicts brought to the colonial Chesapeake region. Precise details are currently available for more than two hundred transported convicts. In many cases the convicts can be followed from their birthplace to London to their trial and imprisonment, continuing to their transportation to the Americas, their new lives in the Chesapeake, and, in some cases, their flight and return to Great Britain. …

Revolutionary Decade: Reflections On The 1960s, Booth Library

Booth Library Programs

Photo galleries and supporting exhibits can be found on the REVOLUTIONARY DECADE exhibit page.

Exhibit Dates

This exhibit was displayed at Booth Library September 9 - November 20, 2014

Separating The Whites From The Chaff: Whiteness, Blackness, Racial Exclusion In The Midwest Agrarian Mind, Philip Mohr

Masters Theses

This thesis approaches the construction of race through the vantage of one agrarian magazine, the Prairie Farmer. It analyzes the rhetoric of the people who wrote for this magazine to distinguish changing attitudes toward whiteness and blackness in the rural and agricultural Midwest from the end of the Civil War to the Great Migration. While whiteness was equated with what the Prairie Farmer saw as the active, progressive farmer, blackness was associated with stupidity, laziness, and threat to property. From this, the thesis argues we can build a base of knowledge from which to analyze the roots of racism …

Jane Wilson Mcwilliams, “Annapolis, A City On The Severn: A History” In Maryland Historical Magazine, 107, No. 2 (Summer 2012), 234-35., Charles R. Foy

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

McWilliams frames Annapolis’ history as one in which disparate newcomers, including white retirees and striving Hispanic immigrants, have been drawn to the port by its “location, its culture, or its economic possibilities.” A strength of the book is its inclusion of short essays by other historians. Where the book is lacking is in not connecting Annapolis’ history to larger national and global issues.

"Sewing A Safety Net: Scarborough's Maritime Community, 1747-1765", Charles Foy

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

From 1747 to 1765 Scarborough created a safety net to keep its maritime dependents from becoming impoverished. A web of kinship connections that permitted sailors to move between land and sea as well as between maritime roles as they aged; the employment of maritime servants; the extensive hiring of elderly seamen; the use of the Seamen’s Sixpence after legislative reform in 1747 to develop locally operated seamen’s hospitals for the benefit of sailors and their families; and strong community support of the hospitals worked together to provide a social safety net that was, by eighteenth century standards, robust and effective.

‘Unkle Sommerset's’ Freedom: Liberty In England For Black Sailors, Charles R. Foy

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

With his 1772 decree in Somerset v. Steuart that slavery was ‘so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it [in England] but positive law’, Lord Mansfield altered the legal landscape regarding black rights in England. While earlier judicial decisions had implied that slaves who came to England were free, prior to the Somerset decision there was no judicial consensus on the issue. The Somerset decision did not decree that slavery was illegal in England. Yet many blacks believed it ‘emancipated’ any slave who reached the shores of England. This understanding, combined with the British military welcoming runaways into …

Gatsby And Jazz: One Coin, Two Sides, Sally Van Der Graaff

2011 Awards for Excellence in Student Research & Creative Activity - Documents

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Toni Morrison's JAZZ both tell the story of the American 1920s, but from opposite points of view. Fitzgerald and Morrison offer two compelling narratives of the societal shift that took place in post-World War 1-era America, but although the accounts share the same general topic and historical era, it is otherwise difficult to reconcile the two American portraits that have been painted. It is as though the two authors are giving a description of the same coin, but one describes the front and the other describes the back. To the white population this …

Charles R. Foy Review Of Michael J. Jarvis, “In The Eye Of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, And The Maritime Atlantic World,” In Common-Place 10:4 (July 2010) (Www.Common-Place.Org)., Charles R. Foy

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

In his comprehensive study of colonial Bermuda Jarvis places Bermuda in "the eye of trade," i.e., the center of the Anglo-American Atlantic. He proceeds to use this new perspective to explore six key characteristics of Bermudian life: its transition from a tobacco society to a maritime society; the island’s unique system of slavery; the emphasis placed on kinship connections and communal activities; Bermudian exploitation of the Atlantic’s natural resources; the effect of Bermuda’s maritime economy on its residents; and the impact of the American Revolution on Bermudian society. With their maritime skills, unique slave system and extensive kinship connections Bermudians …

Charles R. Foy Review Of Simon Middleton And Billy G. Smith, “Class Matters: Early North America And The Atlantic World,” Journal Of The Early Republic 27:2 (Summer 2009): 168-171., Charles R. Foy

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Class Matters is the culmination of an ongoing effort by Smith and Middleton to make class, often disparaged during the past two decades as of little use, once again a relevant category of historical analysis. The editors seek to encourage scores of different approaches, recognizing that the variety of early modern contexts makes a unified approach inapt. Applying a multitude of approaches, each of the collection’s authors agrees that socioeconomic inequality remains critical to understanding the lives of all those who lived in the Atlantic world during the transition from the early modern to the modern era. The essays are …

“Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration And The Making Of The Modern World”, Charles R. Foy

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

This anthology of essay provides a persuasive basis for widening our geographic Emma Christopher et. al. (eds.), “Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World,” Journal of the Early Republic 28:3 (Fall 2008): 474-477. lens when considering coerced voyages across the Atlantic. It offers as a useful framing tool to consider the social and cultural transformations of a variety of people coercively transported that middle passages were ‘‘the structuring link between expropriation in one geographic setting and exploitation in another.” Additionally, the editors consider a variety of ‘‘prisons’’ central to these middle passages, and claim that …

‘High Feeding And Smart Drinking’: Associating Hedge-Lane Lords In Exclusion Crisis London, Newton Key

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Cchlp: Original Public Interface, Eastern Illinois University Department Of History

Coles County Legal History

The Coles County Legal History Project (CCLHP) was began as a grant-supported project in 1999. The database covers civil and criminal cases from 1830 to 1906. The records were originally in a postgres database with a two tables. The public interface was written in Perl. The interface and data were served by Solaris hardware. The Cases table contains 1602 records, the Parties table contains 4487 records. The Solaris system was retired in 2009 and the database was transferred to Booth Library.

Cclhp: Data As Microsoft Access File, Newton Key, Chris Waldrep, Michael Kroll, Mark Voss-Hubbard

Coles County Legal History

Table Cases Fields:

Case_Number

Incident_Date

File_Date

Settlement_Date

Location

Case_Type

Dollar_Amount

Issue

Outcome

Ancillary_Catters

Memo

Transcribed

Additional_Info

Marked

Last_Modified

Table Parties

Record_Number

Case_Number

L_Name

F_Name

Sex

Occupation

Literate

Location

Additional_Info

Marked

Modified_Date

Queries

Cclhp: Case Types As Csv, Newton Key, Mark Voss-Hubbard, Michael Kroll, Chris Waldrep

Coles County Legal History

Single column, controlled vocabulary for case types

Cclhp: Cases As Csv, Newton Key, Mark Voss-Hubbard, Chris Waldrep, Michael Kroll

Coles County Legal History

Fields included: case_number Incident Date File Date Settlement Date Location Case Type Dollar Amount Issue Outcome Ancillary Matters Memo Transcribed Additional Information Marked Last Modified

Cclhp: Parties As Csv, Newton Key, Mark Voss-Hubbard, Michael Kroll, Chris Waldrep

Coles County Legal History

Fields included: Record Number case_number Actor (P D W or J) Last Name First Name Sex Occupation Literate Location Additional Information Marked Last Modified

Where Past Meets Present: A History Of The Arthur Amish, Jane Ann Ping

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

New Deal Programs And The Great Depression In Effingham County, Edward Lee Allen

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.