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The Controversial Career Of George Nicholas Sanders, Melinda Squires
The Controversial Career Of George Nicholas Sanders, Melinda Squires
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
George Nicholas Sanders' involvement in regional, national, and international affairs in the mid-nineteenth century significantly shaped the history and unique character of America, as perceived by both Americans and Europeans. Sanders influenced the course of national political events not by idealistic leadership but by active participation. No one has yet written a biography on George N. Sanders, even though he played a prominent role in the annexation of Texas, Young America, presidential elections, diplomatic affairs, and in the Confederacy. Historians often ignored or slighted him because he tended to wield his influence behind-the-scenes. Hence, Sanders' true significance was often masked …
Claybrook V. Owensboro: Equality, Integration, And Struggle, Lori Coghill
Claybrook V. Owensboro: Equality, Integration, And Struggle, Lori Coghill
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In 1883 the case of Claybrook v. Owensboro was one of the first challenges to equal educational funding under the Fourteenth Amendment. The definition of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause was vague and left blacks with little guidance about their new found constitutional rights. By analyzing the case along with legal, educational, and local racial attitudes toward blacks at the time, historians and educators can better understand the evolution of the Fourteenth Amendment in state and local issues. The case record from Federal Reports as well as the case file from the law final record book at the National …
Place, Disease And Mortality: Trimble County, Kentucky 1849-1894, Nancy Demaree
Place, Disease And Mortality: Trimble County, Kentucky 1849-1894, Nancy Demaree
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This researcher describes the characteristics of place...physical, cultural and human...of a small Kentucky county and looks at the incidence of disease and dying that occurred in that place in the last half of the nineteenth century. The impact of death on particular subsets of the general population was given a closer evaluation. Very young, females and the slave/Black communities were investigated individually. The overall site and situation of all aspects of Trimble County, Kentucky were viewed in an effort to support the notion that it is the manner in which man interacts with this environment that causes disease and death …
A Life Of Paradox: Thomas Merton's Asian Trajectory, Gary Houchens
A Life Of Paradox: Thomas Merton's Asian Trajectory, Gary Houchens
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Anthony Padovano called Thomas Merton a "symbol of the century" inasmuch as he embodied many of the changes facing Christianity during the often tumultuous and violent, but increasingly pluralistic, middle decades of the twentieth century. Merton engaged in a "total ecumenism," in which he intensely studied other religious traditions, most notably the religions of Asia, in order to better understand his own Roman Catholic tradition. This paper will trace the trajectory of Asian ideas and experiences throughout Merton's life and analyze how these experiences transformed him from a narrow-minded monk to an ecumenical mystic. An ever-present subject emerges: the coincidence …
Experiments In Social Salvation: The Settlement Movement In Chicago, 1890-1910, Janet Reed
Experiments In Social Salvation: The Settlement Movement In Chicago, 1890-1910, Janet Reed
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In this study, the settlement movement in Chicago is presented as a crucible for the development of Progressive reform. The subjective and objective necessities for social settlements are described through the lives of men and women central to the movement. Reformers such as Jane Addams, Graham Taylor, and Mary McDowell fused their personal motives to their expanding assumptions regarding public welfare in their pursuit of social salvation. The settlement community advanced a methodology of experimentation and flexibility, which was instrumental to the transformation of nineteenth century ideas of charity into the new twentieth century science of social work. The processes …