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Philanthropy And The New England Emigrant Aid Company, 1854-1900, Courtney Elizabeth Buchkoski
Philanthropy And The New England Emigrant Aid Company, 1854-1900, Courtney Elizabeth Buchkoski
Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This project examines the New England Emigrant Aid Company colonization of Kansas in 1854 as a solution to the growing debate over popular sovereignty and slave labor. It uses the Company as a lens to reinterpret the intellectual history of philanthropy, tracing its roots from Puritan ideas of charity to the capitalistic giving of the nineteenth century.
It argues that the Company’s vision was simultaneously capitalistic and moralistic, for it served both as an imposition of “proper” society upon the West and South, but also had the potential to benefit the donors financially and politically. Using a settler colonial framework, …
Maybe, Maybe Not: The Tao Of History, Kevin P. Lavery
Maybe, Maybe Not: The Tao Of History, Kevin P. Lavery
The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History
Many years ago, I read an old Chinese parable in one of my brother’s books. I haven’t been able to determine its precise origins, but it goes something like this:
One day, a farmer’s only horse broke loose and ran away from his stable. “What bad luck,” the farmer’s neighbors said to him. But the farmer merely replied, “Maybe, maybe not.”... [excerpt]