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Review Of Neuman, Johanna. Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought For Women’S Right To Vote, Kelly L. Marino Jan 2021

Review Of Neuman, Johanna. Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought For Women’S Right To Vote, Kelly L. Marino

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Book review by Kelly L. Marino.

Neuman, J. (2019). Gilded suffragists: The New York socialites who fought for women’s right to vote. New York University Press.


Lizzie Borden On Trial: Murder, Ethnicity, And Gender (Book Review), Kelly L. Marino Jan 2019

Lizzie Borden On Trial: Murder, Ethnicity, And Gender (Book Review), Kelly L. Marino

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Most Americans are familiar with the popular children’s rhyme about the accused Massachusetts woman Lizzie Borden and the 40, and subsequent 41, whacks she supposedly inflicted on her parents during their violent assassinations in the family home. However, few people know much about the actual history behind the Borden story. Over generations, popular depictions in literature, film, and television have skewed the details.


The Birth Of The U.S. Federal Reserve, Richard A. Naclerio Jan 2015

The Birth Of The U.S. Federal Reserve, Richard A. Naclerio

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On November 16, 2014 the United States Federal Reserve celebrated the centennial of its organization. Its one hundred year legacy has left no doubt of its vast monetary control, its far-reaching geopolitical power, and its enigmatic secrecy. These defining features of the Fed remain a mirror of the men who created it. Wall Street barons and ambitious politicians vied for control over shaping the U.S. Federal Reserve to the specifications that suited the needs of both their country and themselves.

This paper covers men like Senator Nelson Aldrich, J.P. Morgan, Jacob Schiff, and Paul M. Warburg, who were the undeniable …


Put Your Feet On The Ground Of History, Julie Mujic Nov 2014

Put Your Feet On The Ground Of History, Julie Mujic

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History majors at Sacred Heart University personified the quest for active and engaged learning with their eagerness to “put their feet on the ground of history.”


Cohen: Reconstructing The Campus: Higher Education And The American Civil War (Book Review), Julie Mujic May 2014

Cohen: Reconstructing The Campus: Higher Education And The American Civil War (Book Review), Julie Mujic

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Book review by Julie Mujic.

Cohen, Michael David. Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780813933177


Paul M. Warburg: Founder Of The United States Federal Reserve, Richard A. Naclerio May 2013

Paul M. Warburg: Founder Of The United States Federal Reserve, Richard A. Naclerio

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The name Paul Moritz Warburg is synonymous with the founding of the Federal Reserve System. Over the years preceding the formation of the Federal Reserve, Warburg wrote many essays and gave many public addresses on banking reform. His reform ideas were modeled on the central banking systems of many European counties he dealt with through the family business M.M. Warburg.


Ours Is The Harder Lot: Student Patriotism At The University Of Michigan During The Civil War, Julie Mujic Jan 2013

Ours Is The Harder Lot: Student Patriotism At The University Of Michigan During The Civil War, Julie Mujic

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Historians have considered some aspects of the impact of the war on higher education, but their work usually focuses on student experiences as soldiers or includes brief analyses of the war period in a larger institutional analysis. Their research does reinforce the unique nature, however, of circumstances at the University of Michigan, where the war period saw increases in enrollment and the expansion of curriculum.


The History Of Inequality In Education, Amity L. Noltemeyer, Julie Mujic, Caven S. Mcloughlin Jan 2012

The History Of Inequality In Education, Amity L. Noltemeyer, Julie Mujic, Caven S. Mcloughlin

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The purpose of this chapter is to consider a sampling of the critical events that demonstrate this history of inequity, with the understanding that they have contributed to the current status of American schools. To this end, we will explore relevant events related to the education of individuals of different racial, gender, language, and disability backgrounds. We do not intend to provide an exhaustive overview of the history of American education, nor will we provide a detailed account of the history of equity in the broader society outside of the educational sector. Rather, we will provide a cursory glimpse at …


A Fellowship In Learning: Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008 (Book Review), Julie Mujic Apr 2011

A Fellowship In Learning: Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008 (Book Review), Julie Mujic

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Book review by Julie Mujic.

Francis, Marlene Crandell. A Fellowship in Learning: Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Kalamazoo College, 2008.


Evelyn Aschenbrenner. A History Of Wayne State University In Photographs (Book Review), Julie Mujic Apr 2010

Evelyn Aschenbrenner. A History Of Wayne State University In Photographs (Book Review), Julie Mujic

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Wayne State University (WSU) alumna and freelance writer Evelyn Aschenbrenner compiled this book to fulfill her own curiosity about the evolution of Wayne State University's campus in Detroit, Michigan.

Book review by Julie A. Mujic: Aschenbrenner, Evelyn. A History of Wayne State University in Photographs. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780814332825


Brokers Of Culture: Italian Jesuits In The American West, 1848-1919 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Sep 2008

Brokers Of Culture: Italian Jesuits In The American West, 1848-1919 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

McKevitt, Gerald. Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780804753579


Danger On The Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism And American Print Culture In The Progressive Era (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Aug 2007

Danger On The Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism And American Print Culture In The Progressive Era (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Nordstrom, Justin. Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. ISBN 9780268036058


Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, And Baptists In Texas (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Jul 2007

Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, And Baptists In Texas (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Barton, Paul. Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. ISBN 029271291X1


A Border Community's Unfulfilled Appeals: The Rise And Fall Of The 1840'S Anti-Abolitionist Movement In Cincinnati, Julie Mujic Jul 2007

A Border Community's Unfulfilled Appeals: The Rise And Fall Of The 1840'S Anti-Abolitionist Movement In Cincinnati, Julie Mujic

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This essay explores the nature of the anti-abolition sentiment in Cincinnati, Ohio, through an analysis of a short lived anti-abolition organization and newspaper. The two institutions developed in response to the race riot of 1841 and attempted to address the social and economic concerns of certain Cincinnati citizens.


Reforging The White Republic: Race, Religion, And American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Apr 2006

Reforging The White Republic: Race, Religion, And American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Blum, Edward J. Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.


Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life And Trial Of An American Slave Trader, Julie Mujic Jan 2006

Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life And Trial Of An American Slave Trader, Julie Mujic

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Book review by Julie Mujic.

Soodalter, Ron. Hanging Captain Gordon: the life and trial of an American slave trader. New York: Atria Books, 2006.

ISBN 9780743267274


"Monkeying With The Bible”: Edgar J. Goodspeed's American Translation, R. Bryan Bademan Jan 2006

"Monkeying With The Bible”: Edgar J. Goodspeed's American Translation, R. Bryan Bademan

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Devotion to the Bible remains an underappreciated aspect of American religious life partly because it fails to generate controversy. This essay opens a window onto America's relationship with the Bible by exploring a controversial moment in the history of the Bible in America: the public reception of University of Chicago professor Edgar J. Goodspeed's American Translation (1923). Initially, at least, most Americans flatly rejected Goodspeed's impeccably credentialed attempt to cast the language of the Bible in contemporary "American" English. Accusations of the professor's irreligion, bad taste, vulgarity, and crass modernity emerged from nearly every quarter of the Protestant establishment (with …


Lincoln's Defense Of Politics: The Public Man And His Opponents In The Crisis Over Slavery (Book Review), Julie Mujic Jan 2006

Lincoln's Defense Of Politics: The Public Man And His Opponents In The Crisis Over Slavery (Book Review), Julie Mujic

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Book review by Julie Mujic.

Schneider, Thomas E. Lincoln’s Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006.

ISBN 9780826216069


The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict And Compromise In The Common Schools Of New York, 1865-1900 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Nov 2005

The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict And Compromise In The Common Schools Of New York, 1865-1900 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Justice, Benjamin. The War That Wasn't: Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York, 1865-1900. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. ISBN 9780791462119; 9780791484463


Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists And The Federal Legislation Of Morality, 1865-1920 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Sep 2005

Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists And The Federal Legislation Of Morality, 1865-1920 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Foster, Gaines M. Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN 9780807826973 (hardcover); 9780807853665 (pbk.)


The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, And The Culture Of Modern Liberalism (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Jul 2005

The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, And The Culture Of Modern Liberalism (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Rieser, Andrew C. The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Lilberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780231126427


Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families In Nineteenth Century America (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan Apr 2003

Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families In Nineteenth Century America (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

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Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Rose, Anne C. Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth Century America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780674006409


Spain's Enterprise Of Evil, Charlotte M. Gradie Jan 2002

Spain's Enterprise Of Evil, Charlotte M. Gradie

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Book review by Charlotte Gradie.

Rabasa, José . Writing violence on the northern frontier: the historiography of sixteenth century New Mexico and Florida and the legacy of conquest. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-8223-2567-3.


Tennessee John Stoltzfus: Amish Church-Related Documents And Family Letters (Book Review), Charles T. Eby Jul 1988

Tennessee John Stoltzfus: Amish Church-Related Documents And Family Letters (Book Review), Charles T. Eby

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Book review by Charles T. Eby.

Tennessee John Stoltzfus: Amish Church-Related Documents and Family Letters. Edited and annotated by Paton Yoder. Translated by Noah G. Good. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 1987.