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History, Language, And Power: James Hammond Trumbull's Native American Scholarship, Emma W. Sternlof
History, Language, And Power: James Hammond Trumbull's Native American Scholarship, Emma W. Sternlof
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James Hammond Trumbull was born in Stonington, Connecticut in 1821 and died in Hartford in 1897. Although he spent his life within the borders of a single state, his remarkable achievements in the fields of colonial history and Native American language resounded throughout a rapidly expanding America. Trumbull’s Native American scholarship can be organized into three categories. Within the context of southeastern Connecticut, he examined obscure colonial records that led him to an understanding of the Pequot War that challenged traditional narratives. However, he never formally printed his misgivings. On a state level, as a high-ranking official, he collected colonial …
The Orphan Train Movement: Examining 19th Century Childhood Experiences, Sophie Goldsmith
The Orphan Train Movement: Examining 19th Century Childhood Experiences, Sophie Goldsmith
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This project examines orphan trains and the movement's reverberating effects on the United States more closely. Founded by Reverend Charles Loring Brace, the orphan train program aimed to challenge the “greatest evil[s] of our city life” – migration, overpopulation, and poverty - through removing at risk youth from their urban residences.[1] Focused solely on impoverished and orphaned youths, the orphan train progam assisted in approximately 200,000 placements between 1853 and 1929, making it the largest child resettlement initiative in American history.[2]
[1] Thomas Bender. Towards an Urban Vision.(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), 151.
[2] Stephen O'Connor, …
Catch-22 And The Triumph Of The Absurd, Matthew H. Mainuli
Catch-22 And The Triumph Of The Absurd, Matthew H. Mainuli
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A Cold War Narrative: The Covert Coup Of Mohammad Mossadegh, Role Of The U.S. Press And Its Haunting Legacies, Carolyn T. Lee
A Cold War Narrative: The Covert Coup Of Mohammad Mossadegh, Role Of The U.S. Press And Its Haunting Legacies, Carolyn T. Lee
Senior Theses and Projects
In 1953 the British and United States overthrew the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in what was the first covert coup d’état of the Cold War. Headlines and stories perfectly echoed the CIA and administration’s cover story – a successful people’s revolution against a prime minister dangerously sympathetic to communism. This storyline is drastically dissimilar to the realities of the clandestine operation. American mainstream media wrongly represented the proceedings through Iran strictly Cold War terms rather than placing it in it rightful context as a product of the Anglo-Iranian oil nationalization crisis. In relying on narrow Cold War …
“Like A Mad Geyser In The Moonlight”: The Harlem Riots Of 1935 And 1943 And The Use Of Surrealism In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Diana Lestz
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No abstract provided.
Jane Addams: Taking Leave Of Her Fathers, Todd M. Girard
Jane Addams: Taking Leave Of Her Fathers, Todd M. Girard
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