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Rebranding The Native: Selling The ‘Ideal’ Indigenous Worker At The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1918, Luke Prior
History & Classics Student Scholarship
Luke Prior ’22
Major: History/Secondary Education
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alexander Orquiza, History and Classics
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School sought to recreate the image of the Native American from the savage brute of the past and the lazy free-loader who lived off the government ration to an ‘ideal’ worker who was a productive member of the American economy. In doing so, the school stripped students of their cultures and replaced them with American ideals. A very small minority of those at Carlisle used what they learned to fight against the assimilationist mission of the school.
An Unread Colonial Diary, Brigid Mcevoy
An Unread Colonial Diary, Brigid Mcevoy
History & Classics Student Scholarship
Brigid McEvoy ’23
Majors: History and Spanish
Minors: Business and Innovation and Latin American Studies
Mentor: Dr. Adrian Weimer, History and Classics
Through funding from a Veritas Research Grant, I deciphered the Shelton shorthand writing of the second volume of Michael Wigglesworth's diary, digitized through the New England Hidden Histories project. Wigglesworth was a famous poet and preacher in early New England. One of the chief purposes of deciphering this second volume was to create a more nuanced perspective on Wigglesworth's life and artistic career.
This diary, written from March 1658 through November 1687, includes both longhand and shorthand writing. …
Race Films & American Society, Angie Pierre
Race Films & American Society, Angie Pierre
History & Classics Student Scholarship
Angie Pierre ’25
Major: Global Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alyssa Lopez, History and Classics
This project will explore Black cinema, specifically the race film industry and its relationship to Black identity and American society. Through an analysis of a number of early race films and archival documents from the 1920s, the project seeks to reveal how these films contributed to positive political, social and economic changes in Jim Crow America. Ultimately, the successes of race film pioneers are reflected throughout Black film history and the Black films we still watch today.
Terrible Terrell: The Forgotten Story Of Carolyn Daniels, Olivia Moll
Terrible Terrell: The Forgotten Story Of Carolyn Daniels, Olivia Moll
History & Classics Student Scholarship
Olivia Moll ’22
Major: History
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Alyssa Lopez, History and Classics
My thesis explores the participation of black women in the Civil Rights Movement, more specifically the contribution from Carolyn Daniels. Daniels is a mother and SNCC activist from Terrell County, and her story has yet to be told. I am here to tell Daniels’s story; her success towards the SNCC voting registration project that took place in the summer of 1962. The beauty of the Civil Rights Movement is that everyone’s story and activism matters, especially the story of women.
Dorrite Prisoners Of War, Russell J. Desimone
Dorrite Prisoners Of War, Russell J. Desimone
Dorr Scholarship
Following two failed armed attempts in May and June 1842 by Thomas Wilson Dorr, the People’s governor, to establish the People’s government in Rhode Island, the opposing Charter government’s legislature enacted Martial Law throughout the state. During a period lasting several weeks forces allegiant to the Charter government and its governor, Samuel Ward King, commenced an all-out effort to arrest more than 260 pro-Dorr citizens. Some of Dorr’s followers fled the state to avoid arrest but those arrested appeared before a commission formed to interrogate the prisoners. Listed here are the actual accounts of each interrogation providing the reader with …
The Oil Crisis Of 1973: President Nixon’S Actions To Maintain American Prosperity, Meredith Haluga
The Oil Crisis Of 1973: President Nixon’S Actions To Maintain American Prosperity, Meredith Haluga
American Studies Forum
The paper describes the Oil Crisis of 1973. It examines how President Nixon and his government reacted to the Oil Crisis in attempts to prevent the United States from being economically devastated by it. The work includes details about the actions that Nixon and the government took, the regulations set in place as a result, the reactions of Americans, and the lasting impacts of both the crisis and the regulations.
Slavery In Rhode Island: Awakening A Forgotten Past (Brochure), Abudu Adeboye, Cassandra Caggiano, Cassandra M. Chisolm, Marisa Delfarno, Brian Nicholas
Slavery In Rhode Island: Awakening A Forgotten Past (Brochure), Abudu Adeboye, Cassandra Caggiano, Cassandra M. Chisolm, Marisa Delfarno, Brian Nicholas
Black Studies Student Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Slavery In Rhode Island: Awakening A Forgotten Past (Poster), Abudu Adeboye, Cassandra Caggiano, Cassandra M. Chisolm, Marisa Delfarno, Brian Nicholas
Slavery In Rhode Island: Awakening A Forgotten Past (Poster), Abudu Adeboye, Cassandra Caggiano, Cassandra M. Chisolm, Marisa Delfarno, Brian Nicholas
Black Studies Student Scholarship
This map serves to raise awareness about the history of slavery in Rhode Island. Despite having played an active role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Rhode Island’s involvement is often overlooked or omitted from what we are traditionally taught in historically influenced classes at Providence College. Instead of integrating local history and knowledge into our own curriculum, we learn about slavery through a Eurocentric, Westernized lens. We aim to challenge our narrow teachings about slavery and widen our perspectives by constructing alternative narratives that go against the metanarrative. This map displaces the untold narratives of four areas in Rhode Island: …
Review Of Professional Indian: The American Odyssey Of Eleazar Williams By Michael Leroy Oberg, Edward E. Andrews
Review Of Professional Indian: The American Odyssey Of Eleazar Williams By Michael Leroy Oberg, Edward E. Andrews
History & Classics Faculty Publications
Reviews the book Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazar Williams (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) by Michael Leroy Oberg.
Slavery Reparations, Kristen Gatens
Slavery Reparations, Kristen Gatens
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Class of 2019)
As part of the English 101.003 Writing Seminar taught by Dr. Anne Porter in Fall 2015 at Providence College, this essay was written in response to an assignment to articulate a central question about slavery reparations. The essay explores the question from various angles and makes reference to Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel, “The Case for Reparations” from The Atlantic (June 2014) by Ta-Nehisi Coates, as well as at least one additional, scholarly source. The essay is written for college-age readers, who are interested in the issue and asking the same questions.
Abstract: In …
Forty Acres And Unfulfilled Promises, Julia Rizza
Forty Acres And Unfulfilled Promises, Julia Rizza
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Class of 2019)
As part of the English 101.003 Writing Seminar taught by Dr. Anne Porter in Fall 2015 at Providence College, this essay was written in response to an assignment to articulate a central question about slavery reparations. The essay explores the question from various angles and makes reference to Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel, “The Case for Reparations” from The Atlantic (June 2014) by Ta-Nehisi Coates, as well as at least one additional, scholarly source. The essay is written for college-age readers, who are interested in the issue and asking the same questions.
Abstract: In …
Reparations For Modern Day Inequalities, Deneysha Riley
Reparations For Modern Day Inequalities, Deneysha Riley
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Class of 2019)
As part of the English 101.003 Writing Seminar taught by Dr. Anne Porter in Fall 2015 at Providence College, this essay was written in response to an assignment to articulate a central question about slavery reparations. The essay explores the question from various angles and makes reference to Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel, “The Case for Reparations” from The Atlantic (June 2014) by Ta-Nehisi Coates, as well as at least one additional, scholarly source. The essay is written for college-age readers, who are interested in the issue and asking the same questions.
Abstract: My …
Raymond Lavertue On Dorr And The Anti-Slavery Movement, Raymond Lavertue
Raymond Lavertue On Dorr And The Anti-Slavery Movement, Raymond Lavertue
Dorr Scholarship
In this interview, Raymond Lavertue of St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford, discusses Thomas Wilson Dorr's evolving relationship with the anti-slavery movement.
To view this video interview please visit the Dorr Rebellion Project web site’s video gallery: http://library.providence.edu/dps/projects/dorr/video.php.
Dr. Patrick T. Conley On The Law And Order Constitution, Patrick T. Conley
Dr. Patrick T. Conley On The Law And Order Constitution, Patrick T. Conley
Dorr Scholarship
In this interview, Dr. Patrick T. Conley, constitutional historian and Dorr scholar, discusses the deficiencies of the Law & Order Constitution of 1843, the provisions of the People's Constitution of 1841, and his personal involvement in the Rhode Island Constitutional Convention of 1977.
To view this video interview please visit the Dorr Rebellion Project web site’s video gallery: http://library.providence.edu/dps/projects/dorr/video.php.
The Injustice Of Ignorance, Nicholas Tavares
The Injustice Of Ignorance, Nicholas Tavares
Common Reading Essay Contest Winners
Third Place (tie)
Walking The Tightrope: The United States’ Policy In Vietnam, 1952-1954, Erin Flynn
Walking The Tightrope: The United States’ Policy In Vietnam, 1952-1954, Erin Flynn
Annual Celebration of Student Scholarship and Creativity
This thesis demonstrates how the Truman and Eisenhower administrations sought to avoid direct intervention in Indochina and halt the spread of communism at the same time. This purpose is achieved through careful analysis of primary and secondary sources, with a particular focus on the primary documentation found in Foreign Relations of the United States: 1952-1954. Through examination of these day-by-day recordings and memos, the futility of pursuing the two conflicting aims becomes clear.
Digging Up History: How Photo-Flo And Elbow Grease Are Saving New England’S Historic Cemeteries, Edward E. Andrews
Digging Up History: How Photo-Flo And Elbow Grease Are Saving New England’S Historic Cemeteries, Edward E. Andrews
History & Classics Faculty Publications
Gravestones seem to be, like the memories of the people they honor, eternally immutable, intransient reminders of the lives, loves, and losses of the past. Even the substance they're made of is a metaphor for durability and permanence. And yet, as any resident of New England knows, soil moves, water erodes, tree limbs fall, frost heaves erupt, sun rays blister, roots expand, and mold advances. Constant attacks from weather, in addition to the mechanization of landscaping, conspire to destroy these stones as they once stood. Ironically, New England's historic cemeteries are dying. Fortunately, a handful of preservationists are laboring to …
Review Of The Forging Of Races: Race And Scripture In The Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 By Colin Kidd, Edward E. Andrews
Review Of The Forging Of Races: Race And Scripture In The Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 By Colin Kidd, Edward E. Andrews
History & Classics Faculty Publications
Reviews the book, The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006) by Colin Kidd.
“Creatures Of Mimic And Imitation”: The Liberty Tree, Black Elections, And The Politicization Of African Ceremonial Space In Revolutionary Newport, Rhode Island, Edward E. Andrews
“Creatures Of Mimic And Imitation”: The Liberty Tree, Black Elections, And The Politicization Of African Ceremonial Space In Revolutionary Newport, Rhode Island, Edward E. Andrews
History & Classics Faculty Publications
The article explains how African slaves changed the colonial space of 18th century Newport, Rhode Island by transporting and preserving cultural and political concepts and codes. African slaves who came directly to Newport frequently came from the Gold Coast and consisted of Mandingo, Mende, Ibo, Ashanti and Fante peoples. Although the city's black population came from various regions and groups, its Africans could draw on a common cultural vocabulary that gave trees a sacred, and even cosmic, importance.
Review Of Rebecca’S Revival: Creating Black Christianity In The Atlantic World By Jon F. Sensbach, Edward E. Andrews
Review Of Rebecca’S Revival: Creating Black Christianity In The Atlantic World By Jon F. Sensbach, Edward E. Andrews
History & Classics Faculty Publications
Reviews the book Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005) by Jon F. Sensbach.
And He Was No Soft-Tongued Apologist: Fredrick Douglass As A Constitutional Theorist 1865-1895, R. Gabriel Pivarnik
And He Was No Soft-Tongued Apologist: Fredrick Douglass As A Constitutional Theorist 1865-1895, R. Gabriel Pivarnik
Theology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
[Business Receipt], 1910, March 1, Combination Ladder & Company, Providence, R.I.
[Business Receipt], 1910, March 1, Combination Ladder & Company, Providence, R.I.
Rhode Island 11th United States Heavy Artillery Subject Files Collection
A receipt of payment, issued March 1, 1910 from Combination Ladder Company of Providence, Rhode Island issued to W(illard?) J. Hopkins. Connection to Allen F. Cameron unclear. 17 x 24 cm
Journal And Letters Of Rev. Henry True, Henry True
Journal And Letters Of Rev. Henry True, Henry True
Primary Sources
No abstract provided.
The Diary Of Colonel Israel Angell Commanding Officer, 2nd Rhode Island Regiment, Continental Army, Edward Field, Israel Angell, Norman Desmarais
The Diary Of Colonel Israel Angell Commanding Officer, 2nd Rhode Island Regiment, Continental Army, Edward Field, Israel Angell, Norman Desmarais
Primary Sources
This document includes the full text of Colonel Israel Angell's Diaries compiled by Edward Field and published in 1899. It also includes the text of three manuscript diaries from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. These diaries were transcribed and digitized by Norman Desmarais and inserted in their proper location in Field's text. The diaries are organized here by the year of coverage rather than by the individual manuscripts as in Field's book. The five chronological sections of this combined text are also available as individual downloads in the supplemental materials section of this page.
Journal Of Oliver Boardman Of Middletown: 1777 Burgoyne's Surrender, Oliver Boardman
Journal Of Oliver Boardman Of Middletown: 1777 Burgoyne's Surrender, Oliver Boardman
Primary Sources
Covers the period from September 2, 1777 to the surrender of the British army under General John Burgoyne at Saratoga on October 19, 1777. It includes the terms of surrender.
Journal Of Joseph Joslin, Jr. Of South Killingly, A Teamster In The Continental Service, March 1777 -- August 1778, Joseph Joslin
Journal Of Joseph Joslin, Jr. Of South Killingly, A Teamster In The Continental Service, March 1777 -- August 1778, Joseph Joslin
Primary Sources
Joseph Joslin, Jr. was a teamster contracted with the Continental Army. His journal covers his activities during the period of March, 1777 to August, 1778.
Revolutionary Defences In Rhode Island, Edward Field
Revolutionary Defences In Rhode Island, Edward Field
Primary Sources
This is a digitized version of Edward Field's Revolutionary Defences In Rhode Island: An Historical Account of the Fortifications and Beacons Erected During the American Revolution, with Muster Rolls of the Companies Stationed Along the Shores of Narragansett Bay. It includes the full text of the book along with illustrations and drawings of the various fortifications in the colony during the American War for Independence.
Journal Of The Campaign At New York, 1776-7, Benjamin Trumbull
Journal Of The Campaign At New York, 1776-7, Benjamin Trumbull
Primary Sources
This journal covers the New York campaign in 1776 and 1777.
Captain William Coit, P. H. Woodward
Captain William Coit, P. H. Woodward
Primary Sources
This is a brief biography of Captain William Coit. It serves as an introduction to the Orderly Book of Moses Fargos for the use of William Coit's company which is the 4th Company and 6th Regiment under Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons.
Journal Of Simeon Lyman Of Sharon Aug. 10 To Dec. 28, 1775, Simeon Lyman
Journal Of Simeon Lyman Of Sharon Aug. 10 To Dec. 28, 1775, Simeon Lyman
Primary Sources
Covers the period Aug. 10 to Dec. 28, 1775.