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American Jacobins: Revolutionary Radicalism In The Civil War Era, Jordan Lewis Reed
American Jacobins: Revolutionary Radicalism In The Civil War Era, Jordan Lewis Reed
Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014
This dissertation is an attempt to portray the revolutionary character of the American Civil War through a comparative methodology utilizing the French Revolution as both point of influence and as a parallel example. Within this novel context, subtle trends in the ideological development of the Republican Party's Radical wing undertake new meaning and an alternative revolutionary heritage takes shape around an idealization of the universalism of the French and Haitian Revolutions of the 1790s. The work argues that through a diffusion of ideas and knowledge of events from the streets of Paris into the fields of Haiti and onto the …
A Social History Of Admissions Policies At Harvard, Yale, And Princeton, 1900-1930, Marcia Graham Synnott
A Social History Of Admissions Policies At Harvard, Yale, And Princeton, 1900-1930, Marcia Graham Synnott
Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton were selected for study for two major reasons. First, the "Big Three" are among the most prestigious universities in the United States, and they have trained proportionately more "leaders" than any other undergraduate colleges. Secondly, because of their urban locations, Harvard and Yale began to attract after 1900 the ambitious sons of immigrants, who were chiefly Catholic and Jewish. In contrast, Princeton, with its more collegiate atmosphere and its comparative geographical isolation, attracted few of them. While the "Big Three" were willing to admit students of immigrant and minority backgrounds, their traditional role was to educate …