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The Fading Gleam Of A Golden Age: Britain's Battle Against Piracy In The Americas In The Early 18th Century, Roger Adamson
The Fading Gleam Of A Golden Age: Britain's Battle Against Piracy In The Americas In The Early 18th Century, Roger Adamson
Honors Projects, History
Trial records pertaining to the pirate captain Thomas Green contain the following statements: "A pirate is in a perpetual war with every individual, and every state, christian or infidel. Pirates properly have no country, but by the nature of their guilt, separate themselves, and renounce on this matter, the benefit of all lawful societies." Pirates had no king, served no master, and did not sail under a universal flag. As a result of these tendencies, maintaining order and solidarity in times of danger proved difficult. During their prime, pirates assumed a predatory status by intimidating merchant vessels. They were ruthless …
The Translation Of Radical Ideas Into Radical Action: The American Revolution And Revolutionary Philadelphia, Angela Skeggs '04
The Translation Of Radical Ideas Into Radical Action: The American Revolution And Revolutionary Philadelphia, Angela Skeggs '04
Honors Projects, History
The battle for the independence of the American colonies has been attributed to many competing motives and factors. Within the vast array of literature on the subject, there are different schools of interpretation. Progressive-era historians tend to focus upon economic motivations underlying the American Revolution.] Within this school of thought historians actually explored possible class conflict and the social ramifications of the revolution. An opposing school of thought arose out of reaction against the progressive historians. The Neo-Whig school of thought placed a higher value on constitutional principles and ideas during the American Revolution, and discounted other motives driving the …
Vietnamese Land Reform: The Domestic Impetus To Communist Compromises At Geneva, Robert Callahan '04
Vietnamese Land Reform: The Domestic Impetus To Communist Compromises At Geneva, Robert Callahan '04
Honors Projects, History
Fighting for fifty-five consecutive days and nights, Vietnamese resistance forces- the Vietminh - scored a devastating victory over the French at Dienbienphu on May 7, 1954. The chains of 100 years of French colonialism were close to being broken; long awaited independence and unification appeared to be at hand. One day after the historic victory, the Vietnamese entered negotiations for an end to the war at Geneva, seemingly in a position of strength after almost nine years of successful warfare against the French.
"Everybody Drinks Water": Mark Twain's Critique Of Social Darwinism, Sarah Vales '04
"Everybody Drinks Water": Mark Twain's Critique Of Social Darwinism, Sarah Vales '04
Honors Projects, History
Mark Twain wrote during the time period from approximately 1860 to 1900, commonly known as the Gilded Age. Change defined these years as America industrialized, urbanized, and expanded. Along with the change came an array of social problems, which produced a dichotomy between the outward success of the changes and the inward turmoil wrought on society.
Chicago's Other Magnificent Mile: Howard Street's Growth And Its Effect Upon The Rogers Park Neighborhood, Ryan Mcguinness '04
Chicago's Other Magnificent Mile: Howard Street's Growth And Its Effect Upon The Rogers Park Neighborhood, Ryan Mcguinness '04
Honors Projects, History
The town sorts itself into neighborhoods spaces, into social classes, into languages and nationalities and colors, into parishes and school districts and shopping streets and block clubs and bus routes. And into hope and dreams, for that matter. It's a dreamers town, for all of its harshness. Some of it writhing, some waiting, some being reborn. It's passe, it's fresh, it's gone and it's coming, and as it sheds one skin it grows another. It's a town that never stops, a neighborhood for the world. The best place to put your finger on its pulse is on the streets where …
Magic, Mysticism, And Modern Medicine: The Influence Of Alchemy On Seventeenth-Century England, Lindsay Fitzharris '04
Magic, Mysticism, And Modern Medicine: The Influence Of Alchemy On Seventeenth-Century England, Lindsay Fitzharris '04
Honors Projects, History
In 1947, historian George Sarton questioned the place of alchemy in the history of science. He was not unlike many historians, who even attacked scholars of the subject, characterizing them as "fabulous creatures" who "seem to be under the wrath of God themselves" and who "become tinctured with the kind of lunacy they set out to describe." For decades, critics fought hard to keep alchemy out of the history of science. Instead, the emphasis of the Scientific Revolution centered on the mathematical sciences, focusing mainly on the intellectual development from Copernicus to Newton and highlighting astronomy and the studies of …
Take Me Out To The Ballgame: How The East-West Classic All-Star Game Affected The African American Community Of The Midwest, Trisha L. Bucholz '04
Take Me Out To The Ballgame: How The East-West Classic All-Star Game Affected The African American Community Of The Midwest, Trisha L. Bucholz '04
Honors Projects, History
Thirty years ago only baseball aficionados and some African Americans were very familiar with the existence of the all-black Negro League baseball teams. Since then, the general public has been made more and more aware of these teams and their histories. Surely, though, these teams had more importance for the black community than to simply represent a "blip" on the cultural radar of African Americans. In the halcyon days of the "Roaring Twenties," the darkest days of the Great Depression, and the most fearsome days of World War II, these teams existed. For better or worse they seemed determined to …
To Cover Ancient Prejudice With The Palladium Of Scientific Argument: Women, Reproduction, Pseudo-Science, And The Alarm Of Race Suicide, 1870-1915, Sarah Hamilton '04
To Cover Ancient Prejudice With The Palladium Of Scientific Argument: Women, Reproduction, Pseudo-Science, And The Alarm Of Race Suicide, 1870-1915, Sarah Hamilton '04
Honors Projects, History
In 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt presented the decreasing size of native born American families to Congress as "one of the greatest sociological phenomena of our time" and of"far greater importance than any mere political or economic question," although by that time the size of the American family had been shrinking steadily for about a century. He condemned the tendency towards smaller families as decadent, a sign of moral disease and, like others who worried about "race suicide," he specifically condemned women by categorizing those who avoided large families as criminals against the race and the objects of detestation by healthy, …