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Poverty's Impact On Education, Lauren Magnus
Poverty's Impact On Education, Lauren Magnus
Petersheim Academic Exposition
No abstract provided.
Beating Poverty's Impact On School Performance, Rachel Brooks
Beating Poverty's Impact On School Performance, Rachel Brooks
Petersheim Academic Exposition
No abstract provided.
Robber Barons And Humbuggers: The Rise Of Philanthropic Museums In Nineteenth-Century New York, Meaghan O'Connor
Robber Barons And Humbuggers: The Rise Of Philanthropic Museums In Nineteenth-Century New York, Meaghan O'Connor
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
New York City's most recognizable museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History came to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century thanks to the support of wealthy benefactors. At the same time, social reformers, mostly Protestant and middle or upper-class, were combating the vice and poverty that they saw in the diversifying city with a moralizing rhetoric of character building. This paper will show that these two movements, the rise of Philanthropic Museums and the Social Reform movement were connected and that the large temple-like museums that thrive to this day …