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Beneath The Surface: Hadrian’S Underground Contributions To Roman Greece, Michaiah Elizabeth Kojoian

History & Classics Undergraduate Theses

Reigning during the ‘Golden Age’ of Rome, Emperor Hadrian is remembered mostly for his excessive travel and magnificent building projects such as the Roman Pantheon, his villa at Tivoli, and the famous Hadrian’s Wall. Despite his attention to the city of Rome, however, Hadrian was also very involved in providing for the needs of the Roman provinces. This research explores Hadrian’s legacy as a ‘good’ and philhellenic emperor while also noting his imperial proactivity. This is accomplished by a thorough examination of his aqueducts in Roman Greece, especially his aqueduct in Athens through archaeological and literary sources. This research specifically …

Philosophy : Algorithm :: Game : Sport: The Formation Of The Modern Nba From Sports Analytics Research, Lucas F. Katz , '21

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

This paper focuses on the modern NBA as a sports institution and entertainment business that has become increasingly entrenched in sports analytics as a means to understand and improve the game of basketball. It examines broader questions of race, spectacle and media in American history.

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Early Education in Tallahassee and the West Florida Seminary now Florida State University William G. Dodd
Taylor County History and Civil War Deserters William T. Cash
Robert E. Lee in Florida Karl A. Bickel
Spanish Relief Policy Duvou C. Corbitt
Book Reviews:

• Hanna and Hanna, “Lake Okeechobee” J. E. Dovell
• Dawson, “Lakanal, the Regicide” G. C. Osborn
• Griffin and Smith, “Report on the Goodnow Mound”

Local historical societies

• Jacksonville Historical Society
• Historical Association of Southern Florida
• St. Augustine Historical Society
• Tallahassee Historical Society

The Florida Historical Society

• The drive for new members
• Accessions to the Library

Contributors to this number

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 24, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida in 1845 Dorothy Dodd
Florida's Population in 1845 Dorothy Dodd
The Last Spanish Census of Pensacola Duvon C. Corbitt
Pioneer Florida: Jackson’s Premature Proclamation, 1821 T. Frederick Davis
Early Settlers in British West Florida Clinton N. Howard
Notes on Seminole Negroes in the Bahamas Kenneth W. Porter
Territorial Florida: Martin, “Florida in Territorial Days”
The Jacksonville Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society:

• The annual meeting
• The Quarterly
• Accessions to the library
• New members

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 20, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

That “Odd Being” De Brahm Charles L. Mowat
John Milton, Governor of Florida Daisy Parker
Research Projects on Florida Subjects Watt Marchman
United States Marshals for the Districts of Florida James B. Whitfield
From A Remote Frontier Mark F. Boyd
New Books

• The First Gentleman of America
• Fabulous Florida
• The Christian Church in Florida
• Compendio Historico de la Florida

Notes
The Florida Historical Society

• Accessions to the library

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 17, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Confederate Baggage and Treasure Train Ends Its Flight in Florida: A Diary of Tench Francis Tilghman A. J. Hanna
The Military Occupation of British West Florida, 1763 C. N. Howard
The Disston Land Purchase T. Frederick Davis
The Relationship of Florida Archaeology to that of Middle America Doris Stone
DeBrahm’s Report on East Florida, 1773 Carita Doggett Corse
Flight Into Oblivion, by A. J. Hanna A Review by W. W. Davis
The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters of Edmund Doyle, 1815
Colonial Land Claims in East and West Florida
Notes and Comment
The Florida Historical Society:

• The Annual Meeting
• Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 15, Issue 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Engagements at St. Johns Bluff St. Johns River, September-October, 1862 T. Frederick Davis
A Letter of Captain V. Chamberlain 7th Connecticut Volunteers
Florida University (1883) C. L. Crow
The Contention Over the Superintendencia of the Floridas D. C. Corbitt
Sidney Lanier in Florida Lena E. Jackson
The Panton, Leslie Papers: A Letter of Edwin Gairdner to William Panton, 1798
Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 3, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Capital Removal
The Battleship Maine as a Florida State Board of Health Quarantine Vessel Joseph Y. Porter, M. D. Former Health Officer of Florida
Jacksonville and the Seminole War, 1835-1836, Part II
Education in Florida, 1821-1829 James O. Knauss, Ph. D., Professor European History and Political Science, Florida State College for Women
Proclamation of George III, R. (Upon the Acquisition of East and West Florida
Note and Comment

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Memoriam. Francis Philip Fleming.
Pensacola-Its Early History. By Mrs. S. J. Gonzalez.
Senator Yulee. By C. Wickliffe Yulee.
Florida’s “State Library.”
An Indian Battlefield Near Melrose. By H. von Noszky.
An Appeal for Legislative Aid.
Editorial Notes.

Joseph Robidoux Iii, The 1780 Battle Of St. Louis, & The St. Louis Robidoux Legacy, Stephen L. Kling Jr.

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The Robidoux family has been part of the history of Missouri on both sides of the state dating to the Revolutionary War period. Stephen Kling places Robidoux’s role into historical perspective.

2020-2021 Ursinus College Course Catalogue, Office Of The Registrar

Ursinus College Catalogues, 1869-Present

A digital copy of the 2020-2021 Ursinus College Catalog. It contains details of the curriculum, departmental requirements and courses of instruction as well as the Open Questions core requirements, experiential learning and the Common Intellectual Experience (CIE). Academic policies, special opportunities and scholarships, off-campus programs and graduation requirements are also outlined.

Designing Analog Learning Games: Genre Affordances, Limitations And Multi-Game Approaches, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Articles

This chapter explores what the authors discovered about analog games and game design during the many iterative processes that have led to the Lost & Found series, and how they found certain constraints and affordances (that which an artifact assists, promotes or allows) provided by the boardgame genre. Some findings were counter-intuitive. What choices would allow for the modeling of complex systems, such as legal and economic systems? What choices would allow for gameplay within the time of a class-period? What mechanics could promote discussions of tradeoff decisions? If players are expending too much cognition on arithmetic strategizing, could that …

St. Thomas Aquinas And The Third Hellenization Period, Demetri Kantarelis

Comparative Civilizations Review

In this paper, I assert that currently the world has been experiencing the Third Hellenization Period that started with the Italian Renaissance, instigated by the teachings of the theologian and philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 CE). Unlike philosophers in previous periods (First and Second Hellenization as well as Medieval), St. Thomas preached that Truth is a function of both Natural Revelation and Supernatural Revelation. This resulted in, simultaneously, Christianizing Aristotle (St. Thomas’ most referenced philosopher) and Aristotleizing Christianity, thus opening up the doors to human reason that had been muted during the Medieval centuries.

I also assert that the basic …

Locke’S Rebellious Progeny: Phenomenology And Ethics Of Leopardi’S A-Dialectical Materialism, Paolo Pellecchia

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

With this study I reconstruct a genealogy of the a-dialectic materialism that defines the production of 19^th-century Italian author Giacomo Leopardi and with which he criticizes canonical metaphysical stances. In this regard, I consider John Locke as the first instance of a philosophical outlook that stands as an alternative to the anthropocentrism demanded by traditional metaphysics. By focusing on An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and its significant influence on Leopardi’s philosophical and aesthetic work, I emphasize how Locke’s system finds a synthetic formulation in the hypothesis, at the time highly contested yet groundbreaking, that matter might be endowed …

Journal Of Big History (Volume 4, Number 2, David R. Blanks, Nicoló Antonietti

Faculty Publications - History & Political Science

Big History and the Search for Intelligent Life

The Economics Of Artificial Intelligence: A Primer For Social Studies Educators, Scott Wolla

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

This paper provides a framework for understanding the economic effects of automation and artificial intelligence (AI). First, it reviews how physical capital interacts with labor in the context of automation and AI. Next, it discusses recent advances in AI and potential economic outcomes such as job market polarization and income inequality. It then describes the role education has played in previous economic transitions and the role it will likely play as technology advances. Finally, the paper identifies key economic concepts and teaching resources that social studies educators can integrate into their instruction to help students understand the economic effects of …

Developing Social Justice Skills Through Community Service-Learning In High School Social Studies, Sharehann T. Lucman

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

Social studies teachers are presented with the challenging yet rewarding task of cultivating in their students' principles and competencies essential for democratic and social-justice-oriented citizenship. Inspired and guided by literature on social justice education and community service-learning, this study suggests that social studies teachers ought to consider integrating teaching methods that are experiential, participatory, and critical in nature. An example of such a method is community service-learning. As illustrated in this study, community service-learning activities afford students the unique opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills on social justice in authentic social situations.

Using a descriptive and textual analysis approach, …

Using Art To Trigger Memory, Intergenerational Learning, And Community, Thomas E. Keefe

International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education

Abstract: This article explores the use of art to trigger memory as an effective educational tool for discussion. The author is a regular guest speaker at an affluent retirement community. The attendees are highly educated and accomplished professionals with expansive and worldly lived experiences. Formally facilitating lifelong learning, however, is a special vocation and requires a secular shared praxis and other andragogical strategies. (Keywords: photographic history, community-building, shared praxis, memory).

Summer Commencement Program, August 7 2020 (Virtual), Coastal Carolina University

Commencement Programs

Program of Commencement Exercises at Coastal Carolina University.

Winning Souls Unto Christ: The Meanings Of Missionary Board Games, 1980–2008, Rachel Felt

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

No abstract provided.

The Mischaracterization Of The Pakhtun-Islamic Peace Culture Created By Abdul Ghaffar Khan And The Khudai Khidmatgars, Shelini Harris

The Journal of Social Encounters

Abdul Ghaffar Khan and his Khudai Khidmatgar Movement, whose peace activities included nonviolent resistance to British rule in India, have remained relatively unknown despite the magnitude of their achievement and significance (100,000 strong peace army). Even among appreciative peace scholars their nonviolence has been mischaracterized as an adoption of Gandhi’s teachings; Khan is referred to as the Muslim Gandhi. I argue that this is due to a reliance on biased colonial sources, concomitant racist characterization of the Pakhtuns and Islam, and an insufficient understanding of violence. I illustrate how this movement’s motivation and inspiration were deeply rooted in Pakhtun culture …

Rome, Robes, And Rivers: Land, Water, And Power In The Aniene Valley, Jonah R. Bibo

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Rome, Robes, and Rivers is a multi-century environmental history that shows how different occupants in the Italian Aniene river valley help power through the exploitation and control of its land and water resources. It ranges from the classical to late medieval eras, focusing on the Roman empire alongside later Benedictine monastic societies, who each used different tactics to maintain control over the land. Roman aqueducts brought water to the city, while Benedictine monks taxed peasant laborers to maintain control of the land. Each occupant shaped the land their own needs and left their mark on the landscape in ways that …

Exploring The Louisiana Purchase And Its Borderlands: The Lewis And Clark, Hunter And Dunbar, Zebulon Pike, And Freeman And Custis Expeditions In Perspective [Part 1], Jay H. Buckley

Faculty Publications

When Americans contemplate the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the names Meriwether Lewis and William Clark quickly come to mind. Their historic journey was well conceived, well executed, and well documented. It was one of the first and longest U.S. government-backed explorations of the American West. The name Zebulon Pike, for some, conjures up notions of a lost explorer who was arrested by the Spanish as an alleged American spy. Fewer still have heard of the names William Dunbar, George Hunter, Thomas Freeman, and Peter Custis. Even those who have heard of these men may be hard-pressed to identify any …

“All Of These Political Questions”: Anticommunism, Racism, And The Origin Of The Notices Of The American Mathematical Society, Michael J. Barany

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

A recent controversy involving the Notices of the American Mathematical Society and questions of politics, racism, and the appropriate role of a professional mathematical organization began with a comparison to events the American Mathematical Society confronted in 1950. A close look at the AMS’s own archives for that period shows that the controversies that vexed the society around 1950 do indeed resonate strongly with those of today, but not in the ways recently suggested. Then, as now, the AMS confronted allegations of political and viewpoint discrimination in universities, the challenges of structural racism in American education and society, and the …

Wherein To Catch The Conscience Of The Queen: Dystopian Politics In Elizabethan Drama, Helen Fielding

Senior Honors Theses

Though established English history portrays Elizabeth I (1533-1603) as uniting England under the new Protestant religion, recent historical evidence reveals that extensive counter-currents still existed. This thesis examines how the politico-religious beliefs of Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights manifest themselves in their drama, particularly through imagery and allusions. It draws especially from Frances Yates to assert that imagery of white magic, Christian Cabala, and alchemy in these dramatists’ works refers to the pure imperial reform movement of Elizabeth’s reign, and also from Clare Asquith to illuminate a reading of Shakespeare as a playwright who encoded in his plays a Catholic message …

The Concept And Utilization Of Swastika ‘Hooked Cross’ On Islamic Artefacts, Dr.Boussy Zidan

Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists

(En) Swastika’ is an equilateral hooked cross, it is one of the symbols that became popular to several nations of different cultures since prehistoric times. This symbol was associated, or rather, became symbol for some religious beliefs and spiritual concepts in some ancient civilizations. It has been extensively transmitted among several nations. Such prevalence proves the popularity that hooked cross ‘Swastika’ had attained, however, this caused the difficulty in determining its place of origin. Some historical studies suggested India as ‘Swastika’s’ homeland by the end of the Bronze Age, since it was predominantly a religious symbol of Hindus, Jains, and …

Barren River Imaginative Museum Of Science - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 708), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 708. By-laws, board minutes, correspondence, newsletters, public relations material and information related to events and programming sponsored by the Barren River Imaginative Museum of Science (BRIMS) in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The digital photographs have been saved in the WKU Photo Archives.

2020-07-06 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter from July 6, 2020.

2020-07-06 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes from July 6, 2020.

2020-07-06 Newsletter (Revised), Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter (revised) from July 6, 2020.