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Deterritorialization, Pure War, And The Consequences Of Indian Captivity In Transnational Colonial Discourse, Billy J. Stratton

English and Literary Arts: Faculty Scholarship

The genre of the captivity narrative has operated as a vital circuit for transnational colonial discourse since its inception. Throughout the age of discovery, accounts of the captivity became an indispensible means of connecting the European metropole to foreign lands in Asia and Africa, as well as North and South America. The development of the Indian captivity narrative within the Atlantic context functioned as an effective tool for the dissemination of knowledge concerning the New World and its Indigenous inhabitants. In this essay, I examine some of the ways in which the captivity narrative functions as a colonial apparatus vital …

The Newbury Prayer Bill Hoax: Devotion And Deception In New England's Era Of Great Awakenings, Douglas L. Winiarski

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

[...] [T]he “Tappin manuscript,” as I refer to it in the essay that follows, presents an intriguing puzzle. If Christopher Toppan did not compose the unusual prayer request, then who did? When? Why? Solving the riddle of the Tappin manuscript leads us into the troubled final years of one of New England’s most pugnacious ministers and the evangelical underworld of the Great Awakening that he had come to despise.

Sowing The Seeds Of Change : The Back To The Land Movement In St. Lawrence County, Ny 1960-1980, Willow Nolland

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

From 1965 - 1980, numerous individuals established homesteads and communes in St. Lawrence County, NY as part of the Back to the Land Movement. The Back to the Land movement occurred as a direct response to the problems that arose in the 1960's and 1970's. Unlike the radical activists of the 1960's, the Back to the Landers chose to show their disgust with mainstream society by dropping out. They sold their belongings and relocated to the country, where they attempted to live off the land. St. Lawrence County was a popular destination for Back to the Landers because it offered …

Pretty In Pink : Jacqueline Kennedy And The Politics Of Fashion, Barbara Pascarell Brown

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

When John Fitzgerald Kennedy began his long-shot quest for the presidency, he and his advisors feared his wife was a political liability and would alienate American voters with her aristocratic bearing and tastes. Not only did the Sorbonne-educated Jacqueline Kennedy cultivate a sophisticated style and dress in the slim sheaths and tight slacks favored by Parisian couturiers, she spoke in a cultured, whispery voice and was fluent in several languages. She exuded glamor. To an America used to its First Ladies looking and dressing like Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower, Mrs. Kennedy was an anomaly. In this analysis, I trace …

City Of Brick And Stone : New York And Hanover Square From Settlement To Revolution, 1626-1783, Jeffrey Heymann Knaack

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

As the only city occupied for the duration of the American Revolution, 1776-1783, New York City has been the subject of numerous studies that have sought to evaluate the nature of the British occupation, its significance militarily and culturally, its impact on the populace, and the loyal or rebel character of the population. In general, these studies single out specific individuals or groups; themes or trends; or attempt to place the story of New York City during the American Revolution in the greater context of the founding of a nation and the development of a people. The character and impact …

Nothing Less Than An Activist: Marge Baroni, Catholicism, And The Natchez, Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, Eva Elizabeth Walton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a religious and social history of the life of Natchez, Mississippi Catholic activist Marjorie R. Baroni (1924-1986). The study examines Baroni's Catholic faith-driven activism as a counter-narrative to the dominant Protestant narratives of religious motivations in the greater civil rights movement. In analyzing Baroni's story as a lived theological drama, I offer Baroni as a vessel for studying often overlooked Catholic influences in the movement: (1) The activist Catholic faith promoted by Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement (2) The effects of the more inclusive decrees of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) on the Catholic Church …

The Identity Of A Plantation Structure: The Preliminary Analysis Of An Early Structure At Mont Repose Plantation, St. Luke's Parish, Jasper County, South Carolina, Heather R. Amaral

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

During the 2000 Archeology Field School, Georgia Southern University began an investigation of a nineteenth century plantation structure near Ridgeland, South Carolina. The plantation, Mont Repose, is an example of an inland rice plantation operated in this region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure was initially believed to be a kitchen for this plantation but more recent fieldwork has suggested that this designation may need to be re-examined. Recent excavations have yielded specific artifacts suggesting that the structure may have sheltered a variety of daily functions in addition to specific kitchen activities. Preliminary Mean Ceramic Dating suggests a …

Ursinus Magazine, Winter 2012, Wendy Greenberg, Kathryn Campbell, Ellen Labrecque, Bobby Fong, Andrew Clark, Kelly Sorensen, Abbie Cichowski, Mariana Bergerson, Chelsea Sproul

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Farewell and congratulations to Dean Judith Levy • Drumroll, please; Mark Gadson joins Ursinus Advancement staff • Faculty books • Heefner organ • Balance and broaden • Redemptive power of music • Which fork event • America Reads holiday party hosted by Ursinus tutors • Business students compete • Student-athlete earns accolades • The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art exhibitions on view • Take your best shot: Collegeville on Camera days • Homecoming 2011 • Welcome to the blogosphere • Nothing short of amazing: Ursinus field hockey wins Centennial Conference • Inauguration of Bobby Fong, Ph.D. • A …

Responses To Missionization At Missions San Antonio, San Carlos, And Soledad, Sam A. Bennett

CMC Senior Theses

The converted populations of Missions San Antonio, San Carlos, and Soledad never participated in an organized revolt against the Franciscan missionaries like other populations did throughout the American West. Yet, the converts were subjected to the same methods of control by the Franciscan missionaries. Because the tribes of the Monterey area were small and relatively unconnected to their neighbors, the groups could not organize as one once they were on the missions. For these missions individual revolt was how the converts responded to the types of control that they were subjected to. This paper analyzes the common threads in the …

George Drouillard And John Colter: Heroes Of The American West, Mitchell Edward Pike

CMC Senior Theses

A study of George Drouillard's and John Colter's involvement in the expansion and exploration of the American West. This thesis looks at their contributions as a part of the Corps of Discovery and during the American fur trade. The thesis will also look into why men such as Drouillard and Colter and their contributions have been overlooked in recent history.

The Impact Of Dakota Missions On The Development Of The U.S.-Dakota War Of 1862, Daphne D. Hamborg

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This thesis explores the relationships between three groups of people on the mid-nineteenth century Minnesota frontier: evangelical Protestant missionaries, the Dakota who converted to the Christian faith and lifestyle taught by these missionaries, and the Dakota who remained traditional in their outlook and lifestyle. It does this through an analysis of the impact of these relationships on the development of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. As is made clear through the use of both primary and secondary sources, the missionaries helped create tensions within the Dakota community, tensions expressed through shifting social structures, argument, alienation, and, at times, violence. As …

Early Algona: A Digital Story, Kathy Bottaro

Graduate Research Papers

The 1986 classic teen movie, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off' contains a scene that is all too familiar in today's high school classrooms. The history/economics teacher is addressing a classroom full of seemingly comatose students: In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the ... anyone? anyone? the Great Depression, passed the ... anyone? anyone? the tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered? ... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and …

Cowboy Mythology In National Politics: The Pre-Presidential Political Career Of Lyndon Johnson, Alyson Bujnoski

Senior Independent Study Theses

Lyndon Johnson represents an important shift in politics towards a strategy involving the conscious manipulation of imagery to achieve both local, statewide, and national electoral appeal. Most historians argue that Johnson's conscious and overt manipulation of cowboy and western mythology began after his election to the Senate in November of 1948. Using a close analysis of Johnson's pre-Presidential speeches, this work explores the ways in which Johnson began to manipulate frontier myth as early as in his election to the House of Representatives in 1937.

Thomas Jefferson And His Religious Beliefs In The Contexts Of History And Today, Nolan Christian Hovland

Honors Program Theses

The written word has great power. It has been said that the pen is more powerful than the sword, and one would be hard pressed to prove otherwise. When studying a figure from history like Thomas Jefferson. it is possible to study the architectural designs, pictures, artifacts from his Iifetime, as well as the recent DNA discoveries. but his written words allow for the most complete study of his life. Like other men and women of his day, Jefferson wrote many, many letters. These letters were written to scores of different people over the course of his life. I le …

Black Policemen In Jim Crow New Orleans, Vanessa Flores-Robert

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Although historians have done in-­‐depth researched on Black police in the South, before the Civil War and during Reconstruction, they seldom assess black policemen’s role in New Orleans between the Battle of Liberty Place and 1913. The men discussed here argue that despite the hardening racial attitudes in Post-­‐ Reconstruction South, in New Orleans opportunity still existed for Blacks to serve in positions of authority, perhaps a heritage of the city’s earlier tri-­‐partite racial order. The information obtained from primary sources such as police manuals, beat books, and newspapers, counters the widely held belief that African American presence in the …

From Confederate Deserter To Decorated Veteran Bible Scholar: Exploring The Enigmatic Life Of C.I. Scofield 1861-1921., D. Jean Rushing

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Cyrus Ingerson Scofield portrayed himself as a decorated Confederate veteran, a successful lawyer, and a Bible scholar who was providentially destined to edit his 1909 dispensational opus, The Scofield Reference Bible. This thesis offers a multilayered image of Dr. Scofield's life by considering political and regional influences, racial and gender attitudes, and religious views he encountered between 1861 and 1921. This study includes an examination of his participation in the American Civil War including his desertion of the South in 1862. After becoming a Union loyalist, Scofield excelled as a lawyer and Republican politician before corruption rumors radically altered …

On The Imperishable Face Of Granite: Civil War Monuments And The Evolution Of Historical Memory In East Tennessee 1878-1931., Kelli Brooke Nelson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

After the Civil War individuals throughout the country erected monuments dedicated to the soldiers and events of the conflict. In East Tennessee these memorials allowed some citizens to promote their ideas by invoking both Union and Confederate Civil War sympathies. Initially, East Tennesseans endorsed the creation of a Unionist image to advertise the region's potential for industrialization. By 1910 this depiction waned as local and northern whites joined to promote reconciliation and Confederate sympathizers met less opposition to their ideas than in the past. After 1919 white East Tennesseans, enmeshed in the boom and bust cycles of the national economy, …

The Past Is A Foreign Country: But They Still Eat Ketchup There, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

Earlier this week, the folks over at the Gettysburg National Military Park Facebook page posted a link to their Gettysburg School Bus blog highlighting a post on integrating the Civil War into a language arts curriculum. I love the concept. I think in the current educational environment, which seems to be spurning history and social studies in primary classrooms, anywhere we can integrate the stories of the past into the state's standards, sneaking the history back in, is awesome.

Captain Pierce's Fight: An Investigation Into A King Philip's War Battle And Its Remembrance And Memorialization, Lawrence K. Lacroix

Graduate Masters Theses

On March 26, 1676 Native Americans from southern New England overran a company of Plymouth Colony militia, handing the English one of their worst defeats during King Philip's War. This study was concerned with the reconstruction of the Pierce Battle, as it has come to be known, and its eventual memorialization. The study's two main research questions were: First, to what extent did a complete and critical examination of the primary and secondary sources change, support, or add to the commonly accepted battle perspective? Second, in what ways did a contextual analysis of King Philip's War monuments in Rhode Island …

Madonna Inn: A Hotel In Context, Galadriel Bree Highhouse

Master's Theses

This paper examines the political, economic and social influences that contributed to the development of the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. I provide a brief history of the hotel industry and place the Madonna Inn within the historiography and argue that the nexus of three elements in the 1950s and 1960s led to the growth and popularity of the Madonna Inn: fear of nuclear war, growth of the middle class, and the rise of automobile culture in America.

A Landscape Approach To Late Prehistoric Settlement And Subsistence Patterns In The Mojave Sink, Tiffany Ann Thomas

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The environment of the Late Prehistoric period (1200 A.D. to Historic Contact) Mojave Sink was wetter than modern conditions. The settlement and subsistence patterns of the occupants of the region during this period were driven by the availability of water, subsistence resources, raw material sources, and tradition. These people utilized the regional landscape based upon the seasonal availability of these resources. Supplemental agricultural production has been proposed for the Mojave River Delta due to the more favorable environmental conditions of this period. If agriculture was being practiced it would have affected the regional land-use patterns. For this thesis I propose …

Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society (Mss 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 374. Administrative papers, board minutes, correspondence, project files, and publications of the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society, a state-wide membership organization of quilters that promotes better understanding of historic quilts and the design and construction of new quilts. Major projects include a collection of oral histories with Kentucky quilters and a survey of historic quilts from Kentucky.

The Grizzly, November 3, 2011, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, Dave Muoio, Sabrina Mcgettigan, Lisa Jobe, James Noebels, Lauren Tedesco, Hilary Gibbs, Jessica Long, Sarah Bollert, Jacquelyn Heikel, Jenna Yaich, Marina Mccann, Shane Eachus, Victoria Cameron

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Sustainability the "Future" for Ursinus • Career Services Holds Internship Event • Asher Serves up Expert Advice for Students • Center for Writing Increasing its Versatility • Deacle Joins BE Department • SIFE Visits Area Middle Schools • Senior Spends Summer at Philadelphia Zoo • Share Poetry, Prose Each Week • Opinion: DREAM Act Offers Possible Solutions; Internships are a Valuable Experience for Students • Field Hockey Gears up for Stretch Run • Wild Weather Weekend for Fall Sports Teams • Senior Spotlight: Mike Alfieri, Men's Soccer

The Grizzly, October 27, 2011, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, Robert Kelley, Dave Muoio, Lisa Jobe, Sabrina Mcgettigan, Sarah Bollert, Rosie Clark, Stacy Shapiro, Emily Fogel, James Noebels, Marina Mccann, Victoria Cameron, Shane Eachus, Satchel Summers

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

New U Fair Welcomes 40+ Vendors • String Ensemble to Make Debut Tomorrow • IT Department Hosts Tech Expo • Internship Profile: Rebecca Kamm • UCARE Community Week • Saturday Night Fun with the Nerf Club • PostSecret Comes to Ursinus College • Opinions: Graduation Change Irritates Students; Campus Safety is a Necessity, Not a Luxury • Roller Hockey Team Resurrected at Ursinus • Stortz and Narang Lead Bears into Cross Country Championships • Senior Spotlight: Jess Porcelan, Women's Soccer

The Grizzly, October 13, 2011, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, Hilary Gibbs, Satchel Summers, Lisa Jobe, James Noebels, Connor Gregory, Ron Stranix, Jordan Demcher, Sabrina Mcgettigan, Kyu Chul Shin, Sophie Zander, Dave Muoio, Victoria Cameron

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

UCARE Draws More Blood, Donors • "Ursinus is Talking About" Author Speaks on Novel • Annual Security and Fire Safety Report Released • Alcohol-Related Hospitalizations Rise, Confuse Administration • Berman Exhibit Honors Muhlenberg Family • Ursinus GSA Provides "Genuine Acceptance" for All • UC's Dr. Clouser Lectures on Birds' Habitats • Renaissance Band Takes Students Back in Time • Opinion: New Law in Alabama Intrudes on Citizens; Tips to Avoiding the Feared "Freshman 15" • UC Water Polo Stresses Fun Over Seriousness • Men's Soccer Gears Up for the Stretch Run • UC Rugby Making Bigger Commitment

Walking Box Ranch Planning And Design Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending October 10, 2011, Margaret N. Rees

Walking Box Ranch

• UNLV participated in two meetings with BLM regarding updating the current Task Order, obtaining a two-year no-cost extension for the two Assistance Agreements, and to develop the future WBR operating agreement between BLM and UNLV.
• Weather station progress included: 1) A study to review the recent developments in various building envelope components and their effects on the energy sustainability of a building has been completed and published, 2) Ground-source heat pump (GSHP) Vs Photovoltaic (PV) technology: A detailed comparison of ground source heat pumps and photo voltaics has been initiated, 3) A study to identify the most suitable and economically …

The Grizzly, October 6, 2011, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, Hilary Gibbs, Lisa Jobe, Marina Mccann, Connor Gregory, Sarah Bollert, Lauren Goldstein, Lauren Tedesco, Jordan Demcher, Robert Kelley, Jacquelyn Heikel, Victoria Cameron, Jenna Yaich, Rosie Clark

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Fong, CPPC Developing Strategic Plan • Study Abroad Undergoes Major Changes, Relocation • Art Department Sponsors Trip to New York City • Residence Life Sponsors First-Ever "Sexual Olympics" • Senior Spends Summer Researching Parkinson's • International Film Festival: A Glimpse Into Other Cultures • Wismer on Wheels Offers Helping Hand • Club Promotes Suicide Awareness • Anti-anxiety Group Aims to Relieve Stress • UC Club Soccer Kicks Off First Full Season • UC Fencing Club Looking to Increase its Numbers • Coach Profile: Mark Feinberg, Swimming

Traces Volume 39, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.

"We Just Come In To See The Show:" Velma Patterson's Sensational 1936 Hunt County Murder, John Hanners

East Texas Historical Journal

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Ursinus Magazine, Fall 2011, Wendy Greenberg, Kathryn Campbell, Ellen Labrecque, Bobby Fong, Gerald Edelman, Erika Compton, Joseph H. Melrose, Joseph F. Pirro

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Dr. Fong speaks on the future of Ursinus • Pre-Law Center begins at Ursinus • New faces on court and field • Good night Irene: A rainy move-in • Let's dance: Visiting artists will teach • Math and Computer Science Department professor awarded grant • Do you blog? • Dr. Fong receives 2011 Pioneer Award • Fond farewells • Focus of international math conference is disease control • Noise of change on campus • The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art exhibitions on view • Friends old and new celebrated Alumni & Reunions Weekend • Mapping the mind • …