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Who Freed The Slaves? The Fight Over The Thirteenth Amendment, Daniel W. Crofts

Civil War Book Review

Recovering an Overlooked Emancipator

David McCullough, Joseph J. Ellis, and Doris Kearns Goodwin have patented a formula that makes historical writing accessible to a wider audience. They tell stories. They craft lean, jargon-free sentences. They favor active verbs. They steer clear of....

Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days Of The Civil War, David Ross Zimring

Civil War Book Review

The War’s Final Months in Vivid and Entertaining Detail

For four long years the Union and the Confederacy fought seemingly endless battles in hopes of an eventual victory. The tides of war ebbed and flowed constantly, leaving soldiers and civilians alike to only speculate when and how the....

After Lincoln: How The North Won The Civil War And Lost The Peace, W. Sherman Jackson

Civil War Book Review

Narratives of Reconstruction

This analysis of Reconstruction and after is written by an Emeritus Professor in the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. It is his fourth in a series on American history. The book is a collection of narra....

Tyrannicide: Forging An American Law Of Slavery In Revolutionary South Carolina And Massachusetts, Jeffrey Thomas Perry

Civil War Book Review

Contested Understandings of Slavery and Freedom in the Republic’s Formative Years

Blanck frames her narrative around thirty-four slaves from South Carolina’s Waccamaw Peninsula who in May 1779 were taken by British privateers. Within a month, however, and after a series of naval battles, ....

Economies Of Violence, John Protevi

Faculty Publications

I discuss "economies of violence," comparing non-state (acephalic forager bands and horticultural chiefdoms) and state societies. Capital punishment and tolerated personal revenge in forager bands is both anti-war and anti-state, while some chiefdoms practice war as an anti-state practice.

Geometric Satake, Springer Correspondence, And Small Representations Ii, Pramod N. Achar, Anthony Henderson, Simon Riche

Faculty Publications

For a split reductive group scheme Ğ over a commutative ring K with Weyl group W, there is an important functor Rep( Ğ, K) → Rep(W; K) defined by taking the zero weight space. We prove that the restriction of this functor to the subcategory of small representations has an alternative geometric description, in terms of the affine Grassmannian and the nilpotent cone of the Langlands dual group G. The translation from representation theory to geometry is via the Satake equivalence and the Springer correspondence. This generalizes the result for the K = C case proved by the first two …

On Exotic And Perverse-Coherent Sheaves, Pramod N. Achar

Faculty Publications

Exotic sheaves are certain complexes of coherent sheaves on the cotangent bundle of the flag variety of a reductive group. They are closely related to perverse-coherent sheaves on the nilpotent cone. This expository article includes the definitions of these two categories, applications, and some structure theory, as well as detailed calculations for SL . 2

Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars - Vi. Identification Of Eclipsing Binaries In The K2 Campaign 0 Data Set, Daryll M. Lacourse, Kian J. Jek, Thomas L. Jacobs, Troy Winarski, Tabetha S. Boyajian, Saul A. Rappaport, Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Kyle E. Conroy, Lorne Nelson, Tom Barclay, Debra A. Fischer, Joseph R. Schmitt, Ji Wang, Keivan G. Stassun, Joshua Pepper, Jeffrey L. Coughlin, Avi Shporer, Andrej Prša

Faculty Publications

The original Kepler mission observed and characterized over 2400 eclipsing binaries (EBs) in addition to its prolific exoplanet detections. Despite the mechanical malfunction and subsequent non-recovery of two reaction wheels used to stabilize the instrument, the Kepler satellite continues collecting data in its repurposed K2 mission surveying a series of fields along the ecliptic plane. Here, we present an analysis of the first full baseline K2 data release: the Campaign 0 data set. In the 7761 light curves we have identified a total of 207 EBs. Of these, 97 are new discoveries that were not previously identified. Our pixel-level analysis …

Congruence Property In Conformal Field Theory, Chongying Dong, Xingjun Lin, Siu Hung Ng

Faculty Publications

The congruence subgroup property is established for the modular representations associated to any modular tensor category. This result is used to prove that the kernel of the representation of the modular group on the conformal blocks of any rational, C2-cofinite vertex operator algebra is a congruence subgroup. In particular, the q-character of each irreducible module is a modular function on the same congruence subgroup. The Galois symmetry of the modular representations is obtained and the order of the anomaly for those modular categories satisfying some integrality conditions is determined.

Civil War Sesquicentennial: Unfurling The Black Flag In Civil War History, Christopher Phillips

Civil War Book Review

Fifteen years have passed since Daniel E. Sutherland unfurled the black flag and declared the guerrilla conflict in the Civil War a “sideshow no longer." Long seen as a product of aberrant individualism, a legacy of frontier conflicts, or a facet of southern cultural violence (interpretive tropes p....

Kentucky Confederates, Benjamin Fitzpatrick

Civil War Book Review

In Kentucky Confederates: Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase, Berry Craig explains why western Kentucky, or the Jackson Purchase, was novel during the Civil War: despite the predominance of pro-Unionism across the state, the Purchase was staunchly pro-Confederate. The Purchase’s f....

Lincoln And The Power Of The Press: The War For Public Opinion, Rea Andrew Redd

Civil War Book Review

The Press and the President

Lincoln and The Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion is a detailed story of the process of journalism and the cult of personality of editors and owners. For a politician who declared that public sentiment is everything, Lincoln recognized that, ....

Satanic Devotions The Prayers Of Robert Lovelace In Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Juliette Paul

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Sustaining The Eighteenth Century?, Samara Anne Cahill

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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The Unending Dunciad Pope's Weird Revenge, Cedric D. Reverand Ii

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Three Bibliopoles, J. T. Scanlan

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"Iron War" As "Daily Care"Sustainability And The Dialectic Of Care In Dryden's Georgics, Erin Drew

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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An Eighteenth-Century Plea For Sustainable Forestry Ostervald's Description Des Montagnes & Vallees Du Pays De Neuchatel (1764), Alexandra Cook

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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An Introduction To Spherically Symmetric Loop Quantum Gravity Black Holes, Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin

Faculty Publications

We review recent developments in the treatment of spherically symmetric black holes in loop quantum gravity. In particular, we discuss an exact solution to the quantum constraints that represents a black hole and is free of singularities. We show that new observables that are not present in the classical theory arise in the quantum theory. We also discuss Hawking radiation by considering the quantization of a scalar field on the quantum spacetime.

Msop: A Minnesota State Senator's Perspective, Kathy Sheran

William Mitchell Law Review

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Assessing Soldiers' Mental Health: Meeting The Needs Of Veterans With Ptsd, Tbi, And Cte—Pre-Deployment, At Home, And In Court, Robert H. Ambrose

William Mitchell Law Review

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Ramsey County Mental Health Court: Working With Community Partners To Improve The Lives Of Mentally Ill Defendants, Reduce Recidivism, And Enhance Public Safety, John H. Guthmann

William Mitchell Law Review

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Mind Games: Understanding Mental Injuries Following Recent Changes To The Minnesota Workers' Compensation Act, Thomas W. Atchison

William Mitchell Law Review

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The Impact Of The Affordable Care Act On Workers' Compensation: Opportunities And Considerations, David A. North

William Mitchell Law Review

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Conditions To Drive: The Constitutionality Of Minnesota's Implied Consent Statute—State V. Brooks, Chris Florey

William Mitchell Law Review

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Legalese To The Detriment Of Small Business: Midwest Family Mutual Insurance Co. V. Wolters, Andy Hofer

William Mitchell Law Review

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Constraining Minnesota's Hip-Pocket Regime: Too Much Or Not Enough? (Or Both?) (Or Neither?), Joe Muchlinski

William Mitchell Law Review

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Protecting Victims Of Domestic Abuse From An Overly Rigid Interpretation Of The Implied Consent Law—Axelberg V. Commissioner Of Public Safety, Allira Sharma

William Mitchell Law Review

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Diverging Paths: The Minnesota Supreme Court’S Decision To Reject The “Plausibility” Pleading Standard In Walsh V. U.S. Bank, Michael Sheran

William Mitchell Law Review

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Cliteracy And Justice For All : A Critical Rhetorical Analysis Of Sophia Wallace’S Cliteracy Campaign, Vanessa Condon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Female sexuality is constantly restricted in public discourse in the United States. To combat this, Sophia Wallace created the Cliteracy campaign: a project that sought to challenge the stigmatization of female genitals. Wallace’s attempt to create a new language regarding female sex and sexuality revealed critical implications for how we discuss sex in American culture. For an in depth analysis, I utilized feminist, materialist, and social movement rhetorical lenses. This study revealed that while text is viewed as an objective mode of communication, however, it is ingrained with hierarchical societal constraints. Moreover, Wallace’s rhetoric suggested that a god term is …