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The Pavlov-Yerkes Connection: What Was Its Origin?, Randall D. Wight

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Historians of psychology traditionally acknowledge Robert Mearns Yerkes as responsible for introducing the work of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov to American psychologists. The introduction occurred in a 1909 Psychological Bulletin paper coauthored with Harvard graduate student, Sergius Morgulls. Yet how Yerkes, who did not read Russian and who never personally used Pavlov's conditioning paradigm, came to know and appreciate Pavlov's endeavors is unclear. This paper examines how Yerkes became acquainted with salivary conditioning studies and suggests a reason why the 1909 paper was actually written.

"All They Want Is To Gain Attention": Press Coverage And The Selma-To-Montgomery March, S. Ray Granade, Deranda R. Granade

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March in Alabama can be a beautiful month with warm days, cool nights, flowers bursting from the ground with vibrant yellows, reds, and violets, and greens everywhere. Jonquils push through the ground like horns resounding with the song of spring and forsythia adorns itself ingold.¹ March can also fulfill the proverb “comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb.” Alabama’s March of 1965 offered cold, wet, windy weather up until the end. But a different wind blew through Selma that month—the wind of discontent and change.

For the first three months of 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, …

Chaos In The Convent's Narrow Room: Milton And The Sonnet, Jay R. Curlin

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This essay discusses Milton's innovations of the Italian Sonnet and examines the degrees to which those innovations are a successful blending of form and content.