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Second Class Relics: Forgery, Fantasy, And The Ideology Of Antiquities Collecting In The Holy Land, Neil A. Silberman Nov 2003

Second Class Relics: Forgery, Fantasy, And The Ideology Of Antiquities Collecting In The Holy Land, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

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Collection, Conviction, And Contemplation: Or, Picturing Coins In Early Modern Books, Ca. 1550-1700, Brian W. Ogilvie Jan 2003

Collection, Conviction, And Contemplation: Or, Picturing Coins In Early Modern Books, Ca. 1550-1700, Brian W. Ogilvie

History Department Faculty Publication Series

This paper explores the uses of published illustrations of coins in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquarian works, relating them to the shift in the affective value of classical antiquity from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment.


The Caning Of Charles Sumner: Slavery, Race, And Ideology In The Age Of The Civil War, M Sinha Jan 2003

The Caning Of Charles Sumner: Slavery, Race, And Ideology In The Age Of The Civil War, M Sinha

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

Analyzes the discussion of slavery, race, and ideology inspired by the caning of antislavery Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in the Senate chamber on May 22, 1856, by South Carolinian Congressman Preston Smith Brooks. Reaction of Brooks to Sumner's 'The Crime of Kansas' speech; Fundamental political divide over racial slavery in the U.S. revealed by the reactions to Brooks' assault on Sumner; Emergence of Sumner as one of the foremost voices of emancipation and black rights in the national political arena; Event's revelation of how the concepts of freedom, democracy, and citizenship were not static but constantly contested.


Collection, Conviction, And Contemplation: Or, Picturing Coins In Early Modern Books, Ca. 1550-1700, Brian W. Ogilvie Jan 2003

Collection, Conviction, And Contemplation: Or, Picturing Coins In Early Modern Books, Ca. 1550-1700, Brian W. Ogilvie

Brian W. Ogilvie

This paper explores the uses of published illustrations of coins in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquarian works, relating them to the shift in the affective value of classical antiquity from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment.