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Two London's In Williamsburg: Using Historical Imagination To Reinterpret The Meaning Of Reconciliation And Memorialization In The Archive, Ethan Miller

Undergraduate Honors Theses

his is the story of two enslaved Black males, both named London, who lived in 18th and 19th century Williamsburg, Virginia. One was a body servant, which served a similar function to a personal attendant, to the sons of Carter Braxton, when they were students at William & Mary. The second London attended the Bray school, one of the first schools for free and enslaved African Americans in the continental United States. He was enslaved by a woman …. who owned and operated a tavern in the town. Since both London’s are largely absent from the archives, there is no …

Man, Myth And Medicine: The Exchange Of Healing Deities In The Bronze Age Mediterranean, Ryan Vincent

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This paper is an in depth analysis of the Bronze Age interactions between Egypt and Greece and the legacy of physicians and physician gods in the region through an exploration of religion, medicine and linguistic exchange. The Egyptian physician Imhotep bears a striking resemblance to the Greek god Asklepios. It seems this similarity may be a result of Asklepios and his predecessor Paieon actually being based on the story of Imhotep, brought to the Mycenaeans during the Bronze Age.

A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Hbcus And Their Place In Science And Technology From 1979-80 As Told By Four National Newspapers, Asia Renée Randolph

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This study was an investigation of how national newspapers contributed to the reproduction of racism as they reported on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the need for more Black Americans in STEM programs. The existence of racism in newspaper discourse reaffirms the long-standing perception that HBCUs, and the Black Americans they serve, do not deserve full educational participation in society. The lack of diversity in STEM fields represents a key area where a critical exploration of how HBCUs are described is needed. Specifically, four national newspapers, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, …

Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 1, 2022, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Oduduwa & Itayemoo Transparencies, 2022, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 2, 2022, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Lost In Space? Reconstructing Frank Willett’S Excavations At Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Rescue Excavations (1957–1958) And Trench Xiv (1962–1963)Lost In Space? Reconstructing Frank Willett’S Excavations At Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Rescue Excavations (1957–1958) And Trench Xiv (1962–1963), Léa Roth, Gérard Chouin, Adisa Ogunfolakan

Arts & Sciences Articles

From December 1957 to January 1958, Frank Willett conducted a “rescue” excavation at Ita Yemoo, Ile-Ife (Nigeria), to investigate the fortuitous discovery of rare brass artifacts by laborers preparing the land for a construction project. Ita Yemoo soon emerged as a significant site, and Willett conducted subsequent archaeological campaigns between 1958 and 1963. The site became famous for its “bronzes” and several terracotta heads excavated in situ, which became icons of Ife’s “florescence” period during the 13th and 14th centuries CE. However, the fame of the site contrasts with the absence of detailed published material on its archaeology. In this …

Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 3, 2021, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 2, 2021, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Oduduwa College, Notebook No. 1, 2021, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Oduduwa College Transparencies, 2021, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Virginia Society's Response/ Fancy Fantasy, Peighton Lynsey Young

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Virginia Society’s Response to Revolution Era Manumission and Emancipation Legislation Through Petitions, 1782-1806 Using manumission petitions filed by or on behalf of enslaved Virginians seeking freedom, pro-manumission and emancipation petitions proffered by religious organizations, and anti-emancipation petitions submitted by local enslavers and politicians, this study examines how Virginians, both White and Black, free and enslaved, responded to Virginia’s 1782 manumission act. This law facilitated the liberation of thousands of people in bondage during the first twenty-four years of the early republic period. My analysis highlights a contentious period in Virginia’s early history – a period that began with tenuous hopes …

Cities In Africa Before 1900. Historiography And Research Perspectives, Clélia Coret, Roberto Zaugg, Gérard Chouin

Arts & Sciences Articles

What new issues arise several decades after the first academic studies? What are the answers and what sources are mobilized? This special issue proposes a historiographical review of research conducted on cities, taking into account the most recent methodological reflections on the issue of the relationship between the urban territory and the exercise of power before the 20th century, focusing on its material and symbolic aspects. Case studies in the Maghreb, West Africa's forest and Sahelian regions and East Africa examine these stakes.

Les Villes En Afrique Avant 1900. Bilan Historiographique Et Perspectives De Recherche, Clélia Coret, Roberto Zaugg, Gérard Chouin

Arts & Sciences Articles

Quels nouveaux questionnements émergent plusieurs décennies après les premières études académiques ? Quelles sont les réponses apportées et quelles sources sont mobilisées ? Ce numéro thématique propose un bilan historiographique des recherches menées sur les villes, tout en s’inscrivant dans les réflexions méthodologiques les plus récentes autour de la question des relations entre le territoire urbain et l’exercice du pouvoir avant le xx^e siècle, à travers ses aspects matériels et symboliques. Des études de cas au Maghreb, en Afrique occidentale forestière et sahélienne et en l'Afrique de l'Est abordent ces enjeux.

Odudwa College, Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 1, 2019, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Odudwa College, Ife-Sungbo, Notebook No. 2, 2019, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Oduduwa College Transparencies, 2019, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Reflections On Plague In African History (14th–19th C.), Gérard Chouin

Arts & Sciences Articles

In 1347, the western and Mediterranean parts of the Old World recorded the first outbreaks of a returning mortal disease that would make its presence felt over several centuries. Known today as the Second Plague Pandemic—a zoonosis due to the bacterium Yersinia pestis—it scythed between a third and half of the population without regard for wealth or status. It deeply transformed all facets of societies, ignited fears, violence, and pogroms, tested the flexibility of religions, hierarchies, and traditions, and excited ambitions. Although the plague is commonly described as a pandemic, historical knowledge about the initial Black Death and the …

Who Was Albert Luthuli?, Robert T. Vinson

Arts & Sciences Book Chapters

In an excellent addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Robert Trent Vinson recovers the important but largely forgotten story of Albert Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize winner and president of the African National Congress from 1952 to 1967. One of the most respected African leaders, Luthuli linked South African antiapartheid politics with other movements, becoming South Africa’s leading advocate of Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent civil disobedience techniques. He also framed apartheid as a crime against humanity and thus linked South African antiapartheid struggles with international human rights campaigns.

Unlike previous studies, this book places Luthuli and the …

Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 4, 2018, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 7, 2018, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 6, 2018, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Performative Circulations Of St. Martín De Porres In The African Diaspora, James Patrick Padilioni, Jr.

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

"Performative Circulations of St. Martín de Porres in the African Diaspora" examines the significance of the first American Catholic saint of African descent, the Peruvian friar Martín de Porres (1579-1639), through several case studies that track iconographic circulations and ritual-performative restagings of Martín across the African Diaspora between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. I approach Martín de Porres as both an historical figure and a figure of repetition and re-figuration in Black Diasporic cultures. Martín's material life and the diffusion of his cult of devotion following his death form a prism for interrogating the (re)formations of Diasporic Catholicism, when the …

Le Sacré Et La Mémoire : Anthropisation Des Espaces Boisés Et Reforestation Des Espaces Anthropiques Dans Le Golfe De Guinée, Gérard Chouin

Arts & Sciences Articles

• Enfer vert et civilisation
• Nature et/ou Culture : de quel bois le sacré est-il fait ?
• Le bois sacré est un écrin
• Comment naissent les bois sacrés ?
• De l’espace urbain au bois sacré : permanence spatiale et transfert rituel
• Les bois sacrés comme sources d’histoire

Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 1, 2017, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 2, 2017, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Ife Pavement Survey, Notebook No. 3, 2017, GéRard Chouin

Oduduwa & Ita Yemoo Archeological Site

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Nineteenth Century Enslaved African Americans' Coping Strategies For The Stresses Of Enslavement In Virginia, Allison Michelle Campo

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Afro-Barbadian Foodways: Analysis Of The Use Of Ceramics By Freed Afro-Barbadian Estate Workers, Camille Lois Chambers

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Sea Of Change : Race, Abolitionism, And Reform In The New England Whale Fishery, Justin Andrew Pariseau

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Bound together across lines of color and lass, Nantucket and New Bedford residents pursued the unique economic opportunities presented by whaling during the nineteenth century. Whaling was becoming a major industrial enterprise with few available options to fulfill the labor needs required for the whaling crews, ropewalks, blacksmith shops, and sail lofts that made it possible for Nantucket and New Bedford whaleships to transit the globe. Whaling thus generated the jobs that made it possible for free black communities to thrive. People of color consequently turned the need for labor to their advantage. Drawn by the financial opportunities that the …