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“Only A Passing Idiocy”: The Ku Klux Klan In Maine State Politics, Erin Best Dec 2018

“Only A Passing Idiocy”: The Ku Klux Klan In Maine State Politics, Erin Best

Honors Program Theses and Projects

During the late the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French Canadians migrated to the United States to fill existing labor gaps in New England’s textile mills. By the 1920s, French Canadians and Franco-Americans dominated textile labor in Maine. Despite its general rural cultural landscape, the modernism of the 1920s did come to influence the lived-experience of Maine’s French-speaking population. Urban centers like Lewiston-Auburn, Portland, and Bangor were urban-industrial towns that tended to be oppositional to the state’s more rural and conservative demographic. This sparked a general counter-movement among Maine’s conservative Protestant population. Similar to other rural regions in the United …


Marriage In Victorian England, Cheryl Ann Mcdonnell Dec 2018

Marriage In Victorian England, Cheryl Ann Mcdonnell

Honors Program Theses and Projects

When most people consider the lives of women in the Victorian age in Great Britain, a period which covers the years of Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 to 1901, they have a pretty rigid idea of what women were like in that era. Most see Victorian women as stifled and restricted, happy in their domestic role, both before and after their marriage. This stereotype is not accurate in reality to the women of the Victorian era. In this essay, I plan to explore what the reality of daily life was for Victorian women. More specifically I plan to examine what …


Cold War In The Classroom: Effects Of The Onset Of The Cold War On Public Education, Amanda Pineo May 2018

Cold War In The Classroom: Effects Of The Onset Of The Cold War On Public Education, Amanda Pineo

Honors Program Theses and Projects

World War II permanently changed the state of global politics, establishing the United States as a major superpower. In particular, the creation of the atomic bomb at the end of the war ushered in a new era of nuclear tension and a Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union, in which each side was pushed to marshal resources – foreign and domestic, cultural and political, at all levels – in support of its cause. The purpose of this research is to provide an analysis of the impact of the Cold War on American public primary and secondary schools, …


Bsc Football: The Swenson Era, Jim Tartari, Mike Hughes, Bob Mason, Charlie Worden Jan 2018

Bsc Football: The Swenson Era, Jim Tartari, Mike Hughes, Bob Mason, Charlie Worden

Monograph Selections from the Archives

A recollection of Bridgewater State College Coach Edward Swenson’s efforts to bring varsity-level football back into a Massachusetts state college and the stories of the trials and tribulations of his first eight years as head coach. The book is a Bridgewater State University Football Alumni project inspired by many of Coach Swenson’s former players, commemorating the coach and several of their former teammates.


Apartheid’S Last Hope: The International Fight For Walvis Bay, 1966-1994 History, Lila Quinn Dec 2017

Apartheid’S Last Hope: The International Fight For Walvis Bay, 1966-1994 History, Lila Quinn

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Oleksandr Dovzhenko’S Fight For Ukraine, Vitalina Buchatska Dec 2017

Oleksandr Dovzhenko’S Fight For Ukraine, Vitalina Buchatska

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


The Politics Of Paternalism: New England’S Textile Industry From Corporate Capitalism To The Second Red Scare, Kelsey Murphy May 2017

The Politics Of Paternalism: New England’S Textile Industry From Corporate Capitalism To The Second Red Scare, Kelsey Murphy

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


A Compact With The Whales: Confederate Commerce Raiders And New Bedford’S Whaling Industry 1861-1865, Mark Mello May 2017

A Compact With The Whales: Confederate Commerce Raiders And New Bedford’S Whaling Industry 1861-1865, Mark Mello

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


The Family Politics Of The Federation Of South African Women: A History Of Public Motherhood In Women’S Antiracist Activism, Meghan Healy-Clancy Jan 2017

The Family Politics Of The Federation Of South African Women: A History Of Public Motherhood In Women’S Antiracist Activism, Meghan Healy-Clancy

History Faculty Publications

This article reexamines the roots of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), the first national organization of women from all state-defined racial groups united against apartheid, founded in 1954. It argues that the deep history of public motherhood in southern Africa was what made FEDSAW possible: biological and symbolic motherhood had long been associated with responsibility for public social life in the region. Moreover, the article demonstrates that the first half of the twentieth century represented a time of profound transformation in the ways that women in southern Africa talked about and experienced motherhood. The influences of both missionary …


The Private Library: Cultural Consumption And The Fashioning Of Gentlemanly Character In The Long Eighteenth-Century, Corrie Ann Hughes Jan 2017

The Private Library: Cultural Consumption And The Fashioning Of Gentlemanly Character In The Long Eighteenth-Century, Corrie Ann Hughes

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Accessorizing Agency: Nineteenth Century Women’S Fashion Adornments, Ashley Fongeallaz Jan 2017

Accessorizing Agency: Nineteenth Century Women’S Fashion Adornments, Ashley Fongeallaz

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Hell Hound Rogers Or The Great Town Benefactor: Who Was Henry Huttleston Rogers, David Braga Dec 2016

Hell Hound Rogers Or The Great Town Benefactor: Who Was Henry Huttleston Rogers, David Braga

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


The State Of Bridgewater: Developments In The Bridgewater State College Campus Through Undergraduate Students Activism, Kayla Jane Hoyt Dec 2016

The State Of Bridgewater: Developments In The Bridgewater State College Campus Through Undergraduate Students Activism, Kayla Jane Hoyt

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Femininity And Feminism In Courtship In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Nicole Langevin Dec 2016

Femininity And Feminism In Courtship In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Nicole Langevin

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Cultural Exchanges In The Far North: Twentieth-Century Contact In The Canadian Arctic, Gabrielle Desmarais May 2016

Cultural Exchanges In The Far North: Twentieth-Century Contact In The Canadian Arctic, Gabrielle Desmarais

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


An Era Of Convergence: Joint Defense Between The United States And Canada 1949-1963, Melanie Hawes May 2016

An Era Of Convergence: Joint Defense Between The United States And Canada 1949-1963, Melanie Hawes

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Jesus, The Marxist: An Interpretation Of The Nicaraguan Revolution Through The Evolution Of The Catholic Church In Latin America, Jose Yumet May 2016

Jesus, The Marxist: An Interpretation Of The Nicaraguan Revolution Through The Evolution Of The Catholic Church In Latin America, Jose Yumet

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Scapegoat Hysteria: A Comparison Of The Salem Witch Trials And The Red Scare, Andreanna Hughes May 2016

Scapegoat Hysteria: A Comparison Of The Salem Witch Trials And The Red Scare, Andreanna Hughes

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


The Environmental Historiography Of The Maritime Peninsula, Brian Payne Jan 2016

The Environmental Historiography Of The Maritime Peninsula, Brian Payne

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Sakharov's Dilemma: Pursuing Nuclear Disarmament During The Human Rights Revolution, Paul Rubinson Jan 2016

Sakharov's Dilemma: Pursuing Nuclear Disarmament During The Human Rights Revolution, Paul Rubinson

History Faculty Publications

The Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov, a veritable human rights icon, maintained his whole life that the world’s priority must be nuclear disarmament. But during the 1970s, the pursuit of nuclear disarmament was the hallmark of détente between the superpowers. Détente offended human rights activists because it appeared to legitimize the Soviet Union, notorious for its noxious treatment of dissidents. While Sakharov’s actions demonstrated a fervent commitment to human rights, his rhetoric consistently—and paradoxically—prioritized nuclear disarmament. For their part, Soviet authorities evinced little concern for Sakharov’s disarmament ideas but greatly feared his influence as a human rights activist. Sakharov never reconciled …


Nicholas Tillinghast, The U.S. Army, And Indian Removal, Mike Hughes Jan 2016

Nicholas Tillinghast, The U.S. Army, And Indian Removal, Mike Hughes

Monograph Selections from the Archives

Nicholas Tillinghast (1804-1856) was the founding principal of the State Normal School at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. While his accomplishments as an educator and administrator are well-known, his earlier U.S. Army career is less-well documented. This article examines both Tillinghast’s experiences at West Point as a student and instructor and his career as an Army officer serving at Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory.


A Snapshot In Time: English Reactions To The Franco-Prussian War, Andrew Mcginnis Dec 2015

A Snapshot In Time: English Reactions To The Franco-Prussian War, Andrew Mcginnis

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Plague And Perception: The English Interpretation Of Plague In Massachusetts, Sarah Peck Dec 2015

Plague And Perception: The English Interpretation Of Plague In Massachusetts, Sarah Peck

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Evidence suggests that the early economic and political success of the English in Plimoth Colony is due to the introduction of European diseases into coastal Massachusetts during the late sixteenth century. Building upon Alfred Crosby’s 1972 publication The Columbian Exchange, modern environmental historians and cultural historians recognize the important interconnection between parasitism, disease, and historic trends. It is now fairly well recognized in both the science and humanities disciplines that any study of the political and economic development of European settlements and colonization of the Americas correlates with studies and research about the introduction of foreign diseases, as well as …


An Analysis Of American Propaganda In World War Ii And The Vietnam War, Connor Foley May 2015

An Analysis Of American Propaganda In World War Ii And The Vietnam War, Connor Foley

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


"Mad As March Hares:" Kaiser Wilhelm Ii, Great Britain, And The Road To War, Jeffrey Kelly May 2015

"Mad As March Hares:" Kaiser Wilhelm Ii, Great Britain, And The Road To War, Jeffrey Kelly

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


A Dark Side Of American History: Executive Order 9066 & Japanese American Internment During World War Ii, Kevin Costa May 2015

A Dark Side Of American History: Executive Order 9066 & Japanese American Internment During World War Ii, Kevin Costa

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Visions Of The Amistad: American Public Engagement With The Amistad Story, Samuel Perkins Dec 2014

Visions Of The Amistad: American Public Engagement With The Amistad Story, Samuel Perkins

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Steven Spielberg’s movie Amistad, released in 1997, is considered to be a good movie. The New York Times published a very favorable review of the film when it came out stating that it provides “tough, sobering depictions of the captives’ ordeal.” It has all of the ingredients of a great historical motion picture; it is interesting, exciting at times, and educational. Amistad is a go to film for many high school history teachers to begin discussion on the Amistad case. While the movie follows the movements of high profile characters from the Amistad story such as Martin Van Buren, Cinque, …


Transcending Borders: Mexican Experiences With Migration, Race And Identity, 1910-1965, Marissa Nichols May 2014

Transcending Borders: Mexican Experiences With Migration, Race And Identity, 1910-1965, Marissa Nichols

Honors Program Theses and Projects

No abstract provided.


Conceiving The Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union In The Midst Of The Cold War: Internal And International Factors, Ethan Sanders Jan 2014

Conceiving The Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union In The Midst Of The Cold War: Internal And International Factors, Ethan Sanders

History Faculty Publications

To what extent was international pressure placed on Nyerere and Karume to unify their two states in April 1964? The argument made is that even though Americans were initially very pleased with the outcome of the Union—because they thought it would help stem the spread of communism in the region—this was not a Western-initiated plan forced upon East African leaders. Indeed, the evidence shows that Americans were largely in the dark and in fact very frustrated by their lack of influence on the situation. Instead, the Union merely served as a confluence of African and American interests. The internal factors …


"Knowledge Will Be Manifold": Daniel 12.4 And The Idea Of Intellectual Progress In The Middle Ages, J. R. Webb Jan 2014

"Knowledge Will Be Manifold": Daniel 12.4 And The Idea Of Intellectual Progress In The Middle Ages, J. R. Webb

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.