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Pulse - A Consultation, Barry J. Mauer Jun 2017

Pulse - A Consultation, Barry J. Mauer

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. We may never know or understand what was in Mateen’s mind, but we can situate his attack within the history of eliminationism in America. Islamist terrorism is just part of a larger phenomenon: right wing eliminationism. But despite centuries of right wing eliminationist words and deeds in the U.S., there is little or no mainstream recognition of the phenomenon. Instead, we are treated to more denial, more distraction, more obfuscation. Until we look this problem squarely in the face, it will …


The Evolving Emancipator: An Analysis Of Abraham Lincoln And The Progression And Development Of His Emancipationist Impulse, Sharon N. Rodriguez Jan 2017

The Evolving Emancipator: An Analysis Of Abraham Lincoln And The Progression And Development Of His Emancipationist Impulse, Sharon N. Rodriguez

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This research looks at the narrative of Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator versus the Evolving Emancipator. The goal of this thesis is to contribute to the narrative of the Evolving Emancipator and show an imperfect man who achieved this action after trials and tribulations.This has been achieved by examining letters and other primary sources to fully understand the scope of Lincoln’s sentiments regarding slavery. My research shows a man who acknowledged slavery because it was sanctioned by the law. He recognized the rights of slave owners, both to retain their slaves and to have fugitive slaves returned, as they …


Rhetoric Of Imagery: Gendering And Consumption Throughout Interwar American Advertisment, Natalie Delgado Jan 2017

Rhetoric Of Imagery: Gendering And Consumption Throughout Interwar American Advertisment, Natalie Delgado

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Interwar American advertising rose alongside new levels of hygiene, personal appearance, and technology in order to sell their products to target audiences. Despite the abundance of scholarship on media and gender, few studies have examined the gendered techniques through which interwar advertisers communicated with consumers in response to changing social norms and economic stability. The question this thesis explores is how these changes and communication shifted in response to consumer culture and how advertisers utilized early market research and persuasion techniques to target their audiences. Building on the studies of gender, consumption, and identity, this thesis examines the relationship between …


The History Of Inequality In Education And The Question Of Equality Versus Adequacy, Diana Carol Dominguez Jan 2016

The History Of Inequality In Education And The Question Of Equality Versus Adequacy, Diana Carol Dominguez

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Although the U.S. Constitution espouses equality, it clearly is not practiced in all aspects of life with education being a significant outlier. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote about inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These two theories are related to education through educational adequacy and equality. Sufficientarianism, or educational adequacy, says that what is important is that everyone has “good enough” educational opportunities, but not the same ones. Egalitarianism, or educational equality, says that there is an intrinsic value in having the same educational opportunities and only having good enough opportunities misses something …


Bluegrass, Bildung, And Blueprints: The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come As An Appalachian Bildungsroman, Leona Shoemaker Jan 2015

Bluegrass, Bildung, And Blueprints: The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come As An Appalachian Bildungsroman, Leona Shoemaker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come takes as its backdrop the American Civil War, as the author, John Fox, Jr., champions Kentucky's social development during the Progressive Era. Although often criticized for capitalizing on his propagation of regional stereotypes, I argue that the structure of The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come is much more problematic than that. Recognizing the Bildungsroman as a vehicle for cultural and social critique in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century writing, this project offers an in-depth literary analysis of John Fox, Jr.'s novel, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, in which I contend the story itself is, …


Animal-Like And Depraved: Racist Stereotypes, Commercial Sex, And Black Women's Identity In New Orleans, 1825-1917, Porsha Dossie Aug 2014

Animal-Like And Depraved: Racist Stereotypes, Commercial Sex, And Black Women's Identity In New Orleans, 1825-1917, Porsha Dossie

HIM 1990-2015

My objective with this thesis is to understand how racist stereotypes and myths compounded the sale of fair-skinned black women during and after the slave trade in New Orleans, Louisiana. This commodification of black women's bodies continued well into the twentieth century, notably in New Orleans' vice district of Storyville. Called "quadroons" (a person with ¼ African ancestry) and "octoroons" (1/8 African ancestry), these women were known for their "sexual prowess" and drew in a large number of patrons. The existence of "white passing" black women complicated ideas about race and racial purity in the South. Race as a myth …


Visual And Verbal Rhetoric In Howard Chandler Christy's War-Related Posters Of Women During The World War I Era: A Feminist, Mary Ellen Gomrad Jan 2007

Visual And Verbal Rhetoric In Howard Chandler Christy's War-Related Posters Of Women During The World War I Era: A Feminist, Mary Ellen Gomrad

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the development of a series of posters created by Howard Chandler Christy during the World War I era. During this time, Christy was a Department of Pictorial Publicity (DPP) committee artist commissioned by the committee chair, Charles Dana Gibson. The DPP was part of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) developed by the Woodrow Wilson administration to generate the propaganda necessary to gain the support of the American people to enter World War I. The CPI was headed up by George Creel, a journalist and politician, who used advertising techniques to create the first full-scale propaganda effort …


Dogs In A Village, Karen Porter Jan 2006

Dogs In A Village, Karen Porter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Nearly all of the histories of Shays's Rebellion point to debt as the reason why farmers in western Massachusetts rose against the courts and the state government in the fall and winter of 1786-87. Recent scholarship demonstrates a new line of reasoning based on the tax records of those involved. The following thesis, a screenplay, offers a fictional telling of this insurgency. The story is told using language pulled from contemporary letters and documents and follows a line of causation pointing to inequitable state tax structure and poor representation as the provocation. The response that ensued was not a rebellion …


The Farm Security Administration Photographers : Humane Propagandists, Pioneers In Documentary Photography, Robert Duff Alexander Jan 1979

The Farm Security Administration Photographers : Humane Propagandists, Pioneers In Documentary Photography, Robert Duff Alexander

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Capture Of Jefferson Davis, John Adam Fox, Benjamin D. Pritchard Jan 1964

The Capture Of Jefferson Davis, John Adam Fox, Benjamin D. Pritchard

Civil War Text

"The story of the capture of Jefferson Davis as told through the personal papers of Benjamin Pritchard, the Union Officer in charge of the capture." - p. 1. There are 22 pages of pictures, one of Davis, one of Pritchard and the other 20 are of documents pertaining to the capture.


States And Their Capitals: Complete New Song With Words And Music., Blunt, Mary M. Jan 1944

States And Their Capitals: Complete New Song With Words And Music., Blunt, Mary M.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

4-page sheet music for the song "States and Their Capitals". Words and music by Mary M. Blunt. The cover includes Mrs. Blunt's photo and her then address. The song was copyrighted in 1944.


Club Plantation Souvenir Menu., Club Plantation Jan 1940

Club Plantation Souvenir Menu., Club Plantation

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

Derogatory caricature of a black woman pouring champagne into a large glass with a heart-shaped lock holding the legs of her petti-pants together. Words "No? No? A 1000 TIMES NO!!!" written on the backside of her pants. 4-page Souvenir menu for Club Plantation in St. Louis, Mo. White-only night club that featured all black performers.


Sam Black Gets A Shot At "Br'er Rabbit"., Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward), 1862-1922 Jan 1898

Sam Black Gets A Shot At "Br'er Rabbit"., Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward), 1862-1922

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

Color Black Americana stereographs. Set of 3. Features a black boy hunting with his dad. Entitled "Sam Black gets a shot 'Br'er Rabbit', "Lordy, Dad! Be Yous Kilt." and "Oh! Golly, But Dat Ol' Gun Done Kick".


Does Yer Cotch On?. Jan 1888

Does Yer Cotch On?.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

Trade Cards: Nichols and Damon Boots, Shoes, & Rubber Goods, and Choice Groceries (2 cards); T. R. Rathebun Choice Groceries, Flour of all grades, Teas, Coffees and Spices, Butter and eggs a specialty, South Main Street. Quincy, Michigan; A man and his shoes (a poem).


The Rising Sun Stove Polish. Jan 1885

The Rising Sun Stove Polish.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

This little brochure is an amusing take on the "before and after" advertising theme applied to a product for scouring and blacking cast iron stoves. In the first illustration, the lady of the house has worked all day to clean her stove with an inferior product (no better than "mud) with poor result, and she takes out her frustration on her man, who has arrived home expecting a good dinner. The table is bare. "Look yere, old man! What kind o' stove blacking you call dat? Ise been rubbin' on dat stove all morning' an' it don't gib it a …


Sapolio, Enoch Morgan & Sons. Dec 1879

Sapolio, Enoch Morgan & Sons.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

Sapolio, Enoch Morgan & Sons, Lauz Bros & Co. Soaps. Set of nine advertisements. In color. Each accompanies a family poem.


Notes On Dixie Dishes. Dec 1879

Notes On Dixie Dishes.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

"Notes on dixie dishes" box of note cards with black chef on the front. Cards have illustrations and texts, entitled: "Fried Catfish", "Hush Puppies". With envelope.


Harper's History Of The Great Rebellion, May, 1865. Apr 1865

Harper's History Of The Great Rebellion, May, 1865.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

Loose leaf from the newpaper Harper's Weekly. Consisting of 2 pages. The first page features "Harper's History of the Great Rebellion" with illustration "Camp of Confederate Prisoners at Elmira, New York." The other page is an illustration titled "The Conduct of The War."


Harper's History Of The Great Rebellion, May, 1865 Apr 1865

Harper's History Of The Great Rebellion, May, 1865

Civil War Text

Loose leaf from the newpaper Harper's Weekly. Consisting of 2 pages. The first page features "Harper's History of the Great Rebellion" with illustration "Camp of Confederate Prisoners at Elmira, New York." The other page is an illustration titled "The Conduct of The War."


Nationale Geschichte Des Krieges Für Die Union, Politisch Und Militärisch Nach Offiziellen Und Andern Authentischen Dokumenten, Evert Augustus Duyckinck Dec 1864

Nationale Geschichte Des Krieges Für Die Union, Politisch Und Militärisch Nach Offiziellen Und Andern Authentischen Dokumenten, Evert Augustus Duyckinck

Civil War Text

This is the second volume of a work which has a first volume with title "Geschichte des Krieges für die Union, Politisch und Militärisch Nach Offiziellen und Andern Authentischen Dokumenten". The volume 2 includes added title page in English: History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military & Naval. The book is edited by Friedrich Kapp, and illustrated by Alonzo Chappel and Thomas Raft. Special Collections have v. 2 only. Paging continuation from vol. 1. Vol. 2 is paged 577-1188 and includes 21 leaves of plates.


A Narrative Of The Campaign In The Valley Of The Shenandoah, In 1861, Robert Patterson Dec 1864

A Narrative Of The Campaign In The Valley Of The Shenandoah, In 1861, Robert Patterson

Civil War Text

This book is about the 1861 Shenandoah Valley campaign. It includes a map of Shenandoah Valley in 1861 and a portrait of Robert Patterson with a reproduction of his signature. At the end of the book there is a newspaper clipping (with a handwritten date Jan 2, 1904) of a review of a book entitled: The Shenandoah Valley and Virginia (1861-65) a war study by Sanford C. Kellogg.


The Military And Naval History Of The Rebellion In The United States: With Biographical Sketches Of Deceased Officers, William Jewett Tenney Dec 1864

The Military And Naval History Of The Rebellion In The United States: With Biographical Sketches Of Deceased Officers, William Jewett Tenney

Civil War Text

The book provides a general history of the Civil War, describing the battles, related political events and relevant issues of equipment and medicine. On title page "Illustrated with steel plate portraits." Includes 843 pages, additional leaves of portraits, and 10 pages on roman numerals. The portraits are engraved by H.W. Smith. Also includes maps and index. Special Collections copy lacks folded map. The copy has inscription: Presented to John Lusadder by his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Geo Nelson, New years 1892.


Harper's Weekly Apr 1864

Harper's Weekly

Civil War Text

Saturday, April 30, 1864 issue of the Harpers Weekly. Featuring poem "April 20, 1864" with illustration on cover page. Include many lithographs. Centerfold lithograph: The Press on the field. Other lithographic illustrations: In the fair, Admiral porter’s flotilla, The steam-ram “Switzerland,” The massacre at Fort Pillow, The advance signal-station near Ringgold, Georgia, and Ringgold, Georgia. Also includes “Map of Fort De Russy.”


Harper's Weekly. Apr 1864

Harper's Weekly.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

Saturday, April 30, 1864 issue of the Harpers Weekly. Featuring poem "April 20, 1864" with illustration on cover page. Include many lithographs. Centerfold lithograph: The Press on the field. Other lithographic illustrations: In the fair, Admiral porter’s flotilla, The steam-ram “Switzerland,” The massacre at Fort Pillow, The advance signal-station near Ringgold, Georgia, and Ringgold, Georgia. Also includes “Map of Fort De Russy.”


Harper's Weekly Jan 1864

Harper's Weekly

Civil War Text

Saturday, January 16, 1864 issue of the Harper's Weekly. Featuring "Averill’s Raid" in the American Civil War. With many lithographs. Cover: Averill's Raid. Centerfold lithograph: "An Advance of the Army of the Potomac - Sketched by Alfred R. Waud. Other lithographic illustrations include: Major-General Andrew A. Humphreys; General William W. Averill; the "suck" in the Tennessee River; the wreck of the "Aquila" at San Francisco; the ironclad screw frigate "Re d'Italia;" rebel screw steamer Rappahannock; The late most reverend John Hughes, D.C., Archbishop of New York – Photographed by Brady; The rebel screw steamer "Rappahannock" lying at Calais, France; Daboll's …


Harper's Weekly. Jan 1864

Harper's Weekly.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

Saturday, January 16, 1864 issue of the Harper's Weekly. Featuring "Averill’s Raid" in the American Civil War. With many lithographs. Cover: Averill's Raid. Centerfold lithograph: "An Advance of the Army of the Potomac - Sketched by Alfred R. Waud. Other lithographic illustrations include: Major-General Andrew A. Humphreys; General William W. Averill; the "suck" in the Tennessee River; the wreck of the "Aquila" at San Francisco; the ironclad screw frigate "Re d'Italia;" rebel screw steamer Rappahannock; The late most reverend John Hughes, D.C., Archbishop of New York – Photographed by Brady; The rebel screw steamer "Rappahannock" lying at Calais, France; Daboll's …


Harper's Weekly. Jan 1864

Harper's Weekly.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

Saturday, May 21, 1864 issue of the Harper's Weekly. Featuring General Sherman's Advance in the American Civil War. With many lithographs. Cover lithograph: General Sherman's Advance- Buzzard's Roost Pass, Georgia. Centerfold lithograph: Grand musical festival in Philadelphia in aid of the Sanitary Commission; Departure of the Union Fleet from Newport News, Virginia, on May 4, 1864- From a sketch by a naval officer; Arrival of General Butler's advance at City Point, Virginia, on May 5, 1864- From a sketch by a naval office. Other lithographic illustrations include: The late General Wadsworth; Destruction of the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad; Destruction …


Harper's Weekly Jan 1864

Harper's Weekly

Civil War Text

Saturday, May 21, 1864 issue of the Harper's Weekly. Featuring General Sherman's Advance in the American Civil War. With many lithographs. Cover lithograph: General Sherman's Advance- Buzzard's Roost Pass, Georgia. Centerfold lithograph: Grand musical festival in Philadelphia in aid of the Sanitary Commission; Departure of the Union Fleet from Newport News, Virginia, on May 4, 1864- From a sketch by a naval officer; Arrival of General Butler's advance at City Point, Virginia, on May 5, 1864- From a sketch by a naval office. Other lithographic illustrations include: The late General Wadsworth; Destruction of the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad; Destruction …


Cosas De Los Estados Unidos, Simon Camacho Dec 1863

Cosas De Los Estados Unidos, Simon Camacho

Civil War Text

The author Simón Camacho wrote the book under the pseudonym "Nazareno." Edited by James Durand. It contains letters and sketches covering the years 1856 to 1863. Includes the author's portrait, engraved by J.A. O'Neill from a photograph by Fredericks. Also contains a reproduction of the author's signature. Spine title: Cosas de los E. Unidos.


Colonization. Dec 1862

Colonization.

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection – Text

Speech on Colonization, anonymous, ca. 1863. A speech delivered on the efficacy and possibilities of emancipation with colonization, suggesting the expatriation of American slaves to the Caribbean upon emancipation (Figures 9 & 10.) A fascinating speech, not entirely without compassion, but pretty adamant about removing freed slaves from the U.S., possibly to Haiti, so it also falls within our West Indies Collection. String-tied sheets. Handwritten in cursive with some corrections and penciled annotations. Includes several brief newspaper clippings (one clipping lacking). Title at the top of the first page. Date from dealer's catalog. Author anonymous. The transcript for the Speech …