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Women In Higher Education - Primary Source Set, Freddy Enrique Moran

Lesson Plans

Higher education in America prior to the 19^th century looked a specific way, white and male, and while there have been many advancements in medicine, and teaching medicine, since then. An equally impressive jump forward socially for education happened during these time periods. Education as a whole saw drastic changes between the 19^th and 20^th century with the increasing enrollment of women in higher education. The evolution of higher education between 1870 and 1930 saw drastic changes to women enrollment within universities, going from 5% to 14% female enrollment at a higher professional degree seeking university. Even …

Sisters Of Charity: St. Vincent's Hospital And The Titanic Disaster, Eric C. Cimino Ph.D.

Faculty Works: HPS (2015-2021)

Gina Bellafante wrote in the New York Times on 3/1/20 that the city would feel the impact of its hospital shortage when the Covid-19 Virus arrived. She specifically singled out the closure and sale of St. Vincent's Hospital, noting its replacement by luxury condominiums. My article here provides an example of St. Vincent Hospital in action at the turn of the twentieth century when it cared for over a hundred Titanic survivors. Its disaster expertise is now sorely missed in New York City. St. Vincent's Hospital was founded and run by the religious order Sisters of Charity in the Nineteenth …

Jewish Women’S Transracial Epistemological Networks: Representations Of Black Women In The African Diaspora, 1930-1980, Abby S. Gondek

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation investigates how Jewish women social scientists relationally established their gendered-racialized subjectivities and theories about race-gender-sexuality-class through their portrayals of black women’s sexuality and family structures in the African Diaspora: the U.S., Brazil, South Africa, Swaziland, and the U.K. The central women in this study: Ellen Hellmann, Ruth Landes, Hilda Kuper, and Ruth Glass, were part of the same “political generation,” born in 1908-1912, coming of age when Jews of European descent experienced an ambivalent and conditional assimilation into whiteness, a form of internal colonization. I demonstrate how each woman’s familial origin point in Europe, parental class and political …

Female Cyclists: Two Essays From The 1869 Hancock Jeffersonian, Paige Zenovic

Nineteenth-Century Ohio Literature

Paige Zenovic introduces and explains two nineteenth-century essays from the Findley, Ohio Hancock Jeffersonian on the subject of women riding bicycles from the time when they were first being introduced to Ohio.

Behind The Shadows, Selena Ramirez Ahilon

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

The nineteenth century is classified as the Victorian era, a period in which the middle class rose in power as a result of industrialization. As the middle classes living standards rose the middle class became reliant on utilitarianism values. This ideal appeared to offer a more comfortable life for both men and women, however, by classifying the position of women as the “heart” and men as the “head” of the house, women were hindered to a society in shadows. Women were restricted in every aspect of life because men were in power, and the ideal Victorian woman became the one …

What Would Florence Do?, Ian A. Isherwood

Civil War Institute Faculty Publications

Mercy Street has no shortage of nineteenth century medical trivia. Dr. Foster repeatedly invokes his stellar medical education, which includes not only study in Philadelphia, America’s medical Mecca of that time, but also a grand tour abroad where he learned all kinds of fancy techniques from some of the great medical minds of the era. Similarly, we have been introduced to Anne Hastings, the alleged Crimean War nurse, her character no doubt causing many to brush up on their nineteenth century European history. [excerpt]

Weed Women, All Night Vigils, And The Secret Life Of Plants: Negotiated Epistemologies Of Ethnogynecological Plant Knowledge In American History, Claudia Jeanne Ford

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation critiques the discourse of traditional ecological knowledge described as embedded in indigenous peoples' longevity in location, for the purpose of understanding the embodiment of ecological knowledge in culture. The aim of this research is to examine the historical and epistemic complexity of traditional ecological knowledge that may be both established from the length of time people reside in a specific ecosystem and constitutive of negotiations between and among different cultures. I choose the specific case of the negotiation of plant knowledge for women's reproductive health among Native, African, and European groups as those negotiations unfolded on the American …

When Harvard Said No To Eugenics: The J. Ewing Mears Bequest, 1927, Paul A. Lombardo

Faculty Publications By Year

James Ewing Mears (1838-1919) was a founding member of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery. His 1910 book, The Problem of Race Betterment, laid the groundwork for later authors to explore the uses of surgical sterilization as a eugenic measure. Mears left $60,000 in his will to Harvard University to support the teaching of eugenics. Although numerous eugenic activists were on the Harvard faculty, and who of its Presidents were also associated with the eugenics movement, Harvard refused the Mears gift. The bequest was eventually awarded to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. This article explains why Harvard turned its back …

Quantitative Literacy And The Humanities, Rachel Chrastil

Faculty Scholarship

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'A Triumph Of Brains Over Brute': Women And Science At The Horticultural College, Swanley, 1890-1910, Donald L. Opitz

School of Continuing and Professional Studies Faculty Publications

The founding of Britain's first horticultural college in 1889 advanced a scientific and coeducational response to three troubling national concerns: a major agricultural depression; the economic distress of single, unemployed women; and imperatives to develop the colonies. Buoyed by the technical instruction and women's movements, the Horticultural College and Produce Company, Limited, at Swanley, Kent, crystallized a transformation in the horticultural profession in which new science-based, formalized study threatened an earlier emphasis on practical apprenticeship training, with the effect of opening male-dominated trades to women practitioners. By 1903, the college closed its doors to male students, and new pathways were …

The End Of Nowhere: The History Of Tuberculosis In Ri, Emma G. Sconyers

Senior Honors Projects

The World Health Organization estimates that approximately one third of the word's current population had been infected with tuberculosis. Prior to the 1940's TB was considered an incurable, chronic affliction. Historically, many people were forcibly detained in tuberculosis sanatoria to lessen the spread of the disease; my great granfather being one of them. In 1939, without warning, he was taken from his pregnant, jobless wife and one-year-old daughter, who were left to fend for themselves for two years without government planning or assistance. He spent those two years at Wallum Lake Sanitorium in northern Rhode Island, a place my great-grandmother's …

Eugenothenics: The Literary Connection Between Domesticity And Eugenics, Caleb J. True

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

This is an analysis of the connection between the domestic science and eugenics. While it is made clear by historians such as Megan Elias and Kathy Cooke that there is ample connection between eugenics and euthenics, there has not been as comprehensive an analysis of the direct connections between domestic science and eugenics. Close examination of literature from the domestic science movement reveals the shared goals of domestic science and eugenics. The domestic science movement was also a necessary precursor to the euthenics movement, not simply a “re-envisioning” of home economics by Ellen Richards. When Richards died, her euthenic ideals …

Church Of The Brethren China Relief, Circa 2002, E. Joseph Wampler, D. Eugene Wampler

Digitized Primary Sources

This compiled manuscript details work by Church of the Brethren missionaries and relief workers in China from 1918 to 1951. Missionaries and relief workers include Ernest M. Wampler, nurse Elizabeth Baker Wampler, Dr. Frederick Jacob Wampler, Rebecca Skeggs Wampler, Nettie Mabelle Senger, and Howard E. Sollenberger.

Work chronicled here includes relief in a 1918 bubonic plague outbreak in the Shanxi province, care in the 1920 – 1921 Great Famine in Northern China, work with Chinese road builders, missionary Nettie Mabelle Senger’s wool cooperative, several of Howard Sollenberger’s projects, relief during the Sino-Japanese War, the 1942-43 Henan relief effort, and postwar …

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 03), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Shirley Gish and Dr. Louise Caudill at the reception on opening night of the play "Me n' Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 05), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Louise Caudill at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 06), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 02), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 07), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Louise Caudill at the reception on opening night of the play "Me n' Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 08), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 11), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Louise Caudill, Susie Halbleib, and Dr. Shirley Gish at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 15), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 17), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Shirley Gish on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 16), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Shirley Gish, Dr. Louise Caudill, and Susie Halbleib onstage on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 14), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 18), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 19), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Louise Caudill at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 22), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Shirley Gish, Dr. Louise Caudill, and Susie Halbleib on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 25), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 26), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of actors in costume at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.

Photograph - Me 'N Susie Reception (Image 27), Morehead State University. Office Of Communications And Marketing

Louise Caudill Oral History Collection

Photograph of Dr. Shirley Gish at the reception on opening night of the play "Me 'n Susie" on November 12, 1993.