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Researching The Early History Of The Patent Policy: Getting Started, Robert Berry
Researching The Early History Of The Patent Policy: Getting Started, Robert Berry
Librarian Publications
There are a lot of reasons to research the early history of American patent policy. It is an inherently interesting history that provides a framework making contemporary patent policy more comprehensible and a foundation for interpreting historic patent records. For students it provides an opportunity to become familiar with some of basic primary sources that are a staple of research into American history. Also, of course, questions may arise from time to time that can only be authoritatively answered by researching this history.
The approach described below seeks to balance comprehensiveness with feasibility, and emphasizes the importance of creating a …
The Birth Of The U.S. Federal Reserve, Richard A. Naclerio
The Birth Of The U.S. Federal Reserve, Richard A. Naclerio
History Faculty Publications
On November 16, 2014 the United States Federal Reserve celebrated the centennial of its organization. Its one hundred year legacy has left no doubt of its vast monetary control, its far-reaching geopolitical power, and its enigmatic secrecy. These defining features of the Fed remain a mirror of the men who created it. Wall Street barons and ambitious politicians vied for control over shaping the U.S. Federal Reserve to the specifications that suited the needs of both their country and themselves.
This paper covers men like Senator Nelson Aldrich, J.P. Morgan, Jacob Schiff, and Paul M. Warburg, who were the undeniable …
Government And Politics Newsletter, Issue 9, Sacred Heart University
Government And Politics Newsletter, Issue 9, Sacred Heart University
Government and Politics Newsletter
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Paul M. Warburg: Founder Of The United States Federal Reserve, Richard A. Naclerio
Paul M. Warburg: Founder Of The United States Federal Reserve, Richard A. Naclerio
History Faculty Publications
The name Paul Moritz Warburg is synonymous with the founding of the Federal Reserve System. Over the years preceding the formation of the Federal Reserve, Warburg wrote many essays and gave many public addresses on banking reform. His reform ideas were modeled on the central banking systems of many European counties he dealt with through the family business M.M. Warburg.
What Are America’S Obligations To Iraq After An Unjust War?, Brian Stiltner
What Are America’S Obligations To Iraq After An Unjust War?, Brian Stiltner
Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
Since the goal of a just war is to restore a political condition of peace and justice, and since allowing a just war is always a mournful concession to the reality of injustice, a country that wins a war has post-bellum obligations to advance the common good within the losing nation and among the community of nations. It has the moral duty to make up for the damage it has caused, even if it was justified in causing that damage. (Note that the idea of a "just" war is not that war is a good in itself, but that it …
Danger On The Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism And American Print Culture In The Progressive Era (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan
Danger On The Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism And American Print Culture In The Progressive Era (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan
History Faculty Publications
Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.
Nordstrom, Justin. Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. ISBN 9780268036058
Rethinking The Iraq War, Brian Stiltner
Rethinking The Iraq War, Brian Stiltner
Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
The reasonable possibility of the situation getting worse [in Iraq] rather than better should have given humanitarian advocates for war, like myself, greater pause. For me at that time, this humanitarian motive bolstered what was weak in the weapons argument, and vice versa. But now I realize that a partial case for war because of the weapons risk and a partial case for war under humanitarian reasons don't add up to an air-tight case for just war. Each of the causes proffered has to be reasonable with little doubt-something like 90 to 95 percent certain-and they can't be undermined by …
Lincoln's Defense Of Politics: The Public Man And His Opponents In The Crisis Over Slavery (Book Review), Julie Mujic
Lincoln's Defense Of Politics: The Public Man And His Opponents In The Crisis Over Slavery (Book Review), Julie Mujic
History Faculty Publications
Book review by Julie Mujic.
Schneider, Thomas E. Lincoln’s Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006.
ISBN 9780826216069
The Presidential Nominating Process: A Place For Us? (Book Review), Gary L. Rose
The Presidential Nominating Process: A Place For Us? (Book Review), Gary L. Rose
Political Science & Global Affairs Faculty Publications
Book review by Gary Rose.
Cook, R. (2004). The presidential nominating process: A place for us?. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
ISBN 9780742525931; 9780742525948 (pbk.)
In Focus: The Media And The New Cold War, Dennis Broe, Louise Spence
In Focus: The Media And The New Cold War, Dennis Broe, Louise Spence
Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications
Introduces several essays that explores the role of mass media on the transformation of the U.S. foreign policy after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Alliance of the media with globalization and permanent war; Invasion of the concept of endless war on media culture.
Conglomeration, New Media, And The Cultural Production Of The "War On Terror", James Castonguay
Conglomeration, New Media, And The Cultural Production Of The "War On Terror", James Castonguay
Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications
Comments on the role of the mass media in promoting the war on terrorism launched by United States President George W. Bush in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Eagerness of the U.S. film industry to participate the war on terrorism; Support of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on intelligence-related television programs and film projects; Role of the Internet in disseminating information regarding the war on terrorism.
Teaching 9/11 And Why I'M Not Doing It Anymore, Louise Spence
Teaching 9/11 And Why I'M Not Doing It Anymore, Louise Spence
Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications
Offers information on Reading Seminar in Media and Cultural Theory, a course which tackles advanced work in the theoretical and critical context of the mass media as a social phenomenon. Issues about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. covered in the course; Psychological implications of the terrorist attacks; Social relevance of the course and the instructor's reasons for ending the course.
The Justice Of War On Iraq, Brian Stiltner
The Justice Of War On Iraq, Brian Stiltner
Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
The author argues that the U.S. and its partners have rightly arrived at war on Iraq as a just and necessary last resort. The potential problems with the just-war case are notable, particularly concerning the after-effects of the war, but they do not incurably undermine the case for going to war. Instead, both supporters and critics of the war around the world should strive to keep their governments committed to post-war reconstruction and a transition to a free and stable government in Iraq. Several just war criteria, particularly as these are articulated in the Catholic tradition, are used to assess …
Writing The Lives Of Others: The Veterans Project, Sandra Young
Writing The Lives Of Others: The Veterans Project, Sandra Young
English Faculty Publications
This essay describes an advanced composition course in which the students studied the ethics, politics, history, and rhetorical strategies involved in writing the lives of others. The heart of the course was a service-learning project that introduced college juniors and seniors to veterans of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The students interviewed, wrote brief biographies, and transcribed the wartime stories of a group of veterans from a local American Legion post and its women’s auxiliary. The stories were collected in a volume made available to local American Legion posts, veterans hospitals, and libraries in Connecticut.
The Seeds Of Prosperity And Discord: The Political Economy Of Community Polarization In Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1770-1820, Gerald F. Reid
The Seeds Of Prosperity And Discord: The Political Economy Of Community Polarization In Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1770-1820, Gerald F. Reid
Anthropology Faculty Publications
Focuses on the process of community polarization in Greenfield, Massachusetts leading to two distinct communities in the 1816. Social and economic transformation in Greenfield in the late 18th century; Distribution of wealth; Labor supply; Expansion of trade; Immigration of skilled workers; Religious differences; Factors leading to the division of the congregational society.
Local Merchants And The Regional Economy Of The Connecticut River Valley, Gerald F. Reid
Local Merchants And The Regional Economy Of The Connecticut River Valley, Gerald F. Reid
Sociology Faculty Publications
This paper focuses on valley/hill town interactions and regional economic processes in the upper Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Merchants, those individuals involved in the trading and movement of commodities, are an especially useful point of departure for investigating such concerns because they operated in the economic space between communities, towns, and regions. Attention to their activities is likely to tell us a good deal about economic interaction across space and" over long distances in early America and, specifically, about economic interactions between valley towns and hill towns in the Connecticut River …
John Dewey's Ideas About The Great Depression, Edward J. Bordeau
John Dewey's Ideas About The Great Depression, Edward J. Bordeau
Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
Some criticisms that have been directed against John Dewey's political theory reveal a general misunderstanding of his intent. Dewey was quite active in writing, lecturing, and propagandizing during the Depression years. Our primary concern in this article is the role he played in the efforts of the League for Independent Political Action to sponsor a third party from 1928 until the collapse of this project in 1936. Concurrent with this movement is Dewey's work with the People's Lobby in advocating social welfare programs to meet the crises generated by the Depression.