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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Oberlin College"”.
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Women in an Evangelical Community: Oberlin 1835-50
<p>Oberlin College is frequently mentioned in connection with women's education, women's rights, or the struggle for women's emancipation. The following passage from the 1834 First Circular is invariably cited: Oberlin's founders strove for"… the elevation of female character, by bringing within …
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Sowing the Seed: Oberlin Female Missionary Teachers of Southern Blacks, 1863-1875
… who went South as teachers were recruited from colleges, theological seminaries, female seminaries, and normal schools in these areas. Not surprisingly, a significant group of individuals who were sent South by the AMA was recruited from Oberlin College. Most of those who came from Oberlin …
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Alice Chalifoux -- The Legacy
… a teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin-College Conservatory, Baldwin-Wallace College, and the University of Maryland, and her directorship of the Salzedo Summer Harp Colony of Camden, Maine.
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From Social Reform to Social Science: The Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, 1877-1912
<p>Founded in 1877, the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston is still in existence today. Although a pioneer in the fields of social reform, industrial education, women's organizations, and social science, it has long been neglected by historians. The first thirty-five years of the …
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Giving up the Ghost: Death in the Depression
<p>The preceding section is the human evidence behind this paper: what did the Great Depression feel like? What was it like to live in a Hooverville? To travel across the country in a rundown Jalopy? To Jump freight trains and live in box cars? To go on relief? What impact did the depression have …
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Occupational and Geographic Mobility in San Francisco, 1870-1890
This study will focus on social mobility in San Francisco in the late nineteenth century. The question I want to answer is, does the quantitative evidence available support the contention that nineteenth century America was a land in which a man was free to rise as far as his talents could carry …
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American Women's Intellectual History in the Revolutionary and New Republican Era: Charting a Shift in Feminist Theory
<p>This paper is a study of American women's intellectual history in the period 1770-1815. My aim is to develop a coherent conception of women's moral point of view as it is presented in prescriptive literature, political tracts, and women's own writing. Because of the nature of my goal, I will …
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The Heart and Mind of Simone de Beauvoir
This thesis will examine Beauvoir's views on women, her unique brand of feminism. The following questions will be pursued: How did Beauvoir break out of the traditional female role as a young woman? What were Beauvoir's views on women in general? On various types of women? How do Beauvoir's novels …
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Julius Caesar in Medieval France: The Textual Sources and Iconography of the <i>Faits des Romains</i>
<p>The Julius Caesar of Shakespeare's day was a figure who believed that fame transcended mortality. Long after Caesar the man was dead, Caesar the legend lived on. It was a legend which in many ways was an analogue of the man. The legend maintained all of Caesar's stubborn persistence, and to some …
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Voices in the Wind: American Opposition to the Korean War
<p>Very little has been written on the peace movement during the Korean war. Historian Joseph Conlin assessed the period and concluded that "when hostilities with North Korean troops commenced in 1950, the American antiwar movement stood at its nadir." Lawrence Wittner's fine book Rebels Against …
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Patterns of Disenchantment. The Position of the Liberal and Labour Party: 1910-1914
<p>The first chapter deals with the underlying trends of the period. At first the material conditions of the first decade of the twentieth century will be assessed. What was the economic condition of the people? How was this position colored by the levels of relative deprivation, education, and …
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Jewish Women Reformers and Jewish Immigrant Women: The Columbian Council of Pittsburgh, 1893-1920
<p>I began this project with an interest in Jewish immigrant women's adjustment to American life. I first examined general patterns of immigration to the United States in the nineteenth century, to determine how Jewish immigration fit into the patterns and specifically, the. role of Jewish women in …
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Survivals of Paganism in Christian Medieval Iceland as Evidenced by the Icelandic Family Sagas
<p>In the summer of the year 1000 A.D., the General Assembly of Iceland voted to convert to Christianity. The basis for this decision was political rather than religious, as it was to prevent civil dissension. This factor influenced the subsequent impact of Christianity on Icelandic society, and …
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The ISS on Campus: The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921
… hardly be called "tactics." Far from occupying college presidents' offices, the ISS sponsored lectures, organized study groups, and published reading lists. However, the group must not be dismissed as trivial simply because it does not tap the romantic aura of "The Sixties." The ISS began a …
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Francois Hotman and Jean Bodin. Political Activity in Sixteenth Century France
<p>The sixteenth century was a tumultuous age for Europe. The Habsburg dynasty established its hegemony in Europe. The exploration of the New World provided a new source of wonder and wealth. Dynasties changed in France. England had women rulers. The Reformation exploded, transforming the religion …
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Loyalism in Massachusetts: The Characteristics and Motivations of the Harvard Loyalists
<p>Historians have tended to approach the American Revolution from the perspective of its winners. They have tried to understand the causes and consequences of the war in terms of the attitudes, perceptions and actions of the revolutionaries. Although this approach had been very fruitful, the focus …
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An Analysis of Voter Turnout in Cuyahoga County, 1840-1860
<p>Political historians have traditionally been more interested in leaders than followers. But with the emergence of the 'new' political history, American historians began to explore the party bases of the American political structure. Historians such as Lee Benson, Richard Jensen. Paul Kleppner, …
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The Belgian Rexist Movement before the Second World War: Success and Failure
<p>Belgium in the 1930s was no different from the rest of Europe. It was in a crisis-financial, political, and, as it appeared to some, social. Unemployment reached a peak for the decade in 1934 (with 183,000 out of a population of about 8,092,000). Yet in the first half of the 1930s, the …
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Studies in the Comunero Revolution 1520-1521
<p>My attention was drawn to the problem of the revolution of the Comunidades by a chance rereading of the Bible of Hispanic history, Sr. Jaime Vicens Vives' "Approaches to the History of Spain" (cf. Bibliography). Sr. Vicens notes in his discussion of sixteenth-century Castille that one of the …
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DeGaulle, the European: 1961-1966
<p>This is the purpose of this thesis: to study the ways in which DeGaulle can be thought or as a European, rather than merely a French nationalist, and to examine his vision of Europe. The period selected for investigation extends from the European summit conference of February 1961, to the …
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