Master of Arts in HistoryNo Descriptionhttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/31762024-03-29T04:43:50Z2024-03-29T04:43:50Z1041"And be It so enacted": natural law and southern federalism in the fugitive slave controversyJenkins, Natasha Townselhttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/31842023-07-22T00:19:55Z2017-06-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: "And be It so enacted": natural law and southern federalism in the fugitive slave controversy
dc.contributor.author: Jenkins, Natasha Townsel
dc.description.abstract: Despite the vast research on the events that led to the Civil War, little scholarship focuses solely on the extent to which the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 played a role. While historians highlight the law’s political, social, and cultural significance to the sectional conflict, the literature on the Fugitive Slave Law does not consider its importance to the ideological debate that exacerbated the rift between the Free and Slave states. This study focuses on the impact that the differing interpretations of Natural Law had on the sectional conflict, and how each section’s prioritization of personal liberty and property underscores the true nature of the states’ rights debate. An analysis of antebellum newspapers, pamphlets, and fugitive slave cases demonstrates that the Free states were more inclined to argue for states’ rights during the fugitive slave crisis, whereas Slave states argued in favor of federalism to protect their right to recover their slave property. This examination will add to Civil War scholarship by inverting the states’ rights defense in favor of the northern states and further highlight the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 as one of the leading causes of the disunion that led to civil war. (Author abstract)
2017-06-01T00:00:00Z"And Be It So Enacted": Natural Law and Southern Federalism in the Fugitive Slave ControversyJenkins, Natasha Townselhttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/37642023-09-11T03:33:19Z2017-06-19T00:00:00Zdc.title: "And Be It So Enacted": Natural Law and Southern Federalism in the Fugitive Slave Controversy
dc.contributor.author: Jenkins, Natasha Townsel
dc.description.abstract: Despite the vast research on the events that led to the Civil War, little scholarship focuses solely on the extent to which the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 played a role. While historians highlight the law’s political, social, and cultural significance to the sectional conflict, the literature on the Fugitive Slave Law does not consider its importance to the ideological debate that exacerbated the rift between the Free and Slave states. This study focuses on the impact that the differing interpretations of Natural Law had on the sectional conflict, and how each section’s prioritization of personal liberty and property underscores the true nature of the states’ rights debate. An analysis of antebellum newspapers, pamphlets, and fugitive slave cases demonstrates that the Free states were more inclined to argue for states’ rights during the fugitive slave crisis, whereas Slave states argued in favor of federalism to protect their right to recover their slave property. This examination will add to Civil War scholarship by inverting the states’ rights defense in favor of the northern states and further highlight the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 as one of the leading causes of the disunion that led to civil war.
2017-06-19T00:00:00ZA Digital Exhibition on Zoo Exhibits in the United States: The Impact of Public Opinion on Post-Civil War Zoo and Animal Exhibit Development Within the United StatesHopkins, Jocelyn Reneehttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/37452023-07-22T00:23:07Z2023-06-23T00:00:00Zdc.title: A Digital Exhibition on Zoo Exhibits in the United States: The Impact of Public Opinion on Post-Civil War Zoo and Animal Exhibit Development Within the United States
dc.contributor.author: Hopkins, Jocelyn Renee
dc.description.abstract: This project explores the influence of public opinion on the development and evolution of
zoos and animal exhibits. The main focus will be on the “Big Four” - four oldest accredited zoos
in the United States: Philadelphia Zoo, Central Park Zoo in NYC, Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago,
and Roger Williams Park Zoo in Rhode Island. Four animal species will be examined to study
zoo and exhibit development since the end of the Civil War in 1865. The animal species are
elephants, orcas, red wolves, and timber rattlesnakes. These animal species provide historic
examples of positive and negative animal care and species outcomes within captivity.
Additionally, zoo and exhibit development progress will be supported with evidence directly
from numerous zookeepers’ personal experiences, detailed Keepers Corner in the digital
exhibition.
This project acknowledges that scientific and medical advancements have lent significant
changes to current zoo missions and exhibit design, yet research points to public opinions about
animal welfare having historically been the driving factor. The primary sources used are news
articles, photographs, and personal testimonials. Secondary sources include journal articles,
books, and dissertations. Source categories found focus on cultural, social and political lenses,
while acknowledging that other lenses are present in the research but addressing source
categories from the particular focal lenses.
2023-06-23T00:00:00ZA psychoanalysis of Galileo Galilei: observed personality traits as contributing factors in his condemnation by the Catholic Church in 1633Lindamood, Krystle D.https://hdl.handle.net/10474/35302023-07-22T03:48:05Z2018-09-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: A psychoanalysis of Galileo Galilei: observed personality traits as contributing factors in his condemnation by the Catholic Church in 1633
dc.contributor.author: Lindamood, Krystle D.
dc.description.abstract: Galileo Galilei, and his condemnation by the Catholic Church, termed the Galileo Affair, has been studied for over three hundred centuries, with the preponderance of the literature focusing on and directing animosity between the science and religious disciplines. Avenues of research have included the economic, religious, political, and social lenses; directing the focus everywhere but at Galileo himself. It is for this reason that we seek to psychoanalyze Galileo. A psychoanalysis of an individual examines what lies beneath the surface of their conscious behavior to determine what motivates that person, and why at times they behave counter to their own best interests. This research examines the observed personality traits of Galileo and how these traits directly impacted his career, condemnation, and more specifically the level of the severity of his sentencing using select excerpts of letters of correspondence between the years of 1606-1633. These documents were compiled into the accompanying digital exhibit, the Psychoanalysis of Galileo Galilei. Although this research primarily psychoanalyzes Galileo’s personality, there are also connections drawn between Galileo’s patronage networks and the political turmoil of the period. (Author abstract)
2018-09-01T00:00:00ZAlabama’s Civilian Conservation Corps: The Political, Social, and Economic Impacts of Roosevelt’s Tree ArmyMuncher, Brittany A.https://hdl.handle.net/10474/37612023-08-29T03:55:24Z2022-12-12T00:00:00Zdc.title: Alabama’s Civilian Conservation Corps: The Political, Social, and Economic Impacts of Roosevelt’s Tree Army
dc.contributor.author: Muncher, Brittany A.
dc.description.abstract: The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was one of the most successful New Deal programs in the state of Alabama, yet little research exists that explores the social, economic, and political impact its existence had across the state. Even less historical literature exists that discusses the experiences of the Black community and the influence of segregation in the implementation of the CCC in Alabama. The CCC not only challenged political and social standards that perpetuated racial prejudice, but it also provided substantial economic relief to many Alabamians and created a legacy of environmental and natural resource sustainability and appreciation. This project will provide a much-needed addition to both state history and Black history and will broaden the current literature on the CCC nationally. The chapters contained in this project provide contextual and foundational narratives, explain the impact of the CCC from social, political, and economic perspectives, and survey the implications of the program in relation to its impact on the Black community. Throughout the research process, a variety of primary and secondary sources were consulted to ensure that a comprehensive perspective of the CCC in Alabama is communicated effectively. Each of the sources have been audited for credibility, reliability, bias, argument strength, and use of primary source material. Each source was also evaluated in terms of perspective and historical lenses used to state their arguments, as well as relevancy to the topic of this project. Sources that vary from or even contradict the argument this project intends to make were not eliminated from the selected source materials. Including these sources potentially eliminates any misinterpretation or exclusion of primary materials that may alter the expected outcome of this research project. Ultimately, this research project seeks to fill a gap in the current historiography of the CCC in Alabama which is limited and excludes the perspectives of Black corpsmen.
2022-12-12T00:00:00ZBackwoods cures: An exploration of Southern Appalachian folk medicinePerry, Katherine E.Berrios, Katherine E.https://hdl.handle.net/10474/35812023-07-22T03:47:56Z2018-07-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: Backwoods cures: An exploration of Southern Appalachian folk medicine
dc.contributor.author: Perry, Katherine E.; Berrios, Katherine E.
dc.description.abstract: The people of the Southern Appalachians have a unique culture all their own. An important component of this culture can be observed in the manner in which these individuals chose to combat that enemy of all mankind: disease. A beautiful amalgamation of cultures including Cherokee, Scotch-Irish, and other European ancestries is present in this region and exhibited through the rural remedies utilizing a rich local pharmacopeia and magico-religious folklore related to healing. However, the people of the Southern Appalachians, while geographically isolated, did not exist in a vacuum. Exciting discoveries of local primary sources demonstrate the employment of contemporary medicine in tandem with what was available locally. This project also examines the utility of virtual museums. Together with the research on the subject of Southern Appalachian Folk Medicine, the research on virtual museums culminates in the creation of a digital exhibition using the Omeka exhibit building platform. This exhibition can be visited at the following link: http://backwoodscures.omeka.net (Author abstract)
2018-07-01T00:00:00ZBelorussian Forest Camps Jewish Resistance during World War IIWolfson, Onaya Joyhttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/37602023-08-28T03:55:29Z2022-12-15T00:00:00Zdc.title: Belorussian Forest Camps Jewish Resistance during World War II
dc.contributor.author: Wolfson, Onaya Joy
dc.description.abstract: During World War II the Nazi Party attempted to ethnically cleanse Europe of its population of Jewish people as well as starve and resettle the non-Jewish people of Eastern Europe. To achieve the annihilation of the Jews Nazis first forced whole communities into ghettos and from there into concentration camps, both death camps and work camps, with the intention of everyone eventually dying. Although this assault was brutal on both Jewish and non-Jewish populations it was not met without resistance in many places. In the eastern lands that bordered the Soviet Union Jews and non-Jews formed forest partisan groups and family camps formed along the edges of society. The forests were able to sustain life due to a variety of factors. These factors included topography, organization and resources found in the surrounding communities, backlash against the brutality of the Germans and in places lower levels of antisemitism in the local non-Jewish population. The forest partisan and family camps were strongest and most numerous in the Belorussian forests because of a special combination of these factors. The true story of the forests tells of two kinds of resistance; the active fighting of the partisans, many of whom were Jewish, and the almost unachievable act of surviving. This thesis relies on both secondary sources produced by historians through the years and memories of forest survivors in order to examine the value of each factor and its place in the story of Jewish resistance and survival in Belorussian forests during World War II.
2022-12-15T00:00:00ZBuddhism in the West: 1960s AmericaNkwah, Jasmine Idorenyinhttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/37472023-07-22T05:27:31Z2023-05-06T00:00:00Zdc.title: Buddhism in the West: 1960s America
dc.contributor.author: Nkwah, Jasmine Idorenyin
dc.description.abstract: The purpose of this paper is to understand Buddhism in the United States during the 1960s. I will be going over Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Buddhism and comparing their morals, values, and virtues with three movements of the decade listed above. These movements are the Hippie Movement, Black Liberation, and Women’s Liberation. The theme I will specifically be looking at is liberation between all three of these events and to find out what the word means to each individual movement.
2023-05-06T00:00:00ZChicago Shipwrecks: Disasters and their Impact on Maritime LawLange, Shannon Mariehttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/37632023-09-11T03:33:21Z2017-06-07T00:00:00Zdc.title: Chicago Shipwrecks: Disasters and their Impact on Maritime Law
dc.contributor.author: Lange, Shannon Marie
dc.description.abstract: The shipwreck and maritime history of the Illinois region of Lake Michigan was one wrought with tragedy and shaped the laws of the shipping industry for the future. What has become known as the ‘Shipwreck Era’ of 1825-1925 hosts the most well-known tragedies of Lake Michigan. Ships such as the Lady Elgin, Eastland, and Rouse Simmons rest as the focal points of most research due to the tragic yet popular nature of their respective disasters. A qualitative analysis into the archival documents at Newberry Library, Manitowoc Maritime Museum and the Winnetka Historical Society along the western lakeshore, explorations of individual shipwrecks are able to be compiled into a digital exhibit and foundation of a boat tour to fully explore the wreckage that remains at the bottom of the lake.
2017-06-07T00:00:00ZChicago shipwrecks: disasters and their impact on maritime lawLange, Shannon Mariehttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/31772023-07-22T07:42:59Z2017-01-01T00:00:00Zdc.title: Chicago shipwrecks: disasters and their impact on maritime law
dc.contributor.author: Lange, Shannon Marie
dc.description.abstract: The shipwreck and maritime history of the Illinois region of Lake Michigan was one wrought with tragedy and shaped the laws of the shipping industry for the future. What has become known as the ‘Shipwreck Era’ of 1825-1925 hosts the most well-known tragedies of Lake Michigan. Ships such as the Lady Elgin, Eastland, and Rouse Simmons rest as the focal points of most research due to the tragic yet popular nature of their respective disasters. A qualitative analysis into the archival documents at Newberry Library, Manitowoc Maritime Museum and the Winnetka Historical Society along the western lakeshore, explorations of individual shipwrecks are able to be compiled into a digital exhibit and foundation of a boat tour to fully explore the wreckage that remains at the bottom of the lake. (Author abstract)
2017-01-01T00:00:00Z