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Colonel Neilson: Salt Merchant
No full textFrom the large collection of "Neilson Papers" deposited in the Rutgers University Library, Professor Thompson has extracted a story of the efforts made by the New Jersey patriots to keep the Revolutionary Army supplied with one of the most commonplace and most essential of the sinews of war, i.e., salt. Colonel Neilson served as a trustee of Queen's College from 1782 until his death in 1833. His life is thus intimately connected both with the founding of the United States and with the early development of Rutgers University
Albert Stanburrough Cook, Class of 1872
No full textAlbert Stanburrough Cook's (1853-1927) contributions to education remain with all college students in that type of class meeting which he called a "seminary" as well as with his prolific scholarship in Old English and Middle English, and poetics
Songs America Used to Sing
No full textCoad describes the Rutgers Library collection of "song sheets" from Victorian America. The song sheets generally have the words but not the musical notation of the songs. The predominate mood of the songs is sentimentality. These bits of ephemera are significant, according to Coad, for the following reason: "Commanding in their day an audience of millions, they offer some documented insight into the average American mind of their time.
Mournful Bowles and Why He Was
No full textThis article explores the mournful quality of the "Sonnets" of William L. Bowles (1762–1850), which was both hailed and derided, epecially by Lord Byron. Kelllogg uses used unpublished correspondence held in the Rutgers Library to demonstrate that the "Sonnets" are in no real sense "maudlin," but the genuine expression of deeply felt personal sorrow
The Case of "Grace"-- A Commentary
No full textThis commentary focuses on the case of “Grace” treated by Erica Pass (2012) through the use of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy with writing assignments (the "AEDP-Writing" model) delivered over 40-sessions. Grace was experiencing some PTSD symptoms resulting from a single index trauma and was viewed as having a positive outcome by herself, by her therapist, and by her supervisor. The case study included Grace completing self-report measures at the end of therapy both about her present status at the end of therapy and a retrospective view of her status at the beginning of therapy. The significant limitations of change scores based on such retrospective estimates are discussed as well as the advantages of session-by-session tracking of Grace's mental health and symptomatology as a means of calibrating change over the course of therapy and estimating final treatment status. In addition we discuss fundamental factors for consideration in facilitating trauma-focused treatment for clients with PTSD symptomatology, such as avoidance, approach, and approach-resultant rises in symptomatology, and related recommendations for psychoeducation.
Nativists in Newark: Radical Protestant Reaction to the Appointment of a Catholic Bishop
Get PDFAbstract: The appointment of the first Roman Catholic bishop of Newark in 1853 led to ferocious criticism from the city’s newspapers, street preachers, and visiting Catholic dissidents. The visceral anti-Catholic, anti-Vatican rhetoric in Newark foreshadowed the Know Nothing movement’s successes in 1854, the high tide of antebellum nativism in the northeast.
Problems of Social History and Patterns of Inheritance in Pre-Revolutionary New Jersey, 1751-1770
No full textMrozek uses data from wills to understand patterns of inheritance and land distribution in pre-Revolutionary New Jersey
James Dickson Carr: First Black Graduate of Rutgers College
No full textIn 1892 Carr became probably the first black graduate of Rutgers and was on one of very few black graduates in all the colleges of the Northeast. First attending Rutgers Grammar School in 1886, he entered the college in 1888, where he was an outstanding student. Later he went on to receive a LL.D from Columbia Law School. He was an assistant district attorney of New York County and held other offices in NYC government. He accomplished all of this despite many obstacles due to racial discrimination. In 1919 he wrote a remarkable letter, transcribed here, to President Demerest protesting the action of Rutgers football team to pull Paul Robeson from a game because the opposing team would not against a black player.