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A Looking-Glass for William Claggett: Theology, Self-Representation, and Early Eighteenth-Century Print Culture
No full textMargaret Hanson analyzes Claggett’s very public campaign against the Second Baptist Church in “A Looking-Glass for William Claggett: Theology, Self-Representation, and Early Eighteenth-Century Print Culture.” Claggett went on to become a renowned clockmaker, one of Newport’s most notable eighteenth-century artisans. Hanson’s analysis of William Claggett’s outspoken attempt to restore his reputation gives us insight into the workings of eighteenth-century Baptist culture and into the man himself
Salve Regina Oral History Project: Carol Gibbons [audio]
No full textOral history interview with Dr. Carol Gibbons who has been a math professor at Salve Regina for about thirty years
Moving Towards Jus Post Bellum: An Analysis of Three Contemparory Writers Through a Kantian Lens
No full textThis dissertation focuses on an analysis of the works of James Turner Johnson, Jean Bethke Elsthain, and Eric Patterson through a Kantian lens to determine a set of normative guidelines for jus post bellum. The guidelines for jus post bellum were garnered from this analysis as well as other just war scholars including Brian Orend and Michael Walzer. Kant offers a deontological-based look at jus post bellum offering a guide to twenty-first century challenges facing the international community. The guidelines are presented as well as recommendations for areas outside the scope of this dissertation that are pertinent to jus post bellum and the just war tradition and to make the guidelines manageable and effective
The Forgotten Sins of Robert E. Lee: How a Confederate Icon Became an American Icon
Get PDFAfter the Civil War, Charles Sumner said of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, hand him over to the avenging pen of history. But has history been so been so avenging to Lee? In The Forgotten Sins of Robert E. Lee: How a Confederate Icon Became an American Icon, this thesis argues that textbooks, public memory, and popular culture have collectively obscured the historical reality of Lee. In the years following the Civil War, the complex and tangled history of Lee as a slaveholding southerner were overlooked and, in many instances, erased in an effort to reunify North and South. In the process the enslaved people Lee fought to keep oppressed were tragically disregarded. Lee became a reconciliation point for Northern white men, including President Ulysses S. Grant and prominent abolitionists Gerrit Smith and Henry Ward Beecher. In this senior thesis, I examine the issue of Lee in modern day and comment on the hundreds of statues and memorials erected to the Confederate general. In considering whether contemporary American society should retain Confederate monuments, this thesis focuses on two prominent statues to Lee located in Virginia: Edward Valentine\u27s 1875 Recumbent State of Robert E. Lee located in Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University and Antonin Mercie\u27s statue of Lee located on Monument Row in Richmond, Virginia. On December 7, 2019 this thesis was publicly and successfully defended
The Slug of Modernity: Economic and Cultural Entanglement on Pohnpei, 1844-2019
No full textTwo stories: in one, the author opens a small store on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia at the turn of the 20th century. In the other, a trader in the 1840s, Shetlander Andrew Cheyne, attempts to build a sea cucumber curing station on the same island. The connections between these stories serve as frames through which to investigate the meaning of modernity and how it changes, or doesn’t, traditional cultures. Using anthropology, economics, philosophy, and history, The Slug of Modernity describes the gift-based traditional culture of Pohnpei and its centuries-long clash with the technology of capitalism. Heidegger’s ideas regarding technology and its toll on human freedom serve as a means of understanding the consequences of this entanglement of cultures and economies. The study uses narrative to describe the social reality of what it was like to be on Pohnpei in the 19th and 20th centuries. What did it mean to be sea-cucumber trader Capt. Andrew Cheyne in 1843? To be a Pohnpeian when his ship sailed to your harbor? What happened in the moment before sea cucumber and human alike became commodities, when cultures and economies met and mixed? The logbooks of Capt. Cheyne, Pohnpeian folklore, Shetland island history, and the United States\u27 approach to governing Micronesia after World War II combine to paint a complex picture of very different ways of organizing society and show how this conversation between cultures, between ways of being human, has continued from 1844 to the present day