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Our National Reckoning: A Historiographical Approach to Emancipation and Lincoln
Full text linkThis historiographical paper examines scholarship on Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation in our national reckoning with the legacies of slavery and race in American History since 1865. This leads scholars to inevitably confront the question of Lincoln’s true motivation for pursuing emancipation as a war goal: to save the Union or to provide a “new birth of freedom?” Following the tumultuous period of Reconstruction, which gave rise to segregation in the South, many white historians focused little attention on slavery and emancipation in studies of the Civil War. Attention returned in the twentieth century, especially with the centennial of both the war and the Emancipation Proclamation in the 1960s. Lincoln’s reputation as the “Great Emancipator” has undergone scrutiny very recently considering the growing trend since the Civil Rights era to highlight the agency of enslaved people during the Civil War and to rectify the complex white attitudes, like Lincoln’s, towards race and freedom that have existed throughout our national history. The paper concludes that scholars’ views on Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation have always evolved with the views on race and slavery in broader American society
Trust and Ethics in AI-Driven E-Commerce: Persuasion vs. Privacy
No full textThis study examines how AI-driven features in e-commerce influence user satisfaction and the role of trust in these interactions. Using a survey-based dataset of 100 consumers, we investigated whether trust moderates or mediates the impact of AI persuasiveness and perceptions of bias, intrusiveness, and preference understanding on satisfaction. Results indicate that AI’s perceived ability to understand user preferences strongly predicts satisfaction, while trust partially mediates the relationship between helpful AI features and urgency messages and user satisfaction. Conversely, trust did not significantly moderate these relationships, and concerns about bias and intrusiveness had minimal impact. Findings suggest that AI-driven satisfaction is primarily driven by functional value and accurate personalization, with trust acting as an explanatory mechanism for certain features. Implications for ethical, user-centered AI design in online retail are discussed
The Urge to Fill the Void: Emptiness, Impulsivity, and Mentalizing in the Daily Life of Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder
No full textAnalysis of ecological momentary assessment data demonstrated that feelings of emptiness predicted impulsive behavior among individuals with borderline personality disorder and healthy individuals, but not among individuals with avoidant personality disorder
APPC Minutes – April 8, 2025
No full textMinutes of the Academic Policy and Program Committee Meeting, April 8, 2025
