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Broadway Music at Gettysburg College: 1977 Concert Band
Full text linkBroadway music is widely known for its heavy emphasis on storytelling, which goes beyond lyrics or on-stage actions but into the musical construction and development in itself. Such music has historically impacted the orchestral scene across the world, but also at a local level in Gettysburg College and its ensembles. The Gettysburg College Concert Band is a significant reflection of the College’s musical culture, which can be observed through the repertoire of their performance that took place on April 30, 1977
Defying Space: Enslaved Social Lives in a Low-Density Slave Society, New England, 1700-1776
Full text linkThis article examines how the enslaved constructed their social lives in the low density slave society of colonial New England, with a particular view towards whether those social lives can be classed as resistance. Using Barbados as a comparison point, the article establishes how New England was unique as a New World slave society and examines the impact of those differences on the social lives of the enslaved, including their courtship, marriage, and family formation, their fraternization, and their communal and ritual lives. It takes the view that through selective compliance, the enslaved were able to earn limited respect within white society and build independent social lives outside of it, both of which can be considered forms of resistance to the institution of slavery
Pandemic, Governors, and Public Opinion: The Effect of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths on Public Support for America’s Governors
No full textA longstanding literature in American foreign policy holds that the American public’s support for war significantly depends on the number of U.S. casualties in the conflict (their number, rate, trend, proximity, etc.). While a pandemic is clearly not a war, many observers and political leaders have characterized the U.S. public policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic using the metaphor of wartime. This raises the question of whether such characterizations are more than mere metaphor. Has the American public’s response to pandemic-related casualties—cases and deaths—followed similar patterns to those found in the literature on public opinion and war? In this study, the authors assess the public’s responsiveness to COVID-19 casualties at different stages in the pandemic. Utilizing two large, 50-state surveys conducted during the two largest COVID surges, in winter 2021 and winter 2022, we test several hypotheses from the public opinion and war literature, including that proximity—spatial and temporal—influences public responses and that the public becomes desensitized to casualties over time. Safarpour and Baum find that in many respects, the public’s response to the pandemic does indeed mirror the patterns found with respect to public opinion and war
Lincoln, Slavery, and Race: Tracking Change Over Time
Full text linkAbraham Lincoln\u27s views on African slavery and race changed over time
The Death of General John Reynolds and the Crisis of Union Command, July 1, 1863
Full text linkThis paper evaluates the extent to which the death of Union Major General John Reynolds on the morning of the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg influenced subsequent events throughout that day. It explores several key questions, including how Reynolds\u27 death affected the chain of command within the Army of the Potomac, how it impacted the course of the battle on that first day, and how the Union I and XI Corps were reorganized due to the sudden loss of such a high-ranking officer. Additionally, this paper highlights the experiences of the soldiers formerly under Reynolds\u27 command during this rapid command restructuring and examines how the general\u27s death ultimately influenced the overall course of the battle. By analyzing military correspondence, battle reports from both senior and junior officers, as well as various recollections written by those present on the battlefield, this paper argues that while Reynolds\u27 death contributed to the Union crisis of command as the battle unfolded, it was ultimately secondary to the ability of General Lee\u27s forces to concentrate more swiftly and effectively than the portion of the Army of the Potomac present on the field on July 1, 1863
