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Ohio History 2010
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Contents for Volume 117, 2010
Editor’s Note ...... 4
The Ethnicity of Ohio’s Strength Culture
John D. Fair ...... 5
Kate Chase, the “Sphere of Women’s Work,” and Her Influence upon Her Father’s Dissent in Bradwell v. Illinois
Richard L. Aynes ...... 31
Health Issues and Medical Care in the Ohio Penitentiary, 1833–1907
Nancy E. Tatarek, Amy L. Harris, and Dorothy E. Dean ...... 50
Youngstown’s Idora Park: Creating a Fantasyland in an Industrial Landscape
Donna M. DeBlasio ...... 74
The Racial Desegregation of Dayton, Ohio, Public Schools, 1966–2008
Joseph Watras ...... 93
“Dont DONT D-O-N-T” to “I Do”: Antoinette Brown Blackwell’s Relationship with Marriage
Courtney Lyons ...... 108
Book Reviews ...... 129
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The Imperfect Revolution: Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America
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On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissing and shouting at federal authorities as they escorted the fugitive slave Anthony Burns to the ship that would return him to his slaveholders in Virginia. Days earlier, handbills had littered the streets decrying Burns’s arrest, and abolitionists, intent on freeing Burns, had attacked with a battering ram the courthouse in which he was detained, leaving one dead, several wounded, and thirteen in custody. In the end it would take federal officials nearly 2,000 troops and $40,000 to send Burns back to Virginia. No fugitive slave would be captured in Boston again.
Carried out under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which permitted slaveholders to seize runaway slaves across state lines by merely testifying ownership, Burns’s arrest and Boston’s subsequent campaign to free him is generally regarded by scholars as the impetus that spurred the adoption of outright confrontational tactics by abolitionists across the North—an impetus that led, ultimately, to war. Such interpretations, however, gloss over the confusion and chaos many midcentury Bostonians felt over abolition.
Author Gordon Barker challenges the traditionally held notion that the rendition of Anthony Burns fueled an antislavery groundswell in the North. He exposes the diverse beliefs—many of which were less than noble—held by Bostonians struggling to make sense of the racial, class, and ethnic conflicts arising in the city. Drawing on newspaper accounts, cutting-edge scholarship, and Burns’s own writings, Barker shows how antislavery sentiments competed with a wide range of other opinions, including the desire to preserve the Union as it was, concerns about law and order, mistrust of whites by their black neighbors, and racism.
A much-needed addition to the study of abolition and antislavery,The Imperfect Revolution will be of value to historians and students.</p
"The Kent State University Museum: Celebrating 25 Years" Gallery Tour (Part 2)
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Canto 2010
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Literature Editors: Marianne Cosentino and Sharon Dotson
Art Editors: Ashley Kessler and Nichole Matheny
Art Photographer: Jeff Leadbetter
Faculty Advisors: Jayne Moneysmith and Jack McWhorter</p
Oliver! (2010)
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Set Design: Robert Katkowsky
Costume Design: Connie Cassidy
Actors: Connie Cassidy, Emily Schrader, and kids.</p
Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1915
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“In Wilson’s view, America had a part to play as a divine instrument. To deny the United States an active role in the world was an attempt to deny God’s will.” —from the Introduction
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution mandates that government and religious institutions remain separate and independent of each other. Yet, the influence of religion on American leaders and their political decisions cannot be refuted.Leading Them to the Promised Land is the first book to look at how Presbyterian Covenant Theology affected U.S. president Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy during the Mexican Revolution.
The son of a prominent southern minister, Wilson was a devout Presbyterian. Throughout his life he displayed a strong conviction that covenants, or formal promises made binding by an oath to God, should be the basis for human relationships, including those between government and public organizations. This belief is demonstrated in Wilson’s attempt to bring peaceful order to the world with the 1919 Covenant of the League of Nations.
Through careful investigation of Wilson’s writings and correspondence, along with other contemporary sources, author Mark Benbow shows how Wilson’s religious heritage shaped his worldview, including his assumption that nations should come together in a covenant to form a unitary whole like the United States. As a result, Wilson attempted to nurture a democratic state in revolutionary Mexico when rivals Venustiano Carranza and Pancho Villa threatened U.S. interests. His efforts demonstrate the difficulty a leader has in reconciling his personal religious beliefs with his nation’s needs.
Leading Them to the Promised Land adds to the growing body of scholarship in international history that examines the connections between religion and diplomacy. It will appeal to readers interested in the history of U.S. foreign relations and the influence of religion on international politics.</p
Writing Center Review Volume 15 Spring 2010
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Tartuffe (2010)
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/theatregallery/19/thumbnail.jpgDirected by: Daniel-Raymond Nadon
Set Design: Robert Katkowsky
Costume Design: Marian Phillips
Actors: Peter Byrne, Joe Toto, Haley Jane Otto</p
The Burr Spring 2010
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An Efficient Associative Processor Solution to an Air Traffic Control Problem
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/16802/87366-thumbnail.jpgThis paper proposes a SIMD solution to air traffic control (ATC) using an enhanced SIMD machine model called an Associative Processor (AP). This differs from previous ATC systems that are designed for MIMD computers and have a great deal of difficulty meeting the predictability requirements for ATC, which are critical for meeting the strict certification standards required for safety critical software components. The proposed SIMD solution will support accurate and meaningful predictions of worst case execution times and will guarantee all deadlines are met. Also, the software will be much simpler and smaller in size than the current corresponding ATC software. An important consequence of these features is that the V&V (Validation and Verification) process will be considerably simpler than for current ATC software. Additionally, the associative processor is enhanced SIMD hardware and is considerably cheaper and simpler than the MIMD hardware currently used to support ATC. The ClearSpeed CSX600 accelerator is used to emulate the AP model. A preliminary implementation of the proposed method has been developed and experimental results comparing MIMD and CSX600 approaches are presented. The performance of CSX600 has better scalability, efficiency, and predictability than that of MIMD.</p