| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| The Acolytes of Being: A Definition of "Transcendence" in German History and Politics |
2015 |
2183 |
Acting as my Senior Honors Thesis in the departments of History, Political Science, and University Honors, this project, “The Acolyte of Being,” aims to present an aesthetic history of twentieth century German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s concept o... |
| The Development, Implementation And Enduring Impact Of John Dewey's Philosophy Of History |
2016 |
1267 |
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and leading figure in the progressive education movement that took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While many are familiar with Dewey’s educational philosophy and its a... |
| Imagining Stewardship: Roots Of A Poetic Eco-Politics |
2017 |
963 |
Green politics in Germany emerged from environmental movements in the 1970’s. This activism has roots in a developing environmental consciousness in the early 19th Century. I examine how environmental activism and the stewardship that it demands are ... |
| Magyar Self-Victimization: Historical Revisionism Regarding Nationalism And Hungarian Jews In World War II |
2020 |
467 |
History does not flow as one single narrative due to innumerable perspectives, and within those, biases and controversies. Traditionally, it is the victors who write history, and within recent years this has been challenged by historians and educator... |
| Postmodernisms: A Provisional History, 1914-2010 |
2011 |
2204 |
The purpose of this thesis is to explore and examine the development of the postmodernism from its confused beginnings following its various false starts until its successful coalescence in the 1970s. The value of this work is that it offers a chance... |
| Advocating Scientism, 1963-2013 |
2014 |
4257 |
By the nineteenth century, scientism began to emerge as a worldview that sought to explain all phenomena through the scientific method to the exclusion of all other ways of knowing. These sentiments intensified with Charles Darwin’s discovery of evo... |
| Aspirations Of Statehood And Race: Marcus Garvey, Black Nationalism, And The Shaky Rhetoric Of Unity |
2021 |
1001 |
Marcus Garvey was one of the largest speakers in the Harlem Renaissance Movement, and he represented the black nationalist movement during that era. However, he was also a political theorist who was very interested in international movements. His int... |
| The German Crucible: How The Imperial Systems Of The Holy Roman Empire Fostered A Culture Of Economic, Political, And Military Innovation During The Eighteenth Century |
2022 |
305 |
This thesis is an analysis of the evolution of the Holy Roman Imperial systems for governing Germany throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century as well as the reaction, to those evolving systems, by Bavaria, Prussia, and Austria. The text expl... |
| The Gaseous Study: an Early History of Mathematical Logic and Set Theory |
2014 |
3487 |
This thesis is a history of the development of mathematical logic and set theory. These subjects developed throughout the nineteenth century. The development is told through the ideas of the individual authors who were responsible. Among these author... |
| Capitalizing On Taboos In Advertising: The Cigarette Card Series Of W. Duke, Sons & Co. |
2018 |
1370 |
This essay reveals the themes displayed in the cigarette card series produced at W. Duke, Sons & Co. from 1880 to 1900. The following mainly draws upon the cards themselves, the Duke family’s and the business’s correspondence, and other miscellaneous... |
| Tyrants Of The Soul: Prejudices In French Revolutionary Education, 1789-1799 |
2016 |
1556 |
Through analyzing textbooks, educational pamphlets, and the correspondence of the Committee of Public Instruction, I show that prejudices became the object of critique in the era of the Enlightenment and were a continuing topic of political concern d... |
| L'année Prochaine à Jérusalem: Zionism In A Post-Holocaust France |
2020 |
232 |
In recent years, France has had the largest loss of Jewish population out of any other country through the process of aliyah, or permanent emigration to the state of Israel. The large-scale emigration of French Jews is not only a modern phenomenon, b... |