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Author:

Greenspoon, David Michael

Title:

Children's Mite: Juvenile Philanthropy in America, 1815-1865

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

antebellum
benevolence
charity
childhood
children
Civil War
consumerism
missionaries
Sunday schools
temperance

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Lori D Ginzberg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anthony Edward Kaye, Committee Member
Gary Scott Cross, Committee Member
Hester Maureen Blum, Committee Member

Author:

Sapelly, Laura Elizabeth

Title:

Pedagogies of Historical and Contemporary American Sewing Circles

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

sewing circle
united states
quilting
sewing
knitting
temperance
abolition
civil war
19th century
intergenerational
quilting bee
knitting group
sanitary commission
activism
textile activism
embroidery
sampler
colonial new england
antebellum
anti-slavery
needlework
social practice
philadelphia female antislavery society
US History
hand sewing
hand quilting
teaching
transformative learning theory
everyday ordinary aesthetics
living aesthetics
interracial
republican motherhood
cult of true womanhood
cult of domesticity
underground railroad
contraband relief association
slave quilting
authenticity
house slaves
gendered task assignment
slave seamstress
self-actualization
activist sewing circle
friendship quilts
american revolution
soldiers aid society
elizabeth keckley
WCTU
crusade quilt

File:

Download LauraSapellyDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yvonne Madelaine Gaudelius, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Erlandson, Andrew

Title:

Disabled Democracy: Figuring Disability in Early Nineteenth-Century Literary and Political Discourses

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

disability
democracy
literature
nineteenth-century
American
United States
figure
figurative
figuration
participatory democracy
democratic citizenship
citizen
institutional
institution
debility
revolution
revolutionary
Charles Brockden Brown
Francis Lieber
Benjamin B. Bowen
Mary L. Day
Hannah Crafts
William Wells Brown
James Fenimore Cooper
Walt Whitman
temperance
Hannah Arendt
antebellum reform
abolition reform
temperance reform
reformers
crip
crip theory
cripping
cripped
radical
radicalism
embodiment
novel
fiction

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Committee Members:

Carla Mulford, Major Field Member
Christopher Castiglia, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Greenberg, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Bérubé, Major Field Member
Hester Blum, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies