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"A Devil to Tempt and a Corrupt Heart to Deceive," John Dane Battles Life's Temptations, ca. 1670s.
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Abstract: John Dane, a tailor, was born in Berkhampstead, England, around 1612. In the late 1630s, which he recollects here as a period of "a great coming to New England," he and his family emigrated to Ipswich, Massachusetts. He died in Ipswich in 1684. Dane's parents, like many Puritan parents, raised their ... More »
"A Man's Thanksgiving": A Hymn to the God of Business
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Abstract: President Calvin Coolidge captured the spirit of the 1920s when he announced in a speech before the Society of American Newspaper Editors that "the chief business of the American people is business." Coolidge's aphorism revealed the centrality of commerce to the nation and its culture in the 1920s, even ... More »
A Quaker Abolitionist Travels Through Maryland and Virginia: The Journal of John Woolman, 1757
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Abstract: In both Britain and the United States, Quakers were among the first to denounce slavery in the 18th century. This was due to the efforts of Quaker abolitionist leaders such as John Woolman. Born in New Jersey in 1720, Woolman was a tailor and shopkeeper. Continual encounters with slavery in his own neighborhood--notably ... More »
"A Religious Flame That Spread All Over Kentucky": Peter Cartwright Brings Evangelical Christianity to the West, 1801-04
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Abstract: In the decades following the Revolution, a vast variety of choices appeared on the American religious landscape as an antiauthoritarian climate encouraged the formation of new democratic religious sects. The Baptists and Methodists were most adept in preaching to the new populist audience during these ... More »
African Americans in the military
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Abstract: Carmen Fields interviews Frank Hector (World War II veteran) and Ralph Cooper (Vietnam veteran) about their experiences in the military. Hector talks about the accomplishments of African American soldiers and war veterans. Hector says that the military is a good experience for young African Americans. ... More »
After Columbus, Fall 2003
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Abstract: Sometime after 1492, the concept of the New World or America came into being, and this concept appeared differently — as an experience or an idea — for different people and in different places. This semester, we will read three groups of texts: first, participant accounts of contact between native Americans ... More »
"All To Me Was New and Strange": Mary Doolittle Leaves Her Family for a Shaker Community, 1830
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Abstract: During the second quarter of the 19th century numerous radical movements emerged, and some withdrew from society and formed ideal or utopian communities. The Shakers (or Shaking Quakers) were the oldest and largest of these utopian movements, founded in Great Britain by Mother Ann Lee, who arrived in ... More »
"An Iron Furnace of Affliction": Abigail Abbot Bailey Endures the Abuse of her Husband, New Hampshire, 1790-1791
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Abstract: During their 26 years of marriage, New Englanders Abigail Abbot and Asa Bailey lived on farms in Haverhill and Landaff, New Hampshire, and had 14 children. In 1770, Asa conducted an affair with one of the farm's hired women. Three years later, a second farm servant accused him of rape. Asa also beat ... More »
"And This Happened in Los Angeles:" Malcolm X Describes Police Brutality Against Members of the Nation of Islam
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Abstract: Malcolm X was a civil rights leader, a spokesperson for the Nation of Islam, and a leading black nationalist during the early 1960's. Viewing integration as an illusory solution to the problems of black Americans, Malcolm X advocated self-reliance, black pride, and unity. Malcolm's message became popular ... More »
Artist in Search of a Medium: Jonathon Keats
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Abstract: SPARK trails writer, critic, and Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats as he works on his project, Divine Taxonomy, which attempts to find God's place on the phylogenetic tree. This Educator Guide explores the history of Conceptual art and the role of science in contemporary art.
Bedeutende Christliche Persönlichkeiten
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Abstract: Geeignet für: * Schüler der Oberstufe Dieses Quiz enthält die folgenden Level (in Klammern die jeweils dafür verantwortlichen Personen): * Konstantin der Große (Moritz Schmid) * Benedikt von Nursia (Tobias Lange) * Erasmus von Rotterdam (Andreas Geyer-Schulz) * Martin Luther (Lukas Oestringer) ... More »
"Born in Sin, Nurtured in Crime": The Children of New York City's Notorious Five Points, 1854
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Abstract: The Five Points was a notorious mid-nineteenth century New York City slum. Located just east of the fashionable stores, columned banks, and well-dressed crowds of Broadway, its squalor served to remind New Yorkers of the destitution that so closely underlay the city's surging wealth. The neighborhood ... More »
Canon Law
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Abstract: A developing commentary on the Code of Canon Law 1983 of the Roman Catholic Church
Christopher Lydon analyzes voting patterns in "Black Boston
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Abstract: Christopher Lydon reports on a renewal of political activity in black Boston, and notes that there is a high percentage of newly registered voters in the African American neighborhoods. The report includes interviews with Charles Stith (Union United Methodist Church) and Kay Gibbs (South End political ... More »
Contemporary life in Vietnam
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Abstract: Photographs and text describe contemporary life in Vietnam and the impact of economic and social reforms since the 1980s.
East Asian Cultures: From Zen to Pop, Fall 2002
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Abstract: Examines traditional forms of East Asian culture (including literature, art, performance, food, and religion) as well as contemporary forms of popular culture (film, pop music, karaoke, and manga). Covers China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with an emphasis on China. Attention given to women's ... More »
East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam
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Abstract: Photographs and text tell the story of the Cham and Khmer cultures of southern Vietnam and Cambodia, including a look at Angkor Wat and other great temples and cities.
End of Nature, Spring 2002
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Abstract: A brief history of conflicting ideas about mankind's relation to the natural environment as exemplified in works of poetry, fiction, and discursive argument from ancient times to the present. What is the overall character of the natural world? Is mankind's relation to it one of stewardship and care, ... More »
Ethnic and National Identity, Spring 2005
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Abstract: An introduction to the cross-cultural study of ethnic and national identity. Students explore the history of nationalism, focusing on ideologies about the nation-state, and look at the ways gender, religious and racial identities intersect with ethnic and national ones. Ethnic conflict is examined, along ... More »
Evening Compass broadcast
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Abstract: Evening Compass late edition newscast covering day three of Phase II desegregation in Boston Schools. Ed Baumeister summarizes events and reports on school attendance figures. Peter Meade discusses the declining white enrollment in Boston Public Schools. Pam Bullard reports that attendance figures show ... More »
