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CURRICULUM VITAE September 2013
CURRICULUM VITAE September 2013 James Richard Farr Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History Department of History 333 Forest Hill Drive University Hall West Lafayette, IN 47906 672 Oval Drive Telephone:765-743-3575 (home) Purdue University 765-496-2698(office) West Lafayette, IN 47907-2087 Fax: 765-496-1755 E-Mail: [email protected] PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS/POSITIONS Editor, French Historical Studies, 1991-2000. Executive Council, Society for French Historical Studies, 1991-.2008 Executive Committee, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, l992-. Editorial Board, EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, 2002-2005 Senior Editor, H-France, Information List on Internet, 1993-. Editorial Board, Purdue University Press, 1996-1999. Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, 2009-. Professor of History, Purdue University, 1995; Associate Professor, 1990-1995; Assistant Professor, 1988-1990. Assistant Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1983-88. Instructor, Beloit College, Beloit Wisconsin, Spring, l983. Lecturer, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Spring, 1983. EDUCATION Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1983. M.A. Memphis State University, 1977. B.A. University of Mississippi, 1972. HONORS AND AWARDS Center for Humanistic Studies Fellowship, Purdue University, Spring, 2006. John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1998-99. Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Fellowship, Princeton University, 1994-95. American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1994-95. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Fellowship, University of Edinburgh, 1995 (declined). National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1991. 1 Center for Humanistic Studies Fellowship, Purdue University, 1991. Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association, 1990. Purdue University XL Faculty Research Grant, 1989. -
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White</H1>
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Scanned by Charles Keller with OmniPage Professional OCR software Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II Scanned by Charles Keller with OmniPage Professional OCR software donated by Caere Corporation, 1-800-535-7226. Contact Mike Lough AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANDREW DICKSON WHITE WITH PORTRAITS VOLUME I page 1 / 895 NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1905 Copyright, 1904, 1905, by THE CENTURY CO. ---- Published March, 1905 THE DE VINNE PRESS TO MY OLD STUDENTS THIS RECORD OF MY LIFE IS INSCRIBED WITH MOST KINDLY RECOLLECTIONS AND BEST WISHES TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I--ENVIRONMENT AND EDUCATION CHAPTER I. BOYHOOD IN CENTRAL NEW YORK--1832-1850 The ``Military Tract'' of New York. A settlement on the headwaters of the Susquehanna. Arrival of my grandfathers and page 2 / 895 grandmothers. Growth of the new settlement. First recollections of it. General character of my environment. My father and mother. Cortland Academy. Its twofold effect upon me. First schooling. Methods in primary studies. Physical education. Removal to Syracuse. The Syracuse Academy. Joseph Allen and Professor Root; their influence; moral side of the education thus obtained. General education outside the school. Removal to a ``classical school''; a catastrophe. James W. Hoyt and his influence. My early love for classical studies. Discovery of Scott's novels. ``The Gallery of British Artists.'' Effect of sundry conventions, public meetings, and lectures. Am sent to Geneva College; treatment of faculty by students. A ``Second Adventist'' meeting; Howell and Clark; my first meeting with Judge Folger. Philosophy of student dissipation at that place and time. -
Music and the American Civil War
“LIBERTY’S GREAT AUXILIARY”: MUSIC AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR by CHRISTIAN MCWHIRTER A DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History in the Graduate School of The University of Alabama TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA 2009 Copyright Christian McWhirter 2009 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ABSTRACT Music was almost omnipresent during the American Civil War. Soldiers, civilians, and slaves listened to and performed popular songs almost constantly. The heightened political and emotional climate of the war created a need for Americans to express themselves in a variety of ways, and music was one of the best. It did not require a high level of literacy and it could be performed in groups to ensure that the ideas embedded in each song immediately reached a large audience. Previous studies of Civil War music have focused on the music itself. Historians and musicologists have examined the types of songs published during the war and considered how they reflected the popular mood of northerners and southerners. This study utilizes the letters, diaries, memoirs, and newspapers of the 1860s to delve deeper and determine what roles music played in Civil War America. This study begins by examining the explosion of professional and amateur music that accompanied the onset of the Civil War. Of the songs produced by this explosion, the most popular and resonant were those that addressed the political causes of the war and were adopted as the rallying cries of northerners and southerners. All classes of Americans used songs in a variety of ways, and this study specifically examines the role of music on the home-front, in the armies, and among African Americans. -
Harry G. Frankfurt
CHARLES HOMER HASKINS PRIZE LECTURE FOR 2017 A Life of Learning Harry G. Frankfurt ACLS OCCASIONAL PAPER, No. 74 The 2017 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture was presented at the ACLS Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 12, 2017. © 2018 by Harry G. Frankfurt CONTENTS On Charles Homer Haskins iv Haskins Prize Lecturers v Brief Biography of vi Harry G. Frankfurt Introduction viii by Pauline Yu A Life of Learning 1 by Harry G. Frankfurt ON CHARLES HOMER HASKINS Charles Homer Haskins (1870–1937), for whom the ACLS lecture series is named, organized the founding of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1919 and served as its first chairman from 1920 to 1926. He received a PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University at the age of 20. Appointed an instructor at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin, Haskins became a full professor in two years. After 12 years there, he moved to Harvard University, where he served as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1908 to 1924. At the time of his retirement in 1931, he was Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History. A close advisor to President Woodrow Wilson (whom he had met at Johns Hopkins), Haskins attended the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as chief of the Division of Western Europe of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1922, and was a founder and the second president of the Medieval Academy of America in 1926–27. A great American teacher, Haskins also did much to establish the reputation of American scholarship abroad. -
Xerox University Microfilms
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American Historical Association
ANNUAL REPORT OP THB AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE YEAR 1913 IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I WASHINGTON 1916 LETTER OF SUBMITTAL. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. O., September '131, 1914. To the Oongress of the United States: In accordance with the act of incorporation o:f the American His toricaJ Association, approved January 4, 1889, I have the honor to submit to Congress the annual report of the association for the year 1913. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, your obedient servant, CHARLES D. WALCOTT, Secretary. 3 AOT OF INOORPORATION. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Andrew D. White, of Ithaca, in the State of New York; George Bancroft, of Washington, in the District of Columbia; Justin Winsor, of Cam bridge, in the State of Massachusetts; William F. Poole, of Chicago, in the State of Illinois; Herbert B. Adams, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland; Clarence W. Bowen, of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, their associates and successors, are hereby created, in the Dis trict of Columbia, a body corporate and politic by the name of the American Historical Association, for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts, and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history and o:f history in America. Said association is authorized to hold real and Jilersonal estate in the District of Columbia so far only as may be necessary to its lawful ends to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, to adopt a constitution, and make by-laws not inconsistent with law. -
By John Hope Franklin
A LIFE OF LEARNING John Hope Franklin Charles Homer Haskins Lecture American Council of Learned Societies New York, N.Y. April 14, 1988 ACLS OCCASIONAL PAPER, No. 4 1983 Maynard Mack Sterling Professor of English, Emeritus Yale University 1984 Mary Rosamond Haas Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus University of California, Berkeley 1985 Lawrence Stone Dodge Professor of History Princeton University 1986 Milton V. Anastos Professor Emeritus of Byzantine Greek and History University of California, Los Angeles 1987 Carl E. Schorske Professor Emeritus of History Princeton University 1988 John Hope Franklin James B. Duke Professor Emeritus Duke University A LIFE OF LEARNING John Hope Franklin Charles Homer Haskins Lecture ,MA0 l American Council of Learned Societies New York, N.Y. April 14, 1988 ACLS OCCASIONAL PAPER, No. 4 Charles Homer Haskins (1870-1937), for whom the ACLS lecture series is named, was the first Chairman of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1920-26. He began his teaching career at the Johns Hopkins University, where he received the B.A. degree in 1887, and the Ph.D. in 1890. He later taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard,where he was Henry CharlesLea Professor of Medieval History at the time of his retirement in 1931, and Dean of the GraduateSchool of Arts and Sciences from 1908 to 1924. He served as Presidentof the American Historical Association, 1922, and was a founder and the second President of the Medieval Academy of America, 1926. A great American teacher, CharlesHomer Haskins also did much to establish the reputation of American scholarship abroad. His distinction was recognized in honorary degrees from Strasbourg, Padua, Manchester, Paris, Louvain, Caen, Harvard, Wisconsin, and Allegheny College, where in 1883 he had begun his higher education at the age of thirteen. -
Constructing the Witch in Contemporary American Popular Culture
"SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES": CONSTRUCTING THE WITCH IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE Catherine Armetta Shufelt A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY December 2007 Committee: Dr. Angela Nelson, Advisor Dr. Andrew M. Schocket Graduate Faculty Representative Dr. Donald McQuarie Dr. Esther Clinton © 2007 Catherine A. Shufelt All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Dr. Angela Nelson, Advisor What is a Witch? Traditional mainstream media images of Witches tell us they are evil “devil worshipping baby killers,” green-skinned hags who fly on brooms, or flaky tree huggers who dance naked in the woods. A variety of mainstream media has worked to support these notions as well as develop new ones. Contemporary American popular culture shows us images of Witches on television shows and in films vanquishing demons, traveling back and forth in time and from one reality to another, speaking with dead relatives, and attending private schools, among other things. None of these mainstream images acknowledge the very real beliefs and traditions of modern Witches and Pagans, or speak to the depth and variety of social, cultural, political, and environmental work being undertaken by Pagan and Wiccan groups and individuals around the world. Utilizing social construction theory, this study examines the “historical process” of the construction of stereotypes surrounding Witches in mainstream American society as well as how groups and individuals who call themselves Pagan and/or Wiccan have utilized the only media technology available to them, the internet, to resist and re- construct these images in order to present more positive images of themselves as well as build community between and among Pagans and nonPagans. -
A Life of Learning Nancy Siraisi
CHARLES HOMER HASKINS PRIZE LECTURE FOR 2010 A Life of Learning Nancy Siraisi ACLS OCCASIONAL PAPER, No. 67 The 2010 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture was presented at the ACLS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, on May 7, 2010. © 2010 by Nancy Siraisi CONTENTS On Charles Homer Haskins iv Haskins Prize Lecturers v Brief Biography of vi Nancy Siraisi Introduction ix by Pauline Yu A Life of Learning 1 by Nancy Siraisi ON CHARLES HOMER HASKINS Charles Homer Haskins (1870–1937), for whom the ACLS lecture series is named, was the first chairman of the American Council of Learned Societies, from 1920 to 1926. He began his teaching career at the Johns Hopkins University, where he received the B.A. degree in 1887 and the Ph.D. in 1890. He later taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard, where he was Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History at the time of his retirement in 1931, and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1908 to 1924. He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1922, and was a founder and the second president of the Medieval Academy of America (1926). A great American teacher, Charles Homer Haskins also did much to establish the reputation of American scholarship abroad. His distinction was recognized in honorary degrees from Strasbourg, Padua, Manchester, Paris, Louvain, Caen, Harvard, Wisconsin, and Allegheny College, where in 1883 he had begun his higher education at the age of 13. iv HASKINS PRIZE LECTURERS 2010 Nancy Siraisi 2009 William Labov 2008 Theodor Meron 2007 Linda Nochlin 2006 Martin E. -
J. CUTLER ANDREWS Prcsidenti, Pennsylvania Historical Association
1% J. CUTLER ANDREWS Prcsidenti, Pennsylvania Historical Association. r963-7966 THE GILDED AGE IN PENNSYLVANIA BY J. CUTLU R ANDREW\S A S DR. KLEIN has told you, it is the custom of this Associa- Ation once every three years to offer up a sacrificial lamb in the person of its president, whose age now approaching sixty and whose thinning locks may seem to accent the incongruity of his being supposed to possess lamb-like qualities. By the terms of our unwritten constitution, the president is called upon some- time during his three-year term of office to present his views to this organization about some topic related to the history of the Commonwealth, and in token of this fact I have elected to speak to you tonight on the subject of "The Gilded Age in Pennsylvania." In view of my interest in the Civil War, I was disposed at one point to prepare an address on "Pennsylvania during the \mer- ican Civil War"; but after four years of the Civil War Centennial with its prospect that the celebration of gory events would cause the Civil War to break out all over again, I thought you might have become a little weary of hearing about Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee and that you might prefer a different cast of char- acters. I then considered choosing as my theme the need for more research and writing in the field of Pennsylvania history since 1865, until it was brought to my attention that the presiding officer who has just introduced me had beaten me to the drawx by his very penetrating and thought-provoking remarks on this sub- ject in his presidential address of 1957 in Philadelphia. -
The Mystic Will 2
The Mystic Will 2 THE MYSTIC WILL A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by CHARLES G. LELAND In Memorium Charles Godfrey Leland AMERICAN AUTHOR WHO DIED MARCH 20, 1903 AT FLORENCE, ITALY AGED 79 "The good that men do lives after them." PUBLISHER'S NOTICE. This wonderful treatise was first published in England several years ago, under the title of "Have You a Strong Will?" and has run through several editions there. In its original form, it was printed in quite large type, double−leaded, and upon paper which "bulked out" the book to quite a thick volume. Some copies have been sold in America, but the price which dealers were compelled to charge for it, in its original shape, prevented the wide circulation that it merited, and which its author undoubtedly desired for it, for it seems to have been a labor of love with him, the interest of the race in his wonderful theories evidently being placed above financial returns by Mr. Leland. Believing that the author's ideas and wishes would be well carried out by the publication of an American edition printed in the usual size type (without the expedient of "double−leading" unusually large type in order to make a large volume), which allows of the book being sold at a price within the reach of all, the publisher has issued this edition along the lines indicated. The present edition is identical with the original English edition with the following exceptions: (1) There has been omitted from this edition a long, tiresome chapter contained in the original edition, entitled "On the Power of the Mind to master disordered Feelings by sheer Determination. -
A General History of the Burr Family, 1902
historyAoftheBurrfamily general Todd BurrCharles A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE BURR FAMILY WITH A GENEALOGICAL RECORD FROM 1193 TO 1902 BY CHARLES BURR TODD AUTHOB OF "LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOBL BARLOW," " STORY OF THB CITY OF NEW YORK," "STORY OF WASHINGTON,'' ETC. "tyc mis deserves to be remembered by posterity, vebo treasures up and preserves tbe bistort of bis ancestors."— Edmund Burkb. FOURTH EDITION PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY <f(jt Jtnuhtrboclur $«88 NEW YORK 1902 COPYRIGHT, 1878 BY CHARLES BURR TODD COPYRIGHT, 190a »Y CHARLES BURR TODD JUN 19 1941 89. / - CONTENTS Preface . ...... Preface to the Fourth Edition The Name . ...... Introduction ...... The Burres of England ..... The Author's Researches in England . PART I HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL Jehue Burr ....... Jehue Burr, Jr. ...... Major John Burr ...... Judge Peter Burr ...... Col. John Burr ...... Col. Andrew Burr ...... Rev. Aaron Burr ...... Thaddeus Burr ...... Col. Aaron Burr ...... Theodosia Burr Alston ..... PART II GENEALOGY Fairfield Branch . ..... The Gould Family ...... Hartford Branch ...... Dorchester Branch ..... New Jersey Branch ..... Appendices ....... Index ........ iii PART I. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE. HERE are people in our time who treat the inquiries of the genealogist with indifference, and even with contempt. His researches seem to them a waste of time and energy. Interest in ancestors, love of family and kindred, those subtle questions of race, origin, even of life itself, which they involve, are quite beyond their com prehension. They live only in the present, care nothing for the past and little for the future; for " he who cares not whence he cometh, cares not whither he goeth." When such persons are approached with questions of ancestry, they retire to their stronghold of apathy; and the querist learns, without diffi culty, that whether their ancestors were vile or illustrious, virtuous or vicious, or whether, indeed, they ever had any, is to them a matter of supreme indifference.