tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55694966039316086742024-03-14T05:13:51.151-04:00 NERFC NewsThe New England Regional Fellowship Consortium: New England centers for learning supporting scholarship.NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-30832134101625938932020-01-31T08:14:00.002-05:002020-01-31T08:14:47.891-05:00Christian Science and the Mary Baker Eddy Library<br />
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Mary Baker Eddy
discovered Christian Science and founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, which
came into national and international prominence in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. She also established The Christian Science
Publishing Society (CSPS) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Christian Science Monitor </i>during a period of unprecedented growth in
American mass media.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Mary Baker
Eddy Library (MBEL) houses the organizational records of the church, as well as
materials that document the work of CSPS. These include an extensive collection
of pamphlets, periodicals, articles, and related materials from a vast
assortment of publishers and sources. These comprise the Non-CSPS Publications
and Serials Collection.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The majority
of the materials in the Non-CSPS Collection directly reference and relate to
Christian Science and Eddy. Some materials written by Christian Scientists
involve theological and metaphysical writings intended primarily for a
Christian Scientist audience but published outside the official church publications
of the CSPS. Most items written by Christian Scientists had the aim of
presenting the Christian Scientist viewpoint to a lay audience, often in
response to outside criticism.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In addition to
those writings by church members, numerous items in the Non-CSPS Collection,
both supportive and critical, were written by and for people who were not
Christian Scientists. Prominent supportive articles present in the collection
include those written by the Progressive Era editor and journalist B. O. Flower
and published in his magazines <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Arena </i>and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twentieth Century Magazine</i>. Critical
publications include the entire run of a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">McClure’s
Magazine </i>serial biography titled “Mary Baker G. Eddy: The Story of Her
Life, and the History of Christian Science,” attributed to Georgine Milmine.
Also present are numerous theological tracts and articles arguing against
Christian Science from an orthodox Christian viewpoint.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Additional
items in the collection include diverse cultural investigations of Christian
Science, such as an article in the November 1950 issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ebony </i>magazine about Christian Science in African-American
communities, as well as architectural accounts of Christian Science churches.
Materials on Eddy include traditional profiles of her role as a prominent woman
in American history, as well as more eclectic materials such as a page
featuring her in a book of paper dolls, by artist Tom Tierney, that highlights
“Famous American Women.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Materials not
directly related to Christian Science cover themes that include general
religious topics, social issues, current events, and history. These often give
context to Eddy’s life and the historical<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>context<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Christian<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>Science.<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
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legislation affecting medical freedom would all have been of potential interest
to Christian Scientists without necessarily applying directly to their
individual situations. While the relevance of these materials to prior
custodians of historical materials at the church has been lost, their presence
in a collection that has been maintained throughout the twentieth century
nevertheless helps to establish connections with areas of study relevant to the
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The bulk of the
materials in the Non-CSPS Collection date from 1880 to 2000 and are published
in English. Some exist in other languages, particularly French and German, and
represent the growing international presence of a religion first established in
America. Materials were largely published in the United States, Canada, Great
Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The collection developed largely
out of materials sent to regional church representatives, such as Christian
Science Committees on Publication, or bodies created to respond to public
misconceptions of Christian Science. It represents a collaborative collecting
project intended to develop an understanding of a complex cultural institution.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For a movement
and institution that has been so prominently in the public eye as Christian
Science, it is necessary to understand public perception and media response to
the church movement as a whole. The Non-CSPS Collection is a vital resource
that can help researchers gain a multifaceted understanding of Christian
Science and its place in the wider contexts of religious and social history, as
well as the role of media in American life.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-46709538926640957142020-01-22T09:09:00.002-05:002020-01-22T09:09:42.041-05:00Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections: Introducing the Boston Globe Library Collection<br />
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<span lang="EN">As new members of the consortium, the
Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections will be introducing
you to different components of our collections, which are comprised of records
of Boston’s social justice and organizing history in African American, Latinx,
LGBTQA, Asian American, and other communities. As well as community newspapers
such as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boston Phoenix, East Boston
Community News, Sampan, </i>and the subject of the blog: the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boston Globe. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">In the basement of Snell Library at the
Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections resides the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boston Globe</i> Library Collection. 4,376
boxes comprised of over a million photographs, over five million negatives of
unprinted photographs, and 119 years of newspaper clippings from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Globe</i>, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boston Herald</i>, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boston
Phoenix</i> and other area and national newspapers. Today, this vast collection
of visual and textual resources is open to all researchers, whose interests may
range widely, from Red Sox scores and legislative debates to Melnea Cass’s
relentless pursuit of racial and economic justice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Clippings, Microfilm, Print Photographs, and Negative Photographs. While
researchers can research within each part individually, all the components of
the collection can complement the different approaches to a research question.
For instance, those interested in the history of school desegregation can use
the print photographs to study how the first day of busing was covered
visually in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boston Globe</i>, the
negative photographs to see all of the shots the photographers took, including
the ones that were published, and use the newspaper clippings to research the
range of reporting on the Boston Public Schools, desegregation, and the Boston
School Committee. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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justice and community collections. Researching with our Special Collections and
the <i>Boston Globe </i>Library collection
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many ways that research and rich experiential learning can be accomplished
using the<i> Boston Globe </i>Library
Collection. To find out more in the meantime, visit the finding aid <a href="https://archivesspace.library.northeastern.edu/repositories/2/resources/984"><span style="color: #1155cc;">here</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Library Collection please contact us at </span></i><span lang="EN"><a href="mailto:archives@northeastern.edu"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">archives@northeastern.edu</span></i></a><i> or 617-373-2351.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background: font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This year marks the centennial of the passage of
the 19<sup>th</sup> Amendment, which Rhode Island ratified on January 6, 1920. Newporter
Maud Howe Elliott (1854-1948) gave support to the Rhode Island branch of the
movement and helped form the Woman’s Suffrage Association of Newport County.
Locally she campaigned for Rhode Island legislation to legalize women's right
to vote, and helped to manage membership, accounting, and selection of key
personnel in the association itself. She also traveled around the country,
participating in lecture circuits to help build interest in fledgling
suffragist societies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maud Howe Elliott was a social and political
activist, Pulitzer prize-winning author, and founder of the Newport Art
Association. She was the daughter of social activists Julia Ward Howe and
Samuel Gridley Howe whose activism was instrumental in shaping Elliott's life
as she went on to influence society and politics in Rhode Island and America
at-large. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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development of the Rhode Island Progressive Party. The Progressive Party was founded
by Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the Republican nomination in 1912. The
party’s platform included tighter federal regulations on industry and programs
to benefit the poor and working class. Additionally, the Progressive Party
supported enfranchising women, which encouraged many suffragists to join the
party. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of Maud Howe Elliott’s papers that largely concern her involvement in the
women’s suffrage movement and Progressive Party. Access a finding aid here: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://collections.newporthistory.org/Detail/collections/321">https://collections.newporthistory.org/Detail/collections/321</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-20683420603944513792019-12-17T13:21:00.001-05:002019-12-17T13:21:30.103-05:00Notarial Papers at the Boston Athenaeum<br />
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Emily Clark pursues her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University
and her dissertation title is “Renouncing Motherhood: Women's Sexualities and
Labors in Eighteenth-Century New England.” Emily spent a lot of time studying
notarial papers in manuscript collections. Insurance records do not at first
hearing inspire great interest; however, when you consider the various reasons
one makes a claim or needs a notary, you realize that these collections provide
windows into many aspects of ordinary life. Again, it is easy to make an
appointment, and below is a link to but one of the series.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-65948288049238025232019-12-02T12:12:00.000-05:002019-12-02T12:12:46.500-05:00NERFC Fellow Research at the Boston Athenaeum <br />
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The Boston Athenaeum has welcomed two NERFC fellows this
month. Amber Hodge travels from the University of Mississippi where she is a Ph.D.
candidate. Her dissertation title certainly gets attention: "The Meat of
the Gothic: Animality and Social Justice in United States Fiction and Film of
the Twenty-First Century." Amber has requested a variety of works,
including many pamphlets from the MSPCA and early proponents of animal rights.
She's even looked at an artists' book. The deluxe edition of a collaboration
between Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston includes an edition of <i>Black Beauty, </i>which
attracted Amber, but she couldn't help spending time admiring the accompanying
prints. If you want to, follow this link and click on the button "request
rare appointment." We'd be happy to share it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Mary Warnement, MLIS</span></div>
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The 1704 raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, during Queen
Anne’s War resulted in the death of 57 settlers and militia, the captivity of
112 more, and the destruction of nearly half of the frontier settlement. Yet beyond tragedy and havoc, the raid created
lasting ties between the small village and Native communities in Canada and
northern New England who participated in the attack. The Rev. John Williams, who returned from
captivity in November 1706, later described being visited in Deerfield in 1716 by
his “Indian master,” meaning captor. Williams’ young daughter, Eunice, remained
in Canada where she married and had children, but came back to Deerfield and
other nearby towns three times between 1740 and 1761. Visits by Native peoples bound
to Deerfield by history and kinship continued into the 1830s.</div>
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One visitor, in 1848, was Eunice Williams’s grandson,
Eleazer Williams. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born in 1793 in the
French Mohawk community of Kahnawake, little is known of Eleazer’s life until
he and a brother were sent to Longmeadow, Massachusetts, where the Rev. Stephen
Williams, brother of his grandmother Eunice, served as minister until his death
in 1782. The young Williams boys lived with Nathaniel Ely and studied with Ely’s
wife, Elizabeth, Rev. Stephen Williams’s daughter. As well as being taught
English, the boys learned ‘proper Christianity,’ as opposed to the Catholicism
practiced by the Mohawks in Kahnawake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eleazer
next appeared in Mansfield, Connecticut, where the Elys and others supported
him. From there he went on to Moor’s Charity School in Dartmouth, New
Hampshire, where he studied with other Native youth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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upstate New York and became an Episcopalian. The young man impressed church
leaders who raised money to send him back to Kahnawake, thus beginning his
career as a missionary to Native peoples. His initial endeavor enjoyed little
success, so at the opening of the War of 1812, Williams accepted a post on the
Mohawk reserve at St. Regis, ostensibly to secure the neutrality of Natives who
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wrote two now-rare pamphlets, recently acquired by Historic Deerfield. The
first, printed in January 1813 in Burlington, Vermont, by Samuel Mills, is
titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good News to the Iroquois Nation.
A Tract on Mans Primitive Rectitude, his Fall, and his Recovery Through Jesus
Christ</i>. With the exception of the title page, the text is entirely in
Iroquoian. Similarly, a pamphlet subtitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">S</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">pelli<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">ng-Book in the Language of the Seven Iroquois
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tables of words and text in the Iroquoian language. At the close of the war, Williams
translated <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Caution Against our Common
Enemy</i> into Iroquoian. Printed in Albany, New York, in June 1815, the
pamphlet warns against the dangers posed by liquor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more pamphlets, all in Iroquoian, did a translation into “Mohawk” of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Book of Common Prayer</i>, issued by the </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Domestic Committee of the Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church in 1853,
and a biography of his father, Thomas Williams, printed in Albany by Joel
Munsell after Eleazer’s death. Williams’ assertion that he was the son of Louis
XVI and Marie Antoinette, or the “lost Dauphin,” made in the 1840s and promoted
in an 1854 book about Williams by John Hanson, appears not to have damaged his
relationship with the Episcopal Church. He maintained his claim to the French
throne until his death on the Akwesane Mohawk reservation in far northern New
York in 1858. Contemporary accounts described him as impoverished and living in
squalor among Natives indifferent to his situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In addition to the above publications and two other
pamphlets with Iroquoian titles, Historic Deerfield owns an 1853 biographical
essay on Eleazer Williams written by a collateral cousin, Stephen West
Williams, and microfilm of the letters and documents in the Eleazer Williams Collection at the Missouri Historical Society. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams</i> (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2018-2019 New England
Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) fellow Gwenn Miller, </span>associate
professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">visited the Boston Athenæum’s Vershbow
Special Collections Reading Room in October and December 2018. She returned to
speak at the proprietors summer symposium, June 25, 2019, about her work on
"John Perkins Cushing and Boston's Early Opium Trade."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Another 2018-2019 NERFC
fellow, Charles Ian Stevenson, Ph.D. candidate at Boston University, spent
January 2019 studying materials in support of his dissertation “’The
Summer-Home of the Survivors’: The Civil War Vacation in Architecture and
Landscape, 1878-1918,” and he <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">delivered his Fellow Field
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visited yet, but we expect three of four to come in the autumn and winter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-70729358808728464552019-07-08T12:57:00.001-04:002019-07-08T12:57:25.061-04:00Daniel Webster at Dartmouth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In May, Special Collections at Dartmouth College Library
welcomed NERFC scholar Daniel Burge, a PhD History grad and adjunct instructor
at the University of Alabama, who is currently working on revising his
manuscript “A Struggle Against Fate: The Opponents of Manifest Destiny and the
Collapse of the Continental Dream, 1846-1871.” This manuscript examines the
ways in which individuals opposed manifest destiny during the nineteenth-century.
While at Dartmouth College Library from May 4th through May 25th, Daniel spent
the majority of his time immersed in the papers and collected correspondence of
Daniel Webster. George Rable, his PhD advisor at the University of Alabama, chided
him for writing a manuscript that focuses on Whigs and yet “overlooks Daniel
Webster.” Daniel rectified that issue while here at Rauner Special Collections
Library, and he had a wealth of information to explore, given Webster’s strong
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Daniel Webster, the 19th-century lawyer and politician, is
arguably one of the most famous sons of Dartmouth. A member of the class of
1801, Webster was a masterful orator who successfully argued before the Supreme
Court on several occasions and was deeply respected for his eloquence among his
fellow senators. His speech in response to Robert Hayne of South Carolina,
delivered before the Senate in 1830, has been recognized as one of the best
ever given within that august body. He also had a reputation for being a
rallying figure for political opposition to President Andrew Jackson, who rode
an uprising of populist sentiment into the White House in 1829. Nearly a
century after his tenure ended, Webster was recognized by the Senate in 1957 as
one of the greatest senators in the country's history.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Given Dartmouth's connection to Webster, including the fact
that Rauner Library is in Webster Hall, it's not surprising that we have a
strong Webster collection. Silk socks, a top hat, a pocket watch given by him
to someone else, and a set of wine glasses and accompanying decanter all reside
here at Rauner. We also have his handwritten notes from the Dartmouth College
Court Case; a number of fascinating original letters to and from him; and his
personal but incomplete copy of John James Audubon's Birds of America.<o:p></o:p></div>
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to Webster at Rauner, however, is the numerous images that we have of the man.
It's safe to say that we have more impressions of Daniel Webster than any other
dignitary or individual associated with the college. What is most fascinating
about this gathering of likenesses, moreover, is how each of them is different
from the other, sometimes in very striking ways. Still, the unmistakable gravitas
of the Massachusetts senator seems to be present in every instance. Although a
great statesman, Webster's legacy has been tarnished somewhat by his desire to
maintain national unity by any means necessary, including his support of the
infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. A little more than a decade later, despite
Webster's questionable decision to sacrifice the moral imperative in order to
appease the Southern states, the country inevitably descended into civil war.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(1742-1796) is not a household name unlike George Washington or Benedict
Arnold. Porter never betrayed his country, nor did he become president. Porter
though, like Washington and Arnold, did participate in the early phases of the
American Revolution. He was a colonel in the Fourth Hampshire Regiment of
Massachusetts. He fought at Bunker Hill, made the acquaintance of George
Washington, and soon became a courier for the General. After the fighting in
Boston subsided, he was ordered to Canada with his men to assist Benedict
Arnold in his siege. Porter later engaged in the battles at Saratoga ,and was
selected to escort Burgoyne to Boston after the surrender. After the war
shifted to the middle Atlantic and southern states, Porter returned home to
Hadley, Massachusetts, where he quietly lived out the rest of his life. Today
he is remembered by locals, but only by some. His brief time associating with
future legends was either unknown or forgotten. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Historic Deerfield received a gift of the Porter Family Papers. comprising the
papers of Elisha and his older brother, Eleazer. Reading through the papers,
Elisha’s connections to the Revolutionary War became apparent. There are orders
written by George Washington, sending Porter to Canada;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>orders from Benedict Arnold directing him to
Quebec; orders from General Wooster; a signed commission from John Hancock; and
many other documents relating to the war. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">These papers
encouraged further research into this important chapter in Porter’s life. Here
was proof that an ordinary man from a small town in western Massachusetts <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>witnessed and even participated in, some of
the most significant events of the Revolution. The papers provide brand new
material for scholars of the Revolution. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As a colonel in
the local militia, Porter received militia returns from the neighboring towns
in 1775, reporting on the number of able soldiers, weapons, and gunpowder
present in each town. These returns were previously unknown. Some towns <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>provided great detail, listing each man by
name, and distinguishing which were “minute men.” These returns give an idea of
the preparedness of small towns in the western part of the state were doing
prior to the Revolution. Porter, and other military leaders, could determine
which towns were best able to defend themselves from attack, and how many men
they could count on to join the fight, if needed. The wide-ranging results also
showed the diversity in population among the towns of Hampshire County. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Porter papers
add depth to other existing Revolutionary War documents in the library. Many local
families fought in the war, some as part of Porter’s regiment. The families of
those who left traces of their time in war have passed their diaries, war
records, and other documents down, generation to generation. Some of that
material has come into the collections at Deerfield. The Porter materials are
just the newest and flashiest collection to be added. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Arrival at St Johns, with part of your Regt. you will please on receit of this
to, Draw, Ten Days Provission at Chamble, & proceed In your Battoes, Down
the Sorell, to the Army before Quebec & join Genl. Wooster. you will please
to take as many Men in the Battoes as they will Carry with Two Chests of
Medicine at Chamble. I wish you Success, I am Sir Your Hbl servant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>B Arnold B Genl.” Montreal, April 20, 1776. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-69599452356562039202019-04-16T15:25:00.001-04:002019-04-16T15:25:16.814-04:00John J. Burns Library: These are a few of our favorite things… <br />
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Burns Library is a new(ish) member of the Consortium, we thought we would help
researchers understand our unique holdings and collecting areas by providing a
few exemplars. How better to surface collections highlights than to ask the
staff to show you something they love? Below is a sampling of items as varied
as the staff, why staff chose them, and search strategies to help you find out
more about these items or similar items. As always, </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://bc.edu/burns/contact">please contact Burns Library</a></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> for
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<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Shelley Barber (Outreach & Reference
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histories of both Ireland and Boston. Among the papers of John Boyle O’Reilly
at the Burns Library is the tooth of a sperm whale. An Irish nationalist,
O’Reilly (1844-1890) was arrested and imprisoned by the British, then
transported to Australia’s Fremantle Prison, from which he escaped with the
assistance of a local Catholic priest in 1869. The Gazelle was the New Bedford
whaling vessel that rescued O’Reilly off the coast of Australia. After his
escape, he came to the United States and settled in Boston, where he became the
editor of the <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Boston Pilot</span></i> and a well-known
author, sportsman, poet, and lecturer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I chose this special edition of <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Táin bó
Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) </span></i>because I love dipping
into the mythological tales that seem to spring from the mists of the distant
past. The tale, which scholars date to the 8th or 9th century, is translated
here by the poet Thomas Kinsella and features King Conor, his hero Cuchulainn
(the Hound of Ulster), and the invasion of Ulster by Queen Medb of Connaught to
capture the brown bull of Cualaigne. I love that the artist, Louis le Brocquy,
impressed upon my mind the characters and scenes of fantastic feats, bloody
battles, spells, curses, and mythical creatures in unforgettable, stark, black
and white brush drawings. Lastly, I love that publisher, Liam Miller of Dolmen
Press, fused all of these elements to produce a remarkable book!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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changing “Anywhere in record” to “Local Collection Name,” and entering “dolmen
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letters exchanged by Graham Greene with many interesting and notable people,
these 11 letters (box 12, folder 48) between Ray Bradbury and Greene have
always thrilled me. Most of these letters are by Bradbury, who begins the
correspondence in 1979 exuberantly thanking Greene “for being my companion in
writing, my helper, and my introducer to Carol [Reed]” and begs for Greene to
write “another novel, please! or, God, more stories!” Their exchange continues
pleasantly over years, with each seemingly interested in the other’s writing
and whereabouts, but never connecting for a face-to-face visit despite their
overlapping worlds of fiction and film. Bradbury’s lively letters are on his
unusual stationary and include his large, legible signature; in contrast,
Greene’s letters are faint carbon copies that lack personality and make him
seem less present. I love the physicality and dichotomy of these letters — each
typewritten and corrected, with ink or tape; one set so “real,” and the other a
mechanical shadow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from this artist’s book since I first discovered them. Not many people realize
the strength of the Caribbean related material at Burns, and this piece adds a
new dimension to them. Roy Risher’s poetry is based upon another title in the
collection: Walter Jekyll’s </span><i><u><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #743399; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://bc-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/bclib:bcl:ALMA-BC21319119710001021"><span style="color: #743399;">Jamaican Song and Story</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, 1907.
I find it fascinating that this story of a trickster spider moved from
West Africa to the Caribbean, then to a Caribbean neighborhood of London, where
this fine press just happens to be located.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style nursing cap, complete with hatbox. In processing the St. Elizabeth’s
records (</span><u><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #743399; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://bc-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/bclib:lib_BURNS:ALMA-BC21459187360001021" target="_blank"><span style="color: #743399;">MS.2000.018B</span></a></span></u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">), I
saw much of substance, as well as of charm. The records include a complete run
of yearbooks and graduation programs, many course descriptions, faculty
committee minutes, and photographs of student life, but, for me, there was
something about this little, pleated and starched cap that really evoked the
care that the students took in their attire and in their training. The careful
preservation of this one cap, with the color of its velvet ribbon showing that
its owner had achieved graduate status, made the pride the students felt on
completing their rigorous training tangible for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other Burns Library nursing collections through an </span><u><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #743399; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://bc-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?mode=Advanced&tab=bcl_only&vid=bclib"><span style="color: #743399;">advanced search</span></a></span></u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by
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<br />NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-37616459642358276262019-04-08T14:32:00.002-04:002019-04-08T14:32:59.381-04:00Indentures, quitrents, and royal appointments: Four centuries of parchments in the collections at the Maine Historical Society<br />
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for over 20 years, I am still amazed at the treasures that are contained here,
that I have never seen or heard of. This recently came to light with the
discovery of a flat file drawer labeled “Parchments,” which was apparently only
known to one staff member. And thus began our adventure into the wonderful
world of parchments (or any “antique” document within our inner sanctum). I
embarked this winter on cataloging this artificial collection of 29 documents,
which may date to as early as the 14<sup>th</sup> century. The majority were
from the 1600s and 1700s. Some are part of larger collections, but most are
unique documents. Some have Maine connections, but many originated in England
or Spain, which posed the real mystery – why are they here? Many were written
in English, but several were written in Spanish or Catalan, and others were written
in Latin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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housed in envelopes that had labels on them, which provided me with some
information in which to catalog the item. Others, if I was able to figure out a
name or date, I was able to find a card in our defunct card catalog, which
we’ve kept in a back room. Thank goodness for the date file which we maintained
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some on linen and vellum. Several have seals and a few have ribbons. There are
indentures, which were often agreements, but the collection also includes deeds
and certificates, even a diploma in Latin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-78925349085359773662019-03-12T08:39:00.002-04:002019-03-12T08:39:44.670-04:00American Feminist vs. Risorgimento General, 1862<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Turin
was an exciting place for foreign diplomats in the years following the
establishment of the united kingdom of Italy in 1861.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Risorgimento, both a political and a
cultural movement, brought Italy’s political, intellectual, and social leaders
to the new capital in the north. (Rome, the putative capital, remained under
the control of the Catholic Church, with French support, until 1870).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the new nation’s leaders debated how to
address the many unresolved questions of Italian nationhood, Turin became a
haven for Italian aristocrats, former revolutionaries, intellectuals, and
visitors from America and Britain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was in this stimulating environment that George Perkins Marsh and his second
wife, Caroline Crane Marsh, found themselves after George’s appointment by
President Lincoln as the first U.S. Minister to Italy in 1861.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Caroline
Crane Marsh (1816-1901) was a woman of enormous talents and intellect. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fluent in German and conversant in many other
languages, she was a poet, translator, and eventually her husband’s biographer.
Her diaries in the <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://scfindingaids.uvm.edu/repositories/2/resources/1335">Marsh Papers</a></span>
at the Silver Special Collections Library, University of Vermont, provide ample
evidence of her engagement in the social and intellectual life of Italy, as
well as the vital role she played in the diplomatic mission advising her
husband and hosting visitors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Caroline
Marsh enjoyed debating issues of current interest with her guests, and was not
afraid to make a reasoned rebuttal to an opinion with which she differed.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">As an advocate for women’s rights she greatly
influenced her husband and offered her feminist views freely to others.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In March 1862, for instance, she relished the
opportunity to respond to remarks on the education of women made by Luigi
Federico Menabrea, an Italian general and future prime minister.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">She recounted the incident in her diary on
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Visitors few but
all acquaintances, with many of whom I begin to feel myself quite
familiar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To my great satisfaction
General Menabrea, by repeating the remarks he made to me some weeks since at
the opera, gave me an oportunity </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">[sic]<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
to say a few words on the other side of the question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The graces in woman and a devotion to her
family duties were all that were required to her perfection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But,” I said, “what is there left for us if
nature has not gifted us with graces, if we have no family to which to devote
ourselves or if ill health deprives us for long years of all social enjoyments
and of the strength necessary to attend to household matters? With thousands of
women one or more of the suppositions are stern facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would deny us all those mental rescources
</i>[sic]<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> with which wide knowledge
furnishes you—you would leave us to count our beads under such circumstances,
but you would leave us nothing else.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
then told him that I thought nature had made wide differences between men and
women and that it should be the object of education to bring them nearer
together rather than to increase these differences, and finished my speech by a
quotation from St Clement’s advice to his clergy “teach your men to be modest,
your women to be brave.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The General
seemed much amused and quite inclined to pursue the discussion, but we were
interrupted by the coming of a new set of visitors.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Italy
had been home to an unusual number of woman scholars in the Renaissance and
female literacy had once been higher than in most of Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the nineteenth century, however, these
advantages had been lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Caroline Marsh
encountered in Italy a society in which the social expectations for women of
all castes were more tightly drawn than in America, and where few recognized
the value of female education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In citing
her “suppositions,” moreover, she spoke from experience: for much of her life
she suffered from an undiagnosed illness that gravely affected her eyesight and
often left her unable to walk more than a few steps at a time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clearly, she used this time to perfect her
mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Caroline’s
views on women’s roles, as expressed in her diaries, are explored more fully by
David Lowenthal in his 2008 article in the Journal of Social History (see
below). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She continued to keep her insightful
diaries until at least 1880.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When George
died in 1882, he left little money to his family, but his life-long passion for
books had produced a 12,000-volume library of great value that would soon find
its way to the University of Vermont. Frederick Billings, a lifelong friend of
Marsh’s and an 1844 alumnus, purchased the books from Caroline for $15,000 and
donated them to UVM, along with funds to build a new library. In the late 1880s
Caroline Marsh donated George’s papers to the University, establishing one of
our most important research collections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her diaries and other papers, which have received less scholarly
attention than her husband’s, were given to UVM in 1958-59 by Lowenthal
(1923-2018), the eminent geographer and Marsh biographer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We recently received Dr. Lowenthal’s papers,
containing additional Marsh materials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="subfielddata"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Lowenthal, David. "The Marriage of Choice and the Marriage of Convenience": A New England Puritan Views Risorgimento Italy. Journal of Social History, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Fall, 2008), pp. 157-174.</span></span></div>
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<span class="subfielddata"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Lowenthal,
David. <i>George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of conservation</i>. Seattle: University of Washington Press,
2000.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="subfielddata"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Crane,
Elizabeth Greene. <i>Caroline Crane Marsh: A
life sketch</i>. n.p., n.p., after 1901.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="subfielddata"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Marsh,
Caroline Crane. <i>Wolfe of the knoll, and
other poems</i>. New York: C. Scribner, 1860.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="subfielddata"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Marsh,
Caroline Crane. <i>The Hallig: or, The sheepfold in the waters: a tale of humble life on
the coast of Scheswig: with a biographical sketch of the author. Translated
from the German of Biernatzki by Mrs. George P. Marsh</i>. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Boston:
Gould and Lincoln, 1856.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="subfielddata"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Marsh,
Caroline Crane. <i>Life and letters of
George Perkins Marsh, comp. by Caroline Crane Marsh.</i> New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1888.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-82005986064231322582019-02-06T09:08:00.001-05:002019-02-06T09:08:10.188-05:00Rogue Island: Smuggling in Colonial Rhode Island and the Gaspee Affair<br />
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On June 9, 1772 the British customs
schooner <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gaspee </i>ran aground in
Narragansett Bay while pursuing a Rhode Island sloop suspected of carrying a
cargo of smuggled French rum and molasses. That night, while the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gaspee’s </i>crew waited for high tide to
free their vessel, a group of colonists from Providence led by the merchants
John Brown and Abraham Whipple rowed out to the stricken vessel. Swarming over
the sides, the colonists shot the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gaspee’s
</i>commander and forced the rest of the crew to surrender. The despised schooner
was then burnt to the waterline.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
destruction of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gaspee</i> sent shockwaves
throughout the Thirteen Colonies as the first act of overt violence against
British authority—preceding the Boston Tea Party by over a year. But less well
known are the reasons for the customs cruiser’s presence in Rhode Island. The
vessel had been sent to the colony as part of renewed British efforts to
enforce the Navigation Acts, the foundational laws that gave shape to its
American empire. These seventeenth-century laws forbade Britain’s colonies from
trading with foreign nations except in a few narrow circumstances. However, for
nearly a century the Navigation Acts were largely ignored by colonists who
traded with foreign nations and colonies wherever a profit was to be made. Colonists
particularly sought two items that legal trade supplied only at exorbitant
prices: molasses and loose-leaf tea. Both were essential to the two most popular
drinks in the Thirteen Colonies: rum and tea.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Smuggling
was a cornerstone of Colonial American commerce, practiced in every port in
every colony. Nowhere was it more widespread and organized than Rhode
Island—dubbed “Rogue Island” by officials. Traders and seaman talked about it
openly in their letters and records, many of which survive in the holdings of
the Rhode Island Historical Society. One particularly detailed account can be
found in a set of instructions given by an unknown Newport merchant to Captain
Nathaniel Whitting (ca. 1743-1780) just a week before the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gaspee</i> was destroyed. As commander of the sloop <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Little Polly</i>, Whitting was ordered to
sail to Newfoundland. There he was to trade his cargo of foodstuffs and candles
for a cargo of salted cod. From Newfoundland, he was to sail to Gothenburg in
Sweden where he was to sell the fish in exchange for a cargo of Bohea tea. This
was flagrantly illegal under the Navigation Acts, but Whitting’s employers had
a detailed plan to ensure his clandestine cargo reached Rhode Island safely.<o:p></o:p></div>
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was to disguise his vessel as a “wood sloop” carrying timber from Maine by
blackening the sides of his vessel, and if he encountered anyone on his voyage
was to tell them he was “John Smith” of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dolphin
</i>bound for New York. Upon reaching Narragansett Bay, he was warned to “be
very careful of being deceived by the [customs] cruisers” like the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gaspee </i>who “used many stratagems to
deceive vessels such as hiring fishing schooners…and boats with wood” then
offering “to assist vessels in running goods” as a pretense for getting near
and boarding them. Taking all care, the Captain was to land his mate on a
deserted beach from where he was to proceed alone to Newport, find “Mr.
Stevens’ house…[and] go to the lower window at the [North] East corner of the
house fronting the street and knock twice.” Stevens would then provide detailed
information about the location of the customs patrols and instructions for the
best place the sloop could land its illegal cargo safely.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><br /> </span>While
it is unknown if Nathaniel Whitting successfully delivered his cargo of illicit
tea, his instructions demonstrate the high degree of organization smuggling had
reached in Rhode Island. With every merchant house, including the colony’s
largest traders such as the Browns of Providence, involved in contraband trade
and with smuggled rum and tea major consumer products, it is unsurprising that
the belated effort by British officials in the 1760s to combat smuggling was
met with such hostility. Joined with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gaspee</i>’s
heavy-handed habit of seizing of every ship it encountered for inspection, a
violent confrontation was all but inevitable. And with it a major step towards
Revolution.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-38224315274115305822019-02-06T08:57:00.003-05:002019-02-06T08:57:35.683-05:00Mary Baker Eddy News<br />
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<span lang="EN">The Mary Baker Eddy Library’s collections
pertain to the life of Eddy as well as to the history of the Christian Science
movement. Now, newly reprocessed papers from the archives of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Christian Science Monitor</i> are open
for research. They shed light on the people, events, and ideals that helped the
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monitor </i>develop into an
internationally-respected newspaper, based on Eddy’s vision for better
journalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">These documents consist primarily of material
that Erwin D. Canham used to write his 1958 book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Commitment to Freedom: The Story of </i>The Christian Science Monitor<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>which presents a history of the
newspaper’s first 50 years<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i>Canham
worked for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monitor</i> for much of
that time, starting there in 1925 and rising to editor-in-chief before his 1974
retirement. Most of the records he used to write <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Commitment to Freedom </i>were compiled by Paul S. Deland, an original
staff member. The material includes written reminiscences by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monitor </i>staffers, clippings, letters and
memos on policy, stylebooks, correspondence relating to the newspaper’s
fiftieth anniversary edition, and early drafts and proofs of Canham’s book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">These papers provide rich context for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monitor</i>’s editorial policy, vocabulary,
and advertising decisions. They elucidate challenges that workers faced in
establishing a publication with broad international appeal, fulfilling its
mandate“to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” Among many areas, this is
a collection of interest in the study and research of newspaper history,
Christian Science publications, World War II news coverage, religious identity,
and twentieth-century culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Assorted papers from the Commitment to Freedom
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<br />NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-46479758525859609712019-01-04T09:53:00.001-05:002019-01-04T09:53:06.568-05:00The Concession of Captain James Card<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"> A document defying easy
characterization lies in folder five of the James Card Papers at the Rhode
Island Historical Society. In it William Pearce, a sailor aboard the sloop <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rising Sun</i>, testifies that Captain James
Card paid him fifty pounds in old tenor “in full satisfaction” of striking and
beating him twice while Pearce served on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rising Sun</i>’s voyage between Rhode Island and the Bay of Honduras in
1765<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i> As a result of the payment,
Pearce pledged not to bring a suit against Captain James Card and further
declared that he freely forgave Card for the abuse he received at Card’s hand. Thus,
the price of abusing Pearce and securing his silence in court was approximately
the value of two and a half months of the average sailor’s wages.<a href="file:///C:/Users/paul.opecko/Documents/Current/Documents/NERFC%20Blog/RIHS/RIHS%20Blog_Final.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">[i]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></b></span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Admiralty law protected Captain Card
from repercussions, yet Captain Card paid the object of his wrath to keep him
quiet. The paradox inherent in the William Pearce document illustrates how
individual concessions supported shipboard </span><span style="font-family: Times, serif;">hierarchies.</span><br />
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<br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In the waters between Europe,
Africa, and the Americas, captains abused sailors, which expressed the power of
colonial hierarchies. Captains hoisted sailors by their ankles, turning rigging
into an instrument of torture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Captains
whipped sailors with the stinging cat o’ nine tails. Captains struck the
sailors in their employ and pushed their sailors off the quarterdeck on to the main
deck below. As long as their abuse did not leave lasting damage, admiralty laws
allowed captains to perpetrate violence against their sailors with impunity. These
laws underpinned and reinforced the hierarchies that defined early-Americans’
lives. Yet, Captain Card paid William Pearce not to bring suit against him. The
legal reality makes it all the more surprising that Captain Card compensated
Pearce for the abuse he endured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"> Perhaps Captain Card simply felt
guilty and desired absolution. Yet, he required Pearce to refrain from bringing
charges against him, which suggests more self-centered motivations. The simplest
explanation is that William Pearce had a family member or benefactor with
powerful connections in the merchant community whose wrath Card wished to
avoid. However, there are at least two other possible explanations. Captain
Card may have compensated Pearce because hierarchical relationships entailed
reciprocal responsibilities. Though the power dynamics inherent in the
master-seaman relationship limited a sailor’s recourse if a captain failed to provide
for his sailors,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>captains were
legally and culturally responsible for their sailors’ well being. Wide scale abuse
might have been viewed among land-dwellers as a failure to perform the
captain’s half of the social contract. Alternatively, while impressment cooled
after the 1763 Treaty of Paris, finding experienced, skilled, and effective
sailors proved a perennial problem for mercantile captains. Captain Card may
have paid Pearce to stave off threats to his reputation among the sailors he
wished to employ. The latter explanation seems the most compelling given that
the social world of sailors invited intelligence-gathering and sharing while in
port.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>William Pearce’s paradoxical pledge
is one of many maritime documents including wage disputes and successfully
defended mutinies that illustrate how long-distance trade and the maritime
environment challenged landed systems. Card’s concession shows that human
relationships and market forces limited the power of cultural hierarchies. On a
systemic level sailors followed their masters’ orders, could be abused by their
masters without recourse, and found it difficult to successfully sue when
captains violated contracts or failed to pay the wages due them. But studying
the hierarchical systems that ordered colonial society encourages us to ignore
the concessions some men gained from their masters. The case of Captain Card
and William Pearce shows how the clash of the market and landed cultural systems
allowed sailors like Pearce to carve out spaces for themselves amidst a rigid
social order. It also illustrates that in port captains sensed the broader
implications of their actions. While in the Bay of Honduras his power was
uncontested and, thus, Captain Card made no concessions. But after arriving in
Newport, Card recognized that Pearce could damage his reputation as an employer
and an honorable trader.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Even rigid colonial hierarchies provided
outlets for discontent to prevent large-scale social upheaval. This phenomenon
played out repeatedly in the maritime Atlantic when captains gave their sailors
bonuses to lengthen the voyage, ignored their mutinous oaths, or, as in the case
of Captain Card, compensated a sailor for violence perpetrated against him.
Documents like Pearce’s testimony do not reject colonial hierarchies but they
illustrate its limitations. For individual sailors like William Pearce, those
limitations made all the difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;">Transcription:</span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;">Newport May 3, 1765</span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;">“Then rec’d of Capt.
James Card Junr fifty Pounds <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">old
Tenor </span>in full satisfaction for his striking me in the Bay of
Honduras & also for his Beating me <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">this</span>
Day on Bourd the Sloop Rising Sun for Which aforesaid Sum Received I promise
that I will not Commence any Action or Suit in the Law against the Said James
Card <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Junr.</span> but do freely
forgive him for the abused recd as above said</span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;">William Pearce</span><span style="font-family: "Times",serif;">Witness Martin
Howard” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times",serif;"><br /></span><o:p> </o:p><o:p>Post by NERFC Fellow </o:p><span style="font-family: Times, serif; text-align: center;">Hannah Knox Tucker</span><br />
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/paul.opecko/Documents/Current/Documents/NERFC%20Blog/RIHS/RIHS%20Blog_Final.docx#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> After 1750 £1,000 Old Tenor = £100
Sterling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John J. McCusker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Money and Exchange in Europe and America,
1600-1775: A Handbook</i>, (Williamsburg, VA: University of North Carolina
Press, 1978), 133. Sailors made approximately £2 per month, Marcus Rediker, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea:
Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750, </i>(Cambridge:
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<br />NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-61947254096772561572018-11-07T10:03:00.000-05:002018-11-07T10:03:56.208-05:00Hoyt Family documents return to Deerfield<br />
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A trove of 19th-century documents, consisting of journals,
account books, maps, drawings, and notebooks, has recently been purchased at
auction and will be available to researchers at the Memorial Libraries, Deerfield,
Massachusetts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These manuscripts created
by Epaphras Hoyt (1765-1850) and his son Arthur (1811-1899), have been in
private hands until now and afford a new perspective on Deerfield's history and
the influence the Hoyts exerted on wider events. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Born in 1765 in the Old Indian House, the only residence
within the stockade to survive the devastating 1704 French and Indian raid on
Deerfield, Epaphras Hoyt became a leader in town and county affairs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond holding numerous civic offices such as
postmaster and justice of the peace, he worked as a surveyor, served as a
general in the Massachusetts militia, wrote on military theory, the French and
Indian wars, and the American Revolution, and contributed to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Medical and Agricultural Register</i>
(Boston) and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Journal</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">of Science</i> (New Haven). His tenure as
Sheriff of Franklin Co. is documented in an account book he kept between 1815
and 1831. Copies of speeches he made at anti-Masonic conventions are but one
example of his involvement with the political life of western
Massachusetts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Epaphras Hoyt was an avid
reader and a keen observer of local and national events - all of which are
reflected in his extensive journals. <o:p></o:p></div>
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only son, Arthur, followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a talented
surveyor and civil engineer. Arthur inherited his father's library of books and
manuscripts, and amassed his own substantial library, all of which are recorded
in a hand-written catalog that came as part of the papers acquired. The new
materials document Arthur's work as an engineer constructing the Rutland &
Burlington Railroad, and the Central Massachusetts Railroad, and speak to the
early development of regional transportation networks. A previously unknown c.
1830 manuscript map of the village of Deerfield and the contiguous north
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Memorial Libraries that include surveying notebooks of both Epaphras and
Arthur, journals, correspondence, legal documents, and books. Acquisition of
these Hoyt documents was made possible in part through the generous support of
Margaret E. C. Howland, Ann Lord, and a bequest from the estate of David Proper
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Association, is located at 6 Memorial St., Deerfield, MA. Hours are Tue.-Fri., 9:00-noon,
and 1:00-5:00.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Information regarding the
collections can be found at:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://library.historic-deerfield.org/">http://library.historic-deerfield.org</a>,
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<br />NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-90824821146878748112018-06-08T07:05:00.000-04:002018-06-08T07:05:06.341-04:00New England Historic Genealogical Society NERFC Fellow UpdateVisit <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://vita-brevis.org/2018/06/indifferent-to-the-world/" target="_blank">‘Indifferent to the world’</a> at the New England Historic Genealogical Society to get an overview of the research done there by NERFC Fellow Peter Walker. Thanks to Scottt Steward for sharing Peter's post about his work at NEHGS.</span><br />
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Visiting Researchers Inspire CHS Displays </h3>
<br />The CHS is pleased to continue its partnership with the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC), and to host visiting scholars whose research is supported by grants from NERFC. In December of 2017, two NERFC scholars shared their work during brown-bag lunches with CHS members and staff. <div>
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Shira Lurie, Doctoral Candidate at the University of Virginia, presented her project Politics at the Poles: Liberty Poles and the Popular Struggle for the New Republic. She explained that during the 1790s, an old way of protest in American politics re-emerged. Federalists, who dominated New England, were cast by Republicans as autocratic elitists who ran roughshod over the Republican minority. In protest, the Republicans revived the Revolutionary-era practice of erecting liberty poles in town squares. The poles stood as symbols of opposition to tyranny. Federalists denounced this as an illegitimate form of political expression. In their view, the vote and the legislative process were the only proper way to express dissent. They worried that Republican opposition would undermine federal authority and drag the country back into the chaos of the 1780s. Local Federalists tore down the poles, leading to violence, acerbic press coverage, and legal action.<br /><br />Kathrinne Duffy (below), doctoral candidate at Brown University, is working on a project entitled Skulls, Selves, and Showmanship: Itinerant Phrenologists in Nineteenth-Century America. Phrenology was a controversial and influential science in the mid-1800s. Proponents believed that the shape of one’s cranium revealed one’s character — a materialist conception of the self that gave rise to novel modes of introspection and observation. To promote their science of the mind, practical phrenologists traveled from town to town, offering lectures and examinations. Ms. Duffy sketched the backgrounds of several prominent phrenologists, and the reaction of audiences, ranging from credulity to skepticism.<br /><div class="MsoNormal">
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Both presentations have inspired future displays at the CHS. Ms. Lurie’s research prompted the CHS Collections staff to plan a display about liberty poles and their depiction in early America; we have examples of them popping up on items as varied as swords and currency. Similarly, the CHS will mount a display of ephemera related to phrenology in the 1800s. Look for these displays at the CHS this year. Both displays will be mounted in our Nawrot History Nook, just outside the Waterman Research Center.
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sign up to be notified of future events via <a href="https://chs.org/about-2/email-signup/" target="_blank">email</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-2536236220369835172016-11-11T15:19:00.001-05:002016-11-11T15:19:55.473-05:00A New Baker Library Exhibit Explores the Polaroid Corporation<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: center; text-indent: -.5in;">
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Baker Library recently
opened a new exhibition, <i>At the
Intersection of Science and Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation:
The Formative Years</i>, organized by Baker Library Special Collections. The
exhibition is on display until July 28, 2017 in the North Lobby, Baker Library
| Bloomberg Center, Harvard Business School.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>At the Intersection of
Science and Art </i>draws from the wealth of material in the Polaroid corporate
archives at Baker Library, bringing into focus the formative years and
trajectory of the Polaroid Corporation and the career of Edwin H. Land. A
scientist and inventor, entrepreneur and CEO, aesthete and humanist, Land
fostered invention and creativity within the culture of a small, science-based
research and manufacturing company. He argued that the industrial process
should be “dedicated to the discernment of deep human needs.” His philosophical
insights into those needs coupled with an eye for beauty and artistic
expression guided the groundbreaking research ambitions of Polaroid—an iconic,
20th-century startup company whose pioneering achievements in optics and
engineering continue to have profound technological, social, and artistic
significance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Visit <u><a href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/polaroid">http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/polaroid</a></u> to view
the on-line exhibition and to find materials for further research. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Please contact Baker Library Special Collections at <a href="mailto:histcollref@hbs.edu">histcollref@hbs.edu</a> if you would like
to request a copy of the exhibition catalog or to learn more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For more information about Baker Library Special Collections
visit <a href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/">www.library.hbs.edu/hc/</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Contact: Laura Linard, Director, Baker Library Special Collections, 617-495-6360, <a href="mailto:llinard@hbs.edu">llinard@hbs.edu</a>.<br />
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NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-81155246194621478882014-12-17T15:54:00.000-05:002014-12-17T15:54:11.925-05:00New Exhibition at Baker Library<div class="MsoNormal">
Baker Library recently opened a new exhibition, <i>Georges
F. Doriot: Educating Leaders, Building Companies</i>. The exhibition will run
through August 3, 2015 in the North Lobby, Baker Library | Bloomberg Center,
Harvard Business School.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The exhibition and related website examines the career of
Georges F. Doriot, an educator and a founder of the modern venture capital
industry. During his 40-year tenure at Harvard Business School, the charismatic
professor taught business and leadership in his celebrated Manufacturing course
to nearly 7,000 students. He realized his dream of establishing the first
Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the
European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD). Doriot learned the art
of bringing science and industry together in World War II, where he was
responsible for the creation of new products for the welfare of US soldiers.
For decades, as president of American Research & Development Corporation
(ARD), an early venture capital firm founded in 1946, Doriot fostered the
development of startup companies that focused on emerging technologies from computers
to pacemakers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The exhibition features selections from the Georges F.
Doriot Collection—on permanent loan to Baker Library from the French Cultural
Center, Boston—that reveal the ideas and ideals of a man who played a
pioneering role in the emergence of the postwar entrepreneurial economy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Visit <a href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/doriot">http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/doriot</a><u>
</u> to view the on-line exhibition and to find materials for further
research. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Please contact Baker Library Historical Collections at <a href="mailto:histcollref@hbs.edu">histcollref@hbs.edu</a> if you would like to
request a copy of the exhibition catalog.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For more information about Baker Library Historical
Collections visit <a href="file:///C:/Users/llinard/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/2B0AGTLA/www.library.hbs.edu/hc/">www.library.hbs.edu/hc/</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-48755041436083039182014-12-11T13:05:00.001-05:002014-12-11T13:05:47.064-05:00Puritanism at the Boston Athenaeum<div class="MsoNormal">
Rachel Trocchio arrived at the Athenæum yesterday and though
jet-lagged, she energetically started studying books by William Perkins that
are part of the Kings Chapel Collection. Enrolled at the University of
California, Berkeley, Rachel will be at the Athenæum through next week to
conduct research for her dissertation, "The Puritan Sublime." She
studies late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century theological works through
the lens of American Puritanism and plans to return after the holidays. We look
forward to hearing about what she learns.<o:p></o:p></div>
NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-59809887311277223182014-10-23T07:27:00.002-04:002014-10-23T07:28:07.810-04:00Fellows at the Connecticut Historical Society<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This summer, CHS hosted two New England Regional
Fellowship scholars with two very different topics. Brendan Gillis, who is
completing his Ph.D. at Indiana University, spent two weeks in the Research
Center concentrating on our various collections of Justice of the Peace papers
and court records from 1760-1800. He was
asking two questions: (1) Did American magistrates begin “molding” English law
and tradition to fit their needs in the colonies and when? And (2) How did
those practices change because of, and did they have any influence on, the Revolution? Interestingly, Brendan is
finding that although many magistrates served “His Royal Majesty”, they often
interpreted the laws to fit the current situation without regard for tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Christine Groeger, from Harvard University, was
studying the rise of credentials between
1870 and 1940. In the 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries, people
often apprenticed or learned a trade on the job. Sometime in the 19<sup>th</sup> century, it
was important to have a degree or a certificate or license to prove one had the
requisite skills for a job. Through her research Christine plans on documenting
the development of the need for credentials, looking at time, occupation, and
gender as determining factors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-51162219716467925612013-06-03T08:20:00.001-04:002013-06-03T08:20:10.488-04:00And the 2013 NERFC Fellows Are.....<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kristin Allukian. <i>Working to Become: Women, Work, and Literary Legacy in American Women's
Postbellum Literature</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Michael Blaakman. <i>Speculation Nation: Land Speculators and Land Mania in
Post-Revolutionary America</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Richard Boles. <i>Dividing
the Faith: The Rise of Racially Segregated Northern Churches, 1730-1850<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anna Bonewitz. <i>Fashioning
the British Empire: Fashion, Imagery and Colonial Exchange in
Eighteenth-Century New England</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Susan de Guardiola. <i>Figures and Changes: The Evolution of the Cotillon in France, England,
and America, 1760-1840<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Marian Desrosiers. <i>John Banister and the Influence of a Colonial Newport Merchant on the
Economy of Pre-Revolutionary America</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Russell Fehr. <i>Anxious
Electorate: City Politics in Mid-1920s America</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Benjamin Irvin. <i>"Invalids"
and Independence: Disability, Masculinity, Class, and Citizenship among
Veterans of the Revolutionary War</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kathryn Irving. <i>The
American Schools for Idiotic Children: Disability and Development in the
Nineteenth Century<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Noam Maggor. <i>Brahmin
Capitalism: Gentlemanly Bankers, Urban Populists, and the Origins of the Modern
American Economy</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Karen Murray. <i>Roxbury:
African-American History, Gender, and the Politics of Urban Poverty</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Steven Pitt. <i>City
upon the Atlantic Tides: Puritans, Merchants, and the Seafaring Community of
Boston, 1689-1763<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ashley Smith. <i>"We
Have Never Not Been Here": Place, History, and Belonging in Native New
England<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Each Fellow receives a $5,000 award to visit at least three of the participating NERFC institutions for no less than two weeks' worth of research on their topic. The thirteen fellowships handed out this year are the most to date.</span></span></div>
NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569496603931608674.post-83058769238132456172013-03-21T16:54:00.003-04:002013-03-21T16:54:38.436-04:00A New Exhibit at Baker Library<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><b>Baker Library
Historical Collections</b> is pleased to join in the celebration of the 50<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of women’s admission into the full MBA program at Harvard Business
School (HBS) with <i>Building the Foundation: Business Education for Women at
Harvard University, 1937–1970</i>. The exhibition will run until September 22,
2013 in the North Lobby, Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Harvard Business
School.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Building the
Foundation </span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">traces the
early history of business education for women at Harvard University from the
founding of the one-year certificate program at Radcliffe College in 1937 to
the HBS faculty vote to admit women into the two year MBA program and finally
to the complete integration of women into the HBS campus life by 1970. Illustrating
the evolution of this formative period are photographs, interviews, reports,
and correspondence from Baker Library Historical Collections at Harvard
Business School and from the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in
America at the Radcliffe Institute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">The telling
documents reveal how program directors, administrators, and faculty shaped
business education for women at the University, preparing students to take
their places in the business world. The pioneering graduates of these programs
would go on to help open doors to formerly unattainable opportunities for
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Visit </span><a href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wbe" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wbe</span><u><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"> </span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"> to learn more about the
exhibition, to find materials that could support further research, and to view
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Visit </span><a href="http://www.hbs.edu/women50/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">http://www.hbs.edu/women50/</span></a><u><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><a href="http://www.hbs.edu/women50/" target="_blank"> </a> </span></u><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"> to learn more about the HBS
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Please contact
Baker Library Historical Collections at </span><a href="mailto:histcollref@hbs.edu" target="_blank">histcollref@hbs.edu</a><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"> if you would like to request a copy of
the exhibition catalog.</span></div>
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Harvard and Kelly Arehart from the College of William and Mary are spending
three weeks each at the Connecticut Historical Society. As usual, the Fellows
make use of our resources in interesting ways. Gloria is pouring through 17th
and 18th century court records for clues on family relationships among slave
families in Connecticut. Kelly has benefited from our recently completed
backlog cataloging project funded by the National Historical Publications and
Records Commission. There was one bill we discovered just before her arrival
that provided excellent details on what materials were purchased for an
individual's funeral, including preserving fluid. Kelly also was in awe of the
corpse preserver! Her topic, obviously, is the development of the funeral
industry.</span>NERFChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02051434077568082942noreply@blogger.com0