The informal and formal connections between Park Street Church pastor Harold Ockenga and future neo-evangelical scholars such as Carl F. H. Henry, Edward John Carnell, Kenneth Kantzer, and George Eldon Ladd allowed this group, prepossessing unusual intellectual ambitions, to mou…
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Researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the field of foreign language study in higher education in the United States are familiar with the phenomenon of declining numbers among learners in advanced foreign language courses. The studies that have examined this phenomenon…
In this dissertation, I explore a different concept in program evaluation. There is little literature on using evaluation research as a tool for social justice. The Oppression Evaluation Approach I am introducing is about an alternative method in conducting program evaluation un…
My thesis is about the governance of trees through what seem to be natural configurations of order, and about how this form of tree governance is utilized to legitimize the governance of certain humans. By interpreting a series of in-depth interviews and participatory observatio…
This dissertation explores the political theology of Unitarian Christianity in New England during the two decades following the American Revolution. William Bentley--linguistic savant, Jeffersonian, and Congregationalist minister in Salem, Massachusetts--was one of the most impo…
In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, the fear of apocalyptic terrorism has caused many Americans and academics worldwide to reexamine previously held beliefs on the morality and suitability of torture as a means of ensuring public safety. While much of the ensuing deb…
This dissertation examines the convergence of Atlantic World medicine and disease with the 1721 smallpox epidemic in Boston and controversy that arose over the practice of inoculation. In Boston, Puritan beliefs intersected with the growing importance of theoretical medical trai…
Habitat management efforts for the New England cottontail, a species of conservation concern, are primarily focused on creating and maintaining dense understory vegetation. Native shrublands and forest types on Cape Cod provide large expanses of potential habitat for New England…
Franklin Park is a 527-acre park situated at the meeting point of five demographically diverse neighborhoods that contain the majority of the City of Boston’s communities of color. No other park within the Emerald Necklace, Boston’s extensive park system, is surrounded by such d…
In studies of early New England architecture, Southeastern Massachusetts and Plymouth Colony have received significantly less attention than the Massachusetts Bay Colony and region. This study aims to shed some new light on early houses in this region, through a synthetic analys…
The American Revolution not only marked the end of Britain’s control over thirteen rebellious colonies, but also the beginning of a division among subsequent historians that has long shaped our understanding of British America. Some historians have emphasized a continental appro…
The rising rate of women's incarceration over the past four decades has presented unique challenges for re-entry practitioners and policymakers alike. A record number of incarcerated women means a high number will also be returning to their communities. Further research that cen…
In November of 1854, a new political party swept the eastern coast of the United States. This party was immensely popular because of its political stance, which promised change against the established order. In their secret meetings, the members of the party promised to address …
This thesis is a history of the Boston Black United Front’s (BBUF) activities combatting the growing carceral state in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and early 1970s.The BBUF was an “umbrella” organization within Boston’s Black community during the Black Power era and was parti…
From the 1891 establishment of the Trustees of Public Reservations, a private statewide landscape preservation organization, to America’s 1941 entry into World War II, a citizen-led effort to safeguard and improve Massachusetts’s woodlands resulted in the establishment of a mult…
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the rise of the national heritage movement in the United States; the movement’s manifestation in Plymouth, Massachusetts centered around the original Pilgrim settlement in 1620. In 1894, wealthy Baltimore steel baron and former Plymouth…
History remembers radical abolitionist John Brown (1800–1859) as the man who directed the slaughter of five pro-slavery settlers in Bleeding Kansas in 1856 and for his failed October 1859 raid on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. But before he committed these infamo…
In 1901, J.K. Milliken and his uncle Frank Knowles obtained the financial backing to start a textile finishing plant in Massachusetts. Knowles and Milliken settled upon the small town of Dighton, Massachusetts for the location of their finishing operation. In June of that year t…
Like some other European nations in the twentieth century, Portugal was a dictatorship without a significant social welfare support system. Many Azoreans grew up barely growing enough food to eat each day. This did not improve when the Portuguese dictatorship fell in 1974. Howev…