http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4763 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:21:44 GMT 2013-05-23T12:21:44Z http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8574 The forest : a history of ideas : the movement for civil rights in suburban Madison, New Jersey 1955-1970. Gaither-Çyrs, E. The ideas emergent from the movement for civil rights in the American South transformed suburban Madison, New Jersey, and its nearby townships in the span of one generation. Protests burgeoned from the largely one-dimensional, cyclical indifference, insularism and apathy of Drew University undergraduates in the mid-to-late 1950s, to the variegated prism of social and political interests and involvement of students, administrators, public servants, small business owners and everyday citizens engaging the movement on different fronts, from the early-to-mid 1960s. By the latter half of the decade, Madison activists had prompted the New Jersey Supreme Court to ban the practice of double service standards in places of public accommodation and the disintegration of older organizational allegiances became imminent. New race conscious and political factions eventually emerged to engender a more diverse assembly of voices in concert with and counterpoint to one another than ever in the history of the local community. Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8574 2013-05-15T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8547 "Sed rudibus et indoctis" : women, orthodoxy, and the Rosebery Rolle Manuscript. Gross, Sarah Elizabeth. This thesis discusses one manuscript of Richard Rolle, the Hermit of Hampole. It asserts that Rolle’s Prose Psalter was compiled specifically for a woman’s private devotion and thus sheds light on both the authors and the readers of the growing devotional movement in late medieval England. Furthermore, by contextualizing Rolle’s work within this devotional movement, as well as by examining the themes and reception history of his texts, this study argues that Rolle was not a precursor to the Lollard movement. He was, instead, an orthodox product of the political and theological situation of the period. Finally, because the passage of verse at the end of the Roseberry Rolle Manuscript Psalter has never been seen before, this thesis provides a translation of the text, an analysis of the text, and ends by raising several questions that deserve further study. Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8547 2012-11-29T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8523 Caligula in Jerusalem : the hostile relationship between Emperor Gaius and his Jewish subjects. Sturdy, Michael C. This thesis examines the relationship between Gaius (Caligula) and his Jewish subjects via unrest in Alexandria and the emperor’s decree that the Jerusalem Temple be converted into a pagan shrine. It is concluded that Gaius was a competent leader who intentionally asserted his power over the region of Judea based on his knowledge of the Jewish people based on their history and his relationship with Agrippa I. It is also concluded that the Jewish authors’ view of the emperor was tainted predominately by the Temple incident, which has shaped how historians have studied Gaius by focusing on his madness and immorality. Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8523 2012-11-29T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8501 When problems persist : the making and legacy of the Moynihan Report. Miller, Lucas M. (Michael) In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Undersecretary of Labor for Social Statistics and Policy Planning in the Johnson Administration, drafted an intergovernmental position paper entitled The Negro Family: The Case for National Action which stirred a major controversy among government officials, Civil Rights leaders, and the general public for its alleged contention that the African American family structure in the United States was a dysfunctional "tangle of pathology." This thesis examines the intentions, reactions to, and legacies of what became known as the Moynihan Report. By focusing on the social science research methodology employed by Moynihan, the media distortion of his conclusions, and the historical context within which the report appeared, this thesis concludes that the Moynihan Report initiated an often contentious conversation that influenced and changed the way we talk and act about race, poverty, the family, and the possibility of change in American Society. Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8501 2012-11-29T00:00:00Z