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Title: An American way to talk: forums as civic education in the 1930s.
Creator: Keith, William, Jack Miller Forum, Department of Political Science, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued: 2009-01-30
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT186663p
Subject Headings: Civics -- Study and teaching -- United States, Adult education -- United States, Political socialization -- United States
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Beyond culture wars: the role of Christian religiosity in the public support for social safety net policies in contemporary America.
Creator: Alvarado, Emmanuel., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
Abstract/Description: This study examines the impact of Christian religiosity on attitudes toward social safety-net policies over the past three decades in the US. The study used data from the General Social Survey on social safety-net policy preferences and levels of Christian religiosity. Simple cross tabulations, correlations and multiple regression analysis were used to assess the data. Contrary to previous related research, the results of this study indicate that Christian religiosity has a very weak...
Show moreThis study examines the impact of Christian religiosity on attitudes toward social safety-net policies over the past three decades in the US. The study used data from the General Social Survey on social safety-net policy preferences and levels of Christian religiosity. Simple cross tabulations, correlations and multiple regression analysis were used to assess the data. Contrary to previous related research, the results of this study indicate that Christian religiosity has a very weak association with opposition to social safety-net policies. At the national level, the relationship between Christian religiosity and attitudes toward social protection policies was largely mediated by other factors such as race, gender, education, family income, and political ideology. These results indicate that Christian religiosity per se does not independently influence social spending preferences. Instead, these results suggest that social divisions in socioeconomic standing and in political ideology, which in turn are closely related to differences in support for social protection policies, permeate American Christianity. The study also examined the relationship between Christian religiosity and social protection policy preferences among Hispanic and Black Americans separately. Although Hispanics and Blacks are generally more supportive of social spending in comparison to White Americans, Christian religiosity was not found to have a strong independent effect on support for social safety-net policies among these two groups. The study did find, however, a markedly different level of support for social safety-net policies among identifiable Christian groups at the national level and in the Hispanic-American population., Those who self-identified as "evangelical" or "fundamentalist" Christians were much less supportive of social safety-net policies in comparison to "mainline" or "liberal" Christians. Among Hispanics, Catholics were more supp in comparison to Evangelical Protestants. Moreover, the results of this study indicate that religious American Christians have had a tendency to give precedence to moral issues over concerns about social safety-net policies thus facilitating an issue-bundling effect in recent electoral competition. Lastly, the present work proposes a broad framework through which to interpret the aforementioned findings grounded on the existence and interaction of two counterpoised cultural narratives on social protection found within American Christianity.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/1927301
Subject Headings: Social service, Christianity and politics, Urban policy, Democracy, Economic aspects, Social policy
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Title: The activism of the Catholic Church on immigrants' rights in the United States: testing the religious economy model.
Creator: Lazo de la Vega, Sandra, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: This paper tests the religious economy model for predicting Church behavior which predicts that religious firms will become more politically active on behalf of potential members in areas where competition for those members is most fierce. An analysis of data from a survey of 106 U.S. Catholic dioceses and archdioceses on outreach to Hispanic immigrants does not support this hypothesis. Religious competition and Church activism on immigration issues did not correlate. Rather, demand for...
Show moreThis paper tests the religious economy model for predicting Church behavior which predicts that religious firms will become more politically active on behalf of potential members in areas where competition for those members is most fierce. An analysis of data from a survey of 106 U.S. Catholic dioceses and archdioceses on outreach to Hispanic immigrants does not support this hypothesis. Religious competition and Church activism on immigration issues did not correlate. Rather, demand for services (measured as Hispanic presence within each diocese) was a better predictor of Church activism on immigration issues. This finding suggests that the "inelastic demand" assumption of the religious economy model must be dropped, re-opening demand side explanations for Church behavior across national and local contexts.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/209993, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT209993
Subject Headings: Church work with immigrants, Progressivism (United States politics), Immigrants, Religious life, Immigrants, Social conditions, Emigration and immigration, Religious aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Attitudes toward gun control laws: exploring relationships in recent gathered data.
Creator: Borkowski, Elizabeth., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Abstract/Description: Recently, empirical attention has been directed toward understanding public opinion about gun control laws. Despite this focus, three gaps are evident in extant scholarship. First, few current examinations have relied on recently collected, national data to explore predictors of public attitudes. Second, relatively little work systematically investigates whether type of weapon bans (e.g. handgun versus semi-automatic weapon) affects public support for a given gun control initiative. Third,...
Show moreRecently, empirical attention has been directed toward understanding public opinion about gun control laws. Despite this focus, three gaps are evident in extant scholarship. First, few current examinations have relied on recently collected, national data to explore predictors of public attitudes. Second, relatively little work systematically investigates whether type of weapon bans (e.g. handgun versus semi-automatic weapon) affects public support for a given gun control initiative. Third, and importantly, the general focus in prediction support for gun control measures has been on social and demographic factors. Little is known from a theoretical perspective about how other variables - such as knowledge of Constitutinal issues or perceptions of the U.S. Supreme Court - affect public attitudes toward gun control. Using national poll data collected in 2011 by Time magazine, this study addresses these research gaps by estimating several logistic regression analyses. Research and policy implications are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3358285
Subject Headings: Gun control, Political aspects, Gun control, Social aspects, Gun control, Statistics, Firearms, Law and legislation, FIrearms ownership, Social aspects, Firearms and crime, Public opinion
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Title: Creating the ideal citizen: rhetorical education and the public sphere.
Creator: Lunceford, Brett, Jack Miller Forum, Department of Political Science, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued: 2009-01-30
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT186480p
Subject Headings: Rhetoric -- Political aspects, Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States, Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- United States
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Title: The propaganda of socialism. Report to the National Congress of the Socialist Party, held May 15, 1910. Submitted by M. Hillquit.
Creator: Hillquit, Morris
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3336812
Subject Headings: United States of America; political and social history; after 1865; social ideas and movements; personalities; Hillquit, Morris.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Maternal health policy: nursing's legacy and the Social Security Act of 1935.
Creator: Pope, Bonnie L., Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description: This study explored the work of nursing and the social influences of eugenic policies established during the Progressive Era (1890-1930) on the writing and passage of the Social Security Act of 1935. The research questions: "Did eugenic philosophy and practice influence the Social Security Act of 1935 in relation to Maternal Health Policy?" and 'What was nursing's influence on the Social Security Act of 1935?" required the social history research method. Data were evaluated with the...
Show moreThis study explored the work of nursing and the social influences of eugenic policies established during the Progressive Era (1890-1930) on the writing and passage of the Social Security Act of 1935. The research questions: "Did eugenic philosophy and practice influence the Social Security Act of 1935 in relation to Maternal Health Policy?" and 'What was nursing's influence on the Social Security Act of 1935?" required the social history research method. Data were evaluated with the conclusion that eugenic policies did influence the writing and passage of the Social Security Act. Also, that nurses, and other women, played a specific, important and constructive role in developing the Act. During the late 1800s and early 1900s prominent leaders of business, science, philanthropy, and social reform supported the eugenic agenda to assure the wellbeing of hard working "Anglo-Saxon" American citizens. Industrialization and scientific advances in medicine gave Americans the impression that the "production" of healthy, intelligent children could be controlled, efficient, and predictable. Better breeding as a means for social improvement, which fueled the eugenics movement's use of science to solve social problems through governmental involvement, had two sides. Positive eugenics increased information on health and illness prevention, and established well baby clinics; however, negative eugenics advocated controlled reproduction through sterilization of persons considered "unfit." By 1935, twenty-eight states had eugenic sterilization laws. Noted reformers during this time (Lillian Wald, Jane Addams, and Florence Kelley) worked with Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to establish the Federal Children's Bureau. The Bureau had a direct influence on the maternal and child health policy established by the Social Security Act of 1935., This legacy continues today in the continued fight for women and children's social and economic rights.The Social Security Act's intention, economic security for all citizens, was not realized. Sections of the Act focused on maternalistic social views and sought to maintain a patriarchal family structure. The language of the Social Security Act created barriers to benefits for the most vulnerable. In fact, it seems reasonable to conclude that institutionalized health care disparities laid their roots in America through this legislation.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172424
Subject Headings: Eugenics, History, Medical policy, Nursing, Political aspects, Social security, History, Public welfare, History, Health promotion, Community health nursing
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Title: A philosophical analysis of America's transformation to universal health care: implications for responsibility and justice.
Creator: Mantoni, Jennifer Lynn., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Philosophy
Abstract/Description: Human beings have two apparently conflicting fundamental rights. On the one hand, individuals have a right to health care as the United Nations declared in 1948. On the other hand, individuals have a right to liberty; that is, the freedom to make one's own health related choices, even poor ones. One goal of this essay is to show how to reconcile these two apparently conflicting core American values. This reconciliation is important, because a universal health care system that is fair and just...
Show moreHuman beings have two apparently conflicting fundamental rights. On the one hand, individuals have a right to health care as the United Nations declared in 1948. On the other hand, individuals have a right to liberty; that is, the freedom to make one's own health related choices, even poor ones. One goal of this essay is to show how to reconcile these two apparently conflicting core American values. This reconciliation is important, because a universal health care system that is fair and just must account for individual rights in tandem with attempts to address matters of social justice. In order for this reconciliation to occur, matters of individual responsibility, social responsibility, and social justice must be central to health care reform.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3171680
Subject Headings: Health care reform, Health services accessibility, Insurance, Health, Government policy, Political science, Philosophy, Health care rationing, Moral and ethical aspects, Social justice, Responsibility
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Title: Utopian/Dystopian Thought Experiments and the Potential For a New Strateb')' of Inquiry in Public Administration.
Creator: Pressley, Cindy L., Florida Atlantic University, Patterson, Patricia M., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
Abstract/Description: The purpose behind this dissertation is the creation, development, and illustration of a new strategy of inquiry in public administration. This new strategy of inquiry is a utopian/dystopian thought experiment. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment should provide its user with a way to develop a new/different viewpoint with which to examine an administrative activity. A researcher begins with an original viewpoint and should then develop a new/different viewpoint, a utopian/dystopian...
Show moreThe purpose behind this dissertation is the creation, development, and illustration of a new strategy of inquiry in public administration. This new strategy of inquiry is a utopian/dystopian thought experiment. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment should provide its user with a way to develop a new/different viewpoint with which to examine an administrative activity. A researcher begins with an original viewpoint and should then develop a new/different viewpoint, a utopian/dystopian viewpoint, by engaging in a utopian/dystopian thought experiment. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment is developed in this dissertation by bringing together elements from utopian literature and scientific thought experiment literature using a public administration point of view. The research approach used in this dissertation is a three-phase process that involves reviewing and connecting pertinent literatures, using imagination and the process of writing to create a utopian/dystopian thought experiment, and illustrating and examining a utopian/dystopian thought experiment in public administration. In this dissertation, I seek to create a utopian/dystopian thought experiment as a new strategy of inquiry that is developed specifically for public administration. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment should provide an additional tool to the researcher who is seeking to expand the viewpoints through which the researcher can examine administrative activities.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000610
Subject Headings: Public administration--Philosophy, Place (Philosophy), Policy sciences--Economic aspects, Political planning--United States, Postmodernism--Social aspects
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Title: Politics, protest and propaganda in Hollywood's Golden Age.
Creator: Lozada, Robert Edmund., Florida Atlantic University, Lenz, Timothy
Abstract/Description: This Master's Thesis examines movies of political and social significance during Hollywood's Golden Age. Significance is here defined as belonging to those films that have been singled out by historians and critics for their social "conscience" as well as films whose significance I have found in the course of my research and after a lifetime of watching movies. The films of this era included strong social and political analysis, contrary to a tradition of film study which depicts the Golden...
Show moreThis Master's Thesis examines movies of political and social significance during Hollywood's Golden Age. Significance is here defined as belonging to those films that have been singled out by historians and critics for their social "conscience" as well as films whose significance I have found in the course of my research and after a lifetime of watching movies. The films of this era included strong social and political analysis, contrary to a tradition of film study which depicts the Golden Age as either apolitical entertainment or basically a conservative defense of the status quo. The thesis describes how the politics of the Golden Age films began with a critical, anti-establishment outlook in the 1930's but evolved as a cooperative partner of the establishment by the Second World War. This change occurred in part because of the special relationship that Hollywood (led by Warner Brothers Studios) developed with the Roosevelt Administration. I shall further examine the consequences of this evolution for the film industry in the post-war era and cold war eras.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15290
Subject Headings: Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States, Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States, Motion picture industry--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century, Warner Bros Pictures--History
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Title: Neolocalism and Activating the Urban Landscape: Economics, Social Networks and Creation of Place.
Creator: Watson, April A., Fadiman, Maria, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Geosciences
Abstract/Description: This work examined the role of the craft brewers of Florida in creating alternative economies. This work argues that craft brewers function in ways that they can create a space in which other, smaller entities might then take advantage. Craft breweries' expansion, and continued success rests on the ability of the brewer to harness the power of transformation, the prism effect, or the refaceting of a space with different meanings. Craft breweries meet many of Jacobs' (1961), as stated in her...
Show moreThis work examined the role of the craft brewers of Florida in creating alternative economies. This work argues that craft brewers function in ways that they can create a space in which other, smaller entities might then take advantage. Craft breweries' expansion, and continued success rests on the ability of the brewer to harness the power of transformation, the prism effect, or the refaceting of a space with different meanings. Craft breweries meet many of Jacobs' (1961), as stated in her seminal work, conditions for diversity in the city, especially in the role of self-government. Craft brewers function as informal forms of government for communities, by making smaller entities more visible, by serving as a warrior and weaver for political action in the city, and offering subversive defiance, by which they subtly challenge the dominant disconnected economic structure. Craft breweries serve as a way to create an embedded economy, or as a way of grounding local businesses, social issues, and individual actors together. In this way, the research addressed deeper ethical issues that transcend the idea of craft brewing in general, that the success of craft brewers reflects a form of activism, and a visible way for individuals to circumvent the global processes which left them disengaged in their community.
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Date Issued: 2016
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004667, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004667
Subject Headings: Bars (Drinking establishments) -- United States, Beer -- Economic aspects, Beer -- Social aspects, Beer industry -- Florida, Breweries -- Florida, Drinking customs -- United States, Economic geography, Physical geography, Political culture
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Finding the rainbow connection: moving from toleration to human dignity and acceptance in American life and law.
Creator: Lange, Alex C., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: The surge in granting equal rights to gays and lesbians in the United States is remarkable. Yet with this surge comes a conflict : the civil rights of gays and lesbians against the rights of religious individuals, predominantly Christians, refusing to tolerate a behavior they think immoral. My thesis focuses on two hypothetical situations : a county clerk refusing to issue a marriage license to an engaged lesbian couple and an inn owner refusing a night's stay to a gay couple. In both cases,...
Show moreThe surge in granting equal rights to gays and lesbians in the United States is remarkable. Yet with this surge comes a conflict : the civil rights of gays and lesbians against the rights of religious individuals, predominantly Christians, refusing to tolerate a behavior they think immoral. My thesis focuses on two hypothetical situations : a county clerk refusing to issue a marriage license to an engaged lesbian couple and an inn owner refusing a night's stay to a gay couple. In both cases, the clerk and inn owner refuse service for religious reasons. Normatively, I argue that we must move beyond a framework of toleration to a system of equal respect and understanding of our fellow human beings. Legally, I argue that the rights of religious expression and exercise should not trump the civil rights of gays and lesbians in the public sphere.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359308
Subject Headings: Gay liberation movement, History, Religion and politics, History, Gay rights, Public opinion, Gays, Social conditions, Constitutional law, Religious aspects, Same-sex marriage, Law and legislation, Sex discrimination, Law and legislation, Gays, Legal status, laws, etc
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Title: Hon. George Bancroft's oration, pronounced in New York, April 25, 1865, at the obsequies of Abraham Lincoln.
Creator: Bancroft, George 1800-1891, Bryant, William Cullen 1794-1878
Abstract/Description: Series note: The pulpit and rostrum : sermons, orations, popular lectures, etc. ; nos. 34 & 35, June, 1865. Series: Pulpit and rostrum ; nos. 34 & 35. Alternate title: Honorable George Bancroft's oration. President Lincoln's Second inaugural address, March 4th, 1865. Notes: Cover title. "Extra number, with portrait." Advertisement on page [1] at end for The American Educational Monthly, Schermemhorn [sic], Bancroft & Co., Publishers, New York. FAU Libraries' copy has original paper wrappers....
Show moreSeries note: The pulpit and rostrum : sermons, orations, popular lectures, etc. ; nos. 34 & 35, June, 1865. Series: Pulpit and rostrum ; nos. 34 & 35. Alternate title: Honorable George Bancroft's oration. President Lincoln's Second inaugural address, March 4th, 1865. Notes: Cover title. "Extra number, with portrait." Advertisement on page [1] at end for The American Educational Monthly, Schermemhorn [sic], Bancroft & Co., Publishers, New York. FAU Libraries' copy has original paper wrappers. Edges trimmed to 18 cm. FAU Libraries' copy has inscription on first page: To the N.J. Hist. Soc., from S.A. April 26. 1866. Oration pronounced in Union Square, April 25, 1865, at the funeral obsequies of Abraham Lincoln in the city of New York / by George Bancroft -- Ode for the funeral of Abraham Lincoln / by William Cullen Bryant -- President Lincoln's Emancipation proclamation, January 1st, 1863 -- President Lincoln's Second inaugural address, March 4th, 1865 [his last inaugural address].
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PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb22f35
Subject Headings: Eulogies, Presidents -- United States -- Death, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Death and burial, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Inauguration, 1865, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Political and social views, Presidents -- United States -- Inaugural addresses, Slavery -- United States, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Format: E-book

Title: Building Cosmopolitical Solidarity from the Antigone: A Return to the Chorus.
Creator: McCarthy, Rebecca L., Hokenson, Jan W., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: “Building Cosmopolitical Solidarity from the Antigone.” takes an in-depth look at how the Antigone by Sophocles has been used by social movements and social/politically concerned playwrights, theorists and activists as either a tool for discursive and performative resistance, or as a way to reinforce status-quo state rule since at least the Enlightenment to present day. I argue that Sophocles’ characters Creon and Antigone are not ideal images for social movements who seek a cosmopolitical...
Show more“Building Cosmopolitical Solidarity from the Antigone.” takes an in-depth look at how the Antigone by Sophocles has been used by social movements and social/politically concerned playwrights, theorists and activists as either a tool for discursive and performative resistance, or as a way to reinforce status-quo state rule since at least the Enlightenment to present day. I argue that Sophocles’ characters Creon and Antigone are not ideal images for social movements who seek a cosmopolitical democracy. Rather it is to Sophocles’ Chorus and the Watchman that we must turn when proposing democratic cosmopolitanism. Thus, a new communication approach is proposed: a choral dialogue driven by pragmatic logic and employing an aesthetic, often comedic, improvisational experience. Further, this work strives to unite theories from social science, social movement theory, rhetoric, philosophy and theatre. Its aim is to offer practical tools for social movements who wish to gain international, cosmopolitical, stature and to encourage a progressive democratic space. Core study groups include the Project for a New American Century, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, ACT-UP, and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000986
Subject Headings: Sophocles--Antigone, Greek drama (Tragedy)--Criticism and interpretation, Cultural relativism--United States, Political science--Philosophy, Power (Social sciences), Drama--Chorus (Greek drama)
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Title: No Surrender: Bruce Springsteen, Neoliberalism and Rock and Roll’s Melancholic Fantasy of Sovereign Rebellion.
Creator: Graves, Kaitlin N., Trapani, William, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description: This thesis builds from press accounts of Bruce Springsteen’s South by Southwest keynote address, taken by many to be a renewed call to arms of the classic mantras of the rock ethos in the age of a declining recording industry. In tracing the ways the speech circulated I argue that its discourse was rearticulated toward quite different (and concerning) ends. Throughout, I aim to show the apparatuses of power that sustains the rock liberation fantasy. I read the coverage of Springsteen’s...
Show moreThis thesis builds from press accounts of Bruce Springsteen’s South by Southwest keynote address, taken by many to be a renewed call to arms of the classic mantras of the rock ethos in the age of a declining recording industry. In tracing the ways the speech circulated I argue that its discourse was rearticulated toward quite different (and concerning) ends. Throughout, I aim to show the apparatuses of power that sustains the rock liberation fantasy. I read the coverage of Springsteen’s address as a therapeutic discourse meant to soothe the anxiety over the closure of agency in the age of neoliberalism. The general problematic for the thesis, then, addresses an anxiety over the collapse of freedom and as such works to offer broad reflections on the nature of radical agency in our increasingly neoliberal present.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004945, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004945
Subject Headings: Springsteen, Bruce--Influence., Neoliberalism., Politics, Practical--United States., Popular culture--United States--History--20th century., Popular music--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century., Rock music--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
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Title: Abraham Lincoln : the just magistrate, the representative statesman, the practical philanthropist : address.
Creator: Bullock, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) 1816-1882, Hamilton, Charles 1828-1896
Abstract/Description: Caption title: Eulogy
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb22f28
Subject Headings: Biography, Eulogies, Presidents -- United States -- Death, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Assassination, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Ethics, Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- 19th century, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Political and social views, Memorials (Commemorative) -- 1865, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Moral and ethical aspects, Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Format: E-book

Title: Speeches of Hon. Edgar Cowan of Pennsylvania, Hon. Jas. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of Treasury, letter of Hon. O.H. Browning, of Illinois, and an address by a member of the club : also the condition of the South, a report of special commissioner B.F. Truman.
Creator: Cowan, Edgar 1815-1885, Doolittle, James R. (James Rood) 1815-1897
Abstract/Description: At head of title: National Union Club documents. Speeches of Honorable Edgar Cowan, of Pennsylvania, Honorable Jas. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, Honorable Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of Treasury, letter of Honorable O.H. Browning, of Illinois, and an address by a member of the Club. Notes: Cover title. On verso of title page: National Union Executive Club, 490 Twelfth Street, Washington, D.C. ... Platform of the National Union Club. On last page, publisher's advertisement for the daily and...
Show moreAt head of title: National Union Club documents. Speeches of Honorable Edgar Cowan, of Pennsylvania, Honorable Jas. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, Honorable Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of Treasury, letter of Honorable O.H. Browning, of Illinois, and an address by a member of the Club. Notes: Cover title. On verso of title page: National Union Executive Club, 490 Twelfth Street, Washington, D.C. ... Platform of the National Union Club. On last page, publisher's advertisement for the daily and weekly National Republican, with address of the publisher, W.J. Murtagh & Co. Two columns to the page. FAU Libraries' copy imperfect: pages trimmed rough and too closely along bottom edges with some loss of text. Edges trimmed to 21 cm. Contents: Speech of Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, in the Senate of the United States, Friday, May 11, 1866 -- Speech of Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, delivered at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, May 19, 1866 -- Speech of Hon. Hugh M'Culloch, Secretary of the Treasury, on the night of the 23d of May, on the occasion of the serenade tendered by the National Union Club -- Letter from Hon. O.H. Browning, of Illinois -- Letter to Hon. Alex. W. Randall, President of the National Union Club -- The condition of the South : report of Special Commissioner Benjamin C. Truman.
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PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f1
Subject Headings: Freedmen -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century, Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources, Postwar reconstruction -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877), Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans, United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877
Format: E-book

Title: The national security and the national faith; guarantees for the national freedman and the national creditor.
Creator: Sumner, Charles 1811-1874, Ticknor and Fields
Abstract/Description: Speech of Honorable Charles Sumner at the Republican state convention, in Worcester. FAU Libraries' copy has original printed wrappers; side stitched with cord.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb22f12
Subject Headings: African Americans -- Civil rights, American Civil War (1861-1865), Equality before the law -- United States, Freedmen -- United States, Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950, Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- Sources, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Republican Party (Mass.) -- State Convention -- (1865 : -- Worcester, Mass.), Slavery -- United States, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
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Title: Christian Rock Goes Mainstream: Youth Culture, Politics and Popular Music in the U.S.
Creator: Giagnoni, Silvia, Scodari, Christine, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The dissertation analyzes Christian rock that goes mainstream and aims to explain such a phenomenon within the contemporary cultural, social and political context. This cultural study acknowledges the inherent tendency of Christian rock “to cross over” as part of the Evangelical ideology in which it is rooted. It also views it as a symptom of the augmented power of conservative Evangelical groups in today’s American political and social climate and of the current, increased presence of...
Show moreThe dissertation analyzes Christian rock that goes mainstream and aims to explain such a phenomenon within the contemporary cultural, social and political context. This cultural study acknowledges the inherent tendency of Christian rock “to cross over” as part of the Evangelical ideology in which it is rooted. It also views it as a symptom of the augmented power of conservative Evangelical groups in today’s American political and social climate and of the current, increased presence of discourses around religion and, specifically, Christianity in the public arena. Hence, the research offers an historical understanding of the social, cultural and discursive changes that have occurred within American Christianity in relation to politics, society and culture since Christian rock’s first appearance as an expression of the Jesus People movement of the 1970s, with the aim of better comprehending the nature of the contemporary crossover phenomenon. Additionally, the study considers rock as a discursive formation, interprets Christian rock as a primarily countercultural phenomenon and addresses the questions its crossover poses. Thus, it explores dimensions and issues highly debated in cultural studies concerning authenticity, resistance, generic labeling, lyrical content, pleasure, and experience. Specifically, it looks at Christian rock “fragments” as receptacles for a multitude of meanings that are constantly negotiated in public discourses. The research finally examines the music industry (marketing strategies, publications, distribution deals, and so forth) in relation to these phenomena, and reports on the interviews with emerging crossover Christian rock bands and other people operating in the industry. By investigating it as part of the larger endeavor of Evangelicals to impact and transform American culture and society, it is illustrated how Christian rock is able today to provide an alternative version of popular music to their own young people and to reach non-believers as well; this suggests further research and, specifically, the necessity of audience analysis, and concomitantly raises thought-provoking questions related to cultural theory. The study also demonstrates how Christian rock, an apparently oxymoronic manifestation of rock culture, is actually reproducing its very logic, thus catalyzing cultural change and symptomatically reflecting neoconservative cultural hegemony and ultimately supporting an emerging definition of rock.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000981
Subject Headings: Contemporary Christian music--United States, Popular culture--Religious aspects, Popular music--United States--History and criticism, Rock music--Political aspects, Popular music--Social aspects, Christian rock music--History and criticism
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The nation's sacrifice : Abraham Lincoln. Two discourses, delivered on Sunday morning, April 16, and Wednesday morning, April 19, 1865,.
Creator: Mayo, A. D. (Amory Dwight) 1823-1907, Robert Clarke & Co.
Abstract/Description: Alternate title: Abraham Lincoln. Notes: Pamphlet, decorated wrappers. FAU Libraries' copy has original decorated wrappers; side stitched with cord.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb22f36
Subject Headings: Presidents -- United States -- Death, Eulogies, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Sermons, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Assassination, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Political and social views, Bible -- Psalms, CXII, 6 -- Sermons, Bible -- Hebrews, IX, 22 -- Sermons, Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources, Southern States -- Moral conditions -- Sermons, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sermons
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