Philanthropy in America is well cultivated and bears deep roots. These philanthropic
practices as they are known to the reader have evolved through the growth of the nation …

The idea of peace is ancient, reaching back to the beginnings of organized society and
perhaps even earlier; but until the Renaissance it had not passed beyond the stage of …

Abstract Investing for Impact: Philanthrocapitalism and the Rise of Ethical Finance examines
how a nascent sector in the United States called" impact investing" fuses private investment …

ON FEBRUARY 19, 1847, IN A HEATED DEBATE OVER THE FATE OF slavery in the
territories to be acquired from Mexico, John C. Calhoun, the senior senator from South …

When in the summer of 1776 Britain's thirteen North American colonies decided to declare
their independence, they―at the same time―created a new nation that they felt ready to …

What contemporary historians aptly discern as an unprecedented surge of hostility against
blacks in the urban North in the 1820s—grounded in new scalings of the meaning of white …

A long-time concern in literary studies, the sentimental conception of sympathy as a subject
of scholarly inquiry, has recently also become a subject of American cultural and intellectual …

Drawing upon freedom petitions, periodical fiction, abolitionist tracts, criminal narratives,
freedom-day orations, and religious writings, my dissertation explores the role that writing by …

The idea of philanthropy, of concern for the welfare of the human race, has from the
beginning been so tightly interwoven with other aspects of the American experience that the …

Monticello, once home of Thomas Jefferson, houses a collection of portraits of notable
Native American chieftains as well as relics from their past collected by the expedition of …