Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University

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Recognition for historic preservation work in the United States has been reserved almost exclusively for the white elites who have dominated the preservation movement since the mid-nineteenth century. In contrast, this interdisciplinary dissertation presents Black men and women operating outside of the white preservation mainstream and recounts narratives of Black Bostonians stewarding buildings, landscapes, and neighborhoods. Several arguments emerge from the four case studies. First, Black Bostonians engaged in preservation work. Second, Black preservation efforts were useful as ways to channel place-based history into reform efforts predicated on the need for change, running counter to white elites' bolstering of continuity and celebratory histories. Third, Black preservation strategies, like their interpretations of the sites, incorporated and embraced change that was expressed in variations of adaptive reuse. Fourth, different factions within the city’s Black population had different preservation interests and visions of change, and whites and Blacks often took interest in the same sites for divergent reasons. And, finally, this dissertation shows that the white mainstream has repeatedly slighted Black preservation strategies and even gone so far as to cast them as blighting actions. Chapter One centers on the group of elite Black Bostonians who purchased the Roxbury home of William Lloyd Garrison, known as “Rockledge,” with the intent to preserve it as an antislavery memorial at the turn of the twentieth century. As St. Monica's Home for Colored Women and Children, the house became a site of contestation between the followers of William Monroe Trotter and Booker T. Washington. Chapter Two examines the dispute over the future of the Charles Street Meeting House, then the Charles Street A.M.E. Church, when a proposed street widening threatened the building in 1920. Chapter Three makes a case for studying actions that result in preservation and not just people who identify as preservationists by examining the conversions of single-family houses to multi-family homes by Black middle-class homeowners from the 1930s through the early 1960s. Lastly, Chapter Four features Elma Lewis, a Black arts educator and cultural activist who in 1966 adapted the Overlook Shelter ruins in Frederick Law Olmsted’s Franklin Park into an outdoor theater to support her community.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / Travelers visiting friends and relatives as a purpose of travel are known as VFR travelers. First defined by the travel and tourism industry, the term was used to compile expenditure data on this type of traveler and their impact in tourism markets. The increased international travel of this population drew attention of travel medicine researchers. Researchers found these travelers to be subject to greater risk of infectious disease stemming from travel destinations with increased risk of exposure to local pathogens, extended trip durations, and barriers to pre-travel advice. As a result, they are of public health interest as well. The travel medicine discipline researches this population to understand their specific risks and ways to improve their travel health education. Part of the VFR traveler definition as it is presently stated includes country of birth; the purpose of visiting friends and relatives is not sufficient. Varying definitions amongst medical researchers to describe this population has slowed the progress of drawing conclusions about their risks and recommending methods to improve their health education. [TRUNCATED] / 2999-01-01

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2999-01-01

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2999-01-01

Thesis advisor: Thomas E. Wangler / The story of the transformation of St. Benedict Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, originally a small Catholic student center, into a controversial and socially disruptive religious community is little known today even by most Bostonians. Some sixty-five years ago, however, the Center's public activities under the leadership of its chaplain, Leonard Feeney, S.J., were the focus of intense controversy and publicity, nationally and internationally as well as locally. In the 1940s, there was no clear theological consensus on the possibility of salvation for non-Catholics. Although there seems to have been a notable hesitation on the part of theologians and hierarchy alike in Boston to issue an official pronouncement on the Church's theology of salvation, there was at the same time an unhesitating consensus among them that Fr. Feeney's rigorist interpretation of the Catholic doctrine extra ecclesiam nulla salus ("no salvation outside the Church") was not that of the Church in the modern age. Complex social and cultural factors were at play in the controversy. Ultimately, though, any historian attempting to make sense of the ideas and actions of Fr. Feeney and the members of the Center is confronted with the fact that they took theology seriously, and so also must the historian who hopes to understand them. My thesis in this dissertation is that a uniquely explosive combination of theological developments, social flux, and intersecting personalities led to the eruptions at St. Benedict Center. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theology.

Thesis advisor: Thomas F. Mulvoy / The Boston Globe has had an unfair reputation as an anti-Catholic newspaper since the 1970s, but the claim surfaced with new vigor in response to the newspaper's coverage of the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in 2002. The accusations stems from three misconceptions: (1) that the Globe is a remnant of Protestant power in Boston; (2) that the Globe seeks to antagonize the Catholic Church with its liberal social positions; and (3) that the Globe intentionally sensationalized its coverage in 2002 and essentially mounted a media attack on a defenseless archdiocese. The idea that the Globe holds a longstanding gripe against the Catholic Church is completely false. Through a historical account of anti-Catholicism and journalism in Boston and an analysis of the Globe's 2002 coverage, this work shows that (1) the Globe was the first Boston paper to appeal to the interests of the Irish Catholic population and has maintained a consistent policy of fairness since the 1870s; (2) the Globe's liberal editorial stances are formed without consideration for Church positions; and (3) the coverage of the sex abuse scandal in 2002 was the product of fair and balanced reporting, with the antagonism originating from the archdiocese. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Thesis advisor: Dennis Shirley / In 1814, a group of wealthy Boston merchants led by Francis Cabot Lowell established the Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham, Massachusetts. In the decades before the Civil War, Lowell and his partners constructed public schools for Waltham children living in the vicinity of the mills and paid many of the schools' educational expenses, including teachers' salaries. The company also promoted adult education through its establishment of the Manufacturers' Library and its support of the Rumford Institute for Mutual Instruction, one of the first lyceums in the United States. Previous research on the Boston Manufacturing Company has primarily focused on its unique labor force ("mill girls") and its role as America's first modern industrial corporation, while the story of the company's involvement in education has been neglected. Based on company records, school committee reports, newspaper accounts, Francis Lowell's personal correspondence, and other archival sources, this study highlights the forgotten history of corporate support for education in antebellum Waltham. The findings indicate that the support given to Waltham educational institutions by Francis Lowell and his business partners can be attributed to their patriotism, generosity, and belief in civic virtue. Implications for the history of American education, the Industrial Revolution, and twenty-first century public/private sector educational partnerships are addressed. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

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