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Title: "The Unfortunate Persons from St. Domingo" : Refugees from the Haitian Revolution and the Contradictions of Early American Politics
Description: This essay aims to show how the influx of refugees from the Haitian Revolution into the United States was a factor in changing US policies as they related to the practice of human bondage.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31902

Title: Altering Clay: Enhancing Daily Rituals
Description: An exploration of ceramics as a means of producing functional pieces that stand apart from ordinary, generic dinnerware sets.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:318

Title: American Farmer: Industrialization, Myth, and Autonomy in Iowa’s Corn Belt
Description: Farmers are seen as the ultimate independent agent in American society, but this is not reflected in the reality of modern farming.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:5753

Title: Big Data under Obama and Trump: The Data-Fueled U.S. Presidency, Data-Fueled U.S. Presidency
Description: The much-heralded use of data, analytics, and evidence-based decisions marks the U.S. presidencies of Obama and Trump.
Date Created: 2018
PID: grinnell:26654

Title: Birth of a Nation as an ‘Educational’ Tool for Racialized Violence
Description: Examines the attempt by the film Birth of a Nation to shape one's perception of American history and culture.
Date Created: 2021
PID: grinnell:29700

Title: Current Perspectives on Porgy and Bess
Description: A conversation between Randye Jones and George Shirley at the time of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:231

Title: Gospel Truth About the Negro Spiritual
Description: Negro spirituals are songs created by the Africans who were captured and brought to the United States to be sold into slavery. This Lecture-Recital was presented by Randye Jones, Soprano & Researcher; assisted by William Tinker, Piano, at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Date Created: 2007
PID: grinnell:63

Title: Just, Open, Plural: Third Reconstruction: Liberalism, Americanism, Madisonianism
Description: Essay arguing that the United States of America requires democratic renewal and that renewal must take the form of a Third Reconstruction with the goal of rebuilding the United States as a just, open, and plural republic.
Date Created: 2021
PID: grinnell:29699

Title: Men and Events of Forty Years, Autobiographical reminiscences of an active career from 1850 to 1890
Description: Autobiography of Josiah Bushnell Grinnell for the years from 1850-1890.
Date Created: 1891
PID: grinnell:310

Title: On White Eyes
Description: “On White Eyes” explores two moments in American history when societal events collided with new modes of visual representation in ways that forced white Americans to pay more attention to their conceptions of race.
Date Created: 2021
PID: grinnell:29698

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