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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: Articles of Incorporation
Description: Original 1856 document detailing the rules and regulations for the establishment of Grinnell University
Date Created: 1856
PID: grinnell:76

Title: Doing History: the Pullman Strike, Pullman Strike
Description: The purpose of this tutorial is to sharpen your sense of the ways in which history is constructed, educate you about the standards governing that construction, and develop your own skills for engaging in such construction. We will use the story of the Pullman strike to develop reading, research, and writing strategies and to ponder the multiple choices every historian must make in writing a narrative that both recounts and analyzes a historical event. So this is a course in skill-building, story-telling, and scholarly ethics.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:3439

Title: From Wunderkammer to the Modern Museum, 1606-1884
Description: Poster for an exhibition drawn from the collection of Florence Fearrington held October 3 - December 15, 2013, at the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:4999

Title: Grinnell - in - Grinnell: 150 Years of Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Special Collections and Archives exhibit brochure to accompany the exhibit Grinnell - in - Grinnell: 150 Years of Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 2009
PID: grinnell:6039

Title: Merger of Iowa College and Grinnell Literary Fund of Grinnell University, Merger of Grinnell University, Grinnell Literary Fund, with Iowa College
Description: Details the merging of property between the Grinnell Literary Fund and Iowa College
Date Created: 1861
PID: grinnell:78

Title: Quatrevingt-treize in Soixante-Quatorze : Victor Hugo's Portrayal of the Revolution
Description: This essay explores Victor Hugo's novel Quatrevingt-treize as a political warning to his fellow citizens in the 1870s.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:31907

Title: Shadows and Bloodlines in the Royal Family Potrait: Francisco Goya and 18th Century Mexican Casta Paintings
Description: This essay comapres Francisco Goya's royal portraits with 18th Century Mexican Casta paintings and argues that Goya was influenced by the earler Mexican style.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:31900

Title: The Grinnell Literary Societies: Documents, Photographs and Paraphernalia From Grinnell College's Earliest Student Organizations
Description: During Grinnell's earliest days, Alumni Hall rang out with fiery debate. Do we need political parties? Should the death penalty be abolished? For over 60 years, Grinnell College's Literary Societies met to dance, converse, and hold forth on issues that are still pertinent in the 21st century. These groups were the beginning of a tradition that carries on with the impressive number of organized student groups that the campus currently enjoys. Join us as we look back at the Grinnell Literary Societies.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:3204