Zach,

I'm planning to go to Manchester on the 4th or 5th and staying until the 6th
or 7th.  AAfter that, I'm not exactly sure -- perhaps London or Whales to
visit friends.  I'm checking on ferry and coach tickets today, so I'll keep
you posted begin' (that's Scottish for dude).

Oh yes -- to answer your question -- I'll be teaching two sections next fall
of a required course for all incoming freshman.  It's kind of similar to a
Western civ course only more intensive.  In general, the course (which is
Called Paideia, meaning education in Greek) is taught by about ten
proffessors from the history and English departments.  Focussing on rhetoric
and composition, the class begins first semester with Homer and the Odyssey
and ends second semester with modern literary and historical figures such as
Ibsen and Martin Luther King Jr. It is a challenging course for first-years
because of the volume and difficulty of some of the texts.  In addition to
this course, I'll have the opportunity second semester to teach two
additional European history courses which I'll choose a bit later in the
summer.  One course, I've been garrenteed, will be a special topic course on
European history, and I believe I'll pick Revolution and Rebelion in Modern
Ireland.  Finally, I'll have to teach a four-week January term course, and I
have no idea at this point what that might be.

Regards,
Brad
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From: jim baumohl <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 31 May 1999 19:06
Subject: Re: Temperance Vigilantes


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>elaine.  rather than reply to you individually, i wanted to encourage
>others to chime in.
>
>i suspect that by "temperance vigilantes" you refer to groups organized to
>barricade saloons and otherwise engage in direct action to affect the
>alcohol trade.  however, there's another use of the term that you might
>find interesting.
>
>in san francisco at the end of the 1850s, a neo-washingtonian organization
>called the dashaway association formed a "vigilance committee" whose
>members were to locate drunkards and exhort them to join the brotherhood
>and/or be treated at the san francisco home for the care of the inebriate
>(1859-1898).  all members of the association were pledged to keep a
>vigilant eye on each other and to report backsliding.
>
>the generic method of outreach was adopted from washingtonian practices in
>the east and seems similar to urban missionary work with which these
>transplants were familiar.  it also has some kinship with the friendly
>visiting committees established in 1819 by thomas chalmers in scotland and
>first applied in the u.s. during the 1840s by the new york association for
>improving the condition of the poor.  this proto-casework method became the
>hallmark of the charity organization societies that were borrowed from
>england and proliferated in the northern and western u.s. after 1877.
>
>more specifically, however, the term had reference to the method of social
>control practiced by the masons, odd fellows, ymca, and other voluntary
>associations of the era.  it was thus a temperance adaptation of a
>well-known practice for policing the association of strangers.
>
>finally, and most parochially, the term referred to san francisco's 2
>vigilance committees (of 1851 and 1856), which hung a few people and
>banished others in the name of civic decency.  the so-called great
>vigilance committee of 1856 laid the foundation for the city's governance
>by the people's party until 1867.  the early dashaway association, and a
>subsequent, more militant splinter group, the prohibitionist temperance
>legion (est. 1865), were closely associated with the people's party, the
>police department, and the fire department.
>
>jim baumohl, bryn mawr college
>
>
>At 12:25 PM 5/31/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Actually, I have two entirely different questions.
>>
>>1) In his _Woman's World, Woman's Empire_, Ian Tyrrell cites Frances
>>Willard, _A New Calling for Women_ (London: WWCTU 1893). I have been
>>trying to track this source down, but it's neither in WorldCat nor in the
>>National Union Catalog. Does anyone have any idea where I could find a
>>copy?
>>
>>2) I have just found some really interesting primary sources on antebellum
>>southern temperance vigilantes. I'm planning to pursue this in more
>>detail, but was wondering if anyone else has found descriptions of these
>>groups or is working along the same lines.
>>
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Elaine Frantz Parsons
>>Department of History
>>Johns Hopkins University
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>>(After 9/1/99 [log in to unmask])
>>
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