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The Four-note Chord of Liberty: Why the Founders Believed that Character Mattered
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Words remain in usage while their meanings change without our noticing. This is a particularly vexing problem when a word is intended to capture the central human value in United States history and continues to be the ...
A Cultural Genealogy of Strategic Rationality
(Georgetown University, 2018)
I construct in this dissertation a cultural genealogy to trace in Western civilization a consistent set of values that underlie a worldview that I call Strategic Intelligence (SI). I argue that the plethora of cultural ...
We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident: The National Guard and the Categorical Imperative
(Georgetown University, 2019)
This thesis makes the ethical case for a volunteer Citizen-Soldier military in a democratic republic using Immanuel Kant’s (1724-1804) Categorical Imperative as justification. An Enlightenment theory, Kant’s Categorical ...
Catch Me? Yes, You Can: Examining 1918 Pandemic Narratives
(Georgetown University, 2022)
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic narrative is the conduit through which popular and academic scholarship understand this pandemic – unchanged since it was crafted by historians in the 1970s. However, the 1918 pandemic was a ...
Georgetown University Nursing History: A Look at Early Baccalaureate and Practical Nursing Education Models
(Georgetown University, 2022)
History associated with nursing education at Georgetown University has been recounted by other writers, most fully by Alma S. Woolley. A onetime dean of the School of Nursing, she wrote about ninety-seven years of its ...
EXPLAINING THE NEED FOR DOCUMENTING THE EXPERIENCES OF THE SOLDIERS IN THE GREAT WAR
(Georgetown University, 2022)
My thesis argues that studying the experiences of average American soldiers in the Great War can help in the search for the creation of meaning in any type of strange surroundings. For historians and theologians, the ...
THE AFFAIR OF INDEPENDENCY: THE INFLUENCE OF CLASSICAL WRITING ON POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN AMERICA’S FOUNDING ERA
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This thesis investigates to what extent political discourse in America’s Founding Era, from the enactment of the Stamp Act in 1765 to the ratification of the Constitution in 1788, was influenced by classical authors and ...