Spreading the News about Hydropathy: How Did Americans Learn to Stop Worrying and Trust the Water Cure?

This paper was delivered at the 2012 annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in Baltimore. It was included in a panel on information networks in the early republic and explores the question of how some Americans decided to trust information about the water cure, a nineteenth-century health reform movement also known as hydropathy

Making Slavery History: Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts

Exploring the Intersection of Memory and History On October 4, 1859, abolitionist lecturer Wendell Phillips came not to praise Daniel Webster, but to bury him again. Though Webster had died in 1852, he still lived in infamy among abolitionists for having endorsed the Fugitive Slave Law ...

The Effects of Exogenous Extracellular Matrix and Substrate Stiffness on Mouse Tendon Cells In Vitro

To improve the treatment of musculoskeletal injuries, a better understanding of the transitional environment in which progenitor cells form mature musculoskeletal constructs is necessary. This need arises because injury repair requires restructuring of tissue, similar to the initial tissue construction that occurs during embryonic development by progenitor cells. Differences in both the biochemical and mechanical environments between a transitional and a differentiated state are known to take place, but how these differences affect cell behavior had not yet been characterized in mammalian tendon cells. In order to investigate this, we have determined the effects of exogenous extracellular matrix and the effects of substrate stiffness on mice tendon cells. Cell behavior is evaluated according to changes in proliferation with respect to exogenous ECM - fibronectin, laminin, tenascin-C, and denatured collagen – and the stiffness of the culture substrate – 100Kpa, 35Kpa, 15Kpa, 2Kpa. This study indicates that tenascin-C and denatured collagen have significantly higher proliferation over a 24 hour period than either fibronectin or laminin. Additionally, cell proliferation with respect to substrate stiffness is significantly different between conditions; however, trends vary per ECM indicating that the biochemical and mechanical pathways that regulate cell proliferation are dependent and ECM specific. This study has elucidated the effects of biochemical and mechanical variations on mammalian tendon cells to provide insight into the nebulous behavioral differences between transitional and differentiated tissue

Potent and broad HIV-neutralizing antibodies in memory B cells and plasma.

CAPRISA, 2017.Abstract available in pdf

Data Mining the Internet Archive Collection

The collections of the Internet Archive (IA) include many digitized sources of interest to historians, including early JSTOR journal content, John Adams’s personal library, and the Haiti collection at the John Carter Brown Library. In short, to quote Programming Historian Ian Milligan, “The Internet Archive rocks.” In this lesson, you’ll learn how to download files from such collections using a Python module specifically designed for the Internet Archive. You will also learn how to use another Python module designed for parsing MARC XML records, a widely used standard for formatting bibliographic metadata

Repealing Unions: American Abolitionists, Irish Nationalists, and the Coming of the Civil War

Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia, PA (January 6, 2006

The Case of John L. Brown: Slavery, Sex, South Carolina, and the Whispering Gallery of Transatlantic Abolitionism

Paper presented at “Civil War—Global Conflict,” conference held at Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program, College of Charleston, March 4, 2011.Please see http://mcdaniel.blogs.rice.edu/?p=105 for an abstract

The Fourth and the First: Abolitionist Holidays, Respectability, and Radical Interracial Reform

Copyright © 2005 American Studies Association. This article first appeared in <i>American Quarterly</i> 57, no. 1 (2005), 129-151. Reprinted with permission by The Johns Hopkins University Press

Repealing Unions: American Abolitionists, Irish Repeal, and the Origins of Garrisonian Disunionism

This article has been published as "Repealing Unions: American Abolitionists, Irish Repeal, and the Origins of Garrisonian Disunionism," <i>Journal of the Early Republic</i> 28, no. 2 (2008), 243-269. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112. (For more information, <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/about/archivepolicy.html">click here</a>.