The body politic and the politics of two bodies: Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln in death

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The distancing of Abraham Lincoln's body from Mary Todd Lincoln after his assassination in 1865 was part of the effort to create an official version of history. The Union needed Lincoln's corpse to function as a unifying image. Mary Todd was seen as problematizing this vision and she was allowed her position next to him only after her own death 17 years later in 1882. The differences in the treatment Abraham and Mary received raises interesting questions about gender and nationalism.

Behavior, Lincoln, Abraham, Political sociology, Nationalism, Assassination, Lincoln, Mary Todd

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Inscribing boundaries in John Sloan's Hairdresser's Window: privacy and the politics of vision

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The author discusses critical reaction to John Sloan's 1907 painting 'Hairdresser's Window.' She also comments on the social history and politics of professional hairdressing and on the early 20th century public's association of hairdressing with indiscretion, sexuality, and danger.

Hairdressing, Art and society, Hairdresser's Window (Painting), Sloan, John (American painter)

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Toward a democratic politics of meaning-making: the Transcendentalist controversy and the rise of pluralist discourse in Jacksonian Boston

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An analysis is presented on Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1838 address to the Harvard Divinity School and its political implications. Topics include moral agency, truth and social order, public versus private construct, and figurative versus literal interpretation of Biblical scripture.

Massachusetts, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Boston, Massachusetts, Religious aspects, Critical Essay, Nature, Pluralism, Truth, Transcendentalism (New England), American transcendentalism, Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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