News of the Society U.S. and France

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-6
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Financial Position ◽  
Conference Center ◽  
The University ◽  
The Ideal

The general meeting of the Tocqueville Society-La Société Tocqueville held at the Birdwood Conference Center at the University of Virginia in October seems to have stimulated every aspect of the Society’s program. New memberships have been pouring in. The roster now stands at 367: 240 in the United States, 82 in France, and 45 in other countries. A membership campaign will be launched this spring and we expect by the end of the year to increase the size of the membership to around 450, very nearly the ideal size for a specialized learned society. The financial position of the Society, although not brilliant, is more secure than ever before.

Présentation

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Roland Simon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
United States Information Agency ◽  
Generous Support ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

On 29-31 May 1988 a French-American Bicentennial Conference was held at the University of Virginia to share in the spirit of commemoration of the Revolution on both sides of the Atlantic. The Tocqueville Review is pleased to publish here a selection of the papers that were presented and discussed among a group of about forty specialists in political science, history, sociology, civilization and literature from France and the United States. The conference and the publication of its proceedings would not have been possible without the generous support of the French Ministry of Foreign Relations and the Cultural Services of the French Chancelry in Washington, D.C., the United States Information Agency, and the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Virginia to all of whom we express our gratitude.

Mr. Jefferson's Rotunda

1992 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 883-884
Author(s):  
Raymond C. Bice
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The University ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Fine Print

✓ After retiring from the presidency of the United States, Thomas Jefferson concentrated his latter years on establishing The University of Virginia. He personally undertook the design of the buildings and directed the early days of the institution. The Rotunda, with its famous Dome Room and outside porticos, continues to receive critical acclaim for its architectural design.

Thomas Jefferson

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-14
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Blue Ridge ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Blue Ridge Mountains ◽  
Louisiana Purchase ◽  
The University

Both as a private citizen living at the foot of the eastern slope of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and as a public architect of nationhood, Thomas Jefferson witnessed and wrought extraordinary changes in a burgeoning nation. In 1774, Jefferson purchased 157 acres of land in Virginia, including Natural Bridge, for 20 shillings. This private purchase demonstrated Jefferson’s interest in protecting and utilizing the American landscape, echoed later in the public acquisition of the Louisiana Purchase, which Jefferson oversaw in 1803 as the third president of the United States. Jefferson’s particular dedication to Virginia is further evidenced by Monticello, his lifelong home and farm; Poplar Forest, his private retreat; and the University of Virginia, which he established and designed....

Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Merrill D. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The French Revolution

The meeting of this conference at the University of Virginia inevitably calls to mind the first public occasion in the history of the institution 163 years ago. General Lafayette, on his year-long triumphal tour of the United States, came to Charlottesville for a tearful reunion with his old friend, Thomas Jefferson. They had met in the perilous days of 1781 when Jefferson was governor of Virginia and Lafayette marched a small army into the state to repel the British invaders. Jefferson was grateful to the spirited young general, whose zeal for the American cause seemed scarcely less than his own. Three years later, in France, they became friends, and, in 1789, their friendship personified the historical nexus between the American and the French Revolution. Thereafter, they corresponded intermittently but did not meet again until 1824. Lafayette, though he had long since ceased to be a hero in France, remained a hero in America -- in itself a poignant commentary on the contrasting fates of the two great democratic revolutions. The University fathered by Jefferson was still unfinished in 1824. The Rotunda, commanding the Lawn, was still under scaffolding, and the massive Corinthian capitals imported from Carrara had yet to be raised atop the columns of the portico. But over 400 people crowded into the Dome Room for the great public dinner in honor of the “nations’s guest.” There were many toasts, of course; and Jefferson, who was 81 and in poor health, made a little address, through the voice of another, extolling Lafayette’s services in war and peace and closing with a prayer for “the eternal duration” of the nation’s freedom.

Présentation

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-12
Author(s):  
Theodore Caplow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research Group ◽  
International Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
West Germany ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
International Research Group ◽  
The University

The International Research Group for the Comparative Charting of Social Change (CCSC) was founded at the University of Virginia in 1986 by sociologists and historians from France, West Germany, Quebec, and the United States, who had been studying social trends in their respective countries. Most of the scholars who initiated the project were closely linked to The Tocqueville Society. The CCSC website (http://host.gesis.org/ccschomepage.html) gives more information on past and ongoing research of this group.

Convocation to a General Meeting of The Tocqueville Society

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 425-425
Keyword(s):  
General Meeting ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Conference Center ◽  
The University

There will be a general meeting of The Tocqueville Society / La Societé Tocqueville at the Birdwood Conference Center of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville on Wednesday, May 3rd, 1989.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

2015 ◽  
Vol 36-37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

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