-
Fragments of Time: The Legacy of Luna Kaufman
Ariel Espinoza Collantes
Ariel Espinoza is a Junior in the Honors Program at Seton Hall University, majoring in Political Science with a minor in Legal Studies in Business. Her project explores the life and legacy of Luna Kaufman, a Holocaust survivor, educator, and arts advocate, through archival research conducted at Seton Hall. Using a podcast format, Ariel examines how Kaufman’s experiences shaped her commitment to music, theater, and cultural preservation, and how she used the arts as a means of promoting memory, resilience, and understanding. Ariel's work highlights the role of archives as “time machines,” showing how the past continues to inform the present through the preservation of individual stories. Archival Collection Used: MSS-0102 Luna Kaufman collection
-
Imperial Coin Imagery and the Legitimation of Sacred Authority
Elizabeth Brooke Hurrell
Brooke Hurrell is a graduate student of Museum Professions with a focus in archives. Using the Roman coin collection of the D'Argenio collection at the library, Hurrell researched how Roman coins, both pagan and Christian, represented power, authority and religion. Walsh Gallery Collections used: D'Argenio Collection of Coins and Antiquities
-
George W. Bush’s Contemporary Crusade: Binary and Peace Rhetoric During the Global War on Terror
Justin Lotito
Justin Lotito is a senior majoring in communication studies, with minors in business administration, and journalism. Lotito’s Time Machine research investigates President George W. Bush’s rhetoric following the attacks of September 11. He contends that Bush established a binary world through the application of Manichean and Crusader rhetoric. Following this contention, Lotito applies Bush’s binary world framework into an analysis of the Setonian’s March 20, 2003, edition covering the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Archival Collection Used: SHU 0054 The Setonian
-
Fiery Dissent: Antiwar Activism and Institutional Tensions at Seton Hall University, 1969–1970
Amelia Olson
Amelia Olson is a sophomore majoring in Diplomacy and International Relations, with a minor in Spanish. Her research focuses on campus culture at Seton Hall University in 1970, drawing on archived WSOU recordings, The Setonian, and the Thomas Fahy Papers. Through this work, she explores how the Vietnam War shaped student life and heightened tensions on campus.
Archival Collections Used: SHU 0003-015 Office of the President & Chancellor of Seton Hall University: Thomas G. Fahy records, SHU 0037 WSOU Records, SHU 0054 The Setonian
-
“No future for Ireland under the heel of England”: Sinn Fein’s Voice of Revolution
Agostina Pieri
Agostina Pieri is a junior double majoring in History and Philosophy with a Spanish minor. She is fascinated by the intersection of morality and revolutions. Her Time Machine Project focuses on three pamphlets published by Sinn Fein during the Irish Revolution. This propaganda begs the question: how does Sinn Fein justify the use of violence? Her analysis focuses on the evolution of Sinn Fein’s arguments through the influence of the First World War and President Wilson’s “Fourteen Points.”
Rare Books Used: Ireland and the British Army, Eamonn de Valera states his case, The case of Ireland
Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing.
