Gamal Abdel Nasser played an integral role in Middle East politics in the 1950s and 1960s. He led a military coup against the incumbent King, and then successfully converted his political capital into a national revolution. ...
"When scouts refer to themselves as 'baseball men,' they might as well be naming a distinct class of primates. Just before Jocko Collins retired in 1982, in his forty-third year as a scout, he defined a baseball man as 'a ...
Baseball in its history and tradition has become ingrained within the identity of the
United States. Dubbed the 'National Pastime,' the game of baseball is emblematic of the
traditional American values of democracy and ...
This thesis examines A Far Journey (1914), the autobiography by Syrian-American pastor Abraham Mitrie Rihbany, and parses its relationship and reaction to American nativism and to the growing Syrian-American community. A ...
When Alexander Dubcek took over the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in
1968, he embarked on an ambitious reform program meant to create a better relationship between the Party and the people of Czechoslovakia. The reform ...
This thesis investigates individual differences in identity development and actions of identification amongst a generation of South African Jewish youth in the mid-20th century. Specifically, it examines the effect of one's ...
The traditional history of the Cold War centers on the communist influence in America. Viewing the history from 1950 ti 1964 with this lens forces events within this time period to be constricted within this framework. ...
Dr. David Livingstone, a nineteenth century Scottish missionary doctor and government-commissioned explorer, is popularly known as an iconic, self-sacrificing Victorian hero who tirelessly devoted his life to working in ...
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of over 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast. In late March, the military began the process of transferring Japanese ...
Immigration in early 20th century America saw a great influx of people from the southeastern European country of Greece. My maternal great-grandfather, Vasilios Ramos, emigrated from Greece to America in 1915. As the ...
My thesis examines the ways in which Italian female authors questioned the policies and ideologies of the fascist regime, led by Benito Mussolini. With the support of eight short stories written by authors Grazia Deledda, ...
From 1780 to 1783, Peru and Bolivia were embroiled in a bloody revolution against colonial Spain. Spanning from well north of Cuzco to provinces south of Lake Titicaca, the Great Rebellion was the most serious threat to ...
India and Pakistan are locked in a battle in which neither will compromise. Their differences,
they believe, are ultimately based in their religious identities and their experiences during the Partition in which they were ...
This thesis explores the relationship between mothers, scientific experts and food
advertisers in the turn-of-the-century United States. Industrialization and urbanization created a thriving consumer society in the early ...
This thesis aims to compare the ways in which Joan of Arc was portrayed by the
French Resistance with the way she was depicted by the collaborationist Vichy government between 1940 and 1944. The fact that she could represent ...
This thesis is comprised of five microhistories that track the life stories of Muslim, literate enslaved men from West Africa. Bilali Muhammad, Omar ibn Said, Nicholas Said, Ayuba Sulemayn Diallo and Abdul Rahman Ibrahima ...
On a gloomy November morning in 1918, nervous spectators watched as fleets of grey ships entered the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul. Stately British warships led the procession, followed close behind by those of the French ...