This paper explores the controversial popularity of horse races at Pennsylvania
agricultural fairs at the turn of the twentieth century. While the excitement of horse races and the
gambling that surrounded them attracted ...
This paper analyzes three seventeenth century English ballads in order to understand the
complex factors that contributed to the views and understandings surrounding hair. It was
around this time that the view of men and ...
This paper studies gay and lesbian organizing at Swarthmore as part of national trends
of neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and queer politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Students
in this period achieved numerous ...
This paper investigates the “Vêpres Marseillaises,” a June 1881 anti-Italian riot
in Marseilles, in order to discuss the intersection of working class nationalism,
immigration, and French political and social discourses. ...
This paper questions the supposed linkage between Native Americans’ military service in
World War 1 (1914-1918) and the Native American Citizenship Act of 1924 that granted
citizenship to the remaining 125,000 noncitizen ...
This paper explores the rhetoric of the woman suffrage movement from a
historical perspective. It maintains that suffragists were making arguments about justice
and rights much more often—and for longer--than previous ...
This paper examines the labor movement in Pittsburgh between the years 1892-1919.
The labor movement at the turn of the century met new challenges as a new wave of immigrants
from Southern and Eastern Europe flooded the ...
As an intervention in the limited, male-centric historiography of prisoner organizing
in the 1970s, this paper focuses on a weeklong revolt in the North Carolina
Correctional Center for Women in 1975 in Raleigh, North ...
This paper traces the emergence and progression of cultural representations of post traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) in the United States from 1976-1988, as well as their impact on
the present day. Due to the ambiguities ...
This
paper
contextualizes
the
1891
mass
lynching
of
Italians
in
New
Orleans
as
a
moment
in
which
Italians
in
New
Orleans
are
marked
as
racially
“Dago.”
This
paper
draws
from
historical
scho ...
This paper explores a new view of Seward Collins, the publisher of the 1930s journal
known as the American Review—as a provocateur par excellence. Normally labeled a “fascist” in
historical literature, this paper tries ...
This paper examines the work of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as it
developed out of the Detroit Rebellion of 1967, the city’s prosperous auto industry, the labor
movement and the Black Freedom struggle. ...
Le genre d’intrigue dont le sujet principal est une femme non-blanche isolée dans la haute
société blanche n’est pas rare dans l’imagination coloniale européenne, particulièrement celle de
la France et l’Angleterre qui ...
Mes études couvrent plusieurs sujets et plusieurs disciplines, mais ce sur quoi je reviens
encore et encore pour aller un peu plus loin est le concept du plurilinguisme. Je parle l’espagnol
ainsi que le français et ...
Le jour de l’an 1976, une photographe locale du Maine du nom de Lynn Franklin a publié
le livre Profiles of Maine . Le livre a circulé un public limité, principalement au dedans le l'état,
et a compris des douzaines de ...
Il y a deux ans que j’étais en France pour mes études à l’étranger, un rite de passage pour
beaucoup d’étudiant.e.s universitaires. Un jour pendant le dîner, une invitée de ma famille
d’accueil m’a demandé mes origines. ...
Le 9 juin 2007, la société marocaine a tremblé sous le choc de la une de Tel Quel, un
hebdomadaire généraliste francophone aux tendances belliqueuses en circulation depuis 2001.
En effet, la couverture qui ornait alors ...
Un des champs d'études qui est en train de se développer le plus rapidement c'est
l'informatique. Aujourd'hui on peut utiliser l'informatique dans n'importe quel aspect de la vie et
c'est la raison pour laquelle beaucoup ...
This project is focused on the simulation and adaptation of a Viking boat. Using the
Danish Viking Museum’s open-source plans from the Gislinge Boat Project, we constructed a
two-thirds scale of the boat and adapted the ...
This paper analyzes the development of numerosity in one English-Spanish bilingual
two-year old. Using three of Wynn’s 1992 number experiments that have shaped the field of
children’s number-learning, I compare my subject’s ...