Scottish nationalism is a current and pressing issue, with the nation poised for another vote on independence after the failed 2014 referendum and the consequences of Brexit in 2016. In a long history of wars and rebellions ...
This thesis aims to showcase why Oscar Robertson was the ideal person to take over as president of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) in 1965. It also argues that the current state of NBA free agency would ...
The International Labor Organization (ILO) was founded in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference with the aim of promoting the universal improvement of working conditions via structured cooperation between the state, workers, ...
From the late 1940s until 1987, the Intelligence Division of the Police of Puerto Rico compiled files on individuals tied to pro-independence and nationalist movements. These files, known as carpetas, held personal information ...
Emma Willard published the first two editions of her bestselling textbook History of the United States in 1828 and 1829. Willard had already gained fame as an educational reformer and advocate for female education. She was ...
This thesis explores Sino-Western exchanges in eighteenth-century England, from the 1740s-1760s, to investigate the material culture side of Chinese porcelain and ceramic goods within the context of the English fascination ...
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, marked the first use of nuclear weapons in a conflict in history. As one of the tragedies marking the conclusion of the Second World War, its social and political impact ...
In 1965, a group of ten architects, poets, artists, and philosophers set out from Punta Arenas, a town deep in Chilean Patagonia, with the intention of traversing the South American continent to find poetic inspiration for ...
As a historical site of labor and race-making, the levee—ubiquitous along the southern Mississippi River on account of the plantation class's desire to protect their productive land from flooding—was integral to defining ...
In the mid-18th-century, sexuality, as it related to gender, became increasingly convoluted. Men who slept with men were not properly represented by terms such as "sodomite" and "pederast." Instead, they occupied a new ...
When the French Revolution erupted in 1789, revolutionaries strove to foster a sense of freedom of expression, guaranteeing a brief freedom of the press. The eleventh article of the 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Man ...
In the summer of 1902, a group of disgruntled Georgian peasants in the small county of Guria refused to pay Russian government taxes and demanded that their rents be reduced. Their boycott soon spread throughout the western ...
Using an archive of magazine images, advertisements, film, and oral histories, this thesis argues that constructed ideas of beauty were deployed as disciplinary technologies for the American imperial project in Hawaii. I ...
Seth Koven, the author of Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London, defined slumming as "activities undertaken by people of wealth, social standing, or education in urban spaces inhabited by the poor" ...
Between September 1990 and September 1999, the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert expanded its attendance from 90 to 23,000 people, growing from a scattered campsite into Black Rock City, a proclaimed ...
The shooting of Chinese protesters by the foreign-controlled Shanghai Municipal Police on May 30, 1925, triggered a wave of anti-foreign protests including a triple stoppage of labor, commerce, and education and a boycott ...
This thesis explores the uses of the words alchemy and chemistry in mind-17th century English translations of Paracelsian treatises. I identified a gap in current scholarship where, while "alchemy" and "chemistry" have ...
This thesis discusses the visibility of Islamic influences in the cuisine of early modern Iberia and its cultural and political implications on the emerging discourse of a "Spanish" national identity. Formerly divided into ...
Although the United States' legal system has always contended with families which crossed racial boundaries, the legalization of interracial marriage in 1967 and the accompanying civil rights era significantly altered the ...
1979 –1995 was a remarkable period in the history of U.S. foreign policy. This period witnessed the breakdown of the Cold War dichotomy, the rise of global neoliberalism, and an all-around re-framing of the world political ...