When World War II ended in 1945, Americans
flocked to Yellowstone National Park in unprecedented numbers. Since Congress established
Yellowstone as the first national park in 1872, notions of American ...
From the very beginning of the U.S. Military’s evacuations of South Vietnam, things did not go as planned. South Vietnam’s sudden retreat down the Indochinese Peninsula and the North Vietnamese Communist forces’ subsequent ...
Diego Rivera’s murals explicitly called for political action on the part of the spectator, and his vision accelerated the formulation of a class conscious proletariat in Mexico which wished to advocate for its own interests ...
In the first half of the eighteenth century,
the Habsburg family faced a dynastic crisis. Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI had no sons to
inherit his kingdom. Consequently, he presented his daughter, Maria ...
After four hundred years the island of Dejima, in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan, is a renewed symbol of international cooperation. This thesis summarized the value of Dejima during Japan's "closed country" period, but ...
In April of 1880, six chiefs and headmen of
the Apsáalooke (Crow) Indians traveled in a delegation to Washington, DC to meet with
federal officials. In the city, they discussed a proposed land cession that ...
This thesis analyzes the cultural memory,
historical narrative, and political meaning of the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset
County. It examines the memorial’s creation, its relationship to the local ...
Making claims about the natural world is a
social endeavor that is tied up in collaborative networks of people of varying statuses. In
early eighteenth-century England, as exotic plants were streaming into ...
Regarded as a setting for civilized debates
and gentility, the coffeehouse in eighteenth-century London distinguished itself as the
epicenter of political dissent, intellectual discourse, and the circulation ...
When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9,
1989, Berliners and foreigners alike seized the opportunity to smash, chop, and haul away
the barrier that had symbolized the global division of the Cold War for ...
This project examines the yellow fever
epidemics that ravaged the French army during the failed French occupation of
Saint-Domingue, from 1802-1803, that marked the end of the Haitian Revolution and the ...
This thesis is concerned with crime and poverty during the second half of the 20th century in the United States. Particularly, it concerns the process through which young, poor, urban, racial minorities became the nexus ...
Efforts to solve the Jewish refugee crisis created by the expansion of the Nazi empire have largely been examined with the hindsight that those efforts failed to rescue the millions of Jews who perished during the Holocaust. ...
During the latter half of the twentieth century, Andrei Tarkovsky received arguably more critical admiration for his films than any Soviet director. During his filmmaking career, the Soviet Union experienced a tumultuous ...
Sarah Wistar, Emma Jane Fussell, and Jane Gibbons Rhoads faced difficult transitions from girlhood to womanhood. As middle and upper-class girls in the mid-nineteenth century United States, their childhoods had been marked ...
In January 1920, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Augustus Granville Dill – three prominent race activists of the black elite who strove to prove black people’s deservingness of equal rights and fought for racial ...
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 ...
For my senior thesis, I will be discussing the early history of football at the University of Notre Dame between the years, 1913 and 1924. During this period, the football team climbed from the ranks of a little known ...
The American Century denotes a period of U.S. political, economic, and cultural dominance in the twentieth century that reached its height in the middle of the century after World War II and before the Vietnam War. Midcentury ...
The current paper explores the life, writings, and the social milieu of Imai Utako 今井歌子 (1877-1968), a friend of the Heiminsha, editor of Nijū Seki no Fujin, and the leader of the first three petitions for women’s right ...