Philadelphia’s first, charity-run public bathhouse was established in 1898 by the Public
Baths Association of Philadelphia. By the turn of the century, bathing had become inexorably linked
to a series of social beliefs, ...
This article aims to investigate the changing political alignment of the Chilean Catholic
Church following the fall of the dictatorship in the early 1990’s. The author brings together a
primary source collection of of ...
This paper analyzes the history of cybercrime rhetoric through the 1989 hacking of the earliest
internet network, ARPANET. The event is useful for understanding how contagion rhetoric of the
computer science professionals ...
On the Tuesday morning of August 1st, 1944, two and half million Philadelphians found
themselves without a ride. When the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin published pictures of
Thomas Allen(Image a) and James Stewart(Image ...
In 1774, living in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, Antoine bought his
freedom from the Gentil de Paroy, only to be arrested by his former master two years
later and accused of using poison. With his mother, Lisette, ...
This thesis sets out with the aim of making an intervention in the study of gender and
sexuality in the eighteenth century by centering shame in the construction of polite masculinity
and sodomy in eighteenth-century ...
This paper looks over the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1967 and analyzes the role that armed self-defense played during this period. By looking at the violence that erupted following the 1954 Brown v. Board of ...
This paper examines the rapid change in smoking culture in Buenos Aires, from celebrated to medicalized, following the ratification of the World Health Organization’s treaty for tobacco control in 2003. It attempts to use ...
This paper explores cross-dressing in the San Francisco Bay Area at the turn-of-the-
twentieth-century (c.1890-1910) and narrates the extraordinary lives of Edward James Livernash and Milton Matson, two individuals who ...
This paper argues that the strategic shape of the 1954–1965 classical civil rights
movement was neither inevitable nor a simple progression of American values, but was the result of extensive ideological contestation ...
Soccer is Kenya’s most popular sport, watched by almost every Kenyan. Soccer has a long history in Kenya, beginning with its introduction in the colonial period, when it was used by British colonists as a way to teach ...
Black activism in 1830s New York was centered around antislavery and abolitionism, and as such was deeply connected to white reform of all forms. Though this connection provided an economic base for black organization, it ...
The Macedonia Cooperative Community was established in 1938 as an experiment in cooperative economics by Morris Mitchell who hoped that the model of the community would provide a solution to the South’s economic woes. This ...
One of the first paradoxes of Bitcoin was how the community would uphold Satoshi’s original vision and founding principles after its creation. Despite much recent scholarly discussion on the idea of Bitcoin, intellectual ...
In June 1943 Solomon Mikhoels and Itzik Fefer, members of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, embarked on a tour of the United States and several other countries. The aims of the tour were to raise funds for the Red ...
The subject of this inquiry is Saint John of Damascus, an eighth-century Syrian monk who wrote against Byzantine Iconoclasm. Through a study of his writings and the works that he cited, together with an investigation into ...
This paper explores the intersection of race and French colonial policy at the 1922 National Colonial Exposition of Marseille, which occurred in the midst of Europe's "exposition fever," during the late nineteenth and early ...
This research paper examines the organizing work of “The Modern Strivers”, a group of black high-school students from Washington D.C.’s Eastern Public High School, between the years of 1967-1969. Following in the legacy ...
There is an increasingly sophisticated literature on the role played by museums in reaffirming social norms of examination in the antebellum United States. This literature has largely focused on the way museums presented ...