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. ...
This paper explores rape-revenge films released during the 1970s and 1980s,
which coincided with the antirape movement, an extension of second-wave feminism that sought
to bring attention to, and eliminate, rape from ...
Muhammad Ali is best known as being a fighter who transcended the sport of boxing during his
time in the ring, yet a pivotal moment in his life occurred outside the ring with his protest of the
Vietnam War draft. Newspapers ...
This paper focuses on the modern NBA as a sports institution and entertainment business that
has become increasingly entrenched in sports analytics as a means to understand and improve the
game of basketball. It examines ...
The authoritarian nationalist government of Francisco Franco aggressively
pushed the idea that Spain was a unified nation and culture. However, Spanish culture
has always been varied, and possesses a great deal of influence ...
This paper explores the role of Derry City F.C. in the sectarian conflict of The Troubles
in Northern Ireland from 1970 to 1985. The experiences of Derry City as a soccer team were
deeply intertwined with the pervasive ...
The first arrival of Chinese migrants to Peru was documented over 170 years ago; today,
third-, fourth-, and fifth-generation Peruvians of Chinese and Japanese descent have carved a
space for themselves in Peruvian ...
In 2002, historical research revealed that Philadelphia’s new Liberty Bell Pavilion was
to be built at the former location of President George Washington’s Philadelphia home—a site
where America’s first President held ...
The French Third Republic under Minister of Education Jules Ferry used public
education to breach the sociopolitical divide between urban and rural France at the tail end of the
nineteenth century. Ferry’s calls for ...