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Prodigal Sons and Daughters: Unitarianism in Philadelphia, 1796 -1846

Gaw, Charlotte (2012)

In this paper, Gaw examines the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia and the role that its version of “heterodox” or “liberal” Christianity played within the broader developments of American religion during the antebellum ...

Same Refreshing Taste, No Empire: Argentinean Advertising, Coca-Cola and the Shortcomings of the Cultural Imperialist Framework in Buenos Aires, 1940-1965

Hilfinger-Pardo, Solange (2012)

Shule Ya Uhuru: The "Modern Strivers" and D.C.'s Eastern High School Freedom Annex

Pomerantz, Ari (2012)

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 ...

A Fig For Your Philosophy and Great Knowledge in the Sciences: Observation, Deception, Scientific Fraud and Social Authority in the Antebellum Museum

Nagle, Jeffrey (2012)

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 ...

In Radical Defense of Themselves: Women Prison Organizing in the 1975 Raleigh Revolt

Jacome, Andrea (2013)

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 ...

The Space Between “Justice” and “Expediency” in Woman’s Suffrage Speech, 1870-1920

Lane, Heather (2013)

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 ...

Let Not a Red Come in Thy Bed: Construction of Hair in 17th Century England

Smith, Holly (2013)

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 ...

Critical Politics in a Neoliberal Institution: Gay and Lesbian Organizing at Swarthmore College, 1988-1993

Roseberry-Polier, Ali (2013)

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 ...

The Pennsylvania County Fair: A Snapshot of America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Duda, Sarah (2013)

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 ...

Immigration, Nationality, and Xenophobia in Late-19th Century Marseilles

McNeill, Patrick (2013)

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. ...

The Evolution of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in American Cinema and Culture

Hackeling, Patrick (2013)

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 ...

Native American Military Participation in World War 1: What Kind of Victory?

Lipnick, Abigail Rose (2013)

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 ...

Knowing Nothing: Labor, Nativism, and Class Divisions in turn-of-the century Pittsburgh

Kober, Jay (2013)

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 ...

The mass lynching of Italians in 1891 New Orleans: Marking Italians as racially “Dago”

Borkowski, Nicholas (2013)

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 Little City': Constructed Colonialism at the 1922 Colonial Exposition of Marseille

Ranshous, Allison (2013)

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 ...

The Writings of John of Damascus During the First Iconoclast Controversy

Sills, Alejandro (2013)

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 ...

Detroit, Theory, Practice: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers and Black Power at the Point of Production, 1967-1971

Aronoff, Kate (2013)

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. ...

Seward Collins as Provocateur: A New View on Collins’s Fascism and the American Review

Becker, Tyler (2013)

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 ...

The Tale of a Tour: Solomon Mikhoels, Itzik Fefer, and the Soviet Encounter with American Jewry

Petchenik, Molly Beryl (2016-08-03)

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 ...

Saving Furusato in the City of Quartz: Japanese American Imaginings of Community, Culture, and History through the Little Tokyo Redevelopment Projects

Mori, Samuel A. (2016-08-03)

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