Combining a critical dive into the archives of Indigenous history, a survey of Indigenous
historiography, and recorded interviews with Pueblo women-led organizations Tewa Women
United and Three Sisters Collective, this ...
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 ...
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twentieth-century (c.1890-1910) and narrates the extraordinary lives of Edward James Livernash and Milton Matson, two individuals who ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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. ...
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 examines the labor movement in Pittsburgh between the years 1892-1919.
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from Southern and Eastern Europe flooded the ...
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to be built at the former location of President George Washington’s Philadelphia home—a site
where America’s first President held ...
This paper analyzes three seventeenth century English ballads in order to understand the
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In 1774, living in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, Antoine bought his
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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...