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The World's Fare: Food And Culture At American World Fairs From 1893-1939, Elizabeth Badger
The World's Fare: Food And Culture At American World Fairs From 1893-1939, Elizabeth Badger
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Why is the American culinary tradition as conflicted as it is? How is it that processed foods, foreign cuisine and home cooking can all be lauded as American ways of eating? This paper highlights the conflict between top-down government and corporate prescriptions on how we should eat and the reality of what was consumed by using American World Fairs as snapshots of particular points in time. Utilizing guidebooks, cookbooks, magazine articles and advertisements, this paper aims to show that these trends, rather than suddenly appearing, were already beginning to develop in part due to ideas presented at these fairs intentionally …
Harvey Milk And California Proposition 6: How The Gay Liberation Movement Won Two Early Victories, Ramy K. Khalil
Harvey Milk And California Proposition 6: How The Gay Liberation Movement Won Two Early Victories, Ramy K. Khalil
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The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) movement scored two historic victories in California in the late 1970s. Despite difficult odds, the movement succeeded in electing Harvey Milk as the first openly gay male candidate to political office in the country. The election of Harvey Milk to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors took place at time when anti-gay ballot initiatives were being approved by large majorities of voters in states across the country. Furthermore, the LGBT liberation movement succeeded in defeating an anti-gay ballot initiative in California in 1978, Proposition 6. Based on extensive primary source research, this thesis …
"Actuated By The Fear Of Loosing Their All": Civilian Response To The Revolutionary War In Georgia, Leslie Hall
"Actuated By The Fear Of Loosing Their All": Civilian Response To The Revolutionary War In Georgia, Leslie Hall
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Between 1775 and 1782 Georgia was wracked by social and political revolutions, as well as a local civil war. Britain and the United States wanted Georgia, and during the Revolutionary War they established competing civil governments and military units within her borders. Irregular troops, autonomous militia units and unaligned marauders roamed the countryside, while the military requisitioned property and claimed booty. As the threat of famine and anarchy grew, the rival governments struggled to keep people from fleeing Georgia, and allowed a flexible allegiance in order to maintain the population. Many who survived these years in Georgia did so by …