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"Nothing In America Would Outrival Such A Spectacle": The Contested Histories Of Mount Rushmore, Western Tourism, And American Nationalism, Sophia Ciatti
Undergraduate Research Awards
Mount Rushmore, as one of the primary tourist destinations of both South Dakota and the American West in general, is an important source for an examination of American interstate tourism. However, while many scholars have discussed the physical history of Mount Rushmore, such as Gilbert Fite’s Mount Rushmore and Rex Allen Smith’s The Carving of Mount Rushmore, fewer historians have discussed the intellectual history behind the monument. The intentions imbued in the monument from its creators, and the impact the creation of Mount Rushmore had upon the American public are both worth analyzing because those two aspects ended up …
The Forced Effeminization Of Male Chinese Immigrants And The Consequences Of This Process, Hailee Brandt
The Forced Effeminization Of Male Chinese Immigrants And The Consequences Of This Process, Hailee Brandt
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The aim of this paper is to uncover and highlight the forced effeminization of male Chinese immigrants and the consequences of this process during the Chinese Exclusion Act Era. The Chinese Exclusion Act Era is defined by a period of time within American history in which strict and scrutinizing laws were created with the aim of restricting access to the United States for Chinese people. Additionally, these laws aimed to restrict the freedom the Chinese people might have had whilst living their lives in America if they ever were to make it through such oppressive borders. The most notable of …
Impacts On Native American Literacy Throughout The 1800s, Alyssa Lawhorn
Impacts On Native American Literacy Throughout The 1800s, Alyssa Lawhorn
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The literacy of Indigenous peoples of America underwent extreme transformations as the tedious attempts by descendants of colonizers to integrate aspects of white American life into Indigenous customs continued. Native American literacy exclusively consisted of oral traditions prior to the arrival of British colonizers in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia. These oral traditions were, and still are, key elements of Indigenous culture as they serve to distribute cultural lessons, record histories, and share religious legends through the generations and amongst others. As the basis of Indigenous culture these traditions were one of the primary features of Native American life that scholars …
“A Colony Of Our Choice”: Black Baltimoreans And Emigration To Trinidad, Mars Mcleod
“A Colony Of Our Choice”: Black Baltimoreans And Emigration To Trinidad, Mars Mcleod
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Black American history is a narrative characterized by a struggle for rights, including rights to self-preservation and self-determination, for all Americans. Exemplified throughout all four centuries of Black America’s creation, Black resistance to white supremacy has appeared in the form of protests, violence, emigration, and social movements, as well as more accommodationist theory and practice. Black Americans have been the primary force in building out and enforcing revolutionary the ideas presented in the Declaration of Independence, ensuring that those words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator …
Jewish Pioneers In The Service Of Christian Whiteness In The 19th-Century American West, Elizabeth Klein
Jewish Pioneers In The Service Of Christian Whiteness In The 19th-Century American West, Elizabeth Klein
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In recent years, historians of American religion have contributed significantly to pushing back against the conception of America as a nation founded on religious freedom and characterized since its inception by a strong sense of pluralism. Although religious tolerance was one of the most essential American ideals, it was not always a reality for minority religious groups, and the religious pluralism that developed in the years after the Revolution was created by those outside of the Christian majority who had to fight to create space within it. This research has shown that over the course of American history, Jews have …
Rabbits And Hogs And Bears, Oh My! Monstrous Births And Control Over Pregnant Bodies, Elizabeth Klein
Rabbits And Hogs And Bears, Oh My! Monstrous Births And Control Over Pregnant Bodies, Elizabeth Klein
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Monstrous birth stories occupied early modern European society between the 16th and 18th centuries. These stories depicted gruesome and fantastical births influenced by the imaginations and ill virtue of pregnant women, and the tales were the subject of much interest within the intellectual and medical community. The discussion of these births that took place among the male members of such communities were particularly revelatory of the way female bodies were viewed and controlled in early modern Europe. These conversations are evidenced in the writings of 16th and 17th-century European physicians about the power of women’s imaginations over their pregnant bodies, …
Jewish People And Relationships With Christians In The Antebellum Us, Elizabeth Klein
Jewish People And Relationships With Christians In The Antebellum Us, Elizabeth Klein
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In surveys of American history, the presence of Jewish people is usually not mentioned more than twice. The first time is with the late 19th-century’s major wave of Jewish immigration, and the second is with the onset of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Although discussing the history of Jewish immigration and anti-semitism in the United States is important, these stories are not the only ones that comprise Jewish American history. Little attention is paid to the Jewish population in America during the antebellum era, yet it is clear that Jewish people were here, and their presence was only …
The Worth Of The Black Disabled Body: An Excavation Of Black Disabled Legal History, Alyssa Mcleod
The Worth Of The Black Disabled Body: An Excavation Of Black Disabled Legal History, Alyssa Mcleod
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Slave law was overwhelmingly concerned with the state of individual bodies, from the earliest colonial iterations of race-based statutes through to the end of the antebellum era, becoming a key index in shaping the concept of race from that point forward. In this time, white legislators were trying to answer several burgeoning questions including: Are enslaved bodies inherently damaged, broken, criminal, or worthy of manumission? The answer, it seems, is that every enslaved person’s value was determined almost strictly on the value of their labor, and therefore, their ability to work (and thus, by implication, their value as salable property). …
Interpretresses: Native American Women Translators In Colonial America, Faith Clarkson
Interpretresses: Native American Women Translators In Colonial America, Faith Clarkson
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Underlying all the disputes and treaties between native Americans and Europeans was the need for an understanding of what the groups were saying to each other. Translation was the common denominator throughout the numerous interactions between native tribes in America and colonists coming over from Europe. In colonial America, translators were crucial to establishing relationships between native Americans and the Europeans that came to North America to create colonies. These interpreters operated in the in-between of two different cultures and they needed to be knowledgeable enough about both of them to correctly convey meaning to either side. It was also …
John Andrew Jackson: Enslaved Resistance, Uncle Tom’S Cabin, And The Downfall Of American Chattel Slavery, Alexander Ernst
John Andrew Jackson: Enslaved Resistance, Uncle Tom’S Cabin, And The Downfall Of American Chattel Slavery, Alexander Ernst
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John Andrew Jackson was a former slave who lived in the early-to-middle nineteenth century. After escaping slavery in South Carolina and making his way north to Massachusetts, Jackson was forced to head to Canada after the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act. Jackson lectured about his experiences as a slave after he travelled to England and he eventually returned to South Carolina after the Civil War, to the place where he was enslaved, where he worked to improve the lives of other former slaves. During his journey to Canada Jackson met Harriet Beecher Stowe, who housed Jackson and helped him …
The Practice Of Clitoridectomies: Its Influence On The Gikuyu Tribe, Kenyan National Identity, Cultural Nationalism, And British Powers, Savannah Scott
The Practice Of Clitoridectomies: Its Influence On The Gikuyu Tribe, Kenyan National Identity, Cultural Nationalism, And British Powers, Savannah Scott
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Within the Western world, the practice of clitoridectomies is infamous for its associations with infertility, hemorrhaging, and irreversible complications that affect the fertility and life of mothers and young women. In contrast, select tribes in the Eastern hemisphere uphold the practice with historical and cultural significance promoting its continuation in modern day; amongst these select tribes is the Gikuyu tribe in Kenya, Africa. The Gikuyu tribe, commonly known as the Kikuyu, has a long cultural history with clitoridectomies as the practice originated in ancestral tribal groups and is performed annually in a rite of passage ceremony called irua. Jomo Kenyatta, …
Rejecting Bolivarianism: Political Power In South America, Jaiya Mcmillan
Rejecting Bolivarianism: Political Power In South America, Jaiya Mcmillan
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By the time he was 36, Simon Bolivar had freed six countries from Spanish rule, often fighting armies of thousands with a couple hundred militia rebels. Bolivar was an incredible military strategist with a liberal approach, and went on to govern both Peru, and then-Gran Colombia, which was made up of modern-day Colombia and Venezuela. After his death in 1830, each of the countries he liberated mourned his loss, and in the almost two centuries since then, leaders have constantly used his name in order to revive his spirit and bolster their own political agendas. One such example is the …
Discursive Mapping: Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca And Thomas Jefferson’S Construction Of Selfhood And Otherness, Monica Doebel
Discursive Mapping: Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca And Thomas Jefferson’S Construction Of Selfhood And Otherness, Monica Doebel
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The binary of savage versus civilized was deeply embedded in the structure of early American society and the consciousness of early generations of colonizers, codified through multiple methods of inscribing meaning upon native land. Thomas Jefferson, in his pseudo-scientific Notes on the State of Virginia, taxonomizes life in native America using maps, charts, and textual descriptions for the purpose of consolidating an American identity premised on superiority over native people and black slaves. In contrast, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca maps native America purely through language, constructing the illusory infallibility of European colonizers while crafting an overall narrative of native …
Feminism In Revolution: Women Of The 19th Century Anti-Tsarist Movements, Kayley Delong
Feminism In Revolution: Women Of The 19th Century Anti-Tsarist Movements, Kayley Delong
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The climate of political upheaval in Russia over the course of the 19th century reached a violent climax in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in March of 1881. His death was the result of decades of civil unrest amongst Russian citizens who had taken hold of enlightenment ideas and sought justice for economic and social inequality. In a complex equation of issues and policies, the ways in which the women question combined with the surge of new ideas produced a unique and perfect storm. Russia was the epicenter of a collision between an underdeveloped infrastructure and changing philosophies about …
Nasser Of Egypt And The Egypt Of Nasser, Pria G. Jackson
Nasser Of Egypt And The Egypt Of Nasser, Pria G. Jackson
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In the Egyptian consciousness, there is a date that resonates in the nation’s memory as the official catalyst that led to the rise of modern Egypt: July 23, 1952. On this day, a military group called the Free Officers rose up and seized control of Egypt from the monarchs and British colonizers in a near bloodless coup d’état. The face of the Free Officers at the time of the coup was General Muhammad Naguib (1901 – 1984), but the brain and heart of the movement was the then colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 – 1970). During the first three years …
Madame Tussaud And The Women Of The French Revolution, Leah Craig
Madame Tussaud And The Women Of The French Revolution, Leah Craig
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A critical examination of Madame Tussaud's life, especially focusing on self-representation in her memoir and her methods of surviving the French Revolution. The PDF includes the author's entry submission essay from the 2013 Undergraduate Research Awards.
Unfinished Agenda, Mildred Emory Persinger
Unfinished Agenda, Mildred Emory Persinger
Mildred E. Persinger Papers
(excerpt) Why am I still working in the campaigns for civil rights and human rights after seventy years? The question has never come up—until now. Yet it is to be expected. Even as a child I was upset by hearing disparaging remarks about cherished black friends. In college I was stunned to learn that others had raised questions about the propriety of my invitation to a young Japanese student to spend the weekend with me. Later I was ashamed and worried for her that in Virginia she might have been rejected because she was not white enough.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Leader Of The Constitutional Women's Suffrage Movement In Great Britain, Cecelia Parks
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Leader Of The Constitutional Women's Suffrage Movement In Great Britain, Cecelia Parks
Undergraduate Research Awards
Examines Millicent Garrett Fawcett's leadership of the National Union of Women‟s Suffrage Societies and her role in the enfranchisement of British women. The PDF includes the author's entry submission essay for the 2012 Undergraduate Research Awards.
Acceptance Remarks At World Ywca Awards Dinner In Brisbane, Mildred Emory Persinger
Acceptance Remarks At World Ywca Awards Dinner In Brisbane, Mildred Emory Persinger
Mildred E. Persinger Papers
No abstract provided.
Additional Addresses Of Groups And Organizations
Additional Addresses Of Groups And Organizations
Mildred E. Persinger Papers
No abstract provided.
A Women's 2001 Policy Scoreboard, March 2001
A Women's 2001 Policy Scoreboard, March 2001
Mildred E. Persinger Papers
No abstract provided.
Postview 2000, No. 6, March 2001
Preview 2000, No. 3, January 2000
The Tribune, No. 57, July 1997
The Tribune, No. 56, April 1997
Mildred Emory Persinger As A Representative Of The World Ywca, Mildred Emory Persinger
Mildred Emory Persinger As A Representative Of The World Ywca, Mildred Emory Persinger
Mildred E. Persinger Papers
A typset biographical note for Mildred Persinger.
Mildred Emory Persinger : Participation In International Women's Movement, Mildred Emory Persinger
Mildred Emory Persinger : Participation In International Women's Movement, Mildred Emory Persinger
Mildred E. Persinger Papers
A typset draft of a biographical note for Mildred Persinger related to participation in the International Women's Movement.