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2022 Conference Program, Taylor University Apr 2022

2022 Conference Program, Taylor University

Phi Alpha Theta Conference at Taylor University

The 2022 Phi Alpha Theta conference took place on May 5, 2022 in the Zondervan Library at Taylor University.

Panel 1: Issues in Asian (-American) History

Panel 2: Themes in American History

Conference Organizer: Dr. Benjamin Wetzal


The Twin Yosemite Meetings Of John Muir: Ralph Waldo Emerson And Theodore Roosevelt, Russell Knapp Apr 2022

The Twin Yosemite Meetings Of John Muir: Ralph Waldo Emerson And Theodore Roosevelt, Russell Knapp

Phi Alpha Theta Conference at Taylor University

The two parallel visitations from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Roosevelt to John Muir and the different relationships that resulted illustrate two extremes in Muir’s life, the excited dreamer who was influenced by Emerson, and the accomplished conservationist who influenced Roosevelt.


From Disengagement To Intervention: The Chinese Civil War, Korean War, And The Paradigm Shift Of The U.S. Foreign Policy In East Asia, Hosung Jung Apr 2022

From Disengagement To Intervention: The Chinese Civil War, Korean War, And The Paradigm Shift Of The U.S. Foreign Policy In East Asia, Hosung Jung

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This paper is a comparative analysis of the U.S. foreign policy in the Chinese Civil War and Korean War on the brink of the Cold War in East Asia.


Rani Lakshmi Bai Of Jhansi: A Study In Indian Patriotic Memory, Elise Wixtrom Apr 2022

Rani Lakshmi Bai Of Jhansi: A Study In Indian Patriotic Memory, Elise Wixtrom

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Since the national Indian Independence movement of the 1940s, the Sepoy Mutiny has been ubiquitous as a romantic nationalist symbol. Among those immortalized by the Sepoy Mutiny is Rani Lakshmi Bai of of Jhansi, queen of the city of Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh. Her holding, passed on by her late husband, was threatened by British rule under ascendancy laws.1 Due to her tenuous position, Lakshmi Bai eventually joined the Indian rebels, becoming a recognizable heroine in folk tales and British imagination alike. Her image, formed by the Indian Independence movement of the 1940s, has many fictional iterations. Most, if not …


2021 Pat Conference Program, Taylor University Apr 2021

2021 Pat Conference Program, Taylor University

Phi Alpha Theta Conference at Taylor University

The first annual Phi Alpha Theta conference took place on April 20, 2021 in the Zondervan Library.

Panel 1: Identity and Power in the Ancient World and the 18th Century

Panel 2: War and its Legacies in the Modern World, 1860-1945

Conference Organizer: Dr. Benjamin Wetzel