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The Grand Forks Business And Professional Women’S Club: A History Of Women’S Empowerment, Emily Bruer
The Grand Forks Business And Professional Women’S Club: A History Of Women’S Empowerment, Emily Bruer
Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Showcase
Members of the Grand Forks Business and Professional Women’s Club (GFBPWC) personified the intersection of consumer culture, Progressive reform, and the professionalization of women’s labor that occurred between 1890 and 1930. Their membership in the GFBPWC implied economic, political, and social empowerment and granted them an opportunity to actively participate in and transform their community. Not only were these professional women recognized as reputable, upstanding, and passionate members of their community, but they also saw themselves as agents of positive change and improvement within their own lives and for future generations. This study of the concurrent rise of consumer culture, …
Overland Trail Game: A Lesson Plan, Alexandria Weber
Overland Trail Game: A Lesson Plan, Alexandria Weber
Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Showcase
Educators of all levels are continuously looking for new ways to engage students with the content. Some post-secondary level instructors have embraced a unique method of role-playing games in their classrooms. Specially, many of these teachers have begun using Mark Carnes's pedagogy of Reacting to the Past. This method gamifies historical content to make it easier for students to relate to a diverse array of historical actors. To play these games, students must achieve a specific goal while pretending to be an assigned historical figure. Reacting to the Past lesson plans are one of a kind, high quality, peer-reviewed teaching …
Invisible Armies: French Colonial Soldiers During World War I And Their Absence From History, Molly Anderson
Invisible Armies: French Colonial Soldiers During World War I And Their Absence From History, Molly Anderson
Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Showcase
World War I is an incredibly significant event in world history and continues to loom large in French memory today. Unfortunately, memory is often unreliable and as a result, people, places, and events can easily be forgotten, as is the case with French colonial soldiers during World War I. Colonial soldiers, particularly those from French West Africa, suffered a great deal because of their forced involvement in the conflict. Despite the major disruption the war had on their lives, however, the ways French media at the time chose to depict these soldiers was based almost exclusively on stereotypes and mockery. …