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Book Review On Fight The Power: African Americans And The Long History Of Police Brutality In New York City., James Barney
Book Review On Fight The Power: African Americans And The Long History Of Police Brutality In New York City., James Barney
Madison Historical Review
Attached is a book review on Clarence Taylor's Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City
Between The Pulpit And The Gallows: Forging Race And Identity In 18th Century New England, Arranne G. Paige-Rispoli
Between The Pulpit And The Gallows: Forging Race And Identity In 18th Century New England, Arranne G. Paige-Rispoli
Madison Historical Review
No abstract provided.
Casualties Of War? Refining The Civilian-Military Dichotomy In World War I, Eric Grube
Casualties Of War? Refining The Civilian-Military Dichotomy In World War I, Eric Grube
Madison Historical Review
Throughout the First World War, newspapers around the world mocked the British state for its lavish spending on captured German officers kept at Donington Hall, a refurbished English estate. Why was this camp such a controversial space of perceived decadence? I argue that its comforts seemed to linger from an earlier era, one in which military men exuded genteel civility as integral to their supposedly heroic service. The British state essentially enabled such treatment, and the public decried this space for sustaining the anachronism of aristocratic privilege in the face of a globalized total war. However, the German inmates expected …
Producing Historical Knowledge On Wikipedia, Petros Apostolopoulos
Producing Historical Knowledge On Wikipedia, Petros Apostolopoulos
Madison Historical Review
The aim of this study is to show how Wikipedia establishes a public and digital space, where users produce historical knowledge following specific guidelines and methods.This article intends to show how Wikipedia’s methods and tools can constitute an exemplar for digital public history project in the future. Both the methods and guidelines that Wikipedia establishes to gather, select and produce historical knowledge can inspire the creation of new digital public history projects, in which history will not be consumed passively, but it will be produced actively by the public.
Russia's Empress-Navigator: Transforming Modes Of Monarchy During The Reign Of Anna Ivanovna, 1730-40., Jacob S. Bell
Russia's Empress-Navigator: Transforming Modes Of Monarchy During The Reign Of Anna Ivanovna, 1730-40., Jacob S. Bell
Madison Historical Review
The eighteenth century was a markedly volatile period in the history of Russia, seeing its development and international emergence as a European-styled empire. In narratives of this time of change, historians tend to view the century in two parts: the reign of Peter I (r. 1682-1725), who purportedly spurned Russia into modernization, and Catherine II (r. 1762-96), the German princess-turned-empress who presided over the culmination of Russia’s transformation. Yet, dismissal of nearly forty years of Russia’s history does a severe disservice to the sovereigns and governments that molded and crafted the process of change. Specifically, Empress Anna Ivanovna (r. 1730-40) …
Interview Series, Sunshine L Brosi, Jarrod Burks
Interview Series, Sunshine L Brosi, Jarrod Burks
Madison Historical Review
No abstract provided.
Letter From The Editor, Anthony Green
Letter From The Editor, Anthony Green
Madison Historical Review
Letter acknowledging editorial board and previewing this years journal