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The American Public’S Reaction To The Japanese American Internment, Nicholas Taylor Nov 2020

The American Public’S Reaction To The Japanese American Internment, Nicholas Taylor

West Virginia University Historical Review

The American public voices its concerns over fundamental issues, like the justice system, that pertain to the US Constitution. The American public in World War II, however, faced many challenges in voicing its concerns over the Japanese American internment due to the dominance of racism at the time. This paper explores the background of Executive Order 9066, the document that provoked mass evacuation, in order to understand why President Franklin D. Roosevelt enforced it and why most people, particularly on the West Coast, advocated for Japanese American evacuation. More fundamentally, the bulk of the paper centers on the argument that …


The Role Of Women Within The Mine Wars, Kirsten Hylton Nov 2020

The Role Of Women Within The Mine Wars, Kirsten Hylton

West Virginia University Historical Review

This paper examines the impact that the Mine Wars had on women who lived within the mine camps directly affected by labor unrest. While women were usually not the ones on the front lines of the Mine Wars, they still were impacted by and involved with the action. Just like the men of the camps, women were evicted from their homes, brutalized by mine guards, and were forced to change their lives. Assuming that the events of the Mine Wars were perceived in the same way by both men and women would be leaving out a large portion of the …


China’S Illegal Organ Trade: From Executed Prisoners To Organ Tourism To Falun Gong, Adrienne Thompson Nov 2020

China’S Illegal Organ Trade: From Executed Prisoners To Organ Tourism To Falun Gong, Adrienne Thompson

West Virginia University Historical Review

As worldwide populations continue to rise, the constant necessity for life-saving organs for terminally and chronically ill patients has become extremely vital and profitable to medical centers across the globe. Since China’s preliminary debut in the international organ donation and transplantation system in the late 1960s, various scholars, journalists, and health professionals across the globe have demonstrated outright shock at the massive influx and seemingly endless supply of transferable organs emanating from Chinese transplant centers and hospitals. Investigations have shown that China has been actively harvesting organs from recently executed prisoners and incarcerated Falun Gong practitioners. Regardless of numerous outside …


Determining The Impact Of The Anabaptists Using Bullinger’S Propaganda Strategies In Von Dem Unverschampten Fräfel, Jovanna Shirky Nov 2020

Determining The Impact Of The Anabaptists Using Bullinger’S Propaganda Strategies In Von Dem Unverschampten Fräfel, Jovanna Shirky

West Virginia University Historical Review

Many scholars of the Reformation contend that the Anabaptist movement did not significantly impact the society of its day. However, my analysis of Heinrich Bullinger’s anti-Anabaptist work Von dem unverschampten fräfel, ergerlichem verwyrren unnd unwarhafftem leeren der selbsgesandten Widertöuffern indicates that the Anabaptists did pose a significant threat to the socioreligious structures that both the mainstream Reformation and Catholicism endorsed. By analyzing Bullinger’s propaganda strategies within the work, I find that the beliefs and practices of the Anabaptists challenged the most basic structures of society, thus alarming Bullinger and others who opposed the movement. Bullinger’s language within the work and …


Japanese Economic Aggression, Organized Labor’S Resistance, And The Path To World War Ii, Thomas Miles Nov 2020

Japanese Economic Aggression, Organized Labor’S Resistance, And The Path To World War Ii, Thomas Miles

West Virginia University Historical Review

This paper examines economic aggression from the Japanese fishing fleet beginning in 1936 and the response from organized labor in America prior to the famous attack on Pearl Harbor. The focus of this is research is primarily from the perspective of American labor, drawing heavily on the Voice of the Federation newspaper, which was a publication owned by the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. The US government was aware of encroachment of Japanese floating canneries in 1936, but took little action against Japan in order to avoid worsening tensions between the two nations. However, in 1937 Harry Stuhr, the head …


Riots Contra Global Capital: Globalization And The Bangladeshi Workers’ Movement, Adam Benjamin Nov 2020

Riots Contra Global Capital: Globalization And The Bangladeshi Workers’ Movement, Adam Benjamin

West Virginia University Historical Review

“Fast fashion” and “globalization,” often mentioned in the same sentence, make their way to the headlines fairly frequently. While the conditions of low-wage garment workers are a subject of criticism for clothing brands, few know of the active workers’ movement in Bangladesh to better them. This movement, often unorganized and violent, takes place against the backdrop of urban growth, rapid industrialization, and factory disaster. Riots and piecemeal wage negotiations often go hand in hand in Bangladesh, as the pressures of the world economy exert themselves on Bangladesh’s fragile and unstable garment industry. This paper examines the history and developments of …


Front Matter Nov 2020

Front Matter

West Virginia University Historical Review

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Complete Issue Nov 2020

Complete Issue

West Virginia University Historical Review

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Ex Libris, Fall 2020, West Virginia University Libraries Oct 2020

Ex Libris, Fall 2020, West Virginia University Libraries

Ex Libris: The WVU Libraries Magazine

KEEPING EVERYTHING MOVING FORWARD The Libraries helped the University community continue their academic journey and research pursuits during the pandemic.; ACHIEVING SUFFRAGE One hundred years ago, West Virginia legislators met at the State Capitol in Charleston to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended voting rights to women; WVRHC RECEIVES FIFTH NEH GRANT TO DIGITIZE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS So far, the WVRHC has digitized more than 400,000 pages from more than 60 historical West Virginia newspapers.


Why There Is No Ethical Reason Not To Vote (Unless You Come Down With Covid-19 On Election Day), Scott Davidson Sep 2020

Why There Is No Ethical Reason Not To Vote (Unless You Come Down With Covid-19 On Election Day), Scott Davidson

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

'I don't like the candidates,' 'I don't know enough to make a decision,' 'I don't want to give this election legitimacy' – an ethicist takes on nonvoters.


Afternoon Slice, Payton Brown Jul 2020

Afternoon Slice, Payton Brown

Calliope

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Letter To Society, Maria Pomales Jul 2020

Letter To Society, Maria Pomales

Calliope

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Don’T Stop Swimming, Abbigail Davis Jul 2020

Don’T Stop Swimming, Abbigail Davis

Calliope

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Tailpipes, Payton Brown Jul 2020

Tailpipes, Payton Brown

Calliope

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I Grew Up Reading House On Mango Street, Catalina Londono Jul 2020

I Grew Up Reading House On Mango Street, Catalina Londono

Calliope

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Monsters Of Wellington Forest, Lauren Pauley Jul 2020

Monsters Of Wellington Forest, Lauren Pauley

Calliope

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Untitled, Elizabeth Boccabello Jul 2020

Untitled, Elizabeth Boccabello

Calliope

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Heartline, Alexandra Persad Jul 2020

Heartline, Alexandra Persad

Calliope

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Tempest, Macy Kile Jul 2020

Tempest, Macy Kile

Calliope

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Wedding By The Beach, Michael Parsons Jul 2020

Wedding By The Beach, Michael Parsons

Calliope

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Mom’S Late-Night Calls, Cameron Ferguson Jul 2020

Mom’S Late-Night Calls, Cameron Ferguson

Calliope

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Untitled, Erin Mccarty Jul 2020

Untitled, Erin Mccarty

Calliope

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Grey, Melissa Reynolds Jul 2020

Grey, Melissa Reynolds

Calliope

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Holdfast, Michael Dibacco Jul 2020

Holdfast, Michael Dibacco

Calliope

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Holler And Heaven: In Response To George Ella Lyon’S “Where I’M From”, Isabella Tennant Jul 2020

Holler And Heaven: In Response To George Ella Lyon’S “Where I’M From”, Isabella Tennant

Calliope

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Woman Looking Out Window, Payton Brown Jul 2020

Woman Looking Out Window, Payton Brown

Calliope

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Sofrito, Maria Pomales Jul 2020

Sofrito, Maria Pomales

Calliope

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Jesus Wasn’T White, Maria Pomales Jul 2020

Jesus Wasn’T White, Maria Pomales

Calliope

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Almas Gemalas, Maria Pomales Jul 2020

Almas Gemalas, Maria Pomales

Calliope

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Lessons From A Camp Counselor, Jenna Chapman Jul 2020

Lessons From A Camp Counselor, Jenna Chapman

Calliope

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