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Tragedy, Revisited . . . Again, Ryan Irwin
Tragedy, Revisited . . . Again, Ryan Irwin
History Faculty Scholarship
An roundtable discussion on William Appleman Williams’ Tragedy of America Diplomacy titled "Tragedy, Revisited... Again" written by Ryan Irwin.
Mapping Race: Historicizing The History Of The Color-Line, Ryan Irwin
Mapping Race: Historicizing The History Of The Color-Line, Ryan Irwin
History Faculty Scholarship
This study examines scholarship about the global color-line. It unfolds in two sections. The first traces how understandings of race and racism were encoded within university environments in the mid-twentieth century. The second shows how this epistemology influenced early academic comparisons of the United States and South Africa in the 1980s and why the literature diversified in the post-apartheid era.
Resistance And Accommodation: The Catholic Church In Post-Mao China, Anthony E. Clark
Resistance And Accommodation: The Catholic Church In Post-Mao China, Anthony E. Clark
History Faculty Scholarship
The Catholic Bishop of Shanghai, Gong Pinmei, who was imprisoned from 1955-1985 for being a "counter-revolutionary," once said: "If we renounce our faith, we will disappear and there will not be a resurrection. If we are faithful, we will disappear, but there will be a resurrection." For China's Catholic Community, the knotty problem of how to faithfully retain and practice religious belief has resulted in a highly complex system of resistance and accommodation. Two communities have emerged in China's Catholic landscape, the "underground" church that navigates precariously outside of party sanction, and the "aboveground" church that operates under the watchful …
Normal Schools Of The Pacific Northwest: The Lifelong Impact Of Extracurricular Club Activities On Women Students At Teacher-Training Institutions, 1890-1917, Karen J. Blair
History Faculty Scholarship
Historical scholarship on the normal schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries has emphasized the curricular goals of these state-funded institutions. Yet the afterschool clubs at these institutions also held great importance in the lives of budding educators, both immediately and in the course of their careers. An examination of the two major types of groups that students were involved in—literary societies and service associations, both of which Washington State's three normal schools expected and sometimes required their enrollees to join—reveals several predictable and unpredictable immediate and long-term results.