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Full-Text Articles in History
Grounded Aspirations: The Freedmen's Struggle For Independence From The Planter Land Monopoly, Kristopher L. Hiser
Grounded Aspirations: The Freedmen's Struggle For Independence From The Planter Land Monopoly, Kristopher L. Hiser
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Following emancipation, the freedmen began to seek out the highest expression of American conceptions of freedom: their own land. Because of the relationship between land and freedom, they focused their efforts on acquiring homesteads and farms that they could cultivate on their own terms. Southern landowners, however, quickly recognized that in order to recreate their antebellum social and economic positions, they would need a class of dependent laborers to maintain the plantation system which had been so immensely profitable for them before the war. In order to protect their own economic interests, they began to subvert the efforts of the …
"Sounds Like A Spy Story": The Espionage Thrillers Of Alfred Hitchcock In Twentieth-Century English And American Society, From The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) To Topaz (1969), Kimberly M. Humphries
"Sounds Like A Spy Story": The Espionage Thrillers Of Alfred Hitchcock In Twentieth-Century English And American Society, From The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) To Topaz (1969), Kimberly M. Humphries
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Throughout a career that lasted for almost half a century, Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) directed fifty-three feature films, many of which are still watched and regarded today as epitomes of classic English and American film. One of his most revisited genres is the espionage thriller, which compromises twelve out of the fifty-three films he directed in England and the United States and includes two short films. In analyzing fourteen films, beginning with the English-made The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and concluding with the American Topaz (1969), this paper argues that Hitchcock's spy thrillers are products of their time …
The Forgotten Faces Of Operation Valkyrie: Major-General Henning Von Tresckow And General Friedrich Olbricht In The July 20 Plot To Assassinate Hitler, Kathleen Michelle Maclndoe
The Forgotten Faces Of Operation Valkyrie: Major-General Henning Von Tresckow And General Friedrich Olbricht In The July 20 Plot To Assassinate Hitler, Kathleen Michelle Maclndoe
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Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg's name has become synonymous with the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler and topple the Nazi regime. However, the efforts of two other men, Major-General Henning von Tresckow and General Friedrich Olbricht, made the execution of this coup possible, and the Colonel merely stepped into the framework they established. These two men were the primary, behind-the-scenes architects of the coup due to their experience in the opposition leading up to July 20, which included prior assassination attempts, knowledge of bombs, their guiding hands through the revision of Operation Valkyrie, and the network of contacts they …
"The Ideals Of Pine Mountain": Gender, Progressive Thought, And The Built Environment At Pine Mountain Settlement School, Mary C. Fesak
"The Ideals Of Pine Mountain": Gender, Progressive Thought, And The Built Environment At Pine Mountain Settlement School, Mary C. Fesak
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This paper evaluates the influences of Progressive thought, gender built environment of Pine Mountain Settlement School in Harlan County, Kentucky. Progressive educators Katherine Pettit and Ethel de Long founded the Pine Mountain Settlement School in 1913 as part of the growth of the rural settlement school movement in Appalachia. Pettit and de Long commissioned early female architect Mary Rockwell Hook to work with them to create a comprehensive plan for the construction of the campus. While Hook was not an educator, her educated, middle-class background led her to share Pettit's and de Long's mission to preserve what they saw as …
History, Memory, And The Indian Struggle For Autonomy In The Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley, Jason R. Sellers
History, Memory, And The Indian Struggle For Autonomy In The Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley, Jason R. Sellers
History and American Studies
This essay uses treaty records, council minutes, personal correspondence, and travel narratives to argue that Hudson Valley Indians seized on the 1664 English conquest of New Netherland to try to position Natives and newcomers as independent members of an extended community sharing a common past and landscape. Formulating a history emphasizing peace, preserving the memory of that past through ritual actions, and involving English colonists in processes that rested on that history, Native Americans sought to integrate the newcomers into their existing network of social relations and a physical landscape that manifested those relations. Meanwhile, English colonists seeking to secure …
Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye, Elizabeth Henry
Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye, Elizabeth Henry
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This paper studies the evacuations of schoolchildren in Great Britain during the Second World War and examines how the progress of the war affected the government's organization and implementation of these evacuations as well as the public's opinions of and reactions to them. This study focuses on the perceived need for evacuation at various points in the war (1939, 1940, and 1944) and the ways in which this need affected how the government and the public viewed and endured the trials and tribulations of these mass movements of a large portion of Great Britain's vulnerable population. It argues that as …
African Americans Speak To Spectacle Lynchings, Mary Beth Mathews
African Americans Speak To Spectacle Lynchings, Mary Beth Mathews
Classics, Philosophy, and Religion Articles
Donald Mathews’s “The Southern Rite of Human Sacrifice” both describes southern lynching as a lived interpretation of Christianity and claims a role for the religious study of lynching. Relying largely on historiography, Mathews contends that white southerners created this religion and ignored obvious parallels between lynched black men and the death of Jesus on the cross. But missing from this and other interpretations is a key voice: that of contemporary black evangelical pastors.
A Brief History Of Public Health In Alexandria And Alexandria's Health Department, Krystyn R. Moon
A Brief History Of Public Health In Alexandria And Alexandria's Health Department, Krystyn R. Moon
History and American Studies
One of the central tenets of public health is the belief that the practice of medicine serves the broader community; however, the specific meaning of the phrase “public health” is a historically contingent one. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, the public included only white, bourgeois men who met in coffee houses and other such establishments to discuss politics, business ventures, and popular culture. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the “public” included white working class men, the poor, women, and people of color. Eventually, politicians and medical doctors recognized that children should be included as part …
The Korean War In The 1960s And 1970s: A Cultural Analysis Of The First Six Seasons Of M*A*S*H, Leah Tams
The Korean War In The 1960s And 1970s: A Cultural Analysis Of The First Six Seasons Of M*A*S*H, Leah Tams
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This paper studies the first six seasons of the hit television show M*A*S*H (1972-1983) and examines how the sociocultural climate of the 1960s and 1970s in America influenced the show's portrayal of the Korean War and how, in turn, the show reflects those cultural influences. This study focuses on the influence of the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the Cold War, second-wave feminism, and the gay and sexual liberation movements. It argues that each of these movements and events had a profound influence upon M*A*S*H, which is evident in its portrayal of the Korean War as a conflict infused …
The End Of The Billy Goat Curse: Why Cubs Fans Should Let It Go, Jack Bales
The End Of The Billy Goat Curse: Why Cubs Fans Should Let It Go, Jack Bales
Administrative and Professional Faculty Research
The Friendly Confines have been decidedly unfriendly, lately. After Cubs owner Tom Ricketts unveiled his plans to renovate the 99-year-old Wrigley Field, few observers of the national pastime were surprised when die-hard fans objected. Ricketts in turn threatened to move the Cubs if his proposals were blocked, adding that “all we really need is to be able to run our business like a business and not a museum.”
‘‘Ticketed Through’’ The Commodification Of Travel In The Nineteenth Century, Will Mackintosh
‘‘Ticketed Through’’ The Commodification Of Travel In The Nineteenth Century, Will Mackintosh
History and American Studies
This article discusses the commodification of travel in United States during the 19th Century and the impact created by the rise of canals, steamboats, and commercial railroads.
The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair: Typical American Families Build Tomorrow, Deborah B. Shepherd
The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair: Typical American Families Build Tomorrow, Deborah B. Shepherd
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The 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair held a Typical American Family contest during its second season. The contest ran in newspapers all over the country, and the winning families spent a free week living at the Fair, enjoying the latest products by corporate exhibitors. Because winners were chosen either by reader votes or by local panels of judges, the families represent prevailing conceptions of the ideal American family. The convergence of the winning families with a profit-driven world’s fair reveals how America’s domestic ideology influenced mass consumerism, and how advertisers saw the family institution as both a target and a …
Female Testaments As Social Discourse: A Textual Analysis Under A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach, Maria Martinez-Mira
Female Testaments As Social Discourse: A Textual Analysis Under A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach, Maria Martinez-Mira
Modern Languages and Literatures Articles
The following article is an analysis of 33 female wills (from 16th-20th centuries) found in notarial protocols at the Murcia Regional Archives (Murcia, Spain). Using a Critical Discourse Analysis framework, with special emphasis of Pierre Bourdieu’s postulates, this article studies how women handle gender, cultural, and power relations, challenge social hierarchies and, at the same time, reproduce them in their attempt to look respectable/honorable, assert their power, redefine themselves and negotiate their public image.
"To Educate, Agitate, And Legislate": Baptists, Methodists, And The Anti-Saloon League Of Virginia, 1901-1910, Mary Beth Mathews
"To Educate, Agitate, And Legislate": Baptists, Methodists, And The Anti-Saloon League Of Virginia, 1901-1910, Mary Beth Mathews
Classics, Philosophy, and Religion Articles
Organized in 1901, the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia (ASLVA) became the leading statewide association in battling the liquor forces. The league claimed to be nonpartisan and nonpolitical; its motto was "The saloon must go."3 A variety of white Protestant clergy and laymen staffed the ASLVA, and these leaders kept up a unified front as they promoted their sale stated goal, the eradication of the saloon.
New Evidence On Race Discrimination Under "Separate But Equal", Bradley A. Hansen, Mary Eschelbach Hansen
New Evidence On Race Discrimination Under "Separate But Equal", Bradley A. Hansen, Mary Eschelbach Hansen
Economics
Recently uncovered data on teachers’ salaries in Virginia in 1906 allow for more precise and consistent estimations of marginal returns to certification and formal education than had been available in previous studies. Virginia's “separate but equal” educational system paid black teachers in rural counties lower wages than it paid white teachers and on average paid a lower premium to blacks for certification and formal education than it paid to whites. In incorporated cities, returns to certification and normal school education were about the same for black teachers and white teachers, although average salaries were lower for black teachers.
Doors And Minds Begin To Open: Decade Of Desegregation, Carolyn S. Parsons
Doors And Minds Begin To Open: Decade Of Desegregation, Carolyn S. Parsons
Administrative and Professional Faculty Research
In February of 1968, five young women gathered informally in the office of The Bullet, Mary Washington's student newspaper. They wanted to talk about something they all were experiencing: isolation. On a campus with more than 2,000 students, they were the only African-Americans. Three were freshmen - Claudith "Dottie" Holmes and twin sisters Anita and Orita Whitehead. The other two - Venus Jones and Chris Hall - were upperclassmen. Four of the "Big Five," as they called themselves in reference to the Big Four civil rights leaders, would become the first group of African-American students to graduate from what was …
The Aids Memorial Quilt: Performing Memory, Piecing Action, Gregg Stull
The Aids Memorial Quilt: Performing Memory, Piecing Action, Gregg Stull
Theatre and Dance
The history of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, over forty thousand quilt panels to memorialize those who have died of AIDS, is examined. Topics include the conception of the memorial idea in San Francisco, CA, in 1985, a display of the quilt at the National Mall in Washington D.C., the continual growth in the size of the quilt, and efforts at conserving the quilt panels.
The Desegregation Battle: Prince Edward County, Virginia, Kimberley D. Jones
The Desegregation Battle: Prince Edward County, Virginia, Kimberley D. Jones
Student Research Submissions
No abstract provided.
The Lake Mohonk Conference For The Friends Of The Indian And The National Indian Defense Association: A Comparative Study Of American Indian Reform Organizations, Teresa Jeffers
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No abstract provided.
12.54 Seconds: Was The Kent State Shooting Justified?, Michael Allen Mello
12.54 Seconds: Was The Kent State Shooting Justified?, Michael Allen Mello
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No abstract provided.