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The Napoleonic Code: Property, Succession, And Gender, Deanna Small

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

Through an investigation of excerpt of the 1804 Napoleonic Code, this paper explores the way the law impacted inheritance, property laws, and women's place in the law in Napoleonic France. These laws shaped the legal system for years to come and aimed to create an image of France that fit with Napoleon’s vision. This paper alongside an annotated copy of excerpts of the Code presents a focused investigation of the language of the law and the various ways laws were actually practiced or circumscribed by French citizens.

Searching For Truth, Searching For Feeling, Zamara Tomko

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

History is not only found in textbooks. Historical fiction often utilizes depictions of historical events as a backdrop or plot device for a fictional story, and for many people, this is their only exposure to certain periods or events in the past. This essay looks at the validity of using fiction as historical evidence by analyzing Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone portrayal of German life in World War II and comparing it to academic sources. It argues that a novel evokes empathy by juxtaposing an imagined story alongside historical facts; however, the fictional account can also create a false …

Conclaves In The Modern Papacy: Factors That Influence The Elections Of Popes (1846-Present), Jair Peltier

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

This research paper seeks to identify and explain external and internal factors, including international conflict, ecclesiastical norms, and the actions, styles, and reputations of popes in their life times, in the elections of popes in the Roman Catholic Church from 1846 to 2013.

Using historical context is important in identifying the international, social, and political climate that the conclaves were held in. Analyzing the papacies of the individual popes is another important aspect of this research. One pontificate begins when another ends. It would therefore be unproductive to disregard the successes and shortcomings of the popes after their elections. The …

Dragon Slayers: Remastering And Redefining The Enduring Struggle, Lexine Lynner

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

This paper uses a historical perspective to examine the lasting appeal of a particular fairy tale throughout a variety of cultures and time periods. By analyzing the various interpretations of characters within the dragon slayer tale type, we can see the cultural significance of fairy tales throughout history. It examines similarities and differences between three examples of the tale type (Perseus and Andromeda from 8 AD in Greece and Rome, The Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok from the 13^th Century in Northern Europe, and The Two Brothers from 1857 in Germany), taking into account the differing perspectives and life experiences …

Dick Hanson And Bert Henningson: Rural Activists In The 1980s, Cory Schroeder

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

Although the title of this presentation may seem relatively straightforward, I encourage you all to think a little deeper about two important words in the title of this presentation: rural and activists. Questions that come to mind include: what does it mean to be rural? What does a rural individual look like? What is activism? Who can be an activist? Can you be rural and an activist? Does rural activism look different than other forms of activism? Maybe most importantly, can someone be an activist for more than one cause? If you asked Dick Hanson or Bert Henningson that question, …

'We Are All Greeks:' Sympathy And Proximity In Shelley‘S Hellas, Kyle J. Klausing

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

The outbreak of the Greek Revolution of 1821 against the Ottoman Empire animated the radical European intelligentsia in a way unseen since the French Revolution 30 years before. The British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the chorus of philhellenes (meaning one who loves Greece) by extolling the Greek cause in his epic poem, Hellas. Scholarship has traditionally seen Shelley’s representation of the revolution either as an overly classicized literary indulgence or as a purely polemical defense of a political event. By identifying ways in which Shelley uses the classical past to engage the reader with the subject, I will …

Excalibur's Siegfried And The Music Of Myth, Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

New Research: Yearbook for the Society of Medieval Germanic Studies

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Historic Sites And Interpretation In Minnesota, Thomas A. Woods

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Saving Minnesota: Current Issues In Historic Preservation, Dennis A. Gimmestad

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

In recent years, historic preservation in Minnesota has established a significant record. To be sure, numerous efforts extending over the past century have saved many individual historic properties. For example, the John H. Stevens house (1850) was moved from downtown Minneapolis to Minnehaha Park for preservation in the 1890s; the Henry Sibley house (1836) in Mendota and the Seppman Mill (1863) in Blue Earth County were preserved in the early 20th century. But only in the last three decades have preservationists looked broadly at the full range of types of historic properties and worked to preserve them not only as …

The Eugenics Legacy, Paul Alper

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Cemeteries Of South Central Minnesota, James Pyle

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Features of 351 cemeteries in south central Minnesota are described as pervasive, visible points of the cultural landscape. The preferred hilltop location and regular layout and design reflect values and attitudes of early settlers, whose history can be traced through analysis of tombstones. Alternative uses of cemetery land are considered hypothetically, although no changes in land use are anticipated.

A Finnish Riihi In Minnesota, Matti Kaups

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A Finnish riihi in Minnesota is described and analyzed from the perspectives of form and function. The riihi or the combination grain drying, threshing, and winnowing barn, is one of the several folk architectural forms that immigrants from rural Finland built and used in settling sections of Minnesota. Since most of the log structures erected by the Finns are in a state of decay or already have vanished, it seems pertinent to preserve examples of the transplanted folk heritage in writing, and hopefully, in material form as well.

Manitoba Service Centers In The Early Settlement Period, James M. Richtik

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The pattern of service centers in Manitoba in 1872 and in 1886 is examined. Although a high correlation between transportation nodality and importance of service center is evident, this nodality is apparently a concomitant of service-center growth rather than a prime cause. The ideas of groups and individuals involved in promoting service-center growth seems to be the key to understanding this growth.

Firearms In American History, Louis B. Wilson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.