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Black Women White Standards, Carrie Selwood
Black Women White Standards, Carrie Selwood
The Civil Rights Movement (HIS/BLS 347) Zine Project
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“A Scepter Of Terror Or A Sword Of Freedom”: Elaine Brown’S Time In The Black Panther Party, Maeve Plassche
“A Scepter Of Terror Or A Sword Of Freedom”: Elaine Brown’S Time In The Black Panther Party, Maeve Plassche
History & Classics Undergraduate Theses
This project highlights the activism of Elaine Brown, who was the only female chairperson of the Black Panther Party. It looks to enhance the way in which the Black Panther Party is remembered, by placing gender and gender relations in the center of the conversation. Even though women were crucial participants in the Party, they often did not receive the respect that their male counterparts did, and the historical scholarship, using male-centered sources, reiterates this point. While conducting research in the Dr. Huey P. Newton records, located the Stanford Libraries, I delved into the newspapers, internal Black Panther Party documents, …
Review Of Sarah Osborn's World: The Rise Of Evangelical Christianity In Early America By Catherine A. Brekus, Edward E. Andrews
Review Of Sarah Osborn's World: The Rise Of Evangelical Christianity In Early America By Catherine A. Brekus, Edward E. Andrews
History & Classics Faculty Publications
Reviews the book Sarah Osborn's World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013) by Catherine A. Brekus.
“The Honorable Order Of Flappers": A Historical Discussion On Defining The Flapper, Carolyn Dedeo
“The Honorable Order Of Flappers": A Historical Discussion On Defining The Flapper, Carolyn Dedeo
History & Classics Undergraduate Theses
The Greek pantheon has a particular relevance to America in the 1920s—driven by a lightning bolt wielding Zeus, industry and urban life flourished with the large scale introduction of electricity; Zeus’s jealous wife Hera wielded a power of her own as women gained suffrage with the Nineteenth Amendment; automobiles and telephones connected the country with the speed of the fleet footed Hermes; despite Prohibition, Dionysus orchestrated what became a seemingly endless bacchanalian romp.
In the most famous of Greek myths, three goddesses fell into a dispute over which of them was the most beautiful: the politically powerful Hera, the seductive …