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5. The Democracies Between The Wars (1919-1939), Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart Gettysburg College

5. The Democracies Between The Wars (1919-1939), Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold L. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section XVIII: The Western World in the Twentieth Century: The Historical Setting

At first glance, the events of World War I seemed to be a triumphant vindication of the spirit of 1848. It was the leading democratic great powers - Britain, France, and the United States - who had emerged the victors. In the political reconstruction of Europe, republics had replaces many monarchies. West of Russia, new and apparently democratic constitutions were established in Germany, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. Yet the sad truth was that by the outbreak of World War II in 1939 the majority of the once democratic states of central and eastern Europe …

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Stalin’S Collectivization: From An Idealistic View To A Defensive Stance, 1928-1934, Kristopher Schendel Western Oregon University

Stalin’S Collectivization: From An Idealistic View To A Defensive Stance, 1928-1934, Kristopher Schendel

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Women And Work: African American Women In Depression Era America, Sarah Ward The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Women And Work: African American Women In Depression Era America, Sarah Ward

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This project explores whether African American women met similar public sentiments as Caucasian women during the Depression Era and how gender dynamics changed within African American households in urban America as well as the effect of the crisis on a populace that was not new to the work force. Historical statistical analysis and emphasis on labor policy are used to garner information. The Great Depression sparked an abrupt shift in not only the American economy but also American ideology regarding male and female gender dynamics. Despite discouragement from entering the workforce due to dominant masculinity, employment rates rose amongst Caucasian …

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The Unwanted Immigrant, Frank A. Bozich III James Madison University

The Unwanted Immigrant, Frank A. Bozich Iii

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

The social and religious differences between Chinese migrants and Americans of European descent played a large role in the exploitation of the Chinese. Ultimately, nativism became ingrained in Californian society as Irish Americans began to view Chinese as a threat to their economic success and violence toward Chinese became more common due to the Californian government’s support of anti-Chinese and nativist legislation.

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The Evolution Of The “We Can Do It” Poster And American Feminist Movements, Reina Aguierre San Jose State University

The Evolution Of The “We Can Do It” Poster And American Feminist Movements, Reina Aguierre

McNair Research Journal SJSU

World War II created mass destruction and economic distress but was also responsible for creating new opportunities for women. The war had torn families apart and had altered family dynamics. The high demands of the wartime economy called for a reevaluation of American women’s roles in society. In 1942, Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller was hired by the Westinghouse Company’s War Production Coordinating Committee to create a range of propaganda posters to encourage women to join the war effort.1 The most iconic was christened “Rosie the Riveter” and further popularized by Norman Rockwell. These images exemplified how the government …

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Critique! Critique! Critique! Black Labor In The Early American Book Trade, John J. Garcia American Antiquarian Society

Critique! Critique! Critique! Black Labor In The Early American Book Trade, John J. Garcia

Criticism

This article pursues two lines of inquiry: first, recovering the presence of Black labor in the history of the book in colonial North America, the British Caribbean, and the early United States, with a second and complementary discussion of why critique must be foregrounded in the field formation of critical bibliography. Free and enslaved Black men and women helped make early American books possible. Their presences are to be found at the edges and vicinities of print cultural production, in roles such as papermaking, wagon driving, and forms of domestic labor that extended to the libraries and reading practices of …

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African Colonial States, Heather Sharkey University of Pennsylvania

African Colonial States, Heather Sharkey

Departmental Papers (NELC)

This chapter sketches a history of European colonial states in Africa, north and south of the Sahara, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explains when and why colonial states emerged, what they did, how they worked, and who shaped them. Noting discrepancies between the theory and practice of colonial administration, the chapter shows that colonial administration was far more diffuse and less closely coordinated than official discourses of governance suggested. The performance of colonialism involved a wide range of actors: not only European military and civilian elites and African chiefs, but also African translators and tax collectors, as well …

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Irish And German Immigrants Of The Nineteenth Century: Hardships, Improvements, And Success, Amanda A. Tagore Honors College, Pace University

Irish And German Immigrants Of The Nineteenth Century: Hardships, Improvements, And Success, Amanda A. Tagore

Honors College Theses

This paper examines the economic and social reasons that are attributed to the high emigration rate in Ireland and in Germany during the nineteenth century, and how the lives of these groups turned out in the United States. As a result of economic deterioration and social inequality, pessimism became prevalent in Ireland from the 1840s onward and in Germany from the 1830s onward. Because the United States was perceived as an optimistic avenue for advancement, thousands of Irish and Germans emigrated their homelands and fled to America in search of a better life. During the first few decades upon their …

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Rent: Same-Sex Prostitution In Modern Britain, 1885-1957, Jonathan Coleman University of Kentucky

Rent: Same-Sex Prostitution In Modern Britain, 1885-1957, Jonathan Coleman

Theses and Dissertations--History

Rent: Same-Sex Prostitution in Modern Britain, 1885-1957 chronicles the concept of “rent boys” and the men who purchased their services. This dissertation demonstrates how queer identity in Britain, until contemporary times, was largely regulated by class, in which middle-and-upper-class queer men often perceived of working-class bodies as fetishized consumer goods. The “rent boy” was an upper-class queer fantasy, and working-class men sometimes used this fantasy for their own agenda while others intentionally dismantled the “rent boy” trope, refusing to submit to upper-class expectations. This work also explains how the “rent boy” fantasy was eventually relegated to the periphery of queer …

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Constructing The Panama Canal: A Brief History, Ian E. Phillips Cleveland State University

Constructing The Panama Canal: A Brief History, Ian E. Phillips

The Downtown Review

Seeking to commemorate the construction of the Panama Canal, an engineering marvel widely considered a contender for the eighth wonder of the world, this article attempts to retell the story of the Canal's construction by synthesizing a narrative centered on the Canal under French and American leadership, worker segregation, and labor conditions at the Isthmus.

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2024 Morehead State University Benefits Guide, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2024 Morehead State University

2024 Morehead State University Benefits Guide, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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2024 Morehead State University Benefits Guide.

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2023-11-06 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-11-06 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message from the President to the campus community on upcoming events, recognitions, and a report on the Board of Regents meeting the week prior sent on November 6, 2023.

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2023-10-18 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-10-18 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message from the President to the campus community on the death of Jason Justice on October 18, 2023.

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2023-10-09 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-10-09 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message sent on October 9, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding upcoming dates and events. Plus, a summary of academic affairs leadership searches in progress.

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2023-10-03 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-10-03 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes from October 3, 2023.

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2023-09-29 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-09-29 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message sent on September 29, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding upcoming dates and events. Plus, a summary of external grants and contracts received by the university.

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2023-09-14 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-09-14 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

A message sent on September 14, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding upcoming dates and events.

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2023-09-05 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-09-05 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes from September 5, 2023.

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‘Following The Line Of Least Resistance’: African American Women In Domestic Work, 1899–1940, Taylor Simsovic 2023 University of Toronto, St. George

‘Following The Line Of Least Resistance’: African American Women In Domestic Work, 1899–1940, Taylor Simsovic

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

This paper examines the challenges faced by African American women employed in domestic service between 1899 and 1940, with a focus on how race, class, and gender intersected to shape their experiences. Specifically, the study investigates how these women continued to perform reproductive labor as they migrated from the South to Northern states during the Great Migration. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, the analysis argues that Black women's persistent employment in undervalued labor within white American homes was driven by the mutually constitutive systems of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. These systems channeled Black women into …

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2023-09-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-09-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter from September of 2023.

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The State Of The Unions 2023: A Profile Of Organized Labor In New York City, New York State, And The United States, Ruth Milkman, Joseph van der Naald 2023 CUNY Graduate Center

The State Of The Unions 2023: A Profile Of Organized Labor In New York City, New York State, And The United States, Ruth Milkman, Joseph Van Der Naald

Publications and Research

This report released by the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, State of the Unions 2023: A Profile of Organized Labor in New York City, New York State, and the United States, is a part of an annual publication series, documents recent trends in unionization patterns. The overall level of unionization in both the City and State has been roughly double the national rate over the past two decades. But recently, union density has fallen more in New York City and New York State than in the United States as a whole. In the mid-2010s, both the City and …

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2023-08-28 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-08-28 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

A message sent on August 28, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding upcoming dates and events, and the razing of Wetherby Gymnasium.

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2023-08-08 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-08-08 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

A message sent on August 8, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding upcoming dates and events, construction projects, registration and billing, and the continued efforts to repair the results of the cyber attack committed on the University's computer systems.

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2023-08-01 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-08-01 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

A message sent on August 1, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to update the campus community on upcoming events, fall convocation, and the ongoing efforts to resolve after effects of the recent cyber attack committed on the University's computer systems.

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2023-08-01 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-08-01 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes from August 1, 2023.

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William R. Riley, Richard L. Davis, The United Mine Workers, And The Negotiation Of Race And Class In Southern Appalachia, Jameson Hannah 2023 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

William R. Riley, Richard L. Davis, The United Mine Workers, And The Negotiation Of Race And Class In Southern Appalachia, Jameson Hannah

Honors Theses

The decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century were a time of immense upheaval as the United States went through an intensive process of industrialization, ensuing waves of economic instability, and large-scale human migration. In response, many activists and reformers emerged, particularly in the world of civil rights and labor organizing. William R. Riley and Richard L. Davis, who were both coal miners and organizers within the United Mine Workers of America, worked at the intersection of both of these worlds during that time period. This research deals with the writings of these two men in depth, seeking to …

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2023-08-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-08-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter from August of 2023.

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2023-07-20 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-07-20 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message sent on July 20, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding upcoming dates and events and the continued efforts to repair the results of the cyber attack committed on the University's computer systems.

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2023-07-16 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-07-16 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message sent on July 16, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to update the campus community regarding the cyber attack committed on the University's computer systems.

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2023-07-13 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2023 Morehead State University

2023-07-13 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message sent on July 13, 2023 from the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding the cyber attack committed on the University's computer systems.

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