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"Uganda Unhinged": Re-Evaluating The Ugandan Asian Expulsion, Alexander A. Jordan

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

This paper seeks to re-evaluate the Ugandan Asian expulsion of 1972 in terms of both chronology and culpability. Existing literature generally implicates Gen. Idi Amin as the primary, if not sole instigator of the expulsion crisis. Using Ugandan and Kenyan newspaper coverage from the pre-expulsion era, in addition to an analysis of Dr. Milton Obote’s economic policy, I argue that Uganda had already traversed far down the path to expulsion by the time Amin seized power. Dr. Obote initiated an economic campaign that targeted Asian merchants, in addition to issuing threats of expulsion as a negotiation tactic with world leaders. …

Ronald Reagan And The Politics Of Tuition, Alyssa Dunlop

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

This paper explores how Ronald Reagan, as governor of California, justified imposing tuition at the University of California, despite a near one hundred-year tradition of tuition-free education, by connecting tuition to the student protest movement of the 1960s. This paper argues that Reagan made the case for tuition by claiming that tuition would restore law and order on college campuses. Specifically, he contended that tuition would deter rabble-rousing individuals from attending college and improve the moral character of students. Consequently, this argument proved appealing for the majority of Californians, who expressed concern about the student protests, and thus the public …

Videos As Video Game Preservation, Scott Tyler Bradshaw

Theses and Dissertations

Video games have become culturally significant in society and are deserving of being preserved. There are many ways to preserve video games such as emulation, migration, and reissue. But recordings of video games have the special designation of being able to faithfully depict a game, which is an advantage it has over other preservation methods. This paper explores the advantages and disadvantages of various preservation methods while putting recordings forward as an equal method that can assist in its own way. Furthermore the concept of documentary style videos for video games is explored with input by archivists as well as …

Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, And Citizenship, Trinidad Gonzales

Journal of Texas History

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Rehab On The Range: A History Of Addiction And Incarceration In The American West, Megan Birk

Journal of Texas History

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Run For Your Lives!: Gender And The Runaway Scrape, James E. Crisp

Journal of Texas History

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Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency In El Paso, Carolina Monsivais

Journal of Texas History

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Houston And The Permanence Of Segregation: An Afropessimist Approach To Urban History, Derek G. Handley

Journal of Texas History

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Front Matter, Editorial Team

Journal of Texas History

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"A Small Victory In A Battle That Should Have Not Been Necessary": Rebecca Flores And The Struggle For Field Sanitation In The Rio Grande Valley Of Texas, Brent M. S. Campney

History Faculty Publications

This study examines the struggle for field sanitation in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where it was waged in the late 1970s and early 1980s by United Farm Workers director Rebecca Flores and her allies. The first section examines the harsh living and working conditions experienced by farm workers there. The second provides a brief biographical sketch of Flores, a daughter of farm workers, from her years as a college student to her role as the leader of the Texas UFW. The third examines the struggle for field sanitation by Flores and the UFW, their success in changing state …

Helen A. Lewis

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Reverend Willie Hall, Jr.

African American Funeral Programs

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Herman "Punkin" Lemons

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Review Of “Pathway To The Stars: 100 Years Of The Royal Canadian Air Force” By Michael Hood And Tom Jenkins, Randall Wakelam

Canadian Military History

Review of Pathway to The Stars: 100 Years of the Royal Canadian Air Force by Michael Hood and Tom Jenkins

Review Of "Boosters And Barkers: Financing Canada’S Involvement In The First World War" By David Roberts, Bradley Shoebottom

Canadian Military History

Review of Boosters and Barkers: Financing Canada’s Involvement in the First World War by David Roberts

Review Of "Modelling The Logistics Of Mantzikert" By Philip Murgatroyd, Vincent Gaffney, John Haldon And Georgios Theodoropoulos, Lucas Mcmahon

Canadian Military History

Review of Modelling the Logistics of Mantzikert by Philip Murgatroyd, Vincent Gaffney, John Haldon and Georgios Theodoropoulos

Review Of "Scandalous Conduct: Canadian Officer Courts Martial, 1914-45" By Matthew Barrett, Daniel German

Canadian Military History

Review of Scandalous Conduct: Canadian Officer Courts Martial, 1914-45 by Matthew Barrett

Review Of "Sir John A. Macdonald & The Apocalyptic Year 1885" By Patrice Dutil, Tim Cook

Canadian Military History

Review of Sir John A. Macdonald & the Apocalyptic Year 1885 by Patrice Dutil

Review Of “Dread Danger: Cowardice And Combat In The American Civil War” By Lesley J. Gordon And “Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness And Civil War Soldiers” By Dillon J. Carroll, Matthew Barrett

Canadian Military History

Review of Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War by Lesley J. Gordon and Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon J. Carroll

Through The Eyes Of A Guard: Watson Kirkconnell And Great War Internment In Canada, Daniel R. Meister

Canadian Military History

Histories of internment in Canada have paid much attention to internees’ experiences but far less to those of the guards. Correcting this trend, this article offers a detailed case study of one soldier, Watson Kirkconnell, who worked at the Fort Henry and Kapuskasing internment camps. Drawing on his valuable but heretofore unutilised archive of material, this article provides a vivid social history of the camps through Kirkconnell’s eyes. Nuancing the historiography of wartime internment, this article demonstrates how commandants determined the experiences of both internees and guards alike and, at the same time, that staff could sometimes mitigate their superior’s …

“Your Lads […] Looked Much Like The Reappearance Of Jesus Christ To Us”: Canada, The Iccs And The Release Of Us Prisoners Of War In Vietnam, Jean-Michel Turcotte

Canadian Military History

Abstract : Between January and July 1973, 240 Canadian military personnel took part in the International Commission for Control and Supervision (ICCS), responsible for monitoring the Paris Peace Agreements ending the American war in Vietnam. Canadian military observers notably supervised the release of 595 Americans prisoners of war (POWs) as well as over 32,000 Vietnamese captives. This article suggests that the ICCS, often viewed in the historiography as ineffective because of the numerous violations of the agreements, was much more successful in terms of monitoring US POW releases. In addition, it argues that helping the ally was a priority for …

الأخلاق في الديانات الوضعية في الهند, Ahmad M. Z. Alotaibi, Marwa Kharma

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال تجلية موضوع الأخلاق في أديان الهند: الهندوسية، والبوذية، والسيخية، والجينية. وجاءت هذه الدراسة في تمهيد وأربعة مباحث: جاء التمهيد لبيان تأثر الأديان الهندية بالهندوسية، وجاء المبحث الأول: للحديث عن الأخلاق في الديانة الهندوسية، وتناول فيه الحديث عن عدد من القضايا أبرزها نظام الطبقات الهندوسي، وجاء المبحث الثاني للحديث عن الأخلاق في الديانة البوذية، وتناول الباحثان فيه موقف الديانة البوذية من النظام الطبقي ومدى محاربتها له، وجاء المبحث الثالث للحديث عن الديانة السيخية ومحاربته للنظام الطبقي والموقف من المرأة والحديث عن آليات محاربة الطبقية في المجتمع السيخي، ثم جاء المبحث الرابع للحديث عن الأخلاق في الديانة الجينينة، وأنها وإن …

A More Perfect Peace: Can The Russia-Ukraine War End Justly?, Nathaniel B. Davis, Marlon A. Thomas

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

This article argues that thinking creatively about war termination, both philosophically and politically, utilizing jus post bellum principles and counterintuitive political trade-offs, reveals an opportunity to achieve a sustainable peace that approximates justice. The article surveys how war aims among belligerents have changed, indicating that further change is possible, particularly at the point of war termination. Next, the article examines jus post bellum principles and their application to the Russia-Ukraine War. Finally, the article contends that Ukraine relinquishing Crimea and the Donbas in exchange for NATO membership might be the key to achieving a durable peace that addresses long-term security.

China’S Role In A Future Korean War, Jake Rinaldi

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

This article argues that China’s intervention in a Korean conflict will hinge more on North Korea’s ability to hold territory than on bilateral ties. Rather than treat Chinese intervention as a yes-or-no proposition, this study models three scenarios—full intervention, sustained support, and limited support—based on North Korean resilience. Using Chinese-language sources and scenario-based analysis, it assesses how each model would shape key functional areas such as ISR, cyber, materiel, and force posture. The findings offer US defense planners a framework for anticipating variable People’s Liberation Army involvement in a future Korea contingency.

Photographic Truth: Civilian Manipulation And Reality Under Stalinism, Reese Finnigan

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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The Next National Defense Strategy: Mission-Based Force Planning, Frank G. Hoffman

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

The Pentagon needs to embrace a new methodology called mission-based planning to size and shape the defense enterprise properly. This article critiques several proposals for reestablishing the long-standing two major theater war construct in the face of ongoing shifts in the strategic environment, including the nation’s $36 trillion debt and prospects of annual interest payments beyond $1 trillion. It presents a mission priority alternative focused on strategic prioritization based on the authors’ four decades of experience in strategy/force planning at the service, the department, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense levels. Strategic-level service planners and students of Joint …

From The Editor In Chief, Antulio J. Echevarria Ii

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

Welcome to the Summer 2025 issue of Parameters. This issue consists of an In Focus special commentary, three forums (Indo-Pacific Challenges, Russia-Ukraine Issues, and Historical Studies).

Strategic Narratives To Counter Global Threats, Jerry E. Landrum, Chase Metcalf, Michael M. Posey

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

This article argues that the current National Security Strategy lacks the necessary coherence and fidelity to mobilize collective action against the emerging Russia-China axis. It merges multiple theoretical concepts to assert that the “rules-based order” theme is insufficient for mobilizing public support. Using textual analysis of the strategy compared with publicly available polling to determine levels of popular resonance, the authors find that the “rules-based order emphasis” does not resonate. This study’s conclusions will assist practitioners as they develop an updated National Security Strategy in the new presidential administration.

Parameters Summer 2025, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

Welcome to the Summer 2025 issue of Parameters. This issue consists of an In Focus special commentary, three forums (Indo-Pacific Challenges, Russia-Ukraine Issues, and Historical Studies).

Book Reviews, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.