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Maintaining Intact Our Homogeneousness: Race, Citizenship, & Reconstructing Cherokee, Rachel Purvis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The history of the Cherokee Nation from 1866 to 1907 provides a new framework for the story of Reconstruction that expands the periodization and geographical scope of the effects of the postwar period on both mainstream America and those regulated to its margins. Although the historical narrative marks the end of Reconstruction with the political compromise of 1877, the process continued in the Cherokee Nation until Oklahoma statehood was achieved in 1907. The Cherokee Nation serves as a window of analysis that demonstrates how the process of Reconstruction was a national phenomenon. The experience of the Cherokee people and their …

Rebels On The Border: Civil War, Emancipation, And The Reconstruction Of Kentucky & Missouri, James C. Klotter

Civil War Book Review

A New Look at a Complex Region

Look at studies of the northern states during the Civil War. Seldom will they discuss in any detail events in Kentucky and Missouri, even though those two states officially remained loyal during the conflict. Examine works on the South during that divisiv....

The Story Of My Campaign: The Civil War Memoir Of Captain Francis T. Moore, Second Illinois Cavalry, Donald C. Elder Iii

Civil War Book Review

Remembering the Experience from the Ground Up

In the vast literature concerning the American Civil War, there are hundreds of books to be found that are the memoirs of combatants on both sides. Hundreds more are comprised of letters and diaries composed during the conflict by those who....

To The Battles Of Franklin And Nashville And Beyond: Stabilization And Reconstruction In Tennessee And Kentucky, 1864-1866, Brian Steel Wills

Civil War Book Review

Examining the Transition to Peace in Tennessee and Kentucky

In this latest of three volumes, Benjamin Franklin Cooling continues his series examining the effects of the American Civil War on Kentucky and Tennessee. Cooling builds on his earlier work, Forts Henry and Donelson—The Key ....

The Confederate Heartland: Military And Civilian Morale In The Western Confederacy, Robert Welch

Civil War Book Review

The Will to Go On

Pick up any history of the Civil War, and at some point a discussion of morale comes into play, especially in reference to the western theater of the conflict. We are reminded time and again of the waves of Confederate desertion in the face of a lost war and the myriad....

Negotiating Cultural Transitions: Contemporary Student Veterans And Louisiana Institutions Of Higher Education, Kay Harrison Maurin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Student veterans are flooding colleges and universities in numbers not seen since the end of World War II. Little is known about how these contemporary student veterans navigate the transition from military life to campus life. Few studies have documented the transition experiences of these student veterans by institution type or cultural region of the country. In Louisiana, nearly 7,000 students receive military benefits for higher education with this number steadily increasing (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2009, June). This study explores the transition experience of student veterans from military life to university life at four institutions of higher education …

Guerillas In Civil War Missouri, Grady Atwater

Civil War Book Review

Uncovering Guerrilla Warfare in Missouri

The Civil War is still a live issue in Missouri and Kansas, and many of the hard feelings created by the vicious guerilla war between Missourians and Kansans from 1854 to 1865 still remain strong today. The moral and philosophical rectitude of th....

The Battle Of Mine Creek: The Crushing End Of The Missouri Campaign, Joseph Beilein

Civil War Book Review

Examining the Missouri Campaign

Prompted by the sesquicentennial of America’s greatest war and the elevated level of interest sparked by the anniversary, historians and authors have sought to cover new aspects of the war or offer new insights into old stories. Jeffrey Stalnaker’s Th....

War's Desolating Scourge: The Union's Occupation Of North Alabama, Andrew F. Lang

Civil War Book Review

Understanding the Experience of union Occupation

Writing within the shadow of the recent occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, scholars are once again turning their attention to the United States’s formative military occupations during the nineteenth century. Conflicts were not waged onl....

Children And Youth During The Civil War Era, Sean Trainor

Civil War Book Review

New Study Assesses Children’s Wartime Experience

At the start of the American Civil War, half of all Americans were sixteen years of age or younger. Not that one regularly encounters evidence of this striking demographic fact in historical literature on the nineteenth-century US. Despite....

The Iron Way: Railroads, The Civil War, And The Making Of Modern America, Mark A. Smith

Civil War Book Review

Revealing Technology’s Role in Warfare

In The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America, William G. Thomas has deployed the latest technological tools of the early twenty-first century, those of digital history, to provide a nuanced and thought-provokin....

Responses To The Five Questions, Charles J. Dunlop Jr.

William Mitchell Law Review

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Responses To The Five Questions, Harvey Rishikof, Bernard Horowitz

William Mitchell Law Review

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Targeted Strikes: The Consequences Of Blurring The Armed Conflict And Self-Defense Justifications, Laurie R. Blank

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.

International Humanitarian Law Of Armed Conflict: A Critical Annotated Bibliography For Collection Development, Madeline Cohen

Publications and Research

This article is an annotated bibliography of selected monographs published from 2001 through 2012 in the fields of International Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict (Laws of War) and International Human Rights Law. The aim is to provide a collection development guide for librarians and scholars in this area of international law. Key topics that are covered are: Internal conflicts, asymmetric warfare, laws of war, humanitarian intervention, treatment of insurgents, non-international armed conflict, targeted killings, terrorism, drones, robotics.

World War Ii Archaeology In Fiji: Assessing The Material Record, Allison Young

Nebraska Anthropologist

World War II was a global conflict that dramatically changed societies and landscapes around the world. It also left behind a vast and diverse material record. Although the battles of the conflict never reached Fiji, a British colony in the South Pacific, the War's impact on the island group is clear. Through 1942 and part of 1943, while under threat of Japanese invasion, defensive installations and occupation facilities were built on the island. In the later years of the war, Fiji became a forward base for the Allied forces. This resulted in the construction of transportation infrastructure, and an influx …

The Effects Of China's One-Child Policy: The Significance For Chinese Women, Kristine Sudbeck

Nebraska Anthropologist

In 1979. China introduced the legislation of the One-Child Policy to be implemented as a temporary means of curbing such high population growth. Over thirty years have passed since its implementation. and this family planning policy still continues to be controversial. Much of academia has focused on the problems stemmingfrom this policy. such as increased abortions. the underreporting of live births. infants abandoned and/or left at orphanages. female infanticide and an imbalanced ratio of males to females among the Chinese population. Not much scholarship has focused on the benefits of China 's One-Child Policy. especially for women. Since this policy …

Rightly Dividing The Domestic Jihadist From The Enemy Combatant In The “War Against Al-Qaeda” – Why It Matters In Rendition And Targeted Killings, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Faculty Articles

The United States must be able to distinguish between common criminals and unlawful enemy combatants and then apply the appropriate rule of law to each category with unabashed clarity.

The confusion associated with comprehending fundamental legal concepts associated with how America conducts the "War on Terror" centers around the unwillingness of the U.S. government to properly distinguish al-Qaeda unlawful enemy combatants from domestic jihadi terrorists. Instead, the terms "domestic terrorist," "domestic jihadist," or just "terrorist," are frequently employed to describe all categories of actors--unlawful enemy combatants as well as common criminals--leaving both domestic and international audiences puzzled as to what …

The Child Soldiers Prevention Act: How The Act's Inadequacy Leaves The World's Children Vulnerable, Heather L. Carmody

California Western International Law Journal

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One Language, Many Realities: An Interpretation Of Language, Law, And Section 215(A)(3) Of The Fair Labor Standards Act, Julie L. Newman

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Review Of Daniel Mockli's "Strategic Trends 2012: Key Developments In Global Affairs, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

This review essay describes and analyzes the content of this annual compilation of international affairs essays published by the Zurich-based Center for Strategic Studies.

Sow What You Reap? Using Predator And Reaper Drones To Carry Out Assassinations Or Targeted Killings Of Suspected Islamic Terrorists, Thomas M. Mcdonnell

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article explores whether targeted killing of suspected Islamist terrorists comports with international law generally, whether any special rules apply in so-called “failed states,” and whether deploying attack drones poses special risks for the civilian population, for humanitarian and human rights law, and for the struggle against terrorism. Part I of this article discusses the Predator Drone and its upgraded version Predator B, the Reaper, and analyzes their technological capabilities and innovations. Part II discusses international humanitarian law and international human rights law as applied to a state’s targeting and killing an individual inside or outside armed conflict or in …

Behavioral Advertising: From One-Sided Chicken To Informational Norms, Richard Warner, Robert H. Sloan

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

When you download the free audio recording software from Audacity, you agree that Audacity may collect your information and use it to send you advertising. Billions of such pay-with-data exchanges feed information daily to a massive advertising ecosystem that tailors website advertising as closely as possible to individual interests. The vast majority of consumers want considerably more control over our information. Consumers nonetheless routinely enter pay-with-data exchanges when we visit CNN.com, use Gmail, or visit any of a vast number of other websites. Why? And, what, if anything, should we do about it? We answer both questions by describing pay-with-data …

Beyond War: Bin Laden, Escobar, And The Justification Of Targeted Killing, Luis E. Chiesa, Alexander K.A. Greenawalt

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Using the May 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden as a case study, this Article contributes to the debate on targeted killing in two distinct ways, each of which has the result of downplaying the centrality of international humanitarian law (IHL) as the decisive source of justification for targeted killings.

First, we argue that the IHL rules governing the killing of combatants in wartime should be understood to apply more strictly in cases involving the targeting of single individuals, particularly when the targeting occurs against nonparadigmatic combatants outside the traditional battlefield. As applied to the bin Laden killing, we argue …

The South Of The North: Building On On Critical Approaches To International Law With Lessons From The Fourth World, Amar Bhatia

Articles & Book Chapters

As both practice and discipline, international law has been the subject of serious and sustained internal and external critiques since its inception. In fact, the "inception" of international law itself has been the subject of serious and sustained critique for some time now. This debate is of special relevance for Indigenous peoples, most of whom suffer from a double burden in international law, as they are neither Europeans nor dominant political actors within the states whose borders now contain and divide their traditional territories. Apart from the changing role, place, and agency of Indigenous peoples in international law and fora …

North Alabama Historical Review - Volume 2 - 2012, History Graduate Student Association - Una

North Alabama Historical Review

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Patents Fettering Reproductive Rights, Scott A. Allen

Indiana Law Journal

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A Collaged Reflection On My Art Teaching: A Visual Autoethnography, Laurie Eldridge

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

In this article I begin to unravel some of the complexities of being a visual art educator who teaches in a public elementary school: while dealing with an increasing high-stakes testing environment, I write in defense of teaching that is based on social justice and visual culture theory. I take the theme of this issue, de(fence), literally as a need to defend. To do this I use visual autoethnography, where I create a collaged work of art, then use that collage as a prompt for my reflection on my curriculum and teaching practice. My reflection is woven into the wider …

Why More Christians Should Believe In Mary's Immaculate Conception, Jack E. Mulder

Faculty Publications

In this paper, Jack Mulder, Jr. argues that those who hold 1) the major Christological and Trinitarian tenets of the historic Christian faith and 2) the view that original sin and its psychological consequences are in some way inherited and not learned (which includes a wide swath of leading figures in the historic Christian tradition) have strong reasons for why they should also hold that the Virgin Mary never received original sin (or its psychological consequences).

Natural Killer Cell Regulation By Micrornas In Health And Disease, Jeffrey W. Leong, Ryan P. Sullivan, Todd A. Fehniger

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.