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Full Issue, Fast Capitalism Editorial Team

Fast Capitalism

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The Library Advisory Board: Building And Sustaining Student Library Culture, Frenchie

High School Libraries Workshop

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Full Issue: Volume 7, Issue 1, Editorial Board

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

The first issue in the seventh volume of the Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal.

Colonial Whaling In Walvis Bay And In Southern Africa: Environmental Exploitation And Legacy Of South Africa’S Cetaceans, Jake L. Zarak

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

This paper examines the colonial whaling industry in Southern Africa, with a focus on Walvis Bay, tracing its long term environmental and socio-economic impacts. From the 1700s to the 1900s, whaling operations, primarily led by American, British, and French enterprises, exploited the region’s rich populations of sperm and right whales, drastically reducing their numbers. The study contextualizes whaling within a broader colonial framework, analyzing its effects on whale migratory patterns, indigenous communities, and marine ecosystems. It explores as well, the transition from whaling as an economic endeavor to modern conservation efforts and the romanticization of whales in literature and art. …

“This Would Certainly Happen Unless We Killed Every White Man”: The Tsilhqot’In’S War Of Survival, Samuel W. Louwagie

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

In 1864, several Tsilhqot’in (also spelled as “Chilcotin” or “Chilcoaten”) killed workers building a road across their territory in modern-day British Columbia. Six of the Tsilhqot’in, including their war chief, Lhatŝ’aŝʔin (also spelled as “Klatsassin”), were subsequently executed by the British colonial government. Since the Tsilhqot’in were initially assisting the road crew, this paper addresses the question of what caused the so-called “Chilcotin War” to begin.

Russia’S Cultural Thermometer: Imperial Balls At The Turn Of The 20th Century, Milo A. Clarkson

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

This work presents a novel perspective of Russian galas and their role in constructing an authentically Russian imperial culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this time, imperial balls functioned as both displays of soft power and represented a testing ground for the re-introduction of “authentic” Russian culture. After the modernizing wave of the Petrine revolution and long nineteenth-century intellectual debates between Westernizers and Slavophiles, Russia was deeply entrenched in Euro-centric dress, culture, and etiquette. This work proposes that turn-of-the-20th-century balls represented a reconfiguring of “Russianness” and displayed the aristocracy's internalized struggles for national identity. These articulations …

Western Mansions In The Gardens Of Perfect Brightness, Another History Of High Qing Sino-European Exchanges, Nicolas Woreth

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

The Gardens of Perfect Brightness, the favorite residence of Chinese Emperors in the High Qing era (1683-1799), held mysteries that will remain forever concealed from the public eye after French and British imperialist forces looted it and burned it beyond repair during the Second Opium War (1856-1860). Behind the doors of the secret garden, scarcely open to anyone but the emperor, his wives, and servants, worked European artists and scientists. Most of them were Jesuit missionaries who served the emperor in the hope of gaining his favor and support for the spread of Christianity in China.

This paper aims to …

Gold, Manuscripts, And Misunderstanding: The Forgotten Intellectual Wealth Of Timbuktu, Caroline A. Valdovinos

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

This article re-examines Timbuktu’s legacy, challenging European myths that imagined the city as a hidden African “El Dorado” while overlooking its intellectual wealth. From the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, Timbuktu thrived as a hub of trade, religion, and scholarship, home to mosques, libraries, and networks of learning that drew scholars from across the Islamic world. Manuscripts on theology, law, medicine, and science circulated widely, placing the city at the heart of West Africa’s intellectual life. Yet European explorers and mapmakers, influenced by accounts like those of Leo Africanus, recast Timbuktu as a treasure-laden city of gold. This obsession, reinforced by …

Bodies As Battlefields: Gendered Violence During The Russian Pogroms, Alisa L. Fixler

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

This paper explores how sexual violence during the Russian Civil War, particularly perpetrated by the White Army, was used as a ubiquitous tool for genocide against Jewish women. From 1918 to 1922, Jewish Women in the Russian Empire faced pervasive sexual violence during the pogroms: periods of mass violence and riots targeting Jews. This wave of violence led to displacement, immigration, and a profound impact on culture, reshaping the Jewish community forever and serving as a driving factor in the Jewish diaspora. Previous scholarship fails to critically engage with sexual violence as a unique tool in itself, as opposed to …

"El Malcriado" Newspaper From May, 1967

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

"El Malcriado" newspaper May, 1967 edition. The newspaper contains information for the farm workers that are part of the union such as laws that protect them.

"El Malcriado" Newspaper From November, 1967

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

"El Malcriado: La Voz del Campesino" November, 1967 edition. The newspaper provides updates on topics such as the aftermath of hurricane "Beulah" on the Rio Grande Valley, Texas area. The newspaper states that "the Valley area has been declared a disaster zone and the federal government is helping some people to repair damages".

"El Malcriado" Newspaper From August, 1967

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

"El Malcriado" newspaper from August 1967. The document examines the topics of "Where does the money go in Weslaco? and "Farm Workers in Wisconsin".

"El Malcriado" Newspaper From October, 1967

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

"El Malcriado", The Voice of the Farmworkers, from October 1967. The newspaper provides updates on topics such as the hurricane that impacted Texas, specifically the Rio Grande area.

"El Malcriado" Newspaper From December, 1973

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

"El Malcriado" newspaper, the voice of the farm worker December, 1969. The document contains words such as "Paz y Justicia" or "Peace and justice".

"El Malcriado" Newspaper From June 7, 1967

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

"El Malcriado" newspaper, article titled "Start County: Victoria!". The document is in Spanish and it is dated June 7, 1967.

"El Malcriado" Newspaper From November 2, 1973

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

"El Malcriado" newspaper. the official voice of the United Farmworkers. The newspaper is dated to November 2, 1973

"A Dignity Of Their Own"

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Document titled "A Dignity of their own" promoting a march at Austin to protest for the rights of farmworkers. The document also states how the public can help support the march.

List Of Pickets For Protesting At La Casita Farms

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Document listing the names of pickets for protesting to take place at La Casita Farms.

Names Of Committee Members

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Handwritten notes of what appear to be notes with names of committee members. The listed committees are; transportation, finance, publicity, and legislative committee.

Document Advocating For The Rights Of Farmworkers

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Document stating opinions in favor of the farm workers. The document mentions the unfair treatment that the farm workers received and how the purpose of the march is related to advocating for protection and a minimum wage for farm workers.

Speech Regarding Farm Workers

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Written speech about farm workers that was delivered on labor day, 1966 at Austin, Texas.

Itinerary Of The March From Beeville To Austin

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Itinerary for the farm worker's march from the portion of the march including Beeville to Austin. On the back are details regarding hospitality for the march participants.

Speech For Participants Of The Rio Grande Valley Farm Worker March

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Written speech for participants of the Rio Grande Valley farm worker march. The location of the speech is stated to be Austin, Texas.

Itinerary For La Marcha

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Itinerary listing locations and dates of the march along with daily activities.

Speech For "La Marcha" On Lavor Day 1966

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Speech from a farm worker's march representative on labor day, 1966 as part of "La Marcha".

Correspondence From Roy R. Evans To Eugene Nelson

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Correspondence from Roy R. Evans, secretary treasurer of the Texas AFL-CIO, to Eugene Nelson from the National Farm Workers Association.

Statewide Meeting At Austin, Texas

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Document stating that "Texas Liberal Democrats announce statewide meeting at Austin, Texas. The date for the meeting is Sunday, September 4, 1966.

Authorization To Solicit Donations For Farm Worker's March Towards Austin

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Correspondence from the National Farm Workers Association to "whom it may concern". The letter states that its purpose is to certify that the bearer of the letter is authorized to solicit donations for support of the march to Austin of Rio Grande Valley farm workers.

Itinerary For March On Austin

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Itinerary for farm worker' march on Austin listing locations and dates of the march along with daily activities.

La Marcha At New Braunfels, Texas

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Flyer titled "2 Down - 1 To Go" that pictures marchers of "La Marcha" meeting, from left to right, John Connally, Texas Governor, Ben Barnes, speaker of the Texas house of representatives, and Vincent Waggoner Carr Attorney General of Texas. The meeting took place at New Braunfels, Texas during labor day, 1966. In the back is pictured Texas Ranger Captain Alfred Young Allee.