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A Phoenix From The Ashes: Jackson Park’S Japanese Garden, Cultural Exchange, And The Endurance Of Japanese Sites After Pearl Harbor, Brittany Murphy
A Phoenix From The Ashes: Jackson Park’S Japanese Garden, Cultural Exchange, And The Endurance Of Japanese Sites After Pearl Harbor, Brittany Murphy
Asian Studies: Student Scholarship & Creative Works
Japanese gardens in the United States have a history that dates back to the World’s Fairs of the late 19th century, when Japan used the World’s Stage to project an image of itself as a powerful nation founded on both modern industrial techniques and traditional culture to compete with dominating Euro-American powers. The history of the Japanese garden in Chicago’s Jackson Park, gifted to Chicago by the Japanese government for the 1893 Columbian Exposition, tells the story of Midwesterners’ love and appreciation for the gardens while also demonstrating the implicit legacies of Executive Order 9066. The garden remained a crucial …
When Numbers Lie, Brandon Johnson
When Numbers Lie, Brandon Johnson
Tredway Library Prize for First-Year Research
This paper breaks down officially-reported statistics surrounding Japanese-American internment in the United States. Specifically, his paper argues that numbers have a voice, hold power, and that the many discrepancies surrounding these statistics have far-reaching and lingering implications.
Starting Anew: Jewish Immigrants And Refugees Sent To America’S Midwest From Nazi And Post Wwii Germany, Quinn Fabish
Starting Anew: Jewish Immigrants And Refugees Sent To America’S Midwest From Nazi And Post Wwii Germany, Quinn Fabish
Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies
This paper serves to investigate the reasoning as to why Jewish refugees and immigrants were sent to places in the Midwest. Through the analysis of many primary sources, specifically interviews of Jewish refugees and immigrants, this investigation reveals that the general reasons as to why Jewish immigrants and refugees were sent to the rural Midwest were rooted in economics as well as their assimilation into American society. The rural Midwest offered more potential economic opportunities than other urban areas and allowed Jewish immigrants and refugees to more easily assimilate into American life through various means.
Relationship Counseling For The U.S.: Understanding White America's Role In Asian American Experiences, Alison N. Lawrence
Relationship Counseling For The U.S.: Understanding White America's Role In Asian American Experiences, Alison N. Lawrence
Tredway Library Prize for First-Year Research
This paper explores the relationship between White Americans and Asian Americans in an effort to discover the root of the difficulties that first and second generation Asian Americans experience while attempting to integrate into American society. Through an analysis of perspectives from Asian American literature as well as historical and current events, it highlights the racist systems that are ingrained in our everyday lives, continuously reminding Asian Americans that they are out of place in their own country. It concludes with a discussion of White America's necessary role in dismantling these systems, and offers strategies to create a more welcoming …
Don’T Act So Innocent, Midwest: A Midwestern Lynching Narrative, Lauren Hall
Don’T Act So Innocent, Midwest: A Midwestern Lynching Narrative, Lauren Hall
Eddie Mabry Diversity Award
No abstract provided.
The Stained River Of Immaculate Conception: An Analysis Of Judeo-Christian European Dominion Of Nature Along The Mississippi River, Rosalie Looijaard
The Stained River Of Immaculate Conception: An Analysis Of Judeo-Christian European Dominion Of Nature Along The Mississippi River, Rosalie Looijaard
Race, Ethnicity, & Religion
This paper analyzes how the Mississippi River and its surrounding land were co-opted by European explorers to establish Christian dominance in hopes of remaking the Garden of Eden. Christian colonizers both deified and dominated nature to both justify colonization and display their own power over space and religion. This paper first analyzes Hernando de Soto's and Jacques Marquette's naming of the river, and then argues how this initial naming is indicative of a larger trend of occupying and deifying perceived virginal nature and wilderness in order to establish a Christian space on the North American Continent.
The Effect Of The 1918 Influenza Pandemic On U.S. Life Insurance Holdings, Dr. Joanna Short
The Effect Of The 1918 Influenza Pandemic On U.S. Life Insurance Holdings, Dr. Joanna Short
Economics: Faculty Scholarship & Creative Works
This paper examines the effect of a sharp rise in mortality, the 1918 influenza epidemic, on life insurance holdings in the U.S. The BLS Cost of Living Surveys of 1918-1919 provide a unique opportunity to examine the effect of the pandemic—some households were surveyed before, and others during or shortly after the worst of the influenza outbreak. In addition, I use state-level insurance sales data to compare the increase in spending on insurance in states particularly hard hit by the epidemic, relative to those that were not. I find some evidence that, in the immediate aftermath of the epidemic, those …
Beware The Cat In The Hat: How Children's Literature Is The Modern Form Of Segregation, Lucy Kebler
Beware The Cat In The Hat: How Children's Literature Is The Modern Form Of Segregation, Lucy Kebler
Celebration of Learning
Every person grows up exposed to children’s literature. Unfortunately, much of the children’s literature that is published is racially discriminatory, historically inaccurate, blatantly offensive, or pure propaganda. The research for this presentation began in Augustana College’s library and has transitioned to a much broader space: The Saint Louis Country Library. Through this research, it has become obvious that diverse literature is hard to find and is often marketed as only readable for those in the minority race depicted. Many libraries mark literature that contains African Americans, as to help “guide” readers in their selections. Books labeled in this way make …
Consumer Capitalist Christmas: How Participation In Christmas Frames Us As Religious Subjects, Shelby Burroughs
Consumer Capitalist Christmas: How Participation In Christmas Frames Us As Religious Subjects, Shelby Burroughs
Religion: Student Scholarship & Creative Works
Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year. It starts with the music that plays on the radio, then retail stores begin to drape their shelves with red and green streamers, followed by Christmas movies running on every other channel. Every December, Christmas feels almost inescapable. The holiday manages to find its way into every facet of public life in the United States. Christians and non-Christians alike find themselves exchanging gifts with friends and loved ones on the 25th of December every year. Christmas is able to be so pervasive because of how unassuming it is. You participate in …
Toward A Theology Of Transformation: Destroying The Sycamore Tree Of White Supremacy, Hannah Kathleen Griggs
Toward A Theology Of Transformation: Destroying The Sycamore Tree Of White Supremacy, Hannah Kathleen Griggs
Celebration of Learning
Black liberation theologians come to terms with white supremacy by collectively remembering the story of the Exodus and Jesus' crucifixion--affirming God's preference for freedom and in-the-world salvation. The particular history of white American Christianity requires a different story to provide the foundation for our social memory. As white American Christians, we have certain blind spots—blind spots created by historical and social privileges that have given white people unequal access to power and resources. The story of Zacchaeus has the potential to help reframe white Christianity’s conception of race relations in the United States, shifting from a reconciliation paradigm to a …
Making A German-American Place: Davenport, Iowa, 1836-1918, Benjamin E. Bruster
Making A German-American Place: Davenport, Iowa, 1836-1918, Benjamin E. Bruster
Celebration of Learning
This study examines the impact of German-Americans in the creation of Davenport and Scott County, Iowa from 1836 through 1918. Like cities many other 19th century places in the American interior, Davenport and Scott County direly needed people to settle it, build its infrastructure, develop its economy, and contribute to growing social and political life. Conveniently, Davenport and Scott County boosters’ desires occurred simultaneously with rampant pauperism, political, ideological, and religious revolutions, economic redundancy, and widespread dreams of rebirth in Germany. These conditions produced an unprecedented migration from Germany to Davenport and Scott County in the second-half of the …
A Place Of Gemütlichkeit: The Holden Village Of Augustana German Professor Erwin Weber, Julia Meyer
A Place Of Gemütlichkeit: The Holden Village Of Augustana German Professor Erwin Weber, Julia Meyer
Celebration of Learning
Lying in Augustana’s Special Collections are three insignificant looking items. Two three-inch black binders with white labels which read “Holden I Copy” and Holden II Copy” in red ink. These two binders along with a plastic spiral-bound paper compilation are photographs and memories of former Augustana German professor Erwin Weber’s summer at Holden Village in 1977. Titled “My Days at Holden,” this compilation is an unpublished photo-book detailing the wilderness and the people of the community of Holden Village. This isolated village situated in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State draws many individuals, including Erwin Weber who in the summer …
A Transformative Tragedy, Cassandra Karn
A Transformative Tragedy, Cassandra Karn
Audre Lorde Writing Prize
This short essay examines the Irish potato famine's impact on the lives of Irish women, both those who stayed in Ireland and those who immigrated to the United States.
Retroactive Definitions: The Problem With The Traditional Marriage Argument, Atticus Garrison
Retroactive Definitions: The Problem With The Traditional Marriage Argument, Atticus Garrison
Religion: Student Scholarship & Creative Works
Words often change meaning over time. For example, until the 1960s, the word “gay” meant “Light-hearted and carefree” or “Brightly coloured; showy”.[1] But after the 1960’s, the definition of “gay” drastically changed, to meaning a “homosexual.”[2] “When you're with the Flintstones, Have a yabba dabba-do time A dabba-do time, We'll have a gay old time!”[3] This means that when we look at the theme song for the classic cartoon The Flinstones, we should not apply our definition of what gay means to how it is used in the theme song. Definitions of marriage work much in …
Silliness And Stillness: A History Of Covenant Point Bible Camp In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Mark Safstrom
Silliness And Stillness: A History Of Covenant Point Bible Camp In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Mark Safstrom
Scandinavian Studies: Faculty Scholarship & Creative Works
"Silliness and Stillness" tells the history of Covenant Point Bible Camp, located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Founded in 1926, it has primarily served the congregations of the Swedish Mission Covenant (now Evangelical Covenant Church), and represents the broader revival movements that produced that denomination in the nineteenth century. The story of this camp is also part of the history of the Christian camping movement that developed throughout the twentieth century in the United States and Canada. In addition to being an anniversary book for the particular community that calls the camp "home," it also presents the theological background …
From Weak Woman To New Woman And Back: The Long Struggle To Legitimize Women Athletes In The U.S., Rashaun Debord
From Weak Woman To New Woman And Back: The Long Struggle To Legitimize Women Athletes In The U.S., Rashaun Debord
Audre Lorde Writing Prize
This paper details the complicated history of women in sport by looking at the changing popular image of women athletes from the late 19th century to today.
Corn Strike History Report, Dr. Lendol Calder, Annie Urbanczyk, Clair Wright
Corn Strike History Report, Dr. Lendol Calder, Annie Urbanczyk, Clair Wright
2015-2016: Clinton, Iowa
No abstract provided.
The End Of The Small-Town Golden Age: A Rural Newspaper’S Role In The Urban-Rural Clash Of Anti-Catholicism, Christopher S. Saladin
The End Of The Small-Town Golden Age: A Rural Newspaper’S Role In The Urban-Rural Clash Of Anti-Catholicism, Christopher S. Saladin
History: Student Scholarship & Creative Works
Anti-Catholicism is an often forgotten feature of our country’s past that was extremely widespread, especially across rural America. In this essay, I focus on an anti-Catholic newspaper, titled The Menace, which was published out of the small Midwestern town of Aurora, Missouri and enjoyed national success. I argue that anti-Catholic sentiments were largely tied to rural values and fears of urbanization, which were being fueled by a massive influx of Irish and Italian Catholic immigrants into the United States. Rural communities cried out against this “Catholic invasion” because they truly believed that urban immigrant populations were taking away their …
Swenson Center News, 2003, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 2003, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.
Swenson Center News, 2002, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 2002, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.
Swenson Center News, 2001, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 2001, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.
Swenson Center News, 2000, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 2000, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.
Swenson Center News, 1999, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 1999, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.
Swenson Center News, 1998, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 1998, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.
Swenson Center News, 1997, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 1997, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.
Swenson Center News, 1996, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 1996, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.
Swenson Center News, 1995, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 1995, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.
Swenson Center News, 1994, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 1994, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.
Swenson Center News, 1993, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 1993, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.
Swenson Center News, 1991, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Swenson Center News, 1991, Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Augustana College
Newsletter: Swenson Center News
No abstract provided.