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Making Savages Of Us All: White Women, Pueblo Indians, And The Controversy Over Indian Dances In The 1920s, Margaret D. Jacobs
Making Savages Of Us All: White Women, Pueblo Indians, And The Controversy Over Indian Dances In The 1920s, Margaret D. Jacobs
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Historians who have covered the dance controversy usually treat it just in passing as one of the events in John Collier's reform career before he became Franklin Roosevelt's Commissioner of Indian Affairs. They have generally characterized the public debate over Indian dances as a struggle over whether religious freedom should be extended to Native Americans. To many Native Americans, the threat to ban Indian dances certainly did impinge on their religious practices. Yet, the controversy itself involved more than a constitutional debate on religious freedom. Many of the non-Indian participants in the controversy were white women who, in an era …
Review Of Victor Davis Hanson, The Other Greeks: The Family Farm And The Agrarian Roots Of Western Civilization, Vanessa B. Gorman
Review Of Victor Davis Hanson, The Other Greeks: The Family Farm And The Agrarian Roots Of Western Civilization, Vanessa B. Gorman
Department of History: Faculty Publications
The Other Greeks, is a challenge to the typical scholarly approach to the rise and fall of the Greek polis. Hanson's central thesis is that the agrarian culture of Greece from the seventh to the fourth century BC is completely responsible for the political, economic, and social systems of that era. In particular, economic development and social stability resulted from the Greek recognition of the importance of the private ownership of land, the need to address the inequalities that arose from agrarianism, and the need to construct rules limiting the cost and destruction of war (pp. 399-401). At …
Die Zukunft Südtirols Im Lichte Der Akten Des Amerikanischen Kriegsgeheimdienstes (Oss) 1943-1945, Gerald Steinacher
Die Zukunft Südtirols Im Lichte Der Akten Des Amerikanischen Kriegsgeheimdienstes (Oss) 1943-1945, Gerald Steinacher
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Discusses issues affecting the southern Tyrol region during Word War II (1943-1945) including an overview of some relevant American documents and discussion of the OSS secret service.