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German-American Nazis And The Meaning Of American Homeland, 1935–1939, Edward S. Price
German-American Nazis And The Meaning Of American Homeland, 1935–1939, Edward S. Price
James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities
History states that the United States defeated Nazi Germany not only militarily, but ideologically too. This assertion is the central concern of my paper. As the liberal, American identity has endured, and German fascism has not, so too has the idea of irreconcilable differences between two opposing political identities. Since 1945, a postwar need to “castigate fascism as an aberration” has certainly given way to more subtle research, that with “an acknowledgement of fascism’s complexity, ambiguity and seductiveness” (Kallis, 1, 2000). However, the “urge to explain … fascism” has endured and is still the central concern of any project, even …
Constructing Virtue, Making Place: Regional Creation In A National Context. The Second Annual James A. Rawley Conference In The Humanities
James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities
Program:
Water, Economic Development, and Federal Policy in the American Midwest
Chair: Dr. Kurt Kinbacher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Constructing Regionalism through Improvement: The Des Moines River Lands Grant and Improvement Project—Rick Woten, Iowa State University
2. Historians as Divorce Lawyers: The Pick Sloan Plan and a Failure of Regionalism—David Nesheim, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
3. Pumping the Well Dry: Irrigation on the Great Plains—Lisa Schuelke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Comment: Dr. David Wishart, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Race and Regionalism
Chair: Chris Rasmussen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. Harlem Riots and the White Press’ use of the Brute Negro, the Contested Slave, …
Gumbo Flats And Slim Buttes: Visualizing The “West River” Region In Western South Dakota, Nathan B. Sanderson
Gumbo Flats And Slim Buttes: Visualizing The “West River” Region In Western South Dakota, Nathan B. Sanderson
James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities
When South Dakota and North Dakota became states in 1889, the powers that be split the old Dakota Territory lengthwise a few degrees south of the 46th parallel, creating two states that each spanned roughly 400 miles east to west, and about 230 miles north to south. The Missouri River ran through the central portion of both states, marking the approximate location of the 100th Meridian. Given the stark differences in annual moisture on either side of the Meridian and the inherent contrasts this discrepancy produces, perhaps these states should have been divided north to south instead.
In South Dakota, …
‘Riding Well And Shooting Straight’: The Ideal Southern Man In Literature, Catherine Biba
‘Riding Well And Shooting Straight’: The Ideal Southern Man In Literature, Catherine Biba
James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities
Though an oft-parodied stereotype today, the treasured expectations of manliness were intractable and concrete in the South and impacted every stratum of society. Fully developed before the advent of the Civil War, these masculine ideals did not disappear with the Confederate States of America— they lingered and even grew in tenacity, shaping nearly every facet of southern life. Given its deep entrenchment in southern thought and life, the complexity of what Richard Yarborough calls the “mythology of masculinity” occupies much modern southern historical research. Relying heavily on both personal and public documents, southern historians provide a valuable framework for understanding …