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Review Of The Lateran Church In Rome And The Ark Of The Covenant: Housing The Holy Relics Of Jerusalem By Eivor Andersen Oftestad, Lezlie Knox

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Legacies Of Segregation And Disenfranchisement: The Road From Plessy To Frank And Voter Id Laws In The United States, Paru Shah, Robert S. Smith

History Faculty Research and Publications

This article explores how voter ID laws further the dismantling of voting rights and the promises of full political engagement for racial minorities, especially African Americans. The authors highlight the racial politics that inform the emergence of these laws, and the racial intent and impact these laws have in diluting minority voting access and therefore political power. It begins with a short historical overview of voting rights since the eradication of slavery, then offers background on the current legal climate in which voter ID laws are situated. The essay concludes with an analysis of Frank v. Walker as a case …

The Vienna Fortresses, Michael J. Zeps S.J.

History Faculty Research and Publications

While I would not like to saddle the military historian Gordon A. Craig with the content of this book still it would not be complete without saying that encouragement to pursue this line of thought came from him. I showed him some photographs of municipal apartment blocks, known as Gemeindebauten, built by the Social Democrats in Vienna between the wars and he spontaneously labeled the architecture "provocative."

Hans and Rudolph Hautmann had recently compiled a comprehensive book on the apartment projects of Red Vienna, but I wanted to visit the sites myself, being less enthusiastic than they were about the …

Review Of: Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle For Justice In Sixteenth-Century Spain. By Nancy E. Van Deusen., Laura Matthew

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Review Of Fruit Of The Orchard: Reading Catherine Of Siena In Late Medieval And Early Modern England, Lezlie Knox

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Plutarch's Themistocles: The Serpent Of Hellas, Jennifer Finn

History Faculty Research and Publications

In Plutarch’s Themistocles, the general and expatriate is thrice referenced using snake imagery. This article argues that Plutarch deliberately uses snake motifs at loaded points in the narrative to express the transformations of the general’s image in Athenian social memory, and to direct his reader towards a certain interpretation of the general’s legacy. In the centuries between the Persian Wars and the composition of Plutarch’s Lives, Themistocles had been variously represented in Athenian memory as both a patriot and a traitor, often with reference to serpentine imagery that may have been initially propagated by the general himself. An analysis of …

The Enslaved Community Of Silver Bluff: Family, Resistance, & Freedom In Early America, Bryan C. Rindfleisch

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An Engine Of Change? The Affordable Care Act And The Shifting Politics Of Demonstration Projects, Philip Rocco, Andrew S. Kelly

History Faculty Research and Publications

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) made a number of institutional investments intended to expand the federal government’s ability to scale successful demonstration projects into national policy. This article considers how the ACA has reshaped the politics of programmatic innovation in Medicare and Medicaid. A qualitative synthesis of demonstration results suggests that, although the ACA has removed several important veto points to the expansion of successful demonstration projects, numerous barriers to the scaling of reforms remain. These barriers include procedures and techniques that make it difficult to certify the “success” of demonstrations yet make their limitations highly legible. …

Racial Ideology Between Fascist Italy And Nazi Germany: Julius Evola And The Aryan Myth, 1933–43, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

One of the troublesome factors in the Rome–Berlin Axis before and during the Second World War centered on disagreements over racial ideology and corresponding antisemitic policies. A common image sees Fascist Italy as a reluctant partner on racial matters, largely dominated by its more powerful Nazi ally. This article offers a contrasting assessment, tracing the efforts by Italian theorist Julius Evola to cultivate a closer rapport between Italian and German variants of racism as part of a campaign by committed antisemites to strengthen the bonds uniting the fascist and Nazi cause. Evola's spiritual form of racism, based on a distinctive …

Advocates For The Landscape: Alwin Seifert And Nazi Environmentalism, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

Reexamining debates on ostensibly green facets of Nazism, this article offers a case study of the "landscape advocates" led by Alwin Seifert from 1934 to 1945. In contrast to previous accounts focused on the role of the landscape advocates in the construction of the Autobahn, the article assesses their work on a wide range of projects in Nazi Germany and across occupied Europe. It argues that existing scholarship has not fully recognized the extent of the landscape advocates' involvement in Nazi structures and has sometimes misunderstood the relationship between their environmental activities and blood and soil ideology.

"The Colored Problem:" Milwaukee's White Protestant Churches Respond To The Second Great Migration, Peter Borg

Dissertations (1934 -)

In 1963 Dr. King observed that America was most segregated on Sunday mornings when its churches were filled with worshippers. My dissertation investigates the response of Milwaukee’s white urban Protestant churches to the Second Great Migration, which led to tremendous growth in the city’s African American population. The difficulty caused by many white members living in the suburbs while still attending church in racially transitioning city neighborhoods was compounded in some cases by the negative influence exerted by denominational history and polity. While those realities were often far more significant than theology in determining how individual congregations reacted to the …

The Ship Of Aeneas, Jennifer Finn

History Faculty Research and Publications

The ship of Aeneas, the subject of a single literary attestation in Procopius, has received little serious attention from scholars. In a 1997 article, Pier Luigi Tucci made a plausible case for locating the shipshed for the vessel on the banks of the Tiber in the so-called navalia; he went further to propose that Augustus was the architect behind the ship’s placement there. Here I will expand upon Tucci’s argument by suggesting that Augustus dedicated the ship in 2 BC, simultaneous with the performance of his famous naumachia and the dedication of the Augustan Forum. As the culmination of …

Review Of Germans In Illinois By Miranda E. Wilkerson And Heather Richmond, Alison Clark Efford

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The Form Of The Content: The Digital Archive Nahuatl/Nawat In Central America, Laura Matthew, Michael Bannister

History Faculty Research and Publications

The digital archive “Nahuatl/Nawat in Central America” (NECA) assembles and makes publicly available a growing corpus of Nahuan-language documents produced in Spanish Central America. Many are fragments within larger Spanish-language documents and difficult to locate in the archive. NECA has succeeded in bringing attention to this understudied corpus but has so far failed to attract users to its transcription and translation tool. We consider the reasons for this creative failure based on user data, and suggest that the specialized skills and distinct academic communities needed to move this project forward require other workspaces, including the non-digital, in advance of online …

Introduction To Franciscan Women: Female Identities And Religious Culture, Medieval And Beyond, Lezlie Knox

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Toward A New Appreciation Of Fra Mariano Of Florence, Lezlie Knox

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Yankee Continentalism: The Provincial Roots Of John Adams's Vision For American Union, 1755-1776, J. Patrick Mullins

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What Historians Can Learn From Translators, Alison Clark Efford

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Review Of Conservative Revolutionaries: Transformation And Tradition In The Religious And Political Thought Of Charles Chauncy And Jonathan Mayhew, J. Patrick Mullins

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Review Of The Asaba Massacre During The Nigerian Civil War, Chima J. Korieh

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Review Of Palmito Ranch: From Civil War Battlefield To National Historic Landmark, James Marten

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Review Of Native Southerners: Indigenous History From Origins To Removal, By Gregory D. Smithers, Bryan C. Rindfleisch

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David Holmes, Timothy Barnard, And Questionable Loyalties, Bryan C. Rindfleisch

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Book Review Of Heavy Laden: Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, And Suicide, By Larry M. Logue, Peter Blanck, James Marten

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Finn On Platias And Koliopoulos, 'Thucydides On Strategy: Athenian And Spartan Grand Strategies In The Peloponesian War And Their Relevance Today, Jennifer Finn

History Faculty Research and Publications

Review of Thucydides on Strategy: Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponesian War and Their Relevance Today, by Athanasios G. Platias, Kōnstantinos Koliopoulos. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xiv + 197 pp. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-70133-4.

Families In The Civil War, James Marten

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Book Review Of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, And Unequal Politics, By Jamila Michener, Philip Rocco

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Review Of Modernity And Its Other: The Encounter With North American Indians In The Eighteenth Century, By Robert Woods Sayre, Bryan C. Rindfleisch

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Book Review Of The Guerilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts During The Civil War, By Brian D. Mcknight And Barton A. Myers, James Marten

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My Land Is My Flesh Silver Bluff, The Creek Indians, And The Transformation Of Colonized Space In Early America, Bryan C. Rindfleisch

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This essay explores how Native peoples like the Creek (Muscogee) Indians invested colonized spaces in early American society with their own material, commercial, political, and spiritual meanings and importance. In particular, Creek Indians from the town of Coweta transformed Silver Bluff, the plantation of the trader and merchant George Galphin, into a “white ground,” as a place connected to Creek Country by a “white path,” and as a space where Creek and British leaders congregated to conduct business and negotiate politics. For it is no coincidence that the treaties of Augusta in 1763 and 1773, peaceful resolutions agreed to by …