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Human Rights And War Through Civilian Eyes., Thomas Smith

Faculty Books

International lawyers and ethicists have long judged wars from the perspective of the state and its actions, developing international humanitarian law by asking such questions as "Are the belligerents justified in entering the conflict?" and "How should they conduct themselves during the war's execution?" and "When civilian noncombatants are harmed, who is responsible for their suffering?" Human Rights and War Through Civilian Eyes reimagines the ethics of war from the standpoint of its collateral victims, focusing on the effects of war on individuals—on those who are terrorized, or killed, or whose lives are violently disrupted. Upholding a human rights analysis …

National Children's Dental Health Month Activity Book (2016), American Dental Association Foundation

National Children's Dental Health Month

No abstract provided.

2016 Constitution Day Essay Contest: Honorable Mention, Shawn Murphy

Constitution Day Essay Contest

No abstract provided.

Medicina Casera, Remedios Y Curanderos En Los Inicios De La Medicalización De La Ciudad Moderna. Buenos Aires, 1870-1940, Diego Armus

History Faculty Works

The process of medicalization shapes beliefs and practices that saturate health and disease issues in the urban modernity. The rhythms of such medicalization – never completed – are historical, change over time and are uneven in the city social fabric. This article discuss the incipient medicalization of Buenos Aires between the last decades of the 19th century and the first ones of the 20th paying particular attention to three issues: biomedical uncertainties vis-a-vis some diseases that dominated urban morbidity and mortality; the modesty of the urban health collective equipment and the small size of the medical-professional cadres; the agency of …

More Wounding Than Wounds: Hysterectomy, Phenomenology, And The Pain(S) Of Excorporation, Heather Hill-Vasquez

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

Focusing on the pain experience of hysterectomy, this article applies and interrogates the foundational descriptive process on which phenomenology is based and suggests that feminism and phenomenology are more compatible than previously asserted. Building upon the work of feminist philosophers who have also explored how feminist and phenomenological approaches share similar methods and intentions—especially in connection with the former’s significant attention to lived experience as a source for the theory feminism employs—the article engages with the philosophies of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Samuel Mallin who maintain a consistent attention to the body in their phenomenological approaches. Arguing that Mallin’s method of …

Should Confederate Monuments Be Removed?, Aaron Getman-Pickering

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 17-18

End Of The Line: The Rise And Fall Of Street Railways In Birmingham, Robby Ballard

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 23-31

We Do Not Want Your Tired And Your Poor: Alabama’S Immigration Policies (1870-1910), Nadejda Bontcheva-Loyaga

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 73-89

Tried And Blue: The Unionist Origins Of Alabama’S Blue Spot, David Henslee

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 90-103

The Seeds Of Disfranchisement: How Booker T. Washington Influenced New South Ideals And Paved The Way For Jim Crow, Tyler Malugani

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 124-132

Drugs, Attempted Assassinations And Shock Therapy: The 1972 Presidential Election’S Influence On The Modern Election Cycle, Chris Perry

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 133-147

In Memorium: Glen Alan Feldman, Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 226-227

Vulcan Historical Review 20 (End Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Female Perceptions Of Islam In Today’S Morocco, Fatima Sadiqi

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

This paper is based on a survey, 25 interviews, and observation. According to the results so far, Islam means three things for women in today’s Morocco: faith, culture, and politics. Islam as faith is generally perceived as a personal relationship with God. Such a relationship is seen as both rewarding and empowering, but also private. Women who perceive Islam as faith observe the Islamic rituals and may or may not wear the veil. Women’s perception of Islam as faith is a rather poorly understood topic in research in a heavily space-based patriarchy, probably because of its intimate relationship with the …

“Strong Women Make Strong Nations”: Women, Literature, And Sovereignty In Paula Gunn Allen And Virginia Woolf, Kristin Czarnecki

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

This essay places Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas alongside Paula Gunn Allen’s The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Reading these landmark texts together helps establish a transnational dialogue essential to twenty-first-century literary and feminist studies. A Room of One’s Own and The Sacred Hoop resonate with each other in striving to recuperate women’s history and literature, long denied or suppressed by patriarchal tenets and texts. A fruitful dialogic also emerges between Three Guineas and The Sacred Hoop, both of which argue for the eradication of patriarchy in favor of female-centric social …

Universalizing Primary Education In Sierra Leone: Promises And Pitfalls On The Path To Equity, Grace Pai

Publications and Research

What barriers remain in the progress towards achieving Universal Primary Education (UPE), and how does the UPE agenda affect out-of-school children? Through a mixture of historical, quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, this study examines these questions using the developing context of Sierra Leone as a case study.

Findings from over 100 interviews show that first of all, the most salient barrier that prevents children from participating in primary school is the fact that school is not free de facto in spite of the national abolishment of primary school fees in 2004. Rather than commonly cited constraints such as a …

Mobile People, Mobile God: Mobile Societies, Monotheism, And The Effects Of Ecological Landscapes On The Development Of Ancient Religions, Edward Surman

CGU Theses & Dissertations

Despite the wealth of scholarship concerning the origins of religious beliefs, practices, and cultures, there has been little consideration of the impact of ecological landscapes on the development of ancient religions. Although the influence of the natural environment is considered among the variables in explaining the development of various economic, political, and other social systems throughout history, there is a specific gap concerning its impact on the origins of religious systems. The argument which is taken up in this writing is the correlation between agriculturally marginal landscape and the development of monotheism. Specifically that the religions of the ancient Iranians …

Architecture As Nature’S Canvas, Molly Mcclain

History: Faculty Scholarship

This short article explores architect Irving J. Gill's integration of the natural environment into his modern structures.

Letter From The Editors, Melanie L. Fernandes, Ryan M. Nadeau, Sophia D. Vayansky

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

The Gettysburg Historical Journal embodies the History Department's dedication to diverse learning and excellence in academics. Each year, the Journal publishes the top student work in a range of topics across the spectrum of academic disciplines with different methodological approaches to the study of history. In the words of Marc Bloch, author of The Historian's Craft, "history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding." In the spirit of this maxim, our authors strive to elucidate the many facets of human societies and cultures. Whether these young scholars' research is focused on politics, religion, …

Creating A Statesman: The Early Life Of Prince Clemens Von Metternich And Its Effect On His Political Philosophy, Ryan M. Nadeau

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

As one of the most prolific and influential statesmen of the nineteenth century, Prince Clemens von Metternich is a man whose politics, policies, and political philosophy has received a good amount of attention from historians. Owing to the focus on his career rather than his personal story, the details of his early life have often gone unanalyzed in the context of his later views, despite the formative influence of these years on his political philosophy. An upbringing culturally influenced by France, an education focused on natural sciences and history, and a first-hand experience with the worst side of the French …

Gettysburg Historical Journal 2016

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Desperate Rebels Of Shimabara: The Economic And Political Persecutions And The Tradition Of Peasant Revolt, Jake A. Farias

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

The Shimabara Rebellion has been studied throughout history by historians of East Asia. Originally conceived by both Japanese and Western scholars as a religious revolt against the anti-Christian Tokugawa government, later scholars contended that the Rebellion was a demonstration by the mistreated and impoverished and only tacitly related to Christian influences. This paper sets out to build on that narrative and to show the connection between the Christian resistance to the Tokugawa government and the movement of impoverished and desperate peasants, pushed to the brink of existence. Furthermore, this paper hopes to explore the goals of the Rebellion and establish …

Berlin Opera Wars : Institutional And The Quest For German Identity, Rebecca Robinson

Honors Theses

In October 2000, Berlin’s Minister of Culture Christoph Stölzl proposed a merger of the city’s opera houses. In the midst of German reunification, Berlin was struggling financially and the cost of three separate opera houses was too much for the city to bear. This proposal to combine the former East-German Staatsoper Berlin and Komishe Oper with the former West-German Deutsche Oper under the administration of “The Opera Stages of Berlin” was met with public backlash. Newspapers all over the world reported daily as the directors of both the Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper—Daniel Barenboim and Christian Thielemans— fought bitterly for their …

Lasting Legacies: Contemporary Struggles And Historical Dispossession In South Africa, Robin L. Turner

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Contemporary postapartheid South African land struggles are haunted by the long shadow of historical dispossession. While apartheid-era forced removals are justifiably infamous, these traumatic events were moments in the more extended, less frequently referenced, and more expansive process that fundamentally shaped the South African terrain well before 1948. The South African Republic's mid-nineteenth-century assertion of ownership of all land north of the Vaal River and south of the Limpopo marked the start of a long process of racialized dispossession that rendered black people's residence in putatively white areas highly contingent and insecure throughout the former Transvaal. This article analyzes the …

Ada Estelle Schweitzer, Jason Lantzer

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Jason Lantzer's essay on Ada Estelle Schweitzer, a Contribution to The Indiana Historical Society's publication: Indiana's 200: The People Who Shaped the Hoosier State.

Oscar Carleton Mcculloch, Jason Lantzer

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Jason Lantzer's essay on Oscar Carleton McCulloch, a Contribution to The Indiana Historical Society's publication: Indiana's 200: The People Who Shaped the Hoosier State.

Duncan Pedigree Chart, Alissa A. Duncan

Your Family in History: HIST 550/700

No abstract provided.

Duncan Fan Chart, Alissa A. Duncan

Your Family in History: HIST 550/700

No abstract provided.

Amy Storey's Family History, Amy Storey

Your Family in History: HIST 550/700

No abstract provided.

The Family History Of Reed W. Phillips, Reed W. Phillips

Your Family in History: HIST 550/700

This is five generations of the family of Reed W. Phillips of Missouri. Family names include Phillips, Bybee, Johnson, Schmidt, Jeffries, Ross, Foster, and Hergemueller. It includes personal stories and genealogical data.