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Sports In Africa, Past And Present, Todd Cleveland, Tarminder Kaur, Gerard Akindes

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

These groundbreaking essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa’s dynamic place in the world.

Since the late nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political, economic, generational, and gender relations on the continent. Although colonial powers originally introduced European sports as a means of “civilizing” indigenous populations and upholding then current notions of racial hierarchies and “muscular Christianity,” Africans quickly appropriated these sporting practices to fulfill their own varied interests. This collection encompasses a wide range of topics, including women footballers in Nigeria, Kenya’s …

Mormon Women Connected Suffrage Directly To Joseph Smith’S First Vision And The Restoration Of The Gospel: Reflections From The 1920 Relief Society Magazine, Ahsley Anderson Webb, Jay H. Buckley

Faculty Publications

On a cold Thursday in early February 1920, newly enfranchised women from across the nation huddled together in Chicago for a seven-day-long Golden Jubilee. The anticipated passage of the Nineteenth Amendment needed only three more states for ratification, which occurred a few months later. At the same time, women in Utah reflected back half a century to February 12, 1870, when Utah Territory granted women the right to vote. Female Utahns rejoiced with their sisters throughout the United States who anticipated the fruition of universal suffrage. Susa Young Gates, who attended the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association Convention in Chicago, …

Media’S Changing Perspective On Muhammad Ali’S Greatest Fight, Jason Meuth , '21

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

Muhammad Ali is best known as being a fighter who transcended the sport of boxing during his time in the ring, yet a pivotal moment in his life occurred outside the ring with his protest of the Vietnam War draft. Newspapers during the era of Vietnam were the primary form of media consumption and they possessed the power to influence how the American people perceived the events that surrounded the Vietnam War such as Muhammad Ali’s draft protest. The New York Times is one such newspaper that provided extensive coverage of Muhammad Ali and his draft protest allowing for an …

Réforme, Religion, Et Républicanism? The “Three Rs” Of Education In Nineteenth-Century France, Emma Novak , '22

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

The French Third Republic under Minister of Education Jules Ferry used public education to breach the sociopolitical divide between urban and rural France at the tail end of the nineteenth century. Ferry’s calls for secularization, centralization, and “republicanization” were countered by the Catholic Church, local governments, and rural families.

Fascism, Traditionalism, And The Reconquista In Franco-Era Educational Materials, Cameron Johnson , '21

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

The authoritarian nationalist government of Francisco Franco aggressively pushed the idea that Spain was a unified nation and culture. However, Spanish culture has always been varied, and possesses a great deal of influence from peoples considered to be deeply and fundamentally different – in particular, North African, Arab, and Muslim cultures. This influence has a long history, though Spanish nationalists in particular were inclined to present it as a brief foreign incursion that was ended by the Reconquista, which restored Spain back to its natural state.

Similarly, the nationalist government itself possessed a significant variety of political thought, with a …

Lincoln And Education, Rolando Avila, Anita Pankake

History Faculty Publications

The current norm of compulsory formal schooling includes a system in which schools teach state mandated curriculum, parents are held legally responsible to assure their children attend school until they reach a certain age, and students are confined within set class meeting times and set locations during their schooling years. The two terms, education and schooling, have been increasingly used synonymously. Our assertion here is that education is a more inclusive term than schooling. More importantly, using Abraham Lincoln as a biographical model, we argue that a good education can be achieved in different ways.

A Pilgrimage To Manzanar, Renee Barrera

History in the Making

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Indian Boarding School History: An Analysis Of Two Letters From The Perris Indian School, Erica Maien Ward

History in the Making

This paper is not meant to be the traditional research paper. It is a brief look into the documents researchers find and analysis while researching on a topic. The documents provide a view into the people and policies of that time period. The two letters that will be analyzed later in this paper are examples of Indian boarding schools’ policies that had direct effect on the lives of the students and their families.1 In the turn of the twentieth century, Indian boarding schools were still operating on the premise of assimilation of the American Indian into the "white culture." Hopefully, …

Memorializing Conflict And Controversy: A Look Into The Kent State Memorials, Heather Johnson

History in the Making

May 4, 1970, marks a day in American history when the protests of the Vietnam War and the government of the United States erupted in violence. It was on this date that Ohio State National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of unarmed student protestors on the campus of Kent State University. In the span of thirteen seconds, nine students were wounded and four lay dead. The shootings sent waves of emotion throughout the country. In the decades following the May 4th shootings, a series of memorials have been created in remembrance of the tragedy. Through the use of oral histories, …

The Trokosi Tradition In Ghana: The Silencing Of A Religion, Rhonda Martinez

History in the Making

When does tradition and religion infringe upon human rights and who has the right to impose restrictions on them? Slavery is still an ongoing phenomenon that should no longer be denied. Trokosi, still being practiced today, is a relatively unknown African religion in which young girls are sexually enslaved to pay for crimes committed by their families. This paper highlights the terrible tradition of trokosi in order to bring public awareness to its three-hundred-year practice. Through the examination of a variety of secondary sources, definitions of slavery and explanations of the trokosi traditions are first established. Next, debates for and …

Rape Regiment: Sexual Violence Against Women During War, Andrea Roskam

History in the Making

Despite the extensive research on World War II, little is known about a system created by the Japanese government in which women were forced into sexual slavery. This system, known as the Comfort Woman System, enabled soldiers to systematically and heinously rape young women for the sole purpose of self-satisfaction and as a reward for their military efforts as a man in combat. This study uncovers some of the brutality for a mature audience through an analysis of credible data, photographic evidence and an extensive look into the oral histories of former Comfort Women. These firsthand accounts give the women’s …

Belgium And The Belgians Since 1830 By Major G. T. Poussin Author Of La Puissance Américaine, Etc. Paris W. Coquebert, Editor Log The History Of The French Of Diverse Estates, By Monteil, 48, Rue Jacob 1845, Steven Rowan

History Faculty Works

Major Guillaume Tell Poussin’s summary of the “Internal Improvements made by the federal government providing for defense and transportation throughout the entire United States of America by the US Army Corps of Engineers under General Simon Bernard, assisted by Poussin,”

Text: “Works of Interior Improvements projected or constructed by the federal government of the United States of America from 1824 to 1831, by Guillaume Tell Poussin, former Major of American Engineers and aide-de-camp of General Bernard.”

Travaux d’améliorations intérieures projetés ou executés par de gouvernemnt general des États-Unis d’Amérique de 1824 à 1831; par Gme Tell Poussin … (Paris: …

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 …

American Railroads History Of Their Construction, Original Costs And Profit Mode Of Administration Adopted Review Of The Legislation Ruling Them Sequel To Interior Improvements, Etc. By Guillaume Tell Poussin Former Major Of American Engineers And Aide De Camp Of General Of Engineers Bernard Time Is Money Paris Carilian-Goeury, Bookstore Of The Royal Corps Of Bridges, Roads And Mines Quai Des Augustines, No. 41 1836, Steven Rowan

History Faculty Works

This statement by Major Guillaume Tell Poussin of construction of American railroads is divided into an Atlantic Line from Boston to Roanoke, and secondly by lines from the Atlantic to the West. A third part portrays the administration of construction, stressing the costs involved, handled in detail by state agencies. The texts of legislation to create state agencies are reviewed and explained.

Beryl M. Fletcher

African American Funeral Programs

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Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 40, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

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TRISTAN DE LUNA AND OCHUSE (P ENSACOLA BAY), 1559 Charles W. Arnade
THE FOUNDING OF PENSACOLA - REASONS AND REALITY Albert C. Manucy
SPANISH PENSACOLA, 1700-1763 William B. Griffen
PENSACOLA IN THE BRITISH PERIOD: SUMMARY AND SIGNIFICANCE Cecil Johnson
PENSACOLA DURING THE SECOND SPANISH PERIOD L. N. McAlister
PANTON, LESLIE, AND COMPANY J. A. Brown
ANTE-BELLUM PENSACOLA: 1821-1860 Herbert J. Doherty
PENSACOLA IN THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE Julien C. Yonge
BATTLE OF SANTA ROSA ISLAND J. L. Larkin
PENSACOLA IN RETROSPECT : 1870-1890 Occie Clubbs
RAILROADS OUT OF PENSACOLA, 1833-1883 Charles W. Hildreth
NEWSPAPERS OF PENSACOLA, 1821-1900 H. G. …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 37, Issue 2, Florida Historical Society

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ZANGARA'S ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Nathan D. Shappee
FLORIDA PIONEER Adelaide H. Reed
THE DEMOCRAT Arthur Kennedy
FLORIDA BIBLIOGRAPHY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

• I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE REGARDING THE FLORIDA INDIANS Hale G. Smith
• II. WRITINGS IN FLORIDA HISTORY ON THE PERIOD 1821-1860 Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.
• III. H ISTORICAL WRITING ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Charlton W. Tebeau

BOOK REVIEWS

• KENTUCKY CAVALIERS IN DIXIE James W. Covington
• PARSON CLAPP OF THE STRANGER'S CHURCH OF NEW ORLEANS Charles T. Thrift, Jr.
• THE BAPTIST CHURCH IN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, 1776-1845 Weymouth T . Jordan
• LEE'S DISPATCHES T. R. Parker

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POPULATION CHANGE As AN ELEMENT IN THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ST. AUGUSTINE John R. Dunkle
WHAT BECAME OF THE MAN WHO CUT OFF JENKINS’ EAR? Edward W. Lawson
ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF FLORIDA GOVERNORS, 1700-1763 John J. TePaske
MARION COUNTY NEWSPAPERS R. N. Dosh
REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR James M. Dancy
BOOK REVIEWS

• Experiencia misionera en la Florida Charles W. Arnade
• The Story of Southwestern Florida J. E. Dovell
• Ante Bellum Alabama Town and Country James D. Glunt
• Lee Chronicle; Studies of the Early Generations of the Lees of Virginia Ryan Beiser
• The South in Northern Eyes, 1831-1861 Clarke Olney