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Primitive Accumulation In The Late Twentieth Century: Mexico, The United States, And Nafta, Mark Huffman

Scholars Week

Between 1971 and 1994, American capital succeeded in redirecting state action toward the interests of the largest transnational firms, facilitating extreme concentrations of wealth and capital alongside a profound defeat of organized labor and the dismantling of social programs. The post-Keynesian political economy produced the North American Free Trade Agreement, an event which demonstrated both the ideological capture of the American state by neoliberalism and the purpose of the ideology as a social force (as opposed to a strictly economic one). This article investigates the neoliberal turn generally and NAFTA specifically as engines of social dislocation in North America and …

Through The Lens Of “Kigo”: Understanding Japanese American Wwii Poetry, Grace C. Shields

Honors College Theses

In 1957, nearly ten years after the closing of Tule Lake Segregation Center in Newell, California, the last of the ten War Relocation Authority (WRA) concentration camps to close, author Keiho Soga writes on a piece of paper:

“Untitled”

By: Keiho Soga

Beyond the forbidding fence 

Of doubled barbed wire 

The mountain, 

Aglow with purple,

Sends us its greetings.

In this brief moment of reflection, Soga recounts his time in Sand Island Internment Camp, another of the Japanese American internment camps established during World War II by the United States government after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. …

The U.S. Military's Development And Use Of The Helicopter Throughout The Viet-Nam War, Benjamin C. Arvin

Scholars Week

From the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, the helicopter’s roles were evolved far beyond what was present in the Korean War. It’s specializations included responsibilities such as medical evacuation, troop and cargo transportation, and direct assault. With each of these roles came designated models to be used for their specific test. The jungles of Viet-Nam would serve as a proving ground for this new aircraft, which would come to be essential for the United States military as the war continued, with each individual model proving their strengths and weaknesses both in and out of combat. Ultimately, this new revolutionary …

A Thousand Weddings: The Memoir Of Hope Hart Of West Tennessee

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A Thousand Weddings: The Memoir of Hope Hart of West Tennessee

Edited by Marvin Downing

Jackson Purchase Historical Society President's Report: The Year In Review 2024-2025

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President's Report, July 2024 to June 2025

Bill Mulligan

The Civil War In The Jackson Purchase Region Of Kentucky: A Preliminary Bibliography

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The Civil War in the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky: A Preliminary Bibliography

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

Sara Smith Campbell And The City Flag Of Paducah

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Sara Smith Campbell and the City Flag of Paducah

Hugh L. Brady

Ex-Confederate Reunion And Parade

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Ex-Confederate Reunion and Parade

Talley Bailey

Jackson Purchase Railroads

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Jackson Purchase Railroads

Ricky-Dale Calhoun

A Trip From New York To Mayfield - 1885: A Vignette

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A Trip from New York to Mayfield - 1885: A Vignette

Ricky-Dale Calhoun

Editor's Remarks

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Editor's Remarks

Bill Mulligan

Book Reviews

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Murder in the Ohio Belle

Decisions at Fort Donelson

Johnsonville: Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864

Reelfoot Lake, Oasis on the Mississippi Riiver

A Thousand Weddings: The Memoir of Hope Hart of West Tennessee

The Life and Times of Hammerin' Hank Ward 

Is A Unified History Of The Jackson Purchase Region Of Kentucky And Tennessee Even Possible?

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Is a Unified History of the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky and Tennessee Even Possible?

Unity And Dissent: Exploring The United States Constitution Ratification Among The States, Luke Wyatt

Honors College Theses

The research presented here, analyzes the states in 1787 and the ratification Convention of five states: Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, New York, and Virginia. There were three states that ratified the United States Constitution unanimously while others had great opposition by anti-federalist. The research analyze why those three states ratified the constitution unanimously while other states had great opposition for it and supported the articles of confederation.

Interwar Patriotism: From Military Bands To Marching Bands, 1920s And 1930s, Elise Eaton

Steeplechase: An ORCA Student Journal

High school bands have evolved greatly since the first band boom in the early 1920s. Beyond the performance responsibilities and commitments to football and sporting events, bands have their own cultural elements that only band members, band staffs, and families of band students truly understand. This thesis will demonstrate that high school band culture since the 1920s developed alongside the changing fortunes of the U.S. military. Accordingly, U.S. military history shaped the evolving culture of high school marching bands and other youth performing arts groups while these civilian youth groups in turn embedded and reinforced elements of U.S. militarism in …

Tobacco In Calloway County - 1820-1900

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Tobacco in Calloway County - 1820-1900

Ricky-Dale Calhoun

President's Report, July 2023 To June 2024

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President's Report, July 2023 to June 2024

Bill Mulligan

The Tennessee Valley Authority, Kentucky Dam, And Land Between The Lakes

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The Tennessee Valley Authority, Kentucky Dam, and Land Between The Lakes

Haley Garrison

Editor's Remarks

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Editor's Remarks

Bill Mulligan

Book Reviews

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Book Reviews

Bourbon's Backroads: A Journey Through Kentucky's Distilling Landscape

River Shows, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz and Country Music: It All Equals Rockabilly, Part One

We Shall Conquer or Die: Partisan Warfare In 1862 Western Kentucky

Faith in Politics: Southern Political Battles Past and Present

Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce

Across the Kentucky Color Line: Cultural Landscapes of Race from the Lost Cause to Integration

Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri

Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace

Drowned Town

New Perspectives on Civil War Era Kentucky

The …

Purchase, People, And Places: Murder And A Man Of The Cloth

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Purchase, People, and Places: Murder and a Man of the Cloth

Bobbie Smith Bryant

Grant, Kaskel, And The Infamous General Order Number 11

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Grant, Kaskel, and the Infamous General Order Number 11

Roy Hensel

Columbus During The Civil War And Reconstruction

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Columbus during the Civil War and Reconstruction

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

The Desegregation Of Kentucky School Systems

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The Desegregation of Kentucky School Systems

Morgan Brian

Marching To The Music: The U.S. Military’S Impact On American Youth Through The Marching Band Movement, 1910-1990, Elise Eaton

Honors College Theses

High school bands have evolved greatly since the first band boom in the early 1920s. Beyond the performance responsibilities and commitments to football and sporting events, bands have their own cultural elements that only band members, band staffs, and families of band students truly understand. This thesis will demonstrate that high school band culture since the 1920s developed alongside the changing fortunes of the U.S. military. Accordingly, U.S. military history shaped the evolving culture of high school marching bands and other youth performing arts groups while these civilian youth groups in turn embedded and reinforced elements of U.S. militarism in …

Year In Review July 2022 To June 2023 And President's Report

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President's Report: July 2022 - June 2023

Bill Mulligan

Book Reviews

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Book Reviews

Traces: a novel

The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad

The Accidental Fame and Lack of Fortune of West Tennessee's David Crockett

Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia

The Finest Place We Know: A Centennial History of Murray State University

A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

A Crime Of Passion In Calloway County

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A Crime of Passion in Calloway County

Bobby Smith Bryant

Calloway County Bicentennial Celebration: A Panel Discussion

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Calloway County Bicentennial Celebration: A Panel Discussion

Bill Mulligan, Bobby Smith Bryant, Gina Winchester, Randy Patterson, and Pat Seiber

Modernizing Warfare: Us Grant And Military Engineering In The Middle Mississippi Valley During The Civil War

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Modernizing Warfare: US Grant and Military Engineering in the Middle Mississippi Valley during the Civil War

William H. Mulligan, Jr.