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Pedagogy Across State Lines: Critical Race Theory as a Response to Teachers Vs. The State
(2022-10-11)
James W. Loewen begins his book, Lies My History Teacher Told Me, with a dedication to all “American history teachers who teach against their textbooks,” challenging the standardized education system. Lauding teachers for ...
Paging Dr. Nitobe! Social Fevers, Moral Levers, and Doctored Traditions in Bushido: The Soul of Japan. (Thesis + Soundtrack Album)
(2022-06-22)
Abstract (Thesis + Soundtrack Album)
Nitobe Inazo’s popular book, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, was an important effort to enshrine a long-standing national identity in Japan with the development of bushido, or the “way of ...
Learning and Court Culture: Women in the Court of Henry VIII
(2021-08-26)
This work details the lives and roles of the wives of Henry VIII as well as other female members of the British aristocracy, specifically during the reign of Henry VIII and the time immediately preceding and succeeding his ...
Branch Rickey’s Law: How New York State’s Ives-Quinn Act Opened the Door for Jackie Robinson
(2022-05-10)
The breaking of baseball’s color barrier in 1945 was an important victory in the long, ongoing
struggle for racial equality in America. Over the years, it has been a fertile subject for
historians, scholars, and artists. ...
Misinformation and Misfortune in the Scottish Colonial Failure of New Caledonia in Panama, 1695-1707
(2023-04-25)
This thesis examines the poor use of information and distorted knowledge in the
failed Scottish effort to establish an entrepôt (what scholars now call the Darién Scheme)
in the Darién jungle of Panama in the late ...
Human Trafficking: A Rural and an Urban Problem
(2021-10-15)
It has to be recognized that human trafficking is a problem in all American states. Small towns do, in fact, face this international problem. Human trafficking can happen in any community, large or small, in cities and ...
Politicization of the UNHCR After the Cold War
(2023-04-28)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is the United Nations global face for refugee protection. It has guided the world through its moral obligation to protect populations made vulnerable from conflicts for ...
Joseph English: Loyalty and Survival in the Life of a Colonial Native Scout
(2021-05-14)
Joseph English was a man of Native American ancestry who served in New England’s military in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Captured in action and taken prisoner to Canada, he escaped, returned to ...
The use of Sports as a Propaganda Tool
(2023-04-28)
The problem that was investigated by the current thesis was Mobutu’s motivation for hosting the Rumble in the Jungle in the Congo and the perception this had created in the world press. Although previous scholars have ...
In League with the Divine: How Religion Influenced Nazi Perpetrators of the Holocaust
(2022-09-21)
Scholars of the Holocaust have, in recent decades, started to examine the factors that motivated seemingly “normal” people to become willing participants in the Nazis’ pogroms of extermination. Although many social, ...