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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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
William Rehnquist: Dogged Ideologue
(2022-12-20)
This thesis explores the life and career of William Rehnquist, the sixteenth Chief Justice of the United States. It argues that he was deeply and consistently ideological throughout his life, committed to strongly held ...
An Order for Everything and Everything in its Order: A Rationale for Organizing Educational Content According to a Chronological Framework
(2022-03-10)
This paper puts forward a proposal for reorganizing the content that is presented to students over the entire course of their first- through twelfth-grade education. The sequencing and order content currently presented to ...
Legal Realism and Transitional Justice from an Historical Perspective
(2022-05-23)
Accepted legal doctrine dictates that full disclosure of the crimes committed by an amnesty applicant before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission was the only factor for the Commission to consider when deciding ...
Love, love, snub. The Beatles, Manila, and Imelda.
(2022-11-21)
The Beatles went to Manila at 4:30pm on Sunday July 3, 1966. The next day they played two concerts to a total of 80,000 people - the largest one-day audience in their entire touring career. But the visit is remembered ...
The Oldest American Aristocracy: An Exploration of Social Class and the History of the Society of American Indians
(2022-12-20)
In 1911, a group of highly educated, professional middle class Native Americans
gathered in Columbus, Ohio to form the Society of American Indians (SAI). Over the
eleven years of the existence of the SAI, the organization ...
Building Empire on the Backs of Others: Rentierism in Early Rome
(2022-10-11)
All the world knows that once upon a time Rome conquered all the world. We
have Hollywood to thank for that. The movie makers focus on the more salacious aspects
while serious historians naturally tend to periods that are ...