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More Than “One Small Ball in the Air:” How Lyndon Johnson Spun Sputnik into a National Crisis
(2023-04-25)
The story of the Sputnik 1 launch is rooted in a rich history of politics, prestige, and psychology, yet today’s popular summaries simplify the events and omit crucial parts of the story. While most of the world viewed ...
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 ...
Unleashed: John Lindsay and the Vietnam War
(2021-05-24)
This thesis examines New York City Mayor John Lindsay’s calculated decision to side with the Vietnam anti-war movement as part of his re-election strategy in 1969 and how that stance influenced the pro-war movement’s role ...
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 ...
Wrestling with the “fallacious doctrine of racial superiority”: The Discursive Construction of “Race” in American Bahá'í Periodicals
(2023-04-25)
American Bahá'í periodicals have said much about race and racial prejudice. This thesis brings to light the variations of that discourse to provide insight on how American Bahá'ís understood these concepts in relation to ...
The Evolving Nerve Center: Core Roles and Responsibilities of the White House Situation Room.
(2023-04-25)
The Situation Room was established to be a nerve center of information for the President; a single touch point for the President to access unbiased apolitical information to aid in their decision-making. The need for a ...
From Sunningdale to Good Friday: Power Entrenchment and Paramilitary Inclusion
The central question that guides my research is: how do civil wars end? In answering the question, I focus on the case of Northern Ireland to emphasize the importance of history in political outcomes. My argument isolates ...