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'Forsaking All Others': Impact of Wives' Social Classes on U.S. Military Officers' Political Loyalties in 1860-1861
(2024-05-03)
This thesis examines how the social classes of military wives influenced U.S. officers’ loyalty decisions prior to the beginning of the Civil War in 1861. The scholarship concludes that these loyalty decisions were made ...
Truth Declassified: Comparative Archival Analysis and New Interpretations of Abwehr Espionage against the United States of America
(2024-05-03)
In 1938 U.S. counter espionage agencies learned of Abwehr espionage in America. Since that discovery, historical narratives of the history of Abwehr espionage in the United States can be summarized within three distinct ...
Points of No Return: The Eisenhower-Kennedy Transition and US-Japan Relations
(2024-05-03)
There is a considerable amount of focus among historians on both Dwight D. Eisenhower’s and John F. Kennedy’s approaches to foreign policy, including internal developments within the United States and Japan during the Cold ...
How Neo-Confucianism Influenced Decision-Making of the Joseon Elite During the Imjin War of 1592-98
(2024-05-03)
There are several ways in which the philosophy of Neo-Confucianism influenced the decision-making process of the Joseon ruling elite during the Japanese invasion of 1592-1598. First, it influenced leadership selection ...
Removing the Sting from Seclusion: Bees, Apian Imagery, and Metaphorical Femininity in Archaic and Classical Greece
(2024-05-03)
Bees and women had a myriad of connections in ancient Greek society, yet bees are venerated as the paradigm of sacred and social virtues, while women’s importance is often relegated to the modest spaces of domestic life. ...
Invictus: The Long Patrol and the Indomitable 2nd Marine Raider Battalion
(2024-05-03)
Between November 4th and December 4th, 1942, the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion embarked on a mission called the Long Patrol. The purpose of this mission was to use unconventional tactics to attack the Imperial Japanese forces. ...
Ministers, Martyrs, and Mystics: Religious Antiwar Activists in the Vietnam Era
(2024-05-03)
This thesis is a biographical exploration of the lives and experiences of five individuals who came to protest the Vietnam War due to their religious beliefs: A.J. Muste, who was ordained as a Dutch Reform minister but ...
The British Effect: Is colonial legacy a contributing factor to post-colonial democratization?
(2024-01-05)
The drivers of democratic success are well-studied and comprise a complex topic with a plethora of economic, environmental, and historical factors given to explain the relative degree of democratic performance across ...
The Hypothesis of Cultural Indignity
(2024-01-02)
The Hypothesis of Cultural Indigeneity proposes the novel concept that a non-native culture may qualify as indigenous to an area and, by extension, imply a right to legal protections for a non-native human population whose ...
Twisting History for Hate: Nordicism, Norse Pseudohistory, and Twenty-First Century American White Nationalism
(2024-05-06)
Nordicism—the belief in a Nordic or Aryan “master race”—emerged in nineteenth century anthropology as a form of scientific racism. As this ideology spread, a romanticized pseudohistorical version of Northern Europe ...