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Historical Memory in Post-Franco Spain: Remembering a Purposely Forgotten Past through Memorialization at the Valle de los Caídos in Cuelgamuros
(2024-05-06)
The Valley of the Fallen, built within the mountains of the valley of Cuelgamuros,
in Madrid, Spain, represents both the monumentality and decadence of dictator Francisco
Franco’s thirty-six-year regime in Spain. Newly ...
A Police State of Mind: How Police Professionalization Changed Public Opinion and Helped Ronald Reagan win California in 1966
(2024-05-06)
Since the 1960s, punitive crime laws with bipartisan support have increased the
presence of law enforcement in American society while diverting ever more tax dollars to
the benefit of police organizations. At the same time, ...
Forgotten Breadwinners: Changes in Gendered Consumption, Labor, and Power in New England's Straw Textile Communities, 1798-1830
(2024-05-06)
This thesis challenges the prevailing view that New England rural outwork was merely a supplemental form of income—particularly within male-led families—during the early nineteenth century, namely by examining how the straw ...
The Rise and Fall of Odessa's Merchant Fleet
(2024-05-06)
For almost two centuries, the Black Sea port of Odessa was an important center of
merchant seafaring. Straddling the periods of the Russian Empire and the USSR, this part
of Southern Ukraine was intricately linked to its ...
Examining the Role of Rhetoric in Settler Colonialism and Imperialism Through the Occupations of the Shoshone Peoples of Western North America and of the Philippines
(2024-05-09)
This thesis seeks to determine the role of rhetoric in the American process of occupation that includes Settler Colonialism and Imperialism. I explore the connection between these two ideas using an example of each: the ...
Understanding Bangladesh’s Historical Perspectives Through the 2017 Rohingya Crisis
(2024-05-14)
Bangladesh, an independent country since 1971, has been called a country built on its refugee past (Dasgupta, 2016, pp. 161, 166, 177). In this thesis, I will examine the country’s historical refugee experiences in order ...
Documentaries, Media, Film, and Historical Memory in Building the Mythology and Legacy of Robert F. Kennedy
(2024-05-13)
Robert F. Kennedy was his brother’s successful campaign manager, Attorney General at the height of the Civil Rights movement, a U.S. Senator, and presidential candidate in one of the most tumultuous times in American ...
What’s Yours is Mine: Yale, Peru and the Ownership of Cultural Property
(2023-12-08)
Objects of material can be an invaluable source of information on the past, as well as a tool to help forge cultural identity. Such objects have value from aesthetic to academic, and from economic worth to political capital. ...
The Great Military Divergence: The Gunpowder Revolutions of China and Advancement in the West
(2024-05-14)
Of all the inventions of ancient and imperial China, perhaps none is as famous or world-changing as gunpowder. The chemical mixture drastically changed the nature of warfare, albeit over the course of a thousand years. The ...
$150 Cup of Coffee: Specialty Coffee, Third Wave Cafes, and Gentrification in Portland, Oregon 1995-2020
(2024-05-14)
The idea that a customer would pay $150 for a cup of coffee seems to many people absurd, exploitative, and cringeworthy. Looking deeper the question becomes: where is a third wave café able to justify selling a cup of ...