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Trailblazing and Pioneering Mapmakers: A Case Study of Women Cartographers and Geographers during World War II
This thesis examines the role of women geographers and cartographers during World War II and their post-war careers. Like the celebrated Rosie the Riveters, who worked in the heavy defense industry during the war, the ...
A Novel Doctrine? An Evaluation of Sola Scriptura in Patristic and Medieval Thought
(2023-04-21)
This thesis examines the question of historical continuity between the sixteenth century Protestant Reformers and patristic/medieval theologians relative to the doctrine of sola scriptura. This principle, that the canonical ...
From Nuclear Arms Reductions and Détente to PD-59 and Limited Nuclear Strikes: Understanding the Change in the Carter Administration's Nuclear Strategy
Abstract
President Jimmy Carter took office with the intention to halt nuclear proliferation, to implement reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal and to maintain détente with the Kremlin. Yet the president ended his ...
The Leviathan Poltergeist At Bacon's Rebellion
(2023-04-25)
This thesis examines the historical causes of Bacon’s Rebellion by considering Hobbes’ perspective on human nature, as detailed in Chapter XIII of his work Leviathan, (1651). Specifically incorporating his arguments on the ...
Europe and the Turkish Language Reform: The Role of European Ideas and Preconceptions in the Quest to Showcase a Turkic Language on the World Stage
(2023-04-03)
This thesis examines the European influence on the Turkish Language Reform, a movement peaking in the 1930s in which the new Republic of Turkey set out to purge its language of the many Arabic and Persian expressions that ...
Assessing Mental Health in American Politics: The 1972 Tom Eagleton Affair
(2023-01-10)
This thesis explores the intersection of politics, psychiatry, and media by
examining the 1972 Eagleton affair. Presidential candidate and democrat George
McGovern chose Thomas Eagleton, a Senator from Missouri, hastily ...
My Two Loves are My Country and Paris: Queer and African American Women in Interwar Paris
(2023-04-20)
Interwar Paris became known as a haven to many marginalized groups within the United States. African American women and queer women moved to the city in search of a sense of community and opportunities for success that ...
Texas Slave Narratives Expose Effectiveness of "General Order No. 3": The Fragmentation of Juneteenth's Emancipated
(2023-05-03)
The language of General Order No. 3, “the Juneteenth Order,” exposes the complexities of freedom for roughly two hundred fifty thousand enslaved black Texans; therein, archival slave narratives challenge how its constructs ...
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 ...
George Washington’s Wine Cooler: A Reflection of Post-Revolutionary America
(2021-05-11)
In 1789, George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the new nation of the United States of America. Thereafter, he embarked on setting up a household that emphasized a “dignified and lasting American style, ...