Search

South Carolina, like many southern states, spent fifteen years avoiding complete compliance with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling to desegregate schools. Despite the statewide attempts to keep schools...

Public school desegregation Education for African Americans Clover South Carolina Oral History political history Public History Social History United States History

After the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903 the Panamanian people had to live in an occupied country. The U.S. took control of a ten-mile stretch of land surrounding a canal of immense importance to world trade. The U.S. policy...

Panama United States Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty Panamanian Flag Riots Carter-Torrijos Treaties Sovereignty Diplomatic History History Latin American History political history United States History

Using the policy of NATO expansion and the events of the Ukraine crisis, this paper examines President Vladimir Putin's impact on Russian foreign policy and analyzes the extent to which his personality and personal interests...

NATO expansion Ukraine crisis Vladimir Putin individual in leadership Russian Federation foreign affairs Cold War KGB Soviet Union Boris Yeltsin North Atlantic Treaty Organization Diplomatic History International Relations Leadership Studies political history Political Science Social and Behavioral Sciences Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies

The purpose of the project is to juxtapose how politics and government structure shape the world of sports, as well as the progress of individual sports, with the isolation of athletes from the political realities of their...

Andrea Bodo-Schmidt Schapiro gymnastics Olympics Cold War Oral History Sports Illustrated sport history Hungary Digital Humanities European History Oral History political history Sports Studies

This project examines the life and career of Hungarian-born athlete Nick Martin. It explores the opportunities available to Martin via his success as an Olympic athlete.

Nick Martin water polo 1956 Olympics Cold War Oral History Sports Illustrated sport history Hungary Melbourne Digital Humanities European History Oral History political history Sports Studies

This research analyzes the role that music plays in social movements in the United States, focusing on Woodstock of 1969 as a pivotal moment. By examining the 1969 Woodstock through an academic lens, I illustrate the intrinsic...

Social Movements Civil Rights Movement Black Lives Matter Vietnam War White Power Movement War on Terror Woodstock American Popular Culture Ethnomusicology political history Political Science Social and Behavioral Sciences United States History

The awe of celebrity, including presidents, creates the impression of beings who are larger than life, without the problems of the common man. Franklin D. Roosevelt, unbeknownst to many Americans, had significant health issues....

Franklin D. Roosevelt HEALTH DEATH Polio Guillaine-Barre Cancer American Studies History political history United States History

Albert Camus Stranger What to the Slave is the Fourth of July Frederick Douglass Harvest of Empire: History of Latinos in America Juan Gonzalez Higher Education Latina/o Studies Liberal Studies political history Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Social History United States History

Oral argument scholars like Adam Feldman have categorized the Supreme Court justices' behavior during oral argument using the approach-based method, labeling each as one-sided, even-handed, or restrained. This approach is too...

oral argument 2017 term supreme court Neil Gorsuch Elena Kagan Sonia Sotomayor personality tools persuasion American Politics judges Law and Politics Legal Legal History Legal Theory Legal Writing and Research political history Political Science Social and Behavioral Sciences United States History

We will argue that Communism left long lasting effects on the ways in which patriotism was perceived and executed through labor. Specifically we will look into the ways in which laborers, namely athletes, both intentionally and...

Valter Kalaus Swimming Olympics Cold War Oral History Communist patriotism patriotic laborers Erdos Gabor sport history Digital Humanities European History Oral History political history Sports Studies

In the medieval era of religious and political tumult that culminated with the Crusades, (mostly) Roman Catholic Western European citizens from all walks of life committed themselves to conquer Jerusalem and wrest control of...

Syria lebanon France colonialism imperialism the Crusades Arts and Humanities Christianity European History French and Francophone Language and Literature History Islamic World and Near East History Medieval History Medieval Studies Modern Languages political history religion Social History

Tax and spending are central to democratic politics in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, but psephologists have paid surprisingly little attention to the practice of manifesto costings or the ways in which fiscal promises shape...

Original Articles Conservative Party electoral behaviour fiscal policy Labour Party manifestos political history UK politics

In this typed letter from Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson to Secretary of State Philander Knox, Wilson discusses potential candidates for the position of Under Secretary.

Henry Hoyt Whitelaw Reid Charles Emory Smith Edward Grey Monrovia William I. Buchanan John Bassett Moore Henry W. Dennison Yokohama Diplomatic History political history United States History

During the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England and VII of Scotland was deposed, and the main line of the House of Stuart, along with the concept of divine right monarchy and the acceptance of Catholicism, were swept...

Jacobite Tory Whig Culloden Bonny Prince Charles James Francis Edward Stuart Stuarts 1745 1715 1688 Bolingbroke Williams-Wynn John Erskine Louis XIV Louis XV Diplomatic History European History History of Religion political history

Organized factions were something that did not arise with the creation of the United States. Rather, they slowly emerged during George Washington's presidency. Initially, the Founding Fathers were highly resistant to the idea....

factionalism Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson John Adams James Madison political parties Federalists Republicans Human nature American Politics Arts and Humanities History political history United States History