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    • Doyle, Sean M. (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      For decades, tensions flared between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with little recognition or action on the part of American presidents. Even in the face of human rights atrocities and political oppression, ...
    • Pendarvis, Paige (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      This paper examines the relationship between late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century Paris and Chicago by analyzing their respective commemorations and memorializations of the Paris Commune and the Haymarket Affair. Though ...
    • Sadlier, Sarah A. (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      In 1922, Congress passed the Cable Act, which allowed women who married foreigners eligible for naturalization to retain their U.S. citizenship. However, women who married aliens racially excluded from the naturalization ...
    • Schastok, Rachel (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      A historiographical analysis of thematic mapping in turn-of-the-century Chicago reveals the role of cartography as a highly politicized method for sorting and labeling urban populations. Progressive Era reformers and ...
    • Wasserman, Jacob L. (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      The replacement of trolley systems by buses, a process which fundamentally reshaped America's urban landscape, has long been viewed as inevitable. However, in this paper, I look beyond arguments of financial necessity to ...
    • Ewing, Shane Andrew (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      US-Haitian relations had a rough beginning, as the possible American recognition of Haiti became a fixed point of tension between the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans in domestic and foreign policy from 1797 to 1806. ...
    • Grove, Laura (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      This research examines the reaction of students at Vanderbilt University to the Vietnam War during Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency. Vanderbilt's student-run newspaper The Vanderbilt Hustler provides insight into the opinions ...
    • Talley, Christian (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      China today is a rising superpower and a major challenger to American hegemony. The industrialization and modernization that other nations achieved in centuries, China has compressed to a few decades. Indeed, all too often, ...
    • Du, Wenhao (Winston) (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      This paper examines the structural changes in East German institutions that occurred in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the years following German Reunification and how they represented a western "takeover" ...