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    • 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" ...
    • Valentine, Olivia A. (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      The elemental makeup and design of the Russian futurist anti-opera play, Victory Over the Sun, set an artistic precedence during the years leading up to the Russian Revolution. The Russian Avant-Garde movement, which played ...
    • Bodde, Emerson (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) offers an account of the Mandate of Palestine strikingly divergent from the rest of British society. Through their ideology, the CPGB constructed a narrative of Palestinian issues ...
    • Feiring, Caleb Kahn (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      In his book, Nationalism and African Intellectuals, Toyin Falola poses the fundamental question of "How can Africa uplift itself?" in the wake of decolonization. This question of how Africa should proceed from colonization ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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, ...
    • Editorial Board of the Vanderbilt Historical Review (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      Dr. Michael Bess, Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, is one of the leading scholars in his field. He is a specialist 20th- and 21st-century Europe, with a particular interest in the social and ...
    • Caito, Caley (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      This paper uses the works of John Osborne, Azouz Begag, and Peter Maass to deconstruct the generalization that Europeans "developed within the shadow of the past." The British dramatist, French-Algerian autobiographer, and ...
    • Dixon, Katherine (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      Medieval representations of death can illuminate how individuals conceptualised the experience. The poem "A Disputacione Betwyx The Body and Wormes" is a productive lens through which to consider contemporary notions of ...
    • 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. ...
    • Stewart, Sada O. (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      Allen W. Dulles spent his tenure as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) entrenched in secret power struggles that would ensure his ultimate power over the foreign and domestic affairs for the United States. Throughout ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Schaefer, J. Austin (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese turned to Western models to modernize their government. Specifically, they hired former American Commissioner of Agriculture Horace Capron to advise the colonization of Hokkaido. ...
    • Avera, Leigh (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      This paper explores the perpetuation of isolated labor markets in Texas border towns caused by Texas' relationship to and use of the Bracero Program, a temporary guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico. ...
    • 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, ...
    • Smith, Samuel D. (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      When Nazi leadership ultimately embraced the notion of hosting the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, the decision entailed an undertaking to which an inherently militaristic society would seem ill-suited: orchestrating ...
    • Fuselier, Kathryn (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      While lauded, at first glance, for being a wholeheartedly feminist and progressive television show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show struck a balance between progressive second-wave feminism and traditional family values that ...
    • Editorial Board of the Vanderbilt Historical Review (Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
      For years, the Vanderbilt University Holocaust Lecture Series has brought in guest speakers and academic scholars to give presentations on the history of the Holocaust. Begun in 1967 under the direction of Beverly Asbury, ...