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Wiedervereinigung oder Anschluss?: The effects of Reunification in former East Germany
(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" ...
The Trolley Problem: The Demise of the Streetcar in New Haven
(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 ...
Rejecting Reason and Embracing Modernized Art: How Victory Over the Sun Revolutionized the Russian Avant-Garde
(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 ...
A Tale of Two Cemeteries: The Paris Commune, the Haymarket Affair, and the Politics of Memorialization
(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 ...
The Bracero Program: A Historical Perspective on the Perpetuation of Isolated Labor Markets in South Texas
(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. ...
The Vietnam War as China's Watershed
(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, ...
Ode to Peace or Prelude to Militarism?: The Opening Ceremonies of the 1936 Berlin Olympics as Political Theater
(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 ...
Keeping the Memory Alive: The History of Vanderbilt University's Holocaust Lecture Series
(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, ...
Go west, [old] man: Horace Capron, Guilded Age Capitalism, and the Development of Hokkaido
(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. ...
A Necessary Medium: The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Media Portrayal of the Second Wave Feminist Era
(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 ...