Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - History Department by Issue Date
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2019-04-30)As the most notorious drug in China, opium is repeatedly taught in school, and nearly all Chinese people could list its harmful effects. Yet instead of being taught in biology class as an addictive drug, it is introduced ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-29)The Channel Islands have been dogged with accusations of collaboration while other historians have rushed to their defense and sought to contextualize the Islanders actions in ways that emphasized their resistance. However, ...
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(2019-04-29)It was April 28th 1965, and the ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel in New York City was filled to capacity. Outside, successful stockbrokers and other well-dressed figures walked down the sidewalk in an orderly fashion holding ...
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(2019-04-29)On May 4, 1965, two months after the first Marines landed in Vietnam, Lyndon B. Johnson spoke at a dinner meeting with the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. “So we must be ready to fight in Vietnam," he famously announced, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)Around the start of the fifteenth century, Gutierre Díez de Games, standard bearer of the Castilian knight Don Pero Niño, wrote in his biographical chronicle of Niño about “How our Lord Jesus Christ desired for victors in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)On the 27th of November 1095, a large crowd watched and listened to the head of their Church. Prior to this moment, hundreds of Frankish nobles and ecclesiastical officials had gathered at the Council of Clermont in Auvergne, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2018)This thesis examines Jimmy Carter’s health policy in the context of declining New Deal liberalism. Although Carter had campaigned in 1976 on a platform that embraced national health insurance, a major unfinished goal of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2018)The Cold War dominated United States’ foreign policy in the Sixties. With the Cuban Revolution and the perceived Communist threat in Chile, among other events, Latin America also became a region of greater strategic ...
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(2018)Kathleen Wilson writes that the domestic elite of Georgian Britain sought a psychological "disavowal" of the West Indian planting class because elite flaws were reflected in the perceived degeneracy and excess of the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of History, 2018)This thesis examines the yearbooks of two missionary girls’ secondary schools in Shanghai, the McTyeire School and St. Mary’s Hall, from 1917 to 1948. In response to the increasing Chinese nationalism, the female students ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-27)President Carter hoped to define his foreign policy on human rights and liberalization. With the removal of the longtime authoritarian leader, Park Chung Hee, the year 1979 presented an opportunity for democracy in South ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-26)This thesis examines the experience of American soldiers serving in North Russia in 1918 – 1919, an expedition often referred to as an offshoot of World War One. It bases its conclusions by utilizing the comprehensive Polar ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)This project analyses the Jacobite Rising of 1745 in an international context. In particular, the thesis looks at French involvement and promises of support for the Jacobites both before and throughout the first months of ...
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“Jeffrey Sachs and the Costs of Capitalism. Shock Therapy in eastern European Transition Economies” (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-20)This thesis examines economist Jeffrey Sachs’s implementation of shock therapy in transition economies from 1985-1994. Analysis begins with the foundation of the practice in Bolivia, and examines the changes in the approach ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)This work examines the political transformations in Northern Ireland after the Belfast Peace Agreement of 1998 ended 30 years of conflict between the country’s Protestant, Unionist and Catholic, Nationalist communities. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04-28)Although the United States today boasts a massive network of colleges and universities, these institutions owe much to the support provided by philanthropic organizations. The critical role in American higher education ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04-28)This thesis explores the interaction between feminism, fashion and visual culture during the women's liberation movement by focusing on the symbolism of bras. Using documents ranging from annual reports from the Hanes ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-27)This project analyzes late eighteenth-century education, family literature, and antislavery political tracts to demonstrate the intersection of education and family and abolitionist rhetoric in Britain. This examination ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04-15)This thesis examines Anglo-American relations in 1973, an especially turbulent year in the history of the post-World War II "special relationship." It draws on a wide range of documentary evidence and telephone transcripts ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04)This thesis examines the importance of the first Moon landing through the lens of civil religion. It concludes that civil religion inspired the Moon landing and led to its success in July 1969. Furthermore, it finds that ...