Undergraduate Honors Program - History Department: Recent submissions
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(2024-04-25)At a March 31, 1965, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) executive leadership meeting, Hosea Williams proposed a summer voter registration project, called SCOPE, that recruited hundreds of student volunteers ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2024-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-27)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-28)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-08-22)Rammanohar Lohia was a failed politician. By the time he was finally to the Lok Sabha -- India’s lower house of parliament -- in 1963, it was clear that his Socialist Party would never be a major force in Indian politics. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-03)Since the start of the War in the Donbas in 2014, the miners of the Donetsk Coal Basin have suffered immensely due to economic and political destabilization, mine flooding, mine closures, intermittent shelling, mounting ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-04-26)This thesis creates and captures a twenty year history of the suppression liberation theology in Latin America. This suppression was aimed at Gustavo Gutierrez, one of the founders of liberation theology, and was lead by ...
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(2021-05-03)From February to May 1960, a racially and socioeconomically diverse coalition of students and clergy members staged nonviolent sit-ins in downtown Nashville with the goal of desegregating public spaces in the city. In these ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-05)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-04-26)In October of 1736, in the small colony of Antigua, a group of enslaved persons plotted to overthrow the white planter class, abolish slavery, and declare independence from British rule. Four free Black men were accused ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)In the early 7th Century CE, the Umayyad dynasty formed the first Islamic empire, marking a crucial moment in the emergence of Islam. As in many empires of Late Antiquity, religious monumentation played a central role in ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04)In 1936, the Republic of Turkey and French-mandate Syria were at odds over the future of a province on the Turkish-Syrian border called the Sanjak of Alexandretta. This thesis explores the Turkish annexation of Alexandretta, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-20)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)