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Look Forward in Confusion: An Evaluation of Postwar Europe's Interaction with the Past
(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 ...
Devotion and Decay: Death in the Late Medieval Imagination
(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 ...
"That's Leaving It Pretty Much Up To Jane": Gendered Citizenship, Explicit Feminism, And Implicit Racism In The 1922 Cable Act
(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 ...