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The Case for Ending Judicial Review
(I Hate Politics Podcast, 2022-07-01)As the country deals with the upending of the landmark abortion rights case, Roe v Wade, Sunil Dasgupta talks with Julie Statland of Riveting Women about the importance of having more women in local and state political ... -
ACCORDING TO MY TRUE MEANING: EMOTIONS AND WILL-MAKERS IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
(2022-01-01)Early modern wills have often been dismissed by early modern social historians as sources for individual voice and perspective due to the collaborative nature of their creation and will-makers’ reliance on formulaic language. ... -
Reformation or Retribution: Daily Life and the Landscape of Two Maryland Industrial Schools for Girls, 1916-1989
(2022-01-01)The scholarship on American industrial schools can be clearly characterized by a large gap in knowledge, especially in the state of Maryland. This research focuses on two major industrial schools in and around the Baltimore, ... -
“Is that a bird or a plane in the distance? No, it’s Superman”: Metropolis, Illinois and the Hope in Becoming a Destination as Superman’s Hometown, 1972-Present
(2022-01-01)By the 1970s, Metropolis, Illinois, a small city on the northern bank of the Ohio River, seemed doomed. The local glove factory had closed down. The commercial infrastructure was crumbling. Locals were leaving in droves. ... -
UMBC humanities faculty receive NEH fellowships for research into “the why and how of our past”
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UMBC Review w/ Dr. April Householder, Clair Volkening, & Madelyn Pollack
(UMBC Center for Social Science Research, 2022-10-03) -
Slave Rebellions w/ Dr. Marjoleine Kars, Dr. Vincent Brown, and Dr. Sharika Crawford
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Facts Do Not Speak for Themselves: The Challenges to Historical Empiricism and Their Impact on the Teaching of Historical Methodology
(2022-01-01)For the last century, there have been within the Anglophone historical profession ongoing epistemological struggles surrounding the issue of “objectivity” in historical interpretation. I cover the three great controversies ... -
Charismatic Leaders of The First Crusade: The Use of Preaching and Miraculous Events in Motivating the Crusaders to Take “The Holy Land”
(2022-01-01)The first crusade, and the idea of crusading itself, has been understood in many diverse ways throughout the centuries since the events took place. This thesis examines the role of preaching and the use of miraculous events ... -
Eating, Public Space, and Identity in Jewish Baltimore, 1900-1930
(2022-01-01)An exploration into how the Jewish immigrant community in the East Baltimore neighborhood at the turn of the twentieth century bought and ate their food. Begining with street vendors and urban peddlers and continuing to ... -
“The Reckoning of Republican Allies” The Collaborative Political Efforts between Black and White Republican Leaders in Post-Reconstruction Baltimore
(2021-01-01)This study examines the cooperative relationship between black and white post Reconstruction Republican leaders in order to understand what effect it had on the trajectory of black political participation in Baltimore ... -
Louisville's Black Laborers of the Campbell Tobacco Company, 1915-1930
(2021-01-01)This thesis is a bottom-up narrative about the black tobacco workers of the Campbell Tobacco Company in Louisville Kentucky between 1915 and 1930. It focuses on the lived experiences and working conditions for these workers, ... -
Renaissance Records: The Communities and Material Culture Behind the Revival of Vinyl Records from the 1980s to 2010s
(2021-01-01)The current revival of vinyl records in popular culture, specifically surrounding their commercial availability and popularity, is not a coincidence. This study focuses on factors such as the presence of listening communities ... -
"Let No Irreverent Hand Change It": The Interpretation of Slavery at George Washington's Mount Vernon, 1853 to Present
(2021-01-01)This thesis explores how the interpretation of slavery at Mount Vernon has changed over time, tracing moments of change from the formation of the MVLA in 1853 until the present day. Often, audience reluctance or bigotry ... -
Creating Knowledge with the Public: Disrupting the Expert/Audience Hierarchy
(MIT Press, 2022-08-22)This essay provides both a philosophy and a case study to define, analyze, and explore community-centered public history practice. In its ideal form, communitycentered public history practice strives for equity and inclusion. ... -
Alexander Bekovich–Cherkassky: Beginning of Russia's Imperialistic Expansion in Central Asia
(Tübitak Dergi Park, 2022-05)This article attempts to identify the true reasons, outcomes, and outstanding legacy of Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky. A Circassian aristocrat, a Muslim converted to Christianity, who would travel searching for a mythical ... -
“There Is No New Black Panther Party”: The Panther-Like Formations and the Black Power Resurgence of the 1990s
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“Swift and Certain Vengeance”: Lynching Rhetoric in Maryland Newspapers, 1954-1900
(2020-01-01)This thesis explores lynching rhetoric in nineteenth century Maryland newspapers. Looking at this transformation of journalistic rhetoric over a period where race relations gradually worsened in America unveils the ... -
Atomic City: Las Vegas and the Downwinders
(2020-01-01)This thesis explores the relationship between Las Vegas, Nevada, and neighboring rural communities throughout the era of atmospheric nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site. Las Vegas experienced prodigious growth throughout ... -
THEMES OF OTHERING IN THE CROATIAN AND SERBIAN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS IN THE 1950s
(2020-01-01)Former Yugoslavia dissolved in the 1990s in brutal civil wars and ethnic violence. This was not the first instance of ethnic violence in former Yugoslavia. Similar events happened during the Second World War. This research ...
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