Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Michael Cohen

What you saw with George Wallace is generally what you got. There was little ambiguity or nuance in his political rhetoric, which was to be expected from a politician whose ...
( Category: Elections January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-18 | Author:Martin Duberman [Duberman, Martin]

In her provocative book Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men, Elizabeth Jane Ward reports on a new phenomenon that’s recently emerged among the young: “heteroflexibility”—that is, “I’m straight, but ...
( Category: LGBT January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-06 | Author:Jonathan I. Israel

18.3. The Vonckiste Revolution Overwhelmed The main Belgian institutional bodies, Congress, the provincial States of Brabant, Flanders, and Hainault, and the city governments, divided over the nobility’s privileges, magistracies, and ...
( Category: Europe January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Clark, Christopher [Clark, Christopher]

CHAPTER FOUR Time of the Nazis IN THE SPRING OF 1935, the Swiss writer and journalist Max Frisch visited the National Socialist mega-exhibition ‘Miracle of Life’ in Berlin. Frisch was ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:El Shakry, Omnia; [El Shakry, Omnia;]

NOTES Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Islam 1. Yusuf Murad, “Bab al-Taʿrifat: Niwa li-Qamus ʿIlm al-Nafs,” Majallat ʿIlm al-Nafs 1, no. 1 (1945): 106. 2. Yusuf Murad, Shifaʾ al-Nafs (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Emily Skidmore

Conclusion As this chapter has shown, newspapers throughout the early twentieth century found that foreignness was a convenient means to pathologize nonnormative gender and sexual formations. Foreignness provided a framework ...
( Category: LGBT January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Andrew J. Diamond [Diamond, Andrew J.]

FIGURE 13. The Wall of Respect, a site of frequent gatherings in the late 1960s. Photo by Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images. Such celebrations of “race, community, and locality” created a ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-13 | Author:Jon Lawrence

Place and belonging Cummings had lived in the same house for over twenty years. Most of his immediate neighbours had moved in at the same time, when the houses were ...
( Category: Spies & Politics January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Lewis, Kay Wright; [Lewis, Kay Wright;]

CHAPTER SEVEN John Brown’s Mistake The Power of Memory and the Dangers of Violence When white abolitionist John Brown first plotted to terrorize the South, he may have believed that ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-16 | Author:Fredy González [González, Fredy]

A “PEIPING SPY RING” In the aftermath of the 1963 Economic and Commercial Exposition of the People’s Republic of China (see chapter 4), journalists and government agencies in the United ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-07-18 | Author:Sarah Maza [Maza, Sarah]

As subject matter, history toggles between description and explanation, the latter often shaped by debate. History as “just a story” survives in some forms of popular historical writing, although even ...
( Category: Historiography January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-21 | Author:Michelle Perrot & Lauren Elkin [Perrot, Michelle & Elkin, Lauren]

Chambrées At first workers converged in “communal rooms,” as Villermé termed them in his description. In Sedan, “as in all industrial towns, single men live in pensions. For 25 or ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources January 19,2020 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Ge Zhaoguang

The Mixed, Multilayered State of Chinese Culture: The Song-Dynasty Transition I have previously written about the emergence of a “China sensibility” in the Song dynasty and argued that the open ...
( Category: Human Geography January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-19 | Author:Barbara B. Oberg [Oberg, Barbara B.]

[S]ome days we have a number of cannon and shells from Boston and Bunkers Hill, but it does not seem to surprise any one but me; I confess I shudder ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:M. David Litwa; [Litwa, M. David]

CHAPTER ELEVEN THE PHARMAKOS A mythos that is made up, if it carries conviction, always enthralls its audience. —Alexander Romance 2.15.51 There appears in ancient Mediterranean mythography a sacred figure ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology January 19,2020 )