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Into the Badlands: Japanese American Incarceration and the Environment Undergraduate
(2019)
In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States not only declared war on the Empire of Japan, but also began the forced relocation of thousands of Japanese American citizens from the Pacific ...
Ritual Impurity and the Decline of the Safavid Dynasty Undergraduate
(2018)
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the rise of the Safavid dynasty and the establishment of Iran as a stronghold of Shi'a Islam. The body of research on these two centuries of Persian history provides us with a ...
Humility Undergraduate
(2016-04)
The Alternating Allegiances of the Ulama: Clerical Participation in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11 Undergraduate
(2019-09)
In the summer of 1906, a group of theology students and other constitutionalists gathered in Tehran for what was expected to be a peaceful protest in favor of government reforms, a continuation of the nascent Constitutional ...
Zoroastrians: Becoming a Minority in Their Homeland Undergraduate
(2018)
It is arguable that no other religion has had more direct and indirect influence on humankind than that of the ancient Zoroastrian faith. This religion, which was the firstborn of the revealed world-religions, existed long ...
The epistemological limitations of Google's Knowledge graph Undergraduate
(2017)
In 2012, Google introduced the Knowledge Graph, a computer system that instead of providing search results, provides information—what Google calls “knowledge.” Now, when people go to Google and search for “Leonardo da ...
Henry IV: Faith's Power in Politics Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
Until the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic faith of the kings and queens of Europe was an assumption, not a debate. As the fragment grenade of the reformation exploded across Europe, however, what was once assumed was ...
Understanding Undergraduate
(2017-04)
The month before I left the United States, I flipped through a brochure filled with photos of Limoges and strained to imagine myself in this town at the heart of France. Is it too small for me? I thought. How will I get ...
The University of Oklahoma Historical Journal Undergraduate
(2013-10-01)
Preface to the Second Issue of the OU Historical Journal by Jamie Hart, Chair, University of Oklahoma Department of History