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Sino-Korean Relations and the Ming-Qing Transition Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
China and Korea have long had a close relationship. However, during the early Qing dynasty, the relations between China and Korea were not as warm as usual. Following the Chinese Ming dynasty, one of the more intimate ...
Night of Broken Glass Remembered: How the New York Times Reported Kristallnacht in a Historical Context Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
It is often said that news organizations write the first draft of history. However, news organizations are not just recording history and filing it away. They distribute this draft to the public, whose world perceptions ...
The Enduring Persecution of Queerness in Germany from Hilter to Adenauer Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
In The Enduring Persecution of Queerness in Germany from Hitler to Adenauer, Parker Manek etches a disturbing picture of the 20th-century landscape in which gay Germans lived and died. Manek explains how the disasters and ...
A Gigantic Shark from the Lower Cretaceous Duck Creek Formation of Texas Undergraduate
(2015-06-03)
Three large lamniform shark vertebrae are described from the Lower Cretaceous of Texas. We interpret these fossils as belonging to a single individual with a calculated total body length of 6.3 m. This large individual ...
Federalists, Songs, and the Populist Ratification of the Constitution Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
Despite elitist tendencies of the Federalists they used songs as a way to gain popular support for the Constitution. In order to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, Federalists published and performed songs to ...
Stumbling in the Dark: How America Fumbled its Energy Future Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
Throughout recent history, American energy policy has been a misguided “clusterfrack” biased toward fossil fuel interests and dismissive of long-term security. Rather than creating a proactive, sustainable plan for fueling ...
Black liquor and the hangover effect: fish assemblage recovery dynamics following a pulse disturbance Undergraduate
(2015-05-25)
Anthropogenic perturbations impact aquatic systems causing wide-ranging responses, from assemblage restructuring to assemblage recovery. Previous studies indicate the duration and intensity of disturbances play a role in ...
The ART of Producing Responsa: Feminist Critiques of Rabbinic Law through the Lens of Assisted Reproductive Technologies Undergraduate
(2015)
Prior to the mid-twentieth century, when assisted reproductive technologies (ART) stepped on to the medical scene, supplications and prayers to God were the primary means for religious Jewish couples to cope with the issue ...
Modes of Violence Against Puerto Rico’s Urban Poor: Housing Policy in Puerto Rico Undergraduate
(2015)
Public housing projects reserved for low-income families in Puerto Rico are known as caseríos. A caserío consists of several tenement structures subdivided into one-family apartments built on a large and compact settlement ...
Victoria's Real Secret: Male Masculinity Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
History proves one thing; men will strive against all odds their entire lives to assert their superiority above other men. Whether it involves fighting in an arena or amassing so much wealth you can pay other men to bow ...