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Cracked Up Sentencing: The Establishment and Maintenance of Discrepancies in Federal Cocaine Sentencing Structures in the 1980s and 1990s
(2017-12)
During his tenure in office, Ronald Reagan mounted a punitive war against drug use in the United States. This crusade included the vast sentencing discrepancy between powder and crack cocaine, which is the focus of this ...
Cultural origins of the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps and the 442nd regimental combat team during World War II: A comparison between the Japanese soldiers raised in Japan and the Nisei soldiers raised in America
(2011-05)
Scope and Method of Study: Motivated by nationalistic fervor, many young brave soldiers all over the world fought for their country at all costs during World War II. In Japan, the wartime hysteria and the desperation of ...
"Shackles of Civilization": Race and American Imperialism in Haiti, 1915-1934
(2018-12-01)
The United States, in its administration of Haiti from 1915 to 1934 effectively exported pre-existing ideas about the inferiority of non-white peoples to the island republic. The American occupation failed to create a ...
Meaning of the right of petition: Northern opinion and the antislavery Gag Rule, 1836-1844
(2016-07)
In the 1830s, a national movement against slavery organized in the United States. One of the actions taken by slavery opponents was to petition Congress, most commonly for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. ...
Cultural analysis of the early Japanese immigration to the United States during Meiji to Taisho era (1868-1926)
(2010-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Focusing on the years between 1868 and 1926 during which Japan underwent drastic socioeconomic, political, and cultural changes, this study traces the "pushes" (forces that caused the people to ...
Roman Catholic crusading in ten years of Triumph, 1966-1976: A history of a lay-directed, radical Catholic journal
(2008-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to explicate the Roman Catholic views of Triumph, a lay-directed Catholic journal. The principal source was the journal. In addition, the research was dependent upon ...
"Until we fall to the ground united": Cherokee resilience and interfactional cooperation in the early twentieth century
(2018-05)
"'Until We Fall to the Ground United': Cherokee Resilience and Interfactional Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century," chronicles the political history of the Cherokee tribal government from 1906 to 1950. After the ...