Volume XVI, Fall 2023 By Catherine Veronis, The University of Chicago ’23 Advised by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Edited by River Sell, Andrew Maglio, Iz Klemmer, Lucy Ton That, Macy Lerner, Matthew Jennings, and Natalie Miller PDFCatherine Veronis.pdf2 MBdownload-circle...
Pacta Sunt Servanda Volume IV: December 9, 2021 Written by Nicholas Rice Edited by Judah Millen Introduction This essay will investigate the connections between the aesthetic and political philosophies of Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke, and Immanuel Kant, arguing that we can trace in them the development of competing liberal and...
Interview and transcription by Zoe Bernicchia-Freeman August 14, 2021 Dr. Shaun Wallace is a social historian of the eighteenth and nineteenth century United States. His research examines transatlantic slavery, with a particular focus on fugitives and fugitivity in the Antebellum South. He was awarded his PhD from the University of...
By Chinaza Asiegbu Originally published in July 2021 as part of Intersections, a joint issue of The Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal (NURJ) and the YHR. Introduction Since 1921, the Miss America pageant had been cherished as the pride of American beauty and womanhood—but this was not the case in...
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Author: Heidi Katter SM'20 Editors: Oona Holahan BF'21 Louie Lu BR'23 In July 1889, the United States government sent a commission to northwestern Minnesota to counsel with the Ojibwe of the White Earth and Red Lake Reservations. The object of these visits was straightforward:...
Pacta sunt servanda Volume III: July 8, 2021 Written by Nicholas Rice John Vanderlyn, Landing of Columbus, Oil on canvas 12' x 18', 1847, located in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington DC, USAIntroduction Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) and Locke’s Second Treatise Concerning Government (1689) both advance political philosophies...
By Alexandra Tamvakis Edited by Leila Iskandarani '22 and Philip Mousavizadeh '24 Introduction On August 16, 1963, a few thousand visitors streamed through the doors of McCormick Place, a convention hall located near Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois. As they entered the exhibition hall, they were greeted by...
Written by Kenia Hale, SM '21 Edited by Fiona Benson, SY '22 Cover Art by Kiera Hale, ig: @kierahaleart Since 1619, the story of enslaved, Black, forced migration has been ingrained in American history. From the Underground Railroad to the Great Migration, movement has been a key method...
Interview by Henry Jacob, SY '21 Transcribed by Rosemary Chen, BF '24 Introduction: Born and raised in Queens, New York, Jelani Cobb completed his undergraduate studies at Howard University and received a doctorate in American history from Rutgers University. He serves as the Ira A. Lipman Professor of...
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Elizabeth Alexander on the intersections of identities [//www.slideshare.net/YHRUploads/elizabeth-alexander-on-the-intersections-of-identities] from YHRUploads [https://www.slideshare.net/YHRUploads]...
Volume XVI, Fall 2023 Interview by Joe Laufer Introduction On August 26th, 2022, I sat down (virtually) with Professor Joe Manning, William K. and Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics and History & Senior Research Scholar in Law, to discuss the ongoing effort to interpret Ancient Egyptian papyri as historical...
Volume XVI, Fall 2023 By Catherine Veronis, The University of Chicago ’23 Advised by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Edited by River Sell, Andrew Maglio, Iz Klemmer, Lucy Ton That, Macy Lerner, Matthew Jennings, and Natalie Miller PDFCatherine Veronis.pdf2 MBdownload-circle...
Volume XVI, Fall 2023 By Sophie Huttner, Yale University ’23 Advised by Brendan Shanahan Edited by Hannah Szabó, Yasmine Halmane, Nikhe Braimah, Samantha Moon, Maggie Grether, and Gisela Chung-Halpern INTRODUCTION From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1924 National Quota act, American Jews had been some of the nation’...
by Ciara Garcha Edited by Louie Lu BR'23 and Esther Reichek BR'23 “For one brief shining moment…(there) was…Camelot- and it will never be that way again”.1 [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Creq04J-ATy1YVP-cg4ooaSVU9apMPCZBtDqeItqjZw/edit#bookmark=id.kkz564vcjca] Reflecting on her husband’s presidency...
By Allison Lau Edited by Cynthia Lin '23 and Tiana Luo Introduction By the mid 1960s, Oakland’s predominantly Black urban ghettos, like others across the nation, represented to many Black radicals the “concrete inner city jungles of Babylon”, as a metaphor to describe how the American state openly...
