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...
History of the Present: An Interview with Marci Shore [https://www.slideshare.net/YHRUploads/history-of-the-present-an-interview-with-marci-shore] from YHRUploads [https://www.slideshare.net/YHRUploads]...
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: to negotiate the terms of the...
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 grounded in...
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 a replica...
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 to escape...
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 Journalism at...
Plotting Power: Race, Class and Gender in Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age [//www.slideshare.net/YHRUploads/plotting-power-race-class-and-gender-in-kiley-reids-such-a-fun-age-238624572] from YHRUploads [https://www.slideshare.net/YHRUploads]...
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]...
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 only seven days after...
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 terrorized,...
Hobbes and Foucault: the Mercantile State and the Ontology of Early Capitalis Pacta sunt servanda Volume V By Nicholas Rice YC '23 Edited by Judah Millen '24 Introduction This essay will seek to explain the ontology of early capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the lens of the...
Rights, Progress, Genocide: The Politics of Black Reproduction in Twentieth-Century America By Eliza Kravitz YC '24 Edited by Katie Painter '23, Jamie Nicholas '25, and Ted Shepherd '25 Introduction Until African American Emancipation from slavery, Black reproduction in America comprised a key economic commodity. Since the 1662 implementation of slave...
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...
