Volume XI, Spring 2021 By Libby Hoffenberg, Swarthmore College '20 Advised by Professor Timothy Burke Edited by Daniel Ma, Gabby Sevillano, and Katie Painter INTRODUCTION In November of 1895, physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a wavelength of electromagnetic radiation that came to be known as the “x-ray” or the “Röntgen...
Volume XI, Spring 2021 By Helen Zhang, Columbia University '20 Advised by Professor Jungwon Kim Edited by Jisoo Choi, Emma Sargent, and Lee Johns INTRODUCTION In 1924, Kim Hak-Soon was born in Jilin, Manchuria. When she was three months old, her father died. Her mother brought her back to...
Volume XI, Spring 2021 by Liam Sheehan, Susquehanna University '21 Advised by Dr. Edward Slavishak Edited by Grace Blaxill and Gage Denmon INTRODUCTION 1944 was a year of goodbyes for most families in America. This was the case for John Moynagh as he wrote to his parents a few...
Volume XI, Spring 2021 By Alyssa Durnil, St. Edward's University '20 Advised by Professor Lauren Banko Edited by Louie Lu, Daevan Mangalmurti, and Natalie Simpson INTRODUCTION There are two richly painted walls on each side of the intersection of Beechmount Avenue and Falls Road in Belfast, Northern...
By Hannah Thompson Edited by Fiona Benson '22 and Esther Reichek '23 Introduction In 1623, Paula de Eguiluz, a slave in the Spanish colony of Cuba, was accused of apostasy, murder, and witchcraft; in the mid-eighteenth century, the enslaved Domingos Alvares of Portuguese-occupied Brazil was judged guilty of...
Isabella Smeets discusses "The 1950s War on Narcotics: Henry Aslinger, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and Senator Daniel Price's Probe" with its author, William Horvath. Isabella Smeets (IS): First off, I was wondering what inspired you to study the federal narcotics policy in the 1950s? William...
