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...
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 Renee Ong Edited by Aurelia Dochnal '23, Michelle Medawar '24, and Rosemary Chen '24 1. Introduction It could not have been easy for W.A. Graham. As the first and only top British representative responsible for Kelantan’s administration before it was officially colonized, his strong...
By Andrew Bilodeau Edited by Sarah Li '22 and Lucy Gilchrist '24 > “Although the mines are guarded, > The miners true and fair, > They mean to deal out justice, > A living they declare. > The corruption of Buchanan > Brought the convicts here, > Just...
