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Jun 2, 2019
21 min

The Case of the Cincinnatus: American Neutral Trade in the British Wartime Legal Order

Abstract: Historians have generally agreed that American neutrality during the “French Wars” of the early 1800s was a boon for the...

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“Every Man His Own Historian”: William Durant and the Price of Popularizing History

Vanderbilt Historical Review

Mar 24, 2019
15 min

“Every Man His Own Historian”: William Durant and the Price of Popularizing History

Abstract: In a review of Will and Ariel Durant’s 11-volume series The Story of Civilization, one critic remarked: “What is wrong with our...

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“Cuban Sponges Scrub World”: Sponge Fishing in Cuba’s Gulf of Batabanó (1890-1940)

Vanderbilt Historical Review

Feb 28, 2019
27 min

“Cuban Sponges Scrub World”: Sponge Fishing in Cuba’s Gulf of Batabanó (1890-1940)

Abstract: Before the invention of the artificial sponge, sea sponges were an industrial and household necessity throughout the United...

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Tapping Productivity: Shock Work, Stakhanovism, and Working Class Identity in Central Asia

Vanderbilt Historical Review

Feb 10, 2019
22 min

Tapping Productivity: Shock Work, Stakhanovism, and Working Class Identity in Central Asia

Abstract: While Central Asia was seen as a wasteland of “backwardness” in the 1910s, it had become a collection of politically...

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Valjean’s Escape: Photographs of Haussmann’s Underground Paris

Vanderbilt Historical Review

Feb 6, 2019
14 min

Valjean’s Escape: Photographs of Haussmann’s Underground Paris

Abstract: While traditional accounts of the Haussmann reconstruction of Paris allege that the reconstruction was completed for military...

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The Good Life: Reshaping Society and Social Values through Public Housing in Red Vienna

Vanderbilt Historical Review

Apr 15, 2018
22 min

The Good Life: Reshaping Society and Social Values through Public Housing in Red Vienna

Abstract: The period of socialist rule in Vienna, Austria, in the 1920s has been dubbed “Red Vienna.” The socialist city government’s...

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“O, Desolating War!”: The Commemorative Poetry and Politics of Margaretta Faugeres, 1790s New York

Vanderbilt Historical Review

Apr 14, 2018
14 min

“O, Desolating War!”: The Commemorative Poetry and Politics of Margaretta Faugeres, 1790s New York

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the life and writings of revolutionary poet Margaretta Faugeres (1771-1801). As a...

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Art as Power: The Medici Family as Magi in the Fifteenth Century

Vanderbilt Historical Review

May 9, 2017
13 min

Art as Power: The Medici Family as Magi in the Fifteenth Century

Abstract: The Medici family of the Italian Renaissance were portrayed in works by Benozzo Gozzoli and Sandro Botticelli as Magi, the...

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The Trolley Problem: The Demise of the Streetcar in New Haven

Vanderbilt Historical Review

Feb 23, 2016
26 min

The Trolley Problem: The Demise of the Streetcar in New Haven

Abstract: The replacement of trolley systems by buses, a process which fundamentally reshaped America’s urban landscape, has long been...

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