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    The Case of the Cincinnatus: American Neutral Trade in the British Wartime Legal Order
    Vanderbilt Historical Review
    • 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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