Addressing Racial Injustice Through Film and Television
The entertainment industry is one of the most successful industries in the United States for one simple reason: people like to be...
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The societal roles of women since suffrage
Women’s suffrage in the United States permanently altered not only our political landscape, but also sowed the seeds for women’s roles to...
The Fight for Women's Rights
On August 18th, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified giving women the right to vote. Currently it is the centennial for women’s suffrage...
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Why Patriotism and Cultural Hegemony Are More Valuable Than Money
From its involvement in World War I and on, the United States has been considered the world’s hegemon. While many contribute this to its...
Blake Gilliland
Has the Prohibition of Marijuana Failed?
In the early 1920s, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency sought to expand their power and budget by criminalizing substances that have been...
Alex Twist
Final Blog - Topic #1
The United States has gone back and forth between adopting isolationist and internationalist policies over the twentieth century....
The Legacy of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Topic #3: 2020 marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. In your blog, reflect on the legacy of...
Feminist Film Theory
Book Sources Feminist Film Studies by Karen Hollinger -secondary source Popcorn Venus by Majorie Rosen - primary source From Reverence to...
American Sentiment and Internment Camps: Germans in WWI vs. Japanese in WWII
1) “Children of the Camps | INTERNMENT HISTORY.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 1999, www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/. 2) Cross, Jeanne,
Can the Government Legally Force You to Get Vaccinated? Yes… and no.
Illustration by: Sadaat Rafin. Courtesy of: "The Spectator" According to a study conducted in 2015 in partnership with the Vaccine...
Reconstruction v. Civil Rights Movement
After the Civil War, the destined goal of Reconstruction was to bring southern states back into the Union while protecting the rights of...
The United States as the Interventionist Internationalist
American Foreign policy has been drastically altered by those who have administered it, as well as external events that have pressured...
Women's Suffrage: A Shifting Frontier for the American Woman
Women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century created a movement that would have lasting impacts for decades to come. The 19th...
Ilya Dukhovskoy
Prohibition and the Expansion of Organized Crime
How did the 18th amendment proliferate the expansion of organized crime, and what effects did this have on American Society?
Francheska Guerrero
The Businessification of American Foreign Policy
"Politicians for decades have stressed the importance of prosperous trade relations leading to nations’ political unity"
Women's Suffrage Challenges Cultural Norms of Femininity, Leads to Social Shifts
The passage of the 19th Amendment changed the game for women across America in terms of voting rights. What many women soon discovered,...
Rebecca Leiman
Transitioning History: Medicine and Gender
Andre Charles, more commonly as RuPaul, likes to say that “we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.” RuPaul swears by this quote,...
Individualism and the Military
When Alexis de Tocqueville studied democracy in America from 1835 to 1840, he had no idea that his observations would pose increasingly...
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