After the Cold War came to a close, in the United States a new informational society emerged from the rubble. This society, based on open access to information, challenged decades old policies of closed information. ...
Though racial discrimination continues to be a problem, Southern
schools have made progress in integrating their proms in recent decades due
to cultural and social influencers and whistle-blowers who called out the
schools ...
A Gospel of Health and Salvation is a work of digital history — defined as the critical application of computational technologies to the study of the past — focused on the relationship between time and gender in Seventh-day ...
Leon, Sharon(Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2004)
This article examines the involvement of U.S. Catholics in the American Eugenics Society during the 1920′s. While Catholics were often opponents of eugenics, John A. Ryan and John Montgomery Cooper, both Catholic priests ...
This essay proposes that certain cinematic conventions of the horror film are uniquely suited to bring into visibility everyday, endemic horror – a horror that many in US society refuse to see. I call this use of horror, ...
History is the study of the past in all its splendid messiness, writes the historian Simon Schama. And for a baseball fan, what more splendid mess could there be than the crooked World Series of 1919? F. Scott Fitzgerald, ...
Leon, Sharon(Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society of Church History, 2004-06)
This article reviews the developing strategies of Catholic opposition to state laws for compulsory sterilization of so-called ‘feeble-minded’ residents of state institutions during the 1920s. In 1927 the Supreme Court, ...
Abstract: The August 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia has not only had a strong impact on the United States and Europe, but also on Israel and Iran. This article examines Israeli and Iranian reactions to the crisis, ...
Building community through the performing arts seems to have been the main influence for the construction of the Reston Community Center at Hunters Woods, which was completed and opened in May, 1979, and included, in ...
This is an archive of Institutional Review Blog (www.institutionalreviewblog.com), a blog that seeks to inform the debate over IRB review of research in the humanities and social sciences by collecting breaking news, ...
In Democracy in America, Alexander de Tocqueville observed that “In democratic countries the science of association is the mother of science; the progress of all the rest depends upon the progress it has made.” Tocqueville ...
Although institutions of higher education are responding to global changes in the 21st century by internationalizing (or globalizing) their campuses and programs, recent literature indicates little is known about faculty ...
When four Blackwater military contractors were brutally murdered in Fallujah,
Iraq, in March 2004, the images shocked American policymakers and citizens.
Their deaths raised critical questions about the roles and activities ...