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Private Snafu: What Can a Cartoon Tell Us About the U.S. Military in World War II?
Keenan Salla, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

Morton’s Pet?: An Examination of the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-1863
Jared Anthony Crocker, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

Russian Jews and the 1917 Revolution
Aaron Levine, Northwestern University

Louis XIV’s Use of Fashion to Control the Nobility and Express Power
Sarah Barringer, Ohio State University

Secularizing the Sacred: The Effort to Dechristianize France During the French Revolution
Justin Dunn, Valparaiso University

A Nation Conceived But Never Achieved: The Jewish National Consciousness that Never Formed a Nation in the Pale of Settlement, 1900-1920
Rachel Manela, Michigan State University

Post-1471 “New Monarchy” under Edward IV and Henry VII
Emily Glassford, Northwestern University

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Diplomatic Coercion: Eisenhower, Chiang Kai-shek, and the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement
Bradley J. Pierson, Purdue University

The Soldiers at Home: Reconciling the Ideals and Realities of Gender Relations in Nazi Germany
Carla Geglio, Purdue University

‘Gens Anglorum’ & ‘Normanitas’: The Bayeux Tapestry and the Effects of the Norman Conquest on Language and the Arts
Sara Elaine Jackson, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne

Combating the Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil
Rebecca Pattillo, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

From Forest to Field: Nature, the State, and the New Deal in Rural Wisconsin
Colin Taylor Higgins, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Citizens of No State: Daily Life of Shanghai White Russians, 1920s-1930s
Haochen Wang, University of Wisconsin–Madison

The Power of Presence: Nixon, Israel, and the Black September Crisis
Bradley J. Pierson, Purdue University

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Economic Collapse?: A Historical and Archaeological Perspective on the Anglo-Saxon Emporium
Claire Adams, Indiana University

Masculinity in Peter Abrahams’s Mine Boy
Matthew Philip Cesnik, Indiana University

Tecumseh: An Emperor Mired in Unfortunate Circumstances
Stephen Colvill, Indiana University

The Role of Cheap Fiction in the Life and Trial of Edith Thompson
Lilyana Helene Gandour, Indiana University

Robert Brasillach and Lucien Rebatet’s Ideological Reasoning for Collaborating with Nazi Germany
Joan Hayner, Michigan State University

Clothing, Identity, and Combat: Sarah Rosetta Wakeman and Cross-Dress in the American Civil War
Margaret Jodlowski, University of Illinois

Anglo-Saxon Medicine: Cures or Catastrophe?
Shirley Kinney, Indiana University

The Junction: The Cold War, Civil Rights, and the African Diplomats of Maryland’s Route 40
Nicholas Murray Vachon, Indiana University

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Exploring Race and Medicine through Diaries: White Perspective on Slave Medical Care in Antebellum Mississippi
Kelly Brignac, Millsaps College

Separation of Church and Hate: A Brief History of the Political Dissent and Abolitionism of the Covenanters of South Carolina and Monroe County, Indiana
Derek F. Briles, Indiana University

Creating a Cultural Identity: Interpreting John Brown
Abby Curtin, John Carroll University

The Silent Revolution: An Analysis of Married Women’s Move from the Domestic Sphere to the Political Sphere during the American Revolution
Danelle Gagliardi, Ohio State University

The Poppy vs the Pension: Treatment and Remembrance in Interwar Germany and Britain
Eric Hudson, Indiana University

“All Souls Travel on Foot”: Religious Conversion Among the Huron
Morgan Riley, Indiana University

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
By Cody Foster

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Table of Contents

The Grand Failure: How Logistics of Supply Defeated Napoleon in 1812
By Lynch Bennett

Diversity within Dogma: The Nazi Leadership's Accommodation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
By Brian Blankenship

Stayin' Alive in the Cold War: Disco and Generational, Racial, and Ideological Currents in the 1970s-1980s
By Eric Nolan Gonzaba

The Inner Battle of the Civil War: An Analysis of General Lew Wallace's Views on Slavery
By Kasey Greer

Constructing a National Architecture: The History of U.S. Embassy Building and its Implications in Accra
By Therese Kennelly

Liberation from Concentration Camps: The Complexity of Concluding the Holocaust Narrative
By Nina Kovalenko

"If you don't go, nobody else will:" Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Crusades Beyond Lynching
By Tess Kuntz

Flexible Response: The Development of American Counterterrorism Policy, 1968-1976
By Scott Williamson

Kasey M. Greer, Editor-in-Chief
Kasey Greer is a junior at Indiana University, where she majoring in history with honors and earning a certificate in the Liberal Arts and Management Program (LAMP).  She is primarily interested in American military history, with a focus on telling the stories of everyday GIs.

Hannah Craddock, Associate Editor-in-Chief
Hannah Craddock is a senior majoring in History and Gender Studies. Historically, she is interested in women in Colonial America and in the early feminist movement. She hopes to pursue these topics in greater depth at the graduate level next fall.

Andrew G. McLaren, Director of Communications
Andrew McLaren is a sophomore at Indiana University, where he is pursuing degrees in Islamic Studies and Arabic Language.

Kae Grossman, Editor
Kae Grossman is a junior pursuing majors in English and Political Science, with minors in History, Medieval Studies, and Comparative Literature.  Her historical interests lie in the late medieval period, with a focus on the social impact of literature during that period in England and France. After she completes her time at IU, Kae would like to pursue a study of medieval literary traditions at a graduate level.

Molly Richmer, Editor
Molly Richmer is a junior at Indiana University.  She is double majoring in history and anthropology, with her main interest in American cultural history.

Nicholas Murray Vachon, Editor
Nick Murray Vachon is a junior at Indiana University majoring in history with honors, pursuing a certificate in the Liberal Arts and Management Program (LAMP), and minoring in spanish and information technology.  Nick's interests lie primarily in the diplomatic and political history of the 20th Century United States.

Blake Smith, Editor
Blake is currently a junior majoring in history and minoring in West European Studies.  He focuses specifically in United States history, but also studies Europe after 1500.  His interests are primarily in World War II and the residual cultural and political effects preceding, during, and after the war. Graduate goals include more focused study on the unique nature of victory and defeat and how that has affected relations between the United States and Germany, specifically since the end of 1945.

Josh Fender, Web Development and Technical Support
Josh is currently a junior majoring in astrophysics and computer science and minoring in mathematics and aerospace studies. While he does not specifically study history he is interested in the subject focusing on World War II and the Space Race.

Cody J. Foster, Founding Editor-in-Chief
Cody Foster is a graduate from Indiana University receiving an honors degree in history and a second degree in political science. He is broadly interested in 20th century United States foreign policy, the presidency, intelligence, and human rights. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in May, Cody will begin a doctoral program in American history.