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The Great War On Film: Examining The Cinematic Variations Of Three Films On The 1916 Battle Of The Somme
(History, 2014-07-14)
Propaganda has been an integral part of human history, and while the documentation of conflict through film began in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was not until the First World War that the production and ...
A New System Of Power: The Franks And The Catholic Church in post-Roman Gaul
(History, 2014-03-10)
The Franks developed a new system of power in post-Roman Gaul with the help of the Catholic Church. From the sixth through the ninth century three Frankish kings played crucial roles in the development of this new ...
How To Make A Foreign Idea Your Own: Argentine Identity And The Role Soccer Played In Its Formation
(History, 2014-12)
Since Spanish-speaking Latin America achieved independence from Spain the question has been whether to follow the North American or European example. Do the new republics embrace the Old World with its aristocracy or the ...
Lustration Legislation In Eastern Europe And Its Meaning For The Western World
(History, 2014-12)
Lustration policies spread widely across Eastern Europe in the early 1990's after the fall of the Communism when most of the post-Communist states of Eastern Europe employed a strategy of purging the former Communists from ...
Fear Of "unnatural Acts": Law And Sexuality In London, 1500-1800
(History, 2014-07-14)
Eighteenth-century London experienced a prosecution wave attempting to eradicate sodomy from the city. Discovered and exposed to the public by journalists, the "public outing" of molly houses and their patrons made them ...