Browsing by Subject "Washington and Lee University -- Honors in History"
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A. Willis Robertson: Pioneer Conservationist
During his lifetime, Robertson was accused of being overly zealous in his defense of wildlife and natural resources. Many people could not understand his deep love for nature and his willingness to risk his political career ... -
Albert Taylor Goodwyn: An Adamistic Look at the South
In this paper I have attempted to tell the story of the life of one man, Albert Taylor Goodwyn, and by doing so shed a small ray of light on the history of the South. Albert Goodwyn lfved from 1842 until 1931. His life ... -
The American Pantheon: The Competition for Civil War Era Memory in National Statuary Hall (thesis)
A history of memory in National Statuary Hall is therefore necessary to begin the process of transforming the collection from a site of memory into a site of better historical interpretation. Chapter One of this thesis ... -
An Inheritance of Slavery: The Tale of "Jockey" John Robinson, His Slaves, and Washington College
Much of the Washington College slaves' inner lives remain a mystery. The evidence does, of course, illuminate a great deal about the general course of their lives. John Robinson acquired and later bequeathed them to ... -
"And we shall overcome": Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Battle for Civil Rights
Historians will continue to debate Lyndon Johnson's place in history. Many will view the disaster of Vietnam as the most compelling legacy of his presidency and forever judge him by his tragic mistakes. But not all will ... -
Ayn Rand: An Individualist's Paradoxical Involvement with the Collective
Ayn Rand's paradoxical involvement with collective organizations began early in her career during her crusade against communism. Rand developed her anti-communistic ideas as an individual during her youth in Soviet Russia. ... -
Becoming Bengal: Understanding Islam as Political Technology in East Bengal and Bangladesh (thesis)
East Pakistan and Bangladesh's struggle to adequately understand the role that Islam plays within politics reflects this historical disconnect between the causes of Bengali Muslim political instability and potential solutions ... -
Beyond Stereotype: Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt had a distinctive relationship with her Presidential husband. They often related through memos, meetings, and go-betweens rather than through face-to-face contact. As strange as this was for a married ... -
Bread and Circuses: The Cult of Antiquity in the French Revolution
The Roman Juvenal wrote that the best way to quell civic unrest was to give the people what they want: bread and circuses. This thesis will explore Harold T. Parker's Cult of Antiquity in the French Revolution. Parker's ... -
Building an Ethos of Killing: Comparing and Contrasting the World War II Combat Motivations of German soldiers on the Eastern Front and American Soldiers in the Pacific (thesis)
On the American side, it is traditional to view World War II as a righteous war fought by soldiers inspired by freedom and democracy, as Adams succinctly defines this view in The Best War Ever. However, this conception of ... -
The Catholic Church as "Guardian of the Faith"? Sex, Scandal, and Social Progress in the Republic of Ireland (thesis)
What makes Ireland's social and political trajectory notable is not that the debates over marriage equality and abortion departed from the traditional framework used in the West. Instead, it is the distinct historical ... -
"Charlantanerie", Humbug and the Evolution of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Louis Agassiz in Brazil (thesis)
The purpose of the current study is to challenge the Euro-centric stereotype that during the nineteenth century science spread outwards from the center (Europe, Canada, the United States - collectively "the West") to the ... -
The Chinese Eastern Railway: Storm Center in Asia
In attempting to gain a true perspective of Russo-Chinese relations I have examined certain historical aspects of Russia's penetration into China in both the Tsarist and Soviet periods and China's subsequent reactions in ... -
Confrontation in Korea: The Role of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur
It is my contention that the MacArthur controversy was an important watershed in both inter-factional struggle in the military and in the adjustment of the American military to the changing environment in which they operated. ... -
A Contribution by the United States to the Common Stock of Civilization: Francis Lieber and General Orders No. 100 (thesis)
Lieber's Code aimed to encourage nations to renew peace. It relied on commanders understanding this goal and being able to apply it in a way that accomplished this goal. . . . In 1874, Czar Alexander II invited agents ... -
A Cowardly Lion?: The German Catholic Episcopate and the Third Reich (thesis)
Since the publication of Rolf Hochhuth's drama, Der Stellvertreter, in 1963 through the publication of John Cornwell's book, Hitler's Pope, in 1999 and Besier's The Holy See and Hitler's Germany in 2007, the Catholic Church ... -
Cracking Open the Golden Door: Race, Great Society Liberalism, and the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 (thesis)
Given the attention that immigration has received lately, it is clear that this topic is extremely contentious when it comes to politics. One wrong move with respect to immigration, visas, and refugees, could tarnish a ... -
Creating the Ideal English Catholic: Martyrs and Their Scripts in Elizabethan England (thesis)
. . . My analysis does use quotes and stories from various martyrdom accounts, but the purpose of this thesis is to look specifically at how martyrdom and martyrs were framed and described at different times and in different ... -
Death to Tyrants: The Evolution of Political Thought Regarding Tyrannicide from Cicero to Salutati
I will devote the first chapter of this work to Marcus Tullius Cicero. Specifically, I will analyze Cicero's definition of the tyrant, as well as his justification of tyrannicide, notably in his De Officiis (44 B.C.). I ... -
Delusion, Disenchantment, Dissension: William Christian Bullitt and Soviet-American Relations 1919-1946
Delusion, Disenchantment, Dissension is a story and an analysis of a controversial man and a controversial subject. The man is William Christian Bullitt, and the subject is Soviet-American relations 1919-1946. A full ...