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Preparing for the Future War: The Soviet Military and Industrial Buildup from 1924-1933
Get PDFOn January 21, 1924 V. I. Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik revolution and founder of the Soviet state, died of a cerebral hemorrhage. During the next three years Joseph Stalin consolidated his power over the Soviet state. In 1927 he began preparing the Soviet Union to wage an aggressive war aimed at the heart of Europe, in order to advance Marx\u27s prophesied world proletarian revolution. To achieve this, Stalin\u27s government began the buildup of a massive military industrial infrastructure capable of producing vast quantities of weapons, and other equipment which could support a modern army waging aggressive warfare. To prepare for the anticipated war in Europe, the U.S.S.R. embarked on a revolution in military strategic thought, rapid industrialization, extensive expansion of infrastructure, and widespread economic and industrial espionage. Due to the development of new military theories by Tukhachevsky, Triandafillov and Snitko, as well as its vast expansion of military industrial infrastructure, the Soviet Union was transformed from an agrarian nation incapable of fielding a modern army, into a powerful industrial state capable of waging aggressive warfare
A Book Review of Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage
Get PDFThe book, Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage, Sawhill advocates for a new line of thought when viewing the ways to reduce poverty caused by single motherhood. Essentially, she advocates for more reliable and accessible forms of birth control. Her prescription for this reduction is for the Affordable Care Act to include more reliable and long term forms of birth control, for Medicaid coverage for family planning services, for the use of social media to educate younger generations. Her goal is to change social norms towards sexual relationships, and to increase public discussion of the important role that birth control can play in reducing child poverty and improve social mobility. Sawhill wants to take the pregnancy out of sex by blending personal responsibility with increased access to and information about birth control
Editor\u27s Note
No full textPublishing a journal featuring student articles has long been a goal for the Gamma Rho Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. The journey to this first edition of the Fairmount Folio began long before I ever became a history student at Wichita State University. Those years of mental preparation helped this journal become a reality.The process began at the Phi Alpha Theta Convention in St. Louis. Ken King, past president of our chapter, Eric Owens, current president and assistant editor, Erik Merkel, treasurer and business manager, Dr. Helen Hundley, faculty and spiritual advisor, and I were inspired by the journal workshop held there. Eric and I decided that a journal was going to be an essential part of our senior year of undergraduate work. Ken, Erik and Dr. Hundley inspired us and assured us that it was possible. Erik Merkel provided valuable research and attention to detail in his efforts to raise money and gather publishing information. Ken King and Dr. Hundley definitely deserve infinite gratitude for not only their guidance, persistence and encouragement, but also for their generous financial support. They believed in our ability to accomplish our goal. Eric Owens\u27 help has been indispensible.Dr. Donald Douglas, Dr. James Durham, Dr. Helen Hundley, Dr. Phillip Drennon Thomas, Andrew McBurns, and Rose Haley-Rose generously volunteered to read and judge the submissions. They provided us with insight and advice on how to bring the submissions to their finished form. Dr. Willard Klunder willingly gave of his time during the final stages of editing to help eliminate any faults that remained. I would also like to thank the editor of the 1995 Welebaethan, John Webb, for his inspiration, ideas, and advice, both at the Phi Alpha Theta conference, and via email. Lastly, I owe a debt of gratitude to my family and friends for enduring my endless absences on the computer.Emily Jane Livingston, Editor, 1996 Fairmount Foli
Joseph Story and the Dartmouth College Case: Expansion of the Contract Clause
Get PDFIn 1818, the United State Supreme Court ended the year\u27s term without rendering a decision in the case that would become the foundation for the protection of corporate property rights from state intervention: Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward.1 From the inception of the controversy to the reading of Justice Marshall\u27s opinion on the opening day of the Supreme Court\u27s term in 1819, Justice Joseph Story played a critical role in molding the Dartmouth College case into a solid foundation for the "protection to private property against the authority of the government--a principle which became the cornerstone of the American doctrine of constitutional government."2 Justice Story not only helped create the legal strategy of Dartmouth College\u27s chief counsel, Daniel Webster, but his eloquent concurring opinion repaired the shortfalls of Chief Justice Marshall\u27s opinion.
The Philadelphia Ladies\u27 Association and Women\u27s Collective Political Participation in the American Revolution
Get PDFWomen of the late colonial period in America regularly engaged in what might be termed "prepolitical" activities, and the Revolutionary War presented occasions for extending those. The relatively autonomous status of women within religious groups such as the Quakers and some Baptist sects, and the use of petition as a means of legal redress had previously marked the boundaries of the political world for women. As the war neared, women employed other, more public modes of expression imbued with political meaning and implications, expressions by which they demonstrated subscription to the ideology of the Revolution, even while denied access to its political privileges.
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado, by Elliott West. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. Pp.422.)
Get PDFMany modern United States travelers, much to the chagrin of the Kansas department of tourism, are used to viewing Kansas as a place to drive through on the way to somewhere else. And so it was, author Elliott West skillfully relates in <em>The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado</em>, in the mid-nineteenth century. Prior to the Colorado gold rush of 1858 the "ocean of land" separating east and west was simply the "Great American Desert," a haven for Indians and other "items" of curious interest, but of little perceived worth
George Catlin: Explorer and Painter of the Mandan
Get PDFIn a time when the majority of the United States\u27 citizens viewed the Native American tribes as savages and a nuisance, George Catlin managed to capture a realistic view of these peoples. Catlin\u27s art is probably the most receptive of the early Native American painters. His paintings demonstrated an understanding and even an appreciation of the native people. In 1837, few people in or outside of the United States had a clear picture of what the tribes of the Plains and the Rocky Mountains looked like. The copious amount of paintings, sketches and materials that Catlin brought back with him give some of the best, and in many cases, the only information about the tribes before the serious interference of Euro-American settlers and the government. For the majority of his adult life, Catlin traveled in the Louisiana Purchase Territory documenting the people through his paintings and his writing. Still, there is no doubt that Catlin believed that the Native Americans were doomed. One of the main motives behind Catlin\u27s work was to document these people before they disappeared or the United Stated government changed their way of life forever. In many ways, Catlin was the first ethnographer of the native peoples and one of the most successful in capturing the tribes before outside interference.1 He was willing to paint and describe the Indians accurately. He did not give in to the stereotype of portraying the tribes as bloodthirsty savages. Through his art he attempted to show the American people the reality of the tribes, both good and bad, and doing this became his life\u27s work.
How America Sees the Roman Empire
Get PDFFor decades, filmmakers have laced history with fictitious characters and events to create explosive film epics. Over 400 films have been made about ancient Rome, many of them by American film studios, and these films have shaped the minds of Americans.3 They have enjoyed a warm reception from modern audiences as they color the past, yet make the connection between antiquity and present day.
Race in Kansas
Get PDFThere is no excuse for denying any American citizen his rights. This is not a project to defend discrimination in Kansas. I will try and show that "the values of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century\u27s material wealth and successful competition caused Kansas blacks to determine their process by standards in force for society at large."
A Midwife\u27s Tale, produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and directed by Richard Rogers. (A Blueberry Hill film, 1997, 80 minutes)
Get PDFA Midwife\u27s Tale, which aired on PBS in January, 1997, as part of the "American Experience" collection, is the documentary based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the same name written by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. The book, based on the diary of Martha Ballard, details her life beginning in 1785, when she was 50, and ending with her death in 1812. Ballard\u27s diary records her work as a midwife and her home life in the Kennebec River region of Maine, and the book contains selections from Ballard\u27s diary followed by explanations and details by Ulrich. The film, directed by Richard P. Rogers and written and produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, follows much the same pattern