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Interview with Dr. Michael Birkner
Get PDFIn this, our eleventh volume of the Fairmount Folio, I am inaugurating a new segment of the journal, an interview with an established historian. It will mirror a concept begun in our sister publication, The Historian, the journal of the national history honorary, Phi Alpha Theta. This segment is meant to provide wider understanding of the variety of experiences and scholarship found among historians. We hope you will enjoy these interviews
Anti-Communism in the Heartland: The Red Scare at the Local Level in Wichita, Kansas
Get PDFAnti-communist sentiments were central to Americans during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Fear of communism during this time was pervasive and spread across the nation. Large metropolitan areas became hot beds for Red Scare politics, putting government and private sector employees in the spotlight. The existing literature of the Red Scare focuses on large cities, like Washington, D.C, New York City, Los Angeles, or places that were particularly fervent in their "redhunting". The Midwest, by contrast, the literal and industrial core of the nation, is often left out of this discussion, but it is equally important to examine in regards to the Red Scare and how it played out in the United States. Wichita, Kansas, demonstrates what the Red Scare looked like for Middle America through its community and grass roots based anti-communism, illustrating how the citizens of the United States reacted to and participated in the Red Scare on a smaller scale
The "Memel Problem:" German Memelland in the History World War II with an Aim to its Proper Placement
No full textAn integral part of the eastern German and Prussian social and economic landscape for 700 years, the region known as Memel was stripped from direct German rule according to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. The Memel territory, alternatively known as \u27Memelland\u2783 to the Germans and the "Klaipeda Region" to the Lithuanians, included the city of Memel and a swath of surrounding former Prussian territory north of the Niemen River.84 The fate of the territory and its 141,000 people was initially left to a relatively disorganized and poorly-established council meant to maintain it similar to a Danzig-style League of Nations mandate "free city," with the objective of providing port access to the port-less and newly-created state of Lithuania.85 This move, as well as other decisions made by the authors of the Paris Peace agreements, ignited political wrangling and inflamed tensions throughout Europe as a whole in the 1920s and 1930s
A Call for Social Work Students in Mine Action
Get PDFFor too many, physical and psychological trauma are the unfortunate consequences of living in post- conflict regions where landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) continue to litter roads, farmland, and other critical infrastructure. Master\u27s level social work students can be engaged on micro, mezzo, and macro levels to assist such victims of conflict by engaging in mine action sector activities like psychosocial rehabilitation, mine risk education (MRE), and advocacy efforts to mitigate the effects and eliminate the use of ERW. We propose a field education plan in which social work students can engage in this vital work through international fieldwork placements. Such activities benefit international students, local communities and organizations, and the cause they serve. With fresh ideas and great enthusiasm, students have the potential to not only influence the course of the global crisis of landmines and ERW, but to reap the professional and personal rewards of participatingin the international mine action sector
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West. By Stephen Ambrose
Get PDFUniversity of New Orleans professor Stephen Ambrose, noted Nixon and Eisenhower historian, examines the Lewis and Clark expedition in his latest book. This volume is plagued by a series of factual errors, assumptions, and speculations--especially in the introductory and concluding chapters
The Kansas Governor\u27s Commission on the Status of Women, 1968-1970
Get PDFThe feminist movement in the United States began with a refusal by women to allow their traditional secondary status to remain acceptable. Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, once admonished that "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."1 In most cultures around the world, including the United States, women have consented to inferiority throughout much of their history. But no longer. The women\u27s rights movement has led to "enormous and mundane, subtle and not-so-subtle, delightful, painful, immediate, far-reaching, paradoxical, inexorable and probably irreversible changes in women\u27s lives, and men\u27s."
Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area: A Historical Perspective
Get PDFFrom the point of view of the great flocks of migratory waterfowl which traverse North and South America every year, the Cheyenne Bottoms ecosystem is an essential stopover. For some, it is a wintering ground. Since the late Pliocene Era, Cheyenne Bottoms has provided refuge for the many species of ducks, geese, cranes, and terns; as well as mammals and reptiles who live off of large populations of migratory waterfowl. The prehistory of Cheyenne Bottoms provides insight into the geological development of the Central Plains region. The story of Cheyenne Bottoms since the arrival of the Euro-Americans reflects the attitudes of those who have partaken of its bounty, worked for the perpetuation of a dependable waterfowl habitat, as well as those who have worked toward its destruction.
Long Live the Nation: Political Cartoonist and Nationalism In Victorian England
Get PDFFew things are as innocent as a weekly episode of Charles Shultz\u27s Peanuts in the Sunday newspaper. Most often, the sole purpose of the artist is to cause the reader to smile, to momentarily allow melancholia to be replaced by laughter, to entertain. Shultz\u27s work is part of a group of cartoons that be described as comic art. Another group, the social cartoon, is designed to amuse the reader, but also to provide commentary on some annoying or worrisome aspect of life. A third type of cartoon, however, is rarely innocent and usually deals with loftier issues than life\u27s inconveniences. The political cartoon is a partisan, and often nationalistic, comment made by the artist. Through his or her work, the cartoonist seeks to "influence the viewer to a particular viewpoint and predispose him or her to a particular action." Political cartoons are frequently known for "artistic excellence" and humor, but these characteristics are always secondary to the ideas that the drawings express. Truly excellent political cartoons are symbolic, but simple. They may not be purely representational, but any misrepresentation or exaggeration must be believable. Finally, and most importantly, political cartoons must be rooted in truth and be about a subject which has "lasting importance."1 Cartoons are, in fact, an important resource for scholars interested in the political climate of a nation. The artist\u27s drawings not only reflect prominent issues of a nation, but help shape feelings of nationalism among its citizens
Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra. By Michel Chauveau. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000.
No full textFor background on the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt, one could almost not do better than Michel Chauveau\u27s Egypt in the Age qf Cleopatra. Using the latest or most accepted information, both archaeological and scholarly, Chauveau leads the reader through the entire breadth of the empire, from its beginnings as a satrapy of Alexander the Great\u27s empire and Ptolemy I Soter\u27s creation of a kingdom during the Successor Wars in the late 4th century B.C. to the fall of Cleopatra VII and Marc Anthony almost 300 years later. Using information from both the Greek and Egyptian populations, Chauveau does an admirable job in showing how the two societies co-existed, one immigrant and one native. The book is a brief overview of the social history of Egypt under Greek rule but concentrates less on the royal succession and the ideology of the ruling class
Volcanoes and Heresies: Historiographical Perspectives on the Byzantine Iconoclastic Controversy
Get PDF"Ever since the dawn of history, when man first became a religious animal and almost simultaneously,give or take a millennium or two,made his first clumsy attempts at adorning the walls of his cave, he has had to face one fundamental question: is art the ally of religion, or its most insidious enemy?"1 This question, precisely posed by historian John Julius Norwich in his trilogy on the Byzantine Empire, came to the fore in the seventh and eighth centuries during the Byzantine iconoclastic2 controversy: Are icons the friend or foe of Christianity