Wesley Avery and Dr. Eric Dursteler, History Department In the late-1980’s, a film was made about a murder among the Amish, and an FBI special agent sent to investigate. The Italian translation to the movie used the term mormoni for the Amish. As a missionary for the LDS Church in Italy, I often encountered those […]
REEL DICTATORSHIPS: A COMPARISON OF CINEMATIC PORTRAYALS OF THE FRANCO AND PINOCHET REGIMES
Patrick J. Thurston and Dr. Dale J. Pratt, History Notwithstanding its emphasis on entertainment, film is a highly political art. All movies, even those intended as entertainment, directly or indirectly transmit messages about politics and society. While the majority of motion pictures reinforce the socio-political status quo, various others powerfully protest perceived political injustice, oppression […]
Alms For the Poor: Giving them the History they Deserve
Cindy Unwin and Dr. Amy Harris, History I presented my research as a poster in the Mary Lou Fulton Mentored Student Research Conference and won first place in the History category. In my research I focused on answering two questions: 1) What was the demographic of the Lambeth, Surrey workhouse and how does it apply […]
The Volunteer Slaves Indentured Servants in the French Caribbean
Robert D. Taber and Dr. Brett Rushforth, History The last forty years have seen an unprecedented expansion in the study of African slavery and the impact this “peculiar institution” had on the creation of colonies throughout the Americas, Africa, and Asia. In the last twenty years, historians of North America have increasingly examined the development […]
Blood Brothers: Nixon, Bangladesh, and the Rise of Radical Islam in the Asian Subcontinent
Russell Stevenson and Dr. Andrew Johns, Department of History The research on the Indo-Pakistani war as conducted at the Nixon Presidential Materials project in Baltimore, Maryland yielded excellent fruits for groundbreaking research in the future. Given the relatively recent release of Nixon-era documents to the public, the conclusions to be gleaned from them have the […]
Getting Langue Winded: How the European Union Language Policy Came to Be
Clinton Richard Long and Dr. Mark Choate, History Department The purpose of my research was to figure out the purpose of the European Union’s (EU) language policy. With twenty-three official languages representing the twenty-seven member-states of the EU comes a great deal of inefficiency. Lots of money is spent on the interpretation and translation and […]
Chinese Life in California during the Gold Rush Era: Better or Worse than Life in China?
James Cross and Dr. Jay Buckley, History The relationship between the Caucasian Americans and the Chinese immigrants in California during the gold rush is a topic that has captured the interest of many historians. Of the available literature related to the Chinese, most focus on racial prejudice as a result of labor competition or their […]
Bringing the Cold War to Life in the High School History Classroom
Aaron Woodrow Andersen and Dr. Andrew Johns, History My project addresses some pressing needs in public school education. There currently seems to be somewhat of a “gloom and doom” attitude about public schools in the United States. The public school system has come under fire in recent years for its perceived failure to adequately educate […]
SUMMARY OF CREATIVE RESEARCH GRANT RESULTS
Robert J. Schoonmaker and Dr. Ronald W. Walker, History Ronald W. Walker and James B. Allen of the BYU History Department and David J. Whittaker of the Library Archives are currently collaborating on a project to compile for publication a comprehensive bibliography of secondary sources, published previous to 1996, dealing with Mormon History. This grant […]
Discovering the Angry Voices of the Past: The Striking Legacy of the Victor Valley Teachers Union
Ashley and Alvaro Bobadilla with Dr. Brian Cannon, History Introduction The Victor Valley Teachers’ Union strike was the longest in California history for many years, had very little written about it, and even fewer primary accounts taken from the actual participants. Our research not only focused on discovering what happened, but also why it happened. […]
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