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Vanderbilt and The Vietnam Crisis
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
This research examines the reaction of students at Vanderbilt University to the Vietnam War during Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency. Vanderbilt's student-run newspaper The Vanderbilt Hustler provides insight into the opinions ...
Search for a heavy pseudoscalar boson decaying to a Z and a Higgs boson at root s=13TeV
(EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 2019-07-03)
A search is presented for a heavy pseudoscalar boson A decaying to a Z boson and a Higgs boson with mass of 125 GeV. In the final state considered, the Higgs boson decays to a bottom quark and antiquark, and the Z boson ...
Species-level Repertoire Size Predicts a Correlation Between Individual Song Elaboration and Reproductive Success
(ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2019-07)
Birdsong has long been considered a sexually selected trait that relays honest information about male quality, and laboratory studies generally suggest that female songbirds prefer larger repertoires. However, analysis of ...
Likelihood non-Gaussianity in Large-scale Structure Analyses
(MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 2019-02-26)
Standard present-day large-scale structure (LSS) analyses make a major assumption in their Bayesian parameter inference – that the likelihood has a Gaussian form. For summary statistics currently used in LSS, this assumption, ...
The Trolley Problem: The Demise of the Streetcar in New Haven
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
The replacement of trolley systems by buses, a process which fundamentally reshaped America's urban landscape, has long been viewed as inevitable. However, in this paper, I look beyond arguments of financial necessity to ...
A Tale of Two Cemeteries: The Paris Commune, the Haymarket Affair, and the Politics of Memorialization
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
This paper examines the relationship between late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century Paris and Chicago by analyzing their respective commemorations and memorializations of the Paris Commune and the Haymarket Affair. Though ...
Go west, [old] man: Horace Capron, Guilded Age Capitalism, and the Development of Hokkaido
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
After the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese turned to Western models to modernize their government. Specifically, they hired former American Commissioner of Agriculture Horace Capron to advise the colonization of Hokkaido. ...
The Bracero Program: A Historical Perspective on the Perpetuation of Isolated Labor Markets in South Texas
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
This paper explores the perpetuation of isolated labor markets in Texas border towns caused by Texas' relationship to and use of the Bracero Program, a temporary guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico. ...
The Vietnam War as China's Watershed
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
China today is a rising superpower and a major challenger to American hegemony. The industrialization and modernization that other nations achieved in centuries, China has compressed to a few decades. Indeed, all too often, ...
Ode to Peace or Prelude to Militarism?: The Opening Ceremonies of the 1936 Berlin Olympics as Political Theater
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
When Nazi leadership ultimately embraced the notion of hosting the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, the decision entailed an undertaking to which an inherently militaristic society would seem ill-suited: orchestrating ...