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Students, Clergy, and Nonviolent Direct-Action: The Forces Behind the 1960 Nashville Sit-Ins
(2021-05-03)
From February to May 1960, a racially and socioeconomically diverse coalition of students and clergy members staged nonviolent sit-ins in downtown Nashville with the goal of desegregating public spaces in the city. In these ...
Constituencies of Political Authoritarianism: Struggle, Survival, and Separatism in the Donets Coal Basin (1989-2014)
(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-03)
Since the start of the War in the Donbas in 2014, the miners of the Donetsk Coal Basin have suffered immensely due to economic and political destabilization, mine flooding, mine closures, intermittent shelling, mounting ...
Imagining an Alternative Modernity: An Intellectual Biography of Rammanohar Lohia
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-08-22)
Rammanohar Lohia was a failed politician. By the time he was finally to the Lok Sabha -- India’s lower house of parliament -- in 1963, it was clear that his Socialist Party would never be a major force in Indian politics. ...
The Origins of Christian Democracy in Chile: The Path of the Moral Center
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04)
Educating the New China: Writing and Rewriting Qing History in the History Textbooks of the People’s Republic of China, 1949-2023
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-28)
Constructing God’s Community: Umayyad Religious Monumentation in Bilad al-Sham, 640-743 CE
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)
In the early 7th Century CE, the Umayyad dynasty formed the first Islamic empire, marking a crucial moment in the emergence of Islam. As in many empires of Late Antiquity, religious monumentation played a central role in ...
When Birds of a Feather Do Not Flock Together: The Failure of Democratic India and Democratic America to Ally During the Cold War
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-28)
The global geopolitical history of the late 20th century was defined by the Cold War between the United States and the USSR, which through alliances, involved many countries across the world. Large swaths of the world ...