History URC Student Scholarship
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City on a Hill: The Aftermath of Los Angeles' Utopia
(2008-01-01)The now derelict Socialist commune of Llano del Rio lies silent in the Mojave Desert 50 miles north of Los Angeles. Founded in 1914 by a prominent Socialist party politician, the commune represented the most successful ... -
Musical Forces At The Time Of J.S. Bach.
(1999-01-01)Joshua Rifkin, Andrew Parrot, John Butt, and Ton Koopman are just some of the names that stand in the forefront of contemporary thinking on the life and music of the enigmatic and illusory Johann Sebastian Bach. One of the ... -
The Protestant Work Ethic and Common Schooling: An Analysis of their Impact on Abolitionism.
(2001-01-01)By the 1830's the American political scene found itself enthralled in a number of life altering issues. Two of the most central to deciding the fate of America dealt with the access to public education and the abolition ... -
Children of the Revolution: The Red Army Faction and the Rise of Modern Terrorism in the 1970s
(2005-01-01)In the 1970s, the world saw the dramatic ascendancy of modern, international terrorism into the spotlight of global politics - most prominently through the actions of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. However, what ... -
The Suburban Myth and its application to the San Fernando Valley
(2012-07-01)The suburban reality in the San Fernando Valley valued ownership, individualism and stability in the time when most residents were beginning to assume the role of middle class. After World War II there existed many social ... -
Anti-Semitism in Modern Russia
(2008-01-01)In 1791, under Catherine the Great, the Jews of Russia were forcibly compelled to settle in a small portion of the southwest region known as the Pale of Settlement. This was the first large scale anti-Semitic action to be ... -
A Study of the Chinese Jamaican Exodus.
(1999-01-01)Beginning in the early 1970s, the Chinese population of Jamaica began to leave the island in great numbers. In 1970, the Chinese Jamaican community numbered 11,781. By 1980, that figure had dropped to 5,320. The Chinese ... -
Hip Hop and Urban Space in Los Angeles
(2013-01-01)This project examines the ways in which contemporary hip hop culture in Los Angeles has drawn upon earlier African American sociocultural movements of the 20th century. Two movements in particular, the Central Avenue ... -
The Impact of Incarceration on African-American Families: A Focus on African-American Women Prisoners.
(1999-01-01)African-American women constitute a highly disproportionate amount of the California female prison population. Other statistics show that within the past twenty years, these numbers have continued to rise, making young ... -
Fanon, Cesaire and the Martiniquais Question
(2009-01-01)The Caribbean island of Martinique is a terribly underrepresented topic of academic inquiry. A former colony, Martinique is a currently French department?politically, economically and culturally tied to France?trading only ... -
Interpreting France: American Perceptions of the French Nation During World War II
(2002-01-01)World War II transformed the United States from a nation dominated by isolationist sentiments to one committed to preserving democracy worldwide. The defeat of France by Nazi Germany in 1940 was one of many factors ... -
On the Record? The American Press and the Nazi Eugenics Program
(2006-01-01)Eugenics is a social philosophy that advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through social intervention. The goals have been to create more intelligent people, save society?s resources, lessen human suffering, ... -
Discussing Hitler: The Rhetoric of Historians and its Implications for our Understanding of the Holocaust
(2007-01-01)Adolf Hitler is one of the most significant figures of the 20th century. Countless biographies have been written about him and will continue to be written about him. These biographies provide both a look into his life and ... -
Viewing Francoist Propaganda Through Mass Media in the National Archives of Spain
(2005-01-01)While most historians of Spanish history argue that Francisco Franco only used fascism during the late 30s and early 40s to gain favor with Hitler and Mussolini, the construction of The Valley of the Fallen in 1959 exposes ... -
Un-American History and the First Great American War over Collective Memory
(2003-01-01)Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole in a speech to the national convention of the American Legion in 1995, condemned those who try to ?disparage America? and the nation?s unified ?language, history, and values?. At the core ... -
From Housing to Home Plate: Chavez Ravine, Cultural Transition, and the Construction of History
(2006-01-01)History is constructed. Like any craft, it is shaped by the views and conceptions of those active in its construction. In modern America, popular media and the press are as active as, and often more influential and ... -
A War for Peace: William Jennings Bryan and his Crusade
(2007-01-01)On June 28, 1914 Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student, killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo. This assassination set off the powder keg of Europe and plunged it into war from ... -
Cultural Maintenance and Revitalization in Oaxacan Indigenous Communities in Los Angeles
(2010-01-01)The purpose of my research is to analyze what causes culture loss, specifically within the community of Oaxacan indigenous migrants here in Los Angeles (primarily the Zapotec and the Mixtec) and to analyze the different ... -
Resistance and Appropriation of Modernism in 1920s Faith Healing
(2007-01-01)My research this summer focused on how the faith healing ministry of Aimee Semple McPherson related to the social and cultural context of the 1920?s. Framing this highly specific topic is the greater question, how does ... -
From Sisterhood to Objectivity:Social Workers, Unmarried Mothers, andthe Professionalization of Charity in the 1920s
(2004-01-01)Tracing the evolution of efforts to aid unmarried mothers in the 1920s exposes characteristics of social workers and evangelicals which simultaneously united and divided them, but which universally distanced them from the ...
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