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    Convict Leasing, Justifications, Critiques, and the Case for Reparations 

    Howell, Courtney (Virginia Tech Department of History, 2016-05-01)
    The first prisoner received by the State of Florida into the convict leasing system was an African-American man named Cy Williams. He was officially entered into prison records as "No. 1." rather than by his name. Williams ...
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    Take Cover, Nuclear Preparations in Montgomery County 

    Stewart, Emily (Virginia Tech Department of History, 2017-10-01)
    A nuclear weapon is an explosive device the destructive potential of which derives from the energy that is released by the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei. The use of nuclear weapons became a threat to the world ...
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    The Kremlin Kronicle, A Short Reflection 

    Mastakas, John Mark (Virginia Tech Department of History, 2018-04-23)
    A short reflection on the 2017 winner of the Virginia Tech History Department's Digital History Prize.
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    UNESCO Takes on the Taliban, The Fight to Save the Buddhas at Bamiyan 

    Boggs, Eleanor (Virginia Tech Department of History, 2016-05-01)
    In early March 2001, the Taliban destroyed the two giant Buddha statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan under direction from Mullah Muhammed Omar. The Buddha statues, constructed fourteen centuries ago, were the largest Buddhist ...
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    Freedom in the Night, Antebellum Slave Life After Dark 

    Smith, Bekah (Virginia Tech Department of History, 2017-10-01)
    The movement of slaves during the night is not an area that seems to have generated much conversation among scholars. The main narrative that slaves fall into is that of the brutality and oppression they endured in the ...
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    Meeting a Historian: An Interview with Dr. Geoffrey Megargee 

    Megargee, Geoffrey; Kapinos, Andrew; Hemmingson, Grace (Virginia Tech Department of History, 2018-04-23)
    An interview with Dr. Geoffrey Megargee, focusing on his experiences as a historian of the eastern front and the historiographical conversation on this topic.
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    Gender, Race, and Education, Battling State Bigotry and Tyranny in Virginia, 1958 

    Pope, Anna (Virginia Tech Department of History, 2015-05-01)
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    America Rock's Education, Presenting National Narratives on American Television 

    Brenner, Talia (Virginia Tech Department of History, 2018-04-23)
    In 1995, Schoolhouse Rock Live! opened off-Broadway and went on to enjoy a successful run. As a “jukebox” musical, its score comprised selections from all the classic Schoolhouse Rock genres, ricochetingbetween Science ...
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    Paint and Politics, Analyzing the 2011 Egyptian Revolution through Graffiti 

    Chehade, Nala (Virginia Tech Department of History, 2018-04-23)
    This paper will analyze the works of street artists Ganzeer, Zeft, and Ammar Abo Bakr during the Egyptian Revolution in 2011. It will argue that alternative media affected social change more efficiently than traditional ...
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    Guibert of Nogen, The Development of Rhetoric from Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism 

    Sulkey, Elyse (Virginia Tech Department of History, 2016-05-01)
    Guibert of Nogent wrote Gesta Dei per Francos, or The Deeds of God through the Franks, between 1106 and 1109. It was a revision of an earlier anonymous chronicle titled Gesta Francorum. Though his chronicle of the First ...
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