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Please note: While the abstracts will be made available both to those within and outside Adelphi University, access to full papers will be given only to those with passwords. For further information and to obtain a password, please contact the Adelphi History Department Journal's editor Dr. Cristina Zaccarini
Furthermore, the papers in the Adelphi History Department Journal are only accessible from on-campus computers.
Footbinding
by Danielle Mebert, for Modern China (HIS 210)
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Danielle Mebert, (an English major) has written a beautiful and engaging essay on the history of the Han Chinese practice of "footbinding" for Prof. Zaccarini's "Modern China" class. Reviewing several historical interpretations of this practice, which many date to prior to the tenth century, she especially sheds light on Dorothy Ko's pathbreaking sociopolitical analysis of this tradition, which considers the painful custom an empowering one for women. Merbert concludes with a number of queries designed to stimulate further research.
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Albert Speer: War Criminal or Not?
by Jerry Galante, for Europe 1918-1945 (HIS 238)
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Jerry Galante wrote a bibliographic essay for Professor Patrick Kelly's "Europe 1918-1945" class. The problem that he explored within his bibliographic essay was that of the character of Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments for the Third Reich. The most striking thing, as Mr. Galante delved deeper into research, was seeing how much historians and authors disagreed in their assessments of Speer. The main focus of the paper was to see whether Speer was indeed guilty of the war crimes for which he had been incarcerated. These crimes were using foreign workers who were in concentration camps to provide the labor in his factories. The answers from author to author were inconsistent. Some felt that he deserved even more time in prison while others argued that he should never have been put there in the first place. Mr. Galante looked at a variety of sources: Matthias Schmidt, Dan Van Der Vat, Joachim Fest, Gitta Sereny, and of course, Speer himself. Each had their own take on exactly how much Speer knew about the concentration and death camps. The wide range of opinions at first confused Mr. Galante but the evidence pointed to the fact that Speer did what he had to do to get by, and that included using foreign workers in his factories. Galante concluded that his 20 years in prison was applicable to his crimes.
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The Politics of Jeannette Rankin
by Geisha Rodriguez, for Sophomore Seminar (HIS 201)
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The final product of Geisha Rodriguez's Sophomore Seminar research examines the factors that led America's first congresswoman Jeanette Rankin (R-MO) to vote against U.S. participation in World War I. Utilizing both primary and secondary sources which include newspapers and interviews, the paper places Rankin's "no" vote within the context of early twentieth century women's involvement in pacifism and suffrage. Miss Rodriguez looks at why the "no" vote angered both women and men, thus examining surprising and important conceptions of gender, politics and war in the early twentieth century.
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The Exclusion Bills
by Marc Shoichet, for Senior Seminar: European History (HIS 443)
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Marc Schoicet chose the Exclusion Bills as the subject of his senior seminar paper for Prof. Armstrong Starkey for a number of reasons. After considering the array of choices available he quickly realized that Exclusion Bills represented an important period of English history that also deeply involved and brought together important elements of high human drama, including raw emotions, politics, power, religion, and international intrigue. For this reason, the efforts of Parliament to limit the right of succession to the English Crown was a topic of both historical significance and universal interest to all of us who seek to understand the motivations that drives human beings and the resulting actions that subsequently enter the annals of history. In his paper, he sought to both bring history to life by showing how the events of the past churned the lives of those who lived it and to shed some insight to enable the reader to draw lessons relevant to an understanding of events as they may occur in today’s world.
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Contact
For additional information, please contact:
Dr. Cristina Zaccarini
Associate Professor
Department of History
Blodgett Hall, Rm 200
p - 516.877.4788
f - 516.877.4797
e - zaccarin@adelphi.edu
This page last modified on 11 April 2008
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