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Aplikasi Sistem Penjualan dan Pembayaran Non Tunai (Cashless) pada Toko Duta Parfum di Jembatan Lima Jakarta Barat
Authors: Hadisman Rekka Apriliyanti , Uddin Badie
Published: May 2024

Abstrak - Toko Duta Parfum terletak di Jembatan Lima Jakarta Barat. Merupakan toko parfum yang berkembang pesat, salah satu proses bisnis yang sangat penting dalam penjualan parfum ini yaitu bagian penjualan dan pembayaran. Namun mempunyai kendala dalam pencatatan dan pembayarannya yaitu masih menggunakan pencatatan di kertas. Oleh karena itu perlu dirancang sebuah aplikasi yang dapat membantu aktifitas penjualan dan pembayaran toko duta parfum ini. Aplikasi yang dikembangkan menggunakan pendekatan System Development Live Cycle (SDLC) yaitu model waterfall. Perancangan sistem aplikasi ini menggunakan UML dan menggunakan framework ASP.Net. Sedangkan bahasa pemrogramannya menggunakan C#. dan untuk tampilannya menggunakan Draw.io serta menggunakan Figma untuk mockup aplikasinya. Berdasarkan hasil pengujian, aplikasi sistem penjualan dan pembayaran no-tunai ini dapat berfungsi dengan baik, semua fitur yang ada berfungsi dengan baik dan sudah diimplementasikan pada toko duta parfum.Kata kunci: Duta Parfum, SDLC, Model Waterfall, Penjualan, PembayaranAbstract - The Duta Parfume is located at Jembatan Lima, West Jakarta. This is a perfume shop that is growing rapidly, one of the very important business processes in selling perfume is the sales and payment section. However, there are problems in recording and paying, namely that they still use paper records. Therefore, it is necessary to design an application that can help the sales and payment activities of this perfume ambassador shop. The application was developed using the System Development Live Cycle (SDLC) approach, namely the waterfall model. This application system design uses UML and uses the ASP.Net framework. Meanwhile, the programming language uses C#. and for the appearance, use Draw.io and use Figma for the application mockup. Based on the test results, this cashless sales and payment system application can function well, all existing features function well and have been implemented in the Duta Parfum.Keywords: Duta Parfum, SDLC, Waterfall Model, Sales, Payment
DIGITAL CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
Authors: EFENDIOĞLU İbrahim Halil
Published: May 2024

Digital consumer behavior is a marketing field that examines consumers' behavior in online environments on digital platforms. In this study, a systematic literature review method was employed, involving the search for the keywords "digital consumer behavior" and "digital consumer behaviour" within the titles, abstracts, and keywords of publications in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The research findings indicated that, in terms of methodological approaches, empirical studies outnumbered conceptual studies in the articles reviewed. The gaps in the field were discussed, and it was observed that internet search habits, online shopping trends, mobile application usage, and online content consumption came to the fore. The study investigates digital consumer behavior and the associated research comprehensively, analyzing the existing literature in this area. It is a pioneering study that conducts a systematic literature review on digital consumer behavior.
Самоорганізованість студентської молоді в умовах соціальної невизначеності
Authors: Гоян Ігор , Яковлева Світлана , Гуляс Інеса , Фоміна Ірина
Published: May 2024

Метою є теоретико-емпіричне дослідження психологічних особливостей і типів самоорганізованості студентської молоді в умовах соціальної невизначеності. Методи. Вибіркову сукупність склали здобувачі трьох рівнів вищої освіти, які навчалися в університетах України, загальною кількістю 362 особи (M = 22.86; SD = ±2.84). Важливим критерієм, що об’єднав досліджуваних є те, що під час воєнного стану всі вони опинилися у складній соціальній ситуації, а їхнє проживання і навчання зазнало суттєвих просторово-часових і змістових змін. Застосовано психодіагностичні методики, які пройшли апробацію дослідниками-психологами на українських вибірках. Основні виміри параметрів готовності до змін, самоорганізації та саморегуляції визначено: “Опитувальником особистісної готовності до змін” (ООГЗ) (Rollnick et al., 1992); “Тест-опитувальником самоорганізації діяльності” (ТОСД) (Мандрикова, 2010); опитувальником “Стиль саморегуляції поведінки” (ССП) (Morosanova, 1991). Результати. З’ясовано двадцять п’ять статистично достовірних зв’язків (р<.050; р<.010; <.001), які продемонстрували закономірні залежності досліджуваних параметрів. Кластерним аналізом методом k-середніх установлено чотири типи самоорганізованості студентської молоді в умовах соціальної невизначеності: “Авантюрна самоорганізованість” (АС) (кластер 1, n = 47; 12.98%); “Оптимістична самоорганізованість” (ОС) (кластер 2, n = 143; 39.50%); “Пристрасна самоорганізованість” (ПС) (кластер 3, n = 97; 26.80%) і “Толеруюча самоорганізованість” (ТС) (кластер 4, n = 75; 20.72%). Дискусія і висновки. Обґрунтовано, що “авантюрність”, яка володіє найміцнішим прямим зв’язком із “цілеспрямованістю” (R = 231; p <.001), є небезпечною. Пояснено, що високий рівень цілеспрямованості, конструктивної амбіційності, який притаманний лідерам студентських організацій, безумовно межує з авантюрністю, з юнацьким максималізмом і може приносити рекордні результати та подвиги, а також мати зворотні наслідки і глибокі розчарування. Обґрунтовано, що “АС” і “ПС” є деструктивними, а “ОС” і “ТС” – конструктивними типами самоорганізованості. Узагальнено, що окреслені типи є вдалою спробою кластеризації емпіричного масиву даних із метою з’ясування нових знань. Рекомендовано отримані результати впровадити у структурні підрозділи закладів вищої освіти, які працюють зі студентською молоддю.
Дослідження взаємозв’язку емоційно-гностичних та особистісних особливостей із параметрами творчості підлітків
Authors: Чебикін Олексій , Ситнік Світлана , Массанов Анатолій , Павлова Ірина
Published: May 2024

Метою є дослідження взаємозв’язку найбільш суттєвих емоційно-гностичних та особистісних особливостей із параметрами творчості осіб підліткового віку. Методи. У дослідженні взяли участь 150 підлітків віком 10–12 років. Вони дали відповіді на твердження методики, спрямовані на визначення прояву рис творчості: адаптована авторська експертна оцінка, побудована на основі методики діагностики рис творчої особистості О. Тунік (2013) та опитувальник особистісної схильності до творчості G. Davis (1989); а також на вивчення емоційно-гностичних та особистісних особливостей: дитячий варіант багатофакторного особистісного опитувальника R. Cattell et al. (1993); шкала особистісної тривожності Г. Прихожан (2007). Результати. З’ясовано на загальній вибірці досліджуваних певну варіативність прояву рис творчості досліджуваних та відсутність високої схильності до творчості. Встановлено прямі зв’язки показників прояву рис творчості з нетерплячістю (р < .010), незалежністю (р < .010), емоційною стабільністю (р < .010), рішучістю (р < .010), психоемоційною напруженістю (р < .010), екстраверсією (р < .050), впевненістю у собі (р < .050). За допомогою кластерного аналізу з’ясовано групи підлітків із суттєвими різницями в проявах рис творчості та схильності до цієї діяльності. Зокрема, це 1) діти, що були схильні до творчості та здатні реалізувати її на рівні, найвищому серед решти підлітків; 2) діти, які були здатні проявляти творчість та не мали інтересу до цього; 3) досліджувані, які були схильні долучатися до творчості, проте їхні творчі прояви були незначними. Застосовано дисперсійний аналіз емоційно-гностичних особистісних показників і встановлено, що групи відрізняються за проявами психоемоційної напруженості (р < .01), екстраверсії (р < .05) та сумлінності (р < .01). Дискусія і висновки. З’ясовано й пояснено, що комплекс емоційно-гностичних та особистісних особливостей, які володіють статистично достовірними зв’язками з проявами рис творчості, складають: високий рівень психо- емоційної напруженості, активність у соціальних взаємодіях, відкритість, непостійність, гнучкість та невизначеність у прийнятті рішень.
Prevalence of Urinary Schistosomiasis among Primary School Pupils in Riverine Community of Garko Local Government Area, Kano State, Nigeria
Authors: Ahmad Abdullahi Garba , Bagwai M. A.
Published: May 2024

Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that has become endemic in the riverine communities, primarily among school-age children, leading to school absenteeism. The study determines the prevalence of urinary Schistosomiasis and predisposition factors. A total of One hundred and fifty urine samples were examined for the presence of Schistosoma haematobium ova and detection of haematuria. The result obtained was tested using the Chi-Square test, and the overall prevalence was 53.3%. The infection rate was higher among males (58%) than the females (42%). The infection rate was higher among the ≥15 years age group (69.2%), while the 5-9 years age group had the least infection rate (47.2%). The study observed that the highest prevalence (62.0%) was recorded in Kafinchiri Primary School; this might be due to the influence of the water body in the community. The predisposition factors include gender, as males recorded the higher prevalence, which might be related to the economic activities such as irrigation, fishing, and laundry occurring in the riverine area. Age groups among the pupils had an impact on the prevalence of school absenteeism, and running away before closing hours is partially attributed to recreational activities, including swimming. Maintaining a safe distance between schools and water bodies and limiting frequent visits to the riverine area is crucial. The use of personal protective clothing and prompt treatment of infected persons should be encouraged to curtail the infection.
“Prowd, Humorous, Dreamying Fellos”
Authors: Kontarinis Jack
Published: May 2024

The English East India Company established a trading outpost (called "factories") at Hirado, Japan, in 1613, thirteen years after the Company's creation. At the head of the factory was an eccentric, "blabbering," wildly emotional man named Richard Cocks. His ineptitude as a head merchant was certainly a factor in the factory's eventual dissolution at Hirado in 1623. But why did the English trade ultimately fail in Japan, aside from Cocks' obvious incompetence? To what extent was the Company itself responsible for the failure of its factory? Was anything learned from the Hirado factory’s failure? This paper argues that the Hirado factory failed mainly due to overwhelming competition from the Dutch and Iberians, both militarily and economically. Second, this paper argues that the English did not enjoy stable, mutually beneficial relations with the Shogunate or the Matsuura daimyo of Hirado. Third, the English were unable to procure enough stores of silk from the other Company factories for Japanese markets, and were thus unable to procure silver from Japanese merchants, a metal that was incredibly valuable in Southeast Asian economies. Furthermore, the Hirado factory also was failed by the Company itself, as the Hirado venture was created out of a Joint-Stock voyage, whose investors discouraged long-term investments and expected quick profit returns. The lack of a strong country trade, that is, a port-to-port trade between the Company’s factories, also contributed to the Hirado factory’s demise. The final section of this paper will discuss what exactly was learned from the failure at Hirado, and how that failure manifested itself in policy and structural changes within the Company and within its factory system in the East Indies both before and after the factory’s closure in 1623.
For the full text, please visit https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/tb09j715k.
The Rave Panic
Authors: Rosenbloum Sarah
Published: May 2024

This thesis examines the "Rave Panic": a moral panic surrounding rave culture during the 1990s and early 2000s. It argues that, while the backlash against rave culture was not solely due to the use of so-called “club drugs,” War on Drugs rhetoric, fiercely promulgated in the decades prior, fostered a political environment in which the novelty of both the rave scene and Ecstasy were seen as a threat to American youth culture, fueling a massive social and political uproar. In addition, this thesis examines how electronic music ultimately survived the Rave Panic, becoming the global phenomenon that it is today. With the recent discussion of drug use shifting toward the importance of rehabilitation and harm reduction, as well as the increasing legalization of drugs such as marijuana and psylocibin across the country, the War on Drugs now seems to have lost its luster. This thesis argues that the Rave Panic represented one of the last gasps of the drug war, and, largely due to shifting social attitudes toward drug use, the electronic music community ultimately survived. The American rave scene contracted significantly following the passage of anti-rave federal legislation, however, the popularization of European electronic music, combined with the widespread shift in thinking about drug use, allowed its resurgence during the early 2010s.
For the full text, please visit https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/736666315.
Identifying the RNA Binding Sites on the MeCP2 Protein by Regional Deletion
Authors: Mohan Ishita
Published: May 2024

Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) have been found to bind to the Methyl-CpG binding protein (MeCP2), which has been speculated to play a role in altering chromatin structure and regulating gene expression.  Whether MeCP2 has other important functions related to RNA processing, the nature of the LncRNA-MeCP2 interaction and function, and how this may affect brain development is unknown.  The goal of my project is to provide insight into important regions or domains of the MeCP2 protein involved in RNA binding.  With this new information, a foundation for further in-depth research will be established, on the involvement of the MeCP2 protein in the pathogenesis of Rett Syndrome, through RNA binding and RNA regulation.
For the full text, please visit https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/mw22v689v.
Old Myths through New Eyes
Authors: Jenna Christine
Published: May 2024

Even though the common reader may not be familiar with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, over centuries of circulation, this epic poem has woven itself into the very fabric of our present-day culture. In my thesis, I will analyze three of its most popular myths, searching for new feminist meanings in these ancient, male-dominated texts. In my introduction, “The Metamorphosis of the Metamorphoses: A Brief History,” I examine the epic’s history of translation and explore the ethos of retelling and reinterpreting stories about rape and female subordination. In my first chapter, “From Beheld to Beheaded: Medusa and the Male Gaze,” I show how Medusa’s gaze symbolizes the belief that to truly see and appreciate the woman would result in a man’s loss of identity. In Chapter II, “Modern Arachne and Ancient Webs of Female Misogyny,” I explain how Arachne’s myth exposes the patriarchy’s reliance on rivalry between women to maintain male dominance. Lastly, in “Pygmalion’s Womb Envy: The Male Suppression and Appropriation of the Female Procreative Life Force,” I prove that Pygmalion sculpts his perfect woman not only to use her as an object of sexual gratification but also as one of reproduction. Drawing inspiration from feminist theorists such as Laura Mulvey, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Bordo, and Karen Horney—and depending exclusively on Stephanie McCarter’s translations—I analyze how the patriarchy uses stories to inculcate and perpetuate its ideology.
For the full text, please visit https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/bc386k55n.
Discussions
Authors: Malone Madeleine
Published: May 2024

Ink and marker on 9"x12" paper
Genomic Structural Equation Modeling Offers Insight Into Expressive Differences Between Childhood and Late-Diagnosed ADHD
Authors: Gebhardt Hannah
Published: May 2024

Recent literature on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has identified differences in the genetic influence of age at first diagnosis. In particular, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have found that childhood, persistent, and late-diagnosed categories of ADHD exhibit divergent comorbidity patterns. Based on these findings, we hypothesized that there would be significant differences in genetic risk sharing across childhood and late-diagnosed ADHD with other external traits. The traits selected for analysis included 3 dimensions of risk-taking behavior, Automobile Speeding Propensity, Drinks Per Week, and Number of Sexual Partners, and 4 dimensions of diet-related behavior, Protein Intake, Fat Intake, Carb Intake, and Sugar Intake. Results from Genomic SEM applied to investigate differences in genetic risk sharing with these external traits and the two ADHD subgroups revealed significant differences for number of sexual partners (p = 0.003) and automobile speeding propensity (p = 0.001). Practical implications of these findings are discussed and offer reason to reevaluate the current treatment of ADHD.
For the full text, please visit https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/ng451j94g.
“Now Designed to the Worst”
Authors: Bythewood Brenna
Published: May 2024

In 1659 Parliament heard a petition alleging that 72 Englishmen arrested for participating in the Salisbury Rising had been enslaved in Barbados. These allegations were made and heard in the context of increased amounts of captive labor flooding into the Caribbean, some of it state sanctioned, and popular rhetorical use of ‘slavery’ to mean political oppression during the English Civil War. The petition was both shocking to the English nation, and made its claims using language the English would have already been very familiar with. By examining the development of norms of captivity for enslaved people on Barbados, analyzing the 1659 petition, and tracing the further development of norms of captivity after the Interregnum, this thesis will demonstrate how the instability of the Interregnum contributed to an unstable definition of ‘slavery’ in England in the seventeenth century.
For the full text, please visit https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/undergraduate_honors_theses/r207tq82t.
Rock Skipping With Arms
Authors: Kinney Zita
Published: May 2024

A short story/poem written about a day spent in Washington on a tiny beach with a person who I love very much.
Nature's Own Static
Authors: Woodruff Katelyn
Published: May 2024

I created this piece after returning to a poem I had written on the fixed motion of the world around us. There is subtle motion filling the spaces between us as humans; it only stops moving when we catch sight of it. The swaying of pine tree branches, the miniscule ripples of rain drops on a lake, moths fluttering from tree to tree. The only way to experience these things is to stop focusing and explore the periphery. I had the conception of fashioning a piece that embodies this feeling; little beauties ubiquitous but imperceptible to the analytical eye.
Mr. Worm
Authors: Hay  Howe
Published: May 2024

This poem is based on the phrase, “Think with your head and not your heart.” I think it takes humanity out of emotion; we’re meant to feel things bigger than our brains can even comprehend (that’s part of what makes us individual and unique humans.)
Pink Stone Seeds
Authors: Hay  Howe
Published: May 2024

I wrote this poem on rose quartz and its presumed effects of love.
An Office Building in Yokohama
Authors: Cook Parker
Published: May 2024

After a long day exploring Yokohama, My friends and I were heading to the station to catch the train that would bring us back to Tokyo. Weary and sick of walking, my friends elected to pay for a taxi instead of walking the two miles back to the station whilst I chose to go alone and on foot, and I am really glad I did. The lifeless, dark office buildings that had clouded the skyline during the day were lit up, now providing a fluorescent glow that often even overpowered the street lamps. Seeing these fifty-story monoliths act as moonlight towers for the surrounding area gave off such a surreal, almost cyberpunk feeling. Captured during my solitary two-mile stroll, this photograph showcases the awe-inspiring spectacle of a towering office building and the lambent light it produces.
Digital Photography
Behind the Shadows
Authors: Chapman Chloe
Published: May 2024

Charcoal, colored pencil, burlap
The Decolonial Options in CRAZYWISE
Authors: Christopher Pham
Published: May 2024

Kevin Tomilson and Phil Borges’s documentary CRAZYWISE explores how spiritual practices should be considered medical alternatives to healing people’s mental health. By examining primarily through the adversities of two individuals—Adam, a white American, and Ekhaya, a Black woman—and other interviewees, Tomilson and Borges’s documentation comments on how Western medicine can have deleterious effects precisely because there are always alternative approaches to reconciling with mental health crisis. Despite the documentary being accessible and consumable, it is precisely because of those qualities that CRAZYWISE offers a lens and introduces decolonial conversations, alternatives, and practices. By documenting not only the violence that occurs in the juxtaposing perspectives in medicine but also the individual experiences that have been given the opportunity to explore their cosmological mapping, Tomilson and Borges’s CRAZYWISE incentivizes ‘interculturality’ as a way of decolonial theory and praxis. As defined by Abya Yala, Catherine Walsh articulates how “[i]nterculturality […] signifies more than an interrelation or dialogue among cultures. More critically, it points toward the building of radically different societies, of an ‘other’ social ordering, and of structural economic, social, political, and cultural transformations” (Mignolo & Walsh 57). When Tomilson and Borges’s examines how Adam and Ekhaya’s journeys, despite their different cultural backgrounds, come to reconcile and heal from their grief and trauma through their own ways, the directors intentionally put these two individuals’ experiences together to create the intercultural discourse necessary for viewers to consider decolonial paths from Western coloniality. In reviewing Tomilson and Borges’s documentary, then, I will be arguing how CRAZYWISE can be ethnographic in revealing how colonial and modern facets like Western medicine can perpetuate the oppression of individuals precisely because of its totalizing and positivistic nature. To recognize how coloniality permeates within the documentary, then, I first ground the essay by delving into Ana Durazo’s chapter on the “Medical Violence Against People of Color and the Medicalization of Domestic Violence” to contextualize the medical violence that Adam and Ekhaya’s underwent when trying to understand their identities and the world they belonged in. From there, I will be putting Durazo’s articulations on medical violence in conversation with decolonial thinkers such as Walter Mignolo, Catherine Walsh, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, and other scholars to read more closely on how Tomilson and Borges’s documentary alludes to how Western coloniality and modernity occupy Western medicine and its epistemology. Afterwards, I will be discussing the kinds of decolonial interventions that CRAZYWISE offers by delineating how its interweaving of voices throughout the documentary on Western medicine only opens a discourse for decolonial options.
Meeting the Need: Proposed Early Childhood Special Education Intensive Intervention Competencies for Preservice Preparation
Authors: Hugh Maria , Tuck Kathleen , Schnitz Alana , Didion Lisa , Nelson Andrea
Published: May 2024

Improving outcomes for young children with high-intensity needs requires a high-quality workforce trained in equitable, intensive, individualized instructional practices and supports incorporating culturally and linguistically responsive evidence- based practices (Gunn, 2020) and developmentally appropriate practices (DAP; NAEYC, 2021) Nationally recommended practices (Division of Early Childhood [DEC], 2014) and teacher preparation standards (DEC, 2020) provide the frameworks for early childhood special education training. However, guidance on intensifying individualized instructional practices and supports is needed. The intensive intervention taxonomy (Fuchs et al., 2017) offers educators guidance on improving the effectiveness and intensity of interventions for K-12 students for whom current approaches are unsuccessful. However, more guidance is needed on intensifying instruction in early childhood (0-8 years old). To offer support to early intervention/ early childhood special education (EI/ECSE) education preparation programs, we offer an adapted version of the taxonomy that is transformed into competencies that EI/ECSE educators with expertise in supporting young children with high-intensity needs. We ground these competencies in a strengths-based (Wehmeyer, 2019), culturally responsive approach to learning and instruction (Gay, 2010). Next, we aligned these competencies with critical features of early childhood (e.g., naturalistic instruction, family partnerships, DAP). We offer these competencies and a sample program of study to ensure EI/ECSE educators are equipped with intensification competencies through their pre-service preparation to support all young children, including those with high-intensity support needs.
Field Experiences in Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education (EI/ECSE): Preparing Teachers for Success in Diverse Early Education Settings
Authors: McLeod Ragan , Chai Zhen , Malmburg Debra Berry , Chang Ya-Chih , Hunt Nancy , O'Grady Courtney , Tomeny Kimberly , Oh Jisun , Bhattashali Ankita
Published: May 2024

Field experiences provide opportunities for early childhood and early childhood special education (EC/ECSE) educators to implement effective practices in learning settings, and are, therefore, a vital part of EC/ECSE teacher preparation. In this article, we describe field placement models from four universities in the United States: The Bridge Project, Getting Started Early, Peer Coaching to Increase Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions, and University Supervisors Coaching Teacher Candidates: Supporting Young Bi/Multilingual Children with Disabilities. Although there is variety in the settings and effective practices supported through these field placements, performance feedback and collaboration are clear themes across models.
Seip, "We Shall Gladly Teach" - Preparing History Graduate Students For The Classroom
Authors: Wunder Susan
Published: May 2024

Noting the increased attention over the last decade to the quality of postsecondary teaching of history, historian Terry Seip has written a useful pamphlet on the topic. His target audience is university departments of history with graduate programs in which graduate students work as teaching assistants with faculty and/or as instructors of their own courses. Rather than offering a training manual or teaching handbook, Seip has prepared what he calls a "'good practices' proposal for departments to consider and modify" as they develop a history teaching program for their graduate students.
Nardo, Ed., The Rise Of Christianity
Authors: Kolbaba Tia
Published: May 2024

The Rise of Christianity is one of a series of anthologies, "Turning Points in World History." The series aims to describe past events that have had "effects and outcomes that change the course of history." This example comprises an introductory essay on the early history of Christianity (down to c. 604); nineteen seminal scholarly essays with contextualizing introductions for each; a selection of primary sources; a secondary bibliography; and an index. The essays range from discussions of the Jewish and Roman contexts of Jesus's life to a brief survey of Christianity since c. 600.
Werner, Ed., The American Revolution
Authors: Frederick John
Published: May 2024

The American Revolution is one of those small, easily accessible supplements that all undergraduates (and some graduates) pine for, yet rarely find. It is part of a series entitled "Turning Points in World History." It is quite apt for the series, for what American has not been imprinted with the importance of the struggle of the founding of this nation?
Stalcup, Ed., Women's Suffrage
Authors: Armstrong Thomas
Published: May 2024

In selecting women's suffrage as a "turning point in world history," Greenhaven Press has, itself, made an important statement. The enfranchisement of more than fifty percent of the American electorate has helped transform women's lives and American politics. This collection of essays underscores the significant trends that made up the movement. The collection is also arranged in a format convenient for use in college classrooms.
Teaching The Silk Road
Authors: Andrea A.J. , Mierse William
Published: May 2024

Four years ago the rasher of the two of us, A.J. Andrea, a historian who specializes in long-distance travel and cultural encounters before 1492, suggested to William Mierse, an art historian and archeologist specializing in the late Hellenistic World, that sometime in the future we should jointly teach a course on the Silk Road. At the time Andrea was preparing the third edition of Volume I of The Human Record ( 1998)-now into a fourth edition-a global history source book that emphasizes travel and cultural exchange as two of its main themes, and the idea seemed exciting. Given our respective schedules, we concluded that the spring semester of 2000 would be the first mutually convenient term in which we could offer the course, and we would do so as a seminar for first-year students. It all sounded so nice and easy-until we began to plan our syllabus.
Loades, Power In Tudor England: Lockyer, James VI & I; Hirst, England In Conflict, 1603-1660 - Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth
Authors: Salevouris Michael
Published: May 2024

Tudor-Stuart England has long captured the imaginations of Americans, and that fascination has certainly been reflected in the realm of textbook publication. The three works discussed in this review attempt to make accessible to the current generation of students the most recent scholarship on early modern England-unfortunately, with mixed results.
Napolean, Video
Authors: Voeltz Richard
Published: May 2024

PBS video histories are well-known classroom commodities for historians and educators, covering everything from Lewis and Clark to the Spanish American War, and yes even Napoleon. The production quality generally remains consistently high, and they always have a distinguished array of talking heads, i.e., historians and other authorities used to interject commentary, that elevates them above such programs as A&E's Biography where the Napoleon piece, narrated breathlessly by Jack Perkins, falls squarely into the Hollywood celebrity biography, the rise and fall of a star genre that populates so much of cable television these days.
Clark, Heweitt, Rosenzweig, Brier, Brown, & Foner, Eds., Who Built America? Working People And The Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture And Society, Vol. I; Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig, Brier, Brown, Eds., Who Built America? Working People And T
Authors: Phillips Lisa
Published: May 2024

Although not technically second editions, the volumes under review are based on the original Who Built America series sponsored by the American Social History Project and authored by Bruce Levine, Stephen Brier, David Brundage, Edward Countryman, Dorothy Fennell, and Marcus Rediker (volume one) and by Joshua Freeman, Nelson Lichtenstein, Stephen Brier, David Bensman, Susan Porter Benson, David Brundage, Bret Eynon, Bruce Levine, and Bryan Palmer (volume two), published in I 989. I have used volumes one and two of the most recent editions to teach both halves of the American history survey course offered at a small liberal arts college in the Midwestern United States. I offer here both my own and my students' experience with and reactions to the texts so that readers might decide whether to adopt them for either American history survey courses or perhaps for a working-class or labor history class.
Clinton Ed., Southern Families At War - Loyalty And Conflict At The Civil War South
Authors: Stuntz Jean
Published: May 2024

Catherine Clinton has edited a collection of essays that derive from a conference held in April 1998 to discuss issues relating to family, loyalty, and conflict within the Civil War and Reconstruction South. Southern Families at War covers a variety of topics in great detail, showing the diversity of experiences of blacks and whites, men and women. Each essay relies heavily on primary sources with enough secondary sources cited to provide background.
Baylis, Anglo-American Relations Since 1939 - The Enduring Alliance; Ryan, The United Nations And International Politics
Authors: Snider Christy Jo
Published: May 2024

Several recent works on late twentieth-century international relations conclude in the 1980s with the end of the Cold War. While this is a natural stopping point for many studies, one of the most important projects for historians and teachers in the future will be integrating post-Cold War issues into the understanding of how world diplomacy operates. Foreign policy scholars cannot ignore the impact Cold War actions had on global developments following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Both books under consideration here attempt to begin this process by connecting the international concerns of the 1990s to what has happened on the world stage since World War II.
Mitford, Madame De Pompadour
Authors: Musselwhite Laura
Published: May 2024

Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford is as much a cultural icon as a work of history. Mitford, a British aristocrat born in 1904, was known for writing historical biographies as well as several novels, such as The Pursuit of Love ( 1945) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). This particular text is a reprint of the 1953 original with an introduction by Amanda Foreman, author of the recent Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Foreman attempted to resuscitate Mitford's reputation by emphasizing her love of learning, her vulnerability, and the popular success of her books. Denied an education by their father, Mitford and her sisters gathered whatever information they could from the family library.
Local Studies And Larger Issues
Authors: Luckett Judith
Published: May 2024

Historians, especially American historians, increasingly bemoan the discipline's overspecialization and lack of relevance to the wider discipline, which they contend has caused a decline in synthetic history and a rise of specialized history.1 A 1993 survey of American historians revealed that 86 percent of the respondents agreed that "[h]istory should help us identify diverse cultural experience," but 83 percent concurred that "[h]istory should help us identify common patterns of experience." Clearly many historians believed that "specialized history" was important, but that it still must be placed within a framework. In this same survey historians complained about the loss of narrative history, that is the failure of historians to tell a good story.2 Historians are rewarded with tenure and prestigious professorships on the basis of specialized research and writing. Some of these works connect local issues to larger issues and events, but broad syntheses analyzing major themes over extended time periods are often derided as trite or oversimplified. Only established historians, those who already hold distinguished professorships or are professors emeriti, can write synthetic works and have them widely read and criticized.3
Collecting Stories About Strip-Mining
Authors: Kerrigan William
Published: May 2024

The study of history has always been an interdisciplinary exercise that borrows generously from the methods and insights provided by other disciplines, but the narrative method continues to remain central to the discipline of history. Telling stories as a method of explaining how things have changed or why things are the way they are is at the heart of most historical endeavors. Despite the centrality of story-telling-to the discipline of history, until relatively recently, historians have given little critical consideration to the narrative as a method of explanation, and non-historians, our students among them, even less so. Most of the students in my classroom enter with the understanding that history is merely a series of stories, and that stories are merely a collection of facts. It is important, however, to make students of history aware that the narrative is a method of explanation, that story-telling is not merely the process of ordering a series of facts. One of the most valuable lessons students of history can learn, I believe, is that narratives can be constructed in ways that will lead different storytellers ( and their audiences) to quite different conclusions. The use of oral history in the classroom can be an effective method to help students understand the power of the narrative.
A Teaching Note
Authors: Carpenter Luther
Published: May 2024

All teachers teach method as well as content, whether they intend to or not.
Therefore, we should teach method explicitly. If we don't, students are likely to learn passive and sloppy methods and not know the difference between plagiarism and thinking.
Exercises are one of the best ways to draw attention to method.
For 25 years, I have been putting these propositions into effect at the College of Staten Island. They shape all my teaching, from the freshman level to the graduate level, and they dominate one course, "Introduction to Historical Method." This "teaching note" describes the exercises that I use at the start of the course, looking at "What Is a Fact?" and "Point of View."
Thompson, Ed., The Renaissance
Authors: Morrow S. Rex
Published: May 2024

In The Renaissance, Stephen P. Thompson has compiled 21 articles divided into five chapters: The Origins of the Renaissance, Political and Social Contexts of the Renaissance, Renaissance Discoveries and Transformations, Achievements and Developments of the Later Renaissance, and The Significance of the Renaissance. This organization provides the reader with an essential overview of the full historical period that is the European Renaissance. Not only does Thompson provide the breadth of Italian, Northern European, and Western European Renaissance civilization, but he also touches upon the critical elements of Renaissance art, philosophy, the Reformation, and the Counter-Reformation periods.
Slaughter, Ed., Commonsense And Related Writings By Thomas Paine
Authors: Mulligan William
Published: May 2024

Thomas Paine occupies an odd, somewhat uncomfortable, place in the history of the American Revolution. In some ways he is the man who came to dinner and stayed, and after leaving, he returned, and then stayed even longer-never moving on intellectually or politically as many other Revolutionaries did. Paine is part of events that matter a great deal during the American ( and French) Revolution, but not fully part of them. Not quite a founding father by most accountings, he is much more than an observer of events-he made a tremendously important contribution to the success of the Revolutionary cause with Common Sense and his other writings at a critical moment in America's struggle for independence, which everyone acknowledges.
Cunningham, Jr., Ed., Jefferson Vs. Hamilton - Confrontations That Shaped A Nation
Authors: Slater Peter
Published: May 2024

Ask undergraduates about Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton and they will probably tell you that Jefferson was a president who had children with a slave mistress and that Hamilton was killed in a duel. One virtue of Noble E. Cunningham's compilation of documents is that its emphasis is very different from these current ones. Jefferson vs. Hamilton focuses on how in the 1790s the two Revolutionary War patriots became bitter opponents and leaders of the first American political parties, a rivalry that continued until Hamilton's untimely death during Jefferson's first term.
Calhoun, Ed., The Human Tradition In America For The Colonial Era Through Reconstruction
Authors: Geib George
Published: May 2024

Scholarly Resources has recently published a number of undergraduate reading supplements targeted to topical and period college courses in U.S. History. This volume, intended for the first half of the two semester U.S. survey, brings together eighteen essays from those earlier volumes. Each chapter is preceded by one or two introductory paragraphs, usually stressing questions for students to consider and discuss. There are no illustrations.
Hodges, Ed., Black Itinerants Of The Gospel - The Narratives Of John Jea And George White
Authors: Baugess James
Published: May 2024

The history of African-American evangelical religion is rich in pathos and heroism, and the lives of the two itinerants in this edited account, John Jea (b. 1773) and George White (1764-1836), are representative of the early African-American evangelical religious experience in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The lives of both men are set in the context of the post-revolutionary era and the waning days of slavery in New York and New Jersey. The narrative accounts are both insightful and emotionally moving to read.
Linden, Ed., Voices From The Gathering Storm - The Coming Of The American Civil War
Authors: Peter Ralph
Published: May 2024

Voices from the Gathering Storm brings to life in variegated vignettes the swirling ideological and material contradictions suffusing the United States in the roughly fifteen years preceding the Civil War. Primary sources-letters, diaries, editorials, and more document the thoughts and sentiments of a mostly familiar cast of characters, including Lincoln, Sumner, Douglas, Truth, Davis, and many others.
Watkins, The Hungry Years - A Narrative History Of The Great Depression In America
Authors: Starnes Richard
Published: May 2024

The literature on the Great Depression is among the richest in American historiography, and rightly so. The 1930s was a decade that reshaped America and the lives of individual Americans in dramatic ways. Much of this literature focuses on the ideological origins of New Deal policy and the policymakers themselves, while other books examine the ways these policies affected citizens in a variety of contexts.
Murray Ed., What Did The Internment Of Japanese American Mean?
Authors: Tamura Eileen
Published: May 2024

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested more than 2000 Japanese "enemy aliens" on the U.S. West coast and in Hawai'i, most of them male immigrants. These arrests were followed in February 1942 by President Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal of ethnic Japanese from the West coast. As a result, the government incarcerated 120,000 people, two-thirds of whom were American citizens. What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? examines this unfortunate episode in American history.
Real Work, Not Busy Work
Authors: Hsiung David
Published: May 2024

We know the complaints well: This reading is boring, the assignment doesn't make sense, and those random facts must be memorized. Students receive homework and must force themselves to complete it. They agonize for hours in front of the computer writing a paper, yet they eagerly spend even longer creating and updating their web pages. Why?
Other complaints are even more familiar because we teachers often make them: so much grading to do, so many superficial essays to read, so many maps to scrutinize. We see grading as the worst part of our job and, if possible, we dump the task on teaching assistants. For hours we wade through blue books piled high on our desks, yet we relish spending even more time with our seminar students. Why?
Pernoud & Clin, Joan Of Arc - Her Story
Authors: Kolbaba Tia
Published: May 2024

Jeremy Adams here presents a revision and translation of one of Regine Pernoud's magisterial works about Joan of Arc-this one researched and written with Marie-Veronique Clin, and titled, in its original French, simply Jeanne d'Arc (Paris, 1986). If Adams had produced only the translation, he would have done the English-reading public a great service, for the narrative, the argument, and "the battery of data" presented by Pernoud and Clin are invaluable. He has, however, done much more than translate: He has updated bibliography and "filmography," revised the text substantively at points, and provided a new introduction (called "Prelude"), which concisely and lucidly outlines the crucial context of the Hundred Years' War and the Great Schism.
Todd, Revolutions, 1789-1917
Authors: Lewis Thomas
Published: May 2024

Debate on the origins of the First World War, "the great seminal catastrophe" of the twentieth century according to George Kennan, has continued for almost a century. Oceans of ink have already been devoted to the topic, yet excellent new contributions continue to pour from the presses. Small wonder that it is difficult, if not impossible, for an instructor or graduate student to keep up with the nuances of this long-continuing debate. Annika Mombauer's The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus, is, therefore, a welcome, and affordable, addition to the still-burgeoning literature on the topic.
Stalcup, Ed., Adolph Hitler; Nicholls, Weimar And The Rise Of Hitler
Authors: Cox John
Published: May 2024

Studies on the Nazis and biographies of Adolf Hitler are as popular and as common as they are important. Unfortunately, they are not always of high intellectual quality. But the two volumes at hand are examples of responsible scholarship treating the troubled history of Germany from the 1920s to the 1940s. They are both accessible for undergraduate readers, although many freshmen and sophomores will find the Nicholls volume rather demanding. Instructors might want to consider using the books together for two reasons.
Brands, The Reckless Decade - American In The 1890s
Authors: Davis Marks
Published: May 2024

According to H. W. Brands, Americans in the 1890s, like their descendants a hundred years later, experienced a fin-de-siècle debate. On one side were people who expected the new century to bring a gloomy decline; on the other were those who foresaw a bright new future. Brands suggests their debates brought about a fusion of old and new ideas that set the stage for the twentieth century. Divided into eight chapters, Brands's sweeping and rather old-fashioned synthesis of the 1890s zeroes in on national and overseas expansion, economic and racial conflict, and politics.
Finan, Alfred E. Smith - The Happy Warrior
Authors: Neal Donn
Published: May 2024

Recent years have seen a flurry of interest in Alfred E. Smith. First there was Robert A. Slayton's fine book, Empire Statesman, and now we have Christopher M. Finan's publication. Why this interest in Smith? To be sure, we have long needed a comprehensive scholarly biography, but the continuing interest in Smith stems in large part from his own qualities.
Cohen, Ed., Dear Mrs. Roosevelt - Letters From Children Of The Great Depression
Authors: Merriman Scott
Published: May 2024

Robert Cohen, in Dear Mrs. Roosevelt, presents an edited collection of letters from youth (children and teenagers alike) written to Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression. The volume opens with a discussion of why these youth wrote to Roosevelt, and it notes how hard the Great Depression impacted children. Cohen includes a discussion in his introduction of what the New Deal did for children, why so many letters were written (he notes that up to 300,000 letters were written to Mrs. Roosevelt annually), and why these letters were written to Eleanor rather than to FDR.