The Welebaethan - A Journal of History, Vol. 48

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Articles and Essays 2021

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ISSN 2692-501X

Editors’ Preface

Phi Alpha Theta

Submission Guidelines

Articles and Essays

Michael Alex Conti

Saint Andrew’s First-Century Prophecy of Division:
The Founding of Kiev and the Idea of the Third Rome

Edward Najjarine

Islam Meets Western Modernity:
The Travels of Rifa’a al-Tahtawi (1801-1873) and Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966)

Christopher Dean Robbins

Leaping Devils, Mutated Swine, and Deadly Doubles:
Dark Folklore in Early Victorian England (1830s-1870s)

Michaela Malneritch

A Morbid Remembrance?
The Purpose of Nineteenth-Century Victorian Death Portraits

Diana Chang

Rebranding Chile:
Nineteenth-Century Modernization Efforts and Their Consequences

Luca Azuma

Cooking the Books and Frying the Economy:
The Discounted Impacts of the Panic of 1866 in the United Kingdom

Josh Kreeger

“Another town, another maiden”:
German Colonial Postcards as Propaganda (1884-1914)

Ian Woodson Fisher

Darius Milhaud
and His French “Saudades” of Brazil (1917-1919)

Eric Lomax

Warriors or Peacekeepers?
British Colonial Police in Ireland (1919-1921) and Palestine (1920-1948)

Danielle Bennett

“All I wanted was to be a good citizen”:
Fred Lau’s Chinese Diasporic Experience in 1920s-1950s California

Raul Quinonez

A Voluntary Exodus?
Self-Repatriation from the U.S. to Mexico during the 1930s

Diego Barros

The Mighty Ninety:
Black Americans Championing the Cause of Freedom in Republican Spain

Michael Anderson

Swing Reich:
A Cultural Analysis of Jazz during World War II

Jovanee Castrejon

Out-of-This-World Thrills:
The Psychological and Social Aspects of American Astronauts’ Life in Space

Renee D. Jean

Rejection in the Revolution:
Leninist Theory and the Weather Underground (1969-1974)

Shanna J. Bice

Enchanted Statues, Candy Cottages, and Bloody Keys:
The Modern Tourist Experience on Germany’s Historical Fairy Tale Road

Gareth O’Neal

“Ever true unto your forefathers stalwart stay”:
Týr’s Folk Metal as a Neo-Medievalist Response to the Perceived Loss of Culture

Jeffrey Mark Leavitt

Memories in Emulsion:
Photography and the Remembrance of Japanese Incarceration

Volume 48 (2021)

Editions

Editions 2021

Emanuel Ayala, Luca Azuma, Ryan Bevacqua, and Matthew Kelly

Correspondence from the American Revolution and the Early United States:
The Blackden-Stoddard Letters (Conclusion)

Trenton Buzzone and Jessica Parker

“True friendship is the noblest gift“:
The Album of Memory of Jennie Farr (1858-1882)

Emanuel Ayala and Josh Kreeger

“La guerre est finis”:
Sidney Goldman’s World War II Correspondence from Manila (August 1945)

Erika Victoria

The Real Pearl Harbor Experience:

An Interview with World War II Veteran Arthur G. Herriford

Monique Garcia

“I wouldn’t want my kids to go through that”:
Glover Young’s Memories of a Native American Boarding School

Michael Ward

The Struggles of Segregation in Orange County:
Silvino Ramirez and Mendez v. Westminster (1946-1947)

Starlina Sanchez

A Lifetime of Lessons in Just One Year:
A. Peter Bailey, Malcolm X, and the Organization of Afro-American Unity (1964-1965)

Matthew Kelly and Gabriel Taggard

Activism and Interactivism:
An Interview with Journalist Mark Thompson (1952-2016)

Reviews

Books (one PDF)

Blondé, Bruno, Marc Boone, and Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, eds.
City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100–1600.
Reviewed by Eric Lomax

Domby, Adam H.
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory.
Reviewed by Emanuel Ayala

Matyszak, Philip.
Greece Against Rome: The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250-31 BC.
Reviewed by Ryan Bevacqua

Mikhail, Alan.
God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World.
Reviewed by Raumi Kinan

Owens, Susan.
The Ghost: A Cultural History.
Reviewed by Laynie Brooks Dabney

Pablo Cruz, Rosayra, and Julie Schwietert Collazo.
The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border.
Reviewed by Monique Garcia

Seo, Sarah A.
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom.
Reviewed by Jessica Parker

Wilson-Lee, Kelcey.
Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I.
Reviewed by Ryan Bevacqua

Exhibitions (one PDF)

Double Victory: The African American Military Experience [online exhibition].
Reviewed by Trenton Buzzone
The Mausoleum Museum of the First Emperor of Qin [online exhibition].
Reviewed by Erika Victoria

Films/Documentaries/TV Shows (one PDF)

All Is True [film]. Directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Reviewed by Gabriel Taggard
The Assassination of Gianni Versace [TV series].
Directed by Ryan Murphy et al.
Reviewed by Erika Victoria
Belly of the Beast [documentary film].
Directed by Erika Cohn.
Reviewed by Starlina Sanchez
Cable Girls/Las chicas del cable [TV series].
Directed by Carlos Sedes et al.
Reviewed by Josh Kreeger
Chernobyl [TV miniseries].
Directed by Johan Renck.
Reviewed by Raumi Kinan
Dark Waters [film].
Directed by Todd Haynes.
Reviewed by Matthew Kelly
The King [film].
Directed by David Michôd.
Reviewed by Josh Kreeger
The Last Czars [TV docudrama].
Directed by Adrian McDowall and Gareth Tunley.
Reviewed by Jessica Parker
Rise of Empires: Ottoman [TV docudrama].
Directed by Emre Şahin.
Reviewed by Michael Alex Conti
Vienna Blood [TV series].
Directed by Robert Dornhelm and Umut Dag.
Reviewed by Christopher Dean Robbins

Games (one PDF)

Deus Lo Vult: The Board Game.
Designer: Michael Badelin.
Reviewed by Gareth O’Neal
A Plague Tale: Innocence.
Developer: Asobo Studio.
Reviewed by Josh Kreeger
Red Dead Redemption 2.
Developer: Rockstar Games.
Reviewed by Emanuel Ayala
The Sinking City.
Developer: Frogwares.
Reviewed by Christopher Dean Robbins

Reviews 2021

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