Historia Nova: The Duke Historical Review

_{In This Issue}

_{-Preface (James Chappel, PhD)}
-_{Letter from the Editors (Jacob Margolis, Editor-In-Chief)}
-_{Scientist in Chief: The Silvicultural, Metrological, and Astronomical Pursuits of John Quincy Adams
(Daniel Bethke, Tufts University)}
-_{Instrumentalizing Pseudoscience: The Influence of European Scientific Racism
on the Confederacy (Guillem Colom, Tufts University)
-Comparing Russian Empire Era and post-World War II Stalinist Era Manipulations
of Historical Texts and their Intended Effect on Ukraine (Tenley Roberson, Columbia University)
-Eugenics In the Press: Francis Galton’s Early Ideas and Public Responses (1870 – 1904)
(Nathan Strang, Duke University, Kaiwar Prize Winner)
-The Last Shall Be First: The Genealogy of Russian Historical Exceptionalism and the Road to Revolution, 1830-1917 (Patrick Duan, Duke University, Laprade Prize Winner)}

_{In This Issue}

_{-Preface (James Chappel, PhD)}

_{-Letter from the Editors (Jacob Margolis)}

_{-Enslaved Women in Flight: Analyzing Female Slave Flight through Fugitive Slave Advertisements (Jiewei Li, Duke University)}

_{-The Soviet Memorialization of Babi Yar 1941-1976 (Sophie Sacilotto, University of Victoria)}

_{-Historical Perspectives on the Langley Landscape, 1824-1920 (Stefano Buckley, University of Victoria)}

_{-A comparison of how Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois challenged racial domination, in relation to their philosophical and psychological influences, 1945-1963 (Austin Steele, University of Cambridge)}

_{In This Issue}

_{- Preface (James Chappel, Incoming Director of Undergraduate Studies)}

_{- Letter from the Editors (Patrick Duan)}

_{- A Culture of Cleansing: An Analysis of the Persistent Ubiquity of Limpieza Social in Colombia, Since 1990 (Benjamin Goodwin, University College London)}

_{- ‘The Moment of Truth’: Cold War Civil Rights in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 (William Johnson, University of Southampton)}

_{- Black Intellectuality: Challenging Conventions of Belonging in STEM (Rebekah Kristal, Brandeis University)}

_{- Writing Against the Decentralization Thesis: Towards a New Approach to the Study of Power in the Ottoman Long Eighteenth Century (Julian Polanski, Simon Fraser University)}

_{- ‘Woe to the Coolie’: Conceptualising Relationality, Class Conflict, and Regimes of Control in Colonial Sumatra’s Plantation Belt (Kai Siallagan, Queen’s University)}

_{In This Issue}

<sub>- Preface (John D. French, Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies)
- Letter from the Editor (Patrick Duan)
- Tawantinsuyu Contested: The Spanish Cartographic Imaginary and Wamán Poma’s Counter-Mapping (John D. Erard, University of Texas at Austin)
- To what extent did the anti-colonial struggle impact Pashtuns leading up to South Asia’s partition? (Layla Kharroubi, University of Leeds)
- Where is the Chicana in Chicanismo? Making a Space Through - Ideological and Rhetorical Reconfigurations, 1960s-1980s (Ashley Munoz, University of California, Santa Barbara)
- To what extent did the creation of hybrid traditions consolidate Mughal authority in early modern South Asia? (Farisha Naznin, University of Durham)
- The United States and Their Motives for Orchestrating the 1954 Guatemalan Coup (Fernando Perez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Appearances Matter: Female Embodiments of Mourning in 19th Century Latin America (Carolina Stutz, Northwestern University)</sub>

_{In This Issue}

<sub>- Preface ( John D. French, Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Letter from the Editor (Brenden Li)
- "Doctor, it hurts." An analysis of mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century depictions of the Chinese body in pain (Lillian Dukes)
- The Made the Rulers Run: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and the fight for a free and equal Nigeria (Carlee Goldberg)
- Not So Revolutionary: Impacts of Two World Wars and Origins of British Welfare State  (Luanna Jiang)
- The Southern Underground Press: Regionalism and Repression (Alanna Miller)
- "The Blasphemy of the Damned Will Stop in the End:" The Universalism of Hans Denck (1500-1527)  (Andrew Raines)</sub>

_{In This Issue}

<sub>- Letter from the Editor (Brenden Li)
- Letter from the History Department  (Malachi Hacohen, DUS, Duke University)
- The Christian Integration of Pagan Elements in Anglo-Saxon Charms  (Adam Laurin. McGill University)
- Germany’s Democratic Breakdown: Determining the Role of the Weimar Constitution  (Luis Martínez, Vanderbilt University )
- Polemical Battles of Grace and Predestination:  From Pelagius through Jansenism to the French Revolution, AD 396 to 1799 (Joe North, North Carolina State University)
- Women and Gender in Viking Militaries (Freyja Petersen, North Carolina State University)
- The Challenges of Studying African Religion in a Western Institution: Defying the Euro-Christian Origins of Research (Zion Solomon, University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Vanquished Foes, Demons, and the Damned: Selective Racialization in Ethiopian Illuminated Manuscripts from 1500-1800  (Alexandra Tighe, Tulane University)</sub>
 

_{In This Issue}

<sub>- Letter from the Editors (Sisi Tang and Karan Thadhani)
- Between Pan-Islamism and Indian Nationalism: The Khilafat, Humanism, and Abul Kalam Azad (Ahmed Elbenni, Yale University)
- Between the Hammer and the Crescent: Reframing Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev's Muslim National Communism (Gabriel Mielke, Georgetown University)
- The Peculiar Institution at Prestigious Institutions: The Chattel Principle in Higher Education, 1800-1861 (E. Carson Eckhard, University of Pennsylvania)
- "Genocide Pop” : The Shortcomings of Schindler's List as a Holocaust Memory (Henry Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania)
- Max Beckmann's Suffering: Art, Faith, and the Tortured German State in the First World War (Carolina Herrera, Duke University)
- Letter from the History Department Chair (John Jeffries Martin, Duke University)</sub>

_{In This Issue}

<sub>- The Samurai and the Swastika: German Popular Culture Images of Japan during the Nazi Era (Alan Ko)
- New York’s Taste of Sabotage: Waiters, Wobblies, “the Peculiar Industry,” and the Status of the Hotel Worker in the 1912-1913 New York City Hotel Workers’ Strike (James Wyatt Woodall)
- Gentlemanly Chaos: Social Standing and Mob Behavior in the Stamp Act Crisis (Jordan Jenkins)
- A Bag of Worms: Sociocultural, Political, Economic, and Historical Dimensions of Caterpillar Fungus Harvest (Annie Yang)
- "Eulenspiegel” in America: German Experiences of Internment in Fort Oglethorpe during the First World War (Karl Dargel)
- Nine Questions with Kate Brown (Michael Brunetti)</sub>