By Chinaza Asiegbu Originally published in July 2021 as part of Intersections, a joint issue of The Northwestern Undergraduate Research Journal (NURJ) and the YHR. IntroductionSince 1921, the Miss America pageant had been cherished as...
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Author: Heidi Katter SM'20Editors:Oona Holahan BF'21Louie Lu BR'23 In July 1889, the United States...
Pacta sunt servandaVolume III: July 8, 2021Written by Nicholas RiceJohn Vanderlyn, Landing of Columbus, Oil...
By Renee OngEdited by Aurelia Dochnal '23, Michelle Medawar '24, and Rosemary Chen '241. IntroductionIt could not have been easy for W.A. Graham. As the first and only top British representative responsible for Kelantan’s administration before it was officially colonized, his strong belief that the Malaysian state was ripe for economic exploitation often...
By Andrew BilodeauEdited by Sarah Li '22 and Lucy Gilchrist '24 “Although the mines are guarded,The miners true and fair,They mean to deal out justice,A living they declare.The corruption of BuchananBrought the convicts here,Just to please the rich manAnd take the miner's share.”[1]The late 19th century was filled...
By Allison Lau Edited by Cynthia Lin '23 and Tiana Luo '24 By the mid 1960s, Oakland’s predominantly Black urban ghettos, like others across the nation, represented to many Black radicals the “concrete inner city jungles of Babylon”, as a metaphor to describe how the American state openly terrorized, oppressed and killed Black people...
