By: Sandra Buso Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was born in Scotland at the turn of the 18th century at the Arched House of Ecclefechan, in Annadale, a recently built family home designed and constructed by his stonemason father, James Carlyle, and is now a museum and property of the National Trust for Scotland.[1] Thomas’s mother, Janet Aitken, was James … Continue reading The London Library in the Life of John Carlyle
Time Line for Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) Parents: Miriam Horowitz Goldstein and Harry Goldstein Feb. 4, 1921 Bettye Naomi Goldstein was born in Peoria, IL. 1936 – 1938 Wrote for the High School paper the Peoria Opinion. 1938 Graduated class valedictorian. 1938 Attended Smith College. 1943 Graduated from Smith College Summa Cum Laude. 1943 Entered graduate school to study … Continue reading A Basic Biography of a Complex Woman: Betty Friedan
By: Sandra Buso On September 11, 1942, Pharmacist’s Mate First Class Wheeler B. Lipes approached his commanding officer William E. Ferrall with a serious problem. Seaman First Class Darrel Rector had been ill for three days with severe belly pain, nausea, and fever. PhM1c Lipes was now certain that Seaman Rector was suffering from acute appendicitis. Standard medical practice called for an immediate appendectomy, but … Continue reading Finding the Hidden Hospital Corpsmen in World War II Military Medicine: The Experience of the Paraprofessional Medical Worker in Action
By: Sandra Buso The history of Mexico’s development can be characterized as a period of constant change rather than a period of continuity. While daily life may have changed very little over those three centuries, the political government and the organization that Mexico had at the end of the 19th century would be completely unrecognizable to someone from the late Aztec empire. Great political changes … Continue reading A History Short: Mexico’s Historical Development: Constancy or Constant Change?
Was the trial of Margaret Claps’ Molly house so well publicized and such harsh punishments meted out because the men in this situation were fulfilling the newly defined homosexual role as defined by Mary McIntosh?[1] The Molly House was both part of a complete subculture where men could find male sexual companionship and a facet of a supposedly safe sodomitical network. The urbanization of London … Continue reading Margaret Clap: A Look at Consensual Crimes and the Gay Sub-Culture of Eighteenth Century London, England
By Sandra Buso Labor relations in Mexico changed radically during the early decades of the twentieth century. At the beginning of the century, many workers were still peasant farmers, but with the rise of industrialism workers began to move away from subsistence farming to wage earning. As a result many laws were needed to help define the new relationship between the workers and the … Continue reading A History Short: Controlling Labor through the Law: Article 123 of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 and the Evolution of Labor Laws in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico
This paper focuses on the marriages specifically affected during the Rosenstrasse incident, also known as the Factory Action, which lasted from February 1943 to March 1943 in Berlin, Germany. I look at how inter-racial marriages were perceived by the participants and mainstream German society, the impetus for the Rosenstrasse round up of intermarried Jews, the ramifications of the successful protest and release of the Jews held on Rosenstrasse. I analyze the debate between Nathan Stoltzfus and Wolf Gruner regarding the interpretation of the Rosenstrasse Protest and their divergent views regarding the causes of the protest’s eventual success in releasing the Jewish men married to Christian women. Finally, I compare the factual events of Rosenstrasse with the interpretations of von Trotta, Gruner, and Stolzfus. Continue reading Intermarriage and Margarethe von Trotta’s Rosenstrasse: Fact, Fiction, and the Murky Place In-between
By: Sandra Buso More than one hundred years after James Hutton proposed his radical theory of geologic time; many people in the world today still believe in the biblical timeline that the Earth was created in 4004 B.C. These contradictory theories co-exist because each theory proceeds from a different premise. On the geologic side the earth is unimaginably old and only through the study … Continue reading A History Short: James Hutton: His Rejection of Creationism and Creationism’s Unwillingness to Die
By: Sandra Buso In 1922, German audiences viewed the first cinematic representation of vampires, a move of simple plot and extravagant meaning. Director F. W. Murnau (1888–1931) took the text of the famous vampire novel Dracula and adapted it for film. The 1922 film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), a Weimar Republic film directed by Murnau, is not just a screen adaptation of the … Continue reading W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922): Images of Disease and Death as Allegory for the Spanish Flu
By: Sandra Buso The concept of the biocracy in the Third Reich holds that the state is a body, and the body must be healthy for the good of the Volk or the people. The biocracy could be contaminated through what was considered racially inferior blood, such as the Jews. But the racial contamination was not limited to Jewish blood. Many races were considered inferior, … Continue reading The Nuremburg Laws of the Third Reich and their Interpretation through the Melodrama of Detlef Sierck/Douglas Sirk’s La Habanera (1937)
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