The student movement in California has influenced the direction of public higher education since the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s. Students have largely been ignored within the historical narrative despite directly affecting the progress of Calif . . .

The period between 472 A.D. and 510 A.D. was one of institutional uncertainty for the Catholic Church. The Western Roman Emperor was deposed and the position left vacant. The governing of Italy fell on Germanic warlords, both subordinate to and indepe . . .

The first half of the 20th century marked a period of rapid growth in Los Angeles. Across the United States professional city planners attempted to transform major cities. Los Angeles experimented with several plans but many women came to the city arm . . .

That members of the nobility in pre-modern Europe were occasionally cruel is no secret. However, the French marshal Gilles de Rais (d. 1440) and the Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory (d. 1614) represent something more than nobles behaving badly. Th . . .

In 1599, two English brothers, sons of a lesser noble family on the outs with the court of Queen Elizabeth I, took a voyage to the court of Shah Abbas I. Under the patronage of the Earl of Essex, Sir Anthony and Robert Sherley made their way through t . . .

This thesis focuses on the political backdrop to the battle of Tell Bashir in 1108. This battle marks an interesting change of alliances wherein Frankish and Turkish armies fought on both sides of the battle only a decade after the First Crusade had a . . .

Theodore Roosevelt is a man who has captivated the American imagination both during his lifetime and long after his death. His impact on American culture cannot be understated; however there are a few areas of his life that have not been examined as t . . .

The subject of an American national identity has been a source of debate for centuries. Some argue it had naturally evolved by the time of the American Revolution while others argue there was no cohesive “American” people at the time of the war. By lo . . .

The hierarchy of Britain’s social system in the 18th and early 19th centuries was rigidly stratified and patriarchal, with a limited noble class, or peerage, a small but burgeoning middling class, and a substantial lower class of either peasants or ur . . .

Historians studying Rwanda largely focus on the devastating genocide that claimed the lives of narrowly a million Rwandans within 100 days. This has led to fragmented conclusions for the causation of the genocide—much of which are used to push persona . . .