http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/uci_libs_ufdh_2025/rss Recent eScholarship items from 2025 Sat, 3 Oct 2026 01:22:03 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sv5v56v The variation, politicization, and censorship in American K-12 historical education is most evident in textbook treatments of the American Civil War. This research investigates the development of the American Civil War and how it is taught in K-12 American schools, as well as the extent to which its education varies across time period and location. Previous research has demonstrated the average American adult’s perception of the Civil War’s development to be disparate. In this project, I utilize textual analysis of over a dozen textbooks, using Voyant Tools and critical analysis, to provide a clear depiction of each primary source’s bias and interpretation. I carefully review each reference to enslaved people, enslavers, Black people, and white people. Additionally, I analyze the textbook's explanations of the war’s main cause; the war’s timeline/development; why the Confederacy was defeated, and its features (terms, graphics, etc.). The main indicators of bias are “case studies,”... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sv5v56v Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Josserand, Jenna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zf495wb Superstition, Hauntings, and the Armenian Genocide in Kurdish Collective Memory https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zf495wb Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ter-Martirosyan, Angela https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gq9g02k This project examines how the Soviet Union shaped cultural identity through children’s animated media, using digital humanities tools to explore some of the values and messages woven in two well known Soviet cartoons. Although these films might appear simple on the surface, they played a crucial role in introducing children to ideas about community, responsibility, and social belonging. By translating and subtitling Cheburashka (1971) and There Once Lived a Dog (1982) myself directly from the original Russian, I was able to engage closely with the tone, humor, and cultural nuance that are often lost in some standard translations. The prototype for this project is an interactive ArcGIS StoryMap that brings together translated clips from each film, thematic analysis, historical context, and photographs. Ultimately, this project shows that Soviet children’s cartoons offer valuable insight into how the state imagined cultural identity and expected it to be passed on. As remnants of... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gq9g02k Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Beknazarova, Samantha https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5q57n78b Language is influenced by culture, a development that is unique to humankind. It is specific to a group of people and changes with time. And with all of this, identity is formed, including but not limited to national, cultural, and ethnic. But this system simultaneously divides and oppresses groups, stripping them of their sense of identity to conform them into another. A close examination of the philosophies behind Hangul’s creation, preservation through Korea’s history of colonization, and the uses in the present day can explain the relationship between humanity and language. This research considers the sociocultural impacts of language, using the Korean language as an example and observing its evolution with respect to historical events and timelines. Why is language crucial to humans, other than the fact that it simply allows people to communicate? What significance, or worth, did Koreans find in Hangul that enabled this motivation to protect, and what does this say about... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5q57n78b Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Lee, Rachael https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5334p1j2 The purpose of this project is to make Parable of the Sower accessible to an audience in a different medium, while also bring together the element of actual California fires. Using spatial storytelling with the Knight Labs StoryMaps tool, 20 fires from both archival California data and the novel were compiled; text and visual elements were included. Further analysis on Parable was conducted, synthesizing the discourse on the genres under which the novel falls under and underscoring the environmental themes found in the novel. While the StoryMap does not offer a significant comparison between actual fires and Parable, it fulfills its purpose as a spatial retelling of the novel. Traditional literary analysis reveals how Butler's environmental themes work as both the foreground and the backdrop to Lauren's journey, underscoring the relationship between humans and nature. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5334p1j2 Fri, 2 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Navarro, Geneses