http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsb_journalhist_vol5issue2/rss Recent eScholarship items from Volume 5, Issue 2 (Fall 2025) Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:49:52 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bw6175c This paper attempts to answer questions about class and race regarding that South Asians navigated while they resided in England. The paper delves into two groups of South Asian men: lascars (seamen) and more affluent South Asian men. It analyzes if the differences between classes were more critical than that of ethnicity, asks how these different demographics interacted with the white population of England and explains how each demographic navigated life throughout their time in Britain. The basis of this paper attempts to compare the difference of all these questions between different demographics to determine what role class played in a world dictated by white supremacy, specifically for South Asians in the very racialized environment that the British Empire created, specifically in the metropole. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bw6175c Fri, 9 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Polimera, Sujitha https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9q5191nf The Pereiaslav Agreement of 1654, concluded between the Cossack Hetmanate and the Grand Duchy of Muscovy at the Pereiaslav Rada, marked a decisive moment in the trajectory of Ukrainian-Russian relations. Celebrated in Russian historiography as a fraternal “reunification” of kindred Slavic peoples, and condemned in Ukrainian scholarship as the beginning of imperial domination, the agreement remains one of the most contested episodes in Eastern European history. This essay critically examines competing Russian and Ukrainian historiographical interpretations of the Pereiaslav Agreement by analyzing how each tradition reconstructs the events, motives, and aftermath of the Rada. Drawing on a broad range of primary sources—such as Khmelnytsky’s “Articles of Petition,” Tsar Alexei’s “March Articles,” and Vasilii Buturlin’s diplomatic report—alongside major secondary works, the essay evaluates the narratives advanced by key figures in both traditions. It argues that Ukrainian historiography... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9q5191nf Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Zhang, Jiansheng https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fm555vk Abstract: This paper examines how anti-Mormon activists in nineteenth-century America strategically employed orientalist rhetoric to delegitimize Mormon polygamy and the broader Mormon movement. Drawing upon Edward Said’s theoretical framework of Orientalism, the analysis demonstrates how critics deliberately characterized Mormon practices, particularly plural marriage, as fundamentally “oriental” and therefore incompatible with American values. By associating Mormonism with Eastern customs and traditions, such as Turkish harems and Islamic practices, anti-Mormon writers tapped into existing American anxieties about Asian influences and potential cultural infiltration due to immigration. This rhetoric proved particularly effective as it operated simultaneously on religious, racial, and political levels, justifying federal intervention while reinforcing Protestant cultural hegemony. The paper analyzes period literature, legal documents, political cartoons, and public discourse... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fm555vk Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Liu, Krystal https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8738z9b8 The nineteenth century is well known for the Industrial Revolution in Britain, with which came massive improvements in printing technology, naturally leading to the rise of the mass media in forms such as newspapers, magazines, and literature. In the same century, the preeminent women’s movement can also find its roots. Separately, the British mass media, with its many forms, and the British women’s movement have been studied extensively, but without much research into any connection between them. New forms of media such as the women’s magazine saw their peak in the Victorian era, and other forms of mass media evolved rapidly, bringing newspapers, women’s magazines, and New Woman literature to the forefront of the women’s movement. They provided an avenue to spread information for the cause and ways to connect and share with other women in an otherwise restrictive patriarchal society. Thorough examination and comparison of these three mediums, with focus on those produced in years... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8738z9b8 Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Whitley, Hannah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vg2p6v8 In October 1956, Hungarian citizens of various education levels, social classes, and political affiliations united to overthrow their Soviet rulers. Ultimately failing, these same people were then forced to flee in search of political or physical freedom. By 1957, over thirty thousand Hungarian refugees had arrived in the United States in an operation often depicted as the most rapid and successful integration of refugees into the country to date. Numerous works have detailed the processes of integrating these refugees into the economic structure of the United States, but few have formed distinctions between those Hungarian refugees who fled due to their revolutionary participation and those who left for other social, political, or economic reasons. This paper seeks to make this distinction, focusing on those Hungarian refugees who fought in the 1956 revolution as a group with distinct ideological and cultural beliefs both before and after their resettlement to the United... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vg2p6v8 Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 McKallip, Ava https://escholarship.org/uc/item/51r8n32m During the nineteenth century, as the territory of Utah pursued statehood, it faced intense national scrutiny. The innate protestant values of American conservatism brought constant backlash to the Utah territory as republican lobbyists continually pushed for disenfranchising polygamists in the name of upholding traditional values. As Utah was one of the first territories to grant women suffrage, the rest of the nation believed Mormon women were victims of polygamy and coerced into voting for their husbands’ choices: the rhetoric that women were suffering from Mormonism is a continual ideology present from before the Civil War and up until the eventual acceptance of Utah’s constitution in the late 1880s. In retaliation, the suffragists advocated for their autonomy through protests and media, in conjunction with the national suffrage movement. This paper situates the Mormon Suffragists as the center of political activism in the Utah territory as they combatted both religious intolerance... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/51r8n32m Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mayer, Aleksandra https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49g0h502 This research investigates how Indigenous reservations influenced the early development of community archaeology in North America from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through examination of three key case studies - the Ozette site, Vanatta site, and Navajo Cultural Resources Management Program - the study reveals that reservation systems, despite their colonial origins, created institutional frameworks that facilitated collaboration between archaeologists and Indigenous communities. The legal and administrative structure of reservations required archaeologists to obtain tribal permissions and engage with Indigenous communities, leading to increased recognition of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives. While social movements and archaeologists' ethical awakening contributed to the field's transformation, the research demonstrates that reservation-based projects had lasting impacts, including the establishment of tribal cultural organizations and innovative curation practices. The findings... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49g0h502 Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Dalla Costa, Emma https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23f164t4 Faith, Family, and Final Wishes: Gendered Analysis of Bequeathing Practices in Reformation England Using Somerset Wills from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1558-1569 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23f164t4 Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Drobish, Julia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2167m4gb Silvia Tennenbaum (1928-2016), a German born Jewish woman, author, and activist, lived in the United States following her family’s exile in 1936. Tennenbaum wrote multiple semi-autobiographical novels reflecting her grapples with memory. Towards the end of her life, Tennenbaum attempted to chronicle her memories more directly; instead of fictionalizing, she wrote specifically of the gaps in her recollections. The archival materials used for this paper, having remained unpublished, serve as a memorial to this fragmentation. Tennenbaum’s notes powerfully exemplify how first-person narratives of Jewish survivors of Nazism complicate Holocaust historiography and the Holocaust’s impact on the Jewish Diaspora. For decades, women’s experiences of the Holocaust were largely disregarded. Dedicated analysis of women’s experiences becomes vital in understanding the act of memorialization itself. While historical attention has focused on the contrasting experiences of men and women as better... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2167m4gb Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Miller, Lila Grey https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vf2z6jr American political history commonly paints the revolutionary cries of the mid- to late-eighteenth century as a united effort to fight the oppressive mercantilist policies of the Mother Country. With reinforced Navigation Acts passed in 1763, the American economy was further limited in favor of Britain, reducing the colonists’ agency to trade with other nations or to develop a manufacturing industry. Adding flame to the fire, the Townshend Acts of the late 1760s further irritated colonists faced by higher taxes on British manufactured goods—an attempt by Parliament to recuperate the costs of the French and Indian War. Without representation in Parliament, certain pockets of elite colonists became increasingly frustrated—with merchants and large-scale planters vying to shift the political ground rules that shaped the parameters of capitalism. These patriot leaders, portraying the British policies as intolerable limitations of economic and political self-determination, both misrepresented... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vf2z6jr Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Farino, Avery https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nw1z59c The 18th century Caribbean has long been understood by academia and popular imagination as a diverse arena for competing, cooperating, and overlapping ethnic, religious, imperial, and indigenous groups. One interaction that requires more thorough analysis is between Africans–enslaved and free–and (predominantly) Sephardic Jewish merchants. Two diasporic peoples, Africans and Jews navigated the transatlantic slave trade and, during critical moments of imperial crisis, shared in resistance to oppressive political forces. British Jamaica was a particularly volatile island that saw African and Jewish attempts at liberation intimately intersect. The 1729-to-1740 First Maroon War allowed African Maroons to secure autonomous communities in the Blue Mountain region; meanwhile, Jewish merchants leveraged their access to the Crown, particularly from 1737 to 1739, to petition against local governmental taxation that was disproportionately levied on them for alleged assistance in the African... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nw1z59c Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Darrish, Joshua https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nk0w8c5 This research paper focuses on the role of women in the fight against South African apartheid in the 20th century. The paper highlights the role of the Federation of South African Women (FSAW), a group that worked to peacefully resist apartheid, and the women who played prominent roles within that federation. Starting with early resistance to racist laws in the 1910s we will follow the growth and contributions of the women's movement to the anti-apartheid efforts taking place in South Africa until the early 1960s when the freedom movement was forced to shift underground. Special attention is given to the Anti-Pass March held in 1956, a gathering of an estimated 20,000 women in protest of the racist restrictions being placed on the non-white citizens of South Africa. A detailed account of the event has been created through the synthesis of primary sources such as autobiographies and personal letters with secondary sources created by those outside of the historical event. The paper... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nk0w8c5 Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Platt, Reagan