Tag: HIST 317

Justin Ault

Minoru Yasui’s Self Sacrificial Attitude and Japanese Internment Camps

While many of us know of the horrors that surround the Japanese Internment Camps, not many know of the individuals that fought against the U.S. government that brought the situation to light and caused the general public to change their minds. Introducing Minoru Yasui, a man whose innate leadership quality as well as his self-sacrificial attitude paved the way for reparations, as well as showcasing that the good fight is always worth fighting for.

HIST 317 American Government

James Berry

Bucher Room

Bushnell History Symposium (1pm-4pm)

Hannah Scott

Hannah Scott

Policy Proposal- Lethal Wolf Removal

This paper proposes a change to Oregon’s Wolf Conservation and Management Plan, legalizing proactive lethal removal of wolves within a close proximity of where livestock are raised. It covers the reasons for the policy change and the process through which it would be implemented, including the agencies, funding, and stipulations.

HIST 317 – American Government

James Berry

3:00pm – 3:30pm Bucher Room

Anthony Wurst

The 60s Student Movement: Ignoring Marxist Evil on Display

During the 1960s, many key formative movements happened in the life of our nation. One such movement was the communist student movement. In this project, I explored the communist student movement by attempting to answer the following question, “Didn’t the students of the 1960s know that communism was a catalyst for hundreds of millions of deaths and countlesss other human rights offenses?” In answering this query, we might speak in defense of the students that the former attempts at communism “did not do it right”, and further that the students would not have had access to real time information about the ills of Mao and Khrushchev during their time. But the evidence suggests that these are false assumptions. I reveal in this project some of the most prominent voices in the communist student movement of the 1960s to show what the students were being taught about commmunism. I then reveal some blaring, prominent, credible, and easily accessible sources of information on the contemporary ills of communism that the students should have used to respond in rejecting those teachings. I discuss the question of how this could have happened then, what we can learn from this dilemna and what encouragement the Bible has for us today on this subject. To finish, I welcome critical feedback and discussion.

HIST 317, Studies in American History: The 1960s

Melisa Ortiz Berry

Bushnell History Symposium, P103

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9:30 AM – Noon

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Emmalee Rusk

Charlotte Ray and the History of Females in the Courtroom

The sexism and racism women faced for generations in a court of law is heartbreaking and sickening. If it was not for brave women who stood up for their rights, women would have never been given true agency in the courtroom. An agency that did not rely only on a man’s perception of the law. Nor would women have an opportunity to make a difference in legal matters today. The first female African American lawyer in the United States, Charlotte Ray, adds to the narrative of how women gained their agency in the courtroom and rights in the United States of America. Charlotte Ray shows the fight for agency in the courtroom by fighting the social sexist and racist expectations of her time. Her actions and legacy would trigger the uproar of the feminist movements and the first successes of women in the courtroom which rippled through American history into the continually influential legislation passed by women for the people. The progressions and backslides of the allowance of women in the courtroom is important to our appreciation of women in the courtroom today.

HIST 317, Women in US History

Melisa Ortiz Berry

Bushnell History Symposium, P114

10 – 11:30 AM

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