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The tasks of the proletariat in our revolution
Title
The tasks of the proletariat in our revolution.
Creator
Lenin,Vladimir Ilich
Date Issued
1932
Identifier
367820, CFDT367820, ucf:5341
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/367820
Who fights for a free Cuba?
Title
Who fights for a free Cuba?.
Creator
Kaye, Martin, Perry, Louise
Date Issued
1933
Identifier
363430, CFDT363430, ucf:5325
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/363430
The plunder of Ethiopia
Title
The plunder of Ethiopia.
Creator
Imes, William Lloyd, Oak, Liston M., Guisseppe Altieri
Date Issued
1935
Identifier
363416, CFDT363416, ucf:5311
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/363416
world significance of the Russian revolution
Title
The world significance of the Russian revolution.
Creator
Pitt Rivers, George Henry Lane Fox, Levy, Oscar
Date Issued
1920
Identifier
358321, CFDT358321, ucf:5199
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/358321
Spain and peace
Title
Spain and peace.
Creator
Fast, Howard, Joint Anti Fascist Refugee Committee
Date Issued
1952
Identifier
2683214, CFDT2683214, ucf:5038
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683214
The revolutionary crisis is maturing
Title
The revolutionary crisis is maturing.
Creator
Manuil'skii, Dmitrii Zakhar'evich
Date Issued
1934
Identifier
886193, CFDT886193, ucf:5604
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/886193
Russian revolution
Title
The Russian revolution.
Creator
Wm. Z. Foster
Date Issued
[1921]
Identifier
369344, CFDT369344
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369344
I stake my life!
Title
I stake my life!.
Creator
Trotsky, Leon
Date Issued
1950
Identifier
363426, CFDT363426, ucf:5321
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/363426
The civil war in Spain
Title
The civil war in Spain.
Creator
Morrow, Felix
Date Issued
c1936
Identifier
671278, CFDT671278, ucf:5528
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671278
Harper's History of the Great Rebellion, May, 1865
Title
Harper's History of the Great Rebellion, May, 1865.
Date Created
1865-05
Identifier
DP0012810
Format
Set of related objects
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012810
Portrait of a young African American male
Title
Portrait of a young African American male.
Date Created
1863
Identifier
DP0012819
Format
Image (JPEG)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012819
Union, Vol. VI, No. 63, September 19, 1850
Title
The Union, Vol. VI, No. 63, September 19, 1850.
Date Created
1850-09-19
Identifier
DP0012799
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012799
Invoice, 1864
Title
Invoice, 1864.
Creator
Coleman, J. C.
Date Created
1864-03-01
Identifier
DP0012823
Format
Image (JPEG)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012823
THE RHETORIC OF TRANSGRESSION: RECONSTRUCTING FEMALE AUTHORITY THROUGH WU ZETIAN'S LEGACY
Title
THE RHETORIC OF TRANSGRESSION: RECONSTRUCTING FEMALE AUTHORITY THROUGH WU ZETIAN'S LEGACY.
Creator
Rothstein-Safra, Rachael, Zhang, Hong, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This study examines representations of Wu Zetian in the biographical tradition of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries, as well as within the subsequent vernacular literature of the Ming and Qing periods. I analyze the traditional use and construction of female stereotypes (and female-oriented flaws and vices) in the rhetoric of official histories and fictional narratives and their application to representations of Wu Zetian. I argue that authors, anxious of discord engendered and...
Show moreThis study examines representations of Wu Zetian in the biographical tradition of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries, as well as within the subsequent vernacular literature of the Ming and Qing periods. I analyze the traditional use and construction of female stereotypes (and female-oriented flaws and vices) in the rhetoric of official histories and fictional narratives and their application to representations of Wu Zetian. I argue that authors, anxious of discord engendered and caused by women occupying positions of political authority, sought to delegitimize Wu Zetian's reign and subsequently cultivated a "rhetoric of female transgression." I further argue that the image of Wu Zetian has become a cultural signifier of the dangers of female rule. Thus, my research broadly has two foci: (1) it traces the history of delegitimizing female rulership by examining the creation and codification of topoi, and (2) by focusing on images of Wu Zetian, this study examines how these topoi influence contemporary cultural and cross-cultural values, memory, and political rhetoric. This study is divided into three chapters. Chapter one lays out the history of Wu Zetian in the Tang dynasty and an assessment of women in Tang society, which will inform the analysis of literary portrayals of Wu Zetian in chapters two and three. The second chapter examines the earliest representations of Wu Zetian. Thematically, the second chapter explores the biographical interpretation of female authority and the discursive tradition of negotiating historic fact with formulaic and reoccurring tropes. The third chapter looks at representations of Wu Zetian in the literature of the Ming and Qing periods, in which narratives are encoded with the topoi previously established in earlier historical accounts. Ultimately, although this study examines the persistence of rhetorical topoi regarding Wu Zetian, it also addresses the contested and fluid nature of her representations in non-traditional media.
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Date Issued
2017
Identifier
CFH2000253, ucf:45986
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000253
LEARNING AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IN A SYNTHETIC LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Title
LEARNING AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IN A SYNTHETIC LEARNING ENVIRONMENT.
Creator
Greenwood-Ericksen, Adams, Hancock, Peter, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Synthetic Learning Environments (SLEs) represent a hybrid of simulations and games, and in addition to their pedagogical content, rely on elements of story and interactivity to drive engagement with the learning material. The present work examined the differential impact of varying levels of story and interactivity on learning. The 2x2 between subjects design tested learning and retention among 4 different groups of participants, each receiving one of the 4 possible combinations of low and...
Show moreSynthetic Learning Environments (SLEs) represent a hybrid of simulations and games, and in addition to their pedagogical content, rely on elements of story and interactivity to drive engagement with the learning material. The present work examined the differential impact of varying levels of story and interactivity on learning. The 2x2 between subjects design tested learning and retention among 4 different groups of participants, each receiving one of the 4 possible combinations of low and high levels of story and interactivity. Objective assessments of participant performance yielded the unexpected finding that learners using the SLE performed more poorly than any other learning group, including the gold-standard baseline. This result is made even more surprising by the finding that participants rated their enjoyment of and performance in that condition highest among the four conditions in the experiment. This apparent example of metacognitive bias has important implications for understanding how affect, narrative structure, and interactivity impact learning tasks, particularly in synthetic learning environments.
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Date Issued
2008
Identifier
CFE0002087, ucf:47580
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002087
DOUBLE DUTY: PROCESSING AND EXHIBITING THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA COLLECTION AS AN ARCHIVIST AND PUBLIC HISTORIAN
Title
DOUBLE DUTY: PROCESSING AND EXHIBITING THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA COLLECTION AS AN ARCHIVIST AND PUBLIC HISTORIAN.
Creator
Anderson, April, White, Vibert, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The Children's Home Society of Florida, often referred to as "Florida's Greatest Charity", is the state's oldest non profit welfare agency. Founded in 1902, the society was instrumental in creating and reforming child welfare laws as well as helping countless children in the state of Florida find loving homes. This paper focuses on the archival processing of the Children's Home Society of Florida Collection papers and the creation of a subsequent web exhibit. The role of...
Show moreThe Children's Home Society of Florida, often referred to as "Florida's Greatest Charity", is the state's oldest non profit welfare agency. Founded in 1902, the society was instrumental in creating and reforming child welfare laws as well as helping countless children in the state of Florida find loving homes. This paper focuses on the archival processing of the Children's Home Society of Florida Collection papers and the creation of a subsequent web exhibit. The role of archivist and public historian is examined to see how each profession works toward a common goal.
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Date Issued
2007
Identifier
CFE0001613, ucf:47181
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001613
ANOTHER FORGOTTEN ARMY: THE FRENCH EXPEDITIONARY CORPS IN ITALY,1943-1944
Title
ANOTHER FORGOTTEN ARMY: THE FRENCH EXPEDITIONARY CORPS IN ITALY,1943-1944.
Creator
White, Brook, Kallina, Edmund, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The French Expeditionary Corps that fought in Italy during World War II was a French army, but that description must be qualified. Therefore this thesis asks two questions: how did France manage to send the equivalent of an army to Italy if French military leadership in 1943 had no direct access to French manpower resources; and the most important question since it is unique to the historical debate, why were the troops that were sent to Italy so effective once there when compared to the 1940...
Show moreThe French Expeditionary Corps that fought in Italy during World War II was a French army, but that description must be qualified. Therefore this thesis asks two questions: how did France manage to send the equivalent of an army to Italy if French military leadership in 1943 had no direct access to French manpower resources; and the most important question since it is unique to the historical debate, why were the troops that were sent to Italy so effective once there when compared to the 1940 French army? To answer the first question, it was a French colonial army – soldiers mainly from Africa – that enabled France to send an army to Italy. The second question was not so easily addressed and is actually composed of two parts: current scholarship finds that at the tactical level French troops of 1940 no less capable than the troops in Italy, but more importantly it was the French military leadership's willingness to expend the lives of their colonial solders with little regard that allowed the French Expeditionary Corps to allow the United States Fifth Army to enter Rome just days before the Allied invasion of Normandy. And in order to understand why the French military was willing to expend the lives of its African soldiers, this thesis also had to examine the French colonial system dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Finally, this paper explores the different components of leadership that each army, which were African (primarily from North Africa and French West Africa) and metropolitan (mostly from European France), used to lead and direct their men. Thus, this study is more than just a pure military history. It is also a cultural and social history of France in relation to its colonies.
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Date Issued
2008
Identifier
CFE0002435, ucf:47713
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002435
TRIANON AND THE PREDESTINATION OF HUNGARIAN POLITICS: A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF HUNGARIAN REVISIONISM, 1918-1944
Title
TRIANON AND THE PREDESTINATION OF HUNGARIAN POLITICS: A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF HUNGARIAN REVISIONISM, 1918-1944.
Creator
Bartha, Dezso, Pauley, Bruce, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis proposes to link certain consistent themes in the historiography of interwar and wartime Hungary. Hungary's inability to successfully resolve its minority problems led to the nation's dismemberment at Trianon in 1920 after World War I. This fostered a national Hungarian reaction against the Trianon settlement called the revisionist movement. This revisionist "Trianon syndrome" totally dominated Hungarian politics in the interwar period. As Hungary sought allies against the hated...
Show moreThis thesis proposes to link certain consistent themes in the historiography of interwar and wartime Hungary. Hungary's inability to successfully resolve its minority problems led to the nation's dismemberment at Trianon in 1920 after World War I. This fostered a national Hungarian reaction against the Trianon settlement called the revisionist movement. This revisionist "Trianon syndrome" totally dominated Hungarian politics in the interwar period. As Hungary sought allies against the hated peace settlements of the Great War, Hungarian politics irrevocably tied the nation to the policies of Nazi Germany, and Hungary became nefariously assessed as "Hitler's last ally," which initially stained the nation's reputation after World War II. Although some historians have blamed the interwar Hungarian government for the calamity that followed Hungary's associations with Nazi Germany, this thesis proposes that there was little variation between what could have happened and what actually became the nation's fate in World War II. A new interpretation therefore becomes evident: the injustices of Trianon, Hungary's geopolitical position in the heart of Europe, and the nation's unfortunate orientation between the policies of Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia predestined the nation to its fate in World War II. There was no other choice for Hungarian policy in World War II but the Axis alliance. The historian of East Central Europe faces a formidable challenge in that the national histories of this region are often contradictory. Hungarian historiography is directly countered by the historical theories and propositions of its Czech, Serb, and Rumanian enemies. By historiographical analysis of the histories of Hungary, its enemies among the Successor States, and neutral sources, this thesis will demonstrate that many contemporary historians tend to support the primary theses of Hungarian historiography. Many of the arguments of the Hungarian interwar government are now generally supported by objective historians, while the historiographical suppositions of the Successor States at the Paris Peace Conference have become increasingly reduced to misinformation, falsification, exaggeration, and propaganda. The ignorance of the minority problems and ethnic history of East Central Europe led to an unjust settlement in 1919 and 1920, and by grossly favoring the victors over the vanquished, the Paris Peace Treaties greatly increased the probability of a second and even more terrible World War.
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Date Issued
2006
Identifier
CFE0000936, ucf:46724
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000936
STUDY OF WHETHER UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT SEX-DISCRIMINATION JURISPRUDENCE IS WELL-GROUNDED IN FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
Title
STUDY OF WHETHER UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT SEX-DISCRIMINATION JURISPRUDENCE IS WELL-GROUNDED IN FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT LEGISLATIVE HISTORY.
Creator
King, Jerrell, Slaughter, David, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The purposes of the following thesis is to research United States Supreme Court sex-discrimination jurisprudence and ascertain if Fourteenth Amendment legislative history was used, referred to, cited to, or quoted from, by the Supreme Court Justices in their opinions regarding sex-discrimination cases since the Amendment was ratified in 1868. Legislative history is a window into the drafting, debating, and intricate crafting of laws and amendments. When words and phrases that are used in the...
Show moreThe purposes of the following thesis is to research United States Supreme Court sex-discrimination jurisprudence and ascertain if Fourteenth Amendment legislative history was used, referred to, cited to, or quoted from, by the Supreme Court Justices in their opinions regarding sex-discrimination cases since the Amendment was ratified in 1868. Legislative history is a window into the drafting, debating, and intricate crafting of laws and amendments. When words and phrases that are used in the statutes, codes, and amendments are ambiguous or unclear, judges and justices should use the legislative history to ascertain the intent of the framers of the legislation. The methodology that was employed for this thesis was through the researching of all relevant United States Supreme Court cases as to what was written by the Justices in their opinions. Research was conducted into the relevant law review articles on the subject of legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment, Supreme Court sex-discrimination jurisprudence, and the historical impact of Court decisions on the law relative to sex-discrimination. After extensive research, it was discovered that the United States Supreme Court has established over 144 years' worth of sex-discrimination jurisprudence. The law review article research revealed that the lack of legislative history research by the Court has not gone unnoticed by the legal community or the women's rights community since the Fourteenth Amendment was originally drafted. The research and analysis of the sources of sex-discrimination from cases, law review articles, and books on the subject, led to the conclusion that no Fourteenth Amendment legislative history was ever used by the Supreme Court of the United States as part of its development of sex-discrimination jurisprudence.
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Date Issued
2013
Identifier
CFH0004327, ucf:45045
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004327
Vox Populi-Vox Belli: A Historical Study of Southern Ante Bellum Public Attitudes and Motivations Toward Secession
Title
Vox Populi-Vox Belli: A Historical Study of Southern Ante Bellum Public Attitudes and Motivations Toward Secession.
Creator
Boyden, Julian, Sacher, John, Crepeau, Richard, Herlihy, Kevin, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis examines why the south seceded in 1860 as opposed to any other time in the 19th century and what changed the mentalit(&)#233; of the people in the period 1857-1860. The underlying issue in southern politics and the issue of secession was clearly slavery and slavery rested on the economics of cotton. Yet slavery and cotton do not explain why the South seceded in 1860 and not at other times in the preceding seventy years. 1807 saw the outlawing of the international slave trade and...
Show moreThis thesis examines why the south seceded in 1860 as opposed to any other time in the 19th century and what changed the mentalit(&)#233; of the people in the period 1857-1860. The underlying issue in southern politics and the issue of secession was clearly slavery and slavery rested on the economics of cotton. Yet slavery and cotton do not explain why the South seceded in 1860 and not at other times in the preceding seventy years. 1807 saw the outlawing of the international slave trade and 1819 saw Congress pass the Slave Trade Act interdicting the ships involved. In 1828 and 1832 the bitter tariff disputes between northern industrial and southern agricultural interests led to the South Carolina doctrine of (")Nullification(") but no secession. Neither the 1846 proposed Wilmot Proviso restricting slavery in the new territories nor the immediate post Mexican War disputes over the territorial expansion of slavery caused secession and in every case the South was willing to compromise.The methodology of this work is based on the assumption that words and thoughts are intimately linked and that by measuring changes in frequency of word use, changes in thought can be detected and measured. Evidence for the changing use word frequency was provided by an etymological and article content study of selected daily editions of six newspapers in the three cities. The thesis put forward to explain the change in political attitude is that for the southern cities of Richmond, Charleston and New Orleans, political power and political issues were the most important factors. The rise of the sectional northern Republican Party and fear of its abolitionist principles weighed more heavily than any other factors in altering the psychology of the South. This raised the political dispute over slavery to an issue of secession and potential military conflict.
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Date Issued
2012
Identifier
CFE0004209, ucf:48999
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004209

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