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10 Year Anniversary Issue
In celebration, this edition reminisces on the earlier works of the Grand Valley Journal of History, as this year marks the 10 year anniversary of the journal’s inception. This special collection highlights the considerable growth of the journal over the past decade by compiling an article from volumes one through seven that best represents Zeitgeist, or the “spirit of the times.” Our editors' notes have a common theme of noticing how some perspectives of historical events and cultural ideas have stayed the same, while others have shifted. By looking back into history, we can see that the spirit of the times may not be the same as it once was, or that the spirit itself is what has driven both material and ideological changes across time. We thank you for your readership and continued interest in the Grand Valley Journal of History.
Recent Content
10 Year Anniversary Issue
Editor-in-Chief GVJH
From Aristotle to Wunderkammer: The Development of Entomology and Insect Collections
Erica E. Fischer
Race Before Nation: African American Activists and Their Response to the War in Vietnam
Nicholas L. Busby
Administration Versus Extermination: The Wehrmacht’s Initiatives Toward Executing the Final Solution Between the Eastern and Western Fronts
Charles J. Calcaterra
The History of Early Modern Medicine in New Spain, El Primero Sueño, and Poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Daniel Hughes
The Great Leap Famine and Amartya Sen
Chang-Dae Hyun
The Russian Revolution
Chang-Dae Hyun
Ike’s Constitutional Venturing: The Institutionalization of the CIA, Covert Action, and American Interventionism
Jacob A. Bruggeman
The Tet Offensive: Are We Mired in a Stalemate?
Colin A. Sawyer
The Corporate Guild Order Control of the Florentine Republic in the 13th and 14th Century
Milad D. Mohammadi
Not Written In Letters of Blood: The Forgotten Legacy of the Army of the Cumberland
Andrew R. Perkins
Frankenstein and “The Labours of Men of Genius”: Science and Medical Ethics in the Early 19th Century
Allison Lemley
Civil War or Genocide? The United Nations Commission of Experts’ Misunderstanding of the Third Balkan War of the 1990s
Matthew G. Morley
When Coca-Cola Grows Citrus on the Nile, Who Wins? Revisiting the End of the Arab Boycott in Egypt
Andrew Jarnagin
Remembering French Collaboration and Resistance during Vichy France during the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup
Alice H. Munday
Art as Political Struggle: George Grosz and the Experience of the Great War
Jeff Michael Ocwieja
Medicine and Doctoring in Ancient Mesopotamia
Emily K. Teall
Insurrectionary Heroines: The Possibilities and Limits of Women’s Radical Action During the French Revolution
Sean M. Wright
Education and Legislation: Affluent Women's Political Engagement in the Consumers' Leagues of the Progressive Era
Scott R. St. Louis
Bess of Hardwick: Second Most Powerful Woman of the Elizabethan Age and a Symbol of Modern Thought
Hollie McDonald
Why Chinese Neo-Confucian Women Made a Fetish of Small Feet
Aubrey L. McMahan
Supporting Caste: The Origins of Racism in Colonial Virginia
Patrick D. Anderson
Krypteia: A Form of Ancient Guerrilla Warfare
Brandon D. Ross
The Grand Rapids Public Museum: What’s In A Building?
Nicholas A. Claus
Capitalism and the Science of History: Appleby, Marx, and Postmodernism
Patrick D. Anderson
Christian Mysticism as a Threat to Papal Traditions
Hayley E. Pangle
Korean Perceptions of Chastity, Gender Roles, and Libido; From Kisaengs to the Twenty First Century
Katrina Maynes