US Army Major Ben Peeler, alumnus of Fort Hays State University History Department joins Hollie Marquess to discuss his time at FHSU and how his degrees from Fort Hays prepared him for his successful military career.
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In the second episode of the season, History Education student Keith Kuehn joins Dr. Manamee Guha to discuss the ways Nintendo and the beloved character of Mario transformed the culture of video games in America.
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Kohler, Chris. Power Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life. Indianapolis: BradyGAMES, 2005.
Ryan, Jeff. Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America. New York: Penguin Press, 2011.
Consalvo, Mia. Atari to Zelda: Japan’s Videogames in a Global Context. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016.
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Image is of US Navy members with sticks and bats during the Zoot Suit Riots
In this episode, sophomore history education majors Lizbeth Guardado and David Solis join Hollie Marquess to discuss the Zoot Suit Riots, the Sleeply Lagoon Murder, and a lesser known group involved, Las Pachucas.
David Solis discusses Las Pachucas and, as promised, here is an image of their signature hairdo.
Lizbeth’s research focused on the Sleepy Lagoon Murder and trial as a precursor to the Zoot Suit Riots.
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Selected Bibliography:
The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case: Race and Discrimination and Mexican American Rights – Mark A. Weitz, 2010
The Zoot Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation -Mauricio Mazon, 1984
Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A. – Eduardo Pagan, 2011
From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front.– Elizabeth Escobedo, 2013
The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and The Cultural Politics of Memory– Catherine Ramirez, 2009
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Season 3 of Victor E History is out next week and we’ll debut our brand new theme song, composed by Fort Hays State University student Nathan Weis. This season we will chat with notable alumni and will continue to feature student research on topics like the Sleepy Lagoon Murder, las Pachucas, the 1917 intelligence tests, Japanese video games, the gay rights movement, Edythe Eyde, and more!
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In this episode, graduate student Erin Adams joins Hollie Marquess to discuss the sale of patent medicines in the west and how they used Native American imagery to sell their potions. They also discuss how the Great British Bake Off relates to Turner’s theory of the West.
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Glackens, L. M. , Artist. The Indian Medicine Show / L.M. Glackens. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, November 2. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2011647635/>.
Rosenberg, John. 2012. “Barbarian Virtues in a Bottle: Patent Indian Medicines and the Commodification of Primitivism in the United States, 1870-1900.” Gender & History 24 (2): 368–88. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2012.01687.x.
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In this episode, online Master’s student Miranda Edwards joins Dr. Manamee Guha to talk more about Nicholas II and World War I. How much did his autocratic ideals clash with revolutionaries who were looking for large-scale reforms? Miranda also discusses the role Nicholas II’s wife Alexandra Feodorovna and her ally Rasputin played in pushing Russia into the throes of World War I.
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Selected Bibliography:
Gilliard, Pierre. Thirteen Years at the Russian Court. Translated by F. Appleby Holt. New York, NY: George H. Doran & Co., 1987.
Massie, Robert K. Nicholas and Alexandra. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1968.
Price, Morgan Philips. Dispatches from the Revolution: Russia, 1916-1918. Edited by Tania Rose. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
Radzinsky, Edvard. The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II. Translated by Marian Schwartz. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1992.
Romanov, Alexandra, Nicholas II Romanov, and Bernard Pares. Letters of the Tsaritsa to the Tsar, 1914-1916. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1987.
Service, Robert. The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution. London: Macmillan, 2017.
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In this episode, Hollie Marquess is joined by senior history major Shelby Oshel to discuss Soviet animation through the lens of gender and nationalism. Shelby traces Soviet animated cartoons and films from their infancy through the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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A selection of Soviet animation:
Almalrik, Leonid. Black and White. Soyuzmultfilm Services, 1932.
Uspensky, Eduard. “Gena the Crocodile.” Cheburashka, January 1, 1969.
———. “Cheburashka.” Cheburashka, January 1, 1971.
———. “Shapoklyak.” Cheburashka, January 1, 1974.
———. “Cheburashka Goes to School.” Cheburashka, October 8, 1983.
In addition to her research on Soviet animation, Shelby briefly mentions her current research project, which is to locate the unmarked graves of two sex workers from Hays City’s Wild West days. For more on Hays City prostitution and mentions of these two particular women, see:
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In the years 1932-1933, Ukraine suffered a famine that historians estimate killed over four million Ukrainians. As a result of the famine, women had to come up with different survival strategies and methods for procuring and preparing food for themselves and their families. Senior history major Alissa Zajac joins Hollie Marquess to discuss women’s roles in food procurement and preparation during the Holodomor.
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Selected Bibliography:
Bohdan Klid, and Alexander J. Motyl. The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Toronto: CIUS Press, 2012.
Borysenko, Valentyna. A Candle in Remembrance: An Oral History of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933. New York: Ukrainian Nation Women’s League of America, 2010.
Applebaum, Anne. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. New York: Doubleday, 2017.
Kis, Oksana. “Defying Death: Women’s Experience of the Holodomor, 1932-1933.” Aspasia 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2013).
Kis, Oksana. “Women’s Experience of the Holodomor: Challenges and Ambiguities of Motherhood.” Journal of Genocide Research 23, no. 4 (October 2, 2021): 527–46.
In this episode Dr. Manamee Guha is joined by Drew Legere, a Junior at Fort Hays State University to discuss her research project on the tense relationship between the British and the Chinese leading up to the Opium Wars. As the British involved themselves in the opium trade, which brought British controlled Indian opium to China, both the opium merchants and Christian missionaries argued in support of the opium wars. Religious arguments were used by both groups to emphasize the importance of a British connection to China. For British opium merchants, demonizing the Chinese through their heathenism allowed the merchants to ignore the negative impact of the opium trade since the Chinese lack this vital British quality. Christian missionaries supported the opium wars to expand Christian influences on China, but later view the opium trade as a barrier to conversion which they viewed as a necessity for Chinese betterment.
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Suggested Reading:
Berridge, Virginia and Edwards, Griffith. Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-century England. London and New York, NY: Allen Lane and St. Martin’s Press, 1981
Derks, Hans. History of the Opium Problem the Assaulton the East, Ca. 1600 – 1950. Leiden: Brill, 2012
Mason, Mary Gertrude. Western Concepts of China and the Chinese,1840-1876. New York, NY,1939
Milligan, Barry. Pleasures and Pains: Opium and the Orient in Nineteenth-Century British Culture. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1995
Said, Edward. Orientalism, New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1979
Paquette, Jean “An Uncompromising Land; the London Missionary Society in China, 1807-1860,” PhD Diss., University of California, 1987.
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In this episode, Lizz Dobmeyer, a master’s student in the FHSU History Department online, joins Hollie to discuss “Nursing Under Fire: The Experiences and Achievements of World War I Allied Nurses on the Western Front.”
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Selected Bibliography:
Powell, Anne. Women in the War Zone: Hospital Service in the First World War. Stroud: The History Press, 2013.
Hallett, Christine E. Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.
Hallett, Christine E. Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Harris, Kirsty. More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at Work in World War I. Newport: Big Sky Publishing Pty, Limited, 2016.
Moore, Wendy. No Man’s Land the Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital during World War I. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2020.
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