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The PRIMARY SOURCE
The Newsletter for the Department of History at the University of Idaho A biannual publication
In This Issue A WORD FROM THE CHAIR— PAGE 2 FACULTY EMERITUS SPOTLIGHT: DR. LOUIS PERRAUD – PAGE 3 CAMPUS HISTORY: THE SHORT AND HAPPY LIFE OF THE OLD ADMINISTRATION BUILDING – PAGE 4 PHI ALPHA THETA NEWS— PAGE 5 VISITING SCHOLAR SUZANNE WEISS JOINS THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT – PAGE 6 CATCHING UP WITH ALUMNI – PAGE 7 DIGITAL HISTORY – PAGE 8 BOOK REVIEW – PAGE 8-9 FACULTY AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS – PAGE 10
Issue No. 6– Spring/Summer 2016
UI Professor Explores Guilin’s Wartime History and Culture History Department professor Dr. Pingchao Zhu recently published her latest book, Wartime Culture in Guilin, 1938-1944: A City at War, from Lexington Press. Dr. Zhu‘s work revises and contributes to the historiography of the southern Chinese city of Guilin during WWII. Wartime Culture in Guilin focuses on the dynamic intellectual and patriotic atmosphere that flourished among communists and nationalists in Guilin, which was under the control of local warlords during the period. For many years now, the Communist Party has dictated the nature of local scholarship and literature about China in WWII. This has made it difficult to interpret the actual story of Guilin from 1938-1944. Local scholars have only vaguely shared the realities of history during this period. Although Guilin is her hometown, Dr. Zhu is now considered a foreign scholar and is not obligated to follow the party lines of local Chinese scholars and government. This gives her an opportunity to reexamine Guilin‘s history, a history that needs to be
reinterpreted due to the delicate political atmosphere. Dr. Zhu took the opportunity to collaborate with local Guilin scholars in connecting local history to a national story. After many visits with local scholars and to archives in Guilin, Dr. Zhu began to reconstruct the history of a place with a very liberal and intellectual atmosphere that was inclusive of peoples from different backgrounds. Dr. Zhu states, ―Guilin adopted liberal policies of all political parties.‖ Intellectual and patriotic ideologies under ruling warlords in Guilin at the time shared one goal: the central aim was defeating Japan. Political backgrounds were not the main concern. The process of writing this book brought new perspective to Dr. Zhu. Intellectual history is new territory for a largely military historian. Continued on Page 2
A WORD FROM THE CHAIR
Welcome to the Spring issue of The Primary Source. Professor Quinlan having spent the Spring Semester as a Visiting Professor in Lüneburg, Germany, I have the honor of being Interim Chair. In this issue, the undergraduate and graduate students of the Department have produced an interesting mix of interviews, book reviews, course reviews and even a little history. Spring is the season for the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, and this year we sent eight students. Look further for information on who went, where they went, and what they talked about. Conferences not only enable students to present their research and to meet other like-minded people, but also to get to know each other (particularly during the long, long drive). This past year has not only seen conference papers, but also published scholarship. This is the year that Professor Pingchao Zhu’s meticulous exploration of Guilin (a city in Southern China) and the Second World War has come out. An interview with Professor Zhu not only highlights the significance of her monograph, but also details the process that a renowned scholar goes through—the research, the assessment of one’s findings, and the ordering of that research into a critical and very readable piece of scholarship. The issue also includes interviews with a visiting Masters’ student from Switzerland and with the everentertaining emeritus professor of Classics, Louis Perraud, as well as alumni spotlights, a thoughtful book review, and a look at the increasing importance of teaching Digital History. Since this is a Department of History, it is fitting that the issue presents a biography, not of a person, but of a building (an architectography?), specifically the Old Administration Building.
In looking back over the past semester, I feel the deep satisfaction of belonging to this department—the supportive alumni, the collegial colleagues, and the endlessly fascinating graduate and undergraduates who fill our courses. Ellen E. Kittell Professor and Interim Chair, Department of History
-----------------------------------------------------------Continued from Page 1 Her research required her to understand what the intellectual interpretation of war was. Dr. Zhu shares that she ―had to learn how to put myself into the world of intellectuals to learn why and how they wrote about the war. I had to put myself in the shoes, and in the minds, of intellectuals. Writing was to encourage people to join in the fight.‖ The heart of the stories and poetry reflect a nation at war. Guilin‘s story during World War II has never been fully told on a national level. Dr. Zhu explains that many scholars from different disciplines have worked on small pieces of Guilin‘s wartime past. No one, however, has ever pulled the history of Guilin‘s wartime period together. Current politics in China further exacerbate the lack of attention to the topic. China‘s Communist leaders over the years have continually constructed a history that places Communist leaders in control of Guilin during WWII. The reality could not be further from the truth. Local warlords controlled Guilin from 1938-1944. Dr. Zhu argues in her book that it was the rule of local warlords that accommodated ideas from all political backgrounds and fostered flourishing intellectual and patriotic activities. Wartime Culture in Guilin was published this past October. Dr. Zhu is already planning her next project, a military history focusing on the Chinese war against Japan from 1931-1945. Dr. Zhu finds that English scholarship has predominantly looked at specific battles from this period. Chinese interpretations have depicted the Nationalist government of the time as cowardly and depict Communists leading the fight against Japan. Dr. Zhu wants to revise that history to include a different perspective, finding that communist forces were incorporated under National rule to fight against Japan. This summer, Dr. Zhu will travel to China to begin research for this next project. ~Nathan Allison
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Faculty Emeritus Spotlight: Dr. Louis Perraud Some still remember him as ‗the mythology guy‘ from his cable access television show, while others remember him as the Classics Professor or were lucky enough to have taken his classes. For many Dr. Louis Perraud, professor emeritus at the University of Idaho, remains something of a local icon. Born in Chicago in 1946, Dr. Perraud was the son of a pilot who worked for one of the first international airlines. He cites this as one of his earliest exposures to travel and culture. Like all things with Dr. Perraud, there is a story to tell about his early life. From Chicago, he grew up in New Jersey, where he entered the seminary as a freshman in college, studying theology for three years at the Jesuit-run Gregorian University in Rome. It was in Rome where he distinctly recalls thinking, ―Ahh! Yes, this is where I belong! I‘ve always loved Latin, and the experience brought the culture alive.‖ Dr. Perraud looks back on his time in the seminary fondly. He recalls that the professors were diligent and thorough. Rome itself had an effect on the experience. Dr. Perraud notes, ―The restaurants were perhaps the most important part of the experience.‖ After his stint in the seminary, Dr. Perraud went on to graduate school at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he studied Greek and Latin. He found himself at the University of Idaho in 1982, teaching Greek, Latin, and the Classics. After 26 years at the University, he retired in 2008. In 2012, Dr. Perraud was asked to come out of retirement to teach another year of Greek and Roman history. At the end of that academic year, he retired again. ―I enjoyed teaching tremendously – talking to students, getting to know them, giving them direction‖ he explains. Dr. Perraud also saw teaching as a performance – in which the objective was to hold the attention of the student.
Dr. Louis Perraud http://exileproductions.com/portfolio.html
translating Erasmus‘ writings and commentaries: ―The theology went quickly – the scripture went much more slowly due to the theological and literary annotations.‖ Eventually, Dr. Perraud‘s time on the project ended; ―Age caught up with me,‖ he explains. Now, Dr. Perraud is happily, and permanently, enjoying retirement. ―Timing is everything,‖ he explains, ―If you don‘t plan it right – you will miss some of the best adventures of your life.‖ He fills his time with his hobbies – food, travel, and opera. In fact, this spring he gave two brief lectures on opera at the historic Kenworthy Performing Arts Center downtown, as part of the Metropolitan Opera series hosted there. He has also been reading Greek and Latin for pleasure. He comments, ―I‘ve been teaching it for years, but I have had the chance to read [for pleasure] since grad school. It‘s great stuff.‖ When asked for any last comments for this spotlight piece, Dr. Perraud stated, ―My experience at the University of Idaho has left me with the overwhelming and predominant feeling of gratitude. I met and taught all kinds of students, many of whom were outstanding, the rest of whom were good. I look back at it and think, ‗You had a good gig.‘‖ ~Ben Bridges
Unsurprisingly, Dr. Perraud followed several diverse research interests during his career, including Latin poetry, the impact of the classics on the humanities, and Erasmus studies. He worked extensively on
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The Short and Happy Life of the Old Administration Building The Administration Building is one of the University of Idaho‘s most iconic buildings. Generations of students have climbed its grand staircase and studied within its hallowed halls. The celebrated ―Admin‖ is the centerpiece of the UI campus and a symbol of Vandal tradition. Despite its age, more than a few would be surprised to learn that the Admin was not the original administrative center for UI. It was built to replace the ―Old Admin‖ which perished in 1906, less than thirty years after the university‘s founding in 1889.
redwood and Idaho tamarack wooden interior, a library, an auditorium, classrooms, administrative offices, and an artesian well.1 It was described by the 1893-94 University Catalog as ―the most attractive building in Idaho.‖ In 1896, the first four students to graduate from the University of Idaho were presented their degrees during a ceremony held in the auditorium. 1
The Old Admin was designed in the late 1800‘s and was similar in many respects to the current Administration Building.1 The original complex was four stories tall and featured a central structure supplemented by east and west wings, giving it a ―Ψ‖ shape, much like the ―U‖ shape of the current admin. Inside the Old Admin. Photo courtesty of UI Library Special Collections.
The Old Administration Building. Photo courtesty of UI Library Special Collections.
The most prominent feature of the Old Admin was a 163 ft. steeple that reached more than twice as high as the current Admin clock tower.2 The Old Admin boasted other amenities as well, including a California 1
“Administration Building (Old),” accessed March 6, 2016, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/campus/locations/AdministrationBuilding(Old).html#more; 2 Cynthia A. Nolting, “University of Idaho Administration Building,” (M.Arch. thesis, University of Idaho, 1982).
In the early hours of Friday, March 30, 1906, the Old Admin was engulfed in flames.1 Students and staff awoke and rushed to save anything they could from the building. ―Students managed to save the ‗Silver and Gold Book,‘ which was a jeweled box gifted to the University from the women of Moscow, and a stuffed mountain goat.‖1Yale Graduate and Dean of Faculty Jay Glover Eldridge commandeered a ladder to get into his office and tossed boxes of documents out the window to safety. Judge Roland Hodgins, founder of Hodgins Drugstore in downtown Moscow, stood by the ladder and collected the important papers as they fell. 1 The fire department, possessing only inadequate horsedrawn fire engines, was helpless to stop the inferno. 1 As the fire raged, the steeple collapsed and the extravagant wooden interior was incinerated. When the sun rose, only the scorched red-brick skeleton of the Old Admin was left standing. Most of the books in the library perished in the flames, as did instruments in the music room, chemistry lab equipment, and mounted animals in the entrance hall. The damage caused by the fire was far too severe to even consider repair, so the final remains of the majestic Old Admin were demolished. Continued on Page 5
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The Old Admin in Flames Photo Courtesty of UI Library Special Collections
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Although the police suspected that an arsonist had started the blaze, this was never proved.1 The insurance policy on the Old Admin paid $135,000, but that was not enough to fund a replacement. In the meantime an interim building, Morrill Hall, was built to house university administrative staff. In 1909, the main section of the ―New Admin‖ was completed, on the same ground on which the original once stood.32 Construction continued until the final wing was affixed in 1936.4 What students once called the ―New Admin‖ is now an old friend, and a source of pride. In 1932, President Mervin G. Neale had parts of the Old Admin steps incorporated into the ―I‖ bench and memorial steps, a testament to the resiliency of Vandal spirit. 1 ~Ty Unruh
Phi Alpha Theta News The History Department and the UI Pi-Theta chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society were delighted to send a group of eight students to the Phi Alpha Theta Northwest Regional Conference, held at Western Washington University in Bellingham on April 8-9, 2016. The conference is a great opportunity for students to share original research in a formal 3
“Administration Building (New),” accessed 6 March 2016, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/ digital/campus/locations/AdministrationBuilding(New).html#more 4 Rhoda Lawrence and Christopher Palms, “The University of Idaho Administration Building”, (Seattle: BOLA Architecture + Planning, 2000).
setting and to hear from other faculty and students around the region. Paper topics ranged across continents and time periods, from to Jefferson Kloepfer‘s reexamination of the story of the FortySeven Ronin, to Bailey Cavender‘s study of the impact of railroads on commerce in the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Anthony Greene‘s paper on seventeenth century witch trials in Catholic Germany and Zachary Spence‘s exploration of the role of the Venerable Bede in the medieval English church touched on religious history. Gunn Wilson and EmilieRae Smith UI PAT members at the conference presented ―Sir Edward Coke and His Motive‖ and ―How the Theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 Led to Cultural Property Laws,‖ papers that they developed last fall in their senior seminar class on Legal History. Finally, Becca Stunz and Caitlin McDevitt examined the development of public understanding of several complex issues in U.S. history in ―All Animals are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal than Others: A Look at the History of the History of Eugenics‖ and ―19th and 20th Century Frameworks of Discourse in the United States: Slave Agriculture and Nuclear Energy,‖ respectively. Many PAT members find the conference a highlight of the History Program, and this year was no exception. Students say that they had a great trip and that panel commentators thought highly of their research. Zachary Spence says that participating in the conference ―was a rewarding experience that had great opportunities for growth both as a historian and as a person.‖ The PiTheta chapter is proud of our students and grateful to the History Department for their support, which makes it possible for so many students to attend. Thanks especially to Dr. Ellen Kittell and Dr. Somaditya Bannerjee for assisting with the conference. We look forward to another great conference next year! ~Amy Pendegraft
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Visiting Scholar Suzanne Weiss Joins UI History Department The University of Idaho welcomes hundreds of international students each year from around the globe. Current international enrollment at UI is more than 900 students from over 75 different countries, making the campus an impressively diverse place of learning. This spring, the UI History Department was excited to welcome Susanne Weiss from Zurich, Switzerland, to the graduate program as our most recent international scholar.
Susanne joins the History Department from one of seven schools in Switzerland, the University of Zurich. She enjoys studying English and History, and is continuing in those fields at UI at the Masters level. She is fascinated with English literature and linguistics, as well as a multitude of historical subjects, including early and modern American history. Her love of history stems from a realization that one can find many reasons for why the world is the way it is by studying the intersection of culture and history. Susanne thinks the histories of Europe and America are inexorably intertwined and appreciates how Europe influenced the United States, and vice versa. To further her intense interest in American culture and history and their connections to Europe, Suzanne decided to immerse herself in that culture. A reciprocal agreement between the universities of Idaho and Zurich allowed her to attend school for a semester in Moscow.
One of the benefits of the Swiss school system is that Suzanne has known what she wanted to study for many years. Primary education in Switzerland takes slightly longer than in America, but bachelor‘s degree programs only run for three years, with all coursework focusing on the student‘s area of interest. Rather than taking a multitude of 100-level classes looking for a topic she found interesting, Susanne always knew she wanted to study history. A polyglot in four different languages— including English and her native German—and the eldest of three sisters, Susanne is the only child who continued her studies post-primary school; her younger twin sisters both entered the field of finance after completing an apprenticeship in their field. Susanne is no stranger to foreign places. She has travelled throughout Europe, especially to France, where she loved the culture and the countryside. When she arrived in the United States, Susanne spent time in New York and Seattle before finally making it to Moscow. Susanne says she loves the culture and people in Moscow, everyone being so friendly and outgoing. Recreationally, she enjoys skiing, hiking, and traveling. During most of her free time between coursework, she explored Moscow and Pullman, taking in the sights during her too-short stay. Suzanne is exceedingly happy about the people she has met and their willingness to go out of their way to help her. She stresses she is ―positively surprised how outgoing, helpful, and community-oriented most of the people here are.‖ Susanne is continuing her exploration of America during the semester and wants to see as much as she can in her short time here. She spent President‘s Day Weekend in Vancouver, Canada, and spring break taking in the sights of Denver, CO. After finishing her one semester at the UI, Susanne hopes to visit some of the National Parks in the West, or perhaps work on a small communal farm for a short time before heading back to her home. University of Idaho History Department staff and students were pleased to welcome Susanne and enjoyed the semester she spent with us. ~Scott Cardwell
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Catching up with Alumni The UI History Department has a long and proud tradition of sending students on to prestigious institutions of professional and graduate study. In this release of The Primary Source, we are excited to follow up with some distinguished recent student alumni. Susanna Markert, currently at the University of Oxford, attended the University of Idaho from 2008 to 2012. In addition to completing her undergraduate degree in history, Susanna was heavily involved in the UI Ballroom Team. After graduating, she took three years off to work as an administrative assistant for the university while taking additional history classes. In Fall 2015, she began her Master of Medieval History Program at Oxford, where she is studying legal history with Dr. Benjamin Thompson and Dr. Richard Sharpe. Susanna is excited to have access to the archives and libraries at Oxford. Her thesis concerns the jurisdictional boundaries of the royal and ecclesiastical courts during the reign of Henry III. After completing her thesis Susanna hopes to continue at Oxford to earn her Ph.D. Susanna fondly recalls her time here at the University of Idaho, ―My time at Oxford has been the most challenging and rewarding experience of my life, and I can proudly say that it was thanks to the University of Idaho that I am here. Our university may be small and somewhat remote, but the passion and knowledge of our history faculty both inspired me and equipped me with the tools to continue my education in one of the most vibrant academic communities in the world.‖ *** Michael Weaver, now at Yale Law School, credits everything he knows about research and writing to his experience at UI. ―The History Department at the University of Idaho is fantastic‖ Michael explains, ―It and its professors helped mentor me at a crucial time in my life.‖ Michael attended UI from 2010-2014, earning a minor in Political Science in addition to his history degree. As an undergraduate, he was active in many extra-curricular activities, including UI Democrats, the Ballroom Dance Team, and the UI chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the History Honor Society, of which he served a
year as co-Vice President. In addition to recognizing the value of his education, Michael reflects fondly on the time he spent here at the University of Idaho. ―I treasure the friends that I made at the University of Idaho. In fact, I am still close to many of them today.‖ After graduation, Michael took a year off to work on the Wendy Davis campaign for governor of Texas. Although Davis did not win the election, Michael speaks highly of the experience, noting particularly how the required research and writing helped prepare him for law school. In Fall 2015, he returned to school at Yale. He comments that ―There are a lot of really amazing professors here.‖ Michael hopes to eventually litigate for the Department of Justice. *** In Fall 2015, Gustave Lester entered the History of Science program at Harvard as a Ph.D. candidate. Gustave graduated from UI with a major in history and a minor in philosophy in May 2015. A transfer student from North Idaho College in Couer d‘Alene, Gustave attended UI as an undergraduate for two years, during which he was a member of the UI Jazz Choir, performed in local and university theater, and attended several history conferences with the help of the History Department. He speaks highly of his time in Moscow: ―The obvious care, support, and attention offered to students by the history faculty served as invaluable resources as I explored my shifting interests (such as Dr. Banerjee exposing me to the History of Science) and prepared me for academia beyond the Bachelor‘s.‖ Gustave is primarily interested in the history of earth sciences and natural history in Europe and North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is currently working with Dr. Janet Browne and Dr. Naomi Oreskes. His latest research project explores American pirating of English geological texts during the 1830s. After his second year of graduate studies, he will take general examinations and begin work on a dissertation. Gustave plans to continue in academia and hopes to go on to be a university professor. These are just some of the many recent student alumni to graduate from our History Department. We are proud of all of them – and look forward to seeing many more history students start their journey here at the University of Idaho. ~Ben Bridges 7
Digital History In recent years, using the internet and online digital sources has allowed both scholars and the public to delve into hitherto unexplored depths of knowledge. Gone are the days of back-bent researchers, hunched over musty card catalogues, searching for that lone source that can make or break their research. For the modern scholar, finding an old card catalogue is like finding a treasure from the past, a crumbling relic of a bygone era with hand-written notations hastily scrawled across the back of index cards. Now, with the click of a button, historians have at their fingertips access to thousands of resources, automatically crossreferenced by subject, author, keyword, and relevance, easily accessible through the most convenient web portals. History has moved out of the dusty past and into the digital age, especially in the classroom. Through digital history, researchers manipulate new technologies to research, write, and present the past, often in innovative and exciting ways. There are a multitude of sources available through digital archives, from online primary source documents and academic journals, to historic photographs, to recordings of oral histories. The transmission of information across the web has opened vast new resources for students and researchers at the University of Idaho. Many UI professors are finding innovative ways to incorporate digital tools into the classroom. Professor Adam Sowards, in conjunction with Dr. Jeff Sanders at WSU, designed the first ever UI digital history course, ―Regional Environmental and Digital History,‖ in 2016. Students have studied aspects of the Columbia River Flood of 1948 and utilized what they learned by building an interactive website, accessible to a general audience as well as scholars. In this class, Professors Sowards and Sanders hope to build a public digital resource that integrates a traditional narrative with online tools in an interactive story map. According to Professor Sowards, the primary goals of the class include introducing students to the digital tools available to tell stories about the past, teaching emerging scholars ways to portray history online, and practicing digital research with a public audience in
mind. Without access to scholarly journals, most of the public does not have access to historians‘ research, yet anyone with an internet connection can make use of digital public history. Writing history for the public takes different skills than writing for a scholarly journal; Professor Sowards‘ class presents different ways to change students‘ thinking while interpreting history with a scholarly voice. As the Information Age continues, academics at UI and around the world are finding new ways to highlight their research. Dr. Douglas Seefeldt, a leading digital historian, recently spoke at the University of Idaho about his work with the digital collection, The William F. Cody Archive: Documenting the life and times of Buffalo Bill. According to Dr. Seefeldt, digital history is a relatively new field; many historians do not know how to incorporate digital tools into teaching and research. Quoting an article on the subject, Dr. Seefeldt noted that not more than ten scholars read a typical article in an academic journal. Yet the digital archive he helped build has received over 70,000 hits from around the world in less than four years. University of Idaho students and faculty embrace this innovative technology, reaching far beyond their predecessors‘ wildest dreams. ~Scott Cardwell
Review Ginzberg, Eitan. Revolutionary Ideology and Political Destiny in Mexico, 1928-1934: Lázaro Cárdenas and Adalberto Tejeda. Chicago: Sussex Academic Press, 2015.
After the Mexican Revolution came to a close, the victors redefined the meaning and direction of the Revolution through the PNR or Partido Nacional Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Party). Eitan Ginzberg explores the state of the Revolution as directed by the PNR in his book, Revolutionary Ideology and Political Destiny in Mexico. Ginzberg argues that the PNR maintained political power by incorporating tamed revolutionary ideas from the political left. To illustrate this, Ginzberg analyzes the governorships and subsequent presidential bids of Lázaro Cárdenas and Adalberto Tejeda. Continued on Page 9 8
According to Ginzberg, the PNR‘s commitment to Revolution varied, as support among elites for agrarian reform had begun to wane after the La cristiada or Cristero movement. As the ideology shifted more towards the center, both Cárdenas and Tejeda gathered support from campesinos (agrarian laborers) and labor as they stayed committed to agricultural reform.
Cárdenas, Tejeda built political power through addressing people‘s needs in his state by supporting the tenancy movement. Tejeda did what agrarian reform attempted in the country, but within the city. By direct order and reinterpretation of the constitution, Tejeda created space for city laborers to purchase land to build homes and move away from the patios.
Ginzberg presents Cárdenas as a self-interested politician who aligned himself with the left to garner support and shifted towards the center to gain the PNR presidential nomination. Additionally, Ginzberg depicts Cárdenas as politically savvy. While establishing his political base in Michoacán, Cárdenas also increased the number of municípios (municipalities), thereby increasing the influence of the PNR in his home state. Additionally, he accepted positions or opportunities that tied him to the party, such as fighting the cristeros or serving as party president. According to Ginzberg, his careful interactions demonstrate his interest in developing a political career.
Ginzberg‘s approach succeeds in demonstrating the PNR‘s ability to adopt or subsume political leaders whose ideologies might not fit the party‘s needs. Cárdenas and those after him would further establish the PNR's influence in Mexico, but as Ginzberg‘s comparison demonstrates, the PNR could only bend so far left. Moreover, this approach allows readers to better understand the regionalism of Mexico. The differing needs of Michoacán versus Veracruz help illustrate how these leaders adapted revolutionary ideals to their people with the same goals in mind. However, the PNR loomed over their efforts like a shadow. Since the PNR claimed to be the inheritors of the revolution, they dictated who was a ―true revolutionary.‖ With each successive win of PNR candidates, the Revolution was further institutionalized.
Tejeda, on the other hand, came to his socialist leanings honestly—unlike the PNR and their imitation of the Revolution. According to Ginzberg, Tejada‘s sincerity and commitment to the agrarian leagues later in his career gave him a powerful political base. However, Tejeda ventured too far left, which placed him in opposition to the PNR‘s ideology. Ginzberg implies that though Tejeda maintained the Revolution‘s supposed ideology, the party saw him as a radical. In short, though the party claimed to carry on the Revolution, it was in fact uneasy with the ideology that the Revolution presented, especially agrarian reform. Moreover, unlike Cárdenas, Tejeda did not seek out or accepted party affiliation or position. To Ginzberg, his sincerity and adherence to his ideology prevented him from competing with Cárdenas, who knew the political game and played to win. The concern for ejidos (communally owned native lands) and tenancy serve as overarching themes in Ginzberg‘s book. Cárdenas believed in the success of the communal lands, even though the old guard of the Revolution had come to perceive it as a failure. Much of his political success among the people stemmed from his efforts to protect these lands, even though enacted reforms failed to serve everyone. Like
Ginzberg‘s research provides an avenue for future reading. The bibliography offers readers a guide into political sources divided among government archives, newspapers and periodicals as well as personal papers. Moreover, to capture the party‘s methods of control, Ginzberg relies on the parliamentary protocols as well as government reports. All these help the author demonstrate the thoroughness the PRI sought to maintain its regime. Overall, Ginzberg‘s book, though narrow in scope, provides a view of the political interests of leaders, agrarian and industrial workers. The overall themes help the reader understand the political atmosphere of the PNR and Mexico. The institutionalization of the Revolution sidelined the more radical revolutionary ideologies and leaders. Tejeda was a victim of this process, while Cárdenas benefited from the party‘s control. Though the PNR viewed Cárdenas as a good soldier and Tejeda as a radical, Tejeda would soon be exiled and pushed out of the party as Cárdenas pushed forward with revolutionary zeal. ~Benjamin Ocampo
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Faculty Awards and Publications 2016 CLASS Summer Research Grant, University of Idaho. Somaditya Bannerjee ―Transnational Quantum: Quantum Physics in India through the lens of Satyendranath Bose.‖ Physics in Perspective 18, no. 2 (13 May 2016):1-25. ―HSS‘s outreach to historians in South Asia,‖ roundtable panel at History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting. San Francisco, 19 November 2015. Dale Graden "O envolvimento dos Estados Unidos no comérciotransatlantico de escravos para o Brasil." In Atlântico de dor: faces do tráfico dos escravos, João José Reis and Carlos da Silva, Jr., eds. Salvador, Brazil, 2016, forthcoming. Ellen Kittell ―What is in a First Name? Evidence from mortmain payments in late medieval Courtrai and Tielt.‖ Workshop presentation at ―Women‘s fortunes: Social and economic changes in the position of late medieval women (1300-1600).‖ Leuven, Belgium, 26 May 2016. Sean Quinlan 2016 Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (co-recipient), Office of the Provost, University of Idaho. Summer 2016 Research Fellowship, Idaho Humanities Council, a State-Based Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visiting Professorship, Leuphana Universität (Lüneburg, Germany), USAC exchange program, Spring 2016. Invited Fellow (residency), Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, June–July 2015. Rebecca Scofield 2016 Seed Grant, University of Idaho Adam Sowards Bridging the Past, Present, and Future: Commemorating 25 Years of the Idaho Heritage Trust. Boise: Idaho Heritage Trust, 2016. ----- and Rebecca Stunz. ―Mobile Nature, Cooperative Management, and Institutional Adaptation in Pacific Northwest Blister Rust Control in the 20th Century.‖ Pacific Northwest Quarterly 105, no. 4 (Fall 2014): 159-74. ―Protecting American Lands with Justice William O. Douglas.‖ The George Wright Forum 32, no. 2 (2015): 165-73. ―Rexford Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place: Applied Ecology in the Mid-Twentieth-Century American West.‖ In New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture, ed. Denise Phillips and Sharon Kingsland, 297-322. New York: Springer, 2015.
Rick Spence ―Death in the Adirondacks: Amtorg, Intrigue and the Dubious Demise of Isaiah Khurgin and Efraim Sklyansky.‖ America Communist History, 14, no. 2(2015): 135-158. ―Donald McCormick: 2+2=5.‖ In Robert Leeson, ed., Hayek: A Collaborative Biography, Pt. 3, Fraud, Fascism and Free Market Religion. Palgrave McMillan, 2015. Revised and expanded, ―Searching for James Shelby Downard,‖ League of Western Fortean Intermediatists, (original published 2 April 2012) http://forteanswest.com/lowfiguesteditorialDrRichardBSpence0612.php. ―The Spy Who Wasn‘t There: Uncovering the True Past of ‗Atom Spy‘ Arthur Adams.‖ Presentation at the University of Idaho Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium, 19 January 2016. ―The Armenian Genocide.‖ Public Talk at the University of Idaho, 27 April 2015. Researcher-consultant for documentary film project Революция.ЗападнядляРоссии (―Revolution: A Trap for Russia‖). Russian Cultural Foundation, Presidential Programs, Moscow, 2015. Interviewed by Russian NTV Television for upcoming documentary ―Anatomy of Revolution‖ that will commemorate to 100th anniversary of the Revolutions of 1917. January, 2016. ТайнаДлинногоозера (―The Secret of Long Lake‖). Interviewed by Vladimir Abarinov regarding the mysterious 1925 deaths of two Soviet emissaries. Radio Svoboda (27August 2015). http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/27212427.html. Eight appearances on Richard C. Hoagland‘s radio program ―The Other Side of Midnight‖ on topics including Aleister Crowley, Islam, Russian and American politics, aerial mysteries and more. 2015-2016. Pingchao Zhu Wartime Culture in Guilin, 1938-1944: A City At War. New York: Lexington Books, 2015. ―‗Disgraced Soldiers‘: The Ordeal of the Repatriated POWs of the Chinese People‘s Volunteer Army from the Korean War.‖ The Journal of Chinese Military History 4.2 (2015), 162-200. ―China‘s Romance of the Korean War: Heroism, Sacrifice, and Political Propaganda.‖ Invited talk for the Richard McCarthy Lecture Series: Pivot to Asia. University of Southern Mississippi, September 1, 2015.
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In Recognition CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2016 HISTORY DEPARTMENT GRADUATES: Richard Freeman Anthony Greene Joseph Harrington James Jacobs Jefferson Kloepfer Joseph Madsen Sally Mei Keith Piersol Jose Rojas Amish Smith Rebecca Stunz Amelia White Evan Wilson
2016 OUTSTANDING STUDENT AWARDS W.K. Hackmann Outsanding Senior: Amish Smith Carlos Schwantes Outstanding Graduate Student: Molly Swords
2016-2017 PAT OFFICERS Best wishes to next year’s newly elected Phi Alpha Theta officers: Anthony Greene, President Clayton Carson, Vice President Zachery Spence, Treasurer Sean Mullins, Secretary Rachael Falzon, Historian
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