Fall 2025


The Undergraduate Journal of History

Vol. 5., No. 2. (Fall 2025)


The History of Early Indigenous Community Archaeology

Emma Dalla Costa


Empire of Diaspora: Exploring African and Jewish Fights for Sovereignty in the First Maroon War

Joshua Darrish


Rebels and Traders: The Economic Consequences of the American Revolution

Avery Farino


The Oriental Other: Anti-Mormon Rhetoric and the Orientalization of Polygamy in Nineteenth-Century America

Krystal Liu


Mormon Suffrage Activism Mitigated Anti-Polygamy Societal Pressures and Political Lobbying

Aleksandra Mayer


Beyond Assimilation:The Dual Identity of 1956 Hungarian Freedom Fighters in the United States

Ava McKallip


Home and Homesickness: Silvia Tennenbaum’s Notes on Memory

Lila Grey Miller


The Federation of South African Women and the 1956 Anti-Pass March

Reagan Platt


The Autonomy of Lascars and Wealthy South Asian Travelers in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Sujitha Polimera


Hot Off the Ladies’ Press! The Optimization of the British Mass Media by the Late Victorian Women’s Movement, 1870-1899

Hannah Whitley


False Friends:The Pereiaslav Agreement of 1654 and Competing Narratives in Russian and Ukrainian Historiographies

Jiansheng Zhang


2025 Stuart L. Bernath Prize Winner


Faith, Family, and Final Wishes: Gendered Analysis of Bequeathing Practices in Reformation England Using Somerset Wills from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1558-1569

Julia Drobish


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