Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Global Economics

Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of global economics

Yehudi Menuhin à l’Unesco, la musique pour ambassade

« N’oubliez jamais que nous ne sommes pas des délégués représentant des États politiques, mais des musiciens représentant les cultures de l’humanité. […] Nous sommes des hommes libres, nous sommes musiciens. » En 1975, dans son dernier discours en tant que président du Conseil international de la musique, une organisation non gouvernementale affiliée à l’Unesco, Yehudi Menuhin appelait à résister aux « effets diviseurs de la compétition des nationalismes ». Quatre ans plus tôt, il combattait pour les mêmes idéaux à Moscou, en dénonçant le sort des artistes dissidents. À partir des archives privées du musicien, des fonds du CIM, de l’Unesco, des sources diplomatiques américaines et des Archives russes d’État de la littérature et des arts, cet article retrace l’action de Menuhin à l’Unesco et interroge l’invention d’une diplomatie musicienne au tournant des années 1960 et 1970.“We should never forget that we are not officials representing political states, but musicians representing the cultures of the world. […] We are free human beings, we are musicians.” In 1975, in his last speech as president of the International Music Council, a non-governmental body of the UNESCO, Yehudi Menuhin called on musicians to stand up against “the dividing effects of competing nationalisms”. Four years earlier, he was fighting for the same ideals in Moscow by speaking out against the fate of dissident artists. Based on the musician’s papers, IMC and UNESCO archives, American diplomatic sources and Russian State archives of literature and art, this essay provides an outline of Menuhin’s actions at UNESCO and examines the invention of a musical diplomacy in the years 1960-1970

Immigrant women in the making of Irish America: a walking history tour

As a result of the Great Hunger, nearly 1.8 people emigrated from Ireland, and the resultant diaspora changed the face of the great cities where they arrived. The Irish were the first large immigrant group to emigrate to New York, and their arrival challenged the infrastructure and permanently changed the demography of the city. As such, the Irish are integral to immigration studies and New York City history, for they set the stage for the many ethnicities that followed in their footsteps. An important element in immigration studies is the process of assimilation that groups undergo as they transition from the old land to the new. This walking history tour introduces students to the idea of acculturation through the immigrant experience of the Irish Catholic women who emigrated in the middle of the nineteenth century. Through the use of illustrated newspapers, personal correspondence, city directories and bank records students learn of the nativist hostility that the Irish faced, and the strategies that they used to survive in their hostile new world. The tour ultimately exposes that while religious animosity threatened the Irish in America, it was this commitment to religion and to each other that enabled them to not only assimilate, but to thrive in New York. (Author abstract)Polatchek, D. (2018). Immigrant women in the making of Irish America: a walking history tour. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduMaster ArtsHistoryCollege of Online and Continuing Educatio

The National Interest and the Roots of American-Saudi Diplomacy

This paper analyzes the beginnings of diplomacy between the United States and Saudi Arabia during the interwar years and World War II. It explores how national interest was decided upon, how oil companies affected American foreign policy, and the American government’s strategic interest in Saudi oil reserves

ISCHE 42 - Looking from Above and Below:Rethinking the Social in the History of Education – Book of Abstracts

ISCHE 42 was conducted as a virtual conference due to the covid-19 pandemic. In adapting to this situation, the conference period was extended to two weeks, June 14-25, 2021, with a preconference on June 11, 2021. The abstracts for this conference are compiled in this volume