Galvanized Yankees: Confederates in Union Service

This museum exhibit explores the topic of the Galvanized Yankees, or U.S. Volunteers, who were regiments of captured Confederate soldiers that chose to take an oath of allegiance to the Union and served on the Western Frontier protecting settlers from Indian attacks. The former Confederate soldiers enlisted because it provided them an opportunity of freedom from the POW camps and an opportunity to earn a wage to provide for their families. One such soldier was James A.P. Fancher, a Confederate POW from Sparta, Tennessee. During their time in the West, the Galvanized Yankees patrolled to keep stagecoach and mail lines open, worked to improve forts, and provide escorts to wagon trains. The experience of the Galvanized Yankees offered an early look at the sort of conflict that would continue between the United States and Native American groups, leading to large scale dispossession of Indigenous lands

Review of: Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions by Mitchell A. Orenstein, Stephen Bloom, and Nicole Lindstrom

The article reviews the book Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions, edited by Mitchell A. Orenstein, Stephen Bloom, and Nicole Lindstrom

Review of: Self-Consuming Evolutions: A Model on the Structure, Self-Reproduction, Self-Destruction and Transformation of Party-State Systems Tested in Romania, Hungary and China by Maria Csanádi

The article reviews the book Self-Consuming Evolutions: A Model on the Structure, Self-Reproduction, Self-Destruction and Transformation of Party-State Systems Tested in Romania, Hungary and China, by Maria Csanádi

Review of: The Helsinki Effect: International Norms, Human Rights, and the Demise of Communism by Daniel C. Thomas

Reviews the book The Helsinki Effect: International Norms, Human Rights, and the Demise of Communism, by Daniel C. Thomas

The Declaration as Ur-Constitution: The Bizarre Jurisprudential Philosophy of Professor Harry V. Jaffa

In his most recent work, Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question, Professor Harry V. Jaffa finally has put together in one place the core of his constitutional hermeneutic with all the attendant elements of his jurisprudential philosophy. Stated in oversimplified terms, perhaps, Dr. Jaffa sees the Declaration of Independence as the source of the principles embodied in the Constitution of the United States and finds the Declaration, furthermore, to be an indispensable aid to the correct interpretation of that later document. In order to comprehend the error of Jaffa\u27s claims, one must first consider several key questions

Review of: Dilemmas of Transition: The Hungarian Experience by Aurel Braun and Zoltan Barany

This article reviews the book Dilemmas of Transition: The Hungarian Experience by Aurel Braun; Zoltan Barany

Review of: Liberalization Challenges in Hungary: Elitism, Progressivism, and Populism by Umut Korkut

A review of the book Liberalization Challenges in Hungary: Elitism, Progressivism, and Populism, by Umut Korkut, which is part of the Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series, is presented

FINDING THE RIGHT LETTERS: THE ORIGINS OF THE EARLIEST ENGLISH ALPHABET

The present paper explores the origins in the seventh century of the Old English alphabet. It first surveys the different vernacular alphabets that would have been available as potential models or influences, Runic, Frankish, British (Welsh), and Irish—as well as the Latin alphabet. It then argues for the particular role of the Irish and their alphabet in the formation of the Old English alphabet and its script

適切な文字を求めて－最も古い英語のアルファベットの起源について－

本発表では7世紀の古英語のアルファベットの起源について考察する。まず、見本になった、あるいは、影響を与えた可能性があると思われる様々な国や地域のアルファベット、つまり、ルーン文字、フランク語、ブリトン語（ウェールズ語）、アイルランド語のアルファベットを概観する。そして、アイルランド語とそのアルファベットが古英語のアルファベットとその文字の形成に果たした役割について論じる。原著：パトリック, オニール　日本語要約：和田葉