The Sextant Christopher Newport University's on-line history journal Published Annually by the Department of History and the Alpha Zeta Mu Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta Editor: Nigel Anthony Sellars, Associate Professor of History Volume 6/7, Summer 2007 Introduction | How to Cite Cover: John C. Fremont using a sextant and a mercury artificial horizon to obtain his position to help him map the Oregon Trail on his 1842 expedition.
No. 6: Latin America and Byzantium
Lindsey Newman, “Lost in Translation: Nahua-Christian Interaction in Sixteenth Century Mexico” Winner: Robert Usry Prize, Fall 2006
Breanne Burke, “The Miraculous and the Everyday: How spiritualism and the miracle of Guadalupe develop the contemporary role of women in Mexican society.”
Christopher Glover, “Slavery and Abolition in Nineteenth Century Brazil”
Souphansa Ortiz, “Rufianes y Compadres, Prostituta y Milongueros: White Slavery and Sex Trafficking in Buenos Aires”
Rachel Middleton, “El futbol in Brazil: A History”
Bradley Kraft, “1453: A Military Analysis of the Fall of Constantinople”
No. 7: American Diplomacy, China, Cuba, and Russia
Bradley Kraft, “Balancing on the Razor’s Edge: An Analysis of US Policy in the Middle East During the 1970s” Winner: Robert Usry Prize, Spring 2007
Sara Higgins, “’A World All Shook Up’: The Effect of Elvis Presley as an American Export”
Jared Kreiner, “American Missionaries and the Boxer Rebellion”
Amanda Hanson, “Tracting New Turf: LDS Missionaries in Former Soviet Countries”
Will Blackwell, “Competidores en Diamante del Béisbol: Cultural Exchange Between Cuba and the United States Through a Shared Love of Baseball”
Jeremy Hanes, “The Overwhelming Response: Aesthetic Visions in Stalinist Tyranny”
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