Vanderbilt Historical Review

01/28/2020

LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Be sure to send in your application by the February 1st deadline. We look forward to reviewing your work!

01/13/2020

Calling all historians! The Vanderbilt Historical Review is now accepting submissions for our Spring 2020 edition!

The application process is highly competitive but gives students the opportunity to publish their own historical research. Be sure to submit by the Feb. 1st deadline and check out our website for more submission requirements!

09/03/2019

Want to be featured in our Fall 2019 publication? You have just one week left to submit your article!

We can't wait to see what you've written!!

06/22/2019

Our can’t stop making history!!!! We have booked our ticket to the finals of the College World Series! ⚾️🏆🎉🎉🎉
We’ve made it to the four times in our school’s history, and we got our first trip to the tournament in 2011 after we absolutely destroyed Oregon State 11-1. Immediately after this historic win, our team celebrated with huge dog pile on the field!
We hope to see another dog pile like this after we beat Michigan in the next week!
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[Images Courtesy of Vanderbilt Athletics]
For more information on our incredible 2011 season, check out this article written by our Athletics dept:
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbiltmagazine/the-dores-of-summer/?fbclid=IwAR3WWhAWCcuzxFMONGq7xN6GU9yqvytoRYI0tjKeIfpzmN2IQgAoOf3yJFM

06/21/2019

Congrats to Darius Garland for getting drafted to the as the fifth pick of the first round!!! 🏀🏀This is actually the first time since the 1966 draft that a Vanderbilt Basketball player was a top 10 pick. That year, one of the greatest players in our school’s history, Clyde Lee, was chosen by the Golden State Warriors as the third pick of the NBA Draft.

Clyde Lee graduated as Vanderbilt’s all-time leading scorer with 1,691 points in just three years, a point talley so impressive that even fifty years later is our sixth best! He continues to hold school rebounding records with 1,223 in his college career at an average of 15.5 per game. In fact, Lee was so good that for his final game as a Commodore on March 5th, 1966, Vanderbilt University and the city of Nashville celebrated “Clyde Lee Day” as officially proclaimed by the Tennessee State Legislature. Lee, a local Nashvillian himself, attracted so many fans to his games that Memorial Gymnasium had to put in its balconies which many called, “The Balconies that Clyde Built.”
In his last college game (which because of his fame had sold out before the season started), Lee and his team lost in an upset to Mississippi State. However, before the game Vandy retired his No. 43 jersey, the first of only three times this has happened in Vanderbilt Basketball history.
After playing at Vanderbilt, Clyde Lee went on to have a scintillating career in the pros. He racked up 5,733 points in eleven years, which continues to be far and away the most points scored by a former Commodore.
Although Darius Garland didn’t get to establish himself here as much as Clyde Lee did, we are incredibly excited to see what the future holds for our basketball program and for this bright talent!
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[Images Courtesy of Vanderbilt Athletics]
For more information on Clyde Lee, check out this article written by our Athletics dept:https://vucommodores.com/news/2013/3/6/clyde_lee_day_in_1966.aspx
@ Memorial Gymnasium

06/02/2019

I reviewed more than a thousand publications from the founding era, and discovered that “executive power” doesn’t imply what most scholars thought.

05/28/2019

Want to become a published Scholar? Have you ever written a long research paper on any topic in world history? Consider submitting your work to our journal!

Publication to the VHR is highly selective and rigorous. We often accept works not just from Vanderbilt students, but also from undergraduates attending prestigious schools from all over the country such as Yale and Stanford. Although we will only accept around 10 papers for the printed journal, we also consider many quality submissions for our online blog. For more information regarding the submission process and requirements, please see our website listed in our bio or click this link:
http://vanderbilthistoricalreview.com/submissions/

04/28/2019

Book Review:
From 1945 to 1990, the American strategies of containment and rollback ... turned what Casey charmingly called “the countryside of the Third World” into the bloodiest military theater of the Cold War era ... Yet, most conventional studies fail to give reasonable weight to the decolonizing world’s centrality in constructing a more complete picture of the Cold War’s history.

Mehrdad Kevin Dariush Columbia University (Edited by Elise Reimcheisel & Lauren Bamonte of VHR) Book: The Cold War’s Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace. Paul Thomas Chamberlin. (New York: Harper Collins, 2018). 629 pp. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan’s director

04/28/2019

Outgoing Editor-in-Chief Justin DeMello is a senior from Minneapolis, Minnesota studying both History and Political Science. His research interests lie primarily in contemporary American political, social, and intellectual history, with special interests in American political development, mass incarceration, and all manners of state-society relations in the postwar period.

He will be defending his honors thesis this upcoming Tuesday, April 30. 2019. He is writing a communication-political history of Newt Gingrich, the Republican Speaker of the House from 1995-1999 and a pivotal figure in the polarization of American politics in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Using primary sources from print, visual, and radio media, the thesis posits that Gingrich’s conceptualization of new uses of media to re-invent and revitalize the Republican Party spanned years before his speakership, and represent a groundbreaking project of political polarization that bears parentage to contemporary partisanship.

In his free time, Justin enjoys exploring Nashville, reading pedagogy scholarship, and socializing fresh minds into the edgy side of the humanities.

04/27/2019

In the 1720s, Cotton Mather supported an early form of inoculation.

04/22/2019

Our new issue will be available for pickup at the Vanderbilt History Department the end of this week!