Articles tagged with 'young-j-allen' — 3 found
Presenting my own research, and finding place in world history
Started off my spring break last weekend with a visit to Savannah, to attend my first history conference. It was a fairly small assembly, the Georgia Association of Historians annual conference, but I was fairly nervous because I was presenting my paper on Young J. Allen and his mission and education work in China. This [...]
March 3rd, 2011A hybrid port city on the coast of China: Shanghai, good and bad
The financial district of Shanghai, view from the Bund on the other side of the river Rev. Young John Allen, the man I spent last semester studying, was a foreigner living in Shanghai in the second half of the nineteenth century. In his day, the city was the only port open to the outside, although [...]
March 12th, 2010Adventures in an undergrad history thesis, or, four months with Young John Allen
The fall semester has ended, and with it, the largest writing project of my life (so far). The function of a senior seminar in history is to prove that you’ve acquired the skills to read and analyze scholarly work, do research in primary and secondary sources, and develop your own historical argument– one that contributes [...]
December 11th, 2009