Written in Spring 2017 Hidden Figures is a film that tells the story of three forgotten women in Langley, VA, that helped astronaut John Glenn orbit the earth in 1962, effectively changing the tide of the race for space and giving the United States enough momentum to get two men on the moon. These women […]
German 340 Midterm: Transforming German and African Identities from the Eighteenth Century to the Post World War One Era
With the onset of the American revolutionary war, Hessian soldiers were sent to America to snuff out the American rebellion. During their campaign, they met, and were influenced by, both American slaveowners and American slaves. They were introduced to a new idea of blackness, of the “Negro” or Neger, and the idea of blackness as […]