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The Streets where the Dragons Dance: The Street Life of Calcutta’s Chinatowns

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Middle Ground Journal

“The trials and tribulations surrounding the evolution and erosion of the Chinese streets of Calcutta have hardly received importance in the popular historical narrative of the city, irrespective of the sustained curiosity regarding the lives of the Chinatowns. A street’s role in constructing a spatial identity often separates a locality from another, but it certainly serves as an arena where interaction, adaptation, and formulation of a syncretic identity take place.”

On Teaching Column: A (Fort) Ancient Commonwealth: Local History in a Premodern World History Survey

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Middle Ground Journal

Photo of tree with yellow leaves on its branches and all around it on the ground, Pamplona Campus, Spain.

“While this module was designed to address the premodern history of Kentucky specifically, in its rough parameters it could be revised for other regions in North America.”

On Teaching Column: Ku Klux Klan Documents in Noblesville, Indiana: Race, History, and Archives

Posted on September 3, 2021 by Middle Ground Journal

“Ku Klux Klan Documents in Noblesville, Indiana: Race, History, and Archives” By Sumiko Otsubo, Ph.D., Metropolitan State University Abstract: Discussions of an unusually intriguing case about access to archival documents brought together historians, archivists, history undergraduates, and interested parties. This essay informs readers that despite the continuing resistance in favor of withholding the identities of Klan members, the restriction was

On Teaching – Food for Thought: Five Ways to Think About (and Teach) the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Middle Ground Journal

Food for Thought: Five Ways to Think About (and Teach) the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Steven A. Glazer is professor of History at Graceland University, in Lamoni, Iowa. The author would like to thank the reviewers and editors of THE MIDDLE GROUND for their helpful suggestions to improve an earlier draft. Portions of this first paper were originally presented at the Midwest

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On Teaching Column: What Is Informal Imperialism?

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Middle Ground Journal

Column: What Is Informal Imperialism? Mathieu Gotteland, M.A., Doctorant en histoire, allocataire du Ministère de la Défense, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Abstract: This article aims to explain in a theoretical way, but with practical historical examples the complex notion of informal imperialism. First analyzing imperialism(s) and colonialism as a whole, it will then try to characterize and categorize more specifically

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