Mission
Statement:
Old Queens is a student-run digital journal dedicated to allowing undergraduate students of all majors to have their historical essays published. Students will have a chance to be recognized for their work, discover the publishing process, and improve their historical writing skills.
We encourage students to submit their work not just from history classes they have taken, but any class in which they have taken a historical approach to topics in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM.
In compiling this journal we seek to explore well-known historical topics, as well as hidden historical narratives that students have explored both inside and outside of the classroom.
The title of the journal, Old Queens, serves as both a celebration of Rutgers’ history and an acknowledgment of its troubled past due to the use of enslaved labor in the beginnings of Rutgers’ establishment.
Old Queens Undergraduate Historical Journal
Table of Contents,
Volume One,
Spring 2024
“The Rhineland Pogroms: Convenient Target or Internalized Hatred?”
Jacob Elstein
“Over-Policed, Underprotected: Black Soldiers’ Perspectives on Military Policing during World War II”
Brandon Popescu
“Loyalists and Quakers: Targets during Independence”
Fabian Paredes
“The Trajectory of Expulsions”
Chana Fisher
“The Question of Self-Determination: Carlota Lucemi and the Triunvirato Rebellion”
Herrin Fontenette
“What Cannot be Pronounced: Language, Identity, and Queerness in the 19th Century”
Natasha Marshall
