Footnotes: A Journal of History

Footnotes: A Journal of History presents original primary research and historiographical papers from the University of Arizona’s undergraduate and graduate students. We are a forum of publication for historical research in a cross-variety of fields of inquiry. University of Arizona history students are able to work with the journal as both editors and authors. Footnotes highlights the importance of history and its applications in our ever-changing world.

Volume 8 • 2026

Front Matter

Front Matter

    Volume 8 • 2026 • 4 pages

    Articles

    "All You Have to Do … Is Keep Writing": Shirley Jackson’s Literary Feminism and Resistance to Cold War Gendered Expectations and Patriarchy

    • Amara Bonilla

    Volume 8 • 2026 • 1-19

    Interacting with Disease in Tokugawa Japan: How Diseases Influence Culture and Culture Influences Diseases

    • Cymbeline Hale

    Volume 8 • 2026 • 20-37

    Mentha Morrison's Anti-Slavery Petition to President Roosevelt: Resisting Peonage in a Southern Jim Crow Company Town

    • Stacy Lewis

    Volume 8 • 2026 • 38-60

    Esther Don Tang’s Home: Southern Arizona and Gender in the Construction of the Model Minority Myth 1950-1975

    • Edward Peng

    Volume 8 • 2026 • 61-69

    A Camel Story: Hadji Ali and the Transimperial Routes of Labor, Identity, and Enterprise

    • Mr Muhammet Topal

    Volume 8 • 2026 • 70-84