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National Health Insurance in an Age of Limits: Jimmy Carter’s Abandoned Agenda
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2018)
This thesis examines Jimmy Carter’s health policy in the context of declining New Deal liberalism. Although Carter had campaigned in 1976 on a platform that embraced national health insurance, a major unfinished goal of ...
Neglecting and Misrepresenting Latin America: Foreign Correspondents at the New York Times from 1966-1968
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2018)
The Cold War dominated United States’ foreign policy in the Sixties. With the Cuban Revolution and the perceived Communist threat in Chile, among other events, Latin America also became a region of greater strategic ...
“In Short, I am a West Indian": Planters, Performance, Anxiety, and Abolition in Georgian Britain
(2018)
Kathleen Wilson writes that the domestic elite of Georgian Britain sought a psychological "disavowal" of the West Indian planting class because elite flaws were reflected in the perceived degeneracy and excess of the ...
Missionary Girls’ Schools Yearbooks in Republican China: Navigating Youth, Gender and Nation, 1917-1948
(Vanderbilt University. Department of History, 2018)
This thesis examines the yearbooks of two missionary girls’ secondary schools in Shanghai, the McTyeire School and St. Mary’s Hall, from 1917 to 1948. In response to the increasing Chinese nationalism, the female students ...