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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 ...
“Benign Negligence: U.S.-South Korean Relations at the End of the Carter Administration”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-27)
President Carter hoped to define his foreign policy on human rights and liberalization. With the removal of the longtime authoritarian leader, Park Chung Hee, the year 1979 presented an opportunity for democracy in South ...
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 ...
A Most Divisive Year: The Year of Europe and the Special Relationship in 1973
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04-15)
This thesis examines Anglo-American relations in 1973, an especially turbulent year in the history of the post-World War II "special relationship." It draws on a wide range of documentary evidence and telephone transcripts ...
The Day the Earth Stood Still: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing and American Civil Religion
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04)
This thesis examines the importance of the first Moon landing through the lens of civil religion. It concludes that civil religion inspired the Moon landing and led to its success in July 1969. Furthermore, it finds that ...
Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns Grow: The Role of the Vanderbilt Aid Society in the Establishment and Development of Vanderbilt University, 1894-1930The Role of the Vanderbilt Aid Society in the Establishment and Development of Vanderbilt University, 1894-1930
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04-28)
Although the United States today boasts a massive network of colleges and universities, these institutions owe much to the support provided by philanthropic organizations. The critical role in American higher education ...
Persons and Potential: Education and Abolition in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-27)
This project analyzes late eighteenth-century education, family literature, and antislavery political tracts to demonstrate the intersection of education and family and abolitionist rhetoric in Britain. This examination ...
A Look Rather than a Reality: Feminism, Bras and the Politics of Commodification
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04-28)
This thesis explores the interaction between feminism, fashion and visual culture during the women's liberation movement by focusing on the symbolism of bras. Using documents ranging from annual reports from the Hanes ...