Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "History"
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(2013-04-18)Department: HistoryFrom the 1920s to the 1940s, 350 colleges and more than 2,000 public schools throughout the South were using in their courses curricular materials designed to stress African-American achievements and point out the many ...
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(2019-07-30)Department: HistoryThe British coffeehouse has been the recipient of immense scholarly attention since Jürgen Habermas identified it as the paradigm of his public sphere, a space in which private and public interests intersected. But all of ...
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(2015-07-28)Department: HistoryIn this paper, I examine the press of Rio de Janeiro in August and September 1922 to argue that Brazil’s centennial celebrations represented a novel, yet culturally conservative, attempt by Brazilian and Portuguese political ...
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(2015-04-08)Department: HistoryThis paper explores how encounters with European empire shaped American missionary and travel writing about the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I break with the way that scholars in the humanities, ...
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(2014-07-15)Department: HistoryA Model for America investigates how black and white South Orange, New Jersey residents formed alliances in order to transform their community from a predominantly white community into a racially integrated community. ...
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(2017-08-29)Department: HistoryBeginning with the rise of a white pacifist movement in the United States during the First World War, this dissertation tracks how Howard Thurman, Bayard Rustin, and James M. Lawson, Jr. envisaged pacifism and navigated ...
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(2018-08-17)Department: HistoryUtilizing aspects of social, cultural, political, military and environmental history, this dissertation details the cycles of possession and dispossession of the lands of the Seneca Army Depot in upstate New York. It ...
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(2012-12-26)Department: HistoryThis project examines attempts to study and define public opinion in postwar Germany by two institutions: the Frankfurt School and the Allensbach Institute. I show how opinion researchers responded to theoretical frameworks ...
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(2016-07-26)Department: HistoryIn 1873, the capture of a private American vessel, the Virginius, by a Cuban warship almost brought the United States and Spain to war. The Spanish warship the Tornado seized the Virginius as it ran arms and ammunition to ...
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(2015-03-26)Department: HistoryIn February 1939, the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA) hired a registered nurse, Mildred Delp, and charged her with implementing a program to promote birth control among California’s migrant women. Over the next ...
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(2012-12-26)Department: HistoryThis project examines representations of women in German advertising posters from the 1870s to 1914. I focus on the connection of these gendered images to two spaces at the forefront of social and cultural change in ...
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(2019-08-20)Department: History9/11 and the wars which followed have called historians of both the United States and the Middle East to seek the origins of America’s relationship with the Islamic world. The prevailing historiographic consensus presents ...
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(2020-10-19)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines the cultural work of American Studies programs in the United States and the ways in which it shifted from the 1930s, when these programs became first established in the academy, to the 1990s, ...
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Americanizing Mexican Drug Enforcement: The War on Drugs in Mexican Politics and Society, 1964-1982 (2018-07-10)Department: HistoryThis dissertation tells the story of how U.S. drug control became externalized, and supply countries such as Mexico came to be seen as the cause for the U.S. drug problem. Rather than focusing on U.S. drug policy discourses ...
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(2019-08-29)Department: HistoryThe American Revolution generated tens of thousands of black loyalists who were evacuated from the United States and resettled in London, Nova Scotia, and eventually Sierra Leone. The departure of black loyalists after the ...
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(2018-07-26)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines the role that various publics have played in the creation and transmission of scientific knowledge of the human body at work. It focuses on the early development of industrial psychology as a way ...
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(2019-06-07)Department: HistoryThis dissertation reveals how the importation of South Asian artworks, antiquities, religious images, and other items were central to British understandings of the subcontinent and of British national character. This study ...
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(2005-07-26)Department: HistoryIn Colombia in the 1930s and 40s, both Liberal and Conservative politicians increasingly made claims about the opposition that contributed to the creation of a discursive framework for the perpetrators of eliminationist ...
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(2014-08-04)Department: HistoryThis paper employs the NAACP records, military records, oral histories, and newspapers to reconstruct the efforts of civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall and his NAACP colleagues to launch a full-scale investigation of ...
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(2021-07-09)Department: HistoryDuring the past three decades or so both national and international scholars have placed a great deal of attention on the history and lived experiences of peoples of African descent in Mexico. Researchers initially showed ...