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Item Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. Rhetoric about destruction in Holocaust representations(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021) Nevat, IritThis research examines Holocaust representations in Kansas City in 2021, focusing on global connections to social responsibility and commemoration methods. A review of historical museums around the world reveals that curators of historical museums utilize specific rhetoric that reflect the values and forces of their respective society. The arrival of the international traveling exhibit Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. to Kansas City, MO marks new cultural practices of remembrance that embed the Holocaust narrative into a local perspective. Local agents, such as Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and film producer Brad Austin, use rhetorical language that aims to fill the void left by genocide via a strategic perspective that connects the Holocaust story to the Midwestern and national narratives of commemoration. I argue that, today, international Holocaust representations reflect a new tendency to connect to the victims, encourage empathy, and thus reduce Otherness. The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas asks us to reconsider how we interact with the Other. Thus, the main function of historical exhibition is to encourage the visitor to truly connect across the barriers of difference. This tendency is now a part of the international Holocaust memorialization, and the rhetorical message is no longer only didactic. The global message of the Holocaust transformed this event into a vehicle for new rhetoric, one that enhances a sense of responsibility and constructs a new social responsibility to build tolerance in our multicultural communities, beyond the Holocaust itself.Item ‘It’s Because of Her Success the Rest of the Hive Succeeds’: The American Honey Queen Program and Women’s Advocacy in Twentieth-Century Apiculture(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021) Foster, Kathleen L.This study examines the foundational decades of the American Beekeeping Federation’s American Honey Queen Program from the 1950s through the 1990s. While women have played vital roles in American apiculture, their achievements are often absent from the histories of the industry. Similarly, rural and agricultural women’s experiences are frequently overlooked or misinterpreted in studies of twentieth-century feminism. The following project serves as a step towards restoring the unique voices of women in the beekeeping industry to these historiographical conversations. This work centers around oral history interviews with six women who participated in the American Honey Queen Program in the latter half of the twentieth century. The interviews were conducted remotely via Zoom in October 2020, and bolster Honey Queen stories recovered from newspapers, agricultural journals, and beekeeping association newsletters. These narrators’ memories reveal how women navigated gendered perceptions of pageantry and femininity to shape and push the boundaries of women’s authority in the beekeeping industry. Ultimately, the history of the American Honey Queen Program illuminates the ingenuity and agency of women in apiculture and demonstrates the fluidity of agricultural feminisms in the late twentieth century.Item Kansas City legacies: pushing beyond redlining(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2020) Miller, Kathrine TrevetteThis thesis looks at redlining and blatant discrimination within Kansas City. Racial bias remains a fact of American life, and the Federal Housing Administration ultimately failed Black Americans.1 Established covenants required home-sale contracts that prohibited future sales to nonwhites, which only set a precedent for persistent racial segregation patterns that still divide American cities. Many established post-World War II suburbs still play a significant role in maintaining the color line in urban housing. Historically underrepresented groups continuously find themselves plagued by overwhelming obstacles to find, finance, and purchase homes. This project compiles oral histories of individuals who provide their experiences of redlining and discrimination in Kansas City, Missouri. The seven chosen interviewees come from various backgrounds who are active in politics, activism, and community networking. The project also draws upon secondary sources on residential segregation and racial discrimination. Instead of using the distinctive and familiar “Troost Wall” case study, these new oral histories from Kansas City’s underrepresented areas broaden an understanding of the consequences of redlining in the city.Item Medicine of the Ancient Near East and Egypt Through Artifacts(2013) Fitzsimmons, Michelle; Payne, Lynda Ellen Stephenson; Mitchell, Linda Elizabeth; Forman-Brunell, Miriam, 1955-; Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum; University of Kansas. Medical Center. Department of History and Philosophy of MedicineThe exhibit “Myth, Magic, and Medicine: A Journey to the Ancient World” was publicly displayed at the Clendening History of Medicine Museum at the University of Kansas Medical Center from June to September of 2012. The exhibit included artifacts from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, however, the following catalog will focus on one portion of the exhibit, which centered on the Near East and Egypt. This catalog aims to use a small selection of the artifacts from the "Myth, Magic, and Medicine: A Journey to the Ancient World” exhibit to explore this important combination of magic, religion, and medicine to varying degrees in ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian medicine so that historians can better understand the roots of modern medical traditions still seen today. By tracing the roots of this combination, historians can see a continuation into the present day and identify certain changes—such as the introduction of Christianity and monotheism—that affected the way religion and magic are incorporated into modern medical practice.