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The Work and the Glory: Historical Fiction and Cultural Narrative in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
In October 1838, Governor Lilburn Boggs of Missouri sanctioned the extermination
of the “Mormon” settlers who had been pouring into the state beginning in 1831. His
infamous “Extermination Order” quickly put an end to ...
A Quack on Trial: Advertising and Education in Missouri's Medical Marketplace, 1850--1890
(2014-09-30)
This study compares the lives and practices of Dr. Galen Bishop (1824-1902) and Dr. George Catlett (1828-1886), physicians emblematic of a larger struggle to shape the future of medical practice in America. The orthodox Catlett was among the best...
Great Expectations: Women's Help Wanted Ads In Kansas City, 1920-1936
(2021)
are an untapped source with potential for confirming and building on other research topics that have long been understated, if not ignored entirely. Hopefully, this paper will serve as a demonstration of the value of further research into this valuable historical...
Making the Frontier’s Anatomical Engineers: Osteopathy, A. T. Still (1828–1917), his Acolytes and Patients
(2020)
training, but gender shaped their experience and career outcomes. Contrary to modern thought, this early support did not mean that women’s experiences were the same as men’s experiences. Women were able to practice osteopathy without living the cloistered...
Joan de Mohun: a powerful courtier during the reign of Richard II
(2024)
how Joan orchestrated a move from the periphery of the elite to a prominent position in the court of Richard II. Surviving evidence, like the Mohun Chronicle, suggest the methods that Lady Mohun employed to fashion her image as an ideal courtier whose...
Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
(2015)
, and the end of marital
relationships.
Medieval chronicle accounts, charters, monastic cartularies, seals, and letters, provide the material
evidence for this study. Each type and each example do more than convey raw data, however, as they elicit...
Feminizing Grief: Victorian Women and the Appropriation of Mourning
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
The Victorians didn’t invent the culture of mourning. But they certainly codified how the culture of grief should be one largely shouldered and sustained by women. Mourning rules for women were characterized by restraint ...
Agents unto Themselves: Reconstructing the Narrative of Women’s Roles in the Anglo-Saxon Conversion
(2015)
The legacy of Christianity in Britain is unique, as that region is one of very few
known to have converted to the Christian faith twice. The conversion of Britain’s Anglo-
Saxon newcomers demonstrates a confluence of ...
Whitewashing or amnesia: a study of the construction of race in two Midwestern counties
(2019)
This inter-disciplinary dissertation utilizes sociological and historical research methods for a critical comparative analysis of the material culture as reproduced through murals and monuments located in two counties in ...
Rendering assistance to best advantage: the development of women's activism in Kansas City, 1870 to World War I
(2013)
This study examines the rise of women's activism in Kansas City between the
opening of the Hannibal railroad bridge in 1869 and World War I. Women's efforts over
the course of nearly 50 years to emerge from the domestic ...
World to Word: Nomenclature Systems of Color and Species
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
As the digitization of information accelerates, the push to encode our surrounding
numerically instead of linguistically increases. The role that language has traditionally
played in the nomenclature of an integrative ...
Anne of France as Madame La Grande: The Strategies of a Self-Fashioned Woman 1483-1522
(2022)
A century and a half before Elizabeth I was the “Virgin Queen,” Anne of France created her own image in the form of “Madame la Grande,” a moniker specially formed to denote Anne’s high status and authority. Born in 1461 ...
Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
(2022)
The quest for African Americans to gain emancipation and equal civil rights occupied the efforts of abolitionists and antislavery advocates for much of the nineteenth century. For both men and women who valued the democratic ...
The Gospel of Judas: Polemic, Pop Culture, Fictious History
(2022)
The following essay is about the polemical nature of The Gospel of Judas. So much was initially said about the impact the publication of The Gospel of Judas would have upon our understanding of the history of Christianity, ...
"Something at Least Human": Transatlantic (Re)Presentations of Creole Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(2015-06-19)
Throughout the nineteenth century, Creole women were consistently idealized,
exoticized, and demonized in literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. While
the term Creole is still hotly contested even today, ...
Outside the Lines: How Moberly Junior College Basketball Players Negotiated Social and Racial Norms of Little Dixie On and Off the Court, 1955-1967
(2021)
Moberly, located in the north central Missouri region historically known as “Little Dixie,” has deeply rooted practices concerning racial relations and its own unique history around integration. The Moberly Greyhounds basketball team won back...
Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
(2023)
This dissertation examines representations of women artists—writers, musicians, painters, and photographers—in nineteenth-century British novels and poetry written by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George ...