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Making the Frontier’s Anatomical Engineers: Osteopathy, A. T. Still (1828–1917), his Acolytes and Patients
(2020)
explain the appeal of osteopathic medicine. Using patient testimonials from osteopathic journals, I examine the practicality, optimism, and patient-centered evaluation in osteopathic medicine. Still and the early osteopaths defended their drugless medicine...
From ‘Remedy Highly Esteemed’ to ‘Barbarous Practice’: The Rise and Fall of Acupuncture in Nineteenth-Century America
(2015-05-27)
This thesis analyzes the prevalent use of acupuncture in nineteenth-century American medicine. Using medical journal articles, school catalogs, lecture notes, fee tables, newspaper clippings and other primary sources, I argue against the modern myth...
Politics and Pandemic in 1918 Kansas City
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2010)
The 1918-1919 Spanish influenza was the deadliest pandemic in history and citizens of Kansas City died in larger numbers due to politics. Kansas City government was under the control of two powerful political bosses, ...
Forgetting strength : Coffeyville, the black freedom struggle, and the vanishing of memory
(2013)
When a white lynch mob of 3,000 stormed the city jail in Coffeyville, Kansas, in 1927, incited by rumors that three "negroes" had raped two white high school girls, the incident ended very differently from so many others ...
The Women of reform: Kansas eugenics
(2014-07-28)
The question this research sought to answer was what made Kansas eugenics unique and in what ways was it representative of eugenics throughout the nation. The main problem in studying the history of the eugenics movement ...
Margaret Roper and Mary Basset: The Influence of Christian Humanism on the Education of Thomas More's Daughter and Granddaughter
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Margaret Roper's schooling reflected the standards of early sixteenth century English
humanist views on education, while her daughter Mary Basset's education was a continuation of
the pedagogical tradition that Margaret ...
Strategic Mourning: America's Journey After the Death of George Washington
(2020)
This thesis examines the eulogies delivered after the death of George Washington in 1799, identifying themes in the texts and motivations of the authors. The death of the first president occurred during a series of national ...
Without a sword or a shield: the fighting army behind Brown
(2021)
were positive and some not, but seventy years after the initial court decision in 1954, the quality of American public education is questionable, and the sacrifices the original families made are at risk of being for naught....
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 ...
More than a river: using nature for reform in the progressive era
(2013)
that motivated irrigationists. Both the river improvement and irrigation causes, however, proved fractious and parochial. Newlands was a practical politician. In reclamation, he found a mechanism to bring irrigation and river control under coordinated government...
Manifest Manhood on the Santa Fe Trail: Trapping and Trading in the American Southwest, 1821-1847
(2015)
This study begins in 1821 when the first Anglo parties made their way from the newly created state of Missouri to Santa Fe along the Santa Fe Trail, and it ends in 1847 with the Taos Revolt -- the most significant and ...
"Loving all People Regardless of Race, Creed, or Color": James L. Delk and the Lost History of Pentecostal Interracialism
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Many historians of Pentecostalism have observed that following the initial potential
for interracial religion among early Pentecostals following the Azusa Street Revival in 1906,
most white Pentecostals progressively ...
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 ...
From Galton to Globalization: The Transatlantic Journey of Eugenics
(2021)
How did eugenics go from an idea in Britain to a movement in America? That was the question this dissertation originally set out to answer. Also, of interest was how the theory of eugenics went from the fringes to becoming ...
Cleared to land in the desert: commercial air travel's role in the growth and development of Las Vegas as a world-class travel destination
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-04)
This study provides a history of commercial aviation in Las Vegas, focusing on the
powerful influence commercial air travel had with the financial help of the federal
government on Las Vegas‟s growth and development as ...
The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
interrogated. Chapter three suggests that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight repurposes the character of Gawain to observe the importance of oath taking and the bonds formed by knights from the practice of such. Chapter four focuses on the message of Athelston...
Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
(2015)
hand and family obligations and personal ambition on the other. Relevant themes—such a child
oblation, the holy veil and enclosure, legal and illegal marriage—frame Marie and create a microhistory of
the world that she inhabited. Other historical...
Strings of Hope: The Meanings of the Violin in Jewish and Holocaust History
(2015)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of orchestra music, specifically the violin,
in concentration camps during the era of Nazi rule. What impact did the violin have on
Jewish music and culture prior to Nazi ...
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 ...
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...