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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...
Beneath Mark Twain: Judgments of Justice and Gender in Twain's Early Western Writing, 1861-1873
(2013)
By the time Samuel Clemens began writing journalism and crafting what he
called the “sensation hoax” for Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise in 1862, Americans
had been devouring sensational novels and journalism by ...
"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 Laboring Irish: Developing Community and Industry in Early Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
By 1880, the Kansas City community had experienced phenomenal growth. Since
1820, the new city had evolved from a fur trading post, an outfitting center for western trails,
a trading center for Native Americans, a ...
For conscience's sake: the 1839 emigration of the Saxon Lutherans
(2013)
This study traces the assimilation process of more than six hundred Saxon Lutherans
who migrated to Perry County, Missouri, in 1839. As one of the few groups in the
nineteenth century who chose to move to the United ...
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...
Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-17)
by factions. Emulating the practices of nineteenth-century women who presented epideictic discourse in published writing, girls exercised rhetorical agency through the art, editorials, essays, and creative writing that they produced for high school literary...
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 ...
The Un'Gathering of the Tribes: performing, writing, and remaking masculine identity at 1990s alternative rock festivals
(2013)
In the early 1990s, a number of up-and-coming American rock bands working in the so-called "alternative rock" genre coupled boyish sensitivity with aggressive sounds that fused punk rock, hard rock, and underground styles ...
Creating an imperial city: Kansas City in the 1920s
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-04)
This thesis is a community study of Kansas City in the
1920s as a city working to assume a prominent place within the
emerging American market empire. It begins by exploring the
role that men and women played in altering ...
Yemen Mobility: Utilizing a Longue Durée and Oral History Approach to Understand Yemeni-American Migration
(2015)
Social historians tend to study Yemen migration through the lens of western capitalism. In so doing, they focus on modern events that shaped the movement of Yemenis out of south Arabia and dismiss the elements of mobility ...
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 ...
Living in Fear: An Analysis of Writings by Elizabeth Tudor, 1544-1565
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the writings of Elizabeth Tudor and determine
whether she was aware of the instability of her position in her formative years. I analyze how
Elizabeth used language to both ...
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 ...
Smokey the ‘Praying’ Bear: Changing Cultural Attitudes Towards Nature in America During the Postwar Era, 1948 - 1958
(2016)
Smokey Bear is one of America’s most beloved icons. Today, only the image of Santa
Clause is more widely recognized. He is featured in all forms of media, and his fire prevention
message, “Only You Can Prevent Forest ...
Paleoseismology and Archaeoseismology along the Southern Dead Sea Transform in Wadi 'Arabah Near the municipality of Aqaba, Jordan
(2013)
The southern Wadi ‘Arabah Valley in Jordan provides an ideal location to
investigate both the paleoseismology and archaeoseismology of the region because it is
situated directly along the active Dead Sea transform, and ...
Development Theory and the Cold War: A Historical Analysis of Latin American Structuralism from 1930 to 1970
(2013)
Latin America has experimented with two different development strategies over the
last two centuries. First, and currently, an “outward-oriented” program based on
exports of primary commodities. Alternatively, for a few ...