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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....
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 ...
"Nobody Can Say It Wasn’t": Language of Power and the Bosnian Genocide, 1992–1995
(2023)
Between 1992 and 1995, Bosnian Serb nationalists, with aid from the Republic of Serbia, committed genocide against Bosnian Muslims in an effort to secure territory for a larger Serbian state. General debates over the ...
Great Expectations: Women's Help Wanted Ads In Kansas City, 1920-1936
(2021)
The question of the nature of women’s paid work has been a frequent point of historical inquiry. Using a source previously only tapped quantitatively, this paper seeks to expand our understanding of how women’s employment ...
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...
Narrative as a Critical Component for Violent Weaker Actor Success
(2020)
Conflicts exist within a narrative about a society, a government, and the people’s place within it that they use to make sense of their world. Since 1945, conventionally weaker military actors have had increasing success ...
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 Ordinance Project: Commemorating Kansas City's LGBTQ Landmark Legislation
(2021)
This project documents the efforts of Kansas City activists, organizers, and politicians who successfully fought for the passage of a municipal nondiscrimination ordinance in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ordinance ...