1930-1939 Theses (MU)
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2024-03-29T00:14:32ZA congressional history of the Populists
https://hdl.handle.net/10355/79941
A congressional history of the Populists
Roberts, Clarence Nelson
"Populism arose as a party movement representing an agrarian economy to combat the rising force of industrialism in the United States. It represented the rural forces of unrest that had been agitating for relief from the evil conditions that had fallen upon agriculture. The depression and "hard times" were beginning to bear down with force upon the western debtor farmers by the approach of the congressional election of 1890. The election of 1890 was held amid the storm and bustle of a great fight over the tariff and monetary issues. It was in that year that the movement which was to give rise to Populism took the form of a political organization. It had as its origin a group of organizations known as Alliances, which had been organizing farmers and educating them for a decade. These Alliance groups had held a convention at St. Louis in December, 1889, for the purpose of uniting the various groups into one supreme Alliance. Here their plans for union failed but they did succeed in framing demands which read like a party platform..."--Page 1.
1936-01-01T00:00:00ZEarly roads in Missouri
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Early roads in Missouri
Wood, Martha May
"The objectives of this study are to present a brief survey of some of the outstanding Indian trails of the State, an abbreviated account of the development of the important traces of the French and Spanish regimes, and a more detailed account of the main trunk line roads in the territorial and early state periods." --Text taken from page 1.
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts
1936-01-01T00:00:00ZInterpreters of Chicago : a study in American regionalism
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Interpreters of Chicago : a study in American regionalism
Conant, Dorothy Hazel
The second discovery of America came when the writers discovered the interesting elements in the varied communities which made each of them unique. A like discovery had been made in England years before by George Eliot, who was the originator of regionalism in that country. She became, with Thomas Hardy, the interpreter of English rustic life. Their methods were very different: George Eliot made characters the means by which she revealed the middle section of England; Hardy was influenced by the consciousness of community life as an individual character. These two writers of the country side were followed by Arnold Bennett, who interpreted the manufacturing city. In America, Bret Harte was the first to discover that our country had possibilities for individuality. His method was like George Eliot's in his use of character types to portray the region, but he found more picturesque characters than she had. They both wrote of regions they knew: she of her girlhood home, and he of the forty-niner and the gold rush to California. Character types alone could not describe the regions adequately, and writers made use also of dialect to differentiate further their sections £ran neighboring ones. Writers who succeeded George Eliot and Thomas Hardy in England and Bret Harte in America found additional ways of interpreting the elements of local color. One of the easiest and most natural means besides character types and dialect is a description of manners and customs peculiar to one certain region. The Pennsylvania Dutch speak differently from the people in New York, and they dress differently. A fourth kind of interpretation was discovered in history. For many years writers have used nature to interpret the mood or the events which have a place in their stories. The final contribution of the regionalist is the creation of a common unity within the section until it becomes a character as well developed as the human hero or heroine. Thomas Hardy does that for Casterbridge in his Mayor of Casterbridge, and Phillpotts deliberately makes Widecombe the hero Widecombe Fair! Chicago has always been accredited with an individuality and romance that few other cities can imitate. Its phenomenal growth and the fortunes made on its strees have created a character that is unique. Writers have always found romance in cities, but Chicago has produced her own school of novelists, poets, and playwrights. They have attempted to depict the ugliness, the beauty, the ambitions and failures of the characters within its limits. They have been forced to recognize the great power of the city, and they have made its character one of the principals in many of the novels and stories.The writers of Chicago have never been content to follow in the literary methods they used. First Robert Herrick and Henry B. Fuller wrote of the scheming and greedy men and women who were society; then Dreiser found a voice for his characters. A period of romance came in the latter part of the first decade of the new century, and then Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, Ben Hecht, and Sherwood Anderson found voices to teach the world not only the ugliness but also the romantic quality in Chicago. In recent years, outside of this school, there has been a return to romance in the works of Henry Kitchell Webster, Margaret Ayer Barnes, and Janet Ayer Fairbank. Because of the diversified ways of presenting the character of Chicago, yet giving it the same characteristics of sprawling size, over-crowded streets, and hustling men and women, touched either with reality or romance, I felt that a study of the technique of the writers might be important. In order to study and to make an estimate of the value of interpreters of a region, Dr. Ramsay has found that a study of the background of the land, the people, and their history is important. Therefore, my first chapter will be devoted to a description of these three things in Chicago. In the second chapter is a brief summary of the writers themselves, somewhat critical in nature. The final chapter is a detailed study of the six ways mentioned above, in which the authors have interpreted the section in their novels or poems.
M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia, 1932
1932-01-01T00:00:00ZJames Lemen, senior and junior, and the early slavery controversy in Illinois
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James Lemen, senior and junior, and the early slavery controversy in Illinois
Layman, Martha Elizabeth
This study is the result of a desire on the part or the author to trace the anti-slavery movement in early Illinois leading toward the formation and retention of a tree state constitution. The subject is of particular interest to her because of the active part taken in that movement by her great-great-great grandfather, James Lemen, Sr., who was a vigorous anti-slavery leader. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Dr. Jonas Viles for his suggestions and criticism of this work, to the Staffs of the Chicago Historical Society, Illinois State Historical Library, State Historical Society or Missouri, Extension Division of the Illinois State Library, Mercantile Library of St. Louis, and to the Shurtleff College Library for valuable aid in research. To the Reverend Percy Ray of Collinsville the author is particularly indebted for the use of the Minutes of Cantine Creek Church. To the members of her family for their interest and encouragement throughout the period of her study she expresses her sincere appreciation.
1935-01-01T00:00:00Z