Browsing University of Missouri-Columbia by Thesis Advisor "Pasley, Jeffrey L., 1964-"
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"The art of printing shall endure": journalism, community, and identity in New York City, 1800-1810
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)This thesis reconstructs the community of printers, booksellers, and bookbinders that existed in New York City in the first decade of the nineteenth-century. A close analysis of city directories published between 1800 and ... -
Concealed authorship on the eve of the revolution : pseudonymity and the American periodical public sphere, 1766-1776
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Concealed authorship played a vital role in the critical ten years prior to American independence. Authors utilized printers as cover to publish political essays seditious and disruptive to British authority. Pseudonymity, ... -
Ever towards the setting sun they push us : American Indian identity in the writings of Mary Alicia Owen
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Mary Alicia Owen (1850-1935) is best known as a folklorist who studied and wrote about the culture, legends, and folkways of Missouri's African Americans and American Indians. While she is best remembered as the author of ... -
The federalist frontier : early American political development in the old northwest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This dissertation examines the role of the early American state, especially institutions created during the 1780s and 1790s, in the settlement of the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Focusing on the United States ... -
Reluctant emancipator : James Sidney Rollins and the politics of slavery and freedom in the border south, 1838-1882
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the career of James Sidney Rollins, a free-soil slave owning politician and lawyer in Missouri, to garner a better understanding ... -
Valley of industry : developing a regional economy in the post Jefferson's Embargo Ohio Valley
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Throughout the colonial era and the earliest years of the nineteenth century, the Ohio Valley was a vital member of the Atlantic World. It participated in transatlantic trade as both a provider of natural resources such ... -
The veering path of progress : politics, race, and consensus in the north St. Louis Mark Twain Expressway fight, 1950-1956
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This thesis examines how a complicated mix of factors converged to influence the planning, proposal, protest, and final route of the Mark Twain Expressway through St. Louis's North Side in the 1950s. To proponents, the ... -
A world the printers made : print culture in New York, 1783-1830
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My dissertation examines the New York publishing industry from the end of the American Revolution to the Age of Jackson. The dissertation analyzes the ...