Browsing Department of History (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Flader, Susan"
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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 ... -
Farmers, warriors, and grandfathers : the Shawnee and Delaware Indians and their neighbors in the trans-Mississippi West, 1787-1832
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Shawnee and Delaware Indians settled in Spanish Louisiana in the 1780s and left Missouri and Arkansas for Indian Kansas by 1832. This study probes ... -
Rivers running through : an urban environmental history of the Kansas Cities and the Missouri River
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] An environmental history of Kansas City and an urban history of the Missouri River, this dissertation shows how interconnected the city and the river ... -
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 ...