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The nation of Islam's struggle for civil rights and liberties, 1930-1971
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Beginning in the fall of 1939, Charles Hamilton Houston, professor of law at the Howard University School of Law and the legal pioneer generally credited ...
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 ...
Americanizing Africanization : the Congo crisis, 1960-1967
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This dissertation provides a concise account of U.S. intervention in the Congo between 1960 and 1967, explaining the decisions made by U.S. policymakers and their Congolese counterparts. It argues that the intervention ...
Family matters : casework, manhood, and the Bureau for Homeless Men, St. Louis, 1925-1940
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This thesis examines the transformation of the system for relief for homeless men in St. Louis between 1925 and 1940 by a private welfare organization, the Bureau for Homeless Men. The transformations wrought by the Bureau ...
Toward the Celtic Tiger : integration and policymaking in Ireland's recent economic development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
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 ...
An unintended order : the centrality of character and circumstance in the twelfth-century Gilbertine communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This thesis examines questions related to the emergence of the Gilbertine Order in twelfth-century England. While scholars have noted the importance of circumstantial necessity in the order's early history, I believe that ...
Just rage : causes of the rise in violence in the eastern campaigns of Alexander the Great
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
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 1898 Reform Movement, Britain, and China: an examination of four British writers on British-Chinese relations 1895-1900
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This Master's project examines the factors, policies, and goals that four British authors- Edward Harper Parker, Holt Samuel Hallett, Robert Kennaway ...
Remembering in black and white : Missouri women's memorial work 1860-1910
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
During the height of the memorialization movement in the United States, varying groups of women, northern, southern, white and black, used the memory of the Civil War to achieve their social, economic and political goals. ...
Citizens under the law : African Americans confront the justice system in Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas, 1790-1877
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
During the nineteenth century, southern African Americans utilized various methods to secure what they believed to be their rights as citizens of the United States. One of their most effective means was the use of the ...
Securing peace: Henry M. Jackson and U.S.-Soviet relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This work focuses on the efforts of Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson to stop U.S-Soviet détente. Arms control, human rights, and national security policy are discussed in this work Détente, or relaxation of tensions between ...
The education of noble girls in medieval France : Vincent of Beauvais and De eruditione filiorum nobilium
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The educational treatise by Vincent of Beauvais (1184/1194-1264), De eruditione filiorum nobilium (On the Education of Noble Girls), was the first medieval educational text to both systematically present a comprehensive ...
Household war : guerrilla-men, rebel women, and guerilla warfare in Civil War Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Whereas other scholars see the guerrilla and his flamboyant dress, unmistakable swagger, and unconventional tactics as a sure sign of chaos in war, ...
The metics and their social position : foreign residents in Athens during the Classical period
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Scholars have always accepted the importance of metics in Athens during the Classical Period. However, the modern orthodoxy has sought to minimize ...
Per dilectam coniugem et regnorum consortem : empresses' roles in building the Salian dynasty, 1024 1125
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Salian dynasty amassed a great amount of power, expanded its territories, and established new concepts of kingship and rulership throughout its ...
Under the big top : big tent revivalism and American culture, 1880-1925
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] What was the relationship between itinerate evangelism and the rapidly changing American society and culture at the turn of the twentieth-century? The ...
Women of the Heartland : tradition and evolution in the Missouri women's movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This thesis is a local study of the women's movement in Missouri. The primary topic is organized feminist activity, though it shows also feminist/antifeminist interactions. Missouri early established an official Commission ...
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 ...