• Technology towards transcendence: apocalyptic spiritualities & the genesis of science fiction in Weimar Germany 

  Ochsner, Colton J. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  This thesis seeks to understand how, in the early twentieth century, esoteric schools in German-speaking Europe influenced the proto-science fiction genre, especially the cinema of Weimar Germany. It is inspired by the ...

• Up to freedom: slavery, emancipation, and the making of freedom in Howard County, Missouri, 1860 to 1865 

  Maxson, Stanley D. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  This thesis is an investigation of the social history of slavery and freedom in Howard County, Missouri with an eye toward the social and familial relationships of the enslaved, their existence in slavery and their role ...

• “So many foolish virgins”: nuns and anti-Catholicism from Maria Monk to the Know-Nothings 

  Yacovazzi, Cassandra L. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  This dissertation examines opposition to nuns and convent life in America as it was expressed through vigilante violence, propaganda literature, and party politics. While nuns may seem like an unlikely target of hostility, ...

• "Once Mistress of the World:" Rome, St. Peter, and female devotion in the early Middle Ages 

  Dolan, Autumn (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  I reassess the reception of Rome in the early medieval west from the historiographical background of women's history. Women's conception of Rome as a cult center, an intervening ally, and a devotional adviser between 300-900 ...

• Per dilectam coniugem et regnorum consortem : empresses' roles in building the Salian dynasty, 1024 1125 

  Verbanaz, Nina K. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

  The Salian dynasty amassed a great amount of power, expanded its territories, and established new concepts of kingship and rulership throughout its 100-year reign. The Salian empress- and queen-consorts, who were strategically ...

• Late-Medieval Perception of Abnormal Behavior 

  Puyat, Svyatoslav (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  This study looks at late-medieval medical texts as well as Inquisition manuals and other ecclesiastical sources to explore the reactions of late-medieval medical and Church authorities to abnormal behavior. Although early ...

• The troubling voices of Confederate women: the language of family, religion, and rebellion on the occupied Civil War home front 

  Ward, Jonathan Matthew (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  Using the diaries of Confederate women in occupied territory during the American Civil War as the central primary sources, this thesis seeks to articulate how Confederate women used their voices as a powerful means of ...

• Agriculture During the Reagan Years 

  Ward, Jay Woodward (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)

  The Farm Crisis of the 1980s occurred during the Reagan Presidency. To date virtually nothing has been written concerning the approach taken by the Reagan administration to combat the crisis. To fill that gap, this study ...

• An unintended order :|the centrality of character and circumstance in the twelfth-century Gilbertine communities 

  Menold, Daniel J. (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 ...

• Valley of industry : developing a regional economy in the post Jefferson's Embargo Ohio Valley 

  Lewis, William G., 1972- (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 ...

• Toward the Celtic Tiger : integration and policymaking in Ireland's recent economic development 

  Buchanan, Sean (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

• "Just Rage" : causes of the rise in violence in the eastern campaigns of Alexander the Great 

  Rice, Jenna (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)

• Family matters : casework, manhood, and the Bureau for Homeless Men, St. Louis, 1925-1940 

  Genens, Doug (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 ...

• Americanizing Africanization : the Congo crisis, 1960-1967 

  Mountz, William T. (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 ...

• A world the printers made : 

  Smith, Steven Carl, 1981- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)

  My dissertation examines the New York publishing industry from the end of the American Revolution to the Age of Jackson. The dissertation analyzes the set of economic relationships and shared cultural practices that bound ...

• The origin, development, and present status of the Open Door Policy 

  Cole, Claude Lathrop (University of Missouri, 1916)

  There is no evidence to prove that our commerce has increased as a result of the open door" policy. The statistics show that America's commerce with China experienced a steady growth during the decade and a half beginning ...

• The nation of Islam's struggle for civil rights and liberties, 1930-1971 

  Crawford, Malachi D. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)

  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 with mentoring Thurgood Marshall and laying the groundwork that ...

• "The demise of in loco parentis in American higher education" : campus rules and student behavior at the University of Missouri, 1866 to 1975 

  Forrest, Craig Robert (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)

  This study explores the history of in loco parentis as a legal regime in American higher education, and the demise of that legal regime in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines student behaviors and administrative discipline ...

• Order in the marketplace : commercial organizations in antebellum St Louis 

  Snodgrass, William M. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)

  This dissertation is a study of how merchants in St. Louis worked to bring order to their commercial lives in the years between the Panic of 1819, the nation's first major economic depression, and the Panic of 1857, another ...

• Sex radicals in America's heartland : redefining gender and sexuality, 1880-1910 

  Weingartner, Andrea M., 1980- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)

  This study examines the rise of sex radicalism in Kansas and the larger Midwest as men and women sought to redefine the ways in which they thought about gender and sexuality. Specifically, it follows the career of Moses ...

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