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Power from the people : tenant activism in the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex, 1950-1980
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Built in the mid-1950s in St. Louis, Missouri, the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex was constructed as the future of high-rise public housing design but was quickly labeled as a problem for local ... -
Aliens and apocalypticism: Christian End Times and alien conspiracy theories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] The new millennium has brought with it new forms of Christian premillennialist thought. The rise of the Internet and self-publishing has allowed for new strands of theology to develop and flourish ... -
Agenda S. Coloniensis : the exorcism rituals of Ferdinand von Bayern
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)"By the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Catholic Counter-Reformation was already well underway in Europe. While Catholic reform had been taking place long before Luther and his ninety-five theses, the Council of ... -
Migrations of love and circumstance: a history of intimacy and policy in the migration of Italian war brides, 1943-1954
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)In the spring of 1946, the foreign brides and children of American soldiers from the Second World War migrated to the United States through mass migrations coordinated by the War Department. This project contextualizes the ... -
Plague, politics, and printers: nativism and reactionary politics in St. Louis after the disasters of 1849
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 6/1/2023] In 1849, St. Louis experienced two devastating events: a deadly cholera epidemic and a destructive fire. These two events had significant social, economic, and political consequences that would ... -
The instituionalization of the public school system in Missouri: 1865-1882
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)By the early 1870s, the public school system in Missouri became an embedded institution in the state's cultural and political fabric. This thesis provides an explanation of how and why Missouri powerholders solidified a ... -
The battle for the bonus: world war i veterans and the debate for adjusted-compensation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Following World War I, veterans returned home to a country that was reaping the economic benefits of mass producing for the war effort. It became apparent to those in Congress that some sort of compensation would need to ... -
"Slaves to rum" : alcohol, temperance, and race in America, 1800-1920
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Black men and women heralded the cause of the temperance movement, the organized push to ... -
"The pen among our people" : strategies of survivance and assimilation resistance in indigenous rhetoric from Indian newspapers, lawsuits, and society journals, 1870-1924
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)In "The Pen Among Our People," I explore three different strategies that Indigenous peoples utilized from 1870 to 1924 to both ensure their survival and resist systematic oppression. During this period, the malicious ... -
Beyond the border war : student civil rights activism at the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri, 1946-1954
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines post-World War II student civil rights activism at two Midwestern college campuses, the University of Missouri ... -
Imperial masculinities of the modern romance : how intellectuals used imperial rhetoric to reassert middle-class masculinity in late 19th-century Britain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)In this thesis, I argue that authors of the modern romance in late Victorian Britain used imperialism and imperial rhetoric to reassert constructions of British, middle-class masculinity. I do so by examining the life and ... -
The nonprofit incorporation of America, 1860-1932
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)This project is an examination of the formation of corporatized charitable organizations from 1860-1932. Focusing on six organizations--the United States Sanitary Commission, the Freedmen's Bureau, the Peabody Foundation, ... -
Animals in ancient Greek warfare : a study of the elephant, camel, and dog
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)My dissertation asserts that the study of animals is integral to the thorough understanding of the ancient military landscape, and three animals in particular warrant particular attention: the elephant, camel, and dog. I ... -
A history of 'in loco parentis' in American high education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)From the establishment of institutions of higher education in Colonial America until the 1970s, college administrators have acted in loco parentis, or as legal guardians of students "in the place of parents." Under the ... -
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 ... -
More than beer : the complex career of Adolphus Busch
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Adolphus Busch was cofounder of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association. During Busch's lifetime, Anheuser-Busch became the largest brewing company in ... -
A sense of where they were neoliberals and the Democratic Party in an Era of Challenges and political transformation, 1978-1989
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This Thesis examines the development of neoliberal politics within the Democratic Party, concentrating on the period from 1978 to 1989. The thesis ... -
A victory long in the making : divestment from South Africa at the University of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis focuses on the little known, but significant, movement for divestment (the sale of stocks from companies doing business in South ... -
The Longue Durée of Choctaw Removal, 1800-1860
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Historians have long considered Indian removal to be a product of Andrew Jackson's Presidency (1829-1837). They point to the Indian Removal ... -
A neverending stream : human trafficking in Medieval Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study focuses on human trafficking patterns from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Era. I argue that while slavery, as a means of compelling ...