• Total salvation : the gospel of the abundant life and American culture, 1947-1989 

  Root, Jonathan B. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  My dissertation places the gospel of the abundant life, most popularly known as the prosperity gospel, at the center of American religious and cultural history during the last half of the twentieth century. While many scholars ...

• The exploration of Africa and the construction of imperial masculinity 

  Ball, Katelyn (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  This thesis argues that an imperial masculinity emerged in the late nineteenth century as a response to a growing women's rights movement. The roots of this process are in the 1850s and 1860s as legal changes began conceding ...

• The development of religious education in the Baptist Sunday schools of the United States 

  Dailey, Roy Samuel (University of Missouri, 1917)

  The purpose of this study is to find out how the Sunday school in the Baptist churches in the United States has developed in religious education. The main features with regard to which the study is made are 1) the ...

• "Guarding Innocence" : age of consent, gender, and progressivism 

  Behrens, Madalynn Deming (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  This paper details the reform activities of suffragists, social hygienists, and Women's Christian Temperance Union members during the Progressive Era, especially those pertaining to age of sexual consent laws. Along with ...

• Indian sovereignty and religious freedom : United States public land management and Indian sacred sites, 1978-2014 

  Morman, Todd Allin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  Combining historical and policy analysis, this study argues that executive and congressional actions have strengthened and deepened the consultation process instituted by the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978, ...

• From Norwegian invasion to Anglo-Saxon Rebellion : forging memories of Conquest England, c. 1066-1235 

  Genens, Joseph (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  The Norman Conquest of England (CE 1066-1085) has been a hotbed of historical debate since as early as the eleventh century. In modernity, the historiography has witnessed contention mostly over the political, social, and ...

• 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 ...

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