Browsing History electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Semester "2016 Summer"
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At home in Babylon : Billy Sunday's revival team and evangelicalism in modern America /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This dissertation offers a provocative reassessment of Billy Sunday and his big-tent revivals in the Progressive Era. Departing from the dominant fundamentalist caricature of the evangelist, it argues that Sunday and his ... -
"Guarding Innocence" : age of consent, gender, and progressivism
(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 ...