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Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-17)
At the turn of the twentieth century, young women began to see themselves and to been seen as a distinct social group for the first time in the history of the United States. This recognition was fostered by historical ...
Cleared to land in the desert: commercial air travel's role in the growth and development of Las Vegas as a world-class travel destination
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-04)
This study provides a history of commercial aviation in Las Vegas, focusing on the
powerful influence commercial air travel had with the financial help of the federal
government on Las Vegas‟s growth and development as ...
Perceptions of gender in English news pamphlets 1660-1700
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-18)
Sensational murders were a popular topic for news pamphlets in England from the
sixteenth century to the nineteenth. Early pamphlets are characterized by religious and
dramatic imagery, but beginning in the late seventeenth ...
Insanity, rhetoric and women : nineteenth-century women's asylum narratives
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-02)
Among reform movements in nineteenth-century America was insane asylum reform and
women played a role in this. Some women within the walls of asylums living as patients
turned to the pen as a means of informing the ...