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Rendering assistance to best advantage: the development of women's activism in Kansas City, 1870 to World War I
(2013)
This study examines the rise of women's activism in Kansas City between the
opening of the Hannibal railroad bridge in 1869 and World War I. Women's efforts over
the course of nearly 50 years to emerge from the domestic ...
More than a river: using nature for reform in the progressive era
(2013)
The decades around the turn of the twentieth century were a time of vast social and economic change. Industrialization altered the ways people related to each other and to their social, political, and cultural institutions. ...
A History of Yemeni Mobility
(2015-01-22)
Use of Federal Troops in Civil Disturbances 1892-1968
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 1983)
This study examines and evaluates the use of regular army forces in quelling civil disturbances within the United States. The term civil disturbance is defined as excluding Indian wars, western frontier violence and all ...
A veritable revolution: the Court of Criminal Appeal in English criminal history 1908-1958
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-04)
In a historic speech to the House of Commons on April 17, 1907, British Attorney
General, John Lawson Walton, proposed the formation of what was to be the first court
of criminal appeal in English history. Such a court ...
Alderman Jim Pendergast
(University of Kansas City, 1962)
James Pendergast came to Kansas City in 1876 from
St. Joseph, Missouri. After working for several years as
a laborer, Pendergast entered the saloonkeeping business
in the West Bottoms, the heart of Kansas City's ...
From ‘Remedy Highly Esteemed’ to ‘Barbarous Practice’: The Rise and Fall of Acupuncture in Nineteenth-Century America
(2015-05-27)
This thesis analyzes the prevalent use of acupuncture in nineteenth-century American medicine. Using medical journal articles, school catalogs, lecture notes, fee tables, newspaper clippings and other primary sources, I ...
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 ...
For conscience's sake: the 1839 emigration of the Saxon Lutherans
(2013)
This study traces the assimilation process of more than six hundred Saxon Lutherans
who migrated to Perry County, Missouri, in 1839. As one of the few groups in the
nineteenth century who chose to move to the United ...
Wreckage, Hell, and Madness: American Drug Films and the Image of the User, 1923-1936
(2015)
This paper is an exploration of the discursive, cultural transformations images of drug use and drug users have taken though some of America’s early film history. By exploring and unpacking the imagery and other expressive ...
Yemen Mobility: Utilizing a Longue Durée and Oral History Approach to Understand Yemeni-American Migration
(2015)
Social historians tend to study Yemen migration through the lens of western capitalism. In so doing, they focus on modern events that shaped the movement of Yemenis out of south Arabia and dismiss the elements of mobility ...
Smokey the ‘Praying’ Bear: Changing Cultural Attitudes Towards Nature in America During the Postwar Era, 1948 - 1958
(2016)
Smokey Bear is one of America’s most beloved icons. Today, only the image of Santa
Clause is more widely recognized. He is featured in all forms of media, and his fire prevention
message, “Only You Can Prevent Forest ...
A Matter of Faith and Works: Byzantine Leaders and Christian Leadership in the Historia Langobardorum
(2016)
The late eighth-century Historia Langobardorum by Paul the Deacon is a narrative
history of the Lombard people from their mythic origins up to the reign of King Liutprand in
Italy in 744. As the only history of its ...
Beneath Mark Twain: Judgments of Justice and Gender in Twain's Early Western Writing, 1861-1873
(2013)
By the time Samuel Clemens began writing journalism and crafting what he
called the “sensation hoax” for Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise in 1862, Americans
had been devouring sensational novels and journalism by ...
Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
(2015)
This dissertation probes medieval sources to identify how and why women made transformative
choices in their own lives and analyzes the consequences of those choices. The major case study
investigates the life of Marie ...
Strings of Hope: The Meanings of the Violin in Jewish and Holocaust History
(2015)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of orchestra music, specifically the violin,
in concentration camps during the era of Nazi rule. What impact did the violin have on
Jewish music and culture prior to Nazi ...
Fanning the Flames of Discontent: The Free Speech Fight of the Kansas City Industrial Workers of the World and the Making of Midwestern Radicalism
(2016)
This project deals with the free speech fight of 1911 that occurred in Kansas City
and was organized and led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The free speech fight
serves as a case study in localized Midwestern ...
The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
Study of the Medieval English romance has burgeoned in recent years, with a focus on the world outside of the texts being central to the resurgence. I offer in this dissertation a reading of four of these works (Athelston, ...
The Last Patron of Tintern Abbey: The Family and Piety of Roger Bigod
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
The purpose of this study is to assess the life of Roger Bigod with particular attention
given to his piety, demonstrated through patronage and family connection. His political life is
first examined with regards to his ...
Choosing the Best Course: Cultural and Social Influences on the Female Mathematics Graduate Students at the University of Kansas in the 1890s
(2016)
The interpretive plan for the exhibit, “Choosing the Best Course: Cultural and Social Influences on Female Mathematics Graduate Students at the University of Kansas in the 1890s” covers women’s education and women in STEM ...