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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Permanent Solution: Contraceptive sterilization policies and practices in the U.S. from 1960-1979
(2015)This study examines the social and political anxieties regarding poverty and reproduction during the 1960s and 1970s that led to the sterilization of young, African-American women from low-income families. It begins ... -
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 ... -
Agents unto Themselves: Reconstructing the Narrative of Women’s Roles in the Anglo-Saxon Conversion
(2015)The legacy of Christianity in Britain is unique, as that region is one of very few known to have converted to the Christian faith twice. The conversion of Britain’s Anglo- Saxon newcomers demonstrates a confluence of ... -
"Because It’s the Right Thing to Do": The Battle for School Integration in Johnson County, Kansas
(2014)This paper evaluates the importance of the often overlooked Kansas Supreme Court case Webb v. School District No. 90, both as the springboard to Brown v. Board of Education and as a micro-history of racial attitudes and ... -
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 ... -
Development Theory and the Cold War: A Historical Analysis of Latin American Structuralism from 1930 to 1970
(2013)Latin America has experimented with two different development strategies over the last two centuries. First, and currently, an “outward-oriented” program based on exports of primary commodities. Alternatively, for a few ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Manifest Manhood on the Santa Fe Trail: Trapping and Trading in the American Southwest, 1821-1847
(2015)This study begins in 1821 when the first Anglo parties made their way from the newly created state of Missouri to Santa Fe along the Santa Fe Trail, and it ends in 1847 with the Taos Revolt -- the most significant and ... -
Sandoz Writing (Righting) History
(2015-06-19)Mari Sandoz’s dedication to her research topics, personality, candor, and work ethic allowed her an intimate place alongside those she chose to write about. This yielded a moving written product. In the same way that Sandoz ... -
"Something at Least Human": Transatlantic (Re)Presentations of Creole Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(2015-06-19)Throughout the nineteenth century, Creole women were consistently idealized, exoticized, and demonized in literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. While the term Creole is still hotly contested even today, ... -
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 ...