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The killer shepherds: hunters as pastoral figures in the Early National period
(2024)This dissertation explores the role of the backwoods hunter in American literature and culture during the Early National period, especially as it was embodied by Daniel Boone and by James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo. I ... -
Women get tough on crime: punitive populism in Argentina
(2024)In the 2023 presidential election in Argentina, political outsider Javier Milei shocked observers with his victory over the center-left career politician and sitting finance minister, Sergio Massa. Exceeding expectations, ... -
Joan de Mohun: a powerful courtier during the reign of Richard II
(2024)This dissertation examines English court culture and court politics through the life of Joan de Mohun (d. 1404). A member of the Burghershes, a socially aspirational family in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Joan ... -
"Nobody Can Say It Wasn’t": Language of Power and the Bosnian Genocide, 1992–1995
(2023)Between 1992 and 1995, Bosnian Serb nationalists, with aid from the Republic of Serbia, committed genocide against Bosnian Muslims in an effort to secure territory for a larger Serbian state. General debates over the ... -
The Education of a Staff Officer: The Life and Career of Samuel Cooper, 1798-1852
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 1989)Samuel Cooper was an officer in the United States Army from 1815-1861, and a Confederate States Army officer from 1861-1865. Cooper's long career as a staff officer in the U.S. Army culminated in his appointment to the ... -
“Beaten on Both Sides”: A Reevaluation of the Anti-Calvinism of Andrewes, Neile, and Laud
(2023)This is a case of mistaken identity. Under the early Stuart kings, James I and Charles I, a ragtag group of churchmen challenged the orthodoxy and orthopraxy of the Church of England and catalyzed civil war. They have been ... -
“We deem it entirely fitting": Civil War memory in Oklahoma
(2023)Scholars have published few pieces about Civil War memory in Oklahoma, and the existing studies focus primarily on Native Americans living in Indian Territory during Reconstruction. This study expands on the previous ... -
Secret Spaces: An Underground America
(2023)This essay traces the evolving scholarship on “marronage” and its implications in studying institutional slavery in North America. The term describes slave flight and the underground networks some enslaved peoples utilized ... -
Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
(2023)This dissertation examines representations of women artists—writers, musicians, painters, and photographers—in nineteenth-century British novels and poetry written by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George ... -
The Pompeii of Kansas: Race, Environment, and Memory in Quindaro, 1982-1991
(2022)In January 1981, Browning-Ferris Industries entered into a lease agreement with the Kansas City Commission of Kansas City, Kansas to construct a landfill in the historic neighborhood of Quindaro. This agreement resulted ... -
A Court of Public Opinion: American Sex Work in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
(2022)Late nineteenth-century sex workers in the United States left behind few written records. In contrast, men and women not involved in the sex work trade made their opinions well known. To peacefully exist in the public ... -
Anne of France as Madame La Grande: The Strategies of a Self-Fashioned Woman 1483-1522
(2022)A century and a half before Elizabeth I was the “Virgin Queen,” Anne of France created her own image in the form of “Madame la Grande,” a moniker specially formed to denote Anne’s high status and authority. Born in 1461 ... -
Modern Woes: Early Twentieth-Century American Reformers’ Critique of the “New Woman” and Modern Urban Life in Anti-Sex Trafficking Fiction
(2022)In the early twentieth century, when American authors of so-called “white slavery” literature wrote about their fear of white middle-class young women being sexually enslaved and trafficked, they also revealed their fears ... -
The Gospel of Judas: Polemic, Pop Culture, Fictious History
(2022)The following essay is about the polemical nature of The Gospel of Judas. So much was initially said about the impact the publication of The Gospel of Judas would have upon our understanding of the history of Christianity, ... -
Show Me My Rights: Queer Activism in Kansas City and St. Louis, 1977-1993
(2022)Radical queer (a term not in use at the time, but now more frequently employed) activists seized national headlines in the second half of the twentieth century with their fiery tactics, from so-called “die-ins” in the ... -
Factors Related to Mental Health Stigma Among Church-Affiliated African Americans
(2022)African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population, yet represent nearly 20% of persons diagnosed with a mental illness. Studies suggest African Americans experience higher levels of mental health related stigma (MHS) ... -
Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
(2022)The quest for African Americans to gain emancipation and equal civil rights occupied the efforts of abolitionists and antislavery advocates for much of the nineteenth century. For both men and women who valued the democratic ... -
The Ordinance Project: Commemorating Kansas City's LGBTQ Landmark Legislation
(2021)This project documents the efforts of Kansas City activists, organizers, and politicians who successfully fought for the passage of a municipal nondiscrimination ordinance in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ordinance ... -
Coffeehouse Sociability: Samuel Pepys and the Creation of Networks in Late Seventeenth Century England
(2021)The aim of this work is to address how coffeehouse culture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England facilitated the creation of networks. The emergence of the coffeehouse in London created a new social atmosphere for ... -
An Inquiry into the Relationship between Community and Text: Narratives and Iconography Depicting Christian Women with Authority in Late Antiquity
(2017)Some early Christian writers around the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity (second- to eighth-century) depicted Mary, the mother of Jesus, and other women, both imperial and non-imperial, in both East and West, as church ...