Browsing History Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2013 Summer"
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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 ... -
The post-conflict odyssey of German communist veterans of the Spanish Civil War, 1939-1989
(2013)In early February of 1939, hundreds of German communists counted among the international volunteers who suffered a crushing rout in what proved their final campaign on behalf of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil ... -
The spider in the web: the weaving of a new, Lancastrian England in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries
(2013)In late-fourteenth century England, the third surviving son of King Edward III, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, became obsessed with gaining control of the nation and establishing a Lancastrian legacy that would one ...