Browsing History Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Advisor "Burke, Diane Mutti"
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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 ... -
A Glittering Hope at the Darkest Time: Refugees and the Western Sanitary Commission During the Civil War
(2020)By 1864, refugees from the South and the Western Border flooded into St. Louis and adjacent towns in unprecedented numbers. This influx of destitute people required aid and relief organizations in Missouri to broaden their ... -
Bushwhacker Belles : Exploring Gender, Guerrilla Warfare, and the Union Provost Marshal Records
(2014-08-26)The objective of this study is to illuminate the stories of women involved with guerrilla warfare in Missouri during the Civil War by creating a website that will collectively draw on primary and secondary source materials ... -
Chapel Hill, Missouri: Lost Visions of America's Vanguard on the Western Frontier 1820 to 1865
(2014-09-30)Despite its present circumstance as an extinct Missouri town in the geographic heart of the Midwest, Chapel Hill College was once the vanguard of the burgeoning American empire. In 1852, Chapel Hill College stood as a ... -
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 ... -
Great Expectations: Women's Help Wanted Ads In Kansas City, 1920-1936
(2021)The question of the nature of women’s paid work has been a frequent point of historical inquiry. Using a source previously only tapped quantitatively, this paper seeks to expand our understanding of how women’s employment ... -
Here comes Athena! : a representation of Kansas City in the Priests of Pallas Parade
(2012-08-29)This exhibition examines the historical significance of the Priests of Pallas Parade and Ball, a tableaux style parade and carnival event that took place in Kansas City, Missouri, predominantly from 1887 to 1911. Organized ... -
The Laboring Irish: Developing Community and Industry in Early Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)By 1880, the Kansas City community had experienced phenomenal growth. Since 1820, the new city had evolved from a fur trading post, an outfitting center for western trails, a trading center for Native Americans, a ... -
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 Lieber Codes Effectiveness in Jackson County, Missouri
(2019)This thesis is a case study that examines the problems the US Army encountered in the implementation of the Lieber Code in 1863 Jackson County, Missouri. My arguments are largely based on manuscript sources and microfilmed ... -
Without a sword or a shield: the fighting army behind Brown
(2021)The struggle of Black Americans to obtain access to economic and political opportunities available to Whites in the United States began with the arrival of the first enslaved persons in 1619 and continues today. Men and ...