Browsing History Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Advisor "Osborn, Matthew Warner"
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Building Bridges: An Anthology of the War on Prostitution and the Greater Women’s Movement in Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)This research looks at Kansas City’s War on Prostitution in 1977 and the larger women’s movement of second-wave feminism throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The War on Prostitution makes the women’s movement in Kansas City ... -
A Quack on Trial: Advertising and Education in Missouri's Medical Marketplace, 1850--1890
(2014-09-30)This study compares the lives and practices of Dr. Galen Bishop (1824-1902) and Dr. George Catlett (1828-1886), physicians emblematic of a larger struggle to shape the future of medical practice in America. The orthodox ... -
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 ... -
Strategic Mourning: America's Journey After the Death of George Washington
(2020)This thesis examines the eulogies delivered after the death of George Washington in 1799, identifying themes in the texts and motivations of the authors. The death of the first president occurred during a series of national ... -
Trilobites and the Culture of Wonder in Antebellum America
(2021)This thesis examines a “culture of wonder” in the United States from 1800-1850 through the exploration of invertebrate fossils, especially the trilobite, in historical sources. A short discussion of Charles Willson Peale’s ... -
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 ...