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Constructing Comanche: Imperialism, Print Culture, and the Creation of the Most Dangerous Indian in Antebellum America
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Anglo-American print sources during the antebellum era framed the Comanche as
“the most powerful” or “the most dreaded” Indian whom settlers encountered on the frontier.
This research examines the pivotal role that ...
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 ...
O, Beastly Jew!: Allegorical Anti-Judaism in Thirteenth Century English Bestiaries
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
This thesis outlines the traditional anti-Judaic allegories found in the medieval
bestiary genre, demonstrates the transformations of these allegories within the English
scriptoria, and examines how these allegories ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The United States of Embarrassment: How Concerns about the World’s View of America Propelled Justice Department Action in Civil Rights
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
In the infancy of the Cold War, the Department of Justice submitted a series of
amicus curiae briefs to the Supreme Court in support of civil rights for the first time in
history. Curiously, these amicus briefs were ...
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 ...
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 ...
La France au bord de l’Amérique (France on the edge of America): Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Twentieth Century
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Historians of Empire have overwhelmingly turned their attention to the study of
peoples who, once oppressed by their imperial ruler, have achieved emancipation. Rarely
do they examine the peoples who did not demand ...
“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 ...
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 ...