Browsing 2021 Theses (UMKC) by Thesis Department "History (UMKC)"
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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 ... -
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 ...