Browsing by Subject "History, United States."
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Destroying each other: race and the clash of cultures in the Indian Territory Civil War
(2020-05-08)Most historians of the Civil War have neglected Indian Territory. Those historians who write on the Indian Territory Civil War, like Annie Abel and Mary Jane Warde, focus on tribal political intrigue or the effect of the ... -
The development and globalization of a transnational media conglomerate: A historical case study of Matsushita Electric Industrial Company.
(2002)Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is one of several media conglomerates that pursues an idealized, transnational conglomerate model. Matsushita Electric participates in the development of technology, the disbursement ... -
Douglas Henry Johnston and the Chickasaw Nation, 1898--1939.
(1999)Douglas Henry Johnston served as governor of the Chickasaw Nation for some four decades. Johnston presided from 1898 to 1902, was re-elected in 1904, and served until his death on June 28, 1939. He served longer than any ... -
Embodiments of power: Nineteenth-century warrior art among the Cheyennes and Kiowas.
(2003)Events recorded in ledger book drawings served to indoctrinate boys and youths into a culturally prescribed martial mindset. Scenes centering on warfare, hunting, or courtship expounded a set of social behaviors that were ... -
The Evangelicals' Western Vision: Union, Emigration, and Empire in the Long Civil War Era
(2020-05-08)This project examines the nineteenth century emigration aid movement by which northern evangelical reformers subsidized westward expansion. Settlers used subsidies to defray the cost of transportation and import the ... -
Exploration in the mare incognita: Natural history and conservation in early twentieth century America.
(2000)More a space than a place, the ocean had long occupied the American imagination as a geographical border to be crossed. The process of coming to know of the ocean as a place began in the nineteenth century, but it was not ... -
Farmers, professors and money :
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Fighting “Firewater:” Native American Temperance Reform and Federal Indian Policy in the Nineteenth Century
(2023-12-15)In 1802, Little Turtle, Chief of the Miami, wrote to President Thomas Jefferson explaining the increased presence of alcohol in Indian Country. This sparked a century of Indigenous peoples fighting to control alcohol and ... -
Fort Gibson :
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From buffalo to beeves: Cattle and the political economy of the Oglala Lakota, 1750--1920.
(2007)Obstacles such as an unyielding demand by the federal government to implement a farming economy, extensive competition from white ranchers, limited access to regional or local markets, excessive institutional control by ... -
From creekology to geology: Finding and conserving oil on the Southern Plains, 1859--1930.
(2004)This dissertation tells the story of the oil industry's westward migration from Pennsylvania to the Southern Plains states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and how different environments in these regions influenced prospectors' ... -
From maverick lands to managed lands: Ranching and school lands in Cimarron County, Oklahoma.
(2000)In this dissertation I trace the decisions affecting school lands since 1890, and I try to assess how these decisions impact Cimarron County ranchers. The story is ongoing, and my contribution is to provide a more complete ... -
From self-made men to crusading women: The gendered evolution of the American temperance movement in the nineteenth century.
(2004)During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it seemingly evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women of the WCTU. But this ... -
From the neighborhood to the nation: The social history of midnight basketball.
(1998)This study provides a narrative account of the phenomenon known as Midnight Basketball. It focuses upon the transformation of Midnight Basketball from a one-man basement operation to national organization and, finally, to ... -
Frustrated fortunes: Francis E. Warren and the search for a grazing policy, 1890--1929.
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Gettysburg, a living battlefield.
(2000)National Park Service (NPS) battlefields are designed as eternal tributes, but there is little permanence about these landscapes. Structures, scenery, and stories frequently change in relation to public memory of the events ... -
“A great mass of incompetent men”: Contested medical frontiers in Oklahoma, 1880-1940
(2022-05-13)This thesis observes the movement of White aspiring physicians to Indian and Oklahoma Territories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the racial and professional interactions that ensued. Like other Whites, ... -
Guthrie, Oklahoma: An analysis of townscapes, 1889-1910.
(1999)This dissertation examines the morphology of Guthrie, Oklahoma. It begins with an examination of the inception of the city as the designated capital of the Indian Territory and follows its development from an earlier concept ...