Browsing by Author "Arata, Laura"
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Administering history: The Oklahoma Historical Society and the Civil War in Indian Territory
Harris , Jason Travis (2021-12)The American Civil War is one of the most studied periods in American history, with over 60,000 books detailing numerous topics from the political saga leading to war to social history exploring the lives of civilians, ... -
"Bad Men and Good Bad Men: The Cherokee Strip Outlaws," an Exhibit for the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center
Girkin, Clinton (2015-12-01)This project proposes a museum exhibit that will explore the nature of outlawry and the public�s response to it. The introductory chapter will explain the public�s perception of outlaws. Richard Aquila argues that the ... -
Dressing like Laura: Reconstructing women's dress on the Great Plains frontier through the national Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum's dress 2829
Patton, Claire (2023-05)This project explores why women on the 19th century Northern Great Plains frontier continued to follow Euro-American modesty and fashion conventions and purposefully sought out fashionable clothing. In the popular imagination, ... -
From Sahagun to the Mainstream: Flawed Representations of Latin American Culture in Image and Text
Huffstetter, Olivia (2018-05-01)Early European travel literature was a prominent source from which information about the New World was presented to a general audience. Geographic regions situated within what is now referred to as Latin America were ... -
Gay Rights National Lobby: America's forgotten gay rights vanguard
Luther, Tanner (2020-07-17)Despite the integral role it played in the fight for LGBT+ rights and its later absorption into the Human Rights Campaign (one of the United State's foremost LGBT+ rights organizations), little scholarship has been written ... -
Herland Sister Resources: A lesbian feminist collective's changes to Oklahoma herstory
Hinesley, B (2022-07)Herland Sister Resources, a feminist and primarily lesbian collective, comprised a strong component of the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma queer community since 1982. Began as a feminist bookstore, first known as La Salle des ... -
I am still myself: How the Dust Bowl influenced women's clothing in Oklahoma
Ringer, Claire Elyse (Oklahoma State University, 2019-04-26)Traditionally, research over the Dust Bowl has focused on the causes of the ecological disaster and migrant workers, leaving women an understudied component of this story. Because clothing reflects our circumstances, ideals, ... -
Infant phenotypes and correlation of life history and attachment: An eye-tracking study
Argo, Matthew K. (2020-12-21)The continuation of genetics and offspring survival is important for the fitness of animals, including humans. The allocation of finite resources is a part of the life history strategy approach, in which determining if ... -
Lessons from my friend Sue Davis: Preserving an Okie queer’s legacy of resilience, resistance, and returning home
Clementine, Arlowe Sue (2022-07)This paper examines the life and legacy of Queer Okie Sue Davis. Utilizing oral history interviews and autoethnography methods, Clementine highlights the history of one Oklahoma Lesbian who grew up in post-World War II ... -
Missions unaccomplished: Female missionaries, Native American rights, and media in the nineteenth-century American West
Weldon, Kaitlyn Corbyn (2020-07)Two-faced. Deceitful. Insincere. These words summarize the actions of Anglo-Americans toward Native peoples in the United States in the final two decades of the nineteenth century. Under the guise of maternal instinct ... -
Perseverance: Anne Boleyn in public memory
Kummell , Alexandra (2022-12)This thesis works to understand how Anne Boleyn’s reputation has been publicly remembered and presented over five hundred years of time, drawing on popular culture and public history methodology. Anne Boleyn creates an ... -
Politicizing the body: Women's health and sexism in the American West, 1860-1890
Richmond, Allison (2020-05-07)This thesis examines the progressiveness of gender roles in the American West, and how those practices of midwifery and gynecology in the West were influenced by those roles changing norms relative to the east. While much ... -
Rhetorical playbook: Football, race, rhetoric, and play possibility spaces of the American university
Meints, Josiah (2019-12)This dissertation examines and defines the relationship of college football within the culture of the American university, especially at larger Division I athletic schools. In my first two chapters, I argue that universities ... -
Society WAVES goodbye: The question of a servicewoman's role after World War II
Williams, Madison (2022-04-27)The women who served in the Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES for short, experienced many liberties previously withheld from them, and made great strides towards equality. This was due in part ... -
"They Are Carried in Our Blood": Violence and Memory in the Nineteenth Century Cherokee Nation
Fritz, Emma Elizabeth (2017-05-01)Throughout the nineteenth century, the Cherokees faced unequivocal levels of violence. They experienced unmatched terror at the hands of others and themselves. Death, destruction, and hatred ran rampant in the Cherokee ... -
Three studies using business naming patterns to delimit regional geographies
Andrews, Jesse R. (2022-07)The following work contains three articles delimiting and interrogating the concept of vernacular regions using the spatial distribution and frequency of keywords in business names. The basics of this approach are not ... -
"Until we fall to the ground united": Cherokee resilience and interfactional cooperation in the early twentieth century
Toney, Tabatha (2018-05)"'Until We Fall to the Ground United': Cherokee Resilience and Interfactional Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century," chronicles the political history of the Cherokee tribal government from 1906 to 1950. After the ... -
Way We Never Were: Native Americans in Popular Culture: A Proposal for a Virtual Reality Based Exhibit
Ketchem, Jon Charles (2017-12-01)This project proposes a museum exhibit that will explore the public memory of Native Americans as influenced by popular culture through commercial entertainment venues. The introductory chapter explains how exposure to ... -
"Why have we neglected the girls" : Women's roles in Indian Territory Choctaw education, 1831-1861
Duncan, Emily (2021-05)After the forceful removal of the Choctaw to Indian Territory in 1831, they quickly established schools for their children. They believed emphasizing female education simultaneously preserved Choctaw culture and encouraged ...