Browsing by Author "Karibo, Holly"
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Cracked Up Sentencing: The Establishment and Maintenance of Discrepancies in Federal Cocaine Sentencing Structures in the 1980s and 1990s
Barton, Sarah (2017-12)During his tenure in office, Ronald Reagan mounted a punitive war against drug use in the United States. This crusade included the vast sentencing discrepancy between powder and crack cocaine, which is the focus of this ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Overstepping the bounds: Domestic upheaval, removal, and personhood in nineteenth-century American women's writing
Dostal, Michelle T. (2022-12)This project discusses works by three nineteenth-century American women writers who wrote in the sentimental, domestic genre so popular with readers in an era that upheld domesticity, a dominant nineteenth-century ideology ... -
Redefining patriotism: GI and veteran dissent during the Vietnam War
Schafer, Cadley (2022-04-20)This thesis focuses on GI and veteran dissent during the Vietnam War. While activism of the 1960s has been well documented by historians, particularly within the Vietnam-era antiwar movement, some voices are still less ... -
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 ... -
Underground press: Its influence on American sociopolitical movements of the 1960s and 1970s
Rogers, Katie (2021-07)This thesis examines the underground press in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through close analysis of the more popular underground newspapers from this time period and from different geographical ...