Browsing by Author "Keppel, Ben"
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Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists' Palestine Questions
Robins, Walker (2015-12)Today, evangelical Christians are the largest pro-Israel constituency in a United States population that is very supportive of the Jewish state generally, with evangelicalism and Christian Zionism often understood as ... -
The Branding of the University of Oklahoma
Stutz, Charlotte (2021-05-14)My thesis focuses on the process of branding the University of Oklahoma between 1890 and 1930. I examine the origins of the administrative brand, the shift after Oklahoma statehood, the impact of World War One, and the ... -
Central or Peripheral: Reconsidering the Place of African Americans within the American Intellectual Establishment
Keppel, Ben (2015-12)Do we think of Frederick Douglass as a founding father of the modern social democratic tradition in the United States? Or is he taken as proof in our textbooks that a slave could indeed become a “great American”—proof that, ... -
Clara Luper: A Historical Example for Contemporary Teacher Activists
Gentry, Janna (2018-01)The purpose of this thesis is to provide contemporary teacher activists resisting against the racism of the New Jim Crow with a historical template for engaging in activism, through the biography of Clara Luper as a political ... -
Collaboration and Mentorship in the Organization of an American Indian Family Collection: A Case Study in Service Learning at the University of Oklahoma
Keppel, Ben; BigFoot, Dolores Subia; Burke, Bridget; Mackey, Kasimir I.; Minnis, Tamah (2022)This case study examines an experiment in archival practice and mentorship undertaken at the University of Oklahoma (OU) during the spring semester of 2019. The project concerned the inventory of an important privately ... -
Desegregating the Line of Scrimmage: Race and College Football in the Southwest
Davis, Christopher (2014-12)This dissertation traces the racial desegregation of major college football in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas from the end of World War II through the mid-1970s. Moving beyond the realm of sport, it links ... -
A Different Shade of Green: Efraím Hernández, Chapingo, and Mexico's Green Revolution, 1950-1967
Caire-Pérez, Matthew (2016-05-13)This dissertation deals with certain undiscussed episodes in modern Mexican agricultural history. -
Discontent on the Range: Uncovering the Origins of Public Grazing Lands Politics
Pearce, Matthew (2014-05)Recent conflicts between ranchers, environmentalists, and federal range management experts on western public lands are a product of different perceptions of the landscape that crystallized by the middle of the twentieth ... -
FREEDOM IS MY BUSINESS: CARL MCINTIRE, CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM AND THE RISE OF MODERN CONSERVATISM
Griffith, Bobby Jr. (2019)Carl McIntire (1906-2002), the fiery Fundamentalist minister played a key role in the rise of the modern Conservative movement that emerged following the Second World War. From his home base in the Philadelphia suburb of ... -
General survey of Native American participation in the Vietnam War
Tucker, Rachel (2023-12-15)Native American participation during the Vietnam War is a subject woefully understudied, as whole, with a majority of the historiography consisting of one man’s work. This general survey of Native American/Indian/Indigenous ... -
Intertribal Interactions, Relationality, and Community Resilience in The Northeastern Oklahoma Indian Nations, 1800-1930
Bergseth, Amy (2018-05-11)My research explores nation building among the nine small American Indian nations located in northeastern Oklahoma after forced removal. The distinct sovereign small Native nations who relocated to the corner of the state ... -
Land of the Fair God: The Development of Black Towns in Oklahoma, 1870-1910
Myers Jr, Leroy (2016)Oklahoma’s All Black Town Movement is important to contextualize larger black migration patterns during the nineteenth century. Oklahoma was at the center of black migration from surrounding states. In addition, it played ... -
The Ontological Miseducation and Ontological Reeducation of African Americans: Race, Resistance and Transformation
Corpening, Brian (2017-12-16)Carter G. Woodson’s insight that “If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action” inspired this dissertation, which critically studies theories of miseducation by Woodson (1933), Jane Roland ... -
Other Indians and Freedmen: The Legacy of Black Migration in Oklahoma, 1840-1910
Myers, Leroy Jr (2021)“Other Indians and Freedmen: The Legacy of Black Migration in Oklahoma, 1840-1910” analyzes African Americans’ westward migration from the Deep South and the development of predominately black towns throughout Indian ... -
Public Interest, Private Lands: Soil Conservation in the United States, 1890-1940
Stalcup, Sam (2014-05)My dissertation is a history of soil conservation in the United States between 1890 and 1940. In a democracy founded, in part, on the principle of private property rights, how have Americans sought to protect the public ... -
"Red Devil Radicals": The Birth and Growth of Americanism in Chicago, 1870-1919
McGregor, Megan (2014-05)In the midst of the struggle to reunite and reconstruct the nation following the Civil War, citizens of the United States also began to renegotiate what it meant to truly be an American. As the nation attempted to recover ... -
Scandal and Reform: a Historical Study of Corruption and Reform in Oklahoma's Court System, 1956-1967
Card, Lee (2016-12-09)In the years 1964 and 1965 Oklahomans learned the shocking details of corruption in the Oklahoma Supreme Court. At least three justices had accepted substantial bribes in exchange for their votes. In the case of at least ... -
"Social Science and Civil Rights," Oxford Bibliographies
Keppel, Ben (2016-06-28)Considered from within the prism of American history, the terms social science and civil rights, when combined, have a particular meaning bound up in the nation’s continuing struggle over whether to treat a certain native-born ... -
TEACHER UNDERSTANDING OF CARE: USING EMPIRICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS TO EXPLICATE THE MEANING OF CARE AS REFLECTED IN THE RELATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE CLASSROOM
Thompson, Goldie V. (2014-05-10)Care theory is a complex theory to understand, and interpreting its meaning involves a close investigation of the context in which it is both employed and explored. In this study, both conceptual and empirical literature ... -
Teaching Us to Forget: United States History Textbooks, the Plains Wars, and Public Memory
Marshall, Lindsay (2019-05-10)History education is the cornerstone of public memory construction in the United States, and it has the potential to facilitate the necessary process of reconciliation with our troubled past. And yet after a century of ...