Browsing by Author "Malka, Adam"
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Confederacy, Republic (Again), or Both? The Print Media and The Moment of Decision in Harris, Harrison, Dallas, and Bexar Counties, 1860-1861
Christensen, Hannah (2020-05-08)Barely a week after the presidential election of 1860, the Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph expressed its support for the re-establishment of the Republic of Texas. Indeed, Texas seceded on February 1, 1861, but the Texas ... -
Destroying each other: race and the clash of cultures in the Indian Territory Civil War
Krejčí, Adam (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 Evangelicals' Western Vision: Union, Emigration, and Empire in the Long Civil War Era
Buchkoski, Courtney E. (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 ... -
Fighting “Firewater:” Native American Temperance Reform and Federal Indian Policy in the Nineteenth Century
Frazier, Chelsea (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 ... -
Joining Up with the Union: California's Place in the Nation and the Meaning of Military Service in the Civil War
Brandt, Louisa Rose (2020-05-08)Prior to the start of the Civil War, California had been a state for less than a dozen years and was populated by a diverse group of people from around globe, many of whom had been lured to the state by the call of gold. ... -
A landscape in flux: many paths to modernity in eastern Iowa, 1780-1910
Hill, Matthew (2023-08-04)While its history is often forgotten, the Upper Mississippi River Valley Region, including eastern Iowa and western Illinois, has a multiracial, turbulent, and violent past. This dissertation will examine the history of ... -
Prison Valley, U.S.A.: The Making of a Carceral Capital, 1861-1994
Finkelstein, Alexander (2022-05)The history of incarceration in Colorado from the birth of the territory in the 1860s through the 1990s is a history of continuity. Coloradans invoked the criminal legal system as a symbol of the state’s legitimate, effective ... -
Refuse, Reform, and Reversal: An Environmental History of the Chicago River, 1830-1910
Corpolongo, John (2020-05)Throughout the nineteenth century, Chicago’s industrial packinghouses, breweries, lumber mills, and brick foundries dumped their waste in the Chicago River. This sewage made the river an open sewer. The refuse threatened ... -
Relative Distances: Sailors and Women on the Philadelphia Waterfront, 1760-1825
Mowry, Bethany (2023-05-12)This dissertation uses Philadelphia as a case study to reveal the varied and significant relationships—business, sexual and romantic, and familial—that connected Anglo-Atlantic sailors and women across land and sea between ... -
Subjects of Struggle: The Intensification of White Supremacy and the Fugitive Dimensions of Black Freedom in Antebellum America
Edison, Christopher (2021)In antebellum America, free and enslaved blacks struggled for imagined forms of freedom at a time when white supremacy’s governing authority intensified dramatically; the nation’s culture of danger exposed black bodies, ...