Browsing by Author "Petrin, Ronald A."
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Active-positive leader: Applying James Barber to Theodore Roosevelt's life
Faltyn, Timothy W. (1999-05) -
Advocacy of the American Eugenics Movement, 1880-1920
McCargish, Carolyn Michelle (Oklahoma State University, 2007-07-01)This study examines writings of eugenics advocates to establish their motivations. Chapter one introduces the topic and discusses the historiography. Chapter two discusses factors that gave rise to eugenic thought. Chapters ... -
Assuming Indian voices: Western women writers, Alice Marriott, Muriel Wright, and Angie Debo
Loughlin, Patricia Erin (2000-05) -
Beyond the Capacity of Any Man: Christopher Gustavus Memminger and the Financial Programs of the Confederate States of America
Mahoney, Michael John (Oklahoma State University, 2009-12-01)The purpose of this study was to argue that the scope and talent needed to pursue an effective financial policy within the Confederacy was beyond the capacity of any man. This study also provides a partial defense of ... -
Cheerleaders and administrators between 1945 and 1999: A study of extracurricular activities in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Lee, Suzanne Renee LaDoux (2000-05) -
Cultural analysis of the early Japanese immigration to the United States during Meiji to Taisho era (1868-1926)
O, Hosok (2010-12)Scope and Method of Study: Focusing on the years between 1868 and 1926 during which Japan underwent drastic socioeconomic, political, and cultural changes, this study traces the "pushes" (forces that caused the people to ... -
Cultural origins of the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps and the 442nd regimental combat team during World War II: A comparison between the Japanese soldiers raised in Japan and the Nisei soldiers raised in America
O, Yukie (2011-05)Scope and Method of Study: Motivated by nationalistic fervor, many young brave soldiers all over the world fought for their country at all costs during World War II. In Japan, the wartime hysteria and the desperation of ... -
End of the "christian Century": American Protestant Missionaries and Chinese Nationalism, 1919-1928
Keller, Charles Andrew (Oklahoma State University, 1987-07-01) -
Free-bound and full circle: A study of Whitman's mimetic prosody
Martin, Douglas D. (2001-05) -
From confidence to confusion in moral teaching: Episcopalians, pluralism and gender, 1892-1997
Tait, David Alexander (1999-05) -
Journeys of God and country: The narrative of Great War Mennonite conscientious objectors
Mock, Melanie Springer (2000-06) -
Kentucky's Conflict as a Border State During the Secession Crisis
Smith Cox, Shae Vaughn (Oklahoma State University, 2013-12-01)This paper will argue that Kentucky was not guided by nationalism but by economic self-interest, its use of slavery, and moderate "Clayite" politics. Kentucky Unionists viewed the Union as the appropriate choice for ... -
Labor and the New Deal: the Case of the Los Angeles ILGWU
McCaffery, Isaias James (Oklahoma State University, 1989-12-01)This project examines the experience of a single labor union, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), in Los Angeles during the New Deal era. Comparisons are drawn between local and national developments ... -
Middle-Class Masculinity and the Klondike Gold Rush
Beyreis, David charles (Oklahoma State University, 2007-05-01)Social theorists in the late nineteenth-century identified two ideals of masculinity. The first type emphasized financial responsibility and familial duties like breadwinning and child-rearing, as well as Christian living. ... -
Modernized republicanism: American socialists during the Progressive Era
Jorsch, Thomas Frederick (2004-05) -
No "spoke in the Wheel": the German Evangelical Church and the Nazi State
Comodeca, Hannah D'Anne (Oklahoma State University, 2014-05-01)This study focuses on the relationship between the German Evangelical Church and the Nazi state from 1933-1945 and the reasons why the Church did not oppose state policies of persecution of the Jews. Through primary sources ... -
"No pretensions of piety:" The army post chaplain in the American West, 1866-1895
Reaves, Stacy Webb (2004-05) -
Organizing the 'living Dead': Civil Rights in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1954-1964
Baehler, Joel Edward (Oklahoma State University, 2012-05-01)By providing an in-depth examination of the civil rights movements in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma through the lens of the black newspapers in each city, The Black Dispatch and The Oklahoma Eagle, this thesis introduces ... -
Payne County and the Hooded Klan, 1921-1924
Showalter, James Lowell (2000-12) -
Remaining Puritan: The History of a Separatist Church in Massachusetts, 1620-1895
Norman, Jonathan Scott (Oklahoma State University, 2015-05-01)Most of the attention directed at the churches of New England in the seventeenth and eighteenth century has focused on their initial success and subsequent decline--if not a decline in the membership of the churches, or ...