Browsing by Subject "David W. Levy Prize Winner"
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Buying your health : medical consumerism in the early twentieth century Undergraduate
After WWI, the United States saw an unprecedented rise in economic production and mass consumerism, an era that came to be characterized by wealth, prosperity, and vanity. Spurred on by the second industrial revolution, ... -
The Indian Removal Act and resulting factions among the Cherokee Nation Undergraduate
(2016)On May 28, 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the forcible relocation of southern Indian tribes to the flatlands of America. While this signature only took a moment, consequences of ... -
Out of the closet and into the streets : on the flamboyance and fervor of the gay liberation movement Undergraduate
Ironically enough, mere moments after bemoaning today's young generation of LGBT men and women for being uneducated on the history of LGBT rights, drag performer Derrick Barry erroneously asserted that "people were killed" ... -
Survey of the Marine Corps as a distinct branch of the United States military from 1775 to 1805 Undergraduate
When the "shot heard 'round the world" sparked the American War for Independence in 1775, the emerging American nation was rattled, but only for a moment. The iron will of the Colonial forces provided the foundation for ... -
Thomas W. Woodrow's Appeals for Socialism Based on Religion and Economics Undergraduate
During the early 1900s, Oklahoma contained one of the largest socialist parties in the United States. In his magazine, Woodrow's Monthly, Thomas W. Woodrow, a socialist Christian pastor in Hobart, Oklahoma, created a wide ...