Browsing by Subject "History"
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Finding a home among the red hills : women and homesteading in Western Oklahoma, 1900-1920.
(2016)Most Oklahoma land runs took place in the 1890s, but at the turn of the century, many available homesteads still existed in the red, rolling hills of the unpredictable, harsh environment of western Oklahoma. Many of the ... -
From milk cans to toilet paper : the story of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw, ?o?dz?, and Krako?w ghettos, 1940-1944.
(2017)The fate of European Jewry was still unwritten when Adolph Hitler and his Nazi party came into power in January 1933; however, over the course of twelve years he and his followers attempted to eradicate the continent's 9.5 ... -
The girl with the agate eyes: the life and times of Mattie Howard
(2022)This thesis studies the life of Martha Alice “Mattie” Howard, a forgotten figure in both the early 20th-century criminal underworld and the evangelical circuit of 1930s and 1940s America. Straddling the line between social ... -
“I don’t smell chemicals, I smell money:” the effects of federal policy and the chemical industry on human health and the environment in the Kanawha River Valley
(2023-12-15)Federal policy and the need for American produced chemicals saw a need for a domestic chemical industry to be erected in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia during World War I. Following the war, federal policy continued ... -
Is Gangaikonda Cholapuram built based on Vaastu Sastra?
(2019-12-13)The Cholas (848 CE – 1279 CE) established an imperial line and united a large portion of what is now South India under their rule. The Cholas, known worldwide for their bronze sculptures, world heritage temples and land ... -
Leon Phillips and the New Deal in Oklahoma.
(2015)Leon C. Phillips and the New Deal in Oklahoma looks at how one governor in the state reacted to the New Deal by attempting to be fiscally conservative. Particularly in regards to the overspending trend, taking on supporters ... -
LINES with POWER & PURPOSE: an Editorial Cartoon Collection at the University of Central Oklahoma
(2017)This exhibition features over fifty original editorial cartoons from the nation's great metropolitan newspapers during the Golden Age of print journalism. In the mix are artistic novices all the way to seven Pulitzer ... -
Lurking in the Shadows: Human Trafficking and Sex Work
(2021)This thesis explores the issues surrounding human trafficking (HT) and exposes a great lack of knowledge about human trafficking by local, federal, and international law enforcement agencies. Human trafficking discourse ... -
Mary Blair: Incomplete Design History Podcast
(2021-09-23)Mary Blair was a fine artist, commercial artist, concept artist, and Disney Imagineer. After graduating from Chouinard and marrying Lee Blair, Mary was set to build a career as a regionalist watercolor painter like her ... -
Oklahoman by blood: indigenous land tenure from Indian Territory to McGirt
(2022)After the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision in 2020, Oklahoma’s statehood became the subject of intense legal scrutiny regarding the supposed “disestablishment” of American Indian reservations. The State’s position follows a ... -
Prison Valley, U.S.A.: The Making of a Carceral Capital, 1861-1994
(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 ... -
A psychological scar: collective trauma and memory in republican Rome, 390-55 BCE
(2021)The sack of Rome by the Gallic chieftain Brennus in 390 BCE was the cause of a collective trauma that influenced all sectors of Roman society. The collective trauma and memory were, in part, responsible for policy changes, ... -
Race, politics and sports history : 1960-1980
(2023)This thesis project encompasses the overlap of sports, political, and social history. This provides a unique insight into issues of racial inequality and how they relate to larger geopolitical context of the 1960s into the ... -
RADICAL REACTIONS: THE FIRST RED SCARE IN THE GREAT PLAINS AND THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDERLANDS, 1918-1920
(2017-05-12)This dissertation will focus on the First Red Scare in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The First Red Scare was a wave of mass panic and hysteria directed against suspected radicals, leftists, anarchist, and Communist ... -
Recreating Main Street: Midcentury U.S. Expatriate Soft Power in the Heart of Mexico, 1930-1980
(2019-12-13)The American Colonists of Mexico City were used as conduits of and representatives for U.S. foreign policy and U.S. corporate influence in post WWII Mexico in a reconfiguration of the Good Neighbor policy. By using soft ... -
Submersion as rhetorical tactic for women of color at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
(2021)The 1893 Columbian Exposition of the Chicago World’s Fair was a moment meant to showcase the best of the American experience, and many women of color saw this event as an opportunity to voice their message of suffrage for ... -
Third world revolutionaries : the activism of the Third World Women's Alliance and Alliance Against Women's Oppression, 1970s-1980s
(2021)The Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA) emerged from the Black Power politics of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and two black women's caucuses, the Black Women's Liberation Committee and the Black Women's ... -
The ticking time bomb : H-Block, the connection between nationalism and violence
(2021)This thesis argues that due to the intractable nature of the questions of national (imperial) identity and belonging, actors on both sides of "the Troubles" turned to violence to broadcast their voices. Lacking legitimate ... -
We can't eat gender rolls: the pradox of the citoyenne during the French Revolution
(2022)The citoyennes of the French Revolution were silenced by the Republic of France through codification of Rousseau's Natural sexes, and their contributions to the French Revolution remain largely unexplored by historians. ... -
The Wilcox Museum acquisition history
(2021)The Wilcox Museum at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas is in need of digitizing and organizing all of their paperwork from 1888 to current (2021). A majority of their documentation has begun to fade with time ...