Browsing by Subject "History, United States."
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"Aboriginally yours": The Society of American Indians and United States citizenship, 1890--1924.
(2005)His public life had been dedicated to improving the condition of Native people. Eastman worked with progressive reformers who, like himself, believed in the power of Christian civilization and democracy to improve the ... -
Agricultural labor, race, and Indian policy on the Round Valley Reservation, 1850--1941.
(2003)This dissertation examines the labor history of the Indians living on the Round Valley Reservation, in northern California. From the time of contact in 1854 to the beginning of World War II, Round Valley Indians represented ... -
"ALL THE WOMEN...WERE VIOLATED IN THIS WAY: RHETORIC, RAPE, AND MEMORY IN THE DAKOTA WAR
(2015-05)Over the course of the six weeks of fighting during the Dakota War of 1862, Dakota warriors held more than 200 white women and children captive. In the aftermath of the war, the rhetoric of reporters, policymakers, military ... -
American Indian religion under assault :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1984)From the Spanish Edict of 1620 prohibiting the usage of peyote to current state narcotics laws classifying peyote as a narcotic American Indians have withstood harassment, confiscations, imprisonment, and defamations of ... -
American nervousness:
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An analysis of the economic and ideological factors involved in the development of rights to water in the West :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1984)The last portion of the study offers an empirical test of the hypotheses generated by the model. Ordinary least squares equations are estimated, using the number of water rights cases as an indicator of defining and enforcing ... -
Architects of the self: Social scientists and the construction of the individual in postwar America.
(2004)American social science experienced unprecedented institutional growth during and after the Second World War due in part to the increased need for techniques in human resource management. As a result, scientific representations ... -
An astronomer beyond the observatory: Harlow Shapley as prophet of science.
(2000)By 1918 American astronomer Harlow Shapley (1885--1972) had completed the work that established his reputation as a scientist and secured his place as one of the most important contributors to the development of twentieth-century ... -
Becoming America's Ski City: Place and Identity on the Wasatch Front
(2018-12)“Becoming America’s Ski City” explores how skiers remolded the political, economic, cultural, and environmental landscape of Utah’s Wasatch Front, transforming the region’s valley cities and mountain forests into a more ... -
Central or Peripheral: Reconsidering the Place of African Americans within the American Intellectual Establishment
(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, ... -
Charlatans, sharpers, and climatology :
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Charles Duncan McIver: Educational statesman.
(2002)A biography of Charles Duncan McIver, a New South educational reformer from North Carolina. -
Charro: The Transnational History of a Cultural Icon
(2014-05-09)This is a transnational cultural history of the charro horseman in Mexico and the United States. It begins with an analysis of the archetype in nineteenth century art and literature, exploring various works of visual and ... -
The Children’s Republic of Science in the Antebellum Literature of Samuel Griswold Goodrich and Jacob Abbott
(2009-01)The antebellum years in the United States were marked by vigorous debates about national identity in which issues of hierarchy, authority, and democratic values came under intense scrutiny. During this period, a prime ... -
Colorado's 'island community': Irrigation and industrial agriculture in Colorado's Grand Valley, 1882--1920.
(2001)This dissertation examines the relationship between this local community and the broader economy. Many historians have portrayed small towns as passive recipients of outside corporate influence, but this community recruited ... -
Community, poverty, power: The politics of tribal self-determination, 1960--1968.
(2003)"Community, Poverty, Power" underscores the need for scholars to transcend conventional definitions of Indian history, combine micro and macro scales of analysis, and blend social and political perspectives. In addition ... -
Culture, conflict and coexistence : American-Soviet cultural relations, 1917-1958.
(1980)Beneath the strained official relationship between Washington and Moscow, American and Soviet cultural representatives have maintained a long standing cultural intercourse. Only at the depths of the cold war did contacts ... -
Damming the Bighorn: Indian reserved water rights on the Crow Reservation, 1900--2000.
(2003)According to one experienced lawyer, the Winters doctrine "hangs by a thread." Quantification of the Indian reserved water right serves the interests of local and state entities; does it also serve the interests of Indians? ... -
Desegregating the Line of Scrimmage: Race and College Football in the Southwest
(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 ...