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Intertribal Interactions, Relationality, and Community Resilience in The Northeastern Oklahoma Indian Nations, 1800-1930
(2018-05-11)
My research explores nation building among the nine small American Indian nations located in northeastern Oklahoma after forced removal. The distinct sovereign small Native nations who relocated to the corner of the state ...
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 ...
Public Interest, Private Lands: Soil Conservation in the United States, 1890-1940
(2014-05)
My dissertation is a history of soil conservation in the United States between 1890 and 1940. In a democracy founded, in part, on the principle of private property rights, how have Americans sought to protect the public ...
Medicine Worse than the Malady: Indian Health, Colonization, and the Wind River Reservation, 1800-1928
(2014-05-09)
At the turn of the century Native Americans represented a wide variety of cultures, economic situations, regions, and historical experiences. Yet unusually high rates of tuberculosis, trachoma, and infant mortality were ...
Willy Ley, the Science Writers, and the Popular Reenchantment of Science
(2014-05-08)
This dissertation explores the life and career of Willy Ley, a science writer and popularizer of spaceflight technology in Germany and the United States during the twentieth century. By following his various “campaigns” ...
"Social Science and Civil Rights," Oxford Bibliographies
(2016-06-28)
Considered from within the prism of American history, the terms social science and civil rights, when combined, have a particular meaning bound up in the nation’s continuing struggle over whether to treat a certain native-born ...
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, ...
Language and Bodily Autonomy in Chicano Movement Periodicals, 1967-1973
(2019-12-13)
Periodicals were a primary organizing tool of Chicano Movement activists from 1967-1973, serving as spaces for multilingual representation and dialogue in Mexican American communities. This thesis argues that by publishing ...
Teaching Us to Forget: United States History Textbooks, the Plains Wars, and Public Memory
(2019-05-10)
History education is the cornerstone of public memory construction in the United States, and it has the potential to facilitate the necessary process of reconciliation with our troubled past. And yet after a century of ...
"Red Devil Radicals": The Birth and Growth of Americanism in Chicago, 1870-1919
(2014-05)
In the midst of the struggle to reunite and reconstruct the nation following the Civil War, citizens of the United States also began to renegotiate what it meant to truly be an American. As the nation attempted to recover ...