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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 ...
Fighting “Firewater:” Native American Temperance Reform and Federal Indian Policy in the Nineteenth Century
(2023-12-15)
In 1802, Little Turtle, Chief of the Miami, wrote to President Thomas Jefferson explaining the increased presence of alcohol in Indian Country. This sparked a century of Indigenous peoples fighting to control alcohol and ...
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” ...
Charles Duncan McIver: Educational statesman.
(2002)
A biography of Charles Duncan McIver, a New South educational reformer from North Carolina.
"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 ...
The mountain man in American history and culture.
(2000)
The mountain man hero evolved mostly during the nineteenth century owing to various media and changing cultural currents. He embodied and projected Jacksonian ideals (as an adventurous enterpriser), notions of Manifest ...
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, ...
The intersection of feminism and Indianness in the activism of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller.
(2002)
My work offers a comparative examination of the use of feminism and Indian identity in the careers of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller. While they took different paths to political activism, Harris as the wife of a United ...
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 ...