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Not all disappeared: Disease and southeastern Indian survival, 1500-1800.
(1998)
Southeastern Indian survival depended on four factors. First, smallpox came relatively late to the Southeast, failing to become epidemic until the 1690s. Second, when epidemics struck with full force after the 1690s, Indians ...
Preserving the garden :
(1981)
The first Americans in Oregon came mostly from the Midwest where their ancestors had settled after leaving New England. Oregon represented a place where people could live surrounded by a pleasant setting which was protected ...
Innovation, imitation, and resisting manipulation: The first twenty years of American teenagers, 1941-1961.
(1998)
Over the twenty-year span of the 1940s and 1950s, a growing sense of separation and resistance to the mainstream culture developed, characterized by distinctive food, slang, music, dress, and sexual behavior. By studying ...
From maverick lands to managed lands: Ranching and school lands in Cimarron County, Oklahoma.
(2000)
In this dissertation I trace the decisions affecting school lands since 1890, and I try to assess how these decisions impact Cimarron County ranchers. The story is ongoing, and my contribution is to provide a more complete ...
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 ...
“You’re in apple land but you are a lemon:” Connection, Collaboration, and Division in Early ‘70s Indian Country
(2020-07-01)
In the first years of the 1970s, Indian Country became paradoxically more interwoven and yet also more divided. Three case studies from Oklahoma’s Indigenous communities illustrate this transformation. Beginning in the ...
Negotiating the "new country": The cultural politics of exchange in the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache reservation and allotment periods, 1867-1910.
(1998)
This dissertation focuses on the cultural aspects of exchange involving the Kiowa and Comanche tribes of western Indian Territory between 1867 and 1910, otherwise known as the reservation and allotment periods. The circulation ...
Order against chaos :
(1984)
This study focused on one aspect of the rise of monopoly corporate capitalism, the labor ideology of employers. Between 1880 and 1910, a period when American social thought was consciously reformulated, a prominent capitalist ...
Popular Science in National and Transnational Perspective: Suggestions from the American Context
(2009-06)
In what ways can the study of science and popular culture in the American context contribute to ongoing debates on popularization and popular science? This essay suggests that, for several reasons, attention to the antebellum ...