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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 ...
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 ...
Red Scare rhetoric and composition: Early Cold War effects on university writing instruction, 1934--1954.
(2004)
This dissertation investigates composition and communication philosophies and practices from the years 1934--1954. Generally speaking, writing instruction suffered during the Cold War because the political climate reduced ...
Yíà [i.e. Yíaù
(2007)
Abstract not available.
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 ...
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 ...
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” ...
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 ...