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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Seeking the one great remedy: Francis George Shaw and nineteenth-century reform.
(1999)
Francis George Shaw, son of a wealthy Whig merchant who helped build the commercial infrastructure of New England, retired from commerce at a young age. This action inaugurated a lifetime devoted to scholarship and reform ...
From the neighborhood to the nation: The social history of midnight basketball.
(1998)
This study provides a narrative account of the phenomenon known as Midnight Basketball. It focuses upon the transformation of Midnight Basketball from a one-man basement operation to national organization and, finally, to ...
Other names I have been called: Political resurgence among Virginia Indians in the twentieth century.
(1998)
Historically, Virginia's indigenous Indian tribes have been subsumed under non-Indian racial categories. Typically, Virginia Indians were classified as "free persons of color, " somewhat in midpoint on the bi-racial ...
Percussive Arts Society International Headquarters and Museum: The formative years in Lawton, Oklahoma, 1989-1995.
(1999)
This study chronicled the historical events dealing with the establishment of the Percussive Arts Society International Headquarters and Museum 1989--1995. The relocation of the Society's headquarters and museum to Lawton, ...
Yuchi social history since World War II: Political symbolism in ethnic identity.
(1998)
From allotment to the current day, most scholars assume the various towns that originally formed the Creek polity have become assimilated into a single homogenous Creek culture. The Yuchi community has maintained a separate ...
Stronger than custom: West Point and the admission of women, 1972-1980.
(1998)
When the first women cadets entered the United States Military Academy in 1976, they were harbingers of massive changes at West Point and within the American Army. They arrived on the heels of the anti-militarism of the ...
Perspectives on the racial threat hypothesis: Testing a theory of southern politics.
(1999)
By studying the phenomenon of racial threat voting in the South, we make discoveries that allow us to understand better the complexities of it. By viewing racial threat on different planes, we gain a better understanding ...