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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 ...
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” ...
“The modern frontier”: Oklahoma settler memory in the mid-twentieth century
(2023-05-12)
In 2020, the Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau launched the “Modern Frontier” campaign to attract tourists, residents, and businesses to Oklahoma City. Surveying the history of what became the state of Oklahoma ...
Road Power: The Politics of American Highway Development, 1900-1939
(2018)
Road Power uses the development of the American highway system to examine the foundations of the federal state. This thesis argues that the highway bureaucracy accrued power throughout the early twentieth century, providing ...
A history of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, 1957--2000.
(2001)
*The dissertation includes a CD that is compound (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation).