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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 ...
Charles Duncan McIver: Educational statesman.
(2002)
A biography of Charles Duncan McIver, a New South educational reformer from North Carolina.
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 ...
An astronomer beyond the observatory: Harlow Shapley as prophet of science.
(2000)
By 1918 American astronomer Harlow Shapley (1885--1972) had completed the work that established his reputation as a scientist and secured his place as one of the most important contributors to the development of twentieth-century ...
Frustrated fortunes: Francis E. Warren and the search for a grazing policy, 1890--1929.
(2007)
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Home only long enough: Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, American science, nationalism, and philanthropy, 1886--1908.
(2003)
American Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary tried for twenty-six years to be the first man to reach the North Pole. The dissertation focuses on Peary's stateside efforts to raise money for his multiple expeditions. During his ...
My father's name was Zahtah: Constructing the life history of Alfred Chalepah, Sr.
(2003)
This work examines the life history project of an elderly Native American man. Narratives were recorded during four years of fieldwork. Analysis examines the ways in which elders construct their own identity and draw past ...