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From creekology to geology: Finding and conserving oil on the Southern Plains, 1859--1930.
(2004)
This dissertation tells the story of the oil industry's westward migration from Pennsylvania to the Southern Plains states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and how different environments in these regions influenced prospectors' ...
Gettysburg, a living battlefield.
(2000)
National Park Service (NPS) battlefields are designed as eternal tributes, but there is little permanence about these landscapes. Structures, scenery, and stories frequently change in relation to public memory of the events ...
Rising suns, fallen forts, and impudent immigrants: Race, power, and war in the Lower Mississippi Valley.
(2006)
Their assumption became untenable when hundreds of Europeans and their African slaves moved into Natchez country. The resultant web of Indian, French, and African communities created a unique matrix for the production of ...
Colorado's 'island community': Irrigation and industrial agriculture in Colorado's Grand Valley, 1882--1920.
(2001)
This dissertation examines the relationship between this local community and the broader economy. Many historians have portrayed small towns as passive recipients of outside corporate influence, but this community recruited ...
Exploration in the mare incognita: Natural history and conservation in early twentieth century America.
(2000)
More a space than a place, the ocean had long occupied the American imagination as a geographical border to be crossed. The process of coming to know of the ocean as a place began in the nineteenth century, but it was not ...
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 ...
Rural Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.
(2001)
This dissertation analyzes rural Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole communities in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. It examines the impact of Indian New Deal policies in the areas of economic, education, ...
Streams: Small Jewish communities on the banks of the Ohio.
(2002)
In most small towns, the dominant Jewish institution was the synagogue, whose activities included mutual aid, philanthropy, and Jewish education. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Ohio Valley was the center of a movement ...
"Aboriginally yours": The Society of American Indians and United States citizenship, 1890--1924.
(2005)
His public life had been dedicated to improving the condition of Native people. Eastman worked with progressive reformers who, like himself, believed in the power of Christian civilization and democracy to improve the ...
Agricultural labor, race, and Indian policy on the Round Valley Reservation, 1850--1941.
(2003)
This dissertation examines the labor history of the Indians living on the Round Valley Reservation, in northern California. From the time of contact in 1854 to the beginning of World War II, Round Valley Indians represented ...