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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 ...
Becoming America's Ski City: Place and Identity on the Wasatch Front
(2018-12)
“Becoming America’s Ski City” explores how skiers remolded the political, economic,
cultural, and environmental landscape of Utah’s Wasatch Front, transforming the region’s valley
cities and mountain forests into a more ...
Yíà [i.e. Yíaù
(2007)
Abstract not available.
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 ...
“A great mass of incompetent men”: Contested medical frontiers in Oklahoma, 1880-1940
(2022-05-13)
This thesis observes the movement of White aspiring physicians to Indian and Oklahoma Territories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the racial and professional interactions that ensued. Like other Whites, ...
William B. Hazen :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1967)
Sand Creek : tragedy and symbol /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1984)
Ultimately, the study uses the Sand Creek Massacre to identify the common denominators of massacre broadly conceived and to probe why such events occur. Placing Sand Creek within the context of similar events throughout ...
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 ...
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 ...