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"ALL THE WOMEN...WERE VIOLATED IN THIS WAY: RHETORIC, RAPE, AND MEMORY IN THE DAKOTA WAR
(2015-05)
Over the course of the six weeks of fighting during the Dakota War of 1862, Dakota warriors held more than 200 white women and children captive. In the aftermath of the war, the rhetoric of reporters, policymakers, military ...
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 ...
Native American Stories as Scientific Investigations of Nature: Indigenous Science and Methodologies
(2016-05-13)
Scientific knowledge is a global pursuit, one that takes on many different guises across cultures. This thesis argues that indigenous peoples have and had their own, independently developed forms of scientific knowledge, ...
Long lots in New Mexico and Texas: The French connection, 1693--1731.
(2005)
Long lots are linear or rectangular agricultural fields, so configured to give access to water courses or roads. They exist in France and where French people settled in North America, primarily Quebec and Louisiana. They ...
The development and globalization of a transnational media conglomerate: A historical case study of Matsushita Electric Industrial Company.
(2002)
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is one of several media conglomerates that pursues an idealized, transnational conglomerate model. Matsushita Electric participates in the development of technology, the disbursement ...
Reservation Limits: American Indian Urbanization and Uplift in the Twentieth Century
(2014-04-30)
This dissertation takes a macro view of American Indian urbanization and off-reservation employment across the twentieth century, and does so through a wide-angle lens that is not tribe or destination specific. While the ...
Frustrated fortunes: Francis E. Warren and the search for a grazing policy, 1890--1929.
(2007)
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From self-made men to crusading women: The gendered evolution of the American temperance movement in the nineteenth century.
(2004)
During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it seemingly evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women of the WCTU. But this ...
National stereotypes about Germans in American travel writings, 1815--1914.
(2000)
In the early nineteenth century, Americans believed Germans were sluggish, phlegmatic, kind, and devoted to beer-drinking. By the end of the nineteenth century Americans perceived Germans as efficient, hard-working, ...
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 ...