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President in the gray flannel suit: Dwight D. Eisenhower and postwar American manhood
(2016-05)
In recent years presidential historians and men studies specialists have combined their fields of study to examine how conceptions of male identity have informed, shaped, and altered the American presidency. Dwight Eisenhower ...
South's visible hand: Textile mills and the control of white labor in the antebellum southern Piedmont, 1830-1860
(2016-05)
Throughout the antebellum period, the concept of control was a fundamental cornerstone of white southern society. Plantations exhibited the most lucid example of this control where the master dominated not only slaves but ...
One little, two little, three little stereotypes: A history of native culture and imagery in American cinematic cartoons
(2017-12)
The first depiction of Native Americans in American cinematic animation appeared in 1924. Over the course of the near one hundred years since that first depiction, federal Indian policy and the portrayal of Indians in ...
Culture and decolonization in the British West Indies: Literature and politics, 1930-1980
(2007-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was threefold: first, to investigate the use of the label West Indian to describe the former colonial subjects of the British in the Caribbean after World War II; second, ...
Hallowed path: An historical analysis of the mutable perspectives on interpretations of Mississippian Period iconography
(2017-05)
Interpreting Mississippian Period iconography has been an ongoing process for the last five hundred years. As early European explorers moved into the Southeastern United States, only the remnants of the once great Mississippian ...
King Hussein and the presidents: Jordan and American relations since 1967
(2016-07)
The following examines the relationship between the United States and Jordan after 1967. It focuses on the leadership of the US starting with the Nixon administration and ending with King Hussein of Jordan's death during ...
Old Right and its influence on the development of modern American conservatism
(2014-07)
In November of 1955, William F. Buckley published the first issue of National Review. His journal defined modern American conservatism as a mix of anti-Marxism, tradition, and a belief in limited government. These three ...