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Herland Sister Resources: A lesbian feminist collective's changes to Oklahoma herstory
(2022-07)
Herland Sister Resources, a feminist and primarily lesbian collective, comprised a strong component of the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma queer community since 1982. Began as a feminist bookstore, first known as La Salle des ...
Missions unaccomplished: Female missionaries, Native American rights, and media in the nineteenth-century American West
(2020-07)
Two-faced. Deceitful. Insincere. These words summarize the actions of Anglo-Americans toward Native peoples in the United States in the final two decades of the nineteenth century. Under the guise of maternal instinct ...
Cracked Up Sentencing: The Establishment and Maintenance of Discrepancies in Federal Cocaine Sentencing Structures in the 1980s and 1990s
(2017-12)
During his tenure in office, Ronald Reagan mounted a punitive war against drug use in the United States. This crusade included the vast sentencing discrepancy between powder and crack cocaine, which is the focus of this ...
"Shackles of Civilization": Race and American Imperialism in Haiti, 1915-1934
(2018-12-01)
The United States, in its administration of Haiti from 1915 to 1934 effectively exported pre-existing ideas about the inferiority of non-white peoples to the island republic. The American occupation failed to create a ...
Window into victory: The ability of the United States to win the Vietnam War, 1964-1968
(2021-05)
Although many have argued otherwise, the United States could have won the Vietnam War, and they could have done it between 1964-1968. The US possessed the factors required to be victorious, but they were implemented ...
"Living Beyond the Sky": The Long Removals of the Wyandot Indians, 1816-1894
(2019-05-01)
In 1816, the Wyandot Indians lived and claimed title to much of the contested Ohio country. By 1894, after a series of removals, they resided in northeastern Indian Territory on a reservation of twenty-thousand acres. The ...
Dressing like Laura: Reconstructing women's dress on the Great Plains frontier through the national Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum's dress 2829
(2023-05)
This project explores why women on the 19th century Northern Great Plains frontier continued to follow Euro-American modesty and fashion conventions and purposefully sought out fashionable clothing. In the popular imagination, ...
Context for an unforgettable destination: A public history walking tour of New Orleans
(2020-07)
New Orleans holds a place of fascination for a significant number of Americans, and 20 million tourists visit each year. Walking tours are one of the most common methods of conveying public history in New Orleans. The ...
"Why have we neglected the girls" : Women's roles in Indian Territory Choctaw education, 1831-1861
(2021-05)
After the forceful removal of the Choctaw to Indian Territory in 1831, they quickly established schools for their children. They believed emphasizing female education simultaneously preserved Choctaw culture and encouraged ...
Hum if you don’t know the words: Navigating the complexities of culture, authority, and citizenship in South Dakota’s Episcopal Diocese, 1910-1923
(2022-07)
This thesis explores the relationships between Episcopal families and ministers in the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota approximately between 1910 and 1923. It presents the assimilationists efforts Episcopal leaders ...