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Defining America at the Border: The Line Riders of the Mexican Border District, 1892-1924
(2019-05-10)
Defining America at the Border: The Line Riders of the Mexican Border District, 1892-1924 is the story of the line riders. Also known as Immigrant Inspectors, the Mounted Guard (both with the Bureau of Immigration), and ...
Swords & Plowshares: American Protestants and the Vietnam War
(2010)
Theological commitments and contemporary pressures shaped the response of American Protestants to the Vietnam War. Mainline denominations experienced extreme dissension. Opponents of the war, centered on clergy and ...
Oklahoma's Forgotten Drought: Regional and Federal Responses to Climate Crisis in the 1950s
(2012)
Through much of the 1950s, intense drought afflicted the Southern Plains and American South. Dry conditions and dust storms fostered new soil and water conservation strategies, and stronger ties between agricultural ...
FREEDOM IS MY BUSINESS: CARL MCINTIRE, CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM AND THE RISE OF MODERN CONSERVATISM
(2019)
Carl McIntire (1906-2002), the fiery Fundamentalist minister played a key role in the rise of the modern Conservative movement that emerged following the Second World War. From his home base in the Philadelphia suburb of ...
Wireless: Radio, Revolution, and the Mexican State, 1897-1938
(2013)
This dissertation explores the interplay of early radio technology and twentieth-century state power in Mexico. It argues that wireless technology was crucial to government attempts at incorporating frontiers, foreign ...
The Struggle for Schools: Education, Race, and Sovereignty in the Creek Nation, 1820-1907
(2016-05)
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between education and nationhood in the nineteenth-century Creek Nation. Over the course of the century, Creeks adapted schools as part of a larger nation-building effort to ...
Antiquity and Loyalist Counter-Narrative in Revolutionary America, 1765-1776
(2012)
This study explores one aspect of the American founding that scholarship has not yet fully investigated, namely, the ways in which loyalist advocates used the ancient literature of Greece and Rome to make their case against ...
Sherman's Lieutenants: The Army Officer Corps, Federal Indian Policy, and Native Sovereignty, 1862-1878
(2010)
This dissertation focuses on army officers' efforts to both conquer American Indians and answer to competing visions of political authorities and citizens who were divided over the "Indian question." Although army officers ...
"CAPTURE THESE INDIANS FOR THE LORD": INDIAN CHURCHES AND THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH IN OKLAHOMA, 1865-1939
(2010)
"Capture These Indians for the Lord" examines the ways that Christian Indians developed within a white-dominated church society, both from their own actions as well as from the growing indifference of white officials. ...
Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists' Palestine Questions
(2015-12)
Today, evangelical Christians are the largest pro-Israel constituency in a United States population that is very supportive of the Jewish state generally, with evangelicalism and Christian Zionism often understood as ...