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Preserving the garden :
(1981)
The first Americans in Oregon came mostly from the Midwest where their ancestors had settled after leaving New England. Oregon represented a place where people could live surrounded by a pleasant setting which was protected ...
Order against chaos :
(1984)
This study focused on one aspect of the rise of monopoly corporate capitalism, the labor ideology of employers. Between 1880 and 1910, a period when American social thought was consciously reformulated, a prominent capitalist ...
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 ...
L.M. Gensman :
(1980)
A study of Gensman's activities indicates that Gensman did not differ greatly from most Western attorneys in the type of law practiced, in the degree of political involvement, or in the pursuit of outside enterprises to ...
Culture, conflict and coexistence : American-Soviet cultural relations, 1917-1958.
(1980)
Beneath the strained official relationship between Washington and Moscow, American and Soviet cultural representatives have maintained a long standing cultural intercourse. Only at the depths of the cold war did contacts ...
Oklahoma Populism :
(1984)
Sectionalism has been an important factor in Oklahoma politics since 1890. Pearsonian correlations between voting and birthplace data, however, show that a rural-urban cleavage rivaled that of sectionalism during the ...
Passionate rebel :
(1983)
The first woman to lecture to women on physiology and anatomy, Mary Gove Nichols told women in 1838 to take control over their own health and advocated the Graham System which emphasized proper diet, exercise, and preventive ...
American Indian religion under assault :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1984)
From the Spanish Edict of 1620 prohibiting the usage of peyote to current state narcotics laws classifying peyote as a narcotic American Indians have withstood harassment, confiscations, imprisonment, and defamations of ...
New Mexico : intellectual and cultural developments 1885-1925 conflict among ideas and institutions.
(1982)
This study focused on intellectual and cultural patterns that shaped the institutions and value systems of the New Mexican heartland, the central valley of the Rio Grande River between 1885 and 1925. By 1885 three relatively ...
The Truman Administration and China, 1945-1950 :
(1980)
Over the past several years the release of many new government documents made it necessary to take another look at the question. The initial intent in undertaking a survey of these documents was to determine more precisely ...