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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 ...
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 ...
Discontent on the Range: Uncovering the Origins of Public Grazing Lands Politics
(2014-05)
Recent conflicts between ranchers, environmentalists, and federal range management experts on western public lands are a product of different perceptions of the landscape that crystallized by the middle of the twentieth ...
Charro: The Transnational History of a Cultural Icon
(2014-05-09)
This is a transnational cultural history of the charro horseman in Mexico and the United States. It begins with an analysis of the archetype in nineteenth century art and literature, exploring various works of visual and ...
Sovereignty on Trial, The Delaware-Cherokee Relationship Divided in Conflict
(2010)
This study explores the conflict between two Indian nations, the Delaware Tribe of Indians (headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma) and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (headquartered in Tahlequah, Oklahoma). The removal ...