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"Drain the Swamps for Health and Home": Wetlands Drainage, Land Conservation, and National Water Policy, 1850-1917
(2010)
Wetlands drainage is one of the oldest and commonest forms of land modification in American history. Colonists and later Americans perceived wetlands as a threat to progress and prosperity. Wetlands impeded travel, ...
OKLAHOMA AND THE ERA : ROUSING A RED STATE, 1972-1982
(2010)
From 1972 through 1982, the national battle over the Equal Rights Amendment fomented dissension and unrest. Far from the early and easy passage many Americans envisioned for the amendment, the ERA brought to the nation a ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...