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The girl with the agate eyes: the life and times of Mattie Howard
(2022)
This thesis studies the life of Martha Alice “Mattie” Howard, a forgotten figure in both the early 20th-century criminal underworld and the evangelical circuit of 1930s and 1940s America. Straddling the line between social ...
Republic on the Red River: Documenting Choctaw Political Transformation from Removal to Reconstruction
(2022-04-27)
The Trail of Tears left a stain upon American history, as a betrayal of the republic’s founding principles: but out of the removal, a political transformation was underway in the Choctaw Nation. Under the leadership of men ...
General survey of Native American participation in the Vietnam War
(2023-12-15)
Native American participation during the Vietnam War is a subject woefully understudied, as whole, with a majority of the historiography consisting of one man’s work. This general survey of Native American/Indian/Indigenous ...
‘I am Very Devoted to our Lady’: Creolization in Enslaved Afro-Mexican Blasphemy Trials
(2024-05-10)
Many historians have viewed Afro-Mexican blasphemy as an opportunity for resistance against an oppressive system in which enslaved Black people committed sacrilege to appeal to the Mexican Inquisition for reprieve and to ...
Survival in the Bible Belt: Oklahoman Queer Politics and Religion in the 1980s
(2024-05-10)
This work follows the story of Oklahoma’s queer community in the 1980s through the lens of two community newspapers, The Gayly Oklahoman and Herland Sister Resources. The 1980s was an incredibly important decade for the ...
Jews and Other Okies’: How Jews Extended the Frontier in Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 1867-1952
(2024-05-10)
The topic of this thesis revolves around Oklahoma Jews and how their lives and works have shaped and challenged conceptions of Oklahoma History. Like many in the American West, Jews came to Oklahoma for economic opportunities ...