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Modi’in and America: On the Power of Folklore & Place. The Saga of Garin Harmerkaz
(2022-12-16)
Modiin is the site of both an ancient Jewish community and the modern nation’s ‘city of the future.’ This dichotomy is at the heart of a public battle between preservationists trying to raise awareness of the area’s rich ...
“The modern frontier”: Oklahoma settler memory in the mid-twentieth century
(2023-05-12)
In 2020, the Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau launched the “Modern Frontier” campaign to attract tourists, residents, and businesses to Oklahoma City. Surveying the history of what became the state of Oklahoma ...
Landscape of Hope and Dispossession: Visions for the Future in the Cookson Hills, 1934–1949
(2021-05-14)
This thesis examines a little-studied moment in Oklahoma’s environmental and Indigenous history: the era of the New Deal, Second World War, and early days of the Cold War. From the 1930s to the late 1940s, as Oklahoma ...
The Sterilization of Native American Women in Oklahoma
(2021-05-14)
In 1974, the Indian Health Service (IHS) hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma sterilized forty-eight Native American women in the month of July alone. Most of these women were in their twenties. This is a staggering number ...
Confederacy, Republic (Again), or Both? The Print Media and The Moment of Decision in Harris, Harrison, Dallas, and Bexar Counties, 1860-1861
(2020-05-08)
Barely a week after the presidential election of 1860, the Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph expressed its support for the re-establishment of the Republic of Texas. Indeed, Texas seceded on February 1, 1861, but the Texas ...
The Transformation of Christian Identity: Evaluating the Increase in Anti-Judaism on Social Media Platforms
(2022-05)
The goal of this study is to highlight the continued presence of Anglo-Israelism on the far-right. It also aims to underscore the various modern far-right actors which adhere to, and actively promote, Anglo-Israelite ...
Homesteading Vegas: Promotion, Race, and Water in the East Mojave
(2020-05-08)
The East Mojave is a hot, dry place. As Americans moved into the desert during the early twentieth century, motivated by a national movement championing country life and dry farming, promotional literature from railroads, ...
The Branding of the University of Oklahoma
(2021-05-14)
My thesis focuses on the process of branding the University of Oklahoma between 1890 and 1930. I examine the origins of the administrative brand, the shift after Oklahoma statehood, the impact of World War One, and the ...
Outlawing and becoming native in the colonization of Yosemite National Park: a cultural-ecological perspective
(2022)
Since the 1980s, Environmental historians have produced research disproving the myth of pristine wilderness. Yet, few environmental historians have focused their research efforts on considering how such a myth may have ...
Destroying each other: race and the clash of cultures in the Indian Territory Civil War
(2020-05-08)
Most historians of the Civil War have neglected Indian Territory. Those historians who write on the Indian Territory Civil War, like Annie Abel and Mary Jane Warde, focus on tribal political intrigue or the effect of the ...