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Joining Up with the Union: California's Place in the Nation and the Meaning of Military Service in the Civil War
(2020-05-08)
Prior to the start of the Civil War, California had been a state for less than a dozen years and was populated by a diverse group of people from around globe, many of whom had been lured to the state by the call of gold. ...
Diego Rivera as a Jewish Root-Seeker: Art, Identity Politics, and the "Downtrodden Masses"
(2022-05-14)
The Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was Jewish in his imagination only.
During the 1930s, the artist invented a noble Sephardi lineage dating back to the seventeenth-century philosopher, Uriel Acosta (1585-1640). ...
“I don’t smell chemicals, I smell money:” the effects of federal policy and the chemical industry on human health and the environment in the Kanawha River Valley
(2023-12-15)
Federal policy and the need for American produced chemicals saw a need for a domestic chemical industry to be erected in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia during World War I. Following the war, federal policy continued ...
"It's Not A Treaty, It's A Legal Binding Agreement": Fort Lawton, Red Power, and the Struggle for Indigenous Land Reclamation
(2023-05-12)
In 1970, over one hundred Native American activists occupied the Fort Lawton military base in Seattle, Washington. The protestors, disgruntled over the federal government’s termination of tribal lands and lack of support ...
“A great mass of incompetent men”: Contested medical frontiers in Oklahoma, 1880-1940
(2022-05-13)
This thesis observes the movement of White aspiring physicians to Indian and Oklahoma Territories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the racial and professional interactions that ensued. Like other Whites, ...
Workers in the Field and Lawyers in the Court: The CRLA, Poverty Law, and Environmental Justice in Modern California
(2020-05-08)
As part of the War on Poverty in the mid-1960s, the federal government under President Lyndon Johnson began funding dozens of legal service agencies throughout the nation. The largest of these agencies was the California ...
The Frankfurt Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus’ Impact on its Prominent Jewish Thinkers: Religious Action, Responses to Modernity, and Thinking Beyond Movements
(2023-12-15)
This thesis analyzes the works of multiple prominent figures who attended the Frankfurt Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus in order to find recurring themes indicating a common influence of the Lehrhaus upon these figures. The first ...
The Last Hope for African Methodism: Flipper-Key-Davis in the Age of Race Uplift
(2022-05-14)
In 1917, leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church founded Flipper-Key-Davis University in Tullahassee, Oklahoma. The university served as the only private Black educational institution within the state until 1936 ...
Oklahoma and World War I: Over Here and Over There
(2023-12-15)
The State of Oklahoma, one of the United States’ newest states, entered the First World War, along with the rest of the nation in April 1917. This study elucidates the role of Oklahoma’s participation in the United States ...
Dachau And Ravensbrück: A Comparative Analysis of Concentration Camps From 1933 to 1945
(2022-05)
Comparing and contrasting the two infamous camps, Dachau and Ravensbrück, is fundamental in understanding the true nature of the two camps. Additionally, this research indirectly focuses on the question of ‘what defines a ...