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Days of Darkness: The Wichitas in Indian Territory and Kansas, 1859-1867
(2019-12-13)
Most of what is known about the history of the Wichita peoples is scattered throughout the works of historians Earl H. Elam and F. Todd Smith, as well as anthropologist W. W. Newcomb, Jr., leaving this historiography of ...
Glory and Empire: The London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews and the Road to the Balfour Declaration
(2016-05)
The Balfour Declaration has often been seen as the culmination of the restorationist tradition and Christian Zionism in Britain. The London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews was an Evangelical mission ...
Pacifying the Tepehuanes from 1590 to 1642
(2017-12-15)
In the sixteenth century, Spanish missionaries entered the northern frontier of Mexico in hopes of converting the “barbarous” native peoples of the Sierra Madre Occidental. Upon their arrival, they found a population of ...
"The Burro Evil": The Eradication of Feral Burros in Grand Canyon National Park
(2017-05-12)
A population of feral burros has lived in the Grand Canyon since Spanish conquistadors brought the animals to North America in the sixteenth century. More burros entered the canyon in the late nineteenth century with ...
Resolving Ontologies of Antisemitism, Orientalism, and the Question of Zionist Colonialism
(2018)
This study addresses the persistent charge of orientalism leveled against Zionism and explores the relationship between orientalism and antisemitism, which Edward W. Said describes in his 1978 book Orientalism as that of ...
Settler Colonialism on the Southern Plains: Squatters and the Construction of a Settler State in Indian Territory
(2018)
Settler colonialism, a process by which settlers take control of and transform both the land and people who live in a region into the settlers’ image, was a defining force in Oklahoma’s formation and remains pervasive in ...
Pregnancy, Magic, and Medicine: The Many Roles of Midwives in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
(2017-05-12)
Despite the vast research by historians of 18th-century Mexico on women’s and gender history, New World medical cultures, and witchcraft, little is known about the lives and practices of late colonial parteras (midwives). ...
Land of the Fair God: The Development of Black Towns in Oklahoma, 1870-1910
(2016)
Oklahoma’s All Black Town Movement is important to contextualize larger black migration patterns during the nineteenth century. Oklahoma was at the center of black migration from surrounding states. In addition, it played ...
Race, Environment, and Masculinity in Richmond's WWII Shipyards
(2018-05-11)
The Kaiser company shipyards in Richmond, California, the largest shipyards in the world for the duration of World War II, employed workers from across America and from around the world. New technological advances and ...
IN THEIR DARKEST HOUR: THE PLANNED TERMINATION OF THE CHOCTAW AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL 1907-1975
(2019-12-13)
For an eleven-year period starting in 1959 and ending in 1970, the Choctaw Nation was scheduled for termination by the federal government and the remaining properties and assets owned collectively by the Choctaw people ...