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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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). ...
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 ...
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 ...