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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 ...
“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 ...
From Red Dirt to Red State: Oklahoma and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982
(2016-05-14)
This thesis details the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) debate in Oklahoma from 1972 to 1982. It is a multifaceted story of how both local and national factors, race, religion, family ties, gender norms, politics, and feminism ...
Settler Intrusion and Indian Survival in California's Round Valley, 1849-1860
(2016)
Scholars currently focusing on white-Indian relations in California are involved in a polarized debate regarding genocide in the state. While this scholarship has undoubtedly brought forth new research and viewpoints on ...
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 ...