Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Author "Lacher, Katrina"
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Race, politics and sports history : 1960-1980
Dyer, Philip I. (2023)This thesis project encompasses the overlap of sports, political, and social history. This provides a unique insight into issues of racial inequality and how they relate to larger geopolitical context of the 1960s into the ... -
Racial identification in colonial Latin America: social class in the visual form
Combs, Brandon P. (2024)This thesis will analyze the evolution of racial identity during the colonial period in Spanish Latin America and how Casta paintings in the seventeenth century led to the creation of a society based on social stratification ... -
Resisting change : toxic masculinity in the post modern United States Armed Forces, (1980s-Present).
Webster, Joseph E. (2019)This thesis examines the changes regarding women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) serving and toxic masculinity in the United States Armed Forces from the end of Operation Just Cause to the War ... -
Silk, supplies and socialism : how women exercised public power in the American West, 1890-1920
Carlson, Christine (2023)In my thesis, I reframe the long-held assumption that because women in the United States prior to 1920 were blocked from access to the vote, women did not exercise political or economic influence in their communities. I ... -
Sportswashing in the Cold War: 1950s American golf
Sadler, John T. (2024)The conclusion of the Second World War brought immense power to the United States of America. The Cold War was the ideological conflict between capitalism and communism; the United States versus the Union of Soviet Socialist ... -
The Lusitania and the American Public Response : a newspaper narrative.
Lagle, Maggie (2017)Since the First World War erupted on 4 August 1914, historians have been documenting the conflict and outbreak of war via writing books, conducting archival research, producing films, etc. In the 1920's following the ... -
Third world revolutionaries : the activism of the Third World Women's Alliance and Alliance Against Women's Oppression, 1970s-1980s
Cuadra, Bridget L. (2021)The Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA) emerged from the Black Power politics of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and two black women's caucuses, the Black Women's Liberation Committee and the Black Women's ... -
Through the frozen mountains : the 45th Infantry Division in the Vosges Campaign, 20 September 1944- 23 January 1945.
Bishop, Darrell C. (2015)The purpose of this study is to examine the Vosges Mountain Campaign of World War II to better the fighting in southern France between the Wehrmacht and the Allies in particular the 45th Infantry Division. Keith Bonn, in ... -
The ticking time bomb : H-Block, the connection between nationalism and violence
Mousavizadegan, Nichole (2021)This thesis argues that due to the intractable nature of the questions of national (imperial) identity and belonging, actors on both sides of "the Troubles" turned to violence to broadcast their voices. Lacking legitimate ... -
"Who will protect the working girl?" : the effect of the 1909 shirtwaist strike and triangle factory fire on early twentieth century labor organizations.
Beasley, Kate Lynn (2017)Organized labor through unions was prominent as part of the Progressive Era in the early twentieth century. Under the influence of the American Federation of Labor, groups such as the Women's Trade Union League and ... -
Women in Mexico's illicit economy: expendable as pennies or breaking barriers?
Perez, Lydia A. (2022)This thesis will examine how women’s roles vary throughout the economic, social, and governmental domination and influence of Mexico at the hands of the narcotrafficking organizations. The chapters of this thesis are ...