Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Degrees "M.A., History"
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Gendering the black body : race, masculinity, and violence in the First World War era.
(2018)This thesis examines the phenomena of lynching through the lens of gender and identity by exploring social constructions of black masculinity in the United States. The US lynching culture that emerged in the late nineteenth ... -
Head or heart? : The Richardson-Fanning Controversy and its effect on spirituality in the Stone-Campbell movement.
(2015)Dr. Robert Richardson, a leader in the early Stone-Campbell Movement, an indigenous American church, challenged the theology of the sect, which consubstantiated Spirit and scripture. The group highly regarded enlightened ... -
Irish female criminality in nineteenth century London.
(2018)As a consequence of the Great Famine, many Irish were forced to migrate to London in the hopes of finding gainful employment and relief from starvation. A large percentage of these immigrants moved to impoverished neighborhoods ... -
Japanese nationalism : a transnational case study of Pan-Asianism in China and Vietnam, 1931-1945.
(2019)After Japan pragmatized bushido and formed a modernized nation-state in the late nineteenth century, it extended that same methodology to its East Asian neighbors, China and Vietnam. Despite state-sponsored bushido's success ... -
Jesse James in public memory : the Robin Hood myth, museum interpretation and newspaper analysis of Missouri's famous outlaw.
(2008)This study focuses on the importance of understanding myths and interpretive material to gauge memory of historical criminals. Each chapter represents an aspect of popular culture that supplements the traditional historical ... -
Left on the spindle: correspondence from unwed mothers to the London Foundling Hospital, 1857-1872.
(2018)1. Statement of the Problem or Issue - Unwed mothers in Victorian London had very few options for how to care for their children. Women who had children admitted to the London Foundling Hospital (FH) agreed to sever their ... -
Leon Phillips and the New Deal in Oklahoma.
(2015)Leon C. Phillips and the New Deal in Oklahoma looks at how one governor in the state reacted to the New Deal by attempting to be fiscally conservative. Particularly in regards to the overspending trend, taking on supporters ... -
Lloyd's of London : information and influence in the nineteenth century.
(2010)In the nineteenth century, Lloyd's of London, the largest marine insurance underwriting market in Great Britain, cultivated long-standing relationships with the Admiralty and other government bodies through personal, ... -
Lurking in the Shadows: Human Trafficking and Sex Work
(2021)This thesis explores the issues surrounding human trafficking (HT) and exposes a great lack of knowledge about human trafficking by local, federal, and international law enforcement agencies. Human trafficking discourse ... -
Men are cheaper than gold : English sailors and their irreligiousness towards society, 1560-1642
(2015)The English common sailor rose from his humble beginnings to the pinnacle of renown and fame during the repulsion of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Afterwards, with the rise of the privateer and the merchant ships, the Royal ... -
Men, money, and maritime insurance : an examination of how Lloyd's of London created and led a shadow empire in Great Britain, 1774-1835.
(2011)The purpose of this study is to identify and explore the significance of commercial enterprise in the expanding British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Historical records have repeatedly revealed how ... -
The Moment We Realized: Triple Consciousness and the Intersectionality of Race, Gender and Sexuality in 20th and 21st Century African American Women
(2021)The Triple Consciousness Theory (TCT), inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois' Double Consciousness, argues that Black women view themselves through multiple lenses and not solely two (gender and race). Although it is unclear who first ... -
Music heard deeply : song and ethnic interaction in the Cherokee Ozarks.
(2008)Musical practices provide important insights into the interests, opinions, and beliefs of a study population. While demonstrating the role of music in historical analysis, this work also tells a narrative of the varied ... -
Oklahoma City's James 'Jimmy' E. Stewart : twentieth century race progress in the Sooner State and beyond.
(2011)James 'Jimmy' E. Stewart developed his abilities to influence people and applied diplomatic skills to create the social, cultural, and political networks that, over time, improved the lives of black Americans in Oklahoma ... -
Oklahoman by blood: indigenous land tenure from Indian Territory to McGirt
(2022)After the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision in 2020, Oklahoma’s statehood became the subject of intense legal scrutiny regarding the supposed “disestablishment” of American Indian reservations. The State’s position follows a ... -
Orientalism in British policymaking: Gertrude Bell and the Iraq Mandate, 1921-1932
(2024)In the wake of the First World War, the League of Nations established the mandate system to stabilize the territories that had, until recently, been under the control of Germany or the Ottoman Empire. It did so by assigning ... -
Paradigm shift : how the evolution of two generations of home consoles, arcades, and computers influenced American culture, 1985-1995.
(2016)As of 2016, unlike many popular media forms found here in the United States, video games possess a unique influence, one that gained its own a large widespread appeal, but also its own distinct cultural identity created ... -
Pei on the prairie : urban renewal in Oklahoma City, 1960-1990
(2021)Downtown Oklahoma City was drastically remade beginning in the 1960s as part of the broader national program of urban renewal. Yet, very little research has explored this transformation, nor has there been a deep exploration ...