Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Author "Loughlin, Patricia"
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A dark cloud rests upon your nation : Lipan Apache sovereignty and relations with Mexico, the United States, and the Republic of Texas.
Hampton, Neal McDonald (2015)The indigenous nation of the Lipan Apaches initiated diplomatic interaction with European powers beginning with colonial Spain in the early eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, Lipan Apaches engaged the sovereign ... -
A reluctant call to arms : the origins and the development of the Truman Doctrine.
LaSala, Samuel C. (2016)For nearly seventy years, historians have scrutinized the origins of the Cold War and debated the Truman Doctrine's significance to this international conflict. These sometimes emotional deliberations produced three distinct ... -
A true, new woman : Alice Mary Robertson during first-wave feminism, 1854-1931.
Caldwell, Deah (2010)"The story of Alice Mary Robertson is complex and fascinating. Constituents from the second district in Oklahoma elected her to the United States House of Representatives in 1920. That same year, women had gained the right ... -
Adaptation and resilience : the Kiowa people in the nineteenth century
Kerrick, Walter (2023)The history of American Indians has historically been viewed through an Anglo-European lens and not from the perspective of the subject population. The aim of this thesis is to give a brief account of the Kiowa people from ... -
Americanizing the beautiful game : the rise of mainstream American soccer, 1960-2005.
Salkeld, Patrick H. (2017)This thesis examines the rise of mainstream soccer in the United States from 1960 to 2005 with a national, a regional (Oklahoma), and then a local (Edmond, OK) focus. It argues between 1960 to 2005 conservative-leaning ... -
An intangible claim : Oklahoma Territory and the Victorian divorce crisis.
Lynch, Jennifer Denise (2016)This study focuses on the cultural phenomenon that occurred in the United States known as the Victorian Divorce Crisis, and the communities known as Divorce Mills, which were often blamed for the situation. The divorce ... -
And the trail continued : nineteenth century federal Indian policies and the Vann family, 1745-1902.
Heaverin, Charles David (2013)The Cherokee, similar to other American Indian tribes, struggled with the implications of the growing Anglo population along the eastern seaboard leading up to American independence. The collision of White and Indian ... -
Arthur Gooch : the political, economic, and social influences that led him to the gallows.
Jones, Leslie Tara (2010)Born in 1908, Arthur Gooch came of age in the prosperous 1920s, but something changed for him and for America in 1930. The socioeconomic depravity and increased media coverage of crimes in the Thirties affected those who ... -
Beyond binary : Navajo alternative genders throughout history.
Naruszewicz, Christina J. (2016)Hosteen Klah was both a Navajo medicine man and weaver. However, the Navajo largely considered weaving to be a woman’s task. Women taught this skill from mother to daughter, and it represented both a creative and spiritual ... -
Decolonizing the histories of Helen Hunt Jackson and Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
Bilek, Barbara R. (2013)What is decolonization and how does it work? The concept of decolonization surfaced during "the global Indigenous activism in the 1970s." Although the idea is not new, it has been given little attention by mainstream ... -
Divided we fall : Cherokee sovereignty and the cost of factionalism, 1927-1906.
Booth, Tabatha Toney (2010)As a tribe, the Cherokees interacted with Europeans early in American history. From initial contact, tribal sovereignty became an issue during trade and land negotiations. The tribe began with full autonomy that required ... -
Finding a home among the red hills : women and homesteading in Western Oklahoma, 1900-1920.
Chesebrough-Caffee, Cheryl (2016)Most Oklahoma land runs took place in the 1890s, but at the turn of the century, many available homesteads still existed in the red, rolling hills of the unpredictable, harsh environment of western Oklahoma. Many of the ... -
Forget me not : the lives, careers, and legacies of Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford.
Pittman, Allison (2019)This thesis looks at the lives and careers of Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford and their contributions to Hollywood. Both actresses were popular in the golden age of Hollywood, but only one woman's career is remembered ... -
Frederick Samuel Barde: chronicling the Muskogee (Creek) Indians, 1890-1916
Jones, Abigail H. (2012)Journalist and photographer Fredrick Samuel Barde chronicled territorial Oklahoma, fully covering topics such as local agriculture, railroads, statehood, and the actions of the Five Civilized Tribes. His interest in the ... -
Growing up pioneer : Nannie Jeannette Williams, a second generation pioneer woman, Oklahoma Territory, 1895-1907.
Webb, S. A. (2013)As the men and women traveled to the American frontier in the nineteenth century, they experienced harsh conditions that would test their accepted gender norms. Survival became the primary importance with all hands working ... -
Jesse James in public memory : the Robin Hood myth, museum interpretation and newspaper analysis of Missouri's famous outlaw.
Coon, Stephanie A. (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 ... -
Music heard deeply : song and ethnic interaction in the Cherokee Ozarks.
Castro, J. Justin (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 ... -
New women, new opportunities: the new women of Chicago's World's Fairs, 1893-1934
Mills, Taylor Jade (2018)World's fairs, also referred to as international expositions, offer historians insight into a nation's society, populace, economy, and industry. Yet, literature in the field has made little effort to fully analyze the ... -
Oklahoma history, poetry and anti-communism : the writings of Zoe Tilghman.
Newell, Mallory (2010)"Zoe Tilghman was one of the early women writers in Oklahoma. Throughout her career she used her own experiences and those of her husband, the famous U.S. Marshal William Tilghman, to write stories that portrayed the West ... -
Oklahoman by blood: indigenous land tenure from Indian Territory to McGirt
Flake, Logan R. (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 ...