Browsing OU - Exploring U.S. History by Title
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American terror Undergraduate
For 150 years, those that have come to call the American Civil War "the War of Northern Aggression" have cited General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea as an unnecessary act of terror; opponents claim the South ... -
America’s Dairyland: A Brie Bit Gay Undergraduate
(2020)The dogmatic, authoritarian 1950’s triggered a massive emergence of movements and sub-cultures that sought to counter repressive McCarthy-era persecutions and reject mainstream American society. Openly gay and lesbian ... -
Between students and state : desegregation and the University of Oklahoma Undergraduate
(2016)In 1948 George McLaurin sat outside his first class at the University of Oklahoma. McLaurin was the first African American to be admitted to the University of Oklahoma on a segregated basis. The University of Oklahoma ... -
Buying your health : medical consumerism in the early twentieth century Undergraduate
After WWI, the United States saw an unprecedented rise in economic production and mass consumerism, an era that came to be characterized by wealth, prosperity, and vanity. Spurred on by the second industrial revolution, ... -
Carved in our conscious : monuments and memorials of America’s race struggles Undergraduate
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The Cold War: The Pursuit of Freedom from an Unfreed Nation, The United States of America Undergraduate
(2020-04-24)The end of World War II brought some temporary joy to the United States and many other nations across the globe. Nevertheless, such a joy barely lasted as tension among its wartime ally, the Soviet Union, escalated to what ... -
Democracy deposed : U.S. media coverage of 1950's Guatemala Undergraduate
After World War II, the United States established itself as a crusader for democracy and capitalism around the world. The urge to fight communism while advocating for democracy meant a dilemma when faced with countries ... -
Designing women : how ancient philosophy shaped the role of women in the early republic Undergraduate
(2016)For a span of one hundred and forty-four years, from the official founding of the country until the passage of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, women in the United States of America did not have the right to vote. ... -
Edwin C. DeBarr and the University of Oklahoma's reponses from 1923-1988 Undergraduate
In 1982, A University of Oklahoma student initiative strove to change a building's name after uncovering that Edwin C. DeBarr, for whom it was named, had been a grand dragon in the Ku Klux Klan. Then Oklahoma University ... -
The effect of the Monitor and Merrimack on naval warfare Undergraduate
(2016)On March 9th, 1862, in a largely uneventful and inconclusive battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia, the course of naval warfare throughout the world was forever changed. It was during this Civil War battle that the world’s ... -
An era of creative establishment Undergraduate
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The evolution of radio transformed rural American agriculture Undergraduate
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Freedom rides : success by context Undergraduate
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The Indian Removal Act and resulting factions among the Cherokee Nation Undergraduate
(2016)On May 28, 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the forcible relocation of southern Indian tribes to the flatlands of America. While this signature only took a moment, consequences of ... -
Into the Badlands: Japanese American Incarceration and the Environment Undergraduate
(2019)In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States not only declared war on the Empire of Japan, but also began the forced relocation of thousands of Japanese American citizens from the Pacific ... -
Jane Addams : a never ending search for peace Undergraduate
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John Trudell as the "voice" of Native people : who fights an uncivil war with the American oppressors Undergraduate
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Law and order : Nixon's rhetoric and the Southern strategy Undergraduate
Today's familiar Democratic and Republican party coalitions have not always existed; rather, they began to emerge in the 1960s as demographic and geographic groups shifted party alliances. This paper focuses on one factor ... -
"Manifestly unfit" : an analysis of eugenics in relation to race and disability Undergraduate
Eugenics was one of the darkest movements of the Progressive era. The eugenics movement argued that preserving "superior" humans will create a more productive and healthy class of people. It dated back to Francis Galton's ... -
Out of the closet and into the streets : on the flamboyance and fervor of the gay liberation movement Undergraduate
Ironically enough, mere moments after bemoaning today's young generation of LGBT men and women for being uneducated on the history of LGBT rights, drag performer Derrick Barry erroneously asserted that "people were killed" ...