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I Hear You Now, I See You Then, Quinn Hunter

Art + Design Masters Theses

In the research driven project I Hear You Now, I See You Then, I refer to the contemporary and historical erasure of the labor of African American women using research gathered from the southern plantation economy to create an art installation. The objects in this installation are primarily made with artificial hair integrations and utilizing labor intensive methods that are similar to those used to install the hair on the Black body. The objects I make reference the luxury items in the domestic spaces of historic plantation sites that have been re-branded to be used in the wedding /tourism industry ...

The Flame That Sparked Outrage: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Amanda Isaacs

History | Senior Theses

The Flame that Sparked Outrage

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, a tragic event in New York City, reflected the ignored demands by both foreign born and U.S born citizens. The unrelenting rioting and protesting marked a turning point in progressive American politics. The late 19th and early 20th century was a glorious time for new beginnings in America. The buzz about the opportunities in the States roamed the globe and sparked interest in every person encountered. The ships carrying Eastern European immigrants; Italians, Jews, and those of Polish descent, were migrating across seas to enter into the modern world ...

Worthy Widows, Feckless Fathers, And Innocent Babes: Experiences Of Poverty In Early Industrial England, Emma Diduch

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The administration of the English poor laws did not happen in a vacuum, and decisions made by overseers, clerks, and trustees not only meant life or death for paupers in their parishes, but were also open to contest, negotiation, and response from the working classes themselves. On the national stage, politicians and pamphleteers observed rising poor rates and changing economic and social structures and determined that the poor laws were to blame for demoralizing large swathes of the workforce; in local arenas, parishes struggled to apply this developing ideology of poverty when confronted with the practical effects of industrialization. Late ...

2020-04-30 Campus Update From The Office Of The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

Campus update issued by the Office of the President to the faculty and staff on April 30, 2020.

Abolitionism In The Danubian Principalities, Olivia H. Cull

Young Historians Conference

In the Danubian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, now a section of present-day Romania, evidence of Roma slavery dates back to the 13th century C.E. A vast majority of these slaves were of Roma ethnicity (commonly known by the pejorative term Gypsy); the principalities had enslaved the Roma for such an extended period of time that the Romanian word for “slave” (rob) and for “Gypsy” (rom) became interchangeable. Yet, in the mid 1800s, Wallachian and Moldavian society slowly but surely began to transition into a period of abolitionism. Why, after five hundred years of slavery, did the Wallachian and ...

2020-04-20 Campus Update From The Office Of The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

Campus update issued by the President to the faculty and staff on April 20, 2020.

2020-04-13 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message sent by the President to the campus community on April 13, 2020.

2020-04-06 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter for April 6, 2020.

2020-04-06 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes from April 6, 2020.

2020-04-02 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message sent by the President to the campus community on April 2, 2020.

"In-Betweening" Disney: An Animated History Of Hollywood Labor And Ideological Imagineering, 1935-1947, Bradley Edward Moore

History Theses & Dissertations

The Walt Disney Company’s meticulously-crafted corporate mythos, as it developed in the mid-twentieth century, hid a conflicted history of anti-New Deal, nationalist ideology that was popularized during the clashes of the Hollywood labor movement in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1935, the National Labor Relations Act was passed as Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) entered full-scale production, and each were central to the labor-management conflict that lurked behind the scenes of the motion picture industry. By the mid-1940s, following the conclusion of the Second World War, Congress passed the Labor Management Relations (Taft-Hartley) Act and ...

2020-03-31 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message issued by the President to the faculty and staff on March 31, 2020.

2020-03-24 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message issued by the President to the faculty and staff on March 24, 2020.

2020-03-19 Campus Update From The Office Of The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Campus update issued by the President to the faculty and staff on March 19, 2020.

2020-03-17 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message issued by the President to the faculty and staff on March 17, 2020.

2020-03-17 Campus Update From The Office Of The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Campus update issued by the President to the faculty and staff on March 17, 2020.

2020-03-16 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message issued by the President to the faculty and staff on March 16, 2020.

2020-03-13 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message issued by the President to the faculty and staff on March 13, 2020.

2020-03-12 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message issued by the Office of the President to the faculty, staff and students on March 12, 2020.

Plowing For Pennies, Protesting For Pride: An Examination Of The United Farm Worker Union’S Impact In Washington State, 1965-1972, Israel Cuevas

History Undergraduate Theses

People of Hispanic descent have been central to the agricultural production of the United States since the eighteenth century. This paper highlights how the signing of the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement by the United States and Mexico in 1942 enabled the spread of Mexican labor workers to the agricultural fields and railroads of the US due to the labor shortage produced by World War II. This migration of labor delivered two decades of poor wages and atrocious working and living conditions for braceros by the hands of white farm growers. By the 1960s, the efforts of Cesar Chavez and the ...