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The Role Of Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 Visit To The Us In The Development Of Soviet-American Relations, Tatyana I. Puchkova

Masters Theses

The end of the Cold War brought the uncertainty of the future relationship between the US and the countries of the former communist bloc. The major component of the prognosis is the analysis of the factors that determined the policies and the directions of the Cold War.

The visit of the Soviet Premier to the US marked a turning point in the Cold War mentality of the two nations. This paper will attempt to prove that the visit was a unique and revolutionary event in the course of the confrontation, and yet a logical continuation of earlier developments in the …

"Our Women Played Well Their Parts": East Tennessee Women In The Civil War Era, 1860-1870, William A. Strasser Jr.

Masters Theses

This thesis investigates East Tennessee women in the Civil War era and finds that women experienced a change in roles during wartime, but those changes did not prove lasting. East Tennessee Unionist and Confederate women took on a variety of new roles in wartime, from petitioning government leaders and spying for their cause to relocating their families to safer areas and operating an underground railroad for Union prison escapees. This change in roles did not prove lasting for a number of reasons. First, women did not join together in postwar remembrance groups as they did in other parts of the …

A Radical Cure: Thomas Dimsdale, Radical Republicanism, And The Montana Vigilantes During The Civil War, Gregory Aydt

Masters Theses

In late December of 1863, a group of men in the fledgling Idaho Territory formed a vigilance committee to rid the area of criminals. In little more than a month, the committee hanged twenty-one men, including the area's sheriff, Henry Plummer. This work deals with these events which took place in and around the mining camps of Bannack and Virginia City in Idaho Territory, now in the state of Montana, during the winter of 1863-64. It attempts to answer the following questions: What circumstances led to this significant outbreak of lynch law? Who decided that a vigilance committee was the …

The New Frontier: The Presidential Election Campaign Of Jfk, Bryan Wuthrich

Masters Theses

This thesis is an examination of the Kennedy election campaign. It is a narrative and also a brief examination of how this campaign was put together and how the Kennedy campaign staff was formed. The main perspective that it takes is from the vantage point of the Cold War which serves as driving force behind the main issues of the campaign. It is the primary argument of this thesis that the Kennedy campaign marked a period of transition whereby America began to formulate a coherent ideological position for itself as leader of the free world and come into its own …