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Racism As Subtext: The Contemporary School Desegregation Controversy, Heather Beth Johnson

Senior Scholar Papers

This paper examines the contemporary school desegregation controversy from a sociological perspective. Sheff v. O'Neill, a contemporary school desegregation case, is used as a context in which to study the opposition to racial integration. Through close examination of the arguments people use to frame their resistance, the racist subtext of contemporary school desegregation opposition is exposed. The data for this analysis come from legal briefs, newspaper accounts, and in-depth personal interviews with Connecticut citizens and various key actors in the Sheff case collected between January, 1993 and March, 1994. This paper looks at each of the major arguments people use …

Integrity And Integration In Ecclesiastical Historiography: The Perspective Of Mosheim And Neander, Paulo Buss

Doctor of Theology Dissertation

This investigation attempts to apply the motif of integrity and integration in an examination of Lutheran ecclesiastical historiography. This is not a comprehensive survey involving all the significant Lutheran historians of the past but rather focuses on selected Lutheran historians of different centuries to determine possible tendencies in their views of integrity and integration. Although these terms themselves are not employed as such by the theologians/historians analyzed here, this study starts with the hypothesis that the concepts expressed by these terms are not unfamiliar to them.

In a study of Lutheran historiography the question about Luther's view of history deserves …

The History Of The South Side Railroad, 1846-1870, James M. Bisbee

Master's Theses

The South Side Rail Road, chartered in 1846, was the fourth railroad to serve the city of Petersburg, Virginia, and, upon its completion in 1854, was the only direct rail link the city had through the Virginia Piedmont to Lynchburg and points west. The railroad was a major conveyor of trade through the Southside region of Virginia and served as an engine of economic development for the area. During the Civil War the road was a vital means of transportation of men and materiel for the Confederate government. After the war, General William Mahone, a railroad professional and war hero, …

Indiana's Civil Rights Commission: A History Of The First Five Years, David Sabol

Graduate Thesis Collection

Indiana's Civil Rights Commission evolved from the need to combat the often subtle racial injustices that permeated Hoosier society in the late 1950s and 1960s. A tradition of segregation along racial lines in Indiana was being challenged in the early 1960s by newly elected leaders who believed that their fellow black Hoosiers deserved to be treated fairly under the laws that were designed to protect their citizenship. For that reasonr Indiana's new leaders chose to create a state government agency based on the federal model for a civil rights commission. With the formation of the Indiana Civil Rights Commission [ICRC] …

The Canton Commune, Royce Patrick Grubic

Master's Theses

The Canton Commune is a detailed study of the Communist-led insurrection that occurred in the city of Canton in southern China on December 11-13, 1927, and its fate as history. Attention is paid in the thesis to the Commune's significant presence in the discourse of the Stalin-Trotsky power struggle of the late 1920s. The primary emphasis, however, is on the Commune's inability to become part of the revolutionary mythology of the People's Republic of China or international communism. The author traces the evolution of Soviet and Chinese interpretations of the Canton Commune, using these as a means to explore the …

The Evolution Of Dividend Policy In The Corporation And In Academic Theory., Bob G. Wood Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

"The harder we look at the dividend picture, the more it seems like a puzzle with pieces that just don't fit together" (Black, 1976). The purpose of this study is to examine the dividend phenomenon. The first essay of the dissertation investigates the origins, modifications and adaptations of corporate dividend payments to shareholders. Contemporary theoretical modeling to date has neglected to acknowledge the potential influence of dividend payment tradition in the formulation of dividend policy. The second essay examines the evolution of the theoretical attempts to explain dividend policy and empirical tests of these theories. The dividend paradigms are divided …

"Setling In The World": Family Economy In Colonial New Hampshire Through Samuel Lane's Diaries, Jerald Edmunds Brown

Doctoral Dissertations

This is the study of one family's work in its expansive local and regional context, and how that work linked together most aspects of colonial life. Stratham, New Hampshire's Samuel Lane was a shoemaker, tanner, surveyor and farmer whose records--diaries, Day Books and miscellaneous papers--chronicle over sixty years of the eighteenth century. This thesis explores many specific devices used to live in that world. The exhaustive routine recorded, monotonous in its repetition, holds the germs of fundamental change.

The record's longevity and single viewpoint emphasizes connections rather than separations in rural family life, highlights complex relationships, and dissolves traditional historiographical …

Work And Power In Post-Fordist Production: A Case Study Of Four Machine Shops, Stephen A. Sweet

Doctoral Dissertations

American industry is shifting to a "post-Fordist" approach to production. The post-Fordist approach includes expanding use of advanced manufacturing technologies, decreasing organizational sizes, decreasing bureaucratization of the work place, and the abandonment of Tayloristic managerial practices in favor of increasing worker participation in decision making processes. This study examines the effects of the post-Fordist approach upon power relations in four work places in the machining industry.

Interviews with 44 machinists, employers and community leaders in the case study site "Machinist Valley" show that the shift to post-Fordism is accompanied by declining incomes, fewer employment opportunities, lower benefits, and less job …

Islands Of Deutschtum: German Americans In Manchester, New Hampshire And Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1870-1942, Robert Paul Mccaffery

Doctoral Dissertations

The history of the German-American communities of Manchester, New Hampshire and Lawrence, Massachusetts raises several important issues about German immigration to the United States. Comprising only a small percentage of the population of the two cities German immigrants founded a distinctive culture--islands of Deutschtum--as vibrant as those in the "German belt" of the Midwest. The historiography has generally concluded that German-Americans could not unite in common cause, and that World War I ended German culture in America. However, not only did Germans in Manchester and Lawrence unite, but they maintained Deutschtum through World War I into World War II.

Several …

Revisionist Zionism In America: The Campaign To Win American Public Support, 1939-1948, Joanna Maura Saidel

Doctoral Dissertations

Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, followers of the Zionist Revisionists went to the United States at the urging of their leader, Vladimir Jabotinsky. They established two groups which initially attempted to gain public support for the creation of a Jewish Army.

The New Zionist Organization of America, headed by Ben Zion Netanyahu, followed the Revisionist political party. Its campaign exposed the anti-Jewish position of the British in Palestine. It was effective in placing the Palestine problem on the world (rather than regional) agenda of the State Department.

The Irgun Delegation to the United States, headed by Hillel …

Life History Biology And Soil Characteristics Of Two Species Of Arctomecon (Papaveraceae), Shelia Kathleen Sheldon

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Two rare plant species of the Mojave Desert were investigated in this study. Life history and reproductive data as well as vegetative associates and soil characteristics for Arctomecon californica Torr. and Frem. and Arctomecon merriamii Cov. were collected. Results for the life history and reproductive data show that the highest mortality in both species occurs at the seedling stage. Loss of potential seed, for both species, was highest at the bud and capsule stage. Arctomecon californica was found to be reproductively self-incompatible, while A. merriamii was able to self-pollinate. Results from the vegetative and soil data show that the vegetation …

A Review Of The History And Structure Of Public Speaking At Nevada Power Company: A Case Study, Julie Ann Foley

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The author reviews the history and structure of public speaking at Nevada Power Company. It seeks to: (1) determine whether the principles of public speaking as described in college text books are applied in corporate training, and (2) determine the level of support given by Nevada Power to its speakers; Findings indicate that the corporations studied utilize most aspects of Neo-Aristotelian model. Much of the training deals with delivery, style, motivation and arrangement, with some attention to language. However, heavy emphasis is also placed on evidence and reasoning, with relatively little attention to speaker credibility development or emotional appeal; Corporate …

The History Of The Public Two Year Community College In The State Of Nevada From 1977 To 1993, D Gause-Snelson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

On May 26, 1789 in his first lecture as a history professor, Friedrich von Schiller stated "The world's history is the world's judgment." An institution's history may well be the institution's judgment. Careful historical documentation of an institution provides data to determine the path of the institution, and to predict accurate trends. This information is vital to positively and accurately shape the future and growth of an institution; This study collected data pertaining to the four public two-year institutions in Nevada from 1977 to 1993. Five specific areas of concern were addressed. They were: governance, demographics, curriculum, finance, and facility …

The Politics And Economics Of Twentieth Century Marine Losses In The St. Clair River (Ontario, Michigan)., Cris. Kohl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the politics and economics of twentieth century marine losses in the St. Clair River. Vital to Great Lakes commercial shipping, the 36-mile-long, narrow bottleneck of the St. Clair River, which forms part of the international boundary between Canada and the United States close to the epicentre of the Great Lakes waterway system, has played a major role in twentieth century marine history. A necessary, natural link between the three northwestern and the two southeastern Great Lakes, the St. Clair River has long been the scourge of vessel owners and ships' captains; skilled, experienced navigators have dreaded passing …

The Educational Policies Of The Unionist Government: Politics And Religious Controversy, 1895 To 1905 (England)., Nigel Scott. Dick

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The 1902 Education Act was the centrepiece of a series of reforms to popular education which began with the return of the Unionist Government to office in 1895 and ended with the Secondary School Regulations of 1904-5. The Act provided the framework for popular education until the implementation of the 1944 Butler Act after World War II. This thesis discusses the educational changes made by the Unionists, and concludes that while administratively satisfactory, there were deficiencies. The opportunities available to children of the working class to obtain a suitable secondary or technical education were sharply reduced: in part because of …

Feminism And Misogyny In Early Modern England: The Historical Context Of The Swetnam Controversy (Joseph Swetnam)., Donnalyn Elizabeth. Mcclymont

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Although there has been a great deal of research done on the English Renaissance Controversy about women, it has been dominated by literary critics. Whereas some fine scholarship has been contributed, there are literary critics and historians who argue that the texts involved in the controversy are unconnected to women's status during this particular period. There are others, however, who believe that this controversy emerged out of the particular social and political ferment of the times. This thesis redresses these views through careful analyses of the primary sources themselves and by placing them in a historical context. Perhaps the central …

The Masculine Voice In The "Visio Monachi De Eynsham" 1196 (England, Gender)., Jamie. Zettle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The mystical literature of twelfth-century England provides an unique insight into the conceptions and construction of gender in the Middle Ages. For the purpose of this thesis, these ideas are particularly evident in the Visio monachi de Eynsham (1196). The vision, recorded in the monastic environment of late twelfth-century England, details a journey through the three levels of Purgatory by a young novice, Edmund of Eynsham. The Visio monachi de Eynsham is important because it is a clear example of a "gendered" text. The androcentric focus of the text, in its construction of Purgatory, the nature and expiation of sin …

Palmerston, Parliament And Peking: The Melbourne Ministry And The Opium Crisis, 1835-1840., Glenn Paul Melancon

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

"Palmerston, Parliament and Peking" is a revisionist work designed to challenge the prevailing economic interpretations of the first Opium War, 1839-1842. Orthodox historiography considers early nineteenth-century Britain as a modern, industrial society and argues that its Government needed to respond violently to the Chinese authorities' suppression of the opium trade in order to protect and expand a lucrative endeavor. Indian opium sales generated revenue for the British-run government in Bengal and paid for Chinese tea, a highly prized commodity in Great Britain. British industrialists demanded war to end the Chinese Government's restrictions on trade, known as the Canton system, thus …

Links And Lineage: The Life And Work Of Mary Ann Shadd In Media, A Black Feminist Analysis., Avonie. Brown

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Accepting historical documentation as an inherently subjective and selective process, this thesis will continue the process of reconstructing and highlighting the importance of the Black Canadian historical presence. This thesis will attempt to widen Canadian mass communication and historical vision by focusing on the advocacy of Mary Ann Shadd: teacher, abolitionist, fighter for women's rights and the first Black woman in North America and the first woman in Canada to found and edit a newspaper. Using a Black feminist epistemological framework this thesis will advance an analysis of her multiple roles, focusing on her media participation and its implications for …

Border Crossings: The Diffusion Of Scarlet Fever In Mid-Victorian Essex County (Ontario)., Kathleen Amanda Lillian. Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Local area studies are undertaken mainly for two reasons: to demonstrate a common situation, or to explain an anomaly. In the case of Essex County in 1871, the circumstances were similar to other counties in Ontario, and yet there was a situation which was not encountered in the areas with which it could be compared. In that year there was an epidemic of scarlet fever in Essex County which claimed 124 lives. While there are several factors which could produce the occurrence of an epidemic, there was only one which was responsible for the outbreak in this region. This one …

A Confederate Education In The New South: Southern Academia And The Idea Of Progress In The Nineteenth Century., Danny Ray Frost

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The idea of progress inspired former Confederate officers who entered academia to transform Southern higher education from its antebellum classical and republican orientation to a postbellum focus on science and utility. Defeat taught these academics that Southern institutions had failed to supply graduates with the scientific skills necessary to compete economically, industrially, and militarily with the North. They concluded that the Confederacy's collapse demonstrated the necessity of abandoning the republican conception of progress, characterized by fears of cyclical decay, in favor of the modern idea of progress which emphasized inevitable and unlimited material and social improvement. Confederate-veterans-turned academics believed scientific …

Searching For A Heaven Attainable On Earth: Understanding The Feminism Of Annie Besant (England)., Mary Beth Howitt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

From her birth in 1847 until her death in 1933, Annie Besant played many roles, was many things, and contributed to endless causes of the Victorian age: she was a wife, mother and daughter, she was a believer and a doubter, she was a liberal and a socialist, a Malthusian and a Theosophist. The question that is asked here, however, is whether or not she can be considered a feminist as well, and if so, what part did it play in her life, and to what extent did it govern her actions? Besant wrote and spoke on all the roles …

Mormon Opposition Literature: A Historiographical Critique And Case Study, 1844-57, William P. Connors

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is in three parts. The first part looks at the historical scholarship on writings opposed to Mormonism, especially those from the nineteenth century. The conclusion is that, despite hundreds of works written against Mormonism in its early years, the historical scholarship has not done justice to the writings or people involved. The vast majority of the writings and writers have not been analyzed, and those that are discussed are usually the most sensational and not representative of the genre.

The second part of this thesis is a a case study giving an example of the kind of work …

Race And Gender: The Question Of Authorship In African-American Women's History., Constance M. Cooper

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Through an examination of historical works written by blacks and whites, and the criticisms made about their publications, this thesis traces the history of the authorship debate. The first chapter begins with a summary explaining why black nationalists felt so strongly that white authored black history weakened their liberating efforts. Next, I compare nationalists' claims with histories written by whites during the 1970s. My study confirms that nationalists' fears were partially justified because whites dominated black history. The next chapter examines writings in American women's history and discovers that black feminists re-problematized white authorship. Unlike the history of slavery, African-American …

Prince Edward County: 1951-1963 : An Oral History, W. Glenn Merten

Honors Theses

The Civil Rights movement is a field ripe for the study of leadership. In it, and many other social movements, there are evident many of the facets which we touch upon in the Jepson School. The contexts of formal organizations, many political systems, and countless community organizations can be seen in the Civil Rights movement. The fields of ethics and leading groups are also evident, and knowledge critical thinking and the theories of leadership are essential in any leadership circumstance. It would also be helpful if leaders in the Civil Rights movement were skilled in conflict resolution, motivation, leading individuals, …

An Overview Of Alternative Medicine: Past, Present, And Future, Pearl A. Guy

Theses

This thesis will discuss the role of alternative medicine in the United States. It will look at the history of various forms of medicine, the evolution of these practices, as well as their current role in our society.

With rising health care costs and the failure of mainstream medicine to cure diseases such as cancer and HIV, it becomes all the more important to look beyond the traditional system.

One in three people surveyed, reported using at least one form of unconventional medicine in 1990. This is a significant figure. There are very few studies currently available that focus on …

The Mormons In Wilhelmie Germany, 1870-1914: Making A Place For An Unwanted American Religion In A Changing German Society, Michael Mitchell

Theses and Dissertations

Between 1853 and 1914 the kingdom of Prussia and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons, disagreed over the issue of Mormon missionaries proselyting in Prussia. In 1853 royal magistrates banished all Mormon missionaries from the kingdom for advocating emigration. A new church policy of preaching without seeking for official permission, in addition to an improved relationship between the Mormons in Utah and the United States government after the Manifesto of 1890, led to an increase in missionaries sent to Germany, including Prussia. By 1900 mormon success alarmed the Prussian Protestant clergy and a few Prussian governors …

"A Little Oasis In The Desert": Community Building In Hurricane, Utah, 1860-1930, W. Paul Reeve

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a study of the mechanisms employed in the community building process of Hurricane, Utah. It traces the roots of the town's early settlers beginning with their arrival in southern Utah in the early 1860s through the founding of Hurricane and the establishment of its social order. This pioneering period largely ended by 1930.
Hurricane's founders were the remnants of the Mormon Church's failed Cotton Mission. Original U.S. census research shows that by 1900 close to half of the mission's colonizers abandoned the challenging desert of southern Utah. The stalwarts who remained fashioned the Hurricane Canal with the …

The Straight Furrow': The Life Of George S Henry, Ontario's Unknown Premier, Donald Ross Spanner

Digitized Theses

The life of George S. Henry and his management of the Ontario economy as Conservative premier (1930-1934) has been unjustifiably ignored by academics. Henry's unique upbringing --his Methodist canons of individualism, his Pelmanist notions of efficiency, and his obsession with economic development--would shape his career throughout the 1920s when, as Highways minister, he brought uniformity and standardization to the province's complex road system. As premier, these principles and values would also have a significant impact upon how Ontario was governed in the early depression years.;Throughout Henry's premiership, his government's austere attitude towards unemployment was determined by three factors: a faith …