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Legislating For American Empire : The U.S. Congress And Territorial Policy, Timothy Lindberg
Legislating For American Empire : The U.S. Congress And Territorial Policy, Timothy Lindberg
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The United States has always administered territorial governments and the primary entity entrusted with this authority is the United States Congress. This dissertation, using an American Political Development framework, seeks to uncover the variety of ways in which Congressional decision-making over territorial policy has shifted. The goal is to understand how the United States Congress worked toward establishing and maintaining an American Empire via the use of territorial policy. A variety of causal mechanisms causing are investigated, including the demographic targets of policy, partisan conflicts, changing norms and rules of Congress, pressures from other branches or the states, national security …
Defending God : Thomas Paine's Last Crusade And The Contest Over His Memory, Theodore William Marotta
Defending God : Thomas Paine's Last Crusade And The Contest Over His Memory, Theodore William Marotta
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation is focused on two key elements. First, it offers a new interpretation of Thomas Paine's religious writings, arguing that Paine was not attacking religion, but rather was defending God. Second, the dissertation explores Thomas Paine's hotly contested place in America's historical memory by focusing on the individuals who have fought for decades to restore Paine's reputation in the eyes of Americans, and the tremendous difficulties they experienced as a result of their efforts.
Nationalism In New England : Keene, New Hampshire And The American Civil War, Thomas Anthony Mcgrath
Nationalism In New England : Keene, New Hampshire And The American Civil War, Thomas Anthony Mcgrath
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Abstract: Nationalism in New England: Keene, New Hampshire and the American Civil War
Preserve Or Perish : The Orange County Food Preservation Battalion And Food Conservation Efforts In New York State During The Great War, 1917-1919, Sarah Elizabeth Wassberg
Preserve Or Perish : The Orange County Food Preservation Battalion And Food Conservation Efforts In New York State During The Great War, 1917-1919, Sarah Elizabeth Wassberg
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis examines the role of both private voluntary organizations like the Orange County Food Preservation Battalion as well as city- and state-sponsored organizations in food conservation efforts during World War I in New York state (1917-1919). Society women such as Orange County Food Preservation Battalion chairman Mrs. Theodore Bailey, in conjunction with professional home economists, played an important role early in the war effort in disseminating the patriotic pleas of Herbert Hoover and the U.S. Food Administration, but their efforts were later subsumed by state-run entities such as the New York State Food Commission. Using an unpublished scrapbook kept …