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The Scientific Inquiries Of Professor John Winthrop, 1714-1779, Angel Peralta Apr 2023

The Scientific Inquiries Of Professor John Winthrop, 1714-1779, Angel Peralta

Graduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


The Reporter Who Lost The War: An In-Depth Look At Walter Cronkite's Report On The Tet Offensive And Its Long-Term Effects, Raegan Hoyer Apr 2022

The Reporter Who Lost The War: An In-Depth Look At Walter Cronkite's Report On The Tet Offensive And Its Long-Term Effects, Raegan Hoyer

Undergraduate Research Conference

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The Impact Of The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps And Waac Branch No. 1 During World War Ii, Savannah Peterson Apr 2022

The Impact Of The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps And Waac Branch No. 1 During World War Ii, Savannah Peterson

Undergraduate Research Conference

WAACs benefited SFA, Nacogdoches, and women during WWII, for their station effectively supplemented local income as men left to fight in the war, set precedents for similar programs, and furthered acceptance of women in male dominated fields locally and nationally, the impacts of which are still relevant


Forgotten Stories Of The New London School Tragedy, Clayton Jones Apr 2022

Forgotten Stories Of The New London School Tragedy, Clayton Jones

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


Mary Chesnut: A Southern Woman, Jade Gordon Apr 2021

Mary Chesnut: A Southern Woman, Jade Gordon

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


The Not So Lost Cause: How Historians Endorsed A False History, Abby Echeverria Apr 2018

The Not So Lost Cause: How Historians Endorsed A False History, Abby Echeverria

Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.


Frontier Theory And The Omission Of Native Americans, Bayley Deaton Mar 2016

Frontier Theory And The Omission Of Native Americans, Bayley Deaton

Undergraduate Research Conference

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the issues and implications of Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Theory” proposed at the 1893 World Fair, and research the long-term effects that this theory has carried into the modern century. Through content analysis, this paper will examine the role that Native Americans currently and historically have in American Textbooks and literature, as well as the differential treatment of Native Americans at the hands of this thesis. This paper will examine the retelling of American history and the United States’ involvement with Native American tribes during the expansion of the nation. This paper …


No Night For Mexican Tears: Juan Cortina And The Brownsville Raid, Justin Oakley, Scott Sosebee Mar 2016

No Night For Mexican Tears: Juan Cortina And The Brownsville Raid, Justin Oakley, Scott Sosebee

Undergraduate Research Conference

THEY CALLED HIM THE “RED ROBBER OF THE RIO GRANDE.... ” Whether this moniker developed from the reddish tinge of his beard, or from the red blood that he shed on either side of the border depends on who is telling the story. The image of this man that is left to posterity is muddied; obscured by the rhyme and the romance of the corrido, and subject to the whims of political lionization or character assassination. Why Juan Nepomuceno Cortina rode into Brownsville on that early autumn day in 1859 at the head of an armed band of men has …


The Red Scare, Allison Ellis Apr 2012

The Red Scare, Allison Ellis

Undergraduate Research Conference

The Red Scare describes the time in American History following World War II when tension between Americans and other Communist countries, specifically the Soviet Union, were threateningly high. Each county was equipped for, yet fearful of an atomic war. The United States government tried to use this fear to motivate the American public to become mobilized. American citizens were encouraged to rely on themselves and prepare for the worst. Even though they were ignorant to the effects of such an attack, Americans tried desperately to prepare their homes and families. The government published articles, pamphlets, short films, and held drills …


The American Civil War In The South: Love, Letters, And Shifting Gender Roles, Cassandra Bennett Apr 2010

The American Civil War In The South: Love, Letters, And Shifting Gender Roles, Cassandra Bennett

Undergraduate Research Conference

Love remains one of the most basic human emotions that provides the motivation and sustains the loyalty of familial bonds. People fight for country and cause due to love and loyalty to those at home. Southern fami-lies involved in the American Civil War were no different. Fathers, husbands, sons, mothers, wives, and daugh-ters loved while in the midst of the “cruel war,” surrounded by death, destruction, and desperation. These same motivations remain in our society and an examination of correspondence between the homefront and the bat-tlefront sheds light into the inner workings of daily life as well as assigned gender …