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“The Saloon Is Their Palace”: Race, Immigration, And Politics In The Woman’S Christian Temperance Union, 1874–1933, Ella Wagner
“The Saloon Is Their Palace”: Race, Immigration, And Politics In The Woman’S Christian Temperance Union, 1874–1933, Ella Wagner
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immigration, prohibition, race, suffrage, temperance, women's history
Reclaiming The Patria: Sinarquismo In The United States, 1936-1966, Nathan Ellstrand
Reclaiming The Patria: Sinarquismo In The United States, 1936-1966, Nathan Ellstrand
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This dissertation examines the rise and fall of the Catholic, nationalist, and anti-communist Mexican Unión Nacional Sinarquista (UNS or National Synarchist Union) in the U.S. between 1936 and the 1960s. Whereas most scholars study the UNS as a Mexico-specific movement, I examine the organization as a transnational one. This project not only adds to the literature on the UNS, but in Mexican American, Western, and postrevolutionary Mexican history. The individuals that became sinarquistas found refuge from the Mexican church-state conflict in the U.S. in places such as Texas, California, and Chicagoland. The organization’s leadership therefore envisioned an expanded Mexico wherever …
Detrimental Influences: Chicago And The Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1933-1940, Matthew Amyx
Detrimental Influences: Chicago And The Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1933-1940, Matthew Amyx
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This dissertation chronicles and analyzes the record of the Chicago chapter of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in Chicago during the New Deal.