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Full-Text Articles in History
"Aliens Say What Humans Can't": Popular Culture And Totalitarianism In "The Twilight Zone", Lisa M. Howell
"Aliens Say What Humans Can't": Popular Culture And Totalitarianism In "The Twilight Zone", Lisa M. Howell
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This study analyzes the political and social context of key episodes from 1959 to 1964 of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. His science fiction television series, nestled against the backdrop of the Cold War, showcased his viewpoints on controversial issues from the Holocaust, postwar gender issues, McCarthyism, nuclear war and totalitarianism. As he was often fond of saying, “Aliens Can Say What Humans Can’t.” Also integrated in this study is showing how The Twilight Zone served as both an agent of change as well as a reflection of the times. This in turn, encouraged the masses to question and modify …
The Cyprus Crisis And The Southern Flank Of Nato (1960-1975), Tamer Balci
The Cyprus Crisis And The Southern Flank Of Nato (1960-1975), Tamer Balci
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
Independence of Cyprus in 1960 ended neither the Greek demand to annex the island to Greece, nor the Turkish demand to divide the island along the ethnic lines. This paper analyzes the policies of major actors on the Cyprus problem in its crucial years from 1960 to 1975. An overall examination of the British, Turkish, Greek, American and the Soviet policies on Cyprus along with the policies of the Turkish and Greek Cypriots in this period reveals that all sides except Greece developed alternative policies and proposals to solve the problem. Greece was the only side that did not abandon …
African Slavery In Colonial Veracruz: The Factors That Aided Its Creation And Expansion, Veronica Nohemi Duran
African Slavery In Colonial Veracruz: The Factors That Aided Its Creation And Expansion, Veronica Nohemi Duran
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
The focal point of this study is to prove that it was the simultaneous presence of five factors during the 16th and 17th centuries that allowed African enslavement in Veracruz to expand. I built upon previous works and authors to support my claim that it was the decline in native population, economic profits, religious apathy on the subject, social acceptance and government support that pushed for the systems creation and expansion. By discussing each of these factors in a chapter of their own, I concluded that in an almost cause and effect manner these factors are responsible for the expansion …
Walking Out: The Success Of The Edcouch-Elsa Student Walkout Of 1968 Through The Media, David Robles
Walking Out: The Success Of The Edcouch-Elsa Student Walkout Of 1968 Through The Media, David Robles
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This study demonstrates how the success of the Edcouch-Elsa walkout of 1968 was brought upon not only by its organization, non-violent tactics, land mark victory in federal court, and support from several of Mexican American organizations. What also aided the student movement in Edcouch-Elsa was the media attention and how it influence the Rio Grande Valley community not only to question the tactics being used towards Mexican American students in the local educational institutions, but also created public discourse over the issues of race, equality, and students’ rights. Using various academic books of the subject, newspaper clippings of the time …
A History Of Labor Degradation On The Border, Hidalgo County, Texas, 1920-1970s, Edward David Avila
A History Of Labor Degradation On The Border, Hidalgo County, Texas, 1920-1970s, Edward David Avila
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Between 1920 and 1970 laborers in Hidalgo County were degraded and ranked among the lowest paid workers in the nation. Colonizers including land developers seeking to exploit the commercial agriculture potential of the Rio Grande Valley divided the working poor along race, gender, and class lines. Such labor strategy allowed Anglo Americans and in some cases elite Mexicans to subjugate working class Mexicans and Mexican Americans to substandard wages and miserable working conditions. This thesis argues the origin of the degradation of the working poor by analyzing wages, work conditions, race relations, and gendered dimensions of labor in the region. …
The Image Of The American Revolutionary Soldier And The Problem Of Historical Memory, Stephanie N. Powelson
The Image Of The American Revolutionary Soldier And The Problem Of Historical Memory, Stephanie N. Powelson
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Pubic memories of the American Revolution have played a central role in the creation of an American national identity. As a result of the importance of these military memories in creating a sense of social cohesion, images of the men who fought in the Revolution have often been systematically created and propagated, thus leading to myths and stereotypes in popular culture. Master of Arts (MA), August 2012, 111 pp., 2 tables, 4 figures, 76 references, 8 titles. This thesis analyzes the images of the soldiers of the American Revolution in public memory and in professional historiography. There is a perplexing …
Memories Of Fort Brown And Other Select Interviews: An Oral History Project, James Mills
Memories Of Fort Brown And Other Select Interviews: An Oral History Project, James Mills
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Review Of March! The Fight For Civil Rights In A Land Of Fear, Brent M. S. Campney
Review Of March! The Fight For Civil Rights In A Land Of Fear, Brent M. S. Campney
History Faculty Publications and Presentations
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