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Harvey Milk And California Proposition 6: How The Gay Liberation Movement Won Two Early Victories, Ramy K. Khalil
Harvey Milk And California Proposition 6: How The Gay Liberation Movement Won Two Early Victories, Ramy K. Khalil
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The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) movement scored two historic victories in California in the late 1970s. Despite difficult odds, the movement succeeded in electing Harvey Milk as the first openly gay male candidate to political office in the country. The election of Harvey Milk to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors took place at time when anti-gay ballot initiatives were being approved by large majorities of voters in states across the country. Furthermore, the LGBT liberation movement succeeded in defeating an anti-gay ballot initiative in California in 1978, Proposition 6. Based on extensive primary source research, this thesis …
Cold War Fictions : Gender, Anticommunism, And The Reconfiguration Of The Post-War United States, Aaron George
Cold War Fictions : Gender, Anticommunism, And The Reconfiguration Of The Post-War United States, Aaron George
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At the height of the Cold War, films and books that focused on anticommunist themes used depictions of communism as a way to promote a certain understanding of the roles of men and women in the post-war United States. The end of World War Two caused a reconfiguration of American society, providing a context in which cultural productions, such as these anticommunist Cold War narratives, could provide competing interpretations for what this transformation of society meant for men and women's roles in the United States. These films and books collectively construct an ideology that idolized the family as the most …
Rome's Vestal Virgins: Public Spectacle And Society, Joshua M. (Joshua Michael) Roberts
Rome's Vestal Virgins: Public Spectacle And Society, Joshua M. (Joshua Michael) Roberts
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The city of Rome developed from a small agricultural village near a small river on the Italian peninsula into the capital of an empire encompassing the entire Mediterranean world and its hinterlands beyond. The Romans themselves attributed the success of their city and society, in part, to their piety. The priesthood of Vesta and the sacred flame that burned within the goddess's temple symbolize Rome and its denizens. The women who served in this priesthood maintained a sacred and undying flame and performed a variety of other significant religious tasks in order to perpetuate Rome's achievements. The rigorous process through …
The Place Of The Environment In The Columbia River Treaty, Elliott C. (Elliott Charles) Smith
The Place Of The Environment In The Columbia River Treaty, Elliott C. (Elliott Charles) Smith
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At the end of World War II the United States embarked on an ambitious agenda of dam construction to stimulate the economy of the Pacific Northwest. A complete hydroelectric system was planned, including upstream storage dams that would moderate the river's seasonal flow fluctuations and downstream run of river dams that would produce electricity with the modified flow. Assigned to the politically powerful Army Corps of Engineers, the downstream dams proceeded on schedule, while the upstream dams stalled under the direction of the weaker Interior Department. The United States was left in an untenable situation where the downstream dams would …
"I Still Believe In Him": Religion, Nationalism, And The Nuremberg Party Rally Of 1934, Marilee Akland
"I Still Believe In Him": Religion, Nationalism, And The Nuremberg Party Rally Of 1934, Marilee Akland
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In some ways it seems that the strong devotion to the figure of Hitler as a political and even cultural messiah on the part of the people written about in Klemperer's work is indicative of the regime's inherent opposition to Christianity. The adoration which many showed for Hitler appears in many ways to act as a substitute for devotion to God. This fails in its explanatory power, however, in that it assumes Hitler was attempting to take the place of Jesus in the minds his subjects, and that the loyalty to the state was to replace loyalty to God. Hitler …
Re-Envisioning Society: The Radicalization Of The Student Youth Movement In Mexico During The 1960s, Lily A. (Lily Ann) Fox
Re-Envisioning Society: The Radicalization Of The Student Youth Movement In Mexico During The 1960s, Lily A. (Lily Ann) Fox
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Utilizing documents from student organizations including strike committees, the National Center For Democratic Students, and the writings of young activists, official commentary, and press releases, this study provides a detailed examination of the student movement in Mexico during the 1960s. Within the historiography of the student youth movement studies tend to focus exclusively on 1968 and the movement's position within the global counterculture. The product of this history is the proliferation of a homogenous understanding of the concerns mobilizing youth activists. This study however, attempts to advance previous historiography by expanding the scope of the student movement to include more …
The World's Fare: Food And Culture At American World Fairs From 1893-1939, Elizabeth Badger
The World's Fare: Food And Culture At American World Fairs From 1893-1939, Elizabeth Badger
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Why is the American culinary tradition as conflicted as it is? How is it that processed foods, foreign cuisine and home cooking can all be lauded as American ways of eating? This paper highlights the conflict between top-down government and corporate prescriptions on how we should eat and the reality of what was consumed by using American World Fairs as snapshots of particular points in time. Utilizing guidebooks, cookbooks, magazine articles and advertisements, this paper aims to show that these trends, rather than suddenly appearing, were already beginning to develop in part due to ideas presented at these fairs intentionally …
A "Natural" History Of Land In Cold War Guatemala, 1951-1985, Kate J. (Kate Jolene) Fuhrman
A "Natural" History Of Land In Cold War Guatemala, 1951-1985, Kate J. (Kate Jolene) Fuhrman
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The Cold War in Latin America has been widely studied, as has the impact of the proliferation of Multi-National Corporations which specialized in export agriculture such as coffee and bananas. In Guatemala, much has been written about the 1954 coup supported by the United States, and its basis in the U.S. government and corporate aversion to a 1952 land reform bill known as Decree 900. The coup reversed Decree 900, but the political vestiges of land reform, through peasant organization and empowerment remained, and ultimately this led to changes in the relationships that social actors had with Guatemalan land. Examining …
Reign Of Heretics: Arianism And Political Power In The Vandal And Ostrogothic Kingdoms, Christopher J. (Christopher James) Nofziger
Reign Of Heretics: Arianism And Political Power In The Vandal And Ostrogothic Kingdoms, Christopher J. (Christopher James) Nofziger
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The re-introduction of the so-called "Arian" heresy into the Roman Empire as an attribute of several Germanic Kingdoms of the fourth and fifth centuries requires an explanation of why, with the adoption of so many Roman ideological and administrative structures, Arianism remained fundamental to the ideological structure of these kingdoms. Previous studies have emphasized Arianism's role as a marker of identity in the context of Roman and Gothic interaction, but have yet to expand upon its social and political relevancy. Utilizing the Ostrogothic and Vandal kingdoms as case studies, this thesis seeks to elaborate upon the ideological and political contributions …
In The Shadow Of The Population Bomb: The Campaign For Abortion Reform In Seattle, 1962-1970, Alexandra J. Kattar
In The Shadow Of The Population Bomb: The Campaign For Abortion Reform In Seattle, 1962-1970, Alexandra J. Kattar
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In November 1970, fifty-six percent of Washington State voters approved Referendum 20. With this act, a state legalized abortion by popular vote for the first and only time in the history of the United States. This study explains how and why Washington State reformed its abortion law. The successful political campaign, led by Washington Citizens for Abortion Reform (WCAR), based in Seattle, constituted an unusual alliance of conservatives and liberals, men and women, Protestants and Catholics, often forgotten from the history of reproductive politics and certainly from the public debate on the issue during the twenty-first century. In the shadow …