Healing Through History,
2025
Ruthe Winegarten Foundation for Texas Women's History
Healing Through History, Nancy Baker Jones
Journal of Texas History
This is the written transcription of the author’s closing plenary address to the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Texas History, May 17, 2025. Its purpose is to put into both broad and personal historical contexts the events of 2023 and 2024 that led to the founding of the Alliance for Texas History. It concludes that, despite the difficulties of those events for her and for many other historians of Texas, history offers a potentially healing context for moving forward.
Testing Tocqueville’S Troops: American Democracy At War In Mexico,
2025
University of Texas at Tyler
Testing Tocqueville’S Troops: American Democracy At War In Mexico, Corbin V. Cali
History Theses
This thesis explores Alexis de Tocqueville's theory of democratic armies through the lens of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), testing his predictions about how democratic social conditions influence military institutions and performance. Tocqueville argued that armies in democratic societies would face tensions between egalitarian ideals and military discipline, with citizen-soldiers resisting hierarchy while professional officers, often isolated from civil society, grew dangerously ambitious for war. He predicted that democratic armies would show energetic initiative but struggle with weak formal discipline, and that equality would fundamentally change the relationship between the military and the broader society. The Mexican-American War serves as an …
Log Cabins, Hard Ciders, And The Misunderstood Campaign Of 1840: Looking At How The Whigs Really Created The First Modern Presidential Campaign Through Effective Storytelling,
2025
James Madison University
Log Cabins, Hard Ciders, And The Misunderstood Campaign Of 1840: Looking At How The Whigs Really Created The First Modern Presidential Campaign Through Effective Storytelling, Eric V. Schesventer
Masters Theses, 2020-current
The Whig party crafted the first ever modern campaign seen in American History during the campaign and subsequent presidential election of 1840. They did this not merely through the use of flashy campaign slogans and festive events as previous historians have discussed. The Whigs created the first ever modern campaign by telling both realistic and symbolic stories through the use of media narratives and physical objects crafted for the campaign. By doing this, this helped mold then candidate and future President William Henry Harrison into a candidate for all Americans, even if he was not in practice.
Diplomacy Derailed: Discrimination’S Detour On Route 40,
2025
James Madison University
Diplomacy Derailed: Discrimination’S Detour On Route 40, Gage A. Kivlen
Masters Theses, 2020-current
The 1961 Route 40 campaign in Maryland became a critical battleground where three competing approaches to addressing racial segregation revealed deep contradictions in Cold War America. Route 40, a major highway between Washington D.C. and New York, became an international embarrassment when African diplomats from newly independent nations were repeatedly refused service at restaurants and hotels. This crisis prompted responses from three distinct actors: the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which employed grassroots organizing and direct action; the State Department's Special Protocol Service Section (SPSS), which pursued top-down diplomatic solutions; and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which conducted extensive …
King’S Wigwam: Atlanta’S Forgotten Black Summer Resort,
2025
Kennesaw State University
King’S Wigwam: Atlanta’S Forgotten Black Summer Resort, Andrew J. Bramlett, Seneca Vaught
Symposium of Student Scholars
From 1915 to 1920, the only summer resort for Black Atlantans was King’s Wigwam, located north of the small farming community of Kennesaw. Situated on over forty acres owned by Auburn Avenue entrepreneur Cornelius King, the summer resort saw a host of notable visitors during its short five years of existence. During the 1919 season, a guest named Bertram Hamilton was falsely accused of rape in nearby Cherokee County. He was taken to the county jail as an angry mob gathered. The county sheriff, who had been part of the mob that lynched Leo Frank four years before, believed Hamilton …
Heroes By The Score,
2025
Bowling Green State University
Heroes By The Score, Owen J. Eastman
Honors Projects
Historians have increasingly examined how media other than yellow journalism helped manufacture consent for American imperialism during the Spanish-American War, yet commercial sheet music—despite its ubiquity at the time—remains overlooked. This study addresses that gap by analyzing fifty pieces of sheet music published around the period, employing a mixed-methods approach that combines quantitative, qualitative, and comparative media analysis. The corpus reveals four dominant themes: memorializing the sinking of the Maine; Cuban “liberation” rhetoric that often referenced American ownership or influence over the island; military hero worship that personalized and justified expansion; and messages of national unity that permitted overseas territorial …
The Eichmann Trial: The Challenge To Traditional Notions Of Humanity And Justice In Public Opinion That Shaped American Holocaust Memory,
2025
Bridgewater College
The Eichmann Trial: The Challenge To Traditional Notions Of Humanity And Justice In Public Opinion That Shaped American Holocaust Memory, Josh Payne
Research Awards
In April 1961, Adolf Eichmann was put on trial in Jerusalem, after being taken from Argentina, to face justice for the crimes he committed against Jews across Europe during World War II and the Holocaust. Yet, this trial was nearly two decades after these events. Questions arose in the United States about morality, justice, legality, and human nature in a trial prosecuting one man ultimately as a scapegoat for the crimes of numerous Nazi officials. While the United States was not involved in the prosecution of Eichmann, Americans advanced their opinions about these tenets that challenged traditional notions. These opinions …
Back Matter,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Queering The Lone Star State. Podcast. Hosted By Wesley G. Phelps.Produced By Sarah Lyngholm.,
2025
Loyola University Chicago
Queering The Lone Star State. Podcast. Hosted By Wesley G. Phelps.Produced By Sarah Lyngholm., Hannah Fuller
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
William Hanson And The Texas-Mexico Border: Violence, Corruption,And The Making Of The Gatekeeper State,
2025
Central-Texas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
William Hanson And The Texas-Mexico Border: Violence, Corruption,And The Making Of The Gatekeeper State, Zaragosa "Mito" Diaz-Espinoza
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
Texas: An American History,
2025
University of Texas at Austin, emeritus
Texas: An American History, Walter L. Buenger
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
Robert E. Howard: The Life And Times Of A Texas Author,
2025
The Lee-Bardwell Public Library
Robert E. Howard: The Life And Times Of A Texas Author, Brandy Winn
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
Neither Fish Nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family On The Rio Grande,
2025
Blinn College & University of Houston
Neither Fish Nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family On The Rio Grande, Gabrielle Lyle
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
Home Heat Money God: Texas And Modern Architecture,
2025
University of Houston
Home Heat Money God: Texas And Modern Architecture, Rex Koontz
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
Fighting For Control: Power, Reproductive Care, And Race In The Us-Mexico Borderlands,
2025
Northwest Vista College/St. Mary's University
Fighting For Control: Power, Reproductive Care, And Race In The Us-Mexico Borderlands, Rebecca A. Gonzalez
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
The Crossing: El Paso, The Southwest, And America’S Forgotten Origin Story,
2025
University of Texas at Austin
The Crossing: El Paso, The Southwest, And America’S Forgotten Origin Story, Carlos Kevin Blanton
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
Bridles And Biscuits: Contraband Culture In Spanish East Texas,
2025
Virginia Military Institute
Bridles And Biscuits: Contraband Culture In Spanish East Texas, Liz Elizondo
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
Shared Space, Contested Space: Enslaved Women In The Contested Space Ofwhite Texas Baptists, 1840-1860,
2025
Baylor University
Shared Space, Contested Space: Enslaved Women In The Contested Space Ofwhite Texas Baptists, 1840-1860, David Wilkie
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
“River Of Death”: Industrial Pollution And The North Texas Trinity River Inthe Progressive Era,
2025
Texas Christian University
“River Of Death”: Industrial Pollution And The North Texas Trinity River Inthe Progressive Era, Meghan Scott-Chaber
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
Redefining Frontier Womanhood: Irish Female Landownership In Mexican Texas,
2025
American Public University
Redefining Frontier Womanhood: Irish Female Landownership In Mexican Texas, Kelly Mcmichael
Journal of Texas History
No abstract provided.
