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Just Discrimination: Arkansas Parochial Schools And The Defense Of Segregation, Misty Landers

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the continued segregation of parochial schools in the Little Rock Catholic Diocese after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. The thesis compares the failure of the parochial schools in Little Rock to integrate to the success of integration in Arkansas’s southern neighbors, St. Louis and New Orleans. In those cities, integration occurred after the appointment of new head prelates who threatened excommunication when confronted with segregationist protests and threats of violence. Bishop Albert Fletcher, the head of the Little Rock Diocese, has been perceived as supportive of integration efforts and aligned with his …

The Bracero Program In The Arkansas Delta: The Power Held By Planter Elite, William Chase Whittington

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This paper examines the Bracero Program and its implementation from the start of World War II to the end of the program in 1964. Farmers and planters in America needed a sufficient labor supply once the war started, and Mexico became the main supplier. The Bracero Program was initiated as a war effort and meant to only last until the end of the war, but the planter elite had far different intentions once they realized how productive and inexpensive the program could be. This paper identifies the leading causes for how the Bracero Program was able to last over twenty …

Products Of Circumstance: Eighteenth-Century Runaway Indentured Servant Advertisements In A Changing Atlantic World, Amanda Page Mcgee

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Although indentured servitude remained a viable source of labor in colonial America and eighteenth-century England, newspaper advertisements demonstrated the transformations of the perceptions associated with indentured servants in the midst of a changing Atlantic World. Not only were indentured servants perceived as a type of commodity in the rising consumerist culture of the eighteenth century; but, the perceptions of these individuals – reflected in runaway newspaper advertisements – changed depending upon the political, social, and economic circumstances in which they existed. The volatile nature of colonial life combined with the social, economic, and political implications of the changing Atlantic World, …

And They Entered As Ladies: When Race, Class And Black Femininity Clashed At Central High School, Misti Nicole Harper

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

“And They Entered as Ladies: When Race, Class and Black Femininity Clashed at Central High School,” explores the intersectionality of race, gender and class status as middle-class black women led the integration movement and were the focal point of white backlash during the 1957 Little Rock Central High School crisis. Six of the nine black students chosen to integrate Central High School were carefully selected girls from middle-class homes, whose mothers and female family members played active parts in keeping their daughters enrolled at Central, while Daisy Gatson Bates orchestrated the integration of the capital’s school system. Nevertheless, these women …

Civil War In The Delta: Environment, Race, And The 1863 Helena Campaign, George David Schieffler

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

“Civil War in the Delta” describes how the American Civil War came to Helena, Arkansas, and its Phillips County environs, and how its people—black and white, male and female, rich and poor, free and enslaved, soldier and civilian—lived that conflict from the spring of 1861 to the summer of 1863, when Union soldiers repelled a Confederate assault on the town. Scholars have been writing Civil War community studies since the 1960s, but few have investigated communities west of the Mississippi River. Historians also have written widely about Arkansas during the war, but there are no comprehensive studies of a single …

Arkansas's Divided Democracy: The Making Of The Constitution Of 1874, Rodney Waymon Harris

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the making of Arkansas’s constitution of 1874, which drew the curtain on Reconstruction in the state and remains in force in the twenty-first century. It contributes to the scholarship of Arkansas history, Southern history, and U.S. political and constitutional history by showing that Arkansas’s Redeemers were not unified or homogeneous, but rather a fractured group who fought about how restrictive the state’s new constitution would be. In the end, it was more generous in some sections than some Democrats wished. This dissertation, thus, challenges a traditional narrative of a likeminded convention and relentlessly restrictive constitution-making. However, it …

Wagon Tracks. Volume 25, Issue 3 (May, 2011), Santa Fe Trail Association

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 25, Issue 2 (February, 2011), Santa Fe Trail Association

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 25, Issue 1 (November, 2010), Santa Fe Trail Association

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Wagon Tracks. Volume 26, Issue 4 (August, 2012), Santa Fe Trail Association

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SFTA News

1 Rendezvous 2012

2 President's Column

3 Joanne's Jottings

4 News

5 Bylaw Amendments

5 PNTS

8 Signage Projects Progressing

9 Marion County Signs

10 Internship Available

14 Stone Corral Cottonwood

24 Letter from Editor

25 In Memoriam

25 Chapter Reports

27 Membership Renewal

28 Events

Articles

10 Trail Markers 1905

11 Wagons Ho Photos

13 Diary of Levi Edmons, Sr.

17 Julia Archibald Holmes

21 Froebel Part VI

Columns

1 The Trail Today: Pawnee Rock

12 Cyber Ruts

15 Young People on the Trail

24 Books: Empires, Nations and Families

25 Books for Kids

Wagon Tracks. Volume 26, Issue 3 (May, 2012), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

SFTA News

1 Wagons Ho! Bent's Fort

1 Rendezvous 2012

2 President's Column

3 Manager's Column

4 News

4 PNTS

25 In Memoriam

25 Chapter Reports

27 Membership Renewal

28 Events

Articles

6 Dearborn Wagons

7 Hansen Wheel and Wagon Shop

9 Santa Fe Freighters

13 Diary of Levi Edmonds, Sr.

20 Images of SW Colorado

Columns

5 Junior Wagon Master Program Day

22 The Trail Today: Boone's Lick, MO

23 NPS: Overland (Strang) Park

24 Books: Kearny's March

Wagon Tracks. Volume 26, Issue 2 (February, 2012), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

SFTA News

1 Wagons Ho! Bent's Fort

1 Rendezvous 2012

2 President's Column

2 Letter to Editor

3 Manager's Column

4 News

5 PNTS

17 In Memoriam

17 Editor's Note

25 Chapter Reports

27 Membership Renewal

28 Events

Articles

7 The Sibley Expedition

9 Ft. Larned Visitor Father Colleton

10 25 Years on the Santa Fe Trail

24 Dr. Rowland Willard

Columns

21 NPS: Certification

18 The Trail Today: Point of Rocks

22 Young People on the Trail

23 Books

23 Footlights in the Foothills

Wagon Tracks. Volume 26, Issue 1 (November, 2011), Santa Fe Trail Association

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SFTA News

2 President's Column

3 Renovated Website

4 News

5 PNTS

16 Symposium Photos

18 Awards

25 Chapter Reports

26 Events

27 Membership Renewal

28 Leo E. Oliva

Articles

6 Buffalo Grass

7 NM Customs Regulations of 1825

9 Life in Early Day Dodge City

19 Can I Copy Your Copy on My Website?

21 Most Beautiful Are the Evenings

Columns

10 NPS: Certification

14 The Trail Today: Marion County

15 Book Review: Kit Carson

20 Young People on the Trail

Provoking New Questions At Richmond National Battlefield Park, Kaylyn L. Sawyer

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

he first time I ever gave an interpretive tour was two years ago at the Virginia Museum of the Civil War in New Market, Virginia about a farmhouse that was in the midst of the fighting. My supervisor told me to make the house a home. Her advice to make a human connection between visitors and the past has influenced my style of interpretation, and I have carried it through other various internships including my time this summer at Richmond National Battlefield Park. While working in Richmond, I have been challenged, and challenged visitors, to think differently about the conflicts …

What If The South Had Won The Civil War? 4 Sci-Fi Scenarios For Hbo's 'Confederate', Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

“What if” has always been the favorite game of Civil War historians. Now, thanks to David Benioff and D.B. Weiss — the team that created HBO’s insanely popular Game of Thrones — it looks as though we’ll get a chance to see that “what if” on screen. Their new project, Confederate, proposes an alternate America in which the secession of the Southern Confederacy in 1861 actually succeeds. It is a place where slavery is legal and pervasive, and where a new civil war is brewing between the divided sections. (excerpt)

Wagon Tracks. Volume 27, Issue 4 (August, 2013), Santa Fe Trail Association

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1 Loss of Roger Slusher
2 Letter From New President
3 Joanne’s Jottings
4 News
6 Nat. Historic Registry
7 Membership and Letters
8 In Memoriam: Jim Sherer
8 Pioneer Days: Location of Old Fort Mann
9 Hall of Fame
10 Cyber Ruts: Maps: Schmidt
11 Clapsaddle Donates Books
12 Bents New Fort Dig
13 Symposium Registration
17 Youth on the Trail: SFT Trip Comments
18 Fort Marcy: Pitel
20 Arrow Rock Ferry on National Registry: Lawson
22 Murder of J.M. White
23 Books: Tales of the Trail: Mexican War 1846-1849: Olsen
23 Books: Indians, Alcohol, and the Roads to …

Wagon Tracks. Volume 27, Issue 3 (May, 2013), Santa Fe Trail Association

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1 Symposium1 Board Election2 President’s Column3 Joanne’s Jottings4 News 8 Letters to Editor9 In Memoriam: Waggoner32 Chapter Reports. 35 Membership Renewal36 Events10 Bent’s Old Fort Ice House: Leonard25 Santa Fe’s Revenue Plan of 1836: Tórrez26 Merchandise List Created: Boyle27 Jesus Gil Abreu: Daves31 Becknell’s Gravesite Restored: Wheeler6 The Trail Today: Preservation13 Youth on the Trail: History Projects14 Cyber Ruts: Journal and Magazine Articles: Olsen 32 Books: A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek: Pelikan

Wagon Tracks. Volume 27, Issue 2 (February, 2013), Santa Fe Trail Association

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1 Symposium
2 President's Column
3 Joanne's Jottings
4 News
9 Morgan Award
17 Hall of Fame: Hawn, Hickock
19 Hall of Fame: Wynkoop, Black Kettle
24 In Memoriam: Harris
25 Chapter Reports
27 Membership Renewal
28 Events

Wagon Tracks. Volume 27, Issue 1 (November, 2012), Santa Fe Trail Association

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1 2012 Awards 1 Pinon Canyon Site 2 President's Column 3 Joanne's Jottings 4 News 5 Research Grant Deadline 7 Preservation Committee; Cell Towers 9 Rendezvous Photos 9 Trail Research Forum: NPS 10 Cyber Ruts: Library of Congress 11 Hall of Fame: Holmes 12 Geocaching: Podszus 13 Young People on the Trail 14 Santa Fe Road in the Lost Township: Bonnewitz 21 Pedro Sandoval, Presidio of Santa Fe: Sandoval 24 Books: Boone's Lick Road 25 Chapter Reports 27 Membership Renewal 28 Events

Wagon Tracks. Volume 28, Issue 2 (February, 2014), Santa Fe Trail Association

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Board Meeting . 1
Rendezvous 2014 . 1
President’s Message . 2
Joanne’s Jottings . 3
News . 4-6
Time to Renew . . 7
Mallinson Eagle Scout . . 7
Dodge City Point of Rocks Photos . 24
Chapter Reports . 25
Membership Renewal . 27
Events . 28

Articles
National Register: Loughlin . 8
A Hunting We Will Go: Clapsaddle . 10
Negro Slaves on the SFT: Clapsaddle . 10
SFT Media Tour: Clark . 12
James Josiah Webb: Maine . 14
/>Wagon Bed Spring: French . 16

Columns
Book: Peacekeepers and Conquerers: Ball. 23