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Distinctly American: The Roots Of Secessionism And Nullification In The United States, Patrick F. Ryan

History Theses

A retrospective study of the role that secessionism played throughout American history, beginning in the late 18th century. The purpose of this work is to show how John C. Calhoun's (and other Southerners') ideas and rhetoric were not novel. This paper investigates the early whispers of nullification and secessionism in the United States; the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, Essex Junto, Hartford Convention, indecision by the founders, and how they shaped later American politicians in the mid-19th century.

Oregon's Racial Purity Regime: The Influence Of International Scientific Racism On Law Enforcement, Legislation, Public Health, And Incarceration In Portland, Oregon During The Victorian And Progressive Eras (1851-1917), Katherine N. Bush

Dissertations and Theses

In 1983, the Oregon State legislature repealed the eugenic sterilization law that had been in use for 60 years. Initially passed during the Progressive era, this law epitomized the State's legacy of surveilling, policing, caging, and inflicting brutality on marginalized and racialized communities who were deemed dangerous, threatening, or contagious. Public health leaders, political officials, law enforcement authorities, and private charities worked together as a multivalent system to maintain racial purity in the State. This racial purity regime drew upon a legacy of international pseudo-scientific racism to justify and bolster policies, legislation, and practices that targeted impoverished communities, people of …

Suggestions For Research In The Culture And Society Of A Spanish Florida, William B. Griffen

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida was established as a functional part of the Spanish colonies in 1565. Saint Augustine was from the beginning the focal point of the Spanish Empire in Florida from which the social and cultural influences of the Iberian civilizers were radiated into the hinterland, transforming to some degree both the physical environment and the human groups bearing different ways of life which were encountered. But, not only from the standpoint of Spanish-Indian culture contact and acculturation does early Florida hold interest for the anthropologist. The imported European culture is also of tremendous importance to be understood in the development of …

News And Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the annual meeting, local and regional historical society

Osceola: Portraits, Features, And Dress, John M. Goggin

Florida Historical Quarterly

The most colorful figure of the unpopular Second Seminole War, Osceola, the Seminole war leader, early caught the imagination of the American public. 1 As a result, although we lack details of his early history, we have a good amount of data for his military career, and numerous comments on his appearance. He was the subject of several original sketches and paintings, as well as numerous engravings taken from them. However, differences between some of these “from life” renderings, raise the question of exactly what Osceola did look like!

Are There De Soto Relics In Florida?, John M. Goggin

Florida Historical Quarterly

The adventurous trip of Hernando de Soto from his debarkation on the Florida Gulf Coast in 1539, through thousands of miles of wilderness, to his death on the Mississippi River in 1542 has been the subject of many fictional and scholarly studies. Despite the careful attention given to his journey many questions arise in the minds of the students. One is the puzzling problem of why no material objects have ever been found which can be derived from the De Soto expedition. It is hard to believe a party of more than five hundred well-equipped men would leave or lose …

2020-2021 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University

Honors Convocation Programs

2020-2021 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation

Book Review, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Lake Okeechobee: Wellspring of the Everglades, by Alfred Jackson Hanna and Kathryn Abbey Hanna. (Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1948. 379 pp. $4.00), and Lakanal, the Regicide: A Biographical and Historical Study of the Career of Joseph Lakanal, by John Charles Dawson. University of Alabama Press, 1948. (215 p. $5.00)

Contents Of Volume Xxvii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 27

The Florida Historical Society: The Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

"Our Women Are Made Of The Right Stuff": Gender, Politics, And Conflict In Civil War West Virginia, Amanda Romain Shaver

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

“’Our Women Are Made of the Right Stuff:’ Gender, Politics, and Conflict in Civil War West Virginia” examines the lives and contributions of white West Virginia women and argues that they were not merely victims of the war, but dynamic participants whose opinions were influential and whose actions determined the ability of both the Union and Confederate armies to wage war in Appalachia. Striking a balance between the antebellum standards of “True Womanhood” and the emerging ideals of the women’s rights movement, West Virginia women became politically engaged in both the statehood movement and the Civil War. They transformed their …

From Civil Liberties To Social Contract Theory: Hobbes' And Locke's Influence On The Early American Republic, Evan A. Krasner

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………..4

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes………...18

III. Textbook Critique……………………………...31

IV. New Textbook Entry…………………………...33

V. Bibliography………………………………….....35

Scientific Development Vs. Political Strategy: Nasa’S Commitment To Science Following The First Moon Landing, Sean Van Buskirk

Masters Theses

This work looks at the scientific program of NASA during the Space Race. (1961- 1975) During this period of the Cold War, NASA shifted it role from a political asset of the United States strategy to an agency of scientific discovery. This was not a smooth transition due to political opinions on the wastefulness and role of NASA. Many politicians, citizens and even scientists had doubts about the scientific potential of NASA’s manned missions to the Moon. Despite the power politics, the administrators at NASA were able to break out of the political arena and create a balanced program where …

“An Emergency Job Well Done”: Friends Of Freedom Libraries And The Mississippi Freedom Libraries, Suzanne Marie Stauffer

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The History Of Congressional Apportionment, Charles M. Biles

Trade & Scholarly Monographs

NEW REVISED SECOND EDITION.

The Congressional apportionment problem is deceptively easy to state: How many seats in the U. S. House of Representatives does each state get? To answer that question, Charles Biles, award-winning Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Humboldt State University, examines the math and politics that has shaped government and power from the founding of the country to the modern day.

Employing an interdisciplinary approach that stems from his research in mathematical modeling and the modeling of natural resource systems, Biles tells a flowing evolutionary tale of how slight changes in calculating apportionment has wrought massive shifts in …

The Ethics Of Aerial Bombardment In International Conflicts: From Douhet To Drones, Rauan Zhaksybergen

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In this thesis, I demonstrate how the question of ethics in aerial bombardment has been evolving and transforming since its inception at the beginning of the twentieth century to contemporary targeted killings/assassinations by drones. I interact with early airpower theories from Douhet, Trenchard, Mitchell, and contemporary air tactics in order to establish a crucial sequence between these early theories and practices of aerial violence and modern ones conducted by armed drones. I show how the evolution of aerial bombardment challenged, influenced, and transformed essentials of conventional warfare, as well as dispersed boundaries between combatants and non-combatants. Contemporary legally uncontrolled targeted …

Advancing The Spatial Turn In History Through Deep Mapping: Ghost Maps, Neogeography, And Frederick Jackson Turner, Jessica L. Mathai

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The permeation of the spatial turn into the humanities, and in particular history, has both imbued scholarship and opened up new areas for research. This dissertation examines the conceptual and theoretical implications of advancing the spatial turn in history and evaluating existing approaches such as Historical GIS and ghost mapping as a foundation for deep mapping. The resulting deep map developed in this study utilizes Neogeography and web technology in the form of JavaScript Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to develop a prototype that overcomes many of the limitations that occur when simultaneously integrating multiple sources of data and software functionality, …

Religion And Rural Internationalism In The Nineteenth-Century Middle West: The Global Consciousness Of Rural Dutch Middle Westerners,1865–1901, Andrew Klumpp

Religious Studies Theses and Dissertations

This project asks: How did underlying religious worldviews inform the local, national, and global engagement of rural middle western Dutch communities in the nineteenth century, which are often characterized as isolated and provincial? More broadly, it queries, if the local, national, and global are united by this broad religious worldview, how does that transform our understandings of rural middle western ethnic enclaves and who contributed to the rich internationalism of the nineteenth century and from where?

Close examination of these rural middle western ethnic enclaves reveals not only an ambitious vision for building local institutions but also for extending Dutch …

“They Know Too Much Already:” Black Education In Post-Emancipation Era Columbus, Ga, 1866-1876, William Dwayne Thomas

Theses and Dissertations

Despite local histories that have been published on the history of Columbus, Georgia, and its school system, very little has been written about Columbus’s freedmen schools created after the U.S. Civil War. As a result, a comprehensive history of Columbus’s freedmen does not exist, and those written are fragmented. The focus of this study is to document the beginnings of Columbus’s freedmen school efforts in the post-emancipation era, through those African Americans’ own historical voices and experiences. Though an analysis of archived unpublished letters, local and religious newspapers, census data, government documents, and meeting minutes, this study recovers the authentic …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 91, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Alachua Settlers and the Second Seminole War by C.S. Monaco
A Liberated Journalist and Yankee Women on the Florida Frontier by John T. Foster, Jr., Sarah Whitmer Foster, and Roscoe A. Turnquest
The Politics of Performance: Rollins College and the Annie Russell Theatre by Joan M. Jensen
Controlling Venereal Disease in Orlando during World War II by Claire Strom
Book Reviews
End Note

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 86, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Burden of Southern Literature: Can Florida Bear It? 2007 Jillian Prescott Memorial Lecture Ron Cooper
Camp Roosevelt: A Case Study of the NYA in Florida Dave Nelson
The Cuban Convention and Its Role in the Cuban Revolutionary Party Consuelo E. Stebbins
Why Was Antebellum Florida Murderous? A Quantitative Analysis of Homicide in Florida, 1821-1861 James M. Denham and Randolph Roth
Book Reviews
Book Notes
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 83, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hurricanes and the Shaping of Circum-Caribbean Societies Stuart B. Schwartz
"A Veritable Refuge for Practicing Homosexuals": The Johns Committee and the University of South Florida Dan Bertwell
The Florida Room: Religion & Romance: A Florida Memoir Ron McFarland
Historic Notes and Documents: Harriet Ward Foote Hawley: Civil War Journalist Sarah Whitrner Foster and John T. Foster, Jr.
Book Reviews
Book Notes
History News
Volume Index

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 82, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Secession Sanctified: Bishop Francis Huger Rutledge and the Coming of the Civil War in Florida Lee L. Willis III
Miami's Hidden Labor History Thomas A. Castillo
The Integration of Stetson University Jason Blake
Book Reviews
Book Notes
History News
Volume Index

Women’S Suffrage Is “Nothing Less Than Treasonable:” An Analysis Of Rural Women And Their Group Activism In The Women’S Suffrage Movement In The Jackson Purchase Area, 1838-1940, Ashleigh Deno

Honors College Theses

The 1910s was a decade characterized by technological advancement, World War I, and a global movement for women’s suffrage, which would eventually culminate with legislation, most notably the 19th Amendment in the United States. In the United States, women staged protests throughout the country and were known to stand outside of the White House with taunting signs for President Woodrow Wilson to read. This movement came to the United States from other parts of the globe, particularly Britain, and suffragists from other countries were known to travel to the States to give presentations and provide guidance to suffragists on this …

Wesley, Charles H., Msrc Staff

Manuscript Division Finding Aids

No abstract provided.

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 72, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

EDITOR'S FOREWORD SAMUEL PROCTOR, EDITOR, FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, 1963-1993: A TRIBUTE Michael Gannon
CARPETBAGGER INTRIGUES, BLACK LEADERSHIP , AND A SOUTHERN LOYALIST TRIUMPH: FLORIDA'S GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION OF 1872 Canter Brown, Jr.
THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM IN FLORIDA, 1911-1912 Stephen Kerber
AGAINST CORRUPTION: FRED KARL AND THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON SUSPENSIONS AND REMOVALS, 1968-1974 Peter D. Klingman
REVIEW ESSAY REEXAMINING THE EARLY CAREER AND THOUGHT OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: VOLUME I OF THE KING PAPERS David R. Colburn
FLORIDA HISTORY RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
BOOK REVIEWS
BOOK NOTES
HISTORY NEWS

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

ST. AUGUSTINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1883-1983 Thomas Graham
“IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST?” ED BALL AND THE FEC RAILWAY WAR Burton Altman
FLORIDA'S CATTLE-RANCHING FRONTIER: MANATEE AND BREVARD COUNTIES ( 1860) John Solomon Otto
FORMATION OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA INDIAN RESERVATION James M. Covington
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: FLORIDA HISTORY IN PERIODICALS, 1984
BOOK REVIEWS
BOOK NOTES
HISTORY NEWS

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 56, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE TAMPA FLOGGING CASE, URBAN VIGILIANTISM Robert P. Ingalls
TURMOIL AT BIG CYPRESS: SEMINOLE DEER AND THE FLORIDA CATTLE TICK CONTROVERSY Kenneth R. Philp
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: CHILDREN OF HONOR: LETTERS OF WINSTON AND OCTAVIA STEPHENS, 1861-1862 Ellen E. Hodges and Stephen Kerber
FLORIDA HISTORY IN PERIODICALS, 1976
BOOK REVIEWS
BOOKNOTES
HISTORY NEWS

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 49, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

MAKING OF MODERN TAMPA: A CITY OF THE NEW SOUTH, 1885-1911 Durward Long
THE CASE AGAINST A NINETEENTH-CENTURY CUBA - FLORIDA SLAVE TRADE Kenneth F. Kiple
HAMILTON DISSTON’S ST. CLOUD SUGAR PLANTATION, 1887-1901 Pat Dodson
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS:

• LOW DUNMORE’s LOYALIST ASYLUM IN THE FLORIDAS J. Leitch Wright, Jr.
• SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS William S. Coker and Jack D. L. Holmes
• FLORIDA MANUSCRIPT ACQUISITIONS AND ACCESSIONS

BOOK REVIEWS
BOOK NOTES
HISTORY NEWS
DIRECTORS’ MEETING, DECEMBER 10, 1970

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 33, Issue 3-4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Osceola: Portraits, Features, and Dress John M. Goggin
The Disappearance of the Head of Osceola May McNeer Ward
The Parentage of Osceola (Charles H. Coe)
Notes on Modern Seminole Traditions of Osceola William C. Sturtevant
The White Flag
Osceola and the Negroes Kenneth W. Porter
The Site of Osceola's Village Wilfred T. Neill
Osceola and the Charlestonians
Asi-Yaholo or Osceola Mark F. Boyd
Contributors to this issue of the Quarterly