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Winning Project: The Intersectionality Of Childless Women Between 1900 And 1950, Chelsea Kiefer
Winning Project: The Intersectionality Of Childless Women Between 1900 And 1950, Chelsea Kiefer
2024 Lynn Haggard Undergraduate Library Research Award
Throughout American history, society has had stereotypes of a woman’s role being a wife and a mother. In fact, when doing research, a librarian asked me what I was studying, and when I told her I was reading about childless women in the early 1900s, she said she did not think any existed. The fact is, though, that women without children have always existed in America, for a variety of reasons. Environmental scientist Dr. Rachel Carson, poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author Edith Wharton, activist Angelina Weld Grimké, and playwright Maurine Dallas Watkins are a few notable American women who went …
Winning Paper: Catalytic Discrimination: How Homophobic Law Enforcement In The 20th Century Led To The Modern Gay Rights Movement, Megan Householter
Winning Paper: Catalytic Discrimination: How Homophobic Law Enforcement In The 20th Century Led To The Modern Gay Rights Movement, Megan Householter
2023 Lynn Haggard Undergraduate Library Research Award
Prior to the 20th century, the idea of homo- and heterosexuality was virtually nonexistent. As time went on, these concepts became a major part of the human identity. The path that led to the idea of queerness, and even the pride that comes with it, was one full of hardship and discrimination. There is not much research into the connection between discrimination by law enforcement and the start of the gay rights movement, but police attacking the livelihoods of those considered homosexual, the FBI monitoring them as security risks, and even agencies formed specifically to regulate the gay community occurred …
The Frontier Demimonde: Prostitution In Early Hays City, 1867-1883, Hollie Marquess M.A.
The Frontier Demimonde: Prostitution In Early Hays City, 1867-1883, Hollie Marquess M.A.
History Faculty Publications
Hays City, Kansas, founded in 1867, became a bustling Western frontier town due to its possession of the Eastern Division terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad and its position near a military post, Fort Hays. Prostitutes, often among the first arrivals to Western frontier towns, played an integral role in the social and economic livelihood of Hays City. Sex work brought necessary commerce to the town and helped to support other aspects of Hays City nightlife like the gambling dens and saloons. Though respectable employment was largely closed to women in the West, prostitutes in Hays City maintained a mutually …
Runner-Up Project: There’S Something Happening Here: American Protest Songs Of The Vietnam War, Jordan Stevens
Runner-Up Project: There’S Something Happening Here: American Protest Songs Of The Vietnam War, Jordan Stevens
2019 Lynn Haggard Undergraduate Library Research Award
Americans have been singing protest songs since the inception of the nation and the idea of protesting through music is as old as music itself. The earliest and most well-known American songs and hymns of protest were patriotic songs like “The Star-Spangled Banner” and the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” that were written during the War of 1812 and the Civil War respectively. The effectiveness of protest songs of the era was limited though, as the only people who heard the song were the people in attendance at the performance. This changed in the late 19th century with the invention …
Book Review: The Prairie Populist: George Hara Williams And The Untold Story Of The Ccf. By J.F. Conway, Brian Gribben M.A.
Book Review: The Prairie Populist: George Hara Williams And The Untold Story Of The Ccf. By J.F. Conway, Brian Gribben M.A.
Forsyth Library Faculty Publications
A book review of The Prairie Populist: George Hara Williams and the Untold Story of the CCF.
Possessing History And American Innocence: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr., And The 1965 Cambridge Debate, Daniel Mcclure Ph.D.
Possessing History And American Innocence: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr., And The 1965 Cambridge Debate, Daniel Mcclure Ph.D.
History Faculty Publications
The 1965 debate at Cambridge University between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr., posed the question: “Has the American Dream been achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?” Within the contours of the debate, Baldwin and Buckley wrestled with the ghosts of settler colonialism and slavery in a nation founded on freedom and equality. Framing the debate within the longue durée, this essay examines the deep cultural currents related to the American racial paradox at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Underscoring the changing language of white resistance against black civil rights, the essay argues that …
Waving The Bloody Newsprint: Partisan Coverage Of Populism In Ellis County, Kansas 1891-1896, Brian Gribben M.A.
Waving The Bloody Newsprint: Partisan Coverage Of Populism In Ellis County, Kansas 1891-1896, Brian Gribben M.A.
History Faculty Publications
As the nineteenth century drew to a close, a new pugilist in the arena of democracy threatened traditional dual-party politics in rural America. What began as an agrarian lobby soon combined with the remnants of single-issue parties from the recent past and manifested itself in the Populist, or People's Party (both supporters and critics would use the two terms interchangeably). During its brief existence, the People's Party captured the imagination of both the downtrodden and idealist and made considerable gains on the state and federal level before imploding like a political nova after the election of 1896. How then did …