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Ethj Vol-56 No-1

East Texas Historical Journal

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Galveston's Maritime Workers In 1880: A Quantitative View, David Beck Ryden

East Texas Historical Journal

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Back Matter

East Texas Historical Journal

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Texas, Banks, And John Nance Garner, George Cooper

East Texas Historical Journal

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Book Reviews

East Texas Historical Journal

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"Presidential Politics In The Republic Of Texas", Chuck Swanlund

East Texas Historical Journal

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Book Reviews

East Texas Historical Journal

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Revolution Through Revelation: Jim Jones And The Peoples Temple In American Cultural History, Alexandria Ryan Sowers

Online Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the influence of American culture on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. While most scholarship applies a religious, sociological, or psychological approach to understating the Jonestown tragedy, this paper endeavors to understand the man, his church, and the event through the lenses of American cultural history. Specifically, this analysis looks at the influence of Pentecostalism, egalitarianism, and socialism as well as cultural events such as the civil rights movement on the Reverend Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple church. Using FBI documents gathered during the investigation into the murder of the congressman Leo Ryan at Jonestown, audio …

A Threat To Identity: An Examination Of The Multiple Narratives Surrounding The Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue In Memphis, Meagan Bojarski

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

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Introduction, Brittney Payer, Kristen Shorer

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

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An Introduction To Psychological Aphistemalgia, Justin Manning

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

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Virtual Queerness: Resisting Heteronormativity In Online Spaces, Denise Springett

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

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Painting Native America In Public: American Indian Artists And The New Deal, Nicolas G. Rosenthal

History Faculty Works

The New Deal represents a critical period in the development of American Indian art. Shifts in policy created opportunities for American Indians to study art, and New Deal commissions for murals in post offices and other public spaces enabled artists to develop skills, establish their reputations, and make a living. American Indian artists also faced challenges in the form of dominant expectations for Native art and paternalism from officials and administrators. The benefits of New Deal commissions and the struggles with their limitations nonetheless formed a foundation for subsequent generations of Native artists who claimed more control over their art.

Representing Native Peoples: Native Narratives Of Indigenous History And Culture, Nicolas G. Rosenthal

History Faculty Works

Together, the articles in this special issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal offer a discussion of how Indigenous peoples have represented themselves and their communities in different periods and contexts, as well as through various media. Ranging across anthropology, art history, cartography, film studies, history, and literature, the authors examine how Native people negotiate with prominent images and ideas that represented Indians in the dominant culture and society in the United States and the Americas. These essays go beyond the problems of cultural appropriation by non-Indians to probe the myriad ways Native Americans and Indigenous people have …

Towards A Public History Of The Ohio State Reformatory, Veronica Bagley

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This Honors Project is a combination of a written Honors Thesis and my own work for The Ohio State Reformatory Historic Site (OSRHS), and is being submitted to The University of Akron in pursuit of an undergraduate degree in history. I completed archival work for my internship at OSRHS as a part of my Certificate in Museum and Archive Studies. The written thesis for the Honors Project is titled “Towards a Public History of the Ohio State Reformatory” and contains two parts: Part I: A History of The Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), which contains a history of the Mansfield, OH …

New Orleans At 300: Documenting The African American Experience, 1718–2018., Mary Niall Mitchell, Connie Zeanah Atkinson

History Faculty Publications

This is the introduction to a special issue of the Journal of African American History focused on the African American experience in the history of New Orleans, on the occasion of the city's tricentennial.

European’S ‘Right Of Discovery’ To The American Continent And The Connection To The Marshall Court’S Removal Of Native American Sovereignty Through The Marshall Trilogy Cases, Kathryn Less

Masters Essays

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Growing Economic Possibility In Appalachia: Stories Of Relocalization And Representation On Stinking Creek, Kathryn Engle

Theses and Dissertations--Sociology

This project explores the agricultural heritage and current social landscape of the Stinking Creek community of Knox County, Kentucky, and the legacy of the local nonprofit organization the Lend-A-Hand Center. Through participatory research, this project presents a reflexive account of the Lend-A-Hand Center Grow Appalachia Gardening Program examining the diverse economy of the Stinking Creek watershed and possibilities for new economic imaginings and post-coal futures for central Appalachia. This dissertation includes an oral history project, a theoretical examination, and an ethnographic reflection, bridging several literatures in the fields of agricultural history, Appalachian Studies, Participatory Action Research, research within the diverse …

A Skillful Combination Of Fire And Maneuver, Paul Dority

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

My thesis seeks to understand if the Wehrmacht understood the Red Army's operational doctrine following the war. I will analyze both Red Army and Wehrmacht after action reports and memoirs created after the war to accomplish this. This analysis covers the Battle for Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, Operation Zitadelle, and ends with the destruction of the Wehrmacht's Army Group Center in Operation Bagration. This period represents the marked rise and decline of the Wehrmacht's martial supremacy in Russia. The comparison of Russian and German after action reports from this period exposes a weakness in German operational doctrine, which ultimately …

The Battle Of Malaya: The Japanese Invasion Of Malaya As A Case Study For The Re-Evaluation Of Imperial Japanese Army Intelligence Effectiveness During World War Ii, Daniel J. Lauro

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

The present assessment of Japanese intelligence operations during World War II is based almost entirely upon the work of Western researchers. The view presented is one of complete incompetence by the West. Little attention has been paid to any successes the Japanese intelligence organizations achieved. In fact, the majority of Anglo-American historians have instead focused on the errors and unpreparedness of the Allies as the cause of their early failures. This view is completely dismissive of Japanese intelligence efforts. The majority of the research does not take into account the extensive preparations and training the Japanese intelligence organizations and military …

Japan’S Overseas Chinese Policies In Southern Vietnam During World War Ii, Siu Tsun Choi

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

“Overseas Chinese is the mother of the Chinese revolution.” This quotation reflects the conventional perception that overseas Chinese is the chief enemy of Japan. However, this is in contrast with Vietnam’s overseas Chinese view; Japan considered them as a potential and crucial ally in Japan's Expansion in Southeast Asia. Chinese’s economic dominance in Vietnam, especially its monopoly in the rice industry and its traditional commercial network, provided them with an incredible political influence and bargaining power. This thesis aimed to rediscover the historical truth of overseas Chinese in Southern Vietnam during wartime by studying the transitions and policies made by …

Empire, Reform, And Internationalism : Britain And The Changing Politics Of Opium, 1875-1931, Simon John Case

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

Throughout the nineteenth century, opium occupied a position of great significance within the British Empire, comprising by the 1870s as much as 17% of the total revenues of the British India Government. Opium also made up the greater part of British exports to China, a legacy of early-century market exploitation and highly favourable commercial treaties signed following two opium wars fought by the two countries. Between the emergence of an organised anti-opium movement in 1875 and the close of the final international Geneva Opium Conference of 1931, British opium policy experienced a complete transformation. The development of British responses to …

Determinism And The Problem Of Individual Freedom In Li Zehou’S Thought, Andrew Lambert

Publications and Research

Li Zehou’s work can be understood as an account of a Chinese modernity, a vision for Chinese society that seeks to integrate three distinct philosophical approaches. These are Chinese history and culture, which Li understands as largely Confucian; Marxism, which has exerted such influence on a modernizing China; and Western learning more generally, as expressed by figures such as Immanuel Kant and Sigmund Freud. Li also frequently expresses the hope that a Chinese modernity will be one in which the importance of the individual is recognized, and rights and freedoms upheld (e.g., 2006, p. 182). But this stance raises an …

Writing Activism: Indigenous Newsprint Media In The Era Of Red Power, Elizabeth Best

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis reconstructs Indigenous activism in the era of Red Power, 1972-1976, by examining three newspapers, the Native Youth Movement (NYM), The Native Voice (TNV) and The Native People (TNP). By linking these newspapers, the overarching themes of 1970s Indigenous activism are explored in order to understand the social conditions faced by young Indigenous people. Through a content analysis of these newspapers, the author examines questions such as: what were the living conditions of Indigenous people during the 1970s? What mattered most to the journalists and editors of these papers? What did Indigenous grassroots activism in Western Canada look like …

"A Meruelous Thinge!": Elizabeth Of Spalbeek, Christina The Astonishing, And Performative Self-Abjection In Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms Douce 114, Murrielle Michaud

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Contributing to the spirited discussion regarding feminist and pro-feminine readings of Middle English hagiography, this dissertation challenges the tradition of grouping accounts of medieval holy women into a single genre that relies on stereotypes of meekness and obedience. I argue that fifteenth-century England saw a pro-feminine literary movement extolling the virtues of women who engaged in what I term “performative self-abjection,” a form of vicious self-renunciation and grotesque asceticism based on Julia Kristeva's model of the abject. The corollary of women's performative self-abjection is ex-gratia spiritual authority, public recognition, and independence, emphasized in the English corpus of fifteenth-century women’s hagiography. …

Modernizing Midwifery: Managing Childbirth In Ontario And The British Isles, 1900–1950, Gwenith Cross

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This dissertation considers the differences, as well as the similarities, between midwifery and childbirth practices in Ontario and in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. Addressing the modernization of medical practices on either side of the Atlantic, the periodization of this project reflects the increasing concerns about maternal and infant morbidity and mortality alongside medical and political attempts to ensure the involvement of trained medical professionals during pregnancy and childbirth. In Britain, the establishment of the 1902 Midwives Act regulated midwifery so that only midwives approved by the Central Midwives’ Board were allowed to practice. British midwives …

The Construction Of Images Of "Vietnam" In Contemporary Thai Writings, Tran Cam Tu

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This dissertation aims to examine the images of Vietnam portrayed in contemporary Thai writings (1990s-2015) and to analyse the construction of such images. Document research, textual analysis and interview reveal three outstanding images of Vietnam: (1) "Vietnam is a country of wars", which is initially constructed from old impressions about the Vietnam War of the Thai writers then are soon replaced by their first-hand experience in Vietnam with new aspects of the serious consequences of the wars as well as post-war struggles. (2) Next, Vietnam is in transition to modernity and integration, which is represented by the romanticised traditionality that …

เรื่องผีของเหม เวชกร : ประวัติศาสตร์สังคมและวัฒนธรรมไทย (พ.ศ. 2475-2513), พิชยะพัฒน์ นัยสุภาพ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

เรื่องผีของเหม เวชกร เผยแพรjระหว่างปี 2476-2513 เป็นวรรณกรรมที่เกิดขึ้นในห้วงเวลาแห่ง ความเปลี่ยนแปลงของสังคมไทยจากการเปลี่ยนแปลงการปกครองในปี 2475 และความเป็นสมัยใหม่ ทั้ง ในทางการเมืองและสังคมวัฒนธรรม แต่ความเปลี่ยนแปลงไปสู่สิ่งใหม่ที่เกิดขึ้นในห้วงเวลานี้ไม่ได้ทำให้สิ่ง เก่าหายไป สิ่งเก่ายังคงดำรงอยู่ในพื้นที่และเวลาเดียวกันกับสิ่งใหม่ ผีในเรื่องผีของเหมจึงเกิดขึ้นด้วย เงื่อนไขเช่นนี้ และฉายภาพให้เห็นความกลัว ความตึงเครียด และความขัดแย้งในสังคมไทยในสามประเด็น ประการแรกคือ สังคมเก่ายังคงอยู่ในสังคมใหม่ อย่างที่สองคือ เมืองและชนบทยังคงเป็นสองโลกที่ แตกต่างกัน และสิ่งเก่าที่ความเป็นสมัยใหม่ต้องการกำจัดให้หมดไปยังคงมีอยู่ในชนบท อย่างที่สามคือ ความรักแบบใหม่ที่ให้ความสำคัญกับความเสมอภาคและเสรีภาพต้องปะทะกับความรักแบบเก่าที่ยึดมั่น ในชนชั้นและการตัดสินใจของพ่อแม่ สภาวะเช่นนี้แสดงให้เห็นสิ่งที่มากไปกว่า "การปฏิวัติที่ไม่สมบูรณ)" แต่แสดงให้เห็น "การทำให้ทันสมัยที่ไม่สมบูรณ)" ด้วยความไม่สมบูรณ)เช่นนี้จึงทำให้เกิด "สิ่งตกค้าง" จากสังคมเก่าในสังคมใหม่ เรื่องผีของเหมจึงเป็นเรื่องผีที่หลอกหลอนคนที่อยู่ในสังคมใหม่ ความคิดใหม่นั่นเอง

New Studies In Rio Grande Valley History, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta, Thomas Daniel Knight

Studies in Rio Grande Valley Regional History Series

Spanglish, a poem / Mario Barrera -- Place identity formation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley: the identity of Brownsville / Elim Zavala -- The complexity of land custody in 19th century deep South Texas / Eugene Fernandez -- Not in Kansas anymore: selling midwesterners the 'Magic Valley' of South Texas / Craig H. Roell with Ruth May Euler Roell -- Alexander Headley, public servant or scoundrel? / Norman Rozeff -- Rebels at the Rio Grande: naval actions on the international border in 1863 / Walter E. Wilson -- Matamoros en la época de la constitución de 1917 / Rosaura …

“Better Unmentioned:” An Assessment Of Reagan Administration Aid To Pakistan, Panama, And Zaire., Charles G. Sherrard

Dissertations and Theses

Abstract.

During the Cold War, the Reagan administration justified American support to the Noriega dictatorship in Panama, the Mobutu dictatorship in what was then called Zaire, and the regime of Zia ul-Haq in Pakistan, by stating that it was necessary to overcome the Soviet Union. While the alliances with these regimes did help to bring about the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1989, each of these three regimes also acted against US interests via the promotion of drug smuggling or militancy, or forging other alliances with powers potentially hostile to American interests .[1] However, Soviet quagmires in these …