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Sacrifice and National Belonging in Twentieth-Century Germany
(University of Texas at ArlingtonTexas A&M PressDigital Creation Department, Central Library, University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2002) -
Sallie Brooke Capps: Education Trailblazer in North Texas
This thesis closely examines the life of Sallie Brooke Capps (1864-1946), a liberal-feminist progressive reformer who passionately advocated for better academic opportunities for young white women and children in North ... -
Saviors In The South: Restoring Humanity To Irish Famine Immigrants in New Orleans, 1847-1880
(History, 2011-03-03)My thesis begins in during the Irish Famine in 1847, and follows Irish emigrants across the Atlantic Ocean to New Orleans where they faced disease, poverty, and prejudice. During the Irish famine, epidemics struck across ... -
Settlement House Scenes: Migrants and the Performing Arts in Transatlantic Perspective
(2016-05-10)This dissertation examines the transatlantic history of the settlement house movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has two foci. The first is the origin of the settlement movement, in Britain; ... -
Shaping British Identity: Transatlantic Anglo-Spanish Rivalry In The Early Modern Period
(History, 2009-09-16)Traditional nationalism studies focus primarily on nineteenth-century developments of state-formation and the imposition of nationalistic compulsions from the top down. This study challenges that theoretical framework by ... -
Southern Writers and Their Worlds
(University of Texas at ArlingtonTexas A&M PressDigital Creation Department, Central Library, University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1996)Once a year, the department of history of the University of Texas at Arlington invites several distinguished scholars to participate in the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, an event that honors Texas' well-known ... -
Strength, Tradition, and Adaptation: Native American Women in Pontiac's War, the Trail of Tears, and the Wounded Knee Massacre
(2018-12-06)Native American women have largely been excluded from American history. Although there are a few Native female figures that are highlighted, such as Pocahontas and Sacagawea, the complexities and vastness of Native female ... -
A Study In Married Women's Rights And Repatriation In The United States, The United Kingdom, And Latin America: Citizenship, Gender And The Law In Transatlantic Context
(History, 2014-09-17)During the first half of the twentieth century, the United States and Great Britain, fearing the dramatic changes occurring in the Atlantic world due to increased migration and threats from war, denied many of their female ... -
Symbol Of Conquest, Alliance, And Hegemony: The Image Of The Cross In Colonial Mexico
(History, 2008-09-17)The universality of the cross image within the transatlantic confrontation meant not only a hegemony of culture, but of symbolism. The symbol of the cross existed in both European and American societies hundreds of years ... -
Texas And The Good Roads Movement: 1895 To 1948
(History, 2009-09-16)The Good Roads Movement in America grew directly out of concerns over the debilitating effects of rural isolation. However, as each state faced its own unique challenges to the building and maintenance of roads, the early ... -
The Battle Over Identity: Finnish-Americans and the Finnish Civil War
(2020-03-19)Historical research on Finnish migration and Finnish-Americans has, until recently, been carried out by members of the Finnish-American community and as such has written out the role of Finnish-Americans in the radical ... -
THE CINÉ “NEVER SETS…”: BRITISH CINEMA AS A TRANSATLANTIC CULTURAL COMMODITY, 1927-1938
(2016-05-10)This dissertation exemplifies how the application of a transatlantic commodity approach can broaden understanding of film as a mass medium, its business, and its cultural influences. By employing a more inclusive national ... -
The Franco-American Love Affair: Transnational Courtship and Marriage Patterns during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(2017-10-16)This work deals with courtships and marriages that transcend national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. It deals with the formation of transnational families and transnational spaces. And finally, because the historical ... -
THE OPENING OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ENGLAND’S TRANSATLANTIC INTERESTS DURING THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII
(2019-05-07)This dissertation explores the birth of the English Atlantic by looking at English activities and discussions of the Atlantic world from roughly 1481-1560. Rather than being disinterested in exploration during the reign ... -
The Untold Story of Economic Conflict in the Second Great War: Battle to Bretton Woods, Rhetoric of the Marshall Plan, George F. Kennan, John Maynard Keynes, and Disregarded Origins of the Cold War
(2016-05-12)Reflecting back in his Memoirs, George F. Kennan, wrote that the document that propelled his career was dispatched after a telegram informed the U.S. embassy in Moscow that the “Russians were evidencing an unwillingness ... -
"There Is Death In The Pot": Women, Consumption, And Free Produce In The Transatlantic World, 1791-1848
(History, 2010-11-01)Abstention from slave-labor products, along with petitioning, was a popular and consistent form of anti-slavery activism for British and American abolitionists, especially women. Despite renewed interest in the British ... -
They Don't Sing Like They Used To : Negro Soldier's Resistance To Jim Crow in 1898
(History, 2008-04-22)By the turn of the twentieth century, Negro troops began to resist Jim Crow laws in an organized way. While some historians have mentioned these racially motivated disturbances, many have failed to seriously analyze and ... -
“Tie the Flags Together”: Migration, Nativism, and the Orange Order in the United States, 1840-1930
(2018-12-07)“Tie the Flags Together”: Migration, Nativism, and the Orange Order in the United States, 1840-1930 Cory Wells Throughout the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of Irish Protestants who migrated to the United States ... -
"To Get Their Labor For Nothing" Criminal Courts And Jim Crow In Tarrant County, Texas: 1887-1908
(History, 2012-07-25)The county jail records reveal that Tarrant County Jim Crow was a function of custom and thoroughly institutionalized as a matter of public policy by 1890, before the Texas state legislature required separate railroad ... -
To Keep Those Red Lights Burning: Dallas' Response To Prostitution, 1874 to 1913
(History, 2010-03-03)This thesis examines the responses of city leaders, purity reformers, and citizens to prostitution within two red-light districts in Dallas between the years 1874 and 1913. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...