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"Commies And Queers": Narratives That Supported The Lavender Scare
(History, 2007-09-17)In the early 1950s, the perceived threat of communists and homosexuals loomed large over the United States. The U.S. press presented narratives that portrayed communists and homosexuals in remarkably similar language that ... -
Conquest, Colonization, And The Cross: Religious Aspects Of The Conquest And Colonization Of Honduras
(History, 2011-07-14)Religiosity pervades the conquest and colonization of Honduras. The secular church, the missionaries, and the colonial aristocracy all played vital roles in the process. The Hispanic social consciousness emerged out of ... -
Constitutionalism, Social Democracy, And Nationalism, And The First Communist Movement In Iran, 1905-1921
(History, 2007-08-23)Western expansion into Iran during the latter half of the nineteenth century had a significant impact on the country's social, economic, and political development. By the turn of the century, Western ideas of constitutionalism ... -
Cord Of Empire, Exotic Intoxicant: Hemp And Culture In The Atlantic World, 1600-1900
Hemp is a genetically diverse plant that has been used by a variety of different cultures for different purposes over the course of thousands of years. Until the nineteenth century, though, most Europeans understood it ... -
Cornflakes, God, and Circumcision: John Harvey Kellogg and Transatlantic Health Reform
(2019-05-09)The health reform movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth century impacted American and European societies in profound ways. These reforms, while usually represented in a national context, existed within a transatlantic ... -
Determinants of Ethnic Retention As See Through Walloon Immigrants to Wisconsin
(2019-05-02)This dissertation examines the unusually enduring retention of ethnic culture of the Walloon Belgian immigrants who settled in northeastern Wisconsin between 1853 and 1857, as well as the combination of circumstances which ... -
The Dominican Crisis Of 1962-1965, Communist Aggression Or U.S. Intervention
(History, 2012-07-25)In this paper I deconstructed the U.S. Invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965. I also look at the events leading up to the military intervention, such as assassination of Trujillo, the Bosch presidency, and the turbulent ... -
"Doubly Foreign:" British Consuls And Slavery In The Antebellum South, 1830 - 1860
(History, 2010-11-01)Upon ending their slavery in the British West Indies in 1833, Great Britain became known as the "Great Emancipator." Britain immediately began an official foreign policy campaign to end the slave trade and slavery wherever ... -
Dracula: From Historical Voievod To Fictional Vampire Prince
(History, 2008-08-08)Vlad Dracula was a fifteenth century historical prince in Wallachia, a part of modern day Romania. Prince Dracula was an ardent defender of Christendom, and staunch opponent of the expanding Ottoman Empire. However, ... -
Early Belgian Colonial Efforts: The Long And Fateful Shadow Of Leopold I
(History, 2007-08-23)The continuing debate over the causes, effects and future implications of European colonialism and imperialism is perhaps best viewed through a transatlantic lens. The various phases of imperialism from 1415 through 1914 ... -
El Camino Real, From Old Trails to Modern Highways 1890-1945
(2021-01-08)An examination of El Camino Real's development and importance in twentieth century Texas. -
El Castigo and El Perdón: TRACING MORALITY IN IMMIGRATION LAW AND HISTORY
(2019-05-09)There is a misconception that once an undocumented immigrant marries a US citizen his or her legal status is automatic – simple and quick. The reality is different. In the current immigration system, an undocumented migrant ... -
"The End Followed In No Long Time": Byzantine Diplomacy And The Decline In Relations With The West from 962 to 1204
(History, 2009-09-16)From the time Otto the Great was proclaimed Western Emperor in 962 to the conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, numerous ambassadors traveled east on errands from their principals. The diplomacy they ... -
English Opinions On The French Revolution
(History, 2009-09-16)Just as the French Revolution changed the French political landscape, it also affected other European countries such as England. Both pro-revolutionaries and anti-revolutionaries argued in the public forums the merits of ... -
“EVERY GOOD MAN IS A QUAKER, AND THAT NONE BUT GOOD MEN ARE QUAKERS”: TRANSATLANTIC QUAKER HUMANITARIANS, DISABILITY, AND MARKETING ENLIGHTENED REFORM, 1730-1834
(2016-02-24)This dissertation explores how Quaker humanitarians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries actively absorbed and employed emerging Enlightenment discourses about “disability” and human dependency as a means to build ... -
Fear Of "unnatural Acts": Law And Sexuality In London, 1500-1800
(History, 2014-07-14)Eighteenth-century London experienced a prosecution wave attempting to eradicate sodomy from the city. Discovered and exposed to the public by journalists, the "public outing" of molly houses and their patrons made them ... -
Fiends Who Bear The Shapes Of Men: Case Studies On White Male And Black Female Relationships In The South
(History, 2007-08-23)Slave women resisted being sexually dominated by white men, by refusing to accept that their lives were beyond their control. By examining cases of slave women who resisted white sexually assertive men, I will display how ... -
FISH WORTH FIGHTING FOR: THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES (1500-1800)
(2021-05-13)The Atlantic cod that swam in the Grand Banks and along the coasts of Newfoundland played a significant role in the British Empire. The Newfoundland fisheries that developed following European exploration of the region in ... -
FOOT-BALL! TURNING COLOMBIAN BOYS INTO PATRIOTIC MEN: HOW SPORT AND EDUCATION DEVELOPED WITH EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY COLOMBIAN NATIONALISM
(2021-08-10)In 1948 a collection of ten football (soccer) teams from across Colombia joined together to form the División Mayor (Major League) the culmination of a thirty-year-long process to form a national league. Colombian sports ... -
From Reynolds To Lawrence To Brown v. Buhman: Antipolygamy Statutes Sliding On The Slippery Slope Of Same-sex Marriage
In 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas (striking Texas' sodomy law), Justice Scalia predicted in his dissent the end of all morals legislation. If Justice Scalia is correct most, if not all, morals-based legislation may fall. For ...