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Imperial Women of Darien: Scottish Migration and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1650-1740
(2020-06-03)
In the last two years of the seventeenth century, approximately 3,000 people, mostly Scottish merchants, soldiers, sailors and their families, migrated to a small coastal region in central America for the purpose of ...
Working for Peanuts: Labor, Geography, and Class Composition in the American Circus Industry, 1872-1938
(2022-04-14)
This dissertation focuses on class composition in the traveling circus in the Gilded Age (1870s-1900s), the Progressive Era (1890s-1910s), and the New Era (1920s-1930s). American circuses became industrial operations ...
We Will Not Strike: The Black Revolt in the Chicago Teachers Union
(2015-12-09)
In the 1960s, black teachers in Chicago were systematically discriminated against by the school system’s Board of Education. The Board used a subjective oral exam to deny the vast majority of African-American educators ...