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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 ...
Modern European Culture and the Making of Beyond Good and Evil
(2019-05-07)
Modern European Culture and the Making of Beyond Good and Evil offers a historical picture of nineteenth-century European culture by means of examining one of its chief artifacts, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, ...
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 ...
Man of Virtue, Man of Vice: Maximilien Robespierre and Modern Manhood
(2016-09-15)
Since his death in 1794, Maximilien Robespierre’s legacy has been debated
by scholars and non-scholars alike. Some have called him a blood-thirsty dictator
who used his political power to execute innocent citizens who ...
In Pueblo's Wake; Flawed Leadership and the Role of Juche in the Capture of the USS Pueblo
(2016-11-30)
On January 23, 1968, North Korea attacked and seized an American Navy spy ship, the USS Pueblo. In the process, one American sailor was mortally wounded and another ten crew members were injured, including the ship's ...
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 ...
African American Women's Resistance in the Aftermath of Lynching
(2019-12-16)
This thesis focuses on resistance strategies used by African American women in the aftermath of lynching in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the ways in which those strategies were shared, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...