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The Day After Tomorrow: Climate Change & The Today of Science, Film, & Activism
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2023-04-11)In May of 2004, director Roland Emmerich released his blockbuster film The Day After Tomorrow. Since its release, the film has been noted as being an important piece of Cli-Fi, Climate Fiction. This thesis argues that the ... -
Assault, Robbery, Mayhem: The Consequences Of Fraternal Campus Loyalty Movements At The University Of Kansas After World War I
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2023-05-01) -
A College Try: The People’s College of Fort Scott Kansas
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2023-11-11) -
“ALL IS VANITY AND EVANESCENCE”: MANIFESTATIONS OF PURE LAND BUDDHISM WITHIN THE TALE OF THE HEIKE
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2023-04-25) -
Repatriation Beyond the Borderlands: The Impact of the Depression of 1921 on Kansas City's Mexican Immigrants During the Great Depression
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2023-04-19)During the Great Depression, federal, state, and local authorities throughout the United States utilized large-scale deportation raids and repatriation to eject an estimated 400,000 Mexicans and Mexican-Americans from the ... -
“AD ASTRA PER ASTRONAUTA”: BRINGING THE PUBLIC “UP TO SPACE” AND ASTRONAUTS “DOWN TO EARTH”
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RESCIND ERA: THE FAILED EFFORTS IN KANSAS TO RESCIND RATIFICATION OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT, 1973-1980
(Department of History, University of Kansa, 2023-04-17)The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would give men and women equal legal rights, was passed in Congress in 1972, much to the pleasure of many women’s rights activists and lawmakers. State legislatures raced to be among ... -
Decolonizing the Wakarusa Museum: The Role of Public Education and Forced Displacement Within the Settler Colonial Structure
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2023-04-11)The Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum aims to preserve, collect, and display the history of the Wakarusa River Valley before the construction of Clinton Lake. However, Indigenous perspectives and Native voices have ... -
Meet the New Boss: “The Establishment” in 1960s and 70s American Thought
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2023-04-25)Throughout the 1960s and early 70s the phrase “the Establishment” gained salience in American political and popular discourse. Referring to an unseen group of elites that had their hand in decision making, the phrase was ... -
IN SITU U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF PEROVSKITE AND SCHORLOMITE GARNET FROM MAGNET COVE, AR: NEW AGE CONSTRAINTS ON ALKALINE MAGMATISM AND SUITABILITY AS REFERENCE MATERIALS
(Department of Geology, University of Kansas, 2023-05)The Magnet Cove Igneous Complex (MCIC) in Arkansas consists of multiple ring dikes of silica undersaturated rocks including various syenites, ijolites, phonolites, trachytes, and carbonatite (Erickson and Blade, 1963). The ... -
Cations on Board, Ready for Takeoff: Using Vanadyl and Its Terminal Oxo to Probe Ligand Donor Strength in Heterobimetallic Complexes
(Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, 2023-05)The coordination chemistry of heterobimetallic complexes has become a highly studied research topic in the broader field of inorganic chemistry. This can be attributed in part to the appealing opportunities that are afforded ... -
“The Luck of the Archives: An Examination of the Unusual Journey of the Colonel Hopkins Collection”
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The New Negro Woman: African-American Womanhood, Respectability, and Power in the Early Twentieth Century
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2022-04-18)This thesis seeks to shed light on the construct of the New Negro Woman as the start of Black female activism and identity. It grapples with the implications of Black womanhood in the early twentieth century (1900 to 1919), ... -
Questions, Answers, and the American Dream: A Cultural History of the Quiz Show
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2022-04-22)For as much of an impact as the great politicians and generals of yesteryear have had on the world’s current state and trajectory, the people themselves deserve equal recognition for getting their societies to where they ... -
The End of the Rhodium: Synthesis, Characterization, and Redox Chemistry of Manganese and Rhodium Complexes Supported by Unorthodox Diimine Ligands
(Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, 2022-05)Economical storage of the large quantities of energy that could be generated by intermittent renewable sources, such as solar and wind, remains one of the largest unmet technical challenges hindering the widespread adoption ... -
Timing of Brittle Deformation in the Cañon City Embayment, CO: Laser Ablation U-Pb Dating of Carbonate Fractures
(Department of Geology, University of Kansas, 2022-05-11)Currently, little is known about the exact timings of brittle deformation present in the Rocky Mountain Front Range. U-Pb carbonate dating via laser ablation is an emerging field that greatly broadens the potential to date ... -
Towing the Line: The State of Minnesota’s Dichotomy as Both a Regulator and Promoter of Sportfishing
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2022-05-31) -
Three Elements Walk Into a Glovebox: Promoting Uncommon Redox Chemistry with Heterobimetallic Rhodium, Samarium, and Europium Complexes
(Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, 2022-05-01)The oxidation states accessible to a given metal center can significantly impact the reactivity that occurs at that site. Thus, an important goal within the field of inorganic and organometallic chemistry is the promotion ... -
Presbyterians in Persia: Christianity, Cooperation, and Control in Building the Mission at Orumiyeh
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2020-05)The establishment of a mission station in Orumiyeh, Persia was the beginning of a vast mission project in the country — spanning more than 100 years and resulting in the appointment of the first United States minister to ... -
A Critical Geopolitical Analysis of Urban/Suburban Green Spaces: Meadowbrook Park as a Material Discourse
(Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas, 2020)This presentation is a critical geopolitical analysis of urban and suburban green spaces using Meadowbrook Park as an example of a material discourse. This presentation emphasizes a critical geopolitical approach to ...