History: Recent submissions
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Fritz Kuhn's Nazi America: Kuhn's Growth and Destruction of the German American Bund in the 1930s
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019-04)The German American Bund was the most influential and dangerous American Nazi organization to exist before the destruction of Hitler’s Germany. Building itself from the remnants of two Nazi organizations that failed to ... -
Demons & Devils: The Moral Panic Surrounding Dungeons & Dragons, 1979-1991
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The Great Italian Educator: The Montessori Method and American Nativism in the 1910s
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019-04)The purpose of this project is to investigate to what extent Protestant nativism impeded the spread of the Montessori Method in the United States. The Montessori Method has experienced waves of popularity in America ever ... -
Coping Through Curse: Confronting British Metropolitan Identity Through the "Curse of Tutankhamen" (1923-1933)
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019-05)This thesis seeks to understand the origins of the curse of Tutankhamen within interwar British society and to explain why the British were willing to believe in the “curse of Tutankhamen” between 1923 and 1933. It argues ... -
Shifts in Tone: The Effects of the First World War on Classical Music
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019-04)This paper explores how the First World War affected the lives and compositions of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maurice Ravel, and Arnold Schoenberg, three well-known twentieth-century composers who fought in the conflict on ... -
The Qipao: Defining Modern Women in the First Half of the 20th Century
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Blood on the Plow: Extremist Group Activity During the 1980s Farm Crisis in Kansas
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Defining the Music of America's White Rural Working Class From the 1920s through the 1950s
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019-04)This thesis discusses the recordings of hillbilly and folk music cut by record company agents and folklorists from the 1920s through the 1940s. These years saw the rise of recorded music as mass entertainment in the United ... -
From Breadbasket to Dust Bowl: Rural Credit, the World War I Plow-Up, and the Transformation of American Agriculture
(University of Nebraska Press, 2015)Numerous scholars have surveyed the creation of a vulnerable agricultural landscape on the Great Plains during the years surrounding World War I, and especially the alterations to the landscape of crop production that ... -
Bodies for Battle: Systematic Training in the U.S. Army’s Physical Culture, 1885-1958
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)This study investigates the creation and evolution of an official U.S. Army physical culture between 1885 and 1958 built around systematic physical training. Facing “empty battlefields” wrought by new and improved weapons ... -
Spiritual Motherhood: Gendered Interpretations of the Spanish Laity's Religious Authority (1580-1730)
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)This research project delves into the question of the role of women in cities and towns across Spain and its empire in the early modern period. It focuses on women who gained prominence as visionaries and thus became targets ... -
Littoral Limits: Flood Insurance and the Quantification of Risk in the United States, 1914-2018
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Littoral Limits has three related concerns: how flood risk came to be quantified, how such information was used and contested once quantified, and how this information has shaped our relationships with the natural world. ... -
The Bombing of the USS Cole: How U.S. Foreign and Military Policy Led to 9/11
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)On October 12, 2000, al-Qaeda suicide bombers attempted to sink the USS Cole, an Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyer that was refueling in Aden, Yemen. They almost succeeded, and seventeen sailors lost their lives. Less ... -
FROM DEPENDENTS TO INTERDEPENDENCE: THE ARMY WIFE IDEAL AND THE MAKING OF ARMY FAMILY POLICY, 1942-1983
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)This dissertation examines the cultural concept of the Army wife ideal as it appeared and was negotiated in prescriptive literature, periodicals, and lived experiences from 1942 to 1983. Codified in response to the massive ... -
Encountering the Enlightenment: Science, Religion, and Catholic Epistemologies Across the Spanish Atlantic, 1687-1813
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)During the eighteenth century, a wave of thought inundated the Spanish empire, introducing new knowledge in the natural sciences, religion, and philosophy, and importantly, questioning the very modes of perceiving and ... -
"Many Paths in This Road of the Spirit": The Flexibility of Women's Religiosity in Early Modern Spain
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This dissertation examines women’s religiosity in early modern Spain, and it addresses the possibilities and limits of women’s religious expression. The overarching argument is that because the Catholic Church faced the ... -
The Deterioration of Chinese Influence in the Monoglian People's Republic, May, 1957 to December, 1960
(The University of Kansas, 1968)This paper will attempt to show that in three years from 1957 to 1960 the influence of the People’s Republic of China in the Mongolian People’s Republic was steadily waning, and to follow the events of this deterioration ... -
Historical Reflections on Culinary Globalization in East Asia
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John P. St. John, the father of constitutional prohibition
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"An Uprising of the People": Military Recruitment in New York State During the Civil War
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)This dissertation examines the experiences of New Yorkers during the American Civil War as they participated in mobilization while striving to preserve their own autonomy and that of their state and communities. At the ...