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History Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Written in Black and White: Creating an Ideal America, 1919-1970
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)This project juxtaposes the careers of three unique publishers in order to analyze how the twentieth century public sphere gave publishers new pathways to prominence, an ability to cultivate personal audiences based on ... -
A Paranoid State: The American Public, Military Surveillance and the Espionage Act of 1917
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)"A Paranoid State" examines the influence of middle to upper class anxieties through military intelligence officers' investigations of the American public in the First World War. Products of their past, Military Intelligence ... -
Soviet America: Popular Responses to the United States in Post-World War II Soviet Union
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)In this work, I attempt to explore how average Soviet people reacted to the images and depictions of America presented to them through official and unofficial channels from both sides of the Iron Curtain during the Cold ... -
Thrown on the Cold Charity of the World: Kansas Cares for Its Orphans, 1859-1919
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This dissertation examines the role special interest politics played in securing tax-supported funding of child welfare services by local and state governments. The study begins in the mid-1850s, when Irish immigrants began ... -
Liberty, Restriction, and the Remaking of Italians and Eastern European Jews, 1882-1965
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-31)This project explores how Italian and Jewish immigrants mobilized against U.S. immigration restriction policies from 1882 to 1965 and, in the process, altered their identity and their place in American society and politics. ... -
Salem, the Pioneer Quaker Community of Iowa
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The Extent to which the Influence of Jeremy Bentham Prevailed in the Reformation of Criminal England
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Calhoun’s Attitude on the Oregon Question
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The Nationalism of Calhoun
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Sir Samuel Romilly
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A National Direct Primary for the Presidency
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Chapters in the Legislative History of Land Distribution
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English Interest in the Abolition of the Slave Trade
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The Origin of the Whig Party
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The Commercial System Established by the Orders in Council, 1807-1808
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Federal legislation on the assumption of state debts: 1839 to 1843
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Pitt’s Spanish Policy in 1761
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The Attitude of the English Government Toward the Monroe Doctrine
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The Financial Policy of William Pitt, 1784-1802
(University of Kansas, 1908)