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History Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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"We Have No Place": The Captivity and Homecoming of French Prisoners of War, 1939-1947
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-31)In 1940 1.8 million French soldiers were taken as prisoners of war by Germany. During the coming months most of these men were deported into Germany for use as slave laborers. Nearly a million were still held in Germany ... -
THE CORE WAY: THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: 1942-1968
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) pursued a vision to bring racial harmony to a nation divided. CORE--regionally known as the Chicago Committee of Racial Equality--began in the spring of 1942 in Chicago through the ... -
Smith or Caesar
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The Growth of Prussia
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Frederick the Great of Prussia
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Jules Ferry and Henri Maret: The Battle of Church and State at the Sorbonne, 1879-1884
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-25)This dissertation examens the battle between church and state at the University of Paris, 1879-1884. Jules Ferry, the Minister of Public Instruction for the French Third Republic, wished to secularize education in France ... -
The British Air Campaign during the Battle of the Somme, April-November, 1916: A Pyrrhic Victory
(University of Kansas, 2011-03-28)The British Air CampaigndDuring the Battle of the Somme, April-November, 1916: A Pyrrhic Victory The Battle of the Somme was Britain's first major offensive of the First World War. Just about every facet of the campaign ... -
The Coils of the Anaconda: America's First Conventional Battle in Afghanistan
(University of Kansas, 2009-05-04)Operation Anaconda was America's first conventional battle in Afghanistan. America's first battles did not always turn out as victories. Bunker Hill, Bull Run, Kasserine Pass, Task Force Smith, the Ia Drang Valley-all were ... -
Assuming Roles: Gender, Crisis and the Conservation of Spain in the Early Seventeenth Century
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-14)Fearful that recent military losses and continued economic difficulties indicated the decline of their once powerful state, Spanish reformers and royal officials during the first quarter of the seventeenth century dedicated ... -
"Certainly the Proper Business of Woman": Household and Estate Management Techniques of Eighteenth-Century French Noblewomen
(University of Kansas, 2010-10-12)This project explores the legal, economic, and social aspects of household and estate management in eighteenth-century France. It investigates two paradoxes surrounding noblewomen and household management. The first involves ... -
Educating the Army's Jedi
(University of Kansas, 2010-09-22)This dissertation examines the decisions taken during the development of the concept for the School of Advanced Military Studies and its subsequent refinement in the first ten years of its history. The other line of inquiry ... -
"To Hesitate is Cowardly": Radicalism and American Manhood, 1870-1920
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-19)Examination of newspapers, novels, images, and organizational materials from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era reveals that radical groups framed their masculinity within contemporary expectations of manhood in order in ... -
CREATING THE COLOR LINE AND CONFRONTING JIM CROW: CIVIL RIGHTS IN MIDDLE AMERICA: 1850-1900
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-18)This dissertation examines the creation of the color line and the ways that African American communities confronted it throughout Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. A detailed search of school board minutes, newspapers, court ... -
180 Degrees Out: The Change in US Strategic Bombing Applications 1935-1955
(University of Kansas, 2008-12-04)This dissertation examines how the U.S. Army/Air Force developed strategic bombing applications during the 1930s and then changed them during World War II and in early Cold War planning. This narrative history analyzes the ... -
Freeing France: The Allies, the Résistance, and the JEDBURGHs
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-20)General Dwight D. Eisenhower used the Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur to conduct a guerilla war against German forces during the Allied campaigns in France. The study below examines the Allied politics, the nature and the ... -
What Were They Thinking? Samuel A. Stouffer and The American Soldier
(University of Kansas, 2010-02-10)Abstract This study considers the life and career of Professor Samuel A. Stouffer (1900-1960) as it relates to the landmark sociological work Studies in Social Psychology in World War II, Volumes I and II, more commonly ... -
Osage Gender: Continuity, Change, and Colonization, 1720s-1870s
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-16)This study demonstrates how the Osage structured their society based on gender complementarity, and although life certainly changed in the face of French, Spanish, and United States colonization, the Osage maintained this ... -
Bound Together: Masters and Slaves on the Kansas-Missouri Border, 1825-1865
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-20)“Bound Together” chronicles the rise and fall of the slave system on the Kansas-Missouri border from the earliest years of American settlement in the 1820s to the end of the Civil War. This work uses nineteen counties along ... -
From the Preamble to the Foxhole
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-20)Defense policy formulation has evolved significantly since 1940, yet these processes have a constitutional foundation. This study described the process that the U.S. government uses to meet its security challenges. This ... -
Raising a Pragmatic Army: Officer Education at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1946-1986
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-23)RAISING A PRAGMATIC ARMY: Officer Education at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1946 - 1986 By Michael D. Stewart Department of History, University of Kansas Professor Theodore A. Wilson, Advisor This ...