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History Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Reformers Revealed: American Indian Progressives at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, 1884-1909
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-10)Haskell Institute opened in1884, an early example of federal off-reservation boarding schools for American Indian youth. The goal was assimilation: strip away traditional languages, spiritual beliefs, tribal customs, even ... -
Businessmen in the House of Commons: A Comparative Study of the 1852-1857 and the 1895-1900 Parliaments
(University of Kansas, 2009-05-11)Businessmen in the House of Commons: A Comparative Study of the 1852-1857 and 1895-1900 Parliaments is a comparative study of the social position of business members of Parliament in mid and late nineteenth British society ... -
"No Sacrifice is too Great, save that of Honor": Honor, Death, and Psychological Combat Trauma in the American Civil War
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-08)Examination of honor culture and attitudes toward death and dying found in letters, diaries, and newspapers - from the colonial and revolutionary period through the Civil War era - strongly suggests that Civil War soldiers ... -
SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES: The Struggle to Build an Ordered Community of Liberty on the southeast Kansas Frontier 1867-1876
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-21)This dissertation is a study of the settlement of southeast Kansas in the years immediately following the Civil War. It begins with the first settlers who arrived in 1867 and concludes with the triumph of the settlers in ... -
(Per)Forming Female Politics: The Making of the `Modern Woman'
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)As more middle-class women began to participate in the public life of London more frequently between 1890 and 1914, middle-class women's identity shifted from the "Angel-in-the-House" to the "New Woman" to the "Angel-in-the-City," ... -
Marketing the Mountains: An Environmental History of Tourism in Rocky Mountain National Park
(University of Kansas, 2008-09-05)Marketing the Mountains explores the impact of tourism upon the natural world of Rocky Mountain National Park. Moving beyond culutral analysis of the development of tourism in the American West, this dissertation seeks to ... -
Putting Pandemics in Perspective: England and the Flu, 1889-1919
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)Authors who examine the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 fail to grasp its full context. Placing it alongside the Great War or other diseases only provides a partial construction, dramatically altering the narrative. With ... -
A Magazine of Nature: "Garden and Forest" and the Rise of American Environmental Awareness
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-31)This work is a comprehensive study of an American magazine, Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry published from 1888 to 1897. By applying prosopography, this work explores how a group ... -
Theater and Empire: A History of Assumptions in the English-Speaking Atlantic World, 1700-1860"
(University of Kansas, 2008-06-18)It was no coincidence that commercial theater, a market society, the British middle class, and the "first" British Empire arose more or less simultaneously. In the seventeenth century, the new market economic paradigm ... -
Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix, S.J.: History and the French Atlantic World in the Short Eighteenth Century, 1682-1761
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-27)Abstract This dissertation demonstrates that Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix, S.J. (1682-1761) constructed in his historical writings a French Atlantic World that evolved during what I have termed the Short Eighteenth ...