History Honors Theses: Recent submissions
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If You Build It, They Will Come: From Flood Zone to Economic Boom
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2019)On July 30, 1993, the newly-unified city of Chesterfield, Missouri bore witness to the most tumultuous disaster since its incorporation in 1988. The levee surrounding the area, fittingly named the Gumbo Flats, breeched in ... -
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 ... -
Defensive Humanitarianism: Swiss Internment Camps During WWI
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)During World War I, the Swiss state interned nearly 30,000 foreign soldiers who had previously been held in POW camps in Germany, France, Britain, Belgium, Austria, and Russia. The internment camp system that Switzerland ... -
It’s Time to Talk of Other Things: of Black Power, War, and Beauty Queens
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)The history of military entertainment has become more popular in recent years as scholars have begun to identify the insights that studying entertainment reveals about culture and institutions. This thesis presents a piece ... -
“Associated Women Sycophants”: Sorority Women and Changing Gender Roles at the University of Kansas, 1948-1973
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)This thesis aims to study the different social expectations of University of Kansas sorority women and the evolution of those social mores over time. Very little study on this topic has been done previously. Beth Bailey’s ... -
Tackling Textbooks of the Times: The Telling Truth About Race in Textbooks from 1945-1970
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)As a key classroom tool, textbooks offer concrete insights from the past. In 1944, Gunnar Myrdal’s study An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, convinced Americans that the issue of American prejudice ... -
"And He Was an Arab!": Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E.M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)E.M. Hull’s sensational novel The Sheik thrilled and shocked early twentieth century readers with its tale of a woman’s journey into the Sahara desert and her interracial sexual desire for the brooding Arab sheik who ... -
Rewriting History: The Impact of the Cuban Missile Crisis on American Journalism
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)The Cuban Missile Crisis represented a unique moment in the history of American foreign policy because it was the first time that the world faced a nuclear standoff. The threat of a third World War allowed US government ... -
The Lion, The Rooster, And The Union: National Identity in the Belgian Clandestine Press, 1914-1918
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)Significant research has been conducted on the trials and tribulations of Belgium during the First World War. While amateur historians can often summarize the “Rape of Belgium” and cite nationalism as a cause of the war, ... -
United Nations Resolutions 661: Intervention, Devastation and the Internal Collapse of 1990s Iraq
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)In 1945, the United Nations was created to uphold international peace and security. In order to ensure prosperity for all members of the international community, the United Nations implements economic sanctions against ... -
"The Fewer the Men, The Greater the Honor": The Naval Doctrine of Republicanism in the First Barbary War
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)The First Barbary War was a naval conflict fought between the United States and Tripoli from 1801-1805 over the payment of “tribute” to Tripoli so they would not seize American merchant ships. The Jefferson Administration ... -
"I've Tried so Hard to Make Good Americans Out of You": Legacy, Memory, and the Seattle General Strike of 1919
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 2018)This historical project explores competing legacies and formation of memory within the Seattle General Strike of 1919 both in its after effects on the Seattle Labor Movement and the nation as a whole through the First Red ... -
Marriage Contracts in Fifteenth-Century Normany: An Examination of MSD47 at the Spencer Research Library
(Department of History, University of Kansas, 1992-01-01)