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American Land Rush: “A Lonely Homesteader” Searches for Security in the Montana Homestead Boom
(2020)This Virtual Exhibition features one of the millions of small stories of homesteading in the US West. Lily Bell Murray Stearns Schuld Lampp overcame early tragedy in Illinois that left her an orphan, moving through ... -
Beyond Stories: Geospatial Influences on the Practice of Environmental History
(The University of Alabama Press, 2019)Scholars using quantitative and spatial methods have revisited some of the foundational texts in environmental history over the past decade, demonstrating that new technologies permit scholars to revisit some of the pivotal ... -
United States economic and military assistance policy toward China during World War II and its immediate aftermath
(University of Kansas, 1988-05-31)This study traces the background and development of the U.S. assistance policy toward China in the late 1930's and throughout the 1940's. This aid took place in numerous forms but mostly via U.S. government programs. ... -
Inventamus Si Progressimus: “We Made It Up as We Went Along” The Evolution of the American Advisory Effort in South Vietnam
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Abstract This dissertation examines the efforts of the South Vietnamese government along with their American military and civilian advisors to devise and implement programs to combat the Viet Cong Infrastructure in South ... -
Imperial Entrepreneur: Masculinity, Race, and the Memory of Frederick Funston
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)This work examines Major General Frederick Funston’s life and subsequent memory. It seeks to answer two questions: first, how and why individuals/media makers constructed various identities of Funston during his life? ... -
The process of civilization on the Kansas frontier, Newton, Kansas, 1871-1873
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A history of the establishment of the Kansas state government
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Marsupials and monotremes in pre-Darwinian theory
(University of Kansas, 1980-05-31)Pre-Darwinian biologists encountered considerable difficulty in understanding the marsupials and monotremes because contemporary theoretical explanations had developed largely without reference to these peculiar creatures. ... -
A Question of Treason? Confederate Generals and U.S. Army Post Names
(Council on America's Military Past, 2019-12-01)The naming of U.S. Army posts after Confederate generals is vital in understanding the process of reconciliation after the Civil War. The honoring of Confederate generals in such a manner was made attractive not only by ... -
A Question of Treason? Confederate Generals and U.S. Army Post Names
(Adams State University, 2013-04-10)This thesis explores the process by which present-day U.S. Army posts came to be named for Confederate officers of the Civil War through an examination of U.S. Army regulations dictating how and for whom installations are ... -
The movement to create a national gallery of art in eighteenth-century France
(University of Kansas, 1962-12-31)This study will attempt to assess the content, nature, and accessibility of the royal collections during the eighteenth century prior to the Revolution and to trace and to analyze the ever-growing movement for a national ... -
Some Tasting Notes on Year-Old Sushi: Funazushi, Japan’s Most Ancient and Potentially Its Most Up-to-Date Sushi
(University of California Press, 2020-02-03)Abstract: Funazushi, a fermented food made with crucian carp, is often described as Japan’s most ancient form of sushi. This article evaluates these historical claims and offers some tasting notes, exploring traditional ... -
The turbulent years : the University of Kansas, 1960-1975, a history
(University of Kansas, 1979)This study examines The University of Kansas during the years from 1960 to 1975. It in no way represents a definitive history of the university during that time. But through the combination of chronological and subject ... -
Individualism and the role of the individual in British and French socialism : the early years, 1800-1848
(University of Kansas, 1969-05-31)Individualism is a topic which·has received but scant treatment by modern scholars, although it is a subject which has prompted a great deal of commentary within the socialist movement itself. There has not been thus far ... -
American public opinion of Denmark during the German occupation, 1940-1945
(University of Kansas, 1957-05-31)The purpose of this thesis is to study American public-opinion of Denmark during the German occupation from April 9, 1940, to May 5, 1945. -
Legislative History Story Map
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019-10-01)The 1862 Homestead Act Legislative History Story Map--see http://arcg.is/WDz9z--serves a crucial pedagogical need: Students in EVRN 332, Environmental Law, a required course for the KU Program in Environmental Studies, ... -
Good Catholics, Bad Acts: Sacrilege, Blasphemy and Lived Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)Histories of the Spanish Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often view it as a militant champion of Catholic orthodoxy, where the Spanish Inquisition eradicated all erroneous behaviors and beliefs. Thousands ... -
The Persistence of Advertising Culture: Commerce and Consumers in Multi-Ethnic Galicia, 1911-1921
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)Despite tremendous change and instability during the second decade of the twentieth century due to modernization, war, and political reconfiguration, some elements of everyday life in Cracow and Lemberg maintained a ... -
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 ... -
Contested Conquests: African Maroons and the Incomplete Conquest of Hispaniola, 1519–1620
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-11-22)On July 13, 1571, King Philip II of Spain, via a real cédula, authorized the Audiencia of Santo Domingo to enact plans to “conquer” a community of African cimarrones (maroons, runaway slaves) located about 36 miles from ...