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The Cold War and American Education
(The University of Kansas, 1975-10)American historians who have studied the Cold War have usually focused upon either the events on the international scene which gave rise to tensions or on the policies and rhetoric of national political leaders such as ... -
The Harmony of Yin and Yank: The American Military Advisory Effort in China, 1941-1951
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)THE HARMOMY OF YIN AND YANK: The American Military Advisory Effort in China, 1941-1951 By Joseph G. D. Babb Professor J. Megan Greene, Advisor The American military personnel assigned to advise and assist China's armed ... -
A History of Irrigation in the Arkansas River Valley in Western Kansas, 1880-1910
(University of Kansas, 1968)One of the important adjustments made by the settlers of the High Plains to their new environment was the introduction of irrigation agriculture. Among the earliest and most important centers of this development was the ... -
ARRIVING AT A COMMON GROUND: JOHN REED SWANTON AND AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This project examines the life of renowned anthropologist John Reed Swanton (1873-1953 ) and his work with indigenous peoples. Combining several methodologies that included archaeology, anthropology, history, and linguistics, ... -
Era Bell Thompson: Observations of an American Daughter on the American South and the African Congo
(University of Kansas, 2012-12-31)This dissertation asks how author and journalist Era Bell Thompson understood and constructed her racial identity against the historical context of the connections between the American South and the Congo. Thompson's unique ... -
The Unfulfilled Promise: The Development of Operational Art in the U.S. Military, 1973-1997
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This study examines the theory, doctrine, and practice of operational art in the U.S. military starting in the early 1970s after the end of the Vietnam War to the mid 1990s after Operation Desert Storm. Using a model of ... -
From the Impoverished to the Entitled: The Experience and Meaning of Old Age in America since the 1950s
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)With more than seventy million individuals, the baby boom generation is rapidly approaching traditional retirement age and threatening to strain America's public and private resources. Within the context of Social Security ... -
General Lesley J. McNair: Little-Known Architect of the U.S. Army
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)General Lesley J. McNair demonstrated an innovative spirit and exceptional intellectual capacity in his efforts to organize and train the U.S. Army for World War II. The influence he exerted on Army doctrine, training, ... -
Global Migration in Transition: The Americas, Europe, and Italian Diaspora (1946-1960)
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-31)This study investigates the development of post-WWII Italian migration to Argentina, Belgium, Canada, and The U.S. and it frames this case-study within the broader discussion about he ways in which past population movements ... -
A City Amputated, A Community Regenerated: Munich During and After the Allied Air War, 1939-1948
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Cities do not exist in isolation. They sum up a complex web of connections between people and natural resources, knit together by transport systems. Cities are also connected to other cities, regions, and countries. Like ... -
Losing an Empire, Losing a Role?: The Commonwealth Vision, British Identity, and African Decolonization, 1959-1963
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Many observers of British national identity assume that decolonization presaged a crisis in the meaning of Britishness. The rise of the new imperial history, which contends Empire was central to Britishness, has only ... -
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 ... -
The Foreign Policy of Józef Piłsudski and Józef Beck, 1926-1939: Misconceptions and Interpretations
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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. ... -
Remembering Zeami: The Kanze School and Its Patriarch
(University of Hawai'i Press, 2003)This article examines the history of the reception and popularization of the achievements of nö’s founder, Zeami Motokiyo, as represented by three important actors of the Kanze school: Kanze Motoakira (d. 1774), Kanze Sakon ... -
Banquets Against Boredom: Towards Understanding (Samurai) Cuisine in Early Modern Japan
(Early Modern Japan Network, 2008)