History: Recent submissions
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The problem of unemployment relief in France during the revolutionary eighteenth century
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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 ... -
Becoming a Schismatic: The Concepts of the “Schism” and “Schismatic” in the Church and State Discourses of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Russia
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)This dissertation explores the role of language in the identification and consequent persecution of Russian religious dissent, known as the “Schism” (Raskol), or the Old Belief (staroverie). In the mid-seventeenth century, ... -
Coping with Crisis: Military Government Officials, U.S. Policy, and the Occupation of Bavaria, 1945-1949
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This dissertation explores the implementation of American policy in postwar Germany from the perspective of military government officers and other occupation officials in the Land of Bavaria. It addresses three main ... -
Weathering Extremes: Climate, Colonialism, and Indigenous Resistance in the Dutch Atlantic
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Weathering Extremes demonstrates how seventeenth-century climate changes mingled with cultural, social, economic, agro-ecological, and geopolitical forces to catalyze three simultaneous, though geographically disparate, ... -
The United States and international action, 1862-77
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THE SEMANTICS OF REFORMATION: DISCOURSES OF RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN ENGLAND, C. 1414 – 1688
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)The Semantics of Reformation: Discourses of Religious Change in England, c. 1414 – 1688 examines how the events of the sixteenth century were conceptualized as the English Reformation. The word ‘reformation’ was widely ... -
Austral Empires: Southern Investment in Latin America, 1808-1877
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)My dissertation, “Austral Empires: Southern Investment in Latin America, 1808-1877,” argues that early nineteenth-century, white United States southerners strengthened their identities as pro-slavery, modern, and southern ... -
Managing the Empire’s Wealth: Environmental Thought during Spain’s Golden Age, 1492-1618
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)During the sixteenth century, or Spain's so-called "Golden Age," Spain's understanding of wealth, resource management, and cosmology underwent massive evolution in the face of gaining an empire in the Americas. Before the ... -
Aesthetic Authorities: The Socio-Political Dimensions of Warlord Tea Praxis in Early Modern Japan, 1573-1860
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This dissertation examines the practice of chanoyu (a performative art form featuring the formalized preparation of tea) by the regional warlords who took up the art in great numbers in Japan from the late sixteenth century ... -
Postwar Journeys: American and Vietnamese Transnational Peace Efforts since 1975
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This dissertation explores U.S.-Vietnam postwar relations through the transnational peace endeavors of American and Vietnamese ordinary citizens. The subjects of the study included Vietnamese refugees, children of American ...