American Studies: Recent submissions
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LITERARY DESTINATIONS: MARK TWAIN'S HOUSES AND LITERARY TOURISM
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-10)Mark Twain has been commemorated for more than eighty-five years at his various houses. His birthplace in Florida, Missouri, his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, his adult home in Hartford, Connecticut, and his summer ... -
Ancestors, Avotaynu, Roots: An Inquiry into American Genealogy Discourse
(University of Kansas, 2010-07-20)The monograph is an inquiry into the genealogical assumption, the cultural notion that "who you are" is tied to who your ancestors were and that genealogy and family history will provide knowledge of that bond. The assumption ... -
Boxing the Boundaries: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries in the United State, 1882-1913
(University of Kansas, 2010-07-28)Leisure and sports are recently developed research topics. My dissertation illuminates the social meaning of prize fighting between 1882 and 1913 considering interactions between culture and power relations. My dissertation ... -
DEMOCRATIZING BEAUTY: AVON'S GLOBAL BEAUTY AMBASSADORS AND THE TRANSNATIONAL MARKETING OF FEMININITY, 1954-2010
(University of Kansas, 2010-06-12)Using the records from Avon Product's, Inc. corporate archive housed at the Hagley Museum and Library, this dissertation explores the migration of the Avon Lady from the suburbs of the United States in the 1950s to today's ... -
The Forgotten Children: African American Children and Child Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1890-1930
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-07)Abstract Forgotten Children examines the influence of racial ideology on the trajectory of child welfare reform in late nineteenth century and early twentieth century St. Louis. The modern American child welfare system ... -
News from Now/here: Ed Dorn, Lawrence, Kansas, & the Poetics of Migration - 1965-1970
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-06)The stylistic variety of Edward Dorn's poetic career, from the 1950s through the 1990s, has been criticized as lacking cohesion, and deemed his work's fundamental shortcoming. The earlier poetry's somber lyricism has been ... -
Moving to the Head of the River: The Early Years of the U.S. Battered Women's Movement
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-21)This dissertation chronicles the development of the battered women's movement in the U.S., which began in the early 1970s with telephone "hotlines" for women in crisis. Recognizing that woman battering was not an isolated ... -
Confronting the Cold War Legacy: The Forgotten History of the American Colony in St. Petersburg / A Case Study of Reconciliation
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-21)This dissertation surveys three decades of the history and dynamics of Russian-American relations, demonstrating that their conduct has never been exclusively confined to governmental operatives and foreign policymakers. ... -
Mechanics and Applications of Pressure Adaptive Honeycomb
(University of Kansas, 2009-07-31)A pressure-adaptive wing structure is presented that relies on the pressure-altitude relation to adapt the wing shape to the various flight conditions (e.g. landing and cruise). This structure employs conventional, certified ... -
IDENTITY PRESENTATION IN STORIES OF PAST AND PRESENT: AN ANALYSIS OF MEMOIRS BY AUTHORS OF THE 1.5 GENERATION OF VIETNAMESE AMERICANS
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-16)This paper investigates how authors of the 1.5 generation of Vietnamese Americans represent their identity in their memoirs. The analysis shows that the condition under which each author came to the United States, either ... -
How Japanese is Wii? The Reception and Localization of Japanese Video Games in America
(University of Kansas, 2009-06-12)With control over both store shelves and consumers' consciousness, Japanese video games have dominated the U.S. and global game markets over the past two decades and continue to prosper today. This thesis positions Japanese ... -
"One Hundred Per Cent American": Nationalism, Masculinity and American Legion Baseball in the 1920s
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-14)"'One Hundred Per Cent American': Nationalism, Masculinity and American Legion Baseball in the 1920s," provides a sociohistorical analysis of baseball and social attitudes and ideologies of the pre- and post-World War I ... -
Transnational Cultural Transactions: Distributing American Teen-girl films in France, 1986-2006
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-28)This dissertation analyzes the cultural translation performed by French film distributors - whom I call transcultural intermediaries - in the process of marketing Hollywood teen-girl films, perceived in France as a uniquely ... -
Florence Knoll, Design and the Modern American Office Workplace
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)Introduction In every human community, certain built forms are physical expressions of ways in which people think about their lives together. These forms express beliefs that people share about the world around them; what ... -
Seek Science, Meet Jesus: KU Chinese Student's Experience With Local Christian Influence
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)In "Seek Science, Meet Jesus," I examine how Chinese students at the University of Kansas in Lawrence interact with local Christians and respond to conversion forces imposed by local evangelical churches. Being atheistic ... -
"On Behalf of my Comrades": Transnational Private Memories of German Prisoners of War in U.S. Captivity
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-21)On May 8, 1945 eleven to twelve million Germans experienced the fall of National Socialist Germany while in Allied captivity; four million German soldiers experienced it as captives of the United States. These Germans not ... -
Yoko Ono: Transnational Artist in a World of Stickiness
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-21)This thesis examines Yoko Ono and her work in relation to Fluxus from 1958 to 1964. Using theories of transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and performance to analyze discourse, I argue that Ono's hybrid Japanese and American ... -
Intimate Emptiness: The Flint Hills Wind Turbine Controversy
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-28)ABSTRACT Howard Graham, Master of Arts American Studies, July 2008 University of Kansas This study examines the political and social controversy surrounding the proposed introduction of industrial scale wind turbines, ... -
Suburban Place? Constructing Place in Overland Park, Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-21)Do suburbs like Overland Park, Kansas possess a "sense of place?" This thesis not only attempts to transcend the misrepresentations of suburbs as "placelessness," it also attempts to examine suburbs as places, thus examining ... -
Feminism, Socialism, and Pragmatism in the Life of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1887-1941
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-21)This thesis is an important intellectual, political, and cultural biography of Marcet Haldeman-Julius. Marcet's life demonstrates the important intersections between class, gender, politics, and individual agency that ...