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Showing 1 to 20 of 520 for “"History, United States."”.
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Palmettos and property: Historical memory and political culture in early national South Carolina.
Palmettos and property: Historical memory and political culture in early national South Carolina.
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Les multicides sériels aux États-Unis de 1900 à 1994.
Cette these se veut de proposer une alternative aux differentes explications psychologiques qui existent entourant les multicides seriels aux Etats-Unis. Pour ce faire, nous avons opte pour une demarche empirique ou la cueillette de donnees est effectuee par une revue de la litterature. Nous avons …
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Principle vs. Pragmatism: Henry Loucks and South Dakota Populism 1884-1890
The People’s Party of the United States was the most successful third party in American history. The formation of that party was linked to that of local Farmers’ Alliances in a number of states. One such organization, the South Dakota Farmers’ Alliance, was founded and led by a Canadian immigrant …
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Conflicting visions: Urban renewal, historical preservation and the politics of saving a Mexican past
… from the study of Mexican Americans, urban history, and historical preservation this dissertation examines the interactions of race and space. In the late 1960's, Arizona's fast urban renewal project, the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project, resulted in building a new civic center and …
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Art of the American *South, 1915--1945: Picturing the Past, Portending Regionalism
Southern art has received little scholarly attention. Archival sources are used here to document the development of regionalism in the South and to examine the work of Frank London, Hobson Pittman and Mary Tannahill from North Carolina; Alfred Hutty, Anna Heyward Taylor and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner …
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Mobility Without Mayhem: Disciplining Mobile America Through Safety
… For instance, one problem ""plaguing"" the United States in the 1950s was an increase in ""dangerous and incompetent"" women drivers, primarily due to suburbanization. Countless popular press articles responded to and helped create this crisis, most notably in women's magazines. They …
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Producing America's Enemies and the Contested Rhetorics of Nationhood in the United States, 1775--1815
… build a nation, Americans had to renege on their history. Once the American Revolution was won, the types of mob violence and citizen participation that brought victory in the war were no longer desirable. Hence, this dissertation investigates how the radical democracy of the Revolutionary War was …
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Reciprocity of Sight: The Rhetorics of Contestation and Commemoration on the National Mall
… The dissertation takes up three moments in the history of the National Mall when negotiation about contestation and commemoration manifested as public conversations about the meaning of the National Mall. The first moment is the Senate Park Commission's Plan of 1900 and 1901, also known as the …
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Restructuring the Indian Health Service: An Example of Consensus Policy-Making
Unlike the traditional American governing style of resolving policy issues through a majority rule process, the adoption of the IHDT recommendations followed the traditional Indian governing style of full consensus. This process is significant in that it defines a new paradigm for joint …
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Media Democracy Deferred: The Postwar Settlement for U.S. Communications, 1945--1949
"Based on extensive archival research, this study historicizes current media policies and reform efforts by analyzing the 1940s postwar critical juncture when policymakers, social movements, and communication industries grappled over the role of a commercial press in a democratic society. By …
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Smallpox Diffusion Between Small and Dispersed Historic Native American Populations
This research argues that infectious disease diffusion ahead of its introduction at a frontier cannot be assumed to have been a uniform, wave-like-process. Instead, diffusion probably took an idiosyncratic path that followed the kinds of interaction that best promoted transmission. The results of …
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Essays in Country Banking: Case Studies of the First National Bank of Bloomington (Illinois)
In the fourth paper, I examine the decision to select locations for Federal Reserve Banks by the Reserve Board Organization Committee in April 1914. I estimate probability choice models for the 37 cities that requested consideration by the committee by relying upon statements of involved persons as …
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Financial Aspects of the American Civil War: War News, Price Risk, and the Processing of Information
The final chapter investigates the doubling of Confederate cotton bond prices between December 1863 and September 1864 despite Confederate defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July 1863. Offsetting adverse war news were movements in the price of the cotton collateral of the war bonds.
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Shaking Big Shoulders: Music and Dance Culture in Chicago, 1910--1925
Part II discusses the dances themselves, focusing on the contrasting pair of the fox trot and shimmy, two dances that have previously received little scholarly attention. Chapter 4 discusses the development and dominance of the fox trot as the most popular dance of the era. Chapter 5 documents the …
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"A History of the United States Army Band ""Pershing's Own"", 1945--2000"
The organization that L. Bryan Shelburne, Jr. inherited in 1990 was constituted essentially as it is today, and only minor changes were made to the unit's structure. In 1997, however, 10 Master Sergeant (E8) positions were cut. Under Shelburne, the band performed internationally in Turkey, Sweden, …
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In the Lord's Army: The United States Christian Commission in the Civil War
Not surprisingly, soldiers responded favorably to the Commission's work, and many were inspired by the group's spiritual overtures. Military officials, including General Ulysses S. Grant, expressed their approval of the Commission's activities, as did President Abraham Lincoln. While the Commission …
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Democracy in Print: The Literature of Persuasion in Jacksonian America, 1815--1840
… the President's war on the Bank of the United States, followed by a discussion of the election of 1832, which centered on the bank question. Next comes a chapter on the use of political satire, both literary and pictorial, of which the Whigs maintained a virtual monopoly during this …
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A Defining Moment for Dayton: The Scopes Trial as an Act in the Theater of the Modern
… authority to shape the contours of the modern United States. Protestant Fundamentalism and biological science both represented modern responses to cultural changes and economic transformations, for each one embodied a sensibility that human ingenuity and a spirit of progress would rejuvenate …
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The Birth Control Clinic in America: Life Within; Life Without, 1923--1972
"My dissertation, a social and cultural history of birth control, is the first study to examine the Planned Parenthood clinic movement in its entirety---from its early days in the teens through to its modern form in the 1970s---and seeks to explain the rise and proliferation of what has become an …
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