Browsing by Subject "History, United States"
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Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies
(2008-04-24)Envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967, the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) represented a bold attempt to revitalize the black freedom struggle as a movement explicitly based on class, not race. Incorporating African ... -
Cities of Comrades: Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State
(2010)A fire in Salem, Mass., in 1914 and an explosion in Halifax, N.S., in 1917 provide an opportunity to explore working-class institutions and organizations in the United States-Canada borderlands. In a historical moment in ... -
Configuring Modernities: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation's Capital, 1890-1940
(2010)During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a cadre of black women merged the ideals of the "New Woman" and the "New Negro" to configure New Negro Womanhood. For these women, the combining of these two figurations ... -
Constituting the Protestant Mainline: the Christian Century, 1908-1947
(2008-11-19)Scholars, journalists, and religious leaders in the twentieth century widely hailed The Christian Century as the most influential Protestant magazine in America. This dissertation investigates the meaning of such praise. ... -
From Dennis-the-Menace to Billy-the-Kid: The Evolving Social Construction of Juvenile Offenders in the United States From 1899-2007
(2010)Few studies have historically assessed the surges and troughs of public perception regarding juvenile offenders across over a century of legislative and social change. Furthermore, a minority of juvenile crime investigations ... -
Genealogies of Attention: the Emergence of US Hegemony, 1870 -1929
(2008-04-25)This dissertation is at once a historical study of the emergence of U.S. hegemony through the lens of discourses and techniques of attention, and a sustained series of methodological reflections centering on how to write ... -
Military Service, Combat, and American Identity in the Progressive Era
(2008-09-29)During the First World War, approximately two million troops served with the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), the army that functioned as the material and symbolic focal point of America's commitment to the defeat of ... -
Narrating Infanticide: Constructing the Modern Gendered State in Nineteenth-Century America
(2010)<italic>Narrating Infanticide: Constructing the Modern Gendered State in Nineteenth-Century America</italic> traces how modern ideas about gender and race became embedded in the institutions of law and government between ... -
Reconstructing Somerset Place: Slavery, Memory and Historical Consciousness
(2008-09-02)In the century and a half since Emancipation, slavery has remained a central topic at Somerset Place, a plantation-turned-state historic site in northeastern North Carolina, and programmers and audiences have thought about ... -
River of Injustice: St. Louis's Freedom Suits and the Changing Nature of Legal Slavery in Antebellum America
(2009)Slavery and freedom are central issues in the historiography of nineteenth-century America. In the antebellum era (1820-1860), personal status was a fluid concept and was never as simple as black and white. The courts ... -
The Afterlives of King Philip's War: Negotiating War and Identity in Early America
(2009)"The Afterlives of King Philip's War" examines how this colonial American war entered into narratives of history and literature from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, and investigates how narrative representations ... -
The Many Faces of Reform: Military Progressivism in the U.S. Army, 1866-1916
(2009)In the years 1866-1916, the U.S. Army changed from a frontier constabulary to an industrial age force capable of expeditionary operations. This conversion was made possible by organizational reforms including the creation ...
