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2024-03-28T18:05:52ZSallie Brooke Capps: Education Trailblazer in North Texas
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Sallie Brooke Capps: Education Trailblazer in North Texas
This thesis closely examines the life of Sallie Brooke Capps (1864-1946), a liberal-feminist progressive reformer who passionately advocated for better academic opportunities for young white women and children in North Texas during the first-half of the twentieth century. At a time when women seldom held leadership positions and instead trained to lead lives as domestic household managers, Capps found a way to combine both. Moreover, her support for the education profession opened the door for many young women who came after her to attend college and become successful teachers and administrators. As the vice-president of the Texas Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Association in Dallas, Capps forged close professional connections with female reformers who shared the same progressive ideas as her and used her networking to constantly champion for additional programs that promoted the welfare of children at home, in church, and in school. Capps was also an instrumental part in the development of the popular Fort Worth Kindergarten Association's teaching college and the College of Industrial Arts in Denton, where she consistently put the best interests of the female students first and proudly served as the secretary on the latter institution's Board of Regents for eighteen years. Furthermore, Capps's involvement in and devotion to church and community activities were part of Fort Worth’s civic growth during a critical period of expansion. This study attempts for the first time to analyze Sallie B. Capps’s historical relevance in the state’s broad history, utilizing her personal papers and diaries, Texas education records, a variety of organizational records from Texas Woman's University and Fort Worth newspaper clippings, and an assortment of secondary sources about the history of education in North Texas.
Project Jobs: Reagan, the INS, and Undocumented Workers in 1982
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Project Jobs: Reagan, the INS, and Undocumented Workers in 1982
Using digitized archival material, newspaper articles, and court documents, this thesis examines a 1982 federal deportation campaign in the United States called “Project Jobs,” which resulted in the apprehension of an estimated 5,400 undocumented workers, and the ultimate deportation of 4,000 of them. The operation targeted nine major U.S. cities with the goal of freeing up jobs for unemployed U.S. citizens during a recession. While Operation Wetback targeted undocumented workers in the agricultural sector, Project Jobs targeted high-paying urban jobs that were intended to be desirable for U.S. citizens. Although the operation received substantial publicity at the time, it has since been forgotten, and is virtually absent from the current historiography. By linking the operation to the economic recession in 1981, the suffering reputation of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and the Reagan administration’s four-year struggle to get the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 passed through Congress, this thesis argues that Project Jobs was a significant event in U.S. history, with substantial consequences for undocumented workers in urban America.
2023-05-11T00:00:00ZLANDED: THE PURSUIT OF AN ARMY FLIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, 1917-1919
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LANDED: THE PURSUIT OF AN ARMY FLIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, 1917-1919
This thesis examines the acquisition of a flight training facility by the city of Wichita Falls, Texas during the early years of the twentieth century. During a period when progressive reform was addressing societal problems, members of the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce were diligently working to develop their community. At the time, aviation remained a relatively new technology. Chamber members, Joseph Kemp and Frank Kell, took the lead in the city's attempt to establish aviation as a developmental industry in its local commerce. The legacy left by both men is that of pioneer builders, whose focus for their city ranked first and foremost. Railroads, regional irrigation, milling, and finance comprise a portion of the industries touched by these men. Yet, world events regularly bring about changes which differ from an original plan. In the case of Call Aviation Field, the declaration of war in 1917, committing the United States to the war effort as one of the Allied Forces, did just that. During the previous year, Wichita Falls tried to attract a "permanent" army flight school. Alternatively, the contract for Call Field established a temporary military encampment, which closed eighteen months later, with the end of the war. Using original Chamber of Commerce records, Call Field archives, and newspaper accounts, backed by secondary sources, this study attempts to analyze the city's quest to attract an aviation presence through its relationship with Call Aviation Field.
2022-11-07T00:00:00ZAn Intimate Relationship: Medical Theory, The Environment, And Hospitals
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An Intimate Relationship: Medical Theory, The Environment, And Hospitals
Prior to the full acceptance of bacteriology in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, medicine relied heavily upon the natural environment and cultivating flora from various regions around the world to implement in therapeutics. As a result of various medical theories and practices during the long nineteenth century the hospital became the physical embodiment of such practices and became modified as these medical theories advanced toward an acceptance of bacteriology. Initially serving as a marker for the boundary between the built and natural environments, hospitals also relied heavily upon the natural environment in the treatment of patients and became reflected, through much trial and error, in their design. As the acceptance of bacteriology (a.k.a. germ theory) proliferated and medicine became a laboratory science, a paradigm shift occurred in the design of hospitals and the use of the natural environment as a therapeutic fell out of favor. From the second quarter of the twentieth century on, hospitals no longer required the natural environment as part of their services to the sick and injured, became more integrated into the urban setting, and set out to manipulate, control, and artificially create environments within its own walls.
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