Department of History: Recent submissions
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La Prensa y El Gran Pueblo Mexicano: A Study of Spanish-language Newspapers in South Texas, 1850-1930
(2023-08-31)This study focuses on Spanish-language newspapers published by Mexicans in South Texas from 1850 to 1930. These newspapers played a vital role in mobilizing Mexican communities for collective action against anti-Mexican ... -
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 ... -
Pearl Chase and Thomas More Storke: Two Community Builders in Twentieth Century Santa Barbara, California
(2022-05-12)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 5/12/2024** ABSTRACT: Pearl Chase (1888-1979) and Thomas More Storke (1876-1971) are the main protagonists in this dissertation which analyzes Santa Barbara, California, ... -
Project Jobs: Reagan, the INS, and Undocumented Workers in 1982
(2023-05-11)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 ... -
LANDED: THE PURSUIT OF AN ARMY FLIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, 1917-1919
(2022-11-07)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 ... -
An Intimate Relationship: Medical Theory, The Environment, And Hospitals
(2022-08-08)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 ... -
Adventurers and Autocrats: The Role of Authority in the Making of the English West Indies, 1595-1655
(2022-08-25)After Walter Ralegh made his famous journey to the Orinoco in 1595, English adventurers began the haphazard process of colonizing the West Indies. Initially they tried to follow Ralegh’s efforts in Guiana, but their every ... -
The Battle Over Identity: Finnish-Americans and the Finnish Civil War
(2020-03-19)Historical research on Finnish migration and Finnish-Americans has, until recently, been carried out by members of the Finnish-American community and as such has written out the role of Finnish-Americans in the radical ... -
Imperial Women of Darien: Scottish Migration and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1650-1740
(2020-06-03)In the last two years of the seventeenth century, approximately 3,000 people, mostly Scottish merchants, soldiers, sailors and their families, migrated to a small coastal region in central America for the purpose of ... -
Camp Wolters: A History of the US Army's Relationship with Mineral Wells, Texas
(2022-05-16)This thesis documents the Army's contributions to the town of Mineral Wells, Texas by locating the army camp of Camp Wolters there during WWII. -
Working for Peanuts: Labor, Geography, and Class Composition in the American Circus Industry, 1872-1938
(2022-04-14)This dissertation focuses on class composition in the traveling circus in the Gilded Age (1870s-1900s), the Progressive Era (1890s-1910s), and the New Era (1920s-1930s). American circuses became industrial operations ... -
Wretches, Rogues, and Rebels: Smugglers in English Print Culture 1660-1766
(2021-12-08)This dissertation examines smugglers as they appeared in English print culture from their first appearance as "smuckellors" in a 1661 Royal Proclamation to 1766 when Parliament repealed the Revenue Act of 1764 amid protests ... -
FOOT-BALL! TURNING COLOMBIAN BOYS INTO PATRIOTIC MEN: HOW SPORT AND EDUCATION DEVELOPED WITH EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY COLOMBIAN NATIONALISM
(2021-08-10)In 1948 a collection of ten football (soccer) teams from across Colombia joined together to form the División Mayor (Major League) the culmination of a thirty-year-long process to form a national league. Colombian sports ... -
RADICALS ON THE MOVE: FRENCH MIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1850-1900
(2021-05-05)The following dissertation examines the activities of French radical migrants within the United States from 1850-1900. This dissertation illustrates that studying French migration highlights the interconnectedness and ... -
FISH WORTH FIGHTING FOR: THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES (1500-1800)
(2021-05-13)The Atlantic cod that swam in the Grand Banks and along the coasts of Newfoundland played a significant role in the British Empire. The Newfoundland fisheries that developed following European exploration of the region in ... -
El Camino Real, From Old Trails to Modern Highways 1890-1945
(2021-01-08)An examination of El Camino Real's development and importance in twentieth century Texas. -
WAVING THE RED, BLACK, AND GREEN: THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL VISION OF THE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION IN AKRON AND BARBERTON, OHIO
(2020-12-10)This micro study of the Akron and Barberton, Ohio, Divisions of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) adds to the understanding the geographic diversity of the Garvey Movement’s expansive reach. It begins to ... -
What Germany Taught the U.S. Army: Occupational Lessons in Postwar Germany, 1945-1946
(2020-08-11)The study of the U.S.-occupation of Germany after the Second World War is not complete without understanding its role in changing the culture of the U.S. Army. Statesmen at the wartime conferences determined what policies ... -
Cornflakes, God, and Circumcision: John Harvey Kellogg and Transatlantic Health Reform
(2019-05-09)The health reform movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth century impacted American and European societies in profound ways. These reforms, while usually represented in a national context, existed within a transatlantic ... -
BLACK SKIN, WHITE MONEY: THE TRANSATLANTIC PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO RECOLONIZE WEST AFRICA, 1786 - 1863
(2020-06-05)Previous scholarship has mostly left the story of recolonization of former slaves and Free People of Color to West Africa in the dustbin of history. These studies also have artificially separated the multiple failed attempts ...