This dissertation demonstrates how a transnational conception of poor people as 'backwards' and culturally distinct emerged from the nexus of intellectuals, activists, and administrators who …
This dissertation explores the political, cultural and social identities of middle class Americans in the post-World War I period - their greatest moment of class …
By looking into the role of Blackness, or negritud, in nineteenth-century discourses of nation I seek to formulate a new understanding of Mexico's national identity, …
In the wake of the American Civil War, Southerners faced a cultural crisis. Emancipation and military defeat ensured that the slave economy, which had formed …
"Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United States, 1945-1960" examines gender, citizenship, and postwar political culture. It focuses on the bi-partisan General Federation …
More than 17,000 Catholic priests and seminarians were conscripted into the German armed forces during World War II. 500 of them served as chaplains, the …
This dissertation investigates the way constructions of Americanism enforced heterosexuality in America. Starting in the Red Scare of 1919, and persisting through the 1920s, American …