This thesis traces the Jewish-American advocacy campaign of 1943 to restore the Crémieux Decree -- which the French government passed in 1870 and which granted …
This paper analyzes the career of Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán during the 1970s and 1980s. It seeks to understand how and why Americans' perception of …
In 2017, the Seoul Museum of History presented a special exhibition on Yongsan Garrison, the oldest U.S. army installation in South Korea that is now …
This thesis tells the stories of settler colonialism and iron mining as coinciding and contingent upon one another: iron mining in Minnesota was not possible …
In his collection of and commentary on extremist dialogues covering the latter half of the twentieth century, lecturer and writer Gordon Hall delineated particular bounds …
This thesis studies the rise of “play streets” across early-mid 20th century New York City: whereby the city closed certain street-blocks to traffic to serve …
There is a dearth of literature concerning debutante balls, with even less published information about the Atlanta social scene. But why, an academic may ask, …
My thesis discusses an 1890 bill, the Federal Elections Bill, which would extend voting protection to polling stations that suffered irregularities. The bill did not …
Between 1894 and 1898, Jewish American attorney, Max Kohler, served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Southern District of New York, prosecuting federal immigration …
This thesis addresses a gap of historical information and analysis regarding women’s social history in Ottoman Bosnia during the long 17th century. It contends that …
In the late 1960s, a small group of Afro-Caribbean immigrant families from Britain’s Windrush generation came together to provide their children with academically rigorous and …
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black residents of Providence, Rhode Island, organized the city’s Black Power movement, a local expression of the international …
The thesis questions how the new ideals and beliefs introduced with Christianity altered the emotional landscape of Norse people in Iceland and Norway . I …
Scholars of mission history have explored and debated the connection between missionaries and empire. Some scholars have depicted missionaries as agents of imperialism; others have …
This thesis concerns the power of utilizing the legal system to change discriminatory practices in the workplace, while also recognizing the limitations of the law …
This thesis explores the eugenics movement in Rhode Island in the early twentieth century, analyzing the involvement of individual doctors and scientists along with its …