By examining the history of the sound newsreel in the 1930s and 1940s, this dissertation illustrates how moving picture news changed the way Americans experienced …
This project analyzes the John Birch Society's opposition to the Black freedom movement from its founding in 1958 to the early 1970s, treating the Society's …
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 …
Recent studies in the United States show that intergenerational educational mobility is consistently higher (correlation of educational attainment between parents and their children is weaker) …
In 1930, American photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) traveled to the Soviet Union on her first trip abroad. Her auspicious visit occurred during a moment of …
As the Cold War ended and a "New World Order" emerged, elites in the U.S. and Mexico created a continental economic arrangement, integrating national economies …
This thesis examines the structure and implementation of the Cuban Maternal and Childcare Program as a model for improving outcomes and reducing disparities in healthcare …
Traditional explanations of health system change have tended to focus on such factors as institutional configurations and provider power. I posit the potency of patients …
This dissertation inquires into discourses of ethics among the actors of international politics, and seeks to build an ethical practice that recognizes the interpretive powers …
This dissertation examines the representation of migrant subjects in the United States by a group of contemporary Latin American novelists: Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia, b. …
This thesis argues that to maintain legitimate civil liberties, the American judiciary must consistently extend legal standing and robust due process protections to civilian litigants …
Federal anti-poverty policies may vary in popularity and purported legibility. Some are delivered as tax-based transfer programs, whereas others are delivered in more concrete, immediate …
Ownership of photographic depictions was as contentious in the nineteenth century as it is today. In 1852, a photography journal queried: “Why is it that …
Abstract of “Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1790-1840” by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015 Manufacturing Advantage …
In the campaign to bring electricity to the American farm, the New Deal’s Rural Electrification Administration (REA) enlisted architecture to ideological and propagandistic ends. Though …
Artists were among the many cultural and political pilgrims who traveled or expatriated from the United States to Mexico after its Revolution (c. 1910-1920) in …
