This study examines how relations with – and discourses of – the “Turk” within England shaped the contours of critical political and religious debates from …
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 …
In the 1910s, groups of middle-class women began organizing voluntary youth organizations to provide a blend of recreation, spirituality, patriotism, and character development for America's …
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 …
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 …
Abstract of "To Serve the Race...and Redeem the South": Gender and the Southern Interracial Network, 1919-1949, by Caroline C. Cortina, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011.Drawing …
Reproduction was of crucial social and cultural importance in early modern England. It mattered because of the need to produce heirs for families that had …
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 …
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 …
In nineteenth-century San Francisco, black community leaders sought to reach beyond the geographical limits of the Bay Area in their battle for equal rights in …
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, …
After the thirteenth century conquest much of Andalusia, Christians settling these territories found themselves in close proximity to Muslims, often trading together and sharing pastureland …
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 dissertation explores the political, cultural and social identities of middle class Americans in the post-World War I period - their greatest moment of class …
