Dissertations / Theses: 'Nature study – United States – History'

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Abdoo, Jayma Ann. "The Scourge of "Discovery": A Case Study of the Genocide of Native Americans in English North America." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625768.

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Barragan, Denise Eileen. "Native Americans in social studies curriculum: An Alabama case study." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278722.

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This study describes how some members of the Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama, a state recognized community, reacts to the ways in which Native peoples are represented in the social studies curriculum of DeKalb County, Alabama. Tribal members, ages 30--80 were interviewed about their educational experiences, as well as about their perspectives on the current curriculum. Social studies curricula of this school district, as well as elsewhere in the Alabama public school system, portrays Native peoples in a negative manner, and through the interviews and an extensive analysis of the curriculum, specific examples of these negative portrayals are pinpointed. This study specifically looks at the content, language and illustrations of seven state adopted textbooks, resulting in some specific recommendations on how teachers, as well as administrators, could improve the curriculum.

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Bayless, Brittany N. ""The show windows of a state" a comparative study on classification of Michigan, Indiana , and Ohio parks /." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1143423813.

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Dildine, James Lowell 1951. "When the dust settles: A case study of the effects of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act on a National Park Service repository." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278575.

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This thesis is based on research conducted at the National Park Service (NPS) Western Archeological and Conservation Center (WACC) for the purpose of making determinations regarding funerary objects according to the guidelines required by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA Public Law 101-601). The analysis is intended to show that only a nominal amount of artifacts stored at WACC are actually subject to NAGPRA guidelines regarding funerary objects and perhaps more importantly that the curation procedures and conditions surrounding the acquisition of these objects has negatively impacted their research value.

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Hart, Hilary 1969. "Sentimental spectacles : the sentimental novel, natural language, and early film performance." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/297.

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Advisor: Mary E. Wood. xii, 181 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. Print copy also available for check out and consultation in the University of Oregon's library under the call number: PS374.S714 H37 2004.
The nineteenth-century American sentimental novel has only in the last twenty years received consideration from the academy as a legitimate literary tradition. During that time feminist scholars have argued that sentimental novels performed important cultural work and represent an important literary tradition. This dissertation contributes to the scholarship by placing the sentimental novel within a larger context of intellectual history as a tradition that draws upon theoretical sources and is a source itself for later cultural developments. In examining a variety of sentimental novels, I establish the moral sense philosophy as the theoretical basis of the sentimental novel's pathetic appeals and its theories of sociability and justice. The dissertation also addresses the aesthetic features of the sentimental novel and demonstrates again the tradition's connection to moral sense philosophy but within the context of the American elocution revolution. I look at natural language theory to render more legible the moments of emotional spectacle that are the signature of sentimental aesthetics. The second half of the dissertation demonstrates a connection between the sentimental novel and silent film. Both mediums rely on a common aesthetic storehouse for signifying emotions. The last two chapters of the dissertation compare silent film performance with emotional displays in the sentimental novel and in elocution and acting manuals. I also demonstrate that the films of D. W. Griffith, especially The Birth of a Nation, draw upon on the larger conventions of the sentimental novel.

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Weber, Jerry Dean. "The Concept of Human Nature in New England." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625414.

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Coffin, Tammis. "Finding Poetry in Nature." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2001. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/CoffinT2001.pdf.

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Bosworth, David. "The view of human nature in the United States constitution as expressed in The federalist papers." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Burns, Barbara B. "The changing American conception of the wilderness as evidenced in the development of the national park system." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52051.

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Throughout the development of our country attitudes toward wilderness have gradually evolved, reflecting ever changing values and concerns. While colonial man viewed wilderness with fear and distaste and believed the worth of such areas was solely dependent on the economic value of its resources, his modern counterpart has begun to realize that the absolute preservation of wilderness is desirable and necessary in order to protect important inspirational, educational and ecological values generated from these lands. It follows that the federal agency we consider to be one of the largest holders of wilderness lands—the National Park Service—has not always employed wilderness preservation as a major criterion for national park establishment. The intent of this thesis is, thus, to trace the evolution of national attitudes toward wilderness through an examination of the development of the national park system, focusing on the types of parks created in different periods of time and the rationale used to justify park establishment. In this investigation the national park system was divided into five peak periods of establishment. Two parks were then selected from each period for examination as representative case studies. It was found that the parks of each period tended to possess similar physical characteristics, featured objects of preservation and rationale for inclusion into the system. As the park system developed a gradual broadening of concerns was apparent. With the introduction of new rationale and featured objects of preservation from peak to peak, rarely were previous concerns displaced entirely. Thus, the overall development of the park system can be interpreted as an additive process, resulting in the representation of an entire spectrum of environmental concerns by the fifth period of park establishment.
Master of Landscape Architecture

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Ridley, Cameron C. "Perceptions of Public Land Usage in the Eastern Sierra Nevada and the Effect of Environmental Regulation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1049.

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This senior thesis is a study of the change over time of American perceptions of how natural public lands are to be utilized. American interactions with nature are analyzed and synthesized into the role of the conqueror, conservationist, and preservationist. These competing ideologies have shaped our nation and public lands. Looking specifically at the Eastern Sierra Nevada of California, the thesis investigates how the federal land management agency of the United States Forest Service has incorporated these competing roles into one management plan. The thesis analyzes a visitor guide to the area from 1925 and 2014 to see how different ideals were incorporated into the management and promotion of the area to tourists. Additionally, the thesis investigates how the environmental preservation ideology has limited access to public land and how the resort model of tourism has grown while primitive recreation opportunities have been diminished.

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Wagner, Krista Ann. "Farbs, Stickjocks, and Costume Nazis: A Study of the Living History Subculture in Modern America." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1196710568.

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Williams, Cameron. "A Study of the United States Influence on German Eugenics." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3781.

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This thesis is a study of the influence and effects that the United States had upon Germany from the rise of eugenics to its fall following the end of World War II. There are three stages to this study. First, I examine the rise of eugenics in the United States from its inception to the end of World War I and the influence it had upon Germany. Then I examine the interwar era along with the popularization of eugenics within both countries before concluding with the Second World War and post war era. My thesis focuses on both the active and passive influences that the United States had upon German eugenics and racial hygiene in the twentieth century. This study uses a wide range of primary and secondary sources. Many of the authors are experts in their field while the visuals are a window into understanding how eugenics was spread to the public.

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Brennan, Kelly Marie. "The Bucktrout Funeral Home, a Study of Professionalization and Community Service." W&M ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626538.

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Anderson, Christopher Johannes. "The nature of postmaterialism: a comparative study of West Germany and the United States." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45964.

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The social and economic structures in western societies are changing and with them are the political values of their citizens. This study investigates the nature of post-materialist value orientations in the United States and West Germany. The research aimed at determining whether the indicators that Ronald Inglehart developed almost twenty years ago for explaining valueâ shifts are reliable tools to predict the nature of post-materialist values. These factors are: rising levels of education, a distinct cohort experience, and increased levels of economic security.With the help of mass-survey data from 1974 and 1980 that were collected in the United States and west Germany it was shown that there are other factors that are more powerful for predicting post-material values than the ones specified in Inglehartâ s theory. Moreover, the predictors are of a different explanatory power in the two countries under consideration. A preliminary attempt was made to find the reasons for the phenomenon of national differences.

Master of Arts

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O'Brien, Robert. "The U.S. Government's Investigation of E.B. Stahlman as an Enemy Alien: A Case Study of Nativism in Nashville." TopSCHOLAR®, 1996. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/814.

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As a railroad executive for the Louisville and Nashville and then publisher for the Nashville Banner, Edward Bushrod Stahlman, a German immigrant, made many enemies. Stahlman's constant feuding with Luke Lea, who owned the rival Nashville Tennessean, led to an investigation of his citizenship during World War I. Hatred of Germans was at a fever pitch and not only did the Department of Justice examine Stahlman, who actually had been naturalized as a child, but the Tennessean also accused him of being a German propagandist. This thesis serves as an example of the scrutiny German-Americans underwent during the war. Organizations such as the American Protective League harassed him, too. Based primarily on Department of Justice files and newspaper accounts, the thesis also gives a brief biography of Stahlman and survey of Nashville and Tennessee politics during the first twenty years of the twentieth century.

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Ferrari, Mary Catherine. "Artisans of the South: A comparative study of Norfolk, Charleston and Alexandria, 1763-1800." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623819.

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This study analyzes the political activities of workmen in Norfolk, Alexandria, and Charleston in the years 1763-1800. British historians, in particular, E. P. Thompson, have discovered radical agitation on the part of artisans and laborers in Great Britain between 1790 and 1832. A similar rise in class consciousness has been documented on northern urban centers at the time of the Revolution.;Socially and politically Norfolk, Alexandria, and Charleston were quite different; yet in each the mechanics did develop some class consciousness and realization of their political worth. The artisans of Charleston united in opposition to British measures in the years before the Revolution and as a result gained political strength for workers unprecedented in South Carolina politics. Political consciousness developed among Norfolk artisans when they worked together after the Revolution to demand a more republican form of local government. Alexandria mechanics experienced political unity in the shadow of national partisan divisions which enhanced their local influence in the 1790s.;Despite attaining some degree of class consciousness the mechanics in these three southern cities were different from the politically and economically oppressed laborers of Britain during the Industrial Revolution. The artisans of the South were mostly middle class, nestled between the laborers, many of whom were enslaved, and the wealthy planters and merchants. Diversity in craft, economic standing and ethnicity played a hand in weakening the artisans' unity, but their relatively limited political success in provincial and national politics in contrast to local was a function of the mechanics' hesitancy to challenge those above them. In all three cities the strides the artisans made politically by 1800 were impressive, but in each instance they had yet to achieve the permanent coalescence of a conscious social class.

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Sacket, Wendy. ""Peopling the Western Country": A Study of Migration from Augusta County, Virginia, to Kentucky, 1777-1800." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625418.

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Leviner, Betty Crowe. "The Page Family of Rosewell and Mannsfield: A Study in Economic Decline." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625407.

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Lynch, Doria Marie. "The Labor Branch of the Office of Strategic Services : an academic study from a public history perspective /." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1129.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007.
Title from screen (viewed on August 8, 2007). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Kevin C. Robbins, Melissa Bingmann, Robert G. Barrows. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-127).

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Newby-Alexander, Cassandra. ""The world was all before them": A study of the black community in Norfolk, Virginia, 1861-1884." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623823.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the lives, accomplishments, and struggles of the black community in Norfolk, Virginia, between the years of 1861 and 1884, from the black perspective.;The integration of documents with statistics to uncover the mentalite of blacks is the focus of this study's research. The black community of this period was not always reactive, but active in determining its own fate. Even during slavery, Norfolk's blacks took an active role in their destiny through participation in the Underground Railroad.;This study suggests that blacks strove diligently to work with, and in some cases, conciliate, the white oligarchy. Unfortunately, their efforts met with resistance and defeat. Despite these difficulties, the black community pulled together to assist its members as the whites unified to subjugate them.;The results of the investigation suggest that had blacks continued to be politically active, Norfolk would have had an economically prosperous black community. Instead, the introduction of Jim Crow laws served to oppress blacks economically and produce a sense of hopelessness, socially and politically.

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Lewis, Williams. "Jefferson's Abomination in the Valley: A Study of the Economic Effects of the Embargo of 1807 on Louisville's Frontier Economy." TopSCHOLAR®, 2007. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/401.

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This thesis examines the effects of the Embargo of 1807 on Louisville and its surrounding areas. The purpose of this study is to discover if the interior suffered to the same degree as other regions of the country as a result of Thomas Jefferson's trade restrictions. Louisville is the focus area because it is not only representative of the Ohio Valley and the interior but also because it marked the end of civilization and the beginning of the frontier. Distinctions between class, economic status, and occupation between the inhabitants of Jefferson County are also observed. This particular approach leads to an examination into the true nature of the frontier itself. Archival material and extensive tax records are used to show that The Embargo of 1807 initiated a series of events that not only created unintended consequences, both positive and negative in nature, on Louisville's frontier economy but also laid the foundation for its future.

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Foley, Stephanie Brewer. "Perspectives on Nature: A Comparison of the Views of Thomas Jefferson and Henry David Thoreau." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625921.

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McGowan, Catherine. "Convents and conspiracies : a study of convent narratives in the United States, 1850-1870." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3297.

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In recent years, historians studying the United States in the mid-nineteenth century have made increasing use of popular writings to identify attitudes and beliefs. One genre of writing which has been largely overlooked by scholars of history is the convent narrative. These texts criticized convents and claimed that American nuns suffered imprisonment and abuse. Numerous examples of this genre, including both avowedly fictional novels and purported real-life autobiographies, were published in the United States between 1850 and 1870. Detailed study of these works uncovers a rich seam of evidence of popular attitudes to a range of political, religious and social forces, including republicanism, Catholicism, immigration, urbanization, industrialization, slavery and the role of women. This study analyzes and compares the themes, ideologies and techniques found in these texts. It will relate these to their wider context, and will examine the role the texts played in transmitting and reinforcing the beliefs and opinions of their authors. Close study of the narratives reveals that their authors were primarily concerned, not with the religious implications of convents and Catholicism (although these did alarm these authors), but, first and foremost, with the safety and stability of the American republic. The creators of convent narratives believed that the republic was under siege from anti-republican forces working to undermine the American way of life on a number of different fronts. These concerns are manifested repeatedly in the convent narratives. Where previously this genre has been overlooked by historians, except as a straightforward manifestation of lurid and sensationalistic anti-Catholic nativism, this study analyzes the deeper ideals and ideologies which these documents reveal, and establishes a basis for further exploration, both of the convent narrative genre in itself and of popular and populist literature in general.

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Trim, Henry. "The making of Stephen Decatur: A study of heroism and myth building in America." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27736.

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This thesis seeks to show how heroes are created, the role hero-making plays in the creation of national identity and how the mythology constructed around heroes affects historical memory, by examining the heroic narrative constructed around Commodore Stephen Decatur, United States Navy. Stephen Decatur became a hero during the first Barbary War in 1805, his abrupt rise to heroism was occasioned by a mix of luck, drama, partisan politics and nationalism. After his death, Decatur received very complimentary attention from nineteenth century biographers anxious to present Americans with national heroes. In the twentieth and twenty-first century Decatur remained popular, especially with American reengagement in the Middle East and the "War on Terror." Recent biographies of Decatur are of interest as they reveal the continuities and changes in the American heroic ideal over time, and how the momentum of a narrative can deeply shape our understanding of the past.

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Brand, Jonathan David. "Preserving a Pure Gathering of Saints: A Study of a Seventeenth-Century New England Church." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625998.

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Slider, Chad W. "Window making in America : a study of craftsmen, sawmills, glassworks, and hardware from Jamestown to the Civil War." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1366296.

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Windows are a significant feature of building construction that have largely escaped notice in terms of their design and fabrication in America from the time of European colonization to the mid-nineteenth century. This thesis tells the story of the glass, woodworking, and hardware technologies that transformed windows from hand-crafted to mass-produced building components. It also explores the stylistic, social, and economic factors that underlie the development and usage of windows in America.
Department of Architecture

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Gleason, Douglas Paul. "Of Circuit Riders and Circuit Courts: A Case Study of the Methodist Border Conflict in Antebellum Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626807.

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Sparks, Wesley Tanner. "Trying Men's Souls| A Study on What Motivated Eight New England Soliders to Join the American Revolution." Thesis, Salisbury University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1524082.

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In this comparative social history of the American Revolution, the stories of eight men recounted through the use of their biographies, journals, and memoirs. The lives of four enlisted soldiers and four officers are depicted to gain an understanding of how they became involved in the revolution. In order to do so, their early lives are scrutinized, as well as their post-war lives as they transitioned to peacetime. The main purpose, however, is to examine how each man became motivated to join the war for independence, whether socially, economically, and/or politically. As each man had different aspirations for their expectations before and after the war, one thing is certain: the enlisted soldiers were motivated for different reasons compared to the officers.

By examining their early lives, as well as post-war lives, one can gain a better understanding of whether their motivations came to fruition, in the end. The intention is not to disprove their patriotism or zeal for joining the war, but instead to prove there were other motivational factors that contributed to their decision. Their patriotism is undeniable, which was a crucial reason why they were able to win the war after eight long years. Even though they experienced deprivation for eight years, due to the lack of resources, the spirit of the men could not be deterred. Despite harrowing circumstances, the revolutionary soldiers were able to prevail over a superior enemy. With that, their motivations and expectations must be examined to shed light on how these men were able to win the war.

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Ives, Timothy Howlett. "Wangunk Ethnohistory: A Case Study of a Connecticut River Indian Community." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626299.

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Odendahl, Laura Jean. "Political Reconstruction of the Southern Lady: A Case Study, 1856-1907." W&M ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626372.

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Hinton, Carl Anthony. "The Foreign Policy of John Quincy Adams: A Study in Lockean Synthesis." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625419.

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Altonen, Brian Lee. "Asiatic cholera and dysentery on the Oregon Trail : a historical medical geography study." PDXScholar, 2000. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4305.

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Two disease regions existed on the Oregon Trail. Asiatic cholera impacted the Platte River flood plain from 1849 to 1852. Dysentery developed two endemic foci due to the decay of buffalo carcasses in eastern and middle Nebraska between 1844 and 1848, but later developed a much larger endemic region west of this Great Plains due to the infection of livestock carcasses by opportunistic bacteria. This study demonstrates that whereas Asiatic cholera diffusion along the Trail was defined primarily by human population features, topography, and regional climate along the Platte River flood plain, the distribution of opportunistic dysentery along the Trail was defined primarily by human and animal fitness in relation to local topography features. By utilizing a geographic interpretation of disease spread, the Asiatic cholera epidemic caused by Vibrio cholerae could be distinguished from the dysentery epidemic caused by one or more species of Salmonella or Campylobacter. In addition, this study also clarifies an important discrepancy popular to the Oregon Trail history literature. "Mountain fever," a disease typically associated with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, was demonstrated to be cases of fever induced by the same bacteria responsible for opportunistic dysentery. In addition, several important geographic methods of disease interpretations were used for this study. By relating the epidemiological transition model of disease patterns to the early twentieth century sequent occupance models described in numerous geography journals, a spatially- and temporally-oriented disease model was produced applicable to reviews of disease history, a method of analysis which has important applications to current studies of disease patterns in rapidly changing rural and urban population settings.

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Lang, Mary Lee M. "Immigration as treated in early history textbooks 1789-1939 : prelude to multiculturalism /." Diss., This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-172051/.

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Ge, Liang, and 葛亮. "A thematic study of the immigrants' fiction of Yan Geling." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B26652845.

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Siler, Carl R. "A content analysis of selected United States history textbooks concerning World War II." Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/434857.

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The purpose of this study was to apply the research technique, content analysis, to the five most widely used United States high school history textbooks. The textbooks were investigated to obtain an objective, systematic, quantitative, and qualitative description of the textual content concerning the period of World War II.The population studied consisted of the five most widely used high school United States history textbooks. Three categories, people, events, and themes were researched in all five textbooks. Each of 126 specific items were coded from each textbook according to inclusion, frequency, magnitude, and direction. Jury validity was utilized, and three professional historians used as independent coders confirmed instrument reliability.Findings1. Events were included in a greater percentage than people or themes.2. American, British, and German political leaders were included more frequently than Russian, Italian, or Japanese leaders.3. Allied leaders were treated more favorably than the Axis leaders.4. The specific items were superficially treated with the textbook lacking indepth presentation of many specific items.Conclusions1. There exists a commonness and similarity among the most widely used United States history textbooks with a distinct lack of differences in that they generally present a series of chronological events and facts.2. The textbooks less than fully achieve the goals established for history courses by state and national organizations.3. Omissions, biases, inaccuracies, and distortions appear in the most widely used American history textbooks because of the forces of the mass market and apparent inadequate usage of current historiography.

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Thill, Henry T. "Study of an American Civil War chaplaincy : Henry Clay Trumbull, 10th Connecticut Volunteers /." Thesis, This resource online, 1986. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02092007-102011/.

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Muraca, David. "Martin's Hundred: A Settlement Study." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625801.

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Schug, Dieter. "German-Language Printers in the United States from 1780 to 1801: A Study in Cultural Leadership." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626177.

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Guillard, James. "The United States and Cuba: A Study of the US’s First Military Occupation and State Building Efforts." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3829.

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This paper examines the US-Cuban relationship during the first military occupation of Cuba from 1898 to 1902, to show the role of high modernist state building in the occupation and the scope of Cuban participation in this endeavor. This is evidenced by heavily examining the annual reports of the US Military Governor General of Cuba and the US appointed civil secretaries of the Cuban government. This research differs from previous studies in the field by introducing James C. Scott’s concepts of legibility and high modernist state building, as well as suggesting that the Cuban civil secretaries participated within a limited scope to help form an independent republic.

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White, andrea Paige. "Living on the Periphery: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Yamasee Mission Community in Colonial St Augustine." W&M ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626354.

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Harmon, Sandra D. Bergstrom Peter V. "Colonial puritan New England women, 1620-1750 a study and teaching unit in the history of American women /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1990. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9115226.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1990.
Title from title page screen, viewed November 28, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Peter V. Bergstrom (chair), Ann P. Malone, Lawrence W. McBride, Carl J. Ekberg, Beverly A. Smith. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 306-325) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Reader, Darrell Ray. "Weaponized Nature: How the Environment Saved the Allies at Bastogne, December 16-23, 1944." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538767/.

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Many histories written by professional historians discuss the Battle of the Bulge; however, none of them incorporate the growing field of environmental history as a lens of analysis. This paper aims to address that hole in the scholarship by evaluating the impact that environmental factors exerted on the American army's ability to fight in and around Bastogne and St. Vith, Belgium during the first week of the battle. Had it not been for the environmental factors and the Americans' ability to make better use of the natural and manmade conditions than the Germans, the Allies would not have been able to achieve eventual victory. In the historiography of the battle, weather conditions are usually referenced only as the setting in which the fighting occurred. This paper goes further than simply using the environment and climate as a stage set. By looking at the way environmental conditions impacted strategic, operational, and tactical issues, a new perspective is opened up. The role that these environmental factors played is emphasized and shows that they had a greater effect on the outcome than scholars have previously credited. This paper uses first person accounts from participants, from the command level to the soldier in his foxhole, as well as unit histories, oral histories, and the vast amount of secondary sources to focus on and synthesize the effects that the environment had. Without exploiting the environmental factors that existed in the Ardennes, the American army would not have been able to hold off the German offensive.

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Wang, Yufeng. "Slavery in the United States and China: A Comparative Study of the Old South and the Han Dynasty." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625472.

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Cook, Bettye Alexander. "A Chronological Study of Experiential Education in the American History Museum." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5190/.

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This study traced the evolution of experiential education in American history museums from 1787 to 2007. Because of a decline in attendance, museum educators need to identify best practices to draw and retain audiences. I used 16 museology and history journals, books, and archives of museums prominent for using the method. I also interviewed 15 museum educators who employ experiential learning, one master interpreter of the National Park Service, and an independent museum exhibit developer. Experiential education involves doing with hands touching physical materials. Four minor questions concerned antecedents of experiential learning, reasons to invest in the method, the influence of social context, and cultural pluralism. Next is a review of the theorists whose works support experiential learning: Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, Lewin, Bruner, Eisner, Hein, and David Kolb plus master parks interpreter Freeman Tilden. The 8 characteristics they support include prior experiences, physical action, interaction with the environment, use of the senses, emotion, social relationships, and personal meaning. Other sections are manifestation of experiential learning, transformation of history museums, and cultural pluralism in history museums. The research design is descriptive, and the procedure, document analysis and structured interview. Findings are divided by decades after the first 120 years. Social context, examples of experiential learning, and multicultural activities are detailed. Then findings are discussed by patterns of delivery: sensory experiences, actions as diversion and performance, outreach of traveling trunks and of organized activity, crafts as handwork and as skills, role-playing, simulation, hands-on museum work, and minor patterns. The decline of involvement of citizens in the civic and cultural life of the community has adversely affected history museums. Experiential learning can stop this trend and transform museum work, as open-air museums and the National Park Service have demonstrated. In the future history museums may include technology, a more diverse audience, and adults in its experiential educational plans to thrive. Further research is needed on evaluation, finances, and small museums.

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Tophoven, Ingo. "Long-Lasting, Satisfied, Bicultural United States Veterans and German Spouses| A Phenomenological Study." Thesis, Regent University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3636236.

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This is an interpretative phenomenological study examining the lived experiences of five long-lasting, self-report satisfied, German-American military couples, using semi-structured interviews. Each bicultural couple that participated was married thirty years or longer and consisted of one German native wife and one American veteran husband. Eight themes emerged from the data: (a) tri-cultural marriage experiences; (b) faith, religion, belief systems; (c) intimacy; (d) overcoming: good coping, commitment, and humor; (e) respect and appreciation systems; (f) trust and fidelity; (g) communication and the need to improve; and (h) keeping things alive.

Keywords: Bicultural marriage, Long-lasting marriage, Phenomenology, and Veterans

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McKinney, Jane Dillon. "Marston Parish 1654-1674: A Community Study." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626035.

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Adcock, Amber. "The Enemy in our Backyard: A Study of the German POW Experience in North Carolina and the Program's Effect on World War II." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/114.

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This thesis seeks to examine the experiences of German POWs in North Carolina in World War II. It examines their activities, thoughts, feelings, and other interesting aspects of their time in the United States. This thesis also provides adequate information on the establishment of the POW program, and examines how this program impacted Americans at home and abroad.

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Feinman, David Eric. "Divided government and congressional foreign policy a case study of the post-World War II era in American government." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4891.

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The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of American federal government, during periods within which these two branches are led by different political parties, to discover whether the legislative branch attempts to independently legislate and enact foreign policy by using "the power of the purse" to either appropriate in support of or refuse to appropriate in opposition to military engagement abroad. The methodology for this research includes the analysis and comparison of certain variables, including public opinion, budgetary constraints, and the relative majority of the party that holds power in one or both chambers, and the ways these variables may impact the behavior of the legislative branch in this regard. It also includes the analysis of appropriations requests made by the legislative branch for funding military engagement in rejection of requests from the executive branch for all military engagements that occurred during periods of divided government from 1946 through 2009.
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Hung, Kuang-Chi. "Finding Patterns in Nature: Asa Gray's Plant Geography and Collecting Networks (1830s-1860s)." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3600183.

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It is well known that American botanist Asa Gray's 1859 paper on the floristic similarities between Japan and the United States was among the earliest applications of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory in plant geography. Commonly known as Gray's "disjunction thesis," Gray's diagnosis of that previously inexplicable pattern not only provoked his famous debate with Louis Agassiz but also secured his role as the foremost advocate of Darwin and Darwinism in the United States. Making use of previously unknown archival materials, this dissertation examines the making of Gray's disjunction thesis and its relation to his collecting networks. I first point out that, as far back as the 1840s, Gray had identified remarkable "analogies" between the flora of East Asia and that of North America. By analyzing Gray and his contemporaries' "free and liberal exchange of specimens," I argue that Gray at the time was convinced that "a particular plan" existed in nature, and he considered that the floristic similarities between Japan and eastern North America manifested this plan. In the 1850s, when Gray applied himself to enumerating collections brought back by professional collectors supported by the subscription system and appointed in governmental surveying expeditions, his view of nature was then replaced by one that regarded the flora as merely "a catalogue of species." I argue that it was by undertaking the manual labor of cataloging species and by charging subscription fees for catalogued species that Gray established his status as a metropolitan botanist and as the "mint" that produced species as a currency for transactions in botanical communities. Finally, I examine the Gray-Darwin correspondence in the 1850s and the expedition that brought Gray's collector to Japan. I argue that Gray's thesis cannot be considered Darwinian as historians of science have long understood the term, and that its conception was part of the United States' scientific imperialism in East Asia. In light of recent studies focusing on the history of field sciences, this dissertation urges that a close examination of a biogeographical discovery like Gray's thesis is impossible without considering the institutional, cultural, and material aspects that tie the closets of naturalists to the field destinations of collectors.

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Banchuen, Woraphat. "A comparative study of product placement in movies in the United States and Thailand." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3265.

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The purpose of this research was to compare the presence of product placement in movies across two different cultures, namely the U.S. and Thailand. In particular, this research examined the frequency of product placement in movies, the position of product placement in movies, and the target audiences in the U.S. and Thailand.

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