Tesis: "Midwest history"

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Munz, Stevie M. "The Farmer's Wife: An Oral History Project". Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1469038905.

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Nixon, Ingrid Ruth. "On Growing Up Finnish in the Midwest: A Family Oral History Project". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3235.

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This study explores what oral history interviews with my mother reveal about the familial and community dynamics that influenced Finnish-American children growing up on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula between 1930 and 1950. Close to four hours of oral history interviews were conducted with Viola Nixon, who is second and third-generation Finnish-American on her father’s and mother’s sides, respectively. After conducting a narrative analysis of the interviews, five themes emerged as significant to community function: family, language, education, work and church. I grouped some of these themes together to create three stories informed by materials drawn from the interviews, a cookbook, and my personal experience. These stories were written for oral performance. The stories provide audiences the opportunity to learn about and feel empathy for America’s immigrants, as well as to explore their own immigrant roots. Opportunities for further studies exist to explore the immigrant experience on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

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Wheeler, Kenneth H. "The Antebellum College in the Old Northwest: Higher Education and the Defining of the Midwest". The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392025643.

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Bush, Eric Wayne. "The history of the Big Ten Band Directors Association (1971-2015)". Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1559.

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Founded by George Cavender in 1971, the Big Ten Band Directors Association is one of the oldest associations of its kind. With a membership consisting of each institution’s Director of Bands, Athletic Band Director, and all other band faculty, the stature of its members, both past and current, is clear. These band directors are leaders in the profession and have helped the field develop into what it has become today through their positions at their respective flagship institutions of the Big Ten Athletic Conference. The BTBDA meets each year at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, IL, and its investment in sponsoring quality sessions at the clinic is well documented. The association has sponsored twenty-one sessions since 1986, featuring prominent composers such as Michael Colgrass, Karel Husa, Warren Benson, Gunther Schuller, and Frank Ticheli. Additionally, the association has shown its dedication to the advancement of the band repertoire through commissioning seven new works from 1986-2014, four of which were born out of a commissioning contest that spanned from 1998-2005. This study is the first of its kind to document a band association formed of members bound by a specific athletic conference. Research of the Big Ten Band Directors Association shows numerous examples of how a band conference association can contribute to different facets of the field (e.g. commissioning, clinic session sponsorship, etc.). The profession’s knowledge of the BTBDA is important as it highlights how these associations are contributing to the landscape of the field.

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Zimmer, Eric Steven. "Red Earth Nation: environment and sovereignty in modern Meskwaki history". Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6352.

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What is the relationship between environment and tribal sovereignty, and what is the value of tribally-controlled land in the twenty-first century? This dissertation turns to the Meskwaki Nation, the only resident Native American community in Iowa, to provide a long-term perspective on the benefits and pitfalls of tribal land reclamation. Rather than focusing on dispossession, it emphasizes how one tribe reacquired its land base following removal. In the process, it shows how environment and sovereignty are sources of political and economic leverage for Native communities. They are useful categories for organizing Native histories and understanding how environmental, political, and economic interactions have shaped and been shaped by Indigenous struggles for sovereignty and self-determination. This work examines how the unique status of the Meskwaki “settlement,” which is not a “reservation” because the tribe purchased it with tribal money in 1857, has expanded the tribe’s capacity for self-determination. The Meskwaki story confirms that increasing tribal land holdings—as well as tribal control over them—provides an anchor from which tribes can maintain their sovereignty, creates opportunities for self-determination, and offers tribes political and economic leverage. But land reclamation is not a silver bullet that can solve the many problems faced by Native Nations today. Rather, tribal land (and by extension, the environments on it) is a political tool that can be deployed in defense of tribal sovereignty. By recognizing the potential of tribally-controlled land to create leverage within the paradigms of state/tribal and federal/tribal politics, tribes can utilize their land bases as sovereign, political territory and pursue economic and political strategies that can empower their continuing recovery from the processes of colonization.

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McLochlin, Dustin C. "American Catholicism and Farm Labor Activism: The Farm Labor Aid Committee of Indiana as a Case Study". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1219166598.

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Estrada, Daniel y Richard Santillan. "Chicanos in the Northwest and the Midwest United States: A History of Cultural and Political Commonality". Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624834.

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Wiggins, Leticia Rose. "Planting the "Uprooted Ones:" La Raza in the Midwest, 1970 - 1979". The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468604290.

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Stinson, Jennifer Kirsten. "Race, family, and region in the nineteenth-century upper Midwest a history of African, Indian, and European communities in the heartland /". [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380133.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 14, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4827. Adviser: Wendy Gamber.

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Harley, Grant L., Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Lisa B. LaForest y Patrick McCauley. "Dendrochronological Dating Of The Lund-Spathelf House, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA". Tree-Ring Society, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622642.

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The Lund-Spathelf House is located at 1526 Pontiac Trail in Ann Arbor, Michigan. During a recent renovation, the owner sought information regarding the construction of the house by searching through numerous written records. Despite an extensive history of the land on which the house currently sits, neither a construction year nor general period of construction could be obtained. Therefore, four samples of oak (Quercus spp.) were extracted from floor boards throughout the house for dendrochronological dating. The four samples crossdated conclusively with each other both visually and statistically and were used to build a floating 126-year tree-ring chronology. We used COFECHA to statistically evaluate the absolute temporal placement of this chronology against a nearby regional chronology (MI005.CRN) from the Cranbrook Institute, Michigan. The Lund-Spathelf House chronology was anchored in time with the regional chronology from A.D. 1720 to 1845 with a correlation coefficient of 0.62 (p < 0.0001, t < 8.76, n = 126). All four oak samples provided conclusive cutting dates of A.D. 1845, indicating the year the Lund-Spathelf House was constructed.

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Karna, Bishal Karna. "Skillful Ways: Sōtō Zen Buddhism in the American Midwest". The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1531270511483504.

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Anderson, Wayne Gary. "Honest to goodness farmers: rural Iowa in American culture during the Great Depression". Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2036.

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During the 1930s a large number of cultural artifacts presented rural Iowa to national audiences as an ideal place where the "real" America still flourished despite the harsh realities of the Great Depression. Artist Grant Wood's lush landscapes, novelist Phil Stong's trustworthy farmers, and cartoonist "Ding" Darling's pragmatic Iowans, are among the creations that comforted Americans from 1930-1936. These texts gained attention from audiences not only because they invoked peaceful pastoral imagery, but also because they frequently presented a monolithic patriarchal society without ethnic and racial diversity or social class distinctions. This presentation of Caucasian normativity was a tonic for many Americans who felt unnerved by the floundering economy and still recognized the deep divisions of the previous decade, which had resulted in race riots, immigration restrictions, and labor unrest. These splits were still present in the 1930s, even though that decade has come to be remembered primarily for the economic crisis and dust storms which spawned famous representations of Dust Bowl migrants. Those conditions were real, but the cultural importance of productive, honest (white) Iowa farmers during the first half of the Depression has, by comparison, been largely forgotten. In four chapters which respectively analyze journalism, art and literature, films, and political speeches from the period, I seek to rectify this historical oversight and offer a glimpse into how Americans, when faced with an ongoing crisis, may be encouraged to embrace a "simpler" way of life belonging to an imagined past.

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Spruill, Denise Lynn Pate. ""From the tub to the club": black women and activism in the Midwest, 1890-1920". Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6294.

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This dissertation examines the activism of African-American club women in Iowa during the early twentieth century. As early as 1891, prior to the founding of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACW) in 1896 and Iowa Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (IACW) in 1902, black women met in various cities throughout the state to discuss the need for education within the black community, proper etiquette for young women, current events, arts and culture, while planning community service activities. In the upper Midwest, clubs and early community activism served as a conduit for black women, providing a venue for them to hone their organizational skills, create networks, recruit members and develop programs to aid in racial uplift, increasing their authority and power as women in their communities. Through education, health, and welfare reform, club women created new forms of citizenship as they tried to make the needs of black Iowans a legitimate political concern for the state. Significantly, this occurred prior to and laid the ground work for the organization of regional branches of the Afro-American Council and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). My dissertation will show that the independent activism and organizing of black Iowa club women gave them the ability to influence other national organizations where women’s leadership was suppressed. In 1917, the United States War Department named Fort Des Moines, located on the outskirts of Des Moines, Iowa, as the first World War I training camp for black officers in the country. Working with 1200 black servicemen and their migrant families, local African-American women harnessed both club and organizational capabilities to perform some of the most hands on war work in the United States, creating black “Company Mother’s” groups and Red Cross auxiliaries. My research shows that African-American women in Iowa had greater access to state NAACP leadership positions than their sisters in larger urban areas throughout the country. From 1915-1920, black women injected local goals and objectives into the agendas of NAACP branches throughout the state. Exploring the impact of race, class, gender and migration on African-Americans in the Midwest, my dissertation will challenge historians to rethink how they frame their approach to black women’s activism by demonstrating the centrality of region to the history of African-American women’s leadership and race work. This dissertation is a social cultural history that draws upon the activism of individuals and organizational histories. A great challenge was piecing together the history of the eight clubs that existed 1891-1902, prior to the IACW. These clubs do not have any archived sources. I layered information found in issues of the Iowa Bystander from 1896 to 1902 with extensive research in national and state census data to better understand the lives of these women, who were also wives, mothers, and migrants. After the founding of the IACW in 1902, published primary material (annual meeting minutes, newspapers, bulletins, speeches) allowed me to recreate the conversations within African-American communities, as well as the dialogue between whites and blacks. I used the papers and national records of the IACW, NACW, and NAACP to identify club members as well as agendas, goals, outreach and fundraising efforts of various organizations, offering national and regional perspectives of the challenges faced by club women, while providing insight to conversations and concerns from the national to state level.

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Williamson, Benjamin Wayne. "Coming Home: The Jesus People Movement In the Midwest And Their Attempts To Escape Fundamentalism". University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1619794567166103.

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Laswell, Jeffrey L. "Functional analysis of probate inventories and archaeological material of the Lick Creek community : an antebellum midwest biracial community". Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1399187.

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During the nineteenth century, Indiana was home to nearly two dozen agricultural communities comprised of primarily African American residents. These short lived communities represented one of the few contexts in which both African American and non-African American groups lived and worked together within a viable rural community. By analyzing one such settlement, this study presents a basis for comparative functional analysis at the household level through the use of pattern identification of material culture. This study utilized both probate inventory assessments of the period and archeological material within the same classification scheme. Advantages and disadvantages of both data sources are also presented. While the data between the two groups showed little differentiation concerning household material composition, slight differences, particularly at the class level, was evident. These differences may have been based in socio-economic concerns or may have exhibited active consumer choice, reflecting minute aspects of cultural identity.
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Teigen, Danielle Ann. "The Press and the Historical Development of Three Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Programs in the Upper Midwest, 1950-1980". Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29175.

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From 1950-1980, women's intercollegiate athletic programs experienced exponential growth, with newspapers rarely detailing the journey until Title IX passed in 1972. This project examined how women's athletics developed at North Dakota State University, the University of North Dakota, and Minnesota State University Moorhead, as well as the correlating press coverage. Articles from two regional newspapers and three student newspapers from 1950-1980 illustrated the coverage women's athletics received, while women integrally involved in the three athletic programs from 1950-1980 supplemented the coverage and further explained the development. This thesis proposes a cohesive narrative of the press coverage associated with the development of three women's intercollegiate athletic programs in the Midwest from 1950-1980. The project also speculates on the reasons why different newspapers covered women's athletics in the area differently and why 1975 emerged as a watershed year for women's athletics at NDSU, UND, and MSUM.

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Becker, Michelle L. "Programs of the Highest Type: University Radio and Gender Ideals in the Midwest in Postwar America". Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1628764444442284.

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Weyer, Karen. "Determining Appropriate Sample Size for Cases in a Case-Control Study Utilizing Proxy Respondents". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1274195305.

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Marshall, Jess. "Old Hoosiers Be Like". Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1525279099781323.

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Lion, Antonio Ricardo Calori de [UNESP]. "Equipamentos cineteatrais: usos e simbolizações de espaços culturais nas capitais centro-oestinas no Estado Novo". Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/148703.

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Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar e refletir a função político-cultural que tiveram os Cine-Teatros Cuiabá e Goiânia, a partir do processo de intervenções urbanas. No início dos anos de 40 as Interventorias em Mato Grosso e Goiás construíram os cineteatros nas capitais centro-oestinas, edifícios incluídos nos projetos de modernização das cidades; no caso de Goiânia, o cineteatro fazia parte das obras institucionais para construção da nova capital. Partindo do conceito de invenção de tradições proposto por Eric Hobsbawm almeja-se analisar o processo ocorrido nos estados mencionados enquanto parte fundamental para a política estado-novista de Getúlio Vargas, em que se observa a cultura como elemento intrínseco para o projeto de modernização cuiabano e goianiense. Neste contexto, a Marcha para o Oeste fora um projeto importante por compor o ideal de colonização de não-índios enquanto parte fundamental da ideia de progresso construída - sobretudo pela propaganda - sobre os dois Estados. As intervenções urbanas em Cuiabá iniciadas no final dos anos 30 e continuadas até 1945 colocam em questão os modernos projetos urbanísticos e arquitetônicos para uma cidade de origem colonial. Em Goiânia, as intervenções emergiram inteiramente por concepções modernas. As principais fontes de pesquisa foram os periódicos; peças teatrais levadas aos palcos dos espaços em questão e também a própria materialidade dos edifícios. Pretende-se com este trabalho contribuir para se (re)pensar o período estado-novista no Centro-Oeste, trazendo para o debate os espaços destinados à cultura em uma proposta de leitura no entroncamento entre história, arquitetura e teatro.
This work aims to analyze and reflect the political and cultural function possessed by the Cine-Teatro Cuiabá and Goiânia, starting from the urban intervention process. In the early 1940’s the state government of Mato Grosso and Goiás built the movies theaters in their capitals, buildings included in the projects of the cities modernization; in Goiânia’s case, the movie theater was part of the institutional works for the new capital construction. Based on the concept of invention of tradition proposed by Eric Hobsbawm, aims to analyze the process occurred in the mentioned states as a key part for Getúlio Vargas’ policy of New State, where culture poses as an intrinsic element for the modernization project of Cuiabá and Goiânia. In this context, the March to the West was an important project in order to compose the ideal of non-Indian settlement as a fundamental part of the constructed idea of progress - mainly by advertising - on the two states. Urban interventions in Cuiabá began in the late 1930’s and continued until 1945 questioning the modern urban and architectural designs for a city of colonial origin. In Goiania, interventions emerged entirely by modern conceptions. The main sources of research were periodicals; plays brought up to stage on the spaces in question and also the very materiality of buildings. The objective of this work is to give a contribution to (re)think the New State period in the Brazilian Midwest, bringing up to debate the very spaces for culture in a propose of reading among the crossroads of history, architecture and theater.
FAPESP: 2014/16749-3

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Winans, Adrienne Ann. "Race, Space, and Gender: Re-mapping Chinese America from the Margins, 1875-1943". The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437702859.

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Mujic, Julie A. "Between Campus and War: Students, Patriotism, and Education at Midwestern Universities during the American Civil War". Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334456927.

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Carlock, Robert Michael. "A New (Bowling Green State) University: Educational Activism, Social Change, and Campus Protest in the Long Sixties". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555087986990235.

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Smith, Richard Yates. "Masculinity in the Absence of Women: The Gendered Identities of Los Solos in Mexican Chicago, 1916-1930". University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1229033987.

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Fernandez, Delia M. "From Spanish-Speaking to Latino: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in West Michigan, 1924-1978". The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437439370.

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Scott, Jon-Jama. "The Origin of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University: A Legacy of Black Scholar Activists". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1621955882676684.

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Savard, Shannon N. Savard. "Growing Tribes: Reality Theatre and Columbus' Gay and Lesbian Community". The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524152632871631.

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Coil, William Russell. ""New Deal Republican" James Allen Rhodes and the transformation of the Republican Party, 1933-1983 /". Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1124117381.

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(7467362), Renee D. Gaarder. "Made in America: The Federal Music Project in the Midwest". Thesis, 2019.

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The 1930s to 1940s saw an upsurge in nationalism and the quest to define American identity. The federal government sponsored and sanctioned a specific nationalist narrative within the programs of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Works Projects Administration. Very little attention has been paid to the Federal Music Project (FMP) yet this program was an integral part of constructing American identity both nationally and regionally. In conjunction with popular music, and at times in opposition to it, the FMP formed the “soundtrack” of American life.

Although the messages were not as overt as those in other programs, such as the Federal Writers’ Project or Federal Theatre Project, the Federal Music Project played a large part in disseminating American ideals and identity, primarily through classical music, and to a lesser extent, popular, folk, and indigenous forms of music. The Federal Music Project strove to uncover, and at times create, America’s “genuine” musical heritage. The ideals of the New Deal took root in the musical expression of the FMP and impacted the development of American identity both musically and socially. It was not merely a relief program for those on its rolls; it was intended as an education program for the nation. Amid the push and pull of politics, war, and class conflict, American musicians forged and defined a unique style of music that was accepted by the American public.

The dissertation focuses on the FMP activities in the Midwest, or Region IV. Focusing on the Midwest as a region demonstrates how the FMP was interpreted and practiced and allows for a conversation with other the reginal studies of the FMP. Three case studies of Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan provide a more detailed analysis of the activities and contributions of each state, and thus the region, offering depth over breadth. Each of these states had dedicated and active symphonies, teaching projects, community outreach, radio broadcasting, and music therapy projects.

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Sutton, Kathryn Jeanne. "Rearticulating historic Fort Snelling : Dakota memory and colonial haunting in the American Midwest". Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5712.

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Built in 1819 by the U.S. government, Fort Snelling sits at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. This place is called a “bdote” by the Dakota people. Oral traditions describe bdote as the site of Dakota creation. Treaties in the nineteenth century allowed the U.S. government to dispossess the Dakota of this land. Fort Snelling is connected to many important points in U.S. history. It operated as a military post until the mid-twentieth century, and was a training or processing site for U.S. servicepersons who fought in the Civil War, U.S. Indian removal campaigns, and World War Two, among others. Dred Scott lived as a slave at Fort Snelling. Following the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, about 1,600 Dakota people were forcibly concentrated below Fort Snelling, where nearly 300 died. Shortly after, the U.S. government banished the Dakota from Minnesota. Today, Fort Snelling exists as “Historic Fort Snelling.” Run by the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS), the site offers a living history program which interprets Fort Snelling “as it was” in the 1820s—before much of these events of import occurred. This portrayal is geared toward schoolchildren and white Minnesotans, and focuses on the premise of peaceful U.S. settlement in the American West. This study describes Fort Snelling’s history, and address peoples’—both Dakota and other Minnesotans’—objections to the circumscribed interpretation of history at Historic Fort Snelling. By better revealing the memory alive at this site, most specifically the popularly ignored Dakota memories of Fort Snelling and bdote, this study hopes to convey what scholar Avery F. Gordon would term the “hauntings” present but unacknowledged at Historic Fort Snelling. This study concludes that in order to express the density of memory at Fort Snelling, MHS and Historic Fort Snelling must acknowledge that the Dakota people and their stories are crucial to its history. Further, these institutions must recognize that oppressive structures like U.S. colonialism allowed for Fort Snelling’s creation and operation. These structures and the hauntings they produce are still alive on this land, and onsite historical interpretation at Historic Fort Snelling must transform to reflect these living memories.
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McDermott, Stacy Pratt. "Gentlemen of the jury : the status of jurors and the reputation of the jury in the Midwest, 1830--1860 /". 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3290315.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4837. Adviser: Orville Vernon Burton. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-285) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

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Rocksborough-Smith, Ian Maxwell. "Contentious Cosmopolitans: Black Public History and Civil Rights in Cold War Chicago, 1942-1972". Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/65735.

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This dissertation looks at how teachers, unionists, and cultural workers used black history to offer new ways of thinking about racial knowledge from a local level. Numerous efforts to promote and teach this history demonstrated how dissident cosmopolitan political currents from previous decades remained relevant to a vibrant and ideologically diffuse African American public sphere despite widespread Cold War dispersions, white supremacist reactions, and anticommunist repressions. My argument proceeds by demonstrating how these public history projects coalesced around a series of connected pedagogical endeavors. These endeavors included the work of school teachers on Chicago's South side who tried to advance curriculum reforms through World War II and afterwards, the work of packinghouse workers and other union-focused educators who used anti-discrimination campaigns to teach about the history of African Americans and Mexican Americans in the labor movement and to advance innovative models for worker education, and the activities of important cultural workers like Margaret and Charles Burroughs who politicized urban space and fought for greater recognition of black history in the public sphere through the advancement of their vision for a museum. Collectively, these projects expressed important ideas about race, citizenship, education and intellectual labors that engaged closely with the rapidly shifting terrains of mid-20th Century civil rights and international anti-colonialisms. Ultimately, this dissertation offers a social history about how cosmopolitan cultural work in public history and similar forms of knowledge production were at the intersections of political realities and lived experience in U.S. urban life.

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Beaulieu, Rebekah Anne. "Accounting for the past: historic house museums and America's urban Midwest". Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/26441.

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Although a sizable subcategory of the nonprofit museum sector, historic house museums have received limited attention in discussions of best practices, most notably in topics of administration, funding, and risk management. Historic house museums serve as a cornerstone of American and international cultural tourism for their accessibility and low, or free, attendance costs. This research argues for historic house museum operations, rather than its period of restorative preservation, as the focus of inquiry. The subjects of this research are three sites that were the products of late nineteenth-century industrialization in the American Midwest, a region under-studied in current literature. Past scholarship on historic houses has been dedicated to preservation methodology and interpretation. No study of house museums attends to business and legal concerns as well as architectural history and preservation. Utilizing archives, interviews, and financial documents in the analysis of three case studies, I argue that historic house museums provide an illuminating lens onto issues of professional practice facing museums in the twenty-first century. This dissertation focuses on three historic house museums constructed after the 1876 Centennial and before the turn of the twentieth century. Chapter One offers the history of the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee, a German Renaissance Revival structure built in 1892 for brewing magnate Captain Frederick Pabst, and provides a discussion of community funding and post-recession heritage tourism. Chapter Two details the story of the Driehaus Museum in Chicago, a Renaissance Revival mansion built in 1883 for banker Samuel Nickerson and now funded primarily by investor Richard Driehaus. This chapter illuminates the issues of single-donor funding, the problematization of definitions of the historic house museum, and modern development of private art collections. Chapter Three is dedicated to the Samuel Cupples House in St. Louis, a Richardsonian Romanesque residence constructed in 1890 for manufacturing magnate Samuel Cupples and now owned by Saint Louis University, and delves into topics of institutional stewardship and university management of cultural resources. The conclusion proposes a diversification of scholarship concerning historic house museums that embraces financial management to ensure operational sustainability.

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Wernicke, Rose. "The Farmland Opera House : culture, identity, and the corn contest". Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4663.

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Koenigsknecht, Theresa A. ""But the half can never be told" : the lives of Cannelton's Cotton Mill women workers". Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4655.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
From 1851 to 1954, under various names, the Indiana Cotton Mills was the dominant industry in the small town of Cannelton, Indiana, mostly employing women and children. The female industrial laborers who worked in this mill during the middle and end of the nineteenth century represent an important and overlooked component of midwestern workers. Women in Cannelton played an essential role in Indiana’s transition from small scale manufacturing in the 1850s to large scale industrialization at the turn of the century. In particular, this work will provide an in-depth exploration of female operatives’ primary place in Cannelton society, their essential economic contributions to their families, and the unique tactics they used in attempts to achieve better working conditions in the mill. It will also explain the small changes in women’s work experiences from 1854 to 1884, and how ultimately marriage, not industrial work, determined the course of their later lives.

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Stamps, Lucas G. "A Laminated Carbonate Record of Late Holocene Precipitation from Martin Lake, LaGrange County, Indiana". Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/10030.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Precipitation trends and their driving mechanisms are examined over a variety of spatial and temporal scales using a multi-proxy, decadally-resolved sediment record from Martin Lake that spans the last 2300 years. This unique archive from a northern Indiana kettle lake documents significant climate variability during the last 2 millennia and shows that the Midwest has experienced a wide range of precipitation regimes in the late Holocene. Three independent proxies (i.e., oxygen and carbon isotopes of authigenic carbonate and %lithics) record variations in synoptic, in-lake and watershed processes related to hydroclimate forcing, respectively. Together, these proxies reveal enhanced summer conditions, with a long period of water column stratification and enhanced summer rainfall from 450 to 1200 CE, a period of time that includes the so-called Medieval Climate Anomaly (950-1300 CE). During the Little Ice Age, from 1260 to 1800 CE, the three proxy records all indicate drought, with decreased summer rainfall and storm events along with decreased lake stratification. The Martin Lake multi-proxy record tracks other Midwest climate records that record water table levels and is out-of-phase with hydroclimate records of warm season precipitation from the High Plains and western United States. This reveals a potential warm season precipitation dipole between the Midwest and western United States that accounts for the spatial pattern of late Holocene drought variability (i.e., when the Midwest is dry, the High Plains and the western United States are wet, and vice versa). The spatiotemporal patterns of late Holocene North American droughts are consistent with hydroclimate anomalies associated with mean state changes in the Pacific North American teleconnection (PNA). Close associations between late Holocene North American hydroclimate and records of Northern Hemisphere temperatures and the Pacific Ocean-atmosphere system suggests a mechanistic linkage between these components of the global climate system that is in line with observational data and climate models. Based on our results, predominantly –PNA conditions and enhanced Midwestern summer precipitation events are likely to result from continued warming of the climate system. In the western United States, current drought conditions could represent the new mean hydroclimate state.

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