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Michigan State University

1. Kaibara, Helen Irene. Campaigns by elite Nikkei to shape the image of Japanese-Americans and Japan, 1900-1941.

Degree: 2017, Michigan State University

URL: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:6791

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Thesis Ph. D. Michigan State University. History 2017

"This dissertation explores various ways in which Japanese and Japanese-American elites sought to promote a favorable image… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Japanese Americans – Social conditions – 20th century; Japanese – United States – 20th century; Social integration – United States – 20th century; National characteristics – 20th century; Social integration; Race relations; National characteristics; Japanese Americans – Social conditions; Japanese; Asian history; Asian American studies; American history; Japanese diaspora

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Kaibara, H. I. (2017). Campaigns by elite Nikkei to shape the image of Japanese-Americans and Japan, 1900-1941. (Thesis). Michigan State University. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:6791

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kaibara, Helen Irene. “Campaigns by elite Nikkei to shape the image of Japanese-Americans and Japan, 1900-1941.” 2017. Thesis, Michigan State University. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:6791.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kaibara, Helen Irene. “Campaigns by elite Nikkei to shape the image of Japanese-Americans and Japan, 1900-1941.” 2017. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Kaibara HI. Campaigns by elite Nikkei to shape the image of Japanese-Americans and Japan, 1900-1941. [Internet] [Thesis]. Michigan State University; 2017. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:6791.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Kaibara HI. Campaigns by elite Nikkei to shape the image of Japanese-Americans and Japan, 1900-1941. [Thesis]. Michigan State University; 2017. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:6791

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Portland State University

2. Jessie, Alison Leigh. Questions of Citizenship: Oregonian Reactions to Japanese Immigrants' Quest for Naturalization Rights in the United States, 1894-1952.

Degree: MA, History, 2015, Portland State University

URL: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2644

► This study examines the discrimination against Japanese immigrants in U.S. naturalization law up to 1952 and how it was covered in the Oregonian newspaper,… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Naturalization – Press coverage – Oregon – 19th century; Naturalization – Press coverage – Oregon – 20th century; Japanese Americans – Oregon – Social conditions; Japanese – Emigration and immigration – History; Nativism; Social History; United States History

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Jessie, A. L. (2015). Questions of Citizenship: Oregonian Reactions to Japanese Immigrants' Quest for Naturalization Rights in the United States, 1894-1952. (Masters Thesis). Portland State University. Retrieved from https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2644

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Jessie, Alison Leigh. “Questions of Citizenship: Oregonian Reactions to Japanese Immigrants' Quest for Naturalization Rights in the United States, 1894-1952.” 2015. Masters Thesis, Portland State University. Accessed February 26, 2021. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2644.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Jessie, Alison Leigh. “Questions of Citizenship: Oregonian Reactions to Japanese Immigrants' Quest for Naturalization Rights in the United States, 1894-1952.” 2015. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Jessie AL. Questions of Citizenship: Oregonian Reactions to Japanese Immigrants' Quest for Naturalization Rights in the United States, 1894-1952. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Portland State University; 2015. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2644.

Council of Science Editors:

Jessie AL. Questions of Citizenship: Oregonian Reactions to Japanese Immigrants' Quest for Naturalization Rights in the United States, 1894-1952. [Masters Thesis]. Portland State University; 2015. Available from: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2644

University of Michigan

3. Hight, Michael Lee. Presidential Leadership in Education: The Federal Education Policies of Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton.

Degree: Master's, College of Arts and Sciences: Liberal Studies, 2011, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/117713

► This paper is a short history of educational policies of the Presidents from the Johnson administration to the end of the century. It seemed logical… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: educational policy; United States Presidents; 20th Century

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Hight, M. L. (2011). Presidential Leadership in Education: The Federal Education Policies of Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton. (Masters Thesis). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/117713

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hight, Michael Lee. “Presidential Leadership in Education: The Federal Education Policies of Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton.” 2011. Masters Thesis, University of Michigan. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/117713.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hight, Michael Lee. “Presidential Leadership in Education: The Federal Education Policies of Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton.” 2011. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Hight ML. Presidential Leadership in Education: The Federal Education Policies of Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Michigan; 2011. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/117713.

Council of Science Editors:

Hight ML. Presidential Leadership in Education: The Federal Education Policies of Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton. [Masters Thesis]. University of Michigan; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/117713

Victoria University of Wellington

4. Petty, Margaret Maile. Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s.

Degree: 2016, Victoria University of Wellington

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6121

► Cultures of Light is set within a period that stretches from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in the United States, an era in… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Electric light; 20th century; United States

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Petty, M. M. (2016). Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6121

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Petty, Margaret Maile. “Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6121.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Petty, Margaret Maile. “Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Petty MM. Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6121.

Council of Science Editors:

Petty MM. Cultures of light: Electric light in the United States, 1890s-1950s. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/6121

Central Connecticut State University

5. Meyer, Michael D., 1982-. Teaching the Great Depression with the Music of the Era.

Degree: Department of History, 2016, Central Connecticut State University

URL: http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,2341

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Music is an effective primary source to gain a greater understanding of the past. The history of America's Great Depression is a prime example of… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Depressions – 1929.; Music – United States – 20th century.

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Meyer, Michael D., 1. (2016). Teaching the Great Depression with the Music of the Era. (Thesis). Central Connecticut State University. Retrieved from http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,2341

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Meyer, Michael D., 1982-. “Teaching the Great Depression with the Music of the Era.” 2016. Thesis, Central Connecticut State University. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,2341.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Meyer, Michael D., 1982-. “Teaching the Great Depression with the Music of the Era.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Meyer, Michael D. 1. Teaching the Great Depression with the Music of the Era. [Internet] [Thesis]. Central Connecticut State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,2341.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Meyer, Michael D. 1. Teaching the Great Depression with the Music of the Era. [Thesis]. Central Connecticut State University; 2016. Available from: http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,2341

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of New Mexico

6. Williams, Sarah Helen. Noisy Feet: The Forgotten Click of American Toe-Tap, 1925 — 1935.

Degree: Theatre & Dance, 2012, University of New Mexico

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/20797

► Toe-tap is an extreme form of tap dancing. As related to both American ballet and tap dance history, this style has been widely forgotten. Noisy… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Tap dancing – United States – History – 20th Century

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Williams, S. H. (2012). Noisy Feet: The Forgotten Click of American Toe-Tap, 1925 — 1935. (Masters Thesis). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1928/20797

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Williams, Sarah Helen. “Noisy Feet: The Forgotten Click of American Toe-Tap, 1925 — 1935.” 2012. Masters Thesis, University of New Mexico. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1928/20797.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Williams, Sarah Helen. “Noisy Feet: The Forgotten Click of American Toe-Tap, 1925 — 1935.” 2012. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Williams SH. Noisy Feet: The Forgotten Click of American Toe-Tap, 1925 — 1935. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of New Mexico; 2012. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/20797.

Council of Science Editors:

Williams SH. Noisy Feet: The Forgotten Click of American Toe-Tap, 1925 — 1935. [Masters Thesis]. University of New Mexico; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/20797

University of North Carolina – Greensboro

7. Strohmer, Therese M. Soldiers, not Wacs: how women’s integration transformed the Army, 1964-1994.

Degree: 2016, University of North Carolina – Greensboro

URL: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=21383

► In 2016, the Secretary of Defense opened all ground combat jobs in the military to women, permitting work in a field that had been off… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: United States – Armed Forces – Women – History – 20th century; United States. – Army – Women – History – 20th century; Women and the military – United States – History – 20th century; Women soldiers – United States – History – 20th century; Women and war – United States – History – 20th century; Women in combat – United States – History – 20th century; Sex discrimination against women – United States – History – 20th century

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Strohmer, T. M. (2016). Soldiers, not Wacs: how women’s integration transformed the Army, 1964-1994. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of North Carolina – Greensboro. Retrieved from http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=21383

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Strohmer, Therese M. “Soldiers, not Wacs: how women’s integration transformed the Army, 1964-1994.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Carolina – Greensboro. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=21383.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Strohmer, Therese M. “Soldiers, not Wacs: how women’s integration transformed the Army, 1964-1994.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Strohmer TM. Soldiers, not Wacs: how women’s integration transformed the Army, 1964-1994. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina – Greensboro; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=21383.

Council of Science Editors:

Strohmer TM. Soldiers, not Wacs: how women’s integration transformed the Army, 1964-1994. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of North Carolina – Greensboro; 2016. Available from: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=21383

University of Delaware

8. Gao, Cong. The effect of American industry deregulation on firm innovation behaviors: a difference in differences approach.

Degree: PhD, University of Delaware, Department of Economics, 2014, University of Delaware

URL: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13382

► I exploit American economic deregulation in the entertainment, petroleum and natural gas, utilities, telecommunications and transportation industries to examine how the innovation activities of firms… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Industries – United States – History – 20th century.; Deregulation – United States – History – 20th century.; Technological innovations – United States – History – 20th century.; Industries – United States – History – 21st century.; Deregulation – United States – History – 21st century.; Technological innovations – United States – History – 21st century.; Deregulation.; Industries.; Technological innovations.; United States.

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Gao, C. (2014). The effect of American industry deregulation on firm innovation behaviors: a difference in differences approach. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Delaware. Retrieved from http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13382

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Gao, Cong. “The effect of American industry deregulation on firm innovation behaviors: a difference in differences approach.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Delaware. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13382.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Gao, Cong. “The effect of American industry deregulation on firm innovation behaviors: a difference in differences approach.” 2014. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Gao C. The effect of American industry deregulation on firm innovation behaviors: a difference in differences approach. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Delaware; 2014. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13382.

Council of Science Editors:

Gao C. The effect of American industry deregulation on firm innovation behaviors: a difference in differences approach. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Delaware; 2014. Available from: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13382

Rutgers University

9. Smith, Eugene F., 1963-. The influence of conservative think tanks: 1970s capitalism and the rise of conservative think tanks.

Degree: MA, History, 2014, Rutgers University

URL: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/43911/

► The early 1970s saw a series of events that led to significant changes to the US economy. The year 1971 marked the end of the… (more)

▼ The early 1970s saw a series of events that led to significant changes to the US economy. The year 1971 marked the end of the Bretton Woods global monetary system. 1973 was the start of the Arab oil embargo. 1974 marked the beginning of a deep recession and the start of high inflation that would dominate the decade. These events were the catalysts for change that would start to move the US from a mixed Keynesian economy to a more aggressively capitalist economy that was characterized by tax cuts, deregulation and military spending. This study is an examination of the ideas, policies and issues that led to this change. It argues that while elites in business, finance and politics argued for policies based on free markets, free trade and unfettered capitalism, the policies in fact worked to strengthen the influence and wealth of these elites. One of the main driving forces of this push for capitalism was the newly emerging conservative think tanks of the 1970s. Without these think tanks, conservatives could not have created the positive messages and perception of the policies they were able to sell to the American public. Think tanks exerted influence through the books, journals and reports they published. They pushed their message in Congress and in the media where they positioned themselves as defenders fighting liberal excess, big government and a social welfare state. They created a powerful connected network that advocated for what seemed like useful ideas in a time of economic trouble. The changes to capitalism in the 1970s and early 1980s was driven by think tanks whose funding came from wealthy donors who sought to exert their influence over the US economic and political system. This study explains how Conservatives won the war of ideas with a version of capitalism that had little to do with free markets. It shows how their success would not have been possible without conservative think tanks. Finally, it identifies the winners and losers in this battle that started 40 years ago and continues today. Advisors/Committee Members: Carruthers, Susan L (chair).

Subjects/Keywords: Capitalism – United States – History – 1970-; Research institutes – United States; Conservatism – United States – History – 20th century

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Smith, Eugene F., 1. (2014). The influence of conservative think tanks: 1970s capitalism and the rise of conservative think tanks. (Masters Thesis). Rutgers University. Retrieved from https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/43911/

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Smith, Eugene F., 1963-. “The influence of conservative think tanks: 1970s capitalism and the rise of conservative think tanks.” 2014. Masters Thesis, Rutgers University. Accessed February 26, 2021. https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/43911/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Smith, Eugene F., 1963-. “The influence of conservative think tanks: 1970s capitalism and the rise of conservative think tanks.” 2014. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Smith, Eugene F. 1. The influence of conservative think tanks: 1970s capitalism and the rise of conservative think tanks. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Rutgers University; 2014. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/43911/.

Council of Science Editors:

Smith, Eugene F. 1. The influence of conservative think tanks: 1970s capitalism and the rise of conservative think tanks. [Masters Thesis]. Rutgers University; 2014. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/43911/

10. Theis, Courtney W. Pro libris : architectural inscriptions and the university library building.

Degree: Thesis (M.S.H.P.), 2011, Ball State University

URL: http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/194763

► This study identifies and analyzes architectural inscriptions found on university and public libraries from the period of 1890 to 1930 in the United States. An… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Architectural inscriptions – United States – History – 19th century.; Architectural inscriptions – United States – History – 20th century.; Library decoration – United States – History – 19th century.; Library decoration – United States – History – 20th century.

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Theis, C. W. (2011). Pro libris : architectural inscriptions and the university library building. (Masters Thesis). Ball State University. Retrieved from http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/194763

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Theis, Courtney W. “Pro libris : architectural inscriptions and the university library building.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Ball State University. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/194763.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Theis, Courtney W. “Pro libris : architectural inscriptions and the university library building.” 2011. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Theis CW. Pro libris : architectural inscriptions and the university library building. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Ball State University; 2011. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/194763.

Council of Science Editors:

Theis CW. Pro libris : architectural inscriptions and the university library building. [Masters Thesis]. Ball State University; 2011. Available from: http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/194763

University of Delaware

11. Bozanic, Andrew Durkota Augustine. The acoustic guitar in American culture, 1880-1980.

Degree: PhD, University of Delaware, Department of History, 2015, University of Delaware

URL: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/17043

► Once primarily a Victorian parlor instrument, the acoustic guitar emerged in the twentieth century as a key component of almost every major genre of popular… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Guitar – United States – History – 19th century.; Guitar – United States – History – 20th century.

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Bozanic, A. D. A. (2015). The acoustic guitar in American culture, 1880-1980. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Delaware. Retrieved from http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/17043

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bozanic, Andrew Durkota Augustine. “The acoustic guitar in American culture, 1880-1980.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Delaware. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/17043.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bozanic, Andrew Durkota Augustine. “The acoustic guitar in American culture, 1880-1980.” 2015. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Bozanic ADA. The acoustic guitar in American culture, 1880-1980. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Delaware; 2015. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/17043.

Council of Science Editors:

Bozanic ADA. The acoustic guitar in American culture, 1880-1980. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Delaware; 2015. Available from: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/17043

Rutgers University

12. Matsumura, Kimiko. Science/fiction: habitat dioramas, vision, and postwar American art.

Degree: PhD, Dioramas, 2019, Rutgers University

URL: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60896/

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Science/Fiction analyzes shifting American relationships to nature in the contemporary period by considering various incarnations of habitat dioramas, the American Museum of Natural History’s revolutionary… (more)

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Science/Fiction analyzes shifting American relationships to nature in the contemporary period by considering various incarnations of habitat dioramas, the American Museum of Natural History’s revolutionary display type that combines three-dimensional specimens with illusionistic backgrounds in niches behind glass. I examine how both the institution and fine artists have used this form to explore environmental issues since World War II by attending to materiality, histories of vision, and sociohistorical context. Through case studies on the Hall of North American Mammals, Robert Smithson, Mark Dion, and Alexis Rockman, I argue that the habitat diorama occupies a unique role in the American natural imaginary. It is a contested space used to build contradictory narratives about nature and its relationship to patriotic identity, institutional knowledge, and ecological politics. Throughout the project, I focus on the use of glass to demonstrate the physical ways in which each maker constructs bodily relationships to the environment and how glass’ symbolic associations with competing concepts of vision frame these interactions. Chapter one argues that the diorama’s glass screen serves to unify distracted vision and promote disinterested, observational prowess as a patriotic responsibility. The following chapters then show how each artist changes the position of the glass screen to open the diorama and create new natural history narratives. In chapter two, Smithson’s mirror boxes challenge the museum’s definition of self-contained and enduring nature while the Cold War frayed the American relationship to the environment. In chapter three, Dion creates inclusive spaces, performing an institutional critique that decenters vision in favor of phenomenological encounters with nature that promote wonder. In chapter four, Rockman’s science fiction dioramas propose alternative universes marred by climate change, suggesting that vision may still mobilize productive action. Ultimately, I trace a politicized conception of nature that simultaneously subverts and reifies institutional knowledge and the role of vision in constructing it. I establish that habitat dioramas and their reinterpretations reflect larger controversies about nature and vision throughout the twentieth century, considering not only the function of the display at the height of its popularity, but also the way it mediates American understanding of the natural world across time. Examining the habitat diorama as a discursive visual technology used across disciplines, I identify the broad significance of these objects to American art and show that these installations have served as vital tools in developing notions of self, science, and the environment.

Advisors/Committee Members: Sidlauskas, Susan (chair), Yanni, Carla (internal member), Zervigon, Andres (internal member), DeLue, Rachael (outside member), School of Graduate Studies.

Subjects/Keywords: Art History; Diorama – United States – 20th century; Diorama – United States – 21st century

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APA (6^th Edition):

Matsumura, K. (2019). Science/fiction: habitat dioramas, vision, and postwar American art. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rutgers University. Retrieved from https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60896/

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Matsumura, Kimiko. “Science/fiction: habitat dioramas, vision, and postwar American art.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University. Accessed February 26, 2021. https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60896/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Matsumura, Kimiko. “Science/fiction: habitat dioramas, vision, and postwar American art.” 2019. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Matsumura K. Science/fiction: habitat dioramas, vision, and postwar American art. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2019. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60896/.

Council of Science Editors:

Matsumura K. Science/fiction: habitat dioramas, vision, and postwar American art. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2019. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/60896/

Rutgers University

13. Williams, LaShanda Rena, 1988-. Paleopathological and microbiological investigations of dental health in America since 1890.

Degree: PhD, Ecology and Evolution, 2019, Rutgers University

URL: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/62049/

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Human evolutionary history spans millions of years and is marked by several periods of cultural innovation. The most recent of which is the industrial revolution,… (more)

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Human evolutionary history spans millions of years and is marked by several periods of cultural innovation. The most recent of which is the industrial revolution, which has impacted human health and biology. While modern sociocultural change has been well studied for its effects on systemic diseases, its effects on dental health in America has not well understood. Here, we use a multidisciplinary approach to examine the effects of modern sociocultural change on oral health and diseases. First, we combined dental paleopathology and modern dental methods to examine the dental health of late 19th century and early 20th century Americans and found that the dental health of studied American populations was poorer than people living today. Also, while there are statistical significant differences in root exposure, calculus abundance, and attrition, the overall dental health of this diverse dataset was the similar to their contemporaries, despite differences in socioeconomic status. Secondly, we conducted a comprehensive metagenomics study on the Americans who died between 1895-1950 and we observed clear distinctions between modern dental plaque communities and historical calculus microbiota. One prominent member of the historical calculus metagenome is Methanobrevibacter oralis, dominant in 41/43 of the samples analyzed. Like in the previous chapter, here I observed no distinct clustering patterns of microbiota and M. oralis pan-gene family content by age, “race”, and geography. The role of M. oralis in the modern oral cavity is that of a “co-pathogen” associated with periodontitis, however further analysis using historical reconstructions and modern genomic data will shed light on the pathogenic potential of this archaeon over time. Lastly, as a control for all dental calculus microbiome studies, I compared the microbial communities of dental plaque to that of dental calculus and found that dental calculus is its own distinct microbial community and preserves a similar alpha diversity to other oral microhabitats. This pattern was observed when comparing a subject’s dental calculus to their own dental plaque and when comparing a subject’s dental calculus to HMP nasal, oral, and throat microbial communities. At the genus level, dental calculus harbors bacteria similar to that found in plaque, the differences reside at the species level. Due to differentially abundant taxa and less preserved human DNA, ongoing ancient microbiome research has a bias towards recovering certain taxa and less human DNA will be available to study over time.

Advisors/Committee Members: Duffy, Siobain M.D. (chair), Scott, Robert (internal member), Vogel, Erin (internal member), Cugini, Carla (outside member), School of Graduate Studies.

Subjects/Keywords: Dental care – History – United States – 19th century; Dental care – History – United States – 20th century

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Williams, LaShanda Rena, 1. (2019). Paleopathological and microbiological investigations of dental health in America since 1890. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rutgers University. Retrieved from https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/62049/

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Williams, LaShanda Rena, 1988-. “Paleopathological and microbiological investigations of dental health in America since 1890.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University. Accessed February 26, 2021. https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/62049/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Williams, LaShanda Rena, 1988-. “Paleopathological and microbiological investigations of dental health in America since 1890.” 2019. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Williams, LaShanda Rena 1. Paleopathological and microbiological investigations of dental health in America since 1890. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2019. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/62049/.

Council of Science Editors:

Williams, LaShanda Rena 1. Paleopathological and microbiological investigations of dental health in America since 1890. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2019. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/62049/

Western Washington University

14. George, Aaron. Cold War fictions : gender, anticommunism, and the reconfiguration of the post-war United States.

Degree: MA, History, 2012, Western Washington University

URL: https://doi.org/10.25710/861x-4442 ; https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/201

► At the height of the Cold War, films and books that focused on anticommunist themes used depictions of communism as a way to promote… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: History; Cold War – Social aspects – United States; Cold War in literature – History – 20th century; Cold War in motion pictures – History – 20th century; Women – United States – History – 20th century; Men – United States – History – 20th century; Masculinity – United States; Femininity – United States; United States; masters theses

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George, A. (2012). Cold War fictions : gender, anticommunism, and the reconfiguration of the post-war United States. (Masters Thesis). Western Washington University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.25710/861x-4442 ; https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/201

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

George, Aaron. “Cold War fictions : gender, anticommunism, and the reconfiguration of the post-war United States.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Western Washington University. Accessed February 26, 2021. https://doi.org/10.25710/861x-4442 ; https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/201.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

George, Aaron. “Cold War fictions : gender, anticommunism, and the reconfiguration of the post-war United States.” 2012. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

George A. Cold War fictions : gender, anticommunism, and the reconfiguration of the post-war United States. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Western Washington University; 2012. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.25710/861x-4442 ; https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/201.

Council of Science Editors:

George A. Cold War fictions : gender, anticommunism, and the reconfiguration of the post-war United States. [Masters Thesis]. Western Washington University; 2012. Available from: https://doi.org/10.25710/861x-4442 ; https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/201

University of Oxford

15. Harmsworth, Thomas. Gary Snyder's green Dharma.

Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Oxford

URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e4c2e123-0b71-45c9-8535-eb09ac8cfa15 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.712518

► Twentieth-century environmentalist discourse often laid the blame for environmental degradation on Western civilization, and presented the religious traditions of the East as offering an ecocentric… (more)

▼ Twentieth-century environmentalist discourse often laid the blame for environmental degradation on Western civilization, and presented the religious traditions of the East as offering an ecocentric antidote to Western dualism and anthropocentrism. Gary Snyder has looked to Chinese and Japanese Buddhism to inform his environmentalist poetry and prose. While Snyder often writes in terms of a dualism of East and West, he synthesizes traditional forms of Buddhism with various Western traditions, and his green Buddhism ultimately undermines more simplistic oppositions of East and West. The first chapter reads Snyder's writing of the mid-1950s alongside several of his West Coast contemporaries - Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen and Jack Kerouac - showing that these writers evoked the natural world together with Buddhist themes before the advent of the modern environmental movement in order to mount a critique of Cold War American culture. Snyder's early interest in Buddhism was motivated largely by translations of Chinese poetry and Chapter Two examines his own translations of the Tang Dynasty poet Hanshan. In Snyder's translations and contemporaneous original poetry, Buddhist poetics mingle with American conceptions of wilderness. Chapter Three shows how Snyder's Buddhism was influenced by Anglophone writers such as D.T. Suzuki and Alan Watts, and argues that from the late 1960s Snyder aimed to Americanize Buddhism as ideas of localism became more central to his environmentalism. Chapter Four examines Snyder's synthesis of Hua-yen Buddhism and Western scientific ecology in the 1970s and 1980s. Chapter Five examines 'The Hokkaido Book,' an unfinished prose work on environmental attitudes in the Far East in which Snyder considers the relationship between the civilized and the primitive. Chapter Six examines the influence of Chinese landscape painting and Japanese No drama, two forms steeped in Buddhist ideas, on the poems of 'Mountains' and 'Rivers Without End'.

Subjects/Keywords: 811; Zen poetry; American; Buddhism – United States – History – 20th century; Counterculture – United States – History – 20th century; United States – Intellectual life – 20th century

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Harmsworth, T. (2015). Gary Snyder's green Dharma. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e4c2e123-0b71-45c9-8535-eb09ac8cfa15 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.712518

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Harmsworth, Thomas. “Gary Snyder's green Dharma.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e4c2e123-0b71-45c9-8535-eb09ac8cfa15 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.712518.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Harmsworth, Thomas. “Gary Snyder's green Dharma.” 2015. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Harmsworth T. Gary Snyder's green Dharma. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e4c2e123-0b71-45c9-8535-eb09ac8cfa15 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.712518.

Council of Science Editors:

Harmsworth T. Gary Snyder's green Dharma. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e4c2e123-0b71-45c9-8535-eb09ac8cfa15 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.712518

University of Oxford

16. Byers, Mark. After the new failure of nerve : Charles Olson and American modernism, 1946-1951.

Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Oxford

URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02478ea1-832a-4ecc-9c47-a264ba746c49 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711699

► One medium has dominated accounts of American art in the years following the Second World War. The period witnessed, in the words of one critic,… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: 111; Modernism (Aesthetics) – United States – History – 20th century; American poetry – 20th century – History and criticism; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) – United States – History – 20th century; Art and society – United States – History – 20th century; United States – Intellectual life – 20th century

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Byers, M. (2014). After the new failure of nerve : Charles Olson and American modernism, 1946-1951. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02478ea1-832a-4ecc-9c47-a264ba746c49 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711699

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Byers, Mark. “After the new failure of nerve : Charles Olson and American modernism, 1946-1951.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02478ea1-832a-4ecc-9c47-a264ba746c49 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711699.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Byers, Mark. “After the new failure of nerve : Charles Olson and American modernism, 1946-1951.” 2014. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Byers M. After the new failure of nerve : Charles Olson and American modernism, 1946-1951. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2014. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02478ea1-832a-4ecc-9c47-a264ba746c49 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711699.

Council of Science Editors:

Byers M. After the new failure of nerve : Charles Olson and American modernism, 1946-1951. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2014. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02478ea1-832a-4ecc-9c47-a264ba746c49 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711699

Florida Atlantic University

17. May, Jacqueline S. Americans all! The role of advertising in re-imaging ethnicity in America: the case of the war advertising council, 1939-1945.

Degree: 2014, Florida Atlantic University

URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136 ; (URL) http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136

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Summary: Throughout America’s history the call for laborers has been filled by influxes of immigrants. Coinciding with the arrival of the first non-Anglo Saxon immigrants… (more)

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Summary: Throughout America’s history the call for laborers has been filled by influxes of immigrants. Coinciding with the arrival of the first non-Anglo Saxon immigrants were negative attitudes about them, as they were deemed inferior and classified as lowerranking “others” by the dominant culture that needed them. Thus, the cycle of need and resentment was born to be repeated throughout the Nation’s history. In the first half of the twentieth century a shift occurred in American public perception of, and attitudes towards, immigrant groups including eastern European Jews, Italians and the Irish among others. This shift was marked primarily in terms of race: Some immigrants went from being considered black to white – from illegitimate to legitimate by the dominant culture. One reason for the increased acceptance of these ethnic groups was a concerted campaign sponsored by the United States Government to promote an extended identity to groups that had previously been excluded from the mainstream. In particular, the goal was to create a sense of nationalism, or “Americanism,” among diasporic immigrant groups, thus encouraging their participation in the war effort. The result of such campaigns was a re-imaging of ethnic groups previously classified as non-white and a path to perceived whiteness, and thus inclusion, for them. These campaigns, formulated by the Office of War Information and executed largely by the War Advertising Council, led to a marked increase in acceptance for immigrant groups by the dominant culture. By examining social messages through visual cultural artifacts this study explores notions about race, ethnicity, whiteness and the role of communication theory and practices in constructing (imaging) an identity of otherness.” This study delineates the historical formation and subsequent partial de-construction (re-imaging) of negative depictions and some stereotypes of ethnic Americans. This research explores the sources of these attitudes and behaviors and how misconceptions, misrepresentations and centuries-old stereotypes of non-Anglo ethnic Americans have been fluid through changing social perceptions fueled, in part, by government interventions.

2014

Degree granted: Dissertation (Ph.D.) – Florida Atlantic University, 2014.

Collection: FAU

Advisors/Committee Members: Fejes, Fred A. (Thesis advisor), Florida Atlantic University (Degree grantor), Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies.

Subjects/Keywords: Advertising Council – History – 20th century; Americanization – History – 20th century; Immigrants – United States – History – 20th century; Immigrants – United States – History – 20th century; Public opinion – United States – History – 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 – United States – Propaganda

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May, J. S. (2014). Americans all! The role of advertising in re-imaging ethnicity in America: the case of the war advertising council, 1939-1945. (Thesis). Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136 ; (URL) http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

May, Jacqueline S. “Americans all! The role of advertising in re-imaging ethnicity in America: the case of the war advertising council, 1939-1945.” 2014. Thesis, Florida Atlantic University. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136 ; (URL) http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

May, Jacqueline S. “Americans all! The role of advertising in re-imaging ethnicity in America: the case of the war advertising council, 1939-1945.” 2014. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

May JS. Americans all! The role of advertising in re-imaging ethnicity in America: the case of the war advertising council, 1939-1945. [Internet] [Thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2014. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136 ; (URL) http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

May JS. Americans all! The role of advertising in re-imaging ethnicity in America: the case of the war advertising council, 1939-1945. [Thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2014. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136 ; (URL) http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004136

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Ryerson University

18. Potter, Lauren, N. A journey in collections management : the creation of a finding aid for the Black Star Ephemera Collection at the Ryerson Image Centre.

Degree: 2013, Ryerson University

URL: https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A2584

► This applied project involved the creation of a finding aid for the Black Star Ephemera Collection held at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) at Ryerson… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Black Star (Picture agency); Photojournalism – United States – History – 20th century; Documentary photography – United States – History – 20th century

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Potter, Lauren, N. (2013). A journey in collections management : the creation of a finding aid for the Black Star Ephemera Collection at the Ryerson Image Centre. (Thesis). Ryerson University. Retrieved from https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A2584

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Potter, Lauren, N. “A journey in collections management : the creation of a finding aid for the Black Star Ephemera Collection at the Ryerson Image Centre.” 2013. Thesis, Ryerson University. Accessed February 26, 2021. https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A2584.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Potter, Lauren, N. “A journey in collections management : the creation of a finding aid for the Black Star Ephemera Collection at the Ryerson Image Centre.” 2013. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Potter, Lauren N. A journey in collections management : the creation of a finding aid for the Black Star Ephemera Collection at the Ryerson Image Centre. [Internet] [Thesis]. Ryerson University; 2013. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A2584.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Potter, Lauren N. A journey in collections management : the creation of a finding aid for the Black Star Ephemera Collection at the Ryerson Image Centre. [Thesis]. Ryerson University; 2013. Available from: https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A2584

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

19. Milwicki, Alon. BAPTIZING NAZISM: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF AMERICAN NEO-NAZISM.

Degree: 2019, American University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:84475

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This project will examine the Christian Identity Minister and racist zealot Wesley Swift and his role in crafting a lasting ideology for American Neo-Nazis and… (more)

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This project will examine the Christian Identity Minister and racist zealot Wesley Swift and his role in crafting a lasting ideology for American Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists. Although 21st century America has dismissed Christian Identity as a fringe movement in American society, Swift’s teachings and sermons have provided an enduring theological justification for white racial superiority and domination of American society that still exists today. Many known white supremacists and Neo-Nazis like William Potter Gale, Conrad Gaard, Gerald L.K. Smith, Bertrand Comparet, and most notably, Richard Girnt Butler, have mentioned Swift as a positive influence or mentor. For the most part, scholars have failed to engage Swift’s organizations, writings, teachings, sermons, and speeches directly—and if they have, it is primarily to outline the doctrine of Christian Identity. Arguably, the reason for Swift’s success and the continued existence of his teachings was because he removed the movement from the political arena, and never strayed far from the pulpit. For this reason, it seems that historians have rarely addressed Swift as anything beyond being the voice of Christian Identity and have downplayed or ignored the foundations and broader implications of his movement. There were few – if any – right-wing extremist organizations or individuals that Swift did not influence in some way. This systematic study of Swift’s crusade and methodical emphasis on religious justification will enable a better understanding of why certain pockets of American society – including churches, organizations such as the Aryan Nations, gangs and prison gangs– continue to subscribe to his teachings, and how they continue to change, grow, gain support, and influence mainstream America.

History

American history

British Israelism, Christian Identity, Neo-Nazism, Right Wing Extremism, Wesley Swift, White Supremacy

History

Degree Awarded: Ph.D. History. American University

Advisors/Committee Members: Lichtman, Allan (Thesis advisor), Kuznick, Peter (Other), Kosicki, Piotr H. (Other), Dentice, Dianne (Other), Woeste, Victoria (Other).

Subjects/Keywords: Neo-Nazism – United States – History – 20th century; White supremacy movements – United States – History – 20th century; Swift, Wesley A.

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Milwicki, A. (2019). BAPTIZING NAZISM: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF AMERICAN NEO-NAZISM. (Doctoral Dissertation). American University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:84475

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Milwicki, Alon. “BAPTIZING NAZISM: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF AMERICAN NEO-NAZISM.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, American University. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:84475.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Milwicki, Alon. “BAPTIZING NAZISM: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF AMERICAN NEO-NAZISM.” 2019. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Milwicki A. BAPTIZING NAZISM: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF AMERICAN NEO-NAZISM. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. American University; 2019. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:84475.

Council of Science Editors:

Milwicki A. BAPTIZING NAZISM: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF AMERICAN NEO-NAZISM. [Doctoral Dissertation]. American University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:84475

Florida Atlantic University

20. Pope, Bonnie L. Maternal health policy: nursing's legacy and the Social Security Act of 1935.

Degree: PhD, 2011, Florida Atlantic University

URL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172424

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Summary: This study explored the work of nursing and the social influences of eugenic policies established during the Progressive Era (1890-1930) on the writing and… (more)

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Summary: This study explored the work of nursing and the social influences of eugenic policies established during the Progressive Era (1890-1930) on the writing and passage of the Social Security Act of 1935. The research questions: "Did eugenic philosophy and practice influence the Social Security Act of 1935 in relation to Maternal Health Policy?" and 'What was nursing's influence on the Social Security Act of 1935?" required the social history research method. Data were evaluated with the conclusion that eugenic policies did influence the writing and passage of the Social Security Act. Also, that nurses, and other women, played a specific, important and constructive role in developing the Act. During the late 1800s and early 1900s prominent leaders of business, science, philanthropy, and social reform supported the eugenic agenda to assure the wellbeing of hard working "Anglo-Saxon" American citizens. Industrialization and scientific advances in medicine gave Americans the impression that the "production" of healthy, intelligent children could be controlled, efficient, and predictable. Better breeding as a means for social improvement, which fueled the eugenics movement's use of science to solve social problems through governmental involvement, had two sides. Positive eugenics increased information on health and illness prevention, and established well baby clinics; however, negative eugenics advocated controlled reproduction through sterilization of persons considered "unfit." By 1935, twenty-eight states had eugenic sterilization laws. Noted reformers during this time (Lillian Wald, Jane Addams, and Florence Kelley) worked with Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to establish the Federal Children's Bureau. The Bureau had a direct influence on the maternal and child health policy established by the Social Security Act of 1935.

Summary: This legacy continues today in the continued fight for women and children's social and economic rights.The Social Security Act's intention, economic security for all citizens, was not realized. Sections of the Act focused on maternalistic social views and sought to maintain a patriarchal family structure. The language of the Social Security Act created barriers to benefits for the most vulnerable. In fact, it seems reasonable to conclude that institutionalized health care disparities laid their roots in America through this legislation.

Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011.

Subjects/Keywords: United States.; Eugenics – United States – History – 20th century; Medical policy – United States – 20th century; Nursing – Political aspects; Social security – United States – History; Public welfare – United States – History; Health promotion – United States; Community health nursing – United States – 20th century

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Pope, B. L. (2011). Maternal health policy: nursing's legacy and the Social Security Act of 1935. (Doctoral Dissertation). Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172424

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Pope, Bonnie L. “Maternal health policy: nursing's legacy and the Social Security Act of 1935.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida Atlantic University. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172424.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Pope, Bonnie L. “Maternal health policy: nursing's legacy and the Social Security Act of 1935.” 2011. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Pope BL. Maternal health policy: nursing's legacy and the Social Security Act of 1935. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic University; 2011. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172424.

Council of Science Editors:

Pope BL. Maternal health policy: nursing's legacy and the Social Security Act of 1935. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida Atlantic University; 2011. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172424

University of Delaware

21. Currie-Knight, Kevin. From laissez-faire to vouchers: an intellectual history of market libertarian thought on education in twentieth-century America.

Degree: PhD, University of Delaware, School of Education, 2014, University of Delaware

URL: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13375

► This is a history of pro-market arguments about American education – the idea that we should reject the current public education system and replace it with… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Libertarianism – United States – History – 20th century.; Libertarians – United States – History – 20th century.; Education – United States – History – 20th century.; Privatization in education – United States – History – 20th century.; Education.; Libertarianism.; Libertarians.; Privatization in education.; United States.

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Currie-Knight, K. (2014). From laissez-faire to vouchers: an intellectual history of market libertarian thought on education in twentieth-century America. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Delaware. Retrieved from http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13375

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Currie-Knight, Kevin. “From laissez-faire to vouchers: an intellectual history of market libertarian thought on education in twentieth-century America.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Delaware. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13375.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Currie-Knight, Kevin. “From laissez-faire to vouchers: an intellectual history of market libertarian thought on education in twentieth-century America.” 2014. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Currie-Knight K. From laissez-faire to vouchers: an intellectual history of market libertarian thought on education in twentieth-century America. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Delaware; 2014. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13375.

Council of Science Editors:

Currie-Knight K. From laissez-faire to vouchers: an intellectual history of market libertarian thought on education in twentieth-century America. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Delaware; 2014. Available from: http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/13375

University of Central Florida

22. Deupree, William Erik. Innovation On A Budget The Development Of Military Technology During The Interwar Period, 1919-1939.

Degree: 2011, University of Central Florida

URL: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1917

► This thesis investigates the progress of technological development during the interwar period of 1919 to 1939. The interwar period was a time of slashed military… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Military art and science – Technological innovations – United States; Technology and state – United States – History – 20th century; United States – Army – Air Corps – History – 20th century; United States – Army – History – 20th century; United States – Navy – History – 20th century; History; Arts and Humanities – Dissertations, Academic, Dissertations, Academic – Arts and Humanities

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Deupree, W. E. (2011). Innovation On A Budget The Development Of Military Technology During The Interwar Period, 1919-1939. (Masters Thesis). University of Central Florida. Retrieved from https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1917

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Deupree, William Erik. “Innovation On A Budget The Development Of Military Technology During The Interwar Period, 1919-1939.” 2011. Masters Thesis, University of Central Florida. Accessed February 26, 2021. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1917.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Deupree, William Erik. “Innovation On A Budget The Development Of Military Technology During The Interwar Period, 1919-1939.” 2011. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Deupree WE. Innovation On A Budget The Development Of Military Technology During The Interwar Period, 1919-1939. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Central Florida; 2011. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1917.

Council of Science Editors:

Deupree WE. Innovation On A Budget The Development Of Military Technology During The Interwar Period, 1919-1939. [Masters Thesis]. University of Central Florida; 2011. Available from: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1917

University of California – San Diego

23. Schenderlein, Anne Clara. "Germany on Their Minds"? : : German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Relationships to Germany, 1938-1988.

Degree: History, 2014, University of California – San Diego

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6jp63935

► In the 1930s and early 1940s, approximately 90,000 Jews from Germany came to the United States as refugees fleeing the Nazis. Though these refugees were… (more)

▼ In the 1930s and early 1940s, approximately 90,000 Jews from Germany came to the United States as refugees fleeing the Nazis. Though these refugees were hurt by and driven from their homeland, many of them, in spite of this experience, lived with their lives and identities inextricably connected to Germany. This was not always because they wanted to engage, but often because the broader political circumstances of their lives in the United States during the Second World War and the Cold War demanded some sort of engagement with their German background, or because the Germans themselves initiated contact with the refugees, or both. This dissertation investigates these relationships between Germany and the German Jewish refugees who settled in the United States between 1938 and 1988. Using publications and records of refugee organizations in the United States and West German federal and municipal governments, in combination with oral histories, letters, and memoirs, this dissertation analyzes refugee discourses concerning Germany and interactions between refugees and Germans. It shows how Germany – as a nation state, with its political systems, institutions, and people, and as an imaginary – affected the ways in which ordinary German Jewish refugees in the United States constructed their personal and communal lives and identities. It further shows, how, in turn, German Jewish refugees in the U.S. influenced West German identity formation. This dissertation thus argues that neither the history of the refugees nor that of postwar Germany can be fully understood without consideration of the interrelations and interactions between the two. German Jewish refugees in the United States played a role in channeling Germany's democratic ambitions and German outreach activities, such as through the Foreign Office and municipal visitor programs. Such programs contributed, conversely, to a strengthening of German Jewish refugee identity many years after the end of the war

Subjects/Keywords: 20th century Jewish refugees History United States; World War, 1939-1945 Refugees United States; 20th century Jews, German Social conditions United States; Jews, German Foreign influences United States

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Schenderlein, A. C. (2014). "Germany on Their Minds"? : : German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Relationships to Germany, 1938-1988. (Thesis). University of California – San Diego. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6jp63935

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Schenderlein, Anne Clara. “"Germany on Their Minds"? : : German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Relationships to Germany, 1938-1988.” 2014. Thesis, University of California – San Diego. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6jp63935.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Schenderlein, Anne Clara. “"Germany on Their Minds"? : : German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Relationships to Germany, 1938-1988.” 2014. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Schenderlein AC. "Germany on Their Minds"? : : German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Relationships to Germany, 1938-1988. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2014. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6jp63935.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Schenderlein AC. "Germany on Their Minds"? : : German Jewish Refugees in the United States and Relationships to Germany, 1938-1988. [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2014. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6jp63935

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of North Texas

24. Ruffing, Jason L. A Century of Overproduction in American Agriculture.

Degree: 2014, University of North Texas

URL: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700066/

► American agriculture in the twentieth century underwent immense transformations. The triumphs in agriculture are emblematic of post-war American progress and expansion but do not accurately… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: agricultural overproduction; American agriculture; food safety; 20th century; environmental history; political ecology; Agriculture – Economic aspects – United States – History – 20th century.; Agriculture – Economic aspects – United States – History – 21st century.; Agriculture and state – United States – History – 20th century.; Agriculture and state – United States – History – 21st century.; Overproduction – United States.

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Ruffing, J. L. (2014). A Century of Overproduction in American Agriculture. (Thesis). University of North Texas. Retrieved from https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700066/

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ruffing, Jason L. “A Century of Overproduction in American Agriculture.” 2014. Thesis, University of North Texas. Accessed February 26, 2021. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700066/.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ruffing, Jason L. “A Century of Overproduction in American Agriculture.” 2014. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Ruffing JL. A Century of Overproduction in American Agriculture. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of North Texas; 2014. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700066/.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Ruffing JL. A Century of Overproduction in American Agriculture. [Thesis]. University of North Texas; 2014. Available from: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700066/

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

25. Wand, Judy L. Modern identity : in a state of flux.

Degree: MA, 2014, Ball State University

URL: http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/199257

► Modern Identity: In a State of Flux is a study of container forms and an investigation of women’s roles in the family during the last… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Shoes in art; Women – United States – Identity; Women – United States – History – 20th century.

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Wand, J. L. (2014). Modern identity : in a state of flux. (Masters Thesis). Ball State University. Retrieved from http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/199257

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Wand, Judy L. “Modern identity : in a state of flux.” 2014. Masters Thesis, Ball State University. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/199257.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Wand, Judy L. “Modern identity : in a state of flux.” 2014. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Wand JL. Modern identity : in a state of flux. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Ball State University; 2014. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/199257.

Council of Science Editors:

Wand JL. Modern identity : in a state of flux. [Masters Thesis]. Ball State University; 2014. Available from: http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/123456789/199257

Rutgers University

26. Turner, Nicholas Shand, 1991-. The war that made Americans: new immigrant integration in World War II.

Degree: MA, History, 2016, Rutgers University

URL: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/50593/

► This Thesis examines the role World War II had on the assimilation of Second Generation New Immigrants. I will accomplish this by examining the changes… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: World War, 1939-1945; United States – Emigration and immigration – 20th century; Assimilation (Sociology) – United States

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Turner, Nicholas Shand, 1. (2016). The war that made Americans: new immigrant integration in World War II. (Masters Thesis). Rutgers University. Retrieved from https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/50593/

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Turner, Nicholas Shand, 1991-. “The war that made Americans: new immigrant integration in World War II.” 2016. Masters Thesis, Rutgers University. Accessed February 26, 2021. https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/50593/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Turner, Nicholas Shand, 1991-. “The war that made Americans: new immigrant integration in World War II.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Turner, Nicholas Shand 1. The war that made Americans: new immigrant integration in World War II. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Rutgers University; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/50593/.

Council of Science Editors:

Turner, Nicholas Shand 1. The war that made Americans: new immigrant integration in World War II. [Masters Thesis]. Rutgers University; 2016. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/50593/

Rutgers University

27. Scott, Mary Kate, 1982-. The photography of absence: death in postmodern America.

Degree: PhD, Art History, 2016, Rutgers University

URL: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/49327/

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It is a paradox that postmodern photographic theory—so thoroughly obsessed with death—rarely addresses intimate scenes of explicit death or mortality. Rather, it applies these themes… (more)

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It is a paradox that postmodern photographic theory—so thoroughly obsessed with death—rarely addresses intimate scenes of explicit death or mortality. Rather, it applies these themes to photographs of living subjects or empty spaces, laying upon each image a blanket of pain, loss, or critical dissatisfaction. Postmodern theorists such as Rosalind Krauss and Geoffrey Batchen root their work in the writings of Roland Barthes, which privilege a photograph’s viewer over its subject or maker. To Barthes’ followers in the 1980s and 1990s, the experiences depicted within the photograph were not as important as our own relationships with it, in the present. The photographers of the Pictures Generation produced groundbreaking imagery that encouraged the viewer to question authority, and even originality itself. Little was said, though, about intimacy, beauty, the actual fact of death, or the author’s individual experience. However, a significant group of American art photographers at the end of the twentieth century began making works directly featuring their own personal experiences with mortality. This dissertation examines the motivations and strategies of four such photographers: Robert Mapplethorpe, JoAnn Verburg, Nan Goldin, and Sally Mann. Additionally, it addresses the social environment that gave rise to these artists’ reflections, such as the AIDS crisis and the aging Baby Boomer population. The photographers discussed here share not only social context, but also values and aesthetic concerns. Included on this list are the embrace of unironic emotional expression, the co-option of beauty as an aesthetic and emotional tool, emphasis on the photograph as a physical object, and a desire to convey to the viewer what it is like to be them—a unique person existing in a particular space and time, feeling specific joys and losses. It is impossible to fully understand the subsequent photographic work of the twenty-first century without considering these artists’ influence alongside that of the Pictures Generation. Doing so allows a deeper, more subtle analysis of contemporary photography’s engagement with time, mortality, intimacy, and beauty, as well as irony, critique, trauma, and appropriation. It enables us to see the true hybrid of influences that have created twenty-first century photography.

Advisors/Committee Members: Zervigón, Andrés (chair), Sidlauskas, Susan (internal member), Marter, Joan (internal member), Robertson, Jean (outside member).

Subjects/Keywords: Photography – United States – 20th century; Postmodernism – United States; Mapplethorpe, Robert – Criticism and interpretation

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Scott, Mary Kate, 1. (2016). The photography of absence: death in postmodern America. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rutgers University. Retrieved from https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/49327/

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Scott, Mary Kate, 1982-. “The photography of absence: death in postmodern America.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University. Accessed February 26, 2021. https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/49327/.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Scott, Mary Kate, 1982-. “The photography of absence: death in postmodern America.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Scott, Mary Kate 1. The photography of absence: death in postmodern America. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/49327/.

Council of Science Editors:

Scott, Mary Kate 1. The photography of absence: death in postmodern America. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2016. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/49327/

University of Rochester

28. Finn, Michelle R. (1975 - ). A Modern necessity : feminism, popular culture, and American womanhood, 1920-1948.

Degree: PhD, 2012, University of Rochester

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/21341

► The metaphor of "waves" has dominated the academic discourse on the history of American feminism. Defining the feminist movement by the ebb and flow of… (more)

▼ The metaphor of "waves" has dominated the academic discourse on the history of American feminism. Defining the feminist movement by the ebb and flow of coordinated appeals for women's rights and equality, historians initially identified a disconcerting lull in activity between the 1920s and the 1960s and concluded that feminism had largely subsided in this "inter-wave" period. This dissertation contributes to more recent scholarship, which has begun to challenge the wave metaphor by filling in this mid-century gap. Focusing on cultural implications of feminist ideas and efforts in the first half of the twentieth century, this study reexamines what happened to feminism in the decades that followed the political achievement of woman's suffrage. Rather than a trajectory of retreat or decline, it finds continuity across this chronological marker. Through an investigation of the performances, images, words and actions of four successful pop-cultural figures – Mae West, Bee Freeman, Nancy Drew, and Wonder Woman – this study shows that feminism was deeply embedded in postsuffrage Americans' understanding of what it meant to be a Modern Woman. Perpetuating the move away from the restrictive gender norms of the nineteenth century, these figures reinforced and promoted the early twentieth-century feminist effort to replace a traditional model of femininity with a modern alternative that was more independent, more self-assertive, freer, and more powerful. More than an interpretive search for liberating messages within cultural texts, this project uses personal papers, business correspondence, films, published and unpublished works, comic books, juvenile fiction, academic tracts, photographs, and newspaper and journal articles, advertisements, and reviews to examine the level of intentionality behind representations of strong and liberated women in the postsuffrage years. Contrary to the notion that popular culture merely appropriated and defused feminist ideas, West, Freeman, Nancy Drew, and Wonder Woman each reveals a purposeful attempt to shape and/or sustain a modern understanding of women's power, freedom, and identity. Although these pop-cultural figures, or the agents responsible for them, did not always acknowledge the feminism inherent in their work, their endorsement of modern womanhood indicates that feminism's cultural agenda was alive and well in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Subjects/Keywords: 20th century; Feminism; Modern; Popular Culture; United States; Women

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Finn, M. R. (. -. ). (2012). A Modern necessity : feminism, popular culture, and American womanhood, 1920-1948. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Rochester. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1802/21341

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Finn, Michelle R (1975 - ). “A Modern necessity : feminism, popular culture, and American womanhood, 1920-1948.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Rochester. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1802/21341.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Finn, Michelle R (1975 - ). “A Modern necessity : feminism, popular culture, and American womanhood, 1920-1948.” 2012. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Finn MR(-). A Modern necessity : feminism, popular culture, and American womanhood, 1920-1948. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Rochester; 2012. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/21341.

Council of Science Editors:

Finn MR(-). A Modern necessity : feminism, popular culture, and American womanhood, 1920-1948. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Rochester; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/21341

Oregon State University

29. Jones, Sean (Sean Gregory). Peace, But Not at Any Price : The Effects of Rapid Military Demobilization on US Foreign Policy and the Progression of the Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1953.

Degree: MA, 2016, Oregon State University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/60163

► The research conducted here originated with the question of what caused the massive build-up of nuclear arsenals, which included ever larger and more powerful bombs… (more)

▼ The research conducted here originated with the question of what caused the massive build-up of nuclear arsenals, which included ever larger and more powerful bombs and delivery systems from them, in the United States and the Soviet Union, even though the consensus beforehand was that nuclear energy should be prohibited from being used for military purposes. The results found show a parallel progression between the ever increasing sense of paranoia in United States foreign policy towards their former ally, the Soviet Union, which led the Truman administration to expend more resources into developing more advanced nuclear weapons. This eventually made nuclear deterrence the forefront of the American strategy. Several historians, including Michael D. Gordon and Morton A. Kaplan, trace the behavior of the Truman administration to a growing concern that United States military forces would be inadequate in countering a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. The origin of this was the Truman administration’s decision to demobilize American forces at a rapid pace from May of 1945 to the spring of 1946. The administration had originally put their hopes in the newly chartered United Nations to settle all international disputes and a campaign for volunteers to replace the veterans being discharged. However, the rate of new enlistees into the American military fell sharply as the country settled into peacetime. This came at a time when American policy makers began to view the Soviet Union as a new threat after an incident in Iran showed that they were willing to undermine allied post-war policy for the sake of spreading Communism. At the time, though, it was seen as being immoral and expensive to begin drafting millions of Americans back into the military for what was, at the time, only a possible threat to national security. Alternative measures were then taken to supplement American forces in case the Soviet Union became openly, and overtly, hostile towards the west; these measures were also meant to deter a Soviet attack just as much as they were meant to prepare the west for it. One of these was to utilize nuclear weapons as an alternative to maintaining the American military at 12 million, the size that it had been during the war. Included in these measures was the supporting of democratic countries against Communism, which ultimately resulted in the Marshall Plan, which Stalin and the Bolsheviks interpreted as a hostile gesture by the West towards the Soviet bloc. Thus, insecurity caused by the rapid demobilization of the United States military following the end of the Second World War caused American military planners and policy makers to enact measures that they believed would strengthen their declining military and deter Soviet aggression, but instead provoked the suspicions and contempt of the Soviet Union which caused a break down in international cooperation and culminated in four decades of heightened tensions and the build-up of massive nuclear arsenals. Advisors/Committee Members: Bernell, David (advisor), Nichols, Christopher M. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Demobilization; Nuclear weapons – United States – History – 20th century

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Jones, S. (. G. (2016). Peace, But Not at Any Price : The Effects of Rapid Military Demobilization on US Foreign Policy and the Progression of the Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1953. (Masters Thesis). Oregon State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1957/60163

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Jones, Sean (Sean Gregory). “Peace, But Not at Any Price : The Effects of Rapid Military Demobilization on US Foreign Policy and the Progression of the Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1953.” 2016. Masters Thesis, Oregon State University. Accessed February 26, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/60163.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Jones, Sean (Sean Gregory). “Peace, But Not at Any Price : The Effects of Rapid Military Demobilization on US Foreign Policy and the Progression of the Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1953.” 2016. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Jones S(G. Peace, But Not at Any Price : The Effects of Rapid Military Demobilization on US Foreign Policy and the Progression of the Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1953. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Oregon State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/60163.

Council of Science Editors:

Jones S(G. Peace, But Not at Any Price : The Effects of Rapid Military Demobilization on US Foreign Policy and the Progression of the Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1953. [Masters Thesis]. Oregon State University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/60163

University of Maine

30. Smith, Amy. Dr. Khalil Totah: Arab-American Quaker Educator and Palestinian Nationalist Crusader, 1914-1948.

Degree: PhD, History, 2018, University of Maine

URL: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2880

► Born in Ramallah, Palestine, in 1886 Dr. Khalil Totah belonged to a generation of Syrians who grew up with an appreciation for the “modern”… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Palestine; Ramallah; Quakers; 20th Century; Middle East; Friends; United States History

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Smith, A. (2018). Dr. Khalil Totah: Arab-American Quaker Educator and Palestinian Nationalist Crusader, 1914-1948. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Maine. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2880

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Smith, Amy. “Dr. Khalil Totah: Arab-American Quaker Educator and Palestinian Nationalist Crusader, 1914-1948.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Maine. Accessed February 26, 2021. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2880.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Smith, Amy. “Dr. Khalil Totah: Arab-American Quaker Educator and Palestinian Nationalist Crusader, 1914-1948.” 2018. Web. 26 Feb 2021.

Vancouver:

Smith A. Dr. Khalil Totah: Arab-American Quaker Educator and Palestinian Nationalist Crusader, 1914-1948. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maine; 2018. [cited 2021 Feb 26]. Available from: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2880.

Council of Science Editors:

Smith A. Dr. Khalil Totah: Arab-American Quaker Educator and Palestinian Nationalist Crusader, 1914-1948. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Maine; 2018. Available from: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2880

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