Browsing by Author "Kamphoefner, Walter"
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Weidemann, Erika Lee (2020-03-17)This dissertation is a comparative study of ethnic German Mennonites and ethnic Germans of other faiths from Chortitza, their experiences during World War II, and their immigration between 1947 and 1957. This research ...
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Kilinc, Emin (2012-07-16)We are living in a conceptual world which we build through both informal and systematic interaction. Concepts enable us to simplify and organize our environment and communicate efficiently with others. The learning of ...
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Gorman, John William (2019-05-23)This study examines racial violence in Texas during Reconstruction between the years 1865 and 1868. All incidences of violence were extracted from the Freedmen’s Bureau records and organized into a data set by month and ...
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Delear, Stephen Denis (2018-05-09)Texas Populists were ahead of their time. The borderlands experience in Texas caused farmers to develop economic ideas far in advance of the contemporary economic literature. Faced with Populists’ economic demands, the ...
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Weidemann, Erika Lee (2016-04-21)During the Second World War, Nazi and Soviet governments had distinctly different ideologies as well as different reasons for targeting the Soviet Union's German population for relocation. While the Soviets saw ethnic ...
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Peterson, Tyler David (2017-04-24)This study examines the training of American astronauts from the selection of the original Mercury astronauts in 1959 to the present, as crews of six work aboard the International Space Station. It makes the primary argument ...
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Wineman, Bradford Alexander (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This study examines the historical significance of the Virginia Military InstituteâÂÂs (VMI) first superintendent, Francis Henney Smith, and his influence not only at his home institution but also on his broader social, ...
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Morris, Jacob James (2014-12-09)This paper introduces a conceptual framework to analyze identity and assimilation processes in immigrants’ architecture. Specifically, the study examines European immigrants who arrived directly to Texas port cities and ...
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Beauchamp, Michael Kelly (2011-02-22)The United States confronted new problems of territorial expansion with the Louisiana Purchase, as it involved, for the first time, the transfer in sovereignty of a territory that contained a population who by birth, ...
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Nester, Thomas G (2010-04-26)The 7th Cavalry Regiment participated in Reconstruction during two of its most critical phases. Companies from the regiment were deployed to South Carolina, from 1871-73, to conduct the federal government's campaign to ...
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Smolko, Ryan Patrick (2020-04-09)Imagery of the swastika most often brings to mind Nazi Germany. In the 1930s, however, Americans confronted swastika-adorned flags in their own communities. This paper focuses on the German-American Bund, a pro-Nazi ...
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Bare, Daniel Robert (2018-04-23)This dissertation illuminates and elucidates the ways that Protestant fundamentalism was manifested and applied in the African American community during the modernist-fundamentalist controversy, from 1915-1940. In contrast ...
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Kosary, Rebecca A. (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Immediately following the Civil War in 1865, African Americans in Texas faced extremely brutal violence perpetrated by whites. This dissertation examines the racial violence that permeated the state during the period of ...
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James, Ervin (2012-10-19)The Colored Trainmen of America (CTA) actively challenged Jim Crow policies on the job and in the public sphere between the 1930s and 1950s. In response to lingering questions concerning the relationship between early black ...