Browsing by Department "History"
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(2018-04-25)The second Ku Klux Klan made its first public appearance in Texas at a United Confederate Veterans parade in October 1920, then quickly expanded across the state. Founder William J. Simmons created this organization as an ...
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(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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(2023-07-18)This dissertation traces the interaction and development of the American national economy and state by examining military spending from 1835 to 1865. During these years, the United States Army engaged in three major wars: ...
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(2020-02-07)On August 8, 1899, hurricane San Ciriaco ravaged Puerto Rico, killing nearly 3,000 people in the floodwaters. The U.S. military’s occupational government reacted quickly in the aftermath and petitioned the federal government ...
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(2016-04-07)The three decades before the First World War were a period of intense militarism, and in the United Kingdom this meant navalism. By the late Edwardian period the navalist movement had captured Britain’s attention – a ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Many scholars of the First World War have examined the European armies in new ways that have shown not only how those armies actually fought along the Western Front, but how they changed their ideas and methods over time, ...
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(2009-05-15)The Texas Volunteer Guard, created by the Militia Law of 1879, continued to allow African Americans to serve as citizen soldiers. From 1880 to 1906 over six hundred black men faithfully served in the various state militia ...
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(2016-08-01)The continued presence of armed, uniformed black militia companies throughout the southern United States from 1871 to 1906 illustrates one of the highest achievements of African Americans in this period. Granted, following ...
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(2009-05-15)Following Emancipation, many African Americans came to view military service as a crucial step toward the greater acceptance of blacks into American society and, potentially, toward complete citizenship. Military service ...
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(2021-05-04)This work examines the causes behind the surge of moral amendment proposals to the federal Constitution in the late nineteenth century. These amendments began to take shape in 1860 when Congressmen attempted to pass a ...
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(2012-08-15)This dissertation seeks to enhance our understanding of the early American republic by providing a study of the home missions movement from 1787 to 1845. The home missions movement was a nationwide, multi-denominational ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)American prisoner of war (POW) policy consists of repeated improvisational efforts during wartime followed by few efforts to incorporate lessons learned. As such, in every war, the United States has improvised its system ...
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(2011-08-08)This thesis explores the Americanization efforts of educational leaders in Texas during the Progressive Era to demonstrate that reformers did not use vocational education, and specifically home economics, primarily to ...
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(2012-02-14)Americans are curiously absent from the literature as forces in the black market prevailing in Germany after World War II. Aside from Rundell's study of failed currency control policy during the Second World War and the ...
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(2017-07-28)Most scholarly works on Operation Just Cause, the code name for the 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States, have focused on the capture of General Manuel Noriega. This focus ignores the complexity of U.S.-Panamanian ...
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(2012-04-30)Since the early 1970’s, religious violence and terrorism have become salient topics in American political and social discourse. The growing prominence of religious violence underscores the need to understand these acts ...
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The Art of Cookery: A Culinary Search for Cultural and National Identity in Great Britain, 1750-1850 (2014-04-23)This thesis discusses how published cookbooks reflect the complicated attitudes toward identity in Great Britain between 1750 and 1850. Focusing on cookbooks produced as commercial products, we are able to see how gender, ...
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(2022-04-21)Texas is often a neglected region when it comes to scholarly examinations of American Jewry. In reality, the Lone Star State has a history of Jewish settlement dating back to before the Texas Revolution and organized ...
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(2017-01-17)The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ long history in China before World War II was a prelude to a little known struggle. In the aftermath of Japan’s surrender in August 1945, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps embarked on a complex ...