Browsing by Subject "Texas history"
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(2015-05-12)Confronting the Unknown: Tejanas in the Transformation of Spanish and Mexican Texas, 1735-1836 sheds light on Tejana legal and social roles in this tumultuous period. Despite great strides in the field of Borderlands history ...
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(2014-03-05)In 1892, People’s Party candidate James Weaver won more than a million votes and four states in his bid for the presidency. Despite finishing third, the fledgling party’s promising start worried Democrats and Republicans ...
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On a Flood of Words: Race and Ethnicity in the Language of Disaster in Early Twentieth-Century Texas (2015-07-27)My thesis will show that newspaper reports on weather-related natural disasters in Texas and the Southwest borderlands between 1899 and 1921 reflect the change in racial and ethnic identities during the rise of the Jim ...
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(2023-06-21)I analyzed how ten weather-related natural disasters in Texas and the Southwest border region between 1899 and 1921 were popularly understood and how newspapers influenced collective memory of disasters. I performed a close ...
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(2023-06-21)I analyzed how ten weather-related natural disasters in Texas and the Southwest border region between 1899 and 1921 were popularly understood and how newspapers influenced collective memory of disasters. I performed a close ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Beginning in March of 1920, the Galveston coastwise longshoremens strike against the Morgan-Southern Pacific and Mallory steamship lines was a pivotal moment in the history of organized labor in Texas. Local and statewide ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)After the Civil War, the government needed to send an occupation force into Texas to help rebuild the state government and confront the French Imperialist forces that had invaded Mexico. Unfortunately, the government was ...