Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Department "History"
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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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This thesis examines the nature of the alliance formed between President Rafael Correa and the Ecuadorian indigenous movement that led to the incorporation of plurinationalism into the 2008 Constitution. To this end, this ...
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The sources utilized in this thesis each serve a particular function in relation to the theoretical framework. They are organized by the extent to which they contribute to the three dominant disciplinary approaches found ...
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People with disabilities have often been ignored or forgotten throughout history. This thesis is about the changes in the visibility of individuals with disabilities in the United States and how this affected their civil ...
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The personal writings of German Prisoners of War (POWs) in the United States during World War II have the potential to generate a unique understanding of the internment experience of the average German soldier. Letters and ...
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(2018-04-19)In the 1970s, the Supreme Court pronounced a new test for laws that treated the two sexes differently. This test, known as “intermediate scrutiny,” was stricter than the Court’s usual standard (the “rational basis” test), ...
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(2014-09-24)The purpose of this study is to determine why the occupation of Germany after the Second World War was so successful and why we view it as the quid essential example of an occupation. It will examine the three major factors ...
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Historians have generally accepted that the Peace of Westphalia (1648), which concluded the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48), was the moment when the concept of sovereign equality, a concept that recognizes that states have ...
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This research concentrates on the personal effects of a policy titled the Bracero Program. The Bracero Program was a guest worker program in the United States that allowed Mexican men to be contracted to work in low-paying ...
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(2012-05-08)This research project involves testing the relationship between military expenditure and the economic growth of countries from 1870 to 1950. We examine the graphs of a country’s economic growth with military expenditure ...
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The Anti-Feminicide Movement in Ciudad Juarez: Women’s Activism and Its New Articulations of Justice The issue of feminicide in Ciudad Juarez was first exacerbated by the notable shift engendered by the implementation of a neoliberal economic system in the early 1990s, which motivated by profit ultimately allowed for the ...
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The Rise and Demise of the 1924 Child Labor Amendment provides a summary of the creation and lifespan of the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution. The proposed amendment would have given Congress the power ...
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(2018-04-25)Beginning in the 1960s, concerns about rising crime rates, urban rebellions, and political demonstrations across the United States prompted a shift toward “law and order” for many Americans. Over the following decades, ...
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Despite the vast amounts of research done on the Civil War, the Department of the South, made up of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and the operations within it are relatively understudied and not well understood. ...
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(2017-04-24)The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine Beowulf adaptations for moments in which the adapter chooses to emphasize themes of a community drawn along ethnic or national lines. These authorial choices reveal how ...