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Uncovered : the cover-up of the My Lai massacre.
(2009-04-01)
In the midst of a war that was being fought not on open battlefields but in dense jungles, an atrocious event occurred in the presence of soldiers of the United States military. Over five hundred Vietnamese civilians, the ...
Reforming manners, redeeming souls : Sunday schools, childhood, and the formation of early nineteenth-century American religious culture.
(2018-06-07)
Merging religious history with childhood studies, this dissertation analyzes Sunday schools from 1790-1860 to show how concepts of childhood, and young people themselves, helped shape American religious culture. Recent ...
Making their own faith : Lutheranism and American culture in the Civil War era.
(2018-07-11)
From 1830 to 1900, the American Lutheran church grew from less than 50,000 members to more than 1,600,000—five times the growth rate of the U.S. population—and became the nation’s fourth largest religious denomination. ...
Guatemala's perfect storm : the relationship between General Efraín Ríos Montt, the news media, and the U.S religious right.
(, 2013-09-24)
This thesis explores the connections between General Efraín Ríos Montt and the conservative evangelical Christians in the United States through the lens of secular and Protestant media. In order to make sense of the two ...
The origins and consequences of the American feedlot system.
(2010-10-08)
This thesis examines the history and the consequences of the American feedlot system. Until this system came into place, cattle were rarely eaten as they were more valuable alive for their milk and labor than they were ...
Going up Bell's Hill : a social history of a diverse, Waco, Texas, community in the industrial new south.
(, 2018-01-22)
A historical study of Bell's Hill, an older section of Southwest Waco, Texas, 1885-1955, reveals a complex community characterized by social/cultural, ethnic/racial, and economic diversity. From its early history when ...
Guiana and the shadows of empire : colonial and cultural negotiations at the edge of the world.
(2010-06-23)
Nowhere in the world can objective study of colonialism and its effects be more fruitful than in the Guianas, the region of three small states in northeastern South America. The purpose of this thesis is threefold. First, ...
"Whose boy will die because you failed?" : Waco and McLennan County in 1942.
(2006-09-28)
This thesis analyzes the experiences and actions of Waco and McLennan County residents during 1942, the first full year of World War II. People living on the home front participated in the war effort in a variety of ways, ...
Caligula in Jerusalem : the hostile relationship between Emperor Gaius and his Jewish subjects.
(, 2012-11-29)
This thesis examines the relationship between Gaius (Caligula) and his Jewish subjects via unrest in Alexandria and the emperor’s decree that the Jerusalem Temple be converted into a pagan shrine. It is concluded that Gaius ...
The great communion of scholars : the American South, Germany, and the creation of modernity in the nineteenth century.
(2020-03-10)
This study examines how influential intellectuals from the American South’s four major Protestant denominations came to embrace a form of historicism, the vocation of scholarship, and the idea of the modern university all ...