Theses/Dissertations - History
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Slavery in Texas
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Periodical participants : women in conservative and mainline Protestant periodicals, 1956-1970.
(2020-04-06)In mid-twentieth century Protestantism, women were active within churches and parachurch organizations, yet in the minority in religious leadership. This thesis treats their religious participation in a form outside pews ... -
“When the mass of men is made better” : drugs, violence, and evangelical reformism in Britain’s imperial expansion, 1794-1839.
(2022-04-19)Scholarship on nineteenth-century Britain’s imperial expansion has long portrayed war against Qing China (1839-1842) as an illogical and immoral act. This thesis challenges this conception, arguing that pro-war Britons ... -
Romancing the new evangelical woman.
(2022-04-28)This project examines women’s Christian historical fiction romance novels in order to understand the evangelical identity and the rise of the Christian Right. The chapters are interlocking essays that could be published ... -
The Vanguard of God : Pentecostals and charismatics in the religious right.
(2022-05-02)This thesis explores the ways in which Pentecostals and charismatics have engaged in politics in the past 120 years, and shows that rather than shared theology, a commitment to right-wing politics has proven to be the main ... -
“Of old Puritan stock” : shifting Catholic memory of the Puritans across the long nineteenth century, 1788–1920.
(2022-04-28)Tracing American Catholic rhetorical uses of Puritan memory across the long nineteenth century, this thesis argues that shifts in memory demonstrate how American Catholics negotiated their place in society using stories ... -
The soil and the soul : religion and agriculture in colonial New England, 1650-1800.
(2021-11-15)This dissertation explores published literature of the New England colonies relating to agriculture from the point of English settlement to 1800. While many works have sought to recover the realities of agriculture during ... -
An historiographical appraisal of the writings of Nicolas M. Zernov.
(, 1976)Purpose of the Study; The purpose of this study is to place the writings of Nicolas M. Zernov in their proper relationship to Russian historical and protest literature, and to provide a synthesis of Zernov's numerous ... -
The compassionate college woman and the confident college man : examining gender and race at American colleges from 1890 to 1910.
(2021-04-27)Students attending higher education institutions during Progressive Era America consistently admired confidence in men and compassion in women. With the immense social changes during this time period, a mix of gender ideals ... -
The slave code of Texas.
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An examination of English Catholic preaching under Queen Mary I, 1553-1558.
(2020-08-03)An examination of English printed sermons during the reign of Queen Mary I, showing their similarities to other Catholic Reformation sermons and demonstrating their place in the evolution of English homiletics. -
Educating the Protestant International : the influence of Halle Pietism in eighteenth-century charity education.
(2020-07-02)Scholars have accepted the general influence of August Hermann Francke and Halle Pietism among English-speaking Protestant groups in the eighteenth century. One of the institutional byproducts of Francke’s influence was ... -
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 ... -
“Sweet spirit hovering around me” : Texas Methodist women face the Civil War.
(2020-04-01)Since the publication of David Bebbington’s seminal work, Evangelicals in Modern Britain, historians have defined “evangelicals” as those Christians who prioritize activism, biblicism, conversionism, and crucicentrism. ... -
Remembering the old faith in the new nation : American Protestants and the Christian past, 1780–1865.
(2019-05-07)This study demonstrates the cultural and political importance of American uses of religious history between 1780 and 1865. While scholars emphasize the ahistorical, antitraditional nature of American Christianity, a close ... -
Nature's creed : natural religion, Protestants, and enlightened belief in early America.
(2019-07-26)Despite scholars’ proclivity to identify natural religion with Enlightenment spirituality—the belief system of Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, and Voltaire—orthodox Protestants in the early modern period similarly understood that ... -
The evangelical mystique : conservative Protestant femininity in the United States from 1940-1970.
(2019-07-10)This dissertation explores the prescriptive literature of conservative Protestant communities relating to womanhood from 1940-1970. It asks, “If the mainstream literature relating to domesticity in America can be viewed ... -
Whatever you do, be brave : Evangelicalism, masculinity, and empire in the Boy's Own Paper, 1879-1889.
(2019-07-18)Unlike secular presses or the rhetoric of muscular Christianity that have colored scholarly discussion of periodical literature around the turn of the century, the first decade of the Boy's Own Paper promulgated a specifically ... -
Lex vincit? The Chicago Legal News and the changing status of household dependents from 1868-1873.
(2019-04-24)This thesis uses Myra Bradwell and the Chicago Legal News (CLN) to explore the changing legal status of household dependents (wives and children) during the middle years of Radical Reconstruction, 1868-1873. Emancipation ... -
Asad’s Syria : the key to the perpetuation of the Arab-Israeli conflict 1973-1984.
(2019-04-17)Syrian President Hafez al-Asad strove to lead Arab resistance against Israel in the 1970s and 1980s. When Egypt made peace with Israel in the 1970s, Asad had an opportunity to assume the leadership position Egypt vacated. ...
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