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African American suffering and suicide under slavery: Author: Kneeland, Linda Kay; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: History; Abstract: While the suffering of slaves in the antebellum American South is common knowledge, what is not so commonly known is the suicide rate among those slaves. How did slaves respond to the suffering they were forced to undergo? While some slaves did choose suicide, the rates appear to be surprisingly low. This is consistent with suicide rates for Africa and for people of African descent living in other areas of the world, and further supports the theory that a low suicide rate is an element of African culture. The overwhelming majority of African-American slaves chose to deal with their suffering t...; Download File | View full details

The historical power of the imagination: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and the production of place: Author: Ongaro, Shannon Marie; Date: 2004-05-15; Program: History; Abstract: The Norfolk Hotel stands as a symbol for diverse cultural projects. Playground to white settlers such as Karen Blixen and her cohorts, it represents a British colonial History of Kenya. Purity, civilization, and order all are hallmarks of traditional colonial conceptions of "good government." In the Norfolk's heyday as a sanctuary for white settlers, it was seen to exist in contrast to its surroundings. The Kenyan landscape itself could not have been stranger to the colonists coming from Great Britain. Kenya did not have the green rolling hills and year round water that white settler...; Download File | View full details

Mixed Messages: Thomas Calloway and the 'American Negro Exhibit' of 1900: Author: Travis, Miles Everett; Date: 2004-05-15; Program: History; Abstract: In the last decade of the nineteenth century, African Americans faced growing hostility and disenfranchisement from the white majority, especially in the former Confederate states. African Americans were divided over the best strategy for dealing with their deteriorating circumstance, and after the death of Frederick Douglass in 1895, they lacked an established leader that could give voice to their concerns. To many, their best hope laid in the leadership and philosophy of an Alabama educator named Booker T. Washington. Washington taught that African Americans should not clamor for immediate r...; Download File | View full details

What one knows one loves best: a brief administrative History of science education in the national parks, 1916-1925: Author: Smith, Diane Marie; Date: 2004-05-15; Program: History; Abstract: This study focuses on the early administrative History of the National Park Service (NPS) science education and interpretation programs. In particular, it examines 1) how publicists, academics, and park rangers initiated science and natural History programming in the early years of the National Park Service; 2) how these three approaches eventually gave way to the more pragmatic NPS emphasis on hiring ranger naturalists with training in the sciences to implement park educational programs; and, briefly, 3) how the establishment of the NPS education division in 1925, as equal to the engineering ...; Download File | View full details

The Women's Protective Union: union women activists in a union town, 1890-1929: Author: Case, Bridgette Dawn; Date: 2004-12-15; Program: History; Abstract: Women have organized into representative bodies to fight workplace oppression since the eighteenth century. Often the victims of abuse and exploitation, the positive attributes of collectively organizing were attractive to women. While many working-women found union membership alluring, few held positions of power within unions and many were denied entrance to unions altogether. In Butte, Montana, however it was a different story. Butte was a union town to the very core. Almost everyone who worked in Butte was a union member in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Although initiall...; Download File | View full details

Land, life, and feme sole: women homesteaders in the Yellowstone River Valley, 1909-1934: Author: Walker-Kuntz, Sunday Anne; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: History; Abstract: This thesis focuses on women homesteaders in Yellowstone County, Montana during the boom years of 1909 to 1934. The historical and cultural phenomenon of American homesteading and its legal framework are discussed, but emphasis is on homesteaders in Montana who did not migrate to the state great numbers until the early twentieth century, particularly after 1909. This study relies principally on data from primary documents including the records of the General Land Office, Census Bureau data, oral histories, and homestead legislation. The data is used to describe and analyze the patterns of home...; Download File | View full details

Elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: conflicts over management and conservation prior to natural regulation: Author: Zirngibl, Wendy Marie; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: History; Abstract: To the residents of Montana and Wyoming, Rocky Mountain elk long have represented an important resource of sustenance and consumptive recreation. The mission of protection and preservation of the elk by the stewards of Yellowstone National Park often opposes the culture of use beyond its boundaries. Since its inception in 1872, Yellowstone has stood at the core of numerous battles fought locally over the elk, revealing the preeminence of this species among the region's wildlife. Conflicting values and the threat of federal infringement become manifest in elk management and use philosophies thr...; Download File | View full details

Religion and public order in the 1790's: Author: Callaway, Patrick Michael; Date: 2008-12-15; Program: History; Abstract: The connection between the founders and relationship between church and state has become increasingly important in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Entire books are regularly published on the private religious thoughts and practices of many of the founding fathers; often times these works exist in order to support a closer relationship between Christian practice and piety and the government. Just as often, published works also draw on the ideas of the same founders in order to support a more concrete separation between religious thought and practice and governance. These &quo...; Download File | View full details

A History of Sand Coulee, Montana 1880-1900: Author: Erickson, George Irvin; Date: 2008-12-15; Program: History; Abstract: Sand Coulee is now a bedroom community for Great Falls, laying twelve miles east and south of the larger city. Both town and city had their start at almost exactly the same time during the early 1880s. Sand Coulee was well known throughout the territory because of the tremendous coal field that J. J. Hill exploited to fuel his Great Northern Railway that connected the Twin Cities of Minnesota with the Pacific Northwest. The biggest repository of Sand Coulee History is a small History written by Ruby Giannini titled "A History of Sand Coulee" and a book titled "The Gulch Area His...; Download File | View full details

Lines of copper, tears of glass: the birth, growth and death of the Montana Power Company: Author: Johnson, Francis Joseph; Date: 2008-12-15; Program: History; Abstract: Montana Power collapsed amid images of TV reporters for Sixty Minutes chasing flustered Robert Gannon in Butte. The loss of two and a half billion dollars as well as the complete liquidation of thousands of shareholders created this Warhol moment for the firm's last president and Montana Power. Other dire consequences followed for the state: loss of Montana's only Fortune 500 firm, a doubling of utility bills and the loss of hundreds of jobs for the already depressed Butte area. Montana Power's importance transcends this slapstick "fifteen minutes" of fame moment at its demise. ...; Download File | View full details

More than mere camps and coaches: the Wylie Camping Company and the development of a middle-class leisure ethic in Yellowstone National Park, 1883-1916: Author: Watry, Elizabeth Ann; Date: 2010-05-15; Program: History; Abstract: This thesis examines the influences of tourism upon the American West and its relationship with Yellowstone National Park in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition, this inquiry investigates the development and evolution of the Wylie Camping Company in Yellowstone and the company's connection with the advancement of tourism to the American West. Furthermore, within the context of changing ideas of work and leisure time in the past two centuries, this study explores the advancement of the idea of nature appreciation in America, and the interaction of Yellowstone's touris...; Download File | View full details

The Sokaogon Chippewa and their lost treaty: “We have always been here”: Author: McGeshick, Joseph R.; Date: 1993-05-15; Program: History; Abstract: The Sokaogon Chippewa struggled for years in northern Wisconsin to retain their traditional land which provided all the necessities of life. Researching Sokaogon History from 1826 to the early 1850s reveals that the Sokaogon enjoyed separate recognition from the federal government, as an autonomous group of Lake Superior Chippewa. However, the federal government, with the eager support of the Euroamerican population in the state, attempted to consolidate as many of the different Lake Superior Chippewa groups as possible to make room fro the influx of settlers, miners and timbermen. Accordin...; Download File | View full details

Animals and artifacts: specimen exchanges and displays in Yellowstone National Park, The National Museum, and The National Zoo, 1846 to 1916: Author: Smith, Diane Marie; Date: 2012-05-15; Program: History; Abstract: While much has been written about Yellowstone National Park, few historians have discussed the History of its wildlife, particularly before 1916 when the National Park Service was established. "Animals and Artifacts" investigates how Yellowstone came to be identified as wildlife's last refuge in the American West while also trying to understand how the U. S. Cavalry concurrently trapped and shipped animals to the National Zoological Park and, eventually, to zoos around the country. It also questions how animal displays and exchanges came to be so integral to the Park's administration...; Download File | View full details

Living with lead: an environmental History of Idaho's Coeur d'Alenes, 1885-2011: Author: Snow, Bradley Dean; Date: 2012-05-15; Program: History; Abstract: The Coeur d'Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world History. Historically the globe's richest silver district and also one of the nation's biggest lead and zinc producers, the Coeur d'Alenes' legacy also includes environmental pollution on an epic scale. For decades local waters were fouled with tailings from the mining district's more than one hundred mines and mills and the air surrounding Kellogg, Idaho was laced with lead and other toxic heavy metals issuing from the Bunker Hill Company's smelter. The...; Download File | View full details

Communication and community: moving scientific knowledge in Britain and America, 1732-1782: Author: Sivitz, Paul Andrew; Date: 2012-08-15; Program: History; Abstract: This dissertation explores the dissemination of knowledge, letter-writing, print culture, institutionalization of knowledge, and identity. In this work, the scientific knowledge itself plays a secondary role to how that knowledge was communicated within the scientific community and to the general public. While these exchanges have been well-documented, this work delves deeper into the volume and patterns of letter-writing among the participants, examining extant correspondence, as well as known, but missing, letters that communicated ideas across dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of miles wi...; Download File | View full details

Radiation ecologies: bombs, bodies, and environment during the atmospheric nuclear weapons testing period, 1942-1965: Author: Jessee, Emory Jerry; Date: 2013-05-15; Program: History; Abstract: From 1945 to 1963 the United States Atomic Energy Commission detonated over 200 nuclear weapons tests at its Nevada and Pacific test sites, irradiating every living thing on the planet. Much of the historical scholarship on the period has focused on the scientific debate over the health effects of low-level radiation exposure or on determining what and when the Atomic Energy Commission knew about the health effects fallout. This dissertation, however, argues that the growth of ecological thinking about the health effects of fallout exposure in environmental sciences such as ecology, oceanograp...; Download File | View full details

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