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From Tee to Green: Municipal Planning, Golf, and Mountain Progress
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Author
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Dixon, Kenneth
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History, African Americans--Study and teaching
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Description
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On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board ruled the "separate but equal" doctrine, set in place by the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case in 1896, to be unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s "Equal Pro...
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Lorain: Ohio's First Colonia - A Blueprint for Midwestern Mexican Migration
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Author
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King, Elizabeth
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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Within this piece, I am arguing that Mexican migration to the Midwest in the early twentieth century is highly overlooked in literature. Most often, the historiography deals with characteristics that typify the Southwest, and I assert that Mexican...
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MEMORIAL CINEMA IN LATIN AMERICA: FILMIC DEPICTIONS OF THE DIRTY WARS IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO
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Author
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PAIVA DE ARAUJO, SOFIA
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Motion pictures, Area studies, History
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Description
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Notably, the authoritarian regimes of Latin America during the Cold War have been discussed not only in the academy but also by the arts. The conflicts and violence of the period have been depicted in several plays, performances, testimonios, memo...
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Rebellious and Reserved: The Fluidity of African American Slave Masculinity
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Author
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McManimen, Rachel
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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Enslaved men, marginalized by their race and class, sought to reclaim their masculinity and fashion a gendered identity within the slave community. Most commonly examined by historians, ex-slaves acted violently, physically engaging either their m...
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THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
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Author
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Battista, Nancy
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, Sex, History
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Description
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Turn of the century El Paso had it all: wealth, poverty, and an infamous red-light district. After the city shuttered the vice district in 1917, many of El Paso’s men and women continued to champion regulated prostitution to curtail streetwalkers ...
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The City of KIngs Mountain: The Historical City with a Misplaced Identity
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Author
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Barnett, Melissa
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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Fought on October 7th, 1780, on a ridgetop in the backcountry of South Carolina, the battle of Kings Mountain turned the tide of the Revolutionary War. A century later, the City of Kings Mountain was founded along the Charlotte-Atlanta Railroad, n...
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The Goldmar Strike: Formative Years of the MCOP, 1977-1979
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Author
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Stroud, Lucinda
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Industrial relations, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
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Description
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This thesis examines the Maricopa County Organizing Project (MCOP or the Project) which was founded in 1977 in Maricopa County, Arizona. The MCOP is believed to be the first organization to hold an agricultural strike that consisted of entirely un...
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“PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
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Author
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Whittington, Joseph
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, History--Religious aspects, History
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Description
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In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mission to free the native peoples of the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Gu...