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Democracy Deferred: Race, Politics, and D.C.’s Two-Century Struggle for Full Voting Rights
This report provides a summary and analysis of the circumstances that led the citizens who lived in the area designated as the seat of government to lose their right to vote in 1801, why Congress has only partially ... -
The 51st State America Needs
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A MONUMENT TO BLACK RESISTANCE AND STRENGTH
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Using Archival Research to Develop Historical Thinking Skills in an Introductory Interdisciplinary Course
Though the value of working with historical primary sources to conduct independent research is wellestablished in the literature, opportunities for this kind of research are usually confined to classes for advanced majors. -
Turkish Teachers, Migrant Knowledge, and ‘the Qurʾan School Problem’ in West Germany
(2020-08-14)Beginning in early 1976, West Germans learned through media reports of the existence in the country of what were referred to, somewhat misleadingly, as “Qurʾan schools.” These were extracurricular courses where Muslim ... -
Black Power in Washington, D.C., 1961-1998
In late 1967, Stokely Carmichael, the nation’s foremost Black Power advocate, surveyed the landscape of U.S. politics looking for a place where concerted black organizing could have its deepest impact. He chose Washington, D.C. -
The Life and Times of John Graham Chambers: Sports and Commercialization of Leisure in Victorian Britain
(2018-01-01)The profound changes in middle-class athletics that began around the third quarter of the nineteenth century, both cultural and commercial, have been widely recognized by historians. Yet, one of the earliest and most ... -
Reciprocity Matters During the American Civil War: Canadian Raw Goods and the Union Supply Line
(2018-01-01)This thesis examines the economic benefits provided by the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 to several of the Union’s wartime suppliers. The vigorous trade between Canada and the Union that was facilitated by the treaty provided ... -
TAMING THE DESERT: FASTING, REFORM, AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD
(2019-01-01)This thesis tracks the development of monastic thought in the western Mediterranean by examining Saint Jerome and Saint John Cassian’s competing approaches to fasting. First this work places each man into his historical ... -
The Friends They Loathed: The Persecution of Maryland Quakers During the Revolutionary War
(2018-01-01)Maryland’s Revolutionary government persecuted Maryland Quakers for their declared neutrality throughout the Revolutionary War in more extreme ways than the governments of neighboring states. Quakers were targeted because ... -
??Re-thinking "The American Dream of Integration" in Suburbia: Race, Class and Resegregation in Randallstown 1956-2003
(2018-01-01)This research focuses on the suburban community of Randallstown in the northwest corner of Baltimore County, Maryland. During the approximately fifty years covered in this narrative (1956-2006) Randallstown underwent a ... -
"What White Nonsense is this?" Investigating the Seldom Seen or Heard Stories of Latinxs in the National Register of Historic Places
(2019-01-01)I am studying the master narrative of the United States told through the National Register. I want to understand how the National Register presents the place of Latinxs in our national story and what factors have led to ... -
Mistresses of the Press: The Roles of Women in Print Houses in 17th Century England
(2019-01-01)This thesis examines the participation of women in the seventeenth-century English print trade. While previous research emphasizes a lack of the study of women in early print, this thesis highlights seven women who actively ... -
Underwood and Underwood Company: Early Twentieth Century Pioneers of American Photojournalism
(2019-01-01)Underwood and Underwood Company was a photo syndicate operating in multiple subfield of photography including Stereographs, Photojournalism, and Commercial Photography from 1882 until 1975. Although their work in Stereograph ... -
Pride, Inc.: Black Power and Black Capitalism in Washington, D.C., 1967-1981
(2018-01-01)Pride, Inc., a nationally- recognized youth jobs program in Washington, D.C., put young men from the city’s poorest neighborhoods to work killing rats, collecting trash, and cleaning alleys. Pride promoted these “hard-core ... -
An Exhibit of Women, By Women, But For Women?: The Limits of Interpretation at the Smithsonian
(2019-01-01)This thesis examines the First Ladies exhibit as one of the only representations of gender in the National Museum of American History. As a result, a study of the exhibit also tells us something about the evolving place ... -
The First Sexual Revolution: A Comparative Study of Premarital Pregnancy Rates in Maryland and Massachusetts: 1700-1810
(2018-01-01)This study tracks the rates of premarital pregnancy among couples in three Maryland church communities during the eighteenth century. Previous scholarship was based largely on studies of New England towns, which showed ... -
SINGING SONGS AND CARRYING CANDLES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASHKENAZI JEWISH MARRIAGE CUSTOMS AND RITUALS FROM TALMUDIC AND CHRISTIAN SOURCES, C. 850- 1300 CE
(2018-01-01)This thesis studies the communication of wedding traditions between Jews and Christians in medieval Europe, focusing specifically on the Jews of the Ashkenazi region, and challenging the traditional understanding of the ... -
Without A Country: Stateless Armenian Refugees in the U.S.S.R and Russia, 1987-2003
(2018-01-01)The focus of this thesis is the inter-ethnic conflict in Azerbaijan that led to the exile of Armenian refugees and subsequently their struggle to gain citizenship rights in the newly formed Russian Federation. The political ...
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