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The Transformation of American Philanthropy: From Public Trust to Private Foundation, 1785-1917
(2017)
This dissertation examines the early history of philanthropic enterprise in the United States. I use the legal and administrative records of nineteenth-century philanthropic foundations, as well as the popular debates they ...
The People's Classroom: American Modernism and the Struggle for Democratic Education, 1860-1940.
(2013)
This dissertation examines the struggle for democratic education in California among public intellectuals, labor groups, and education reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I argue that this ...
Labor on Display: Ford Factory Tours and the Romance of Globalized Deindustrialization.
(2014)
This dissertation examines twentieth and early twenty-first century American industry’s use of factory tours and exhibitions to construct the U.S. as a postindustrial nation, to frame labor as resistant to forward progress, ...
Uniform Threat: Manufacturing the Ku Klux Klan's Visible Empire, 1866-1931
(2017)
This dissertation examines a symbol central to the racial consciousness of the contemporary United States: the white robe and hood worn by members of the modern Ku Klux Klan. In this cultural history of Ku Klux Klan regalia, ...
Animal Print: The Literary Production of Humane America.
(2013)
This dissertation considers how humane literary texts mediate animal-human relationships and how these relationships, in turn, shape the expressive modes in which they are rendered. In studies of three popular animal-protection ...
Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions: Race, Nation, and Popular Culture in Cuban New York City and Miami, 1940-1960.
(2012)
“Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions” examines the relationship between popular black and white Cuban entertainers and the Cuban communities and broader Latino/a publics of New York City and Miami in the 1940s and ...
Gardens in the Machine: Cultural and Environmental Change in Detroit, 1879 - 2010.
(2015)
This dissertation argues that parks, gardens, yards, and other landscapes created by residents and city leaders are crucially important to understanding the history of metropolitan Detroit, Michigan between 1879 and 2010. ...
"Those Who Say Don't Know and Those Who Know Don't Say": The Nation of Islam and the Politics of Black Nationalism, 1930-1975
(2017)
This dissertation demonstrates the centrality of the Nation of Islam (NOI) and black nationalist politics to the modern black freedom movement. The Nation of Islam’s activism in prisons, courtrooms, and on college campuses ...
Indigenous Trading Women of the Borderland Great Lakes,1740 to 1845
(2017)
This dissertation illustrates the role of indigenous trading women in significant events that shaped the borderlands Great Lakes region, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, the Northwest ...
“Dirty Factory Town” or “A Good City?”: Neoliberalism and the Cultural Politics of Rust Belt Urban Revitalization.
(2013)
On July 4, 1984, AutoWorld opened in Flint, Michigan. A curious combination of Disney-style theme park and historical museum, the $80 million dollar urban revitalization project was also an attempt by a “Rust Belt” city ...