History

• “THE GREAT QUESTION”: SLAVERY, SECTIONALISM, AND THE U.S. NAVAL OFFICER CORPS, 1820-1861 

  Bailey, Roger (2021)

  This dissertation analyzes how United States naval officers’ beliefs about race and slavery shaped sectionalism between the North and South in the antebellum era. As agents of the federal government operating far from the ...

• From Liberation Theology to Teología India: The Progressive Catholic Church in Southern Mexico, 1954-1994 

  Levey, Eben (2021)

  This project traces how the Mexican Catholic Church opened itself to tolerating and embracing indigenous catholicisms, how activists built a Catholic multiculturalism from the ground up (1960s-1990s), and how the Vatican ...

• The Poe Amendment's Defeat: Maryland Voters Reject the Negro Disfrancisement Movement, 1903-1905 

  Goll, Eugene W. (1967)

  The Poe amendment resulted from the increase of anti-Negro feeling in the very early 1900's and dominated Maryland politics from 1903 to 1905. Through this amendment, the Democratic party under Senator Arthur P. Gorman ...

• Resistance in the Digital Workplace: Call Center Workers in Bell Telephone Companies, 1965-2005 

  Goldman, Debbie J (2021)

  Resistance in the Digital Workplace analyzes the ways in which a predominantly female unionized workforce contested the degradation of the labor process and downward pressure on living standards and job security in the ...

• Because You Were Strangers: The American Jewish Campaign Against Immigration Restriction, 1895-1924 

  Krampner, Michael Jay (2021)

  Between 1895 and 1924, as the American immigration restriction movement attempted to limit immigration to the United States, an American Jewish anti-restriction campaign developed to combat immigration restriction. The ...

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