• TWO STRIKES AND YOU’RE OUT: THE CONVERGENCE OF COLD WAR POLITICS, LABOR, AND ETHNIC TENSIONS IN THE JULY 1946 STRIKES AT KIRKUK AND ABADAN 

  Hobson, Tiffany Claire (2019)

  This thesis explores the convergence of Cold War politics, labor issues, and ethnic conflict on the local scale during the labor strikes which occurred in July 1946 at the oil refineries in Kirkuk, Iraq and Abadan, Iran. ...

• “LABOR HAS A LONG MEMORY”: TRANSFORMATIONS IN CAPITALISM AND LABOR ORGANIZING IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA, 1977-2019 

  Heim, David (2019)

  In 1989 the UMWA went on strike against Pittston Coal. In response to declining union power and corporate anti-unionism, the UMWA embraced community members and women as participants in its striking strategy. Although ...

• Staging an Empire: How Late Victorian Theatre Represents Public Perceptions of the British Empire 

  Appleton, Nicholas Ryan (2019)

  ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: STAGING AN EMPIRE: HOW LATE VICTORIAN THEATRE REPRESENTS PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Nicholas Appleton, Master of Arts, 2019 Thesis Directed By: Mircea Raianu PhD, Assistant ...

• “WHAT’S SPANISH FOR AIDS?”: LATINO ACTIVISM AGAINST RACIALLY EXCLUSIVE HIV/AIDS HEALTHCARE OUTREACH IN WASHINGTON, D.C., 1981-1995 

  Brandli, Elizabeth Jane (2019)

  This research examines the racially exclusive health outreach practices in Washington, D.C. during the HIV/AIDS crisis that created barriers to healthcare for Latino residents. After analyzing the ways in which mainstream ...

• The Sole Measure of Service: A Social History of Baltimore's Public Libraries During World War II 

  Coddington, Gwenlyn (2019)

  This thesis examines the history of public libraries in Baltimore and Maryland during World War II. Drawing from contemporary newspapers and institutional records, it argues that World War II expanded institutional ...

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