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Kwame Nkrumah’s quest for Pan Africanism: from independence leader to deposed despot

Lawson, Autumn Anne (Wichita State University, 2010-12)

On February 12, 1951, Francis Nwia-Kofi “Kwame” Nkrumah walked out of James Fort Prison to become the first Prime Minister of the Gold Coast. After a landslide election, Nkrumah and his Convention People’s Party (CPP) ...
Langdon, Kansas: the aging of a rural town

Sherow, James E. (Wichita State University, 1978-05)

A historical analysis of the development of Langdon, a rural Kansas town, from its beginnings in early XX century to the time of its highest degree of prosperity from 1912 through 1920, and its decline from 1920 until 1950. ...
A most earnest plea: pregnant women facing capital punishment in the American colonies

Overstake, Jillian Amber (Wichita State University, 2012-05)

This research examines three case studies involving four pregnant women facing capital punishment in seventeenth and eighteenth century colonial America. A relevant biography, background, and criminal history are given for ...
New Thought churches in Wichita, Kansas history and structure

Macklin, Mary E. (WIchita State University, 2007-12)

This thesis traces the development of the philosophical and religious movement of New Thought and outlines the histories of the two New Thought churches in Wichita, Kansas: Unity Church and New Thought Community Church. ...
Patriarch, monk and empress :a Byzantine debate over icons

Doom, Erin Michael (2005-12)

The roots of the Byzantine debate over icons can be traced back to the Christian Church’s very inception. Indeed, an underlying current of iconoclasm manifested itself repeatedly over the centuries but did not erupt into ...
Pursuing the origins of “Sex against Nature”: a genealogical study of the development of Graeco-Roman and Christian thinking concerning male same-sex sexuality

Marquez, Hugo (Wichita State University, 2011-12)

This research is aimed to explain the origins and evolution of the philosophical antagonism to male same -sex sexuality under the argument that same-sex relations were contra naturam. It spans from classical Greece through ...
Rex Francorum et rex Angul-Saxonum: a comparison of Einhard’s Vita Karoli Magni and Asser's De Rebus Gestis Ælfredi

Hund, Helen Ann (2007-05)

Einhard’s Vita Karoli Magni and Asser’s De Rebus Gestis Ælfredi document the lives of two of the most fascinating kings to influence Western civilization – Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. The two biographies were written ...
Scourge of the Osage from the hand that held the quill: The economic survival of the Osage Indians concerning their transformation from warlords to landlords in the nineteenth century

Stephanopoulos, Athena Theodota (2007-05)

As the sun rose upon the Plains of the Midwest, dawning the nineteenth century, the Osage nation found itself embroiled in heavy trading and combat tactics with the French, Spanish, and even neighboring tribes. And while ...
The search for the good in garbage: a look at Wichita's own pyrolysis pilot plant and the history of the resource recovery movement in the United States from the Gilded Age to the 1990s

Gumm, Angela Shannon (2006-12)

Is there good in garbage? This thesis assumes that while it might not always be economical, safe or immediately worthwhile to get to it, that there is good in garbage. People in the United States have been trying—sometimes ...
The spirit of museums: The development of museum education programs for school groups since 1870

Hartley, Laura (wichita State University, 2008-08)

This research evaluates the history of education in museums since 1870 with a particular focus on education programs for schools groups and their relationship with both theoretical and practical trends occurring in the ...
The spirit of Nicodemus

Heiman, Nathan Anthony (Wichita State University, 2007-12)

When it was first settled in 1877, Nicodemus, Kansas was not the only all-African American community west of the Mississippi, but it is the only one remaining today. While many rural communities founded in Kansas and the ...
Summary justice: the price of treason for eight World War II German prisoners of war

Schock, Mark P. (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

This work is the story of the murder of Werner Drechsler, a German Navy prisoner of war, at the POW camp in Papago Park, Arizona in March 1944. Drechsler had aided his American captors in trying to glean military information ...
"That the union of the labor forces shall be permanent"

Carruthers, Bruce Cameron (2006-05)

Historians disagree on the reasons the Populist Movement and labor failed to achieve a political coalition. Some find the cause in a backward-looking Populist ideology that imagined solutions to the problems of rapid ...
This man Murdock

Dittemore, Carl Fenn (Wichita State University, 2012-07)

Marshall Mortimer Murdock was one of the most compelling and controversial figures in all of Kansas history. Best known perhaps for establishing the Wichita Eagle in 1872, a newspaper whose primary business it was—as it ...
Trade, diplomacy and war along the waters: The Mississippi during the American revolution

Papsdorf, Daniel A. (Wichita State University, 2010-05)

In early 1779 Father Pierre Gibault, a supporter of the American cause, found himself hiding on an island in the Mississippi River. Both ice and the lack of a formal alliance between Spain and the United States blocked ...
Vesting women with the vote: The timing of the federal amendment for woman suffrage

Farrell, Christine Ann (Wichita State University, 2007-12)

The purpose of this research was to determine the catalyst for the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment. A ‘top-down’ approach to women’s political history – an unconventional interpretation of woman suffrage from the ...
What is a nation: The micronationalist challenge to traditional concepts of the nation-state

Ferguson, Bennie Lee (Wichita State University, 2009-05)

While primarily concerned with questions of legitimacy, particularly in regard to issues such as sovereignty, recognition, and autonomy as they relate to diminutive nationalistic entities (otherwise known as “micronations”), ...
Where the two kingdoms merge: the struggle for balance between national and religious identity among Mennonites in Wilhelmine Germany

Regier, James (2006-05)

When the German Reich was created in 1871, it was an artificial construct born of Hohenzollern power projection and not of nationalism. Otto von Bismarck’s Realpolitik used the power of nationalism to unite Germans behind ...
Who can predict the future?: Central Kansas and the boom of 1887

Chennell, Charles Luke (Wichita State University, 2008-08)

Kansas experienced a period of rapid construction in the late 1880’s that marked both the urban and rural environments. The growth was the result of an unparalleled atmosphere of opportunity brought about by a collusion ...
Women of bleeding Kansas

Jackson, Leigh (Wichita State University, 2008-12)

In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Kansas Territory was opened to settlement, and the those that emigrated to populate it would decide if it was to become a slave state. This popular ...