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Influenza pandemics since Russian Flu. Do they provide insight to COVID-19?
(Wichita State University, 5/3/2020)The surprising appearance and rapid spread of Covid-19 has prompted comparisons with pandemic influenza. This presentation will examine influenza pandemics from 1889 Russian flu through the Novel 2009 H1N1 pandemic with ... -
Kansas promotional activities with particular reference to Mennonites
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The Greenback movement in Kansas, 1874-1884
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The early history of Seward County
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More than beefsteak and a cup of coffee: Reinterpreting the Harvey Girls in Kansas
(Wichita State University, 1996-05)This work provides the historical research and conceptual framework for a new interpretation of the Harvey Girls. The women who worked in Harvey eating houses were more than just waitresses -- they were Harvey Girls ... -
American settlers on the Canadian prairies
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Myra McHenry, Kansas crusader
(Wichita State University, 1953-05)The purpose of this dissertation is to preserve the historical facts pertaining to the last of the Kansas crusaders . This work attempts to show the influence of Myra McHenry upon the struggle between vice and corruption ... -
Wutanfall: emotional entanglements in the East German punk subculture
(Routledge, 2022-11-23)Emotions played a critical role in the history of East German punk subculture. Emerging in the late 1970s, punks challenged the SED state and subverted socialist norms through their music, fashion, and lifestyle. However, ... -
Gerald Burton Winrod: Defender of Christianity and democracy in the United States
(Wichita State University, 1994-05)This research attempted to uncover the effects, if any, that the pronouncements of Gerald Burton Winrod, an evangelist from Wichita, Kansas, had upon President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the American ... -
Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West
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Henry Lane Wilson, ambassador to Mexico
(Wichita State University, 1950-00)The purpose of this study is to consider the diplomatic relations of the United States and Mexico during the earlier phases of this last revolutionary period, dealing in particular with the diplomacy of Henry Lane ... -
History of El Dorado, Arkansas, 1843-1900
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The migration of the Swedes to Lindsborg, Kansas
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Searching for an identity in this wilderness: A comparative history of Black counter-identity movements in twentieth century America
(Wichita State University, 2022-05)This thesis examines three African American counter identity organizations that contributed distinct responses to the overt displays of White racism during the early twentieth century. Moreover, this thesis explores the ... -
Williamina Parrish: Artist, photographer, mentour
(Wichita State University, 2022-05)Williamina Parrish was a St. Louis artist active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that became known nationally and internationally for use of photography as a medium of art. As a photographic artist she ... -
Native American colonization
(Wichita State University, 2022-05)The United States launched a multi-pronged genocide against the Native Americans in order to achieve Manifest Destiny. It was not political manipulation nor economic dependency nor cultural genocide alone that forced the ... -
A pioneer history of Hamilton County, Kansas
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George M. Hoover, Dodge City pioneer
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William Greiffenstein and the founding of Wichita
(Wichita State University, 1937-06)In this account of the life of one of the pioneers and founders of Wichita, I have attempted to depict some of the characteristics which were necessary for the success of the pioneer fathers and some of the hardships and ... -
The history of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita, Kansas, 1888-1900
(Wichita State University, 1937-06)This history of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita tends quite simply to shape and preserve the principal events which marked the time from the organization of the Community in Abilene in 1888, to the establishment ...