• The Chisholm trail 

  Rossel, John (Wichita State University, 1931-05)

• The great Easton Treaty of 1758: the 'unknown' turning point of the French and Indian War 

  Waugaman, David (Wichita State University, 2017-12)

  This thesis attempted to argue that an Anglo-Indian treaty signed at a small Pennsylvanian town called Easton in fall 1758 should be considered a crucial turning point in the French and Indian War. This treaty was one ...

• The Western perception of ancient Egypt: the discovery, spectacle and exposition of King Tutankhamun 

  Bell, Tonisha S. (Wichita State University, 2017-12)

  Since Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, Western nations such as France, Britain, and the United States have displayed Egyptian antiquities as an exotic spectacle, creating the image of ancient Egypt that is known today. ...

• Silver age comic books: Uncovering their importance in the midst of political, social and cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s 

  Roeder, Joshua Ryan (Wichita State University, 2016-07)

  This research attempts to show the need to expand comic-book scholarship through critically examining how comic writers and artists express cultural, political, and social concepts in the past and present. The reason that ...

• Which half was the horse?: The Kentucky militia and volunteers in fact and fiction 

  Larson, Katherine Joan (Wichita State University, 2015-05)

  The state of Kentucky has a unique history having originally been the hunting grounds for various Indian tribes. The settlement of the territory proved difficult for, and even fatal to, the pioneers due to the proximity ...

• Restored to reason: A case study of women's use of legislative reform for the purpose of legal equality 

  Haahr, Kristina (Wichita State University, 2015-05)

  Women of the nineteenth century, dissatisfied with the legal role in which they had been cast, utilized the process of legislative reform and through its use, obtained legislation for equal parity and self-ownership. They ...

• "A peace between them": Negotiating indigenous conflict and diplomacy in the Creek-Choctaw war, 1766-1776 

  Herbert, Jason (Wichita State University, 2015-05)

  This research attempted to understand the underlying causes and consequences of the Creek-Choctaw War of 1766-1776. Previous studies held that the war was fomented by British leadership in North America out of a desire to ...

• Bene merenti: an epigraphic display of social identity and expectational difference between Roman freeborn and freed women 

  Thompson, Kori (Wichita State University, 2014-12)

  The overall concern of this thesis is to examine the difference in social identity and its formation processes and the expectations placed upon free-born and freed Roman women within specific roles using epigraphic evidence ...

• "Where the Old West comes to life": The story of Old Cowtown Museum 

  Wondra, Keith Aaron (Wichita State University, 2014-07)

  Old Cowtown Museum originally started as a shrine to the pioneers and founders of Wichita. It later reinvented itself around Hollywood's version of the Old West. After the end of the Hollywood western, it reinvented itself ...

• "The sacrifices and inconveniences were forgotton:" Baptist missionary women to the northeastern immigrant tribes in Kansas, 1833-1853 

  Flory, Lynsay Sue (Wichita State University, 2014-07)

  Women who worked at the Baptist missions to northeastern Indian Immigrant tribes in Kansas were missionaries. Not simply missionary wives, or schoolteachers, both married and unmarried females and their male colleagues ...

• Good saloon, bad saloon: Saloons in Wichita, Kansas 1865-1881 

  Rhodes, Austin Charles (Wichita State University, 2014-05)

  This research evaluates the purpose, use, and public view of drinking establishments in Wichita and the surrounding area during one of the most iconic eras in American popular culture: the years following the Civil War in ...

• Monumental shifts in memory the evolution of German war memorials from the Great War to the end of the Cold War 

  Lavallee, Sarah Elaine (Wichita State University, 2014-05)

  German war memorials post-1945 involved a complicated story of commemoration; the complexities ranged from war memorials adapted multiple times to fit contemporary needs, to military cemeteries which became controversial ...

• Lorenzo D. Lewelling and Kansas populism 

  Poland, Jordan A. (Wichita State University, 2013-07)

  This research explores the Populist era in Kansas and the life of the state's twelfth governor, Lorenzo D. Lewelling. Lewelling is an important figure in the Populist movement in Kansas and his rise to power, and subsequent ...

• Extra! Extra! Read all about it: The British and American press' coverage of German-Soviet collaboration, 1917-1928 

  Munshaw, Harvey Daniel (Wichita State University, 2013-05)

  The purpose of this thesis is to uncover what the British and American press knew about Germany's military-industrial collaboration with Soviet Russia during the period that began with the Bolshevik Revolution in November ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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. ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Infectious nonviolence: a comparative study of African American and Palestinian struggle for rights in the 20th century 

  Hasan, Aziza (Wichita State University, 2011-05)

  Nonviolent mass movements have played a significant role in bringing about change in the 20th century. They stood up to the very powers that oppressed them and helped those forces see a reality they were once blind to. ...

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