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“For the bodies and souls”: Catholic Women, Works of Mercy, and Institution Building in the Ohio River Valley, 1855-1880

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The Ohio River Valley was the site of an intense rivalry between Protestants and Catholics in the nineteenth century, as members of each group vied to extend their control through the development of churches, schools, orphanages, and other institutions. This dissertation explores the process and analyzes the effects of Catholic...

Keyword:

Philanthropy, Transatlantic Catholicism, Women religious, Urban development, Catholic institution building, and Lay women

Subject:

American history and Religious history

Creator:

Creason, Carl C.

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

05/31/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_985337 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16554
Consuming Care: Household Medicine Use in Washington, DC, 1840-1920

Description:

From daily hygiene habits, such as brushing teeth, to the ingestion of pharmaceuticals, many forms of healthcare are commonly practiced in daily life, at home. How have household healthcare practices changed over time in urban America? Taking Washington, DC as my case study, I examine patterns of household pharmaceuticals access...

Keyword:

Washington DC, Queer theory, Households, Pharmaceutical, Material Culture, and GIS

Subject:

American history and Archaeology

Creator:

Lupu, Jennifer Anne

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

05/31/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_987018 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16611
Dividing the Poor: Congressional Representation in Rhetoric and Policy during the New Deal

Description:

Existing scholarship documents the low levels of political power held by the American poor, and concomitant economic elite domination of Congress. Since the poor seldom elect lawmakers that share their descriptive traits, they necessarily rely on non-poor lawmakers virtually representing their interests. A key part of this virtual representation is...

Keyword:

Poverty, Public Policy, Representation, Policymaking, Congress, and American Political Development

Subject:

American history, Public policy, and Political science

Creator:

Diament, Sean Matthew

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

09/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_929189 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16262
Never Too Much: The Everyday Implausible in American Daytime Soap Opera Aesthetics, 1930 to Today

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In this dissertation, I assert that a contradictory aesthetic has remained and been reborn in the U.S. daytime soap opera through time and technology; I call this the “everyday implausible.” Using textual analysis and archival research, I follow this genre from its beginnings on radio, through its move to television...

Keyword:

soap operas, radio, television, YouTube, sound, and aesthetics

Subject:

American history, Mass communication, and Women's studies

Creator:

Emmett, Ilana Ruby

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

06/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_879402 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15934
Coalitional Aesthetics: Institutions of 1930s Leftist Literature in the US and Spain

Description:

“Coalitional Aesthetics” argues that leftist literary works of the 1930s enacted bonds of solidarity across racial, linguistic, and geographic divides, modeling alternative, non-hierarchical modes of social cohesion. Building on Gramsci’s concept of the coalitional, coalitional aesthetics refers to a set of formal characteristics that insist on the specificity of the...

Keyword:

Langston Hughes, John Reed Clubs, Writers Congress, Nancy Cunard, International Publishers, and Anthology

Subject:

African American studies, American history, and American literature

Creator:

Beeber, Matthew

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

06/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16092 and etdadmin_upload_903227
The Ties That Bind Us to Earth: Neighborhoods and Interpersonal Relationships of Black Southern Marylanders, 1850-1910

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This dissertation explores lasting familial relationships and friendships among southern African Americans from the antebellum years to the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on southern Maryland, the dissertation shows how free and enslaved African Americans cultivated familial and non-familial relationships in towns and rural neighborhoods. Over the course of...

Keyword:

Black Studies and African American Studies

Subject:

History, American history, and Black history

Creator:

Rosado, Ana

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/07/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15697 and etdadmin_upload_841483
‘The Indians Say’: Settler Colonialism and the Scientific Study of North America, 1722 to 1848

Description:

“‘The Indians Say’: Settler Colonialism and the Scientific Study of North America, 1722 to 1848” examines the issue of evidence and credibility within natural history by following the circulation of Indigenous testimony through Anglophone networks of scientific knowledge production. By merging the history of science with Native American and Indigenous...

Keyword:

testimony , history of science , settler colonialism , and natural history

Subject:

American history and Native American studies

Creator:

Jones, Emma Bennett

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/07/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_841673 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15701
Policing Fanaticism, Religion, & Race in the American Empire, 1830–1930

Description:

This dissertation investigates how US Americans in the nineteenth century began to apply the category of religious fanaticism to individuals and communities deemed dangerous. Contributing to scholarship on secularism, racial governance, and American religious history, this dissertation argues that fanaticism is not a neutral category of description. It tracks how...

Keyword:

religion and violence, secularism, Christianity, colonialism, american religious history, and racial governance

Subject:

American history, Religion, and Religious history

Creator:

Wheatley, Jeffrey Thomas

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_758378 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15204
"Mind How You Vote, Boys": The Crisis of Economic Voter Intimidation in the Late-Nineteenth Century United States, 1873-1896

Description:

This dissertation argues that the convergence of industrialized wage-labor, increased economic precariousness, close and partisan elections, and weak ballot laws dramatically increased the incidence of economic voter intimidation between 1873 and 1896. When this form of coercion primarily affected African American voters, as it did in the 1860s, politicians did...

Keyword:

elections, coercion, secret ballot, labor, race, and voter intimidation

Subject:

History, American history, and Political science

Creator:

Cohn-Postar, Gideon

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15213 and etdadmin_upload_759978
Open Tables: Restaurants and Reform in Progressive Chicago

Description:

“Open Tables: Restaurants and Reform in Progressive Chicago” considers restaurants as contentious spaces where larger debates about gender, class, race and ethnicity, public health, and the role of the state were carried out between the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the 18th Amendment. Using Chicago as...

Subject:

History and American history

Creator:

Toulin, Alana Marie

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_771086 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15330

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