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This dissertation offers an answer to the question of how the Midwest, specifically the middle Mississippi Valley, came to be the American heartland. In this dissertation, I argue that evangelicalism was instrumental in the making of the...
This dissertation investigates the relationship between religion, slavery, and evolving notions of humanity in eighteenth-century colonial New England. During the seventeenth-century, New Englanders largely conceived of slavery in terms...
This dissertation examines the ways in which the science of insanity informs the creation of the American citizen during the years of the early Republic. By utilizing the medical texts of "America's first psychiatrist" Benjamin Rush, as...
Several of the stories in this collection were inspired by the Lindbergh kidnapping. What most interests me was the public hysteria over the kidnapping, and the astonishing number of people who attempted to insinuate themselves into the...
Among the pueblos of Nuevo Mexico, Franciscan missionaries and Pueblo Indians structured their perceptions of and relationships with one another within religious frameworks. The history of cultural contact and interaction between friars...
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