For millennia battles were essentially affairs of linear encounter. From the 10th Century to the 20th Century, artillery generally fired directly in the two dimensional plane,limiting potential effects. The development of indirect fire changed this , two-dimensional model. Warfa…
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This dissertation examines U.S. foreign policy in the Persian Gulf since World War II. It posits that contingent imperialism can explain American involvement. Three variants of contingent imperialism are applied to this case study: alliance, proxy, and unilateral. The case study…
This thesis will examine the lack of commemoration on the involvement of African American female soldiers during World War II. This thesis will also reveal the struggles, treatment, and triumphs that African American female WWII soldiers endured during the war. It is important t…
The United States requisitioned artists to assist with military objectives and servicemen requisitioned art as a form of rhetoric. This research reexamines the role of “official artists” and thereby extends its definition to include the multitude of art they produced during the …
D-Day is an event that has seated itself in collective memory, particularly America, as a seminal moment of the Second World War, and of the 20th century. Often the Allied landings in Upper Normandy are conceptualized as a watershed moment of the Second World War, signaling the …
Scholarship has recognized that a shared passion for baseball between the United States and Japan helped facilitate reconciliation between the two states after World War II, but not enough focus has been put on the role the long history of U.S.-Japan baseball cooperation played …
CHELSEA LOVELY NEESE: Stepping into the Open: Women’s Experience in the Military During World War II
Through the lens of a Jewish family in the early 20th century, histories of resilience, rescue, and resistance are shown. The Loewys were a Jewish family who migrated from Poland to Germany then France and ending up in the United States following World War II. In their travels t…
This project examines the life of my grandfather, John Robert McGowan, fondly known to me as Pop Pop. His stories follow him through a childhood growing up in the Great Depression in a working class family, to serving in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and to working three jobs i…
From 1910 to 1945, while the Korean peninsula was a protectorate- and eventual colony- of the Empire of Japan, Koreans in the United States began an arduous process to maintain their sense of identity in a new land, and struggled to have a voice in a society that rejected their …
This dissertation explores the perspective and performance of U.S. intelligence professionals and the intelligence organizations in which they served concerning Japan during the interwar period, the timespan ranging approximately from the conclusion of World War I in November 19…
This thesis explores the life of Eleanor Hinman, whose life spanned the greater part of the twentieth century. A Nebraska native, she was the descendent of generations of female writers, community activists, and intellectuals. Her family had prioritized learning, for men and wom…
This study seeks to analyse the evolution of the European International Business Academy's Annual Conferences between the years 1999 and 2011. A collection of the 2221 documents presented across the defined period was processed with the use of a computer-aided tool - the Latent …
World War II was the most devastating war in human history in terms of loss of life. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, plunged the United States into war. Less than seven thousand military nurses were on active duty at the time of the attack. By the end of…
Times of war and political turmoil provoke an array of musical responses. The years between 1936 and 1945 saw unprecedented casualties for humanity in the horrors inflicted by the Third Reich. Artistic freedom also suffered under such oppressive forces, and mounting nationalisti…
Crossed Wires: Japanese American Incarceration and the Environmental Frontier focuses on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. From this historical vantage point, I draw on ecocritical and settler colonial frameworks to theorize the relationship between im…
“Women With A Will to Win!: The British and American Women of WWII” exhibit was created to fill in historical gaps and give patrons a better understanding of women's experiences in the United States and Great Britain during World War II. The display provides information and arti…
Contemporary research and public discourse have recently drawn attention to the different perspectives of men and women on their social, political and cultural environment. However, when it comes to the topic of the identity and behavior of perpetrators in concentration and exte…
When we think of mid-twentieth century pin-up girls today, we typically imagine a “blonde bombshell” actress bursting out of her bullet bra and swiveling her hips to rock ‘n’ roll, or a long-legged beauty painted by any one of the several dozen pin-up calendar and advertising ar…