Jewish camps commit to socializing campers toward a positive Jewish identity and instilling in them particular Jewish values and practices. Camp counselors – the staff members most likely to impact campers – must create an atmosphere in which campers develop a love of Jewish liv…
This dissertation seeks to accomplish four goals: first, to trace the development and history of ultra-conservative anti-communist conspiracists--who referred to themselves as "Americanists"--from the emergence of Americanist speakers near the beginning of the 1950s, through the…
This study uses the history of Campus Crusade for Christ to explore the trajectory of post-1945 American evangelicalism. Campus Crusade, founded by Bill Bright (1921--2003) and Vonette Bright (1925-- ) at the University of California Los Angeles in 1951, grew by century's end in…
This dissertation examines the political career of Senator James A. McClure as it relates to United States energy policy and Middle Eastern affairs, 1967-1990 and within the context of the modern (post-World War II) conservative movement. A pragmatic conservative, McClure sought…
Politically active conservative Christians have been mobilizing to prohibit the inclusion and affirmation of gender and sexual diversity (GSD) in K-12 schools since the 1970s. Communities with a high concentration of conservative Christians, or religiously conservative communiti…
By the mid-twentieth century, Blacks in the United States had left what was known as the “Party of Lincoln” and moved towards supporting Democrats and left-wing candidates and policies both locally and nationally. This shift in Black politics has led to American society broadly …
The data gathered through this study yields some insight into the psychographic and demographic of consumers who are likely to engage with visual messaging that leans toward a specific ideological view. Using perceptions of economy, religion, and culture, a series of promotions …