Kant’s essay ‘Project for Perpetual Peace’, written in 1795, was seminal in the relationship it constructed between the individual, national governance and international relations. Peace became a rallying cry after the Napoleonic wars and for a century, societies for peace sprou…
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My dissertation, " 'The Common Commercial Flesh of Women': Prostitution in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature," analyzes the way early twentieth-century authors use fictional depictions of the prostitute to negotiate the disorienting and often violent changes that character…
Officials from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, identified Cuba as a fertile missionary field shortly after the island's liberation from Spain in 1898. This work will argue that Methodist missionaries working in Cuba did not view the saving of souls or the extension of Ame…
This dissertation explores the unique, significant, and sometimes contentious relationship that existed between British Jewish author and activist Israel Zangwill and the Jewish community of the United States of America from 1892-1926 and beyond. Employing a broad definition of …
While the prohibition movement of the 1880s gained limited success, the Progressive Era variant of the movement achieved a remarkable accomplishment in American politics: the Eighteenth Amendment. How can such divergent outcomes be explained? This dissertation argues that choice…
This study analyzes anti-prostitution crusades in Chicago during the Progressive Era, using a social constructionist theoretical perspective to explore how crusaders constructed prostitution as a social problem. My multi-faceted theoretical framework drew on both social construc…
For American and British women, the definition of being healthy changed in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Previously, there had been a resigned acceptance of the fact that a woman’s reproductive capacity often relegated her to a lifetime of suffering and ill hea…
Land, Labor, Literature: Ecospheric Critique from the Margins of the Progressive Era focuses on Progressive-Era writers whose work represents three modes of relating to the land through direct fieldwork—agrarian, indigenous, and diasporic—and who articulate, through that fieldwo…
Issues of motivation remain a perennial topic among teachers of English Language Arts and first-year college composition courses. While modern evidence-based research in educational psychology has yielded fruitful avenues for harnessing motivation in writing instruction, in rece…
The Progressive Era in America from 1870 to 1920 introduced unprecedented change in the way Americans lived, worked, and thought about themselves in relation to the rest of the world. New platforms of charitable benevolence, religious activism, and legislative reform were enacte…
This dissertation tells the story of how mathematics was made American. Like other American sciences, mathematics in the United States shifted during the Progressive Era from practical and educational activities toward research. Unlike other American sciences, however, American …
Strike waves in the late nineteenth century United States caused widespread property destruction, but strike leaders did not suggest threats to employer property as a comprehensive strategy until the I.W.W. adopted a deliberate program of sabotage. Contrary to historical consens…
False Promises: Race, Power, and the Chimera of Indian Assimilation, 1879–1934, analyzes the punishment of adult Indian women and men at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879–1918) and the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (1902–1934). While previous boarding school scholar…
This dissertation examines the intersection of conservatism and reform in American politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This dissertation focuses on four prominent conservatives – US Senators Nelson W. Aldrich (R-RI), John C. Spooner (R-WI), and Orvil…
Throughout the Progressive Era, Progressive prison reformers condemned the practice of contracting out convict labor in America’s prisons. Three states played unique roles regarding the advancement of Progressive penology. Early in the nineteenth century, New York State prison o…
During the first three decades of the twentieth century, an increase of women in the United States workforce perpetuated a trend at art museums to be more inclusive of women. By 1930, most major art museums had begun to hire women for curatorial jobs and include women on boards …
This work examines the evolution of eugenic ideology in South Carolina during the Progressive Era by following relevant discussions published in The State newspaper. Between 1891 and 1939, The State newspaper provided a platform for discussions about eugenic ideology to be disse…
This thesis studies the institutional structure of the civil government and leadership at the Panama Canal during the American construction period between 1904 and 1914. As the signal piece of global infrastructure of the Progressive Era, the canal substantially amplified the Un…
For centuries, schooling has served as the primary precursor to jobs and careers, and ultimately the window of opportunity toward economic mobility. Vocationalism describes the economic potential of education, represented by the synthesis of educational policy, curricula, and id…