“His Biggest Asset: George Bush's Pre-Vice Presidential Career, 1970–1977,” is an in-depth examination of the 41 st President's record of public service during the Nixon and Ford Administrations. This study is informed by Bush's later role in the transformation of international …
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This dissertation examines the Atlantic-scale economic boom and bust economy of the 1850s and the economic origins of mass political antislavery in the U.S. Old Northwest during the boom years. The decade’s economic expansion began with the inflation of money and credit througho…
The purpose of this project is to provide historical context to the rise of White Evangelicals political involvement in the United States and how it evolved to support and endorse Donald Trump for president in the 2016 election. Three major factors led to this: White Christian N…
After Congress took control of Reconstruction in 1866, thousands of former Confederates migrated into the Republican Party. Though nowhere near a majority of former Confederates, these “reconstructed rebels” exerted an outsized influence on Congressional Reconstruction. Few have…
In the second half of the twentieth century, Edward W. Brooke became one of the best known and respected African American political leaders in the nation. He stood against the national pattern, when many black politicians and voters turned Democratic during FDR’s New Deal and th…
The approximately one and a half decade period prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War was characterized by growing sectional tensions over the future status of slavery in the Western territories. The various controversies surrounding this uniquely resonant issue fractur…