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The purpose of this thesis is to showcase racial disparities and racial tensions among the Latino/a/x, Indigenous, and Afro-Descendants with an explicit focus on the Central American Diasporas/Experiences in Los Angeles. An explanation as to why these conditions are present toda…

The purpose of this research was to examine representations of women in the United States’(US) history content within New York State’s (NY) suggested English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for K-2 students. Adapted from the CORE Knowledge Foundation, and downloaded nationally ov…

In Only Partly Visible, David F. Scrivner seeks to paint a rich, complex, and historically informed portrait of workers and their experiences in America in the twentieth century. This work of historical fiction touches on four major moments: The Ludlow Masscare of 1914, the stru…

This dissertation scrutinizes how American Exceptionalism evolved from a collection of Christian and English legends around 1776 into today’s well-organized narrative central to Americans’ self-perception and political discourse. It is based upon an extensive qualitative study o…

This thesis examines the historical development of American space policy as an imperial project. This paper is periodized in three chronological eras—the Cold War, the 1990s, and the post-9/11 era—that display distinct viewpoints and methodologies toward the practice of expansio…

This research study explored the presence of implicit racial bias in South Carolina curriculum policy within its content standards for U.S. history and the Constitution. Curriculum policy discourse flows through the statewide public school system from the legislature, through di…