• Unfit: Eugenics on the Northern Great Plains 

  Magnuson, Levi (North Dakota State University, 2024)

  The early twenty-first century saw the emergence of the eugenics movement in the United States, which culminated in the sterilization of people with mental or physical disabilities. State institutions across the country ...

• The Missile People: A Cold War Public Memory 

  Engeland, Shane (North Dakota State University, 2024)

  Disrupting the horizon with a startling physical presence on the flat North Dakota prairie, the remains of the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex are the physical remnants of a decisive stage of the Cold War. The complex ...

• A Survey of Certified Athletic Trainers: The Report of Skin Infections Incidence 

  Wilde, Ashley Ruth (North Dakota State University, 2009)

  The purpose of this study was to evaluate the common types of skin infections occurring in United States athletes within the past year and the types of athletes that are most likely to contract them. Surveys were constructed ...

• Canadian Confederation andAusgleich: A Comparative Case Study in Imperial Devolution as Imperial Rule and the Effects on National Formation, 1867-1918 

  Carter, Thomas Lachlan (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  Scholarly thinking on empires is changing. These scholars see empires as flexible states which are fully capable of meeting the challenges of modernity. This newer line of scholarship challenges the standard narrative ...

• Lucas Alaman and the Historians 

  Gannon, Grael Brian (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  This study considers the life, thought, and work of Lucas Alaman, Mexican statesman and historian of the early nineteenth century, as seen by historians from his time to the present with reference to his political ...

• The Lost Environmentalists: The Struggle Between Conservative Christianity and the Environment in the 1970s 

  Pogue, Neall, M.A. (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  This study examined the history of the relationship between conservative Christians and environmentalism during the 1970s. It illuminated how conservative Christians met environmental concerns in response to the Earth ...

• Latin America Mission: An Exploration of Evangelical Growth in a Catholic Continent 

  Ptacek, Cassandra Joy (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  This thesis strives to explore Evangelical Protestant growth in Latin America during the twentieth century through the example of Latin America Mission, a nondenominational, evangelical mission organization founded in ...

• Solidarity Forever: A Call for Inclusive Holocaust Memory and Coalition Building Amid Forgetting & Denial 

  Fricker, Elisabeth (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  According to a recent survey, less than half of American Millennials can name a Holocaust concentration camp, and more than two-thirds of the respondents did not know the number of Jewish people the Nazis killed in the ...

• “Only as Strong as We All Make It:” The Limitations of Fargo’s Civil Defense during the Early Cold War (1950-1964) 

  Rudebusch, Aaron (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  In this thesis, I argue that civil defense failed to take hold in the United States because it required local communities to take responsibility for protective measures. Fargo, North Dakota provides a case study for this ...

• Settler Colonizers’ Sense of History on the Northern Plains Before and After the Turn of the Nineteenth Century 

  Barth, Aaron Loren (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  This dissertation argues that it is time to push the understanding of the US Oceti Sakowin wars in different directions, particularly in the direction that stops obsessing and constantly revisiting the officer and soldier ...

• The Fluidity of Gender Roles on the Northern Great Plains 1890-1950 

  Aulner, Stefanie Michele Pililani (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  The relative infancy of the Northern Great Plains social environment compared to the well-established social systems of the United States east of the Mississippi fostered growth and allowed the redefinition of women’s ...

• A History of North Dakota's Petroleum Industry, 1917-2017 

  Herz, Clarence Anthony (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  North Dakota’s petroleum industry can be traced back to 1917, when Arthur Blum found a small amount of oil in a well drilled to water his cattle. The unsuccessful exploration for oil continued from 1917 until 1951, when ...

• Beryl Levine: North Dakota's first female State Supreme Court justice 

  Stanley, Cody Benard (North Dakota State University, 2009)

  The intent of this thesis is to explore the life and perspective of the North Dakota State Supreme Court's first female justice, Beryl J. Levine. The overarching question throughout this thesis is, whether or not, because ...

• Lawton's Bloodhounds: Indigenous Recruits in the Service of the United States Army in the Philippine American War, 1899-1902 

  Butcher, Carole Irene (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Following the Spanish American War, the United States became embroiled in a guerrilla war with Filipino insurgents who had sought independence from Spain. They objected to the purchase of the Philippine Islands by the ...

• An Unintended Activist: Judge Ronald N. Davies and the Influence of the Northern Plains on Twentieth-Century Civil Rights and Judicial Progressivism 

  Reikowsky, Stacy Michelle (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  A devotion to an open and progressive interpretation of human rights and the law secured Judge Ronald N. Davies’ legacy as an unintended, yet influential activist for advancing civil rights and of the twentieth century. ...

• Farming Democracy: American Agricultural Policy from the Great War to the Great Society 

  Biles, Amanda Belle (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  In the days of the early republic, agriculture provided more than just an economic foundation; it shaped the country socially, and politically, too. Thomas Jefferson and others wrote at length of the role farming played ...

• The Woman’s Club of Moorhead 1868-1946 

  Eidem, Katie Ann (North Dakota State University, 2018)

  Far from upholding the domestic ideal of the Victorian Era, the Moorhead Woman’s Club helped establish the first public library in the city and strove for changes in education through active engagement in the public “sphere.” ...

• Shattering the Color Barrier: Black Students, White Colleges, and the Story of Project E-Quality at Moorhead State College (1968-1974) 

  Vanorny, Hannah Mae (North Dakota State University, 2005)

  During the late 1960s and early 1970s, many predominantly white colleges began admitting larger numbers of black students. According to a 1974-1975 University of Michigan study, these schools shared similar predisposing ...

• The Battleground for the American Past: The Influence of the Vietnam War in Contemporary Memory 

  Olmsted, Chelsea Dawn (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Commemorative programming for historic anniversaries reveals an interpretive and narrative evolution between public memory and history. The divisiveness of the war and the public’s ambivalence about its meaning allowed for ...

• 'They Ain't Afraid of no Ghosts': Dark Tourism at Historic Sites 

  Johnson, Kaci Lynn (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Dark tourism, a subsection of heritage tourism, is growing in popularity and center around historic sites and museums. Those sites are put in the position to take advantage of the surging popularity of dark tourism by ...

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