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Settler Colonizers’ Sense of History on the Northern Plains Before and After the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
(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 ... -
Shattering the Color Barrier: Black Students, White Colleges, and the Story of Project E-Quality at Moorhead State College (1968-1974)
(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 ... -
Solidarity Forever: A Call for Inclusive Holocaust Memory and Coalition Building Amid Forgetting & Denial
(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 ... -
Studies of the Venerable Bede, the Great Famine of 1315-1322, and Libraries in Prisoner of War Camps
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This paper includes three studies about the Venerable Bede, the Great Famine of 1315-1322, and libraries in prisoner of war camps. The study of the Venerable Bede focuses on his views on and understanding of time, especially ... -
A Survey of Certified Athletic Trainers: The Report of Skin Infections Incidence
(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 ... -
'They Ain't Afraid of no Ghosts': Dark Tourism at Historic Sites
(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 ... -
Three Studies in European and World History
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This paper includes three studies in European and World History. The first is a historiography on the former Yugoslavia, exploring the various theories given for the collapse of the country since its dissolution and the ... -
The Tides of the Tourism Complex at La Paz, Mexico
(North Dakota State University, 2013)By 1940, the outlying Mexican territory of Baja California Sur faced an uncertain future. The extractive industries of mining and pearling had collapsed in the southern areas of the peninsula, and the remaining economic ... -
Transformations of the Red River Valley of the North: An Environmental History
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This environmental history of the Red River Valley from the mid 1850s – 2000 encompasses those who lived in this tallgrass prairie region and asks how did they live within this environment? In addition, it seeks to understand ... -
Ukraine: A Nation Without Heroes
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Ukraine's creation of national heroes reflects the challenges of nation-building after the fall of the Soviet Union. Since its independence in 1991, Ukraine has attempted to "rehabilitate" controversial political figures ... -
Unfit: Eugenics on the Northern Great Plains
(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 ... -
An Unintended Activist: Judge Ronald N. Davies and the Influence of the Northern Plains on Twentieth-Century Civil Rights and Judicial Progressivism
(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. ... -
The Upper Musselshell Valley: A Grassroots and Bioregional History
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The Upper Musselshell Valley: A Grassroots and Bioregional History chronicles the history of central Montana's Upper Musselshell Valley in an attempt to craft a viable history of region. As a corrective measure or alternate ... -
The Woman’s Club of Moorhead 1868-1946
(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.” ...