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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. ...
Farming Democracy: American Agricultural Policy from the Great War to the Great Society
(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 ...
Beryl Levine: North Dakota's first female State Supreme Court justice
(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 ...
A History of North Dakota's Petroleum Industry, 1917-2017
(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 ...
Between Sea and Steppe: A Historical Foray in Three Parts
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Examinations into marine environmental history, Great Plains environmental history, and the city of Odessa, Ukraine, demonstrate these three areas have strong methodological and topical foundations and even stronger potential ...
Lawton's Bloodhounds: Indigenous Recruits in the Service of the United States Army in the Philippine American War, 1899-1902
(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 ...
The Battleground for the American Past: The Influence of the Vietnam War in Contemporary Memory
(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 ...
American Thought, Culture, and Neo-Noir in the Era of Postmodernity
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
The rise of postmodernism, following the fall of modernism after WWII, brought about new modes of thinking, understanding, and living in America. Postmodernity is often neglected or glanced over by historians. Those who ...
A Compendium of Historiography: Change in the 1930s Hughes Supreme Court’s Constitutional Jurisprudence; The Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb on Japan; and The Brezhnev Doctrine and the Polish Crisis of 1980-1981
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This study is a compendium of historiography. The papers focus on transformative twentieth-century events: The first considers the Supreme Court’s shift from New Deal opponent to facilitator. Internal explanations of ...
But the Roots Remain: The Wisconsin Progressives in the Great Depression and Post-War Era
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This work is concerned with the development of the Progressives, a political faction of the Republican Party which was active in Wisconsin during the first half of the 20th century, throughout the Great Depression, and the ...