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Hendricks, Russell Gordon
(University of Oregon, 1951-06)
The period from 1890 to 1914 was marked by a series of electoral reforms in Oregon, including: the Australian ballot; the regulation of political party primaries; the registration of voters; the initiative and referendum; ...
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Reher, Patricia
(1961-08-24)
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Webster, Andrew
(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)
Cases of Italian embedded self-portraiture appear in the sacred art of some of the most renowned artists of the Cinquecento and early Seicento, artists such as Bronzino, Michelangelo, Titian, Tintoretto, and Caravaggio. ...
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Grunow, Tristan
(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)
This dissertation examines the spatial and built forms of Japanese power. As it sought to consolidate control of new territory, the Meiji government followed a design forged in Tokyo as it attempted to build legitimacy ...
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Sandvick, Clinton Matthew
(University of Oregon, 2008-06)
This thesis examines the enforcement of medical licensing laws in the United
States between 1875 and 1915. Since all of these laws operated at the state level, I focus
on the actions taken by various state medical boards ...
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Seal, Gyla Beth
(University of Oregon, 1957-06)
Great Britain during the decade following the Napoleonic Wars seemed to be on the verge of revolution. Her social and political institutions had failed to catch up to the Industrial Revolution and the widespread discontent ...
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McQuilkin, Christopher
(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)
After the United States entered World War II, the nation began a technical assistance program and a military aid program in Paraguay as part of its Latin American foreign policy. The U.S. rooted its technical assistance ...
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Fortenberry, Kyle
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
Drawing from trends in environmental and disaster studies, this study examines the meaning of earthquakes within the official histories of China's Tang Dynasty (618-907), specifically those during the reign of Emperor ...
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Ruhl, Melissa
(University of Oregon, 2011-06)
High school student activism at Chemawa Indian School, a Native American boarding school in Oregon, transformed the curriculum, policies, and student life at Chemawa. Historians have neglected post-WWII boarding school ...
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Mangat, Jagjit S.
(1960-06)
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Evans, Jack
(University of Oregon, 2021-04-27)
This thesis investigates the Indian Student Placement Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which removed tens of thousands of Native students from their families and placed them in white LDS homes ...
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Brereton, August
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
This thesis addresses the motivations and experiences of post-Soviet women who married American men though internet agencies in the 1990s and 2000s. I explain the historical context for these migrations, unpack the mechanics ...
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Smith, Christopher
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
American emigrants frequently encountered Native North Americans during the overland trail migrations of the 1840s-1860s. This study examines the frequency and nature of those interactions in two geographic sections: the ...
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Frye, Bruge Bradford
(1949-06)
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McCarter, Frances Alice
(1940-06)
It is only in the past few years that the relations of the United States with Latin America have exoited a large measure of interest in the American people. This trend of opinion seems to be based upon two factors: the ...
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Hoyt, Hugh Myron
(University of Oregon, 1966-06)
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O'Callaghan, Jerry A.
(University of Oregon, 1948-06)
Nations depending upon citizens to fill their armies and navies for their warfare are continually faced with a question of reward. Such nations have always been anxious that they do not appear ungrateful to the select class ...
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Mueller, Richard K.
(University of Oregon, 1980-06)
In the summer of 1889, Granville Stuart, pioneer gold-miner,
trader, merchant, politician, rancher, and man of letters led one of
the most deadly vigilante episodes in American history. Like the
leaders of the 1862 ...
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Leone, Steven
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
While multiple questions drive this project, one fundamental query lays at its center. How did American approaches to mortality, their own and others, during the early national period (roughly 1770 to 1850) shape both their ...
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Donovan, Adrian
(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
Britain and Japan, fellow island nations, share many geographical similarities, and accordingly both societies have long taken advantage of water transport domestically. In modern times the two nations’ governments have ...
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