Browsing OU - Exploring U.S. History by Title
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50 shades of slavery : sexual assault of black male slaves in antebellum America
Male slave owners used sexual assault to dominate, dehumanize, and emasculate male slaves in American Antebellum South. The oppression and violence that characterized the institution of chattel slavery are easily accessible, ... -
American ideals reinforced through advertisements
(2016)The economic and housing boom that followed World War II paved the way for America to become the consumer-driven economy that it is today. These booms also created competition among companies, therefore leading to the ... -
American terror
For 150 years, those that have come to call the American Civil War "the War of Northern Aggression" have cited General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea as an unnecessary act of terror; opponents claim the South ... -
Between students and state : desegregation and the University of Oklahoma
(2016)In 1948 George McLaurin sat outside his first class at the University of Oklahoma. McLaurin was the first African American to be admitted to the University of Oklahoma on a segregated basis. The University of Oklahoma ... -
Buying your health : medical consumerism in the early twentieth century
After WWI, the United States saw an unprecedented rise in economic production and mass consumerism, an era that came to be characterized by wealth, prosperity, and vanity. Spurred on by the second industrial revolution, ... -
Democracy deposed : U.S. media coverage of 1950's Guatemala
After World War II, the United States established itself as a crusader for democracy and capitalism around the world. The urge to fight communism while advocating for democracy meant a dilemma when faced with countries ... -
Designing women : how ancient philosophy shaped the role of women in the early republic
(2016)For a span of one hundred and forty-four years, from the official founding of the country until the passage of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, women in the United States of America did not have the right to vote. ... -
Edwin C. DeBarr and the University of Oklahoma's reponses from 1923-1988
In 1982, A University of Oklahoma student initiative strove to change a building's name after uncovering that Edwin C. DeBarr, for whom it was named, had been a grand dragon in the Ku Klux Klan. Then Oklahoma University ... -
The effect of the Monitor and Merrimack on naval warfare
(2016)On March 9th, 1862, in a largely uneventful and inconclusive battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia, the course of naval warfare throughout the world was forever changed. It was during this Civil War battle that the world’s ... -
An era of creative establishment
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Freedom rides : success by context
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The Indian Removal Act and resulting factions among the Cherokee Nation
(2016)On May 28, 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the forcible relocation of southern Indian tribes to the flatlands of America. While this signature only took a moment, consequences of ... -
Jane Addams : a never ending search for peace
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Law and order : Nixon's rhetoric and the Southern strategy
Today's familiar Democratic and Republican party coalitions have not always existed; rather, they began to emerge in the 1960s as demographic and geographic groups shifted party alliances. This paper focuses on one factor ... -
"Manifestly unfit" : an analysis of eugenics in relation to race and disability
Eugenics was one of the darkest movements of the Progressive era. The eugenics movement argued that preserving "superior" humans will create a more productive and healthy class of people. It dated back to Francis Galton's ... -
Out of the closet and into the streets : on the flamboyance and fervor of the gay liberation movement
Ironically enough, mere moments after bemoaning today's young generation of LGBT men and women for being uneducated on the history of LGBT rights, drag performer Derrick Barry erroneously asserted that "people were killed" ... -
Partners in winning the war
(2013-11)