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Item "Back to the land and all its beauty" : managing cultural resources, natural resources, and wilderness on North Manitou Island, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan(2014) Fredericks, Katelyn V.; Scarpino, Philip V.; Shrum, Rebecca K.; Labode, ModupeThis thesis focuses on the history of human impact on North Manitou Island, Michigan, the management of natural and cultural resources on the island by Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and the often conflicting beliefs and attitudes about wilderness and cultural resources that influenced (and continue to influence) management of the island by Sleeping Bear’s administrators.Item The Battle Over A Black YMCA and Its Inner-City Community: The Fall Creek Parkway YMCA As A Lens On Indianapolis’ Urban Revitalization and School Desegregation, 1959-2003(2014) Burlock, Melissa Grace; Scarpino, Philip V.; Robertson, Nancy Marie, 1956-; Labode, ModupeThe narrative of the Fall Creek Parkway YMCA is central to the record of the historically black community northwest of downtown Indianapolis, which was established in the early 1900s, as well as reflective of the urban revitalization projects and demographic fluxes that changed this community beginning in the 1960s. This is because the conflict between administrators of the Fall Creek YMCA branch and Greater Indianapolis YMCA or Metropolitan YMCA over the viability of the branch at 10th Street and Indiana Avenue was a microcosm of the conflict between community and city leaders over the necessity of large-scale forces. This thesis specifically examines the large-scale forces of urban revitalization, defined in the study as the city’s implementation of construction projects in Indianapolis’ downtown area, and school desegregation, which was the focus of a federal court case that affected Indianapolis Public Schools. Delineating the contested visions held by Fall Creek and Metropolitan YMCA administrators about how the Fall Creek YMCA should have functioned within an environment changed by urban revitalization and school desegregation is crucial to understanding the controversies that surrounded major construction projects and desegregation measures that took place in the downtown area of Indianapolis during the late twentieth century. The study therefore understands the conflict between the Metropolitan and Fall Creek YMCAs over targeted membership groups and autonomy as a reflection of changes in the branch’s surrounding area. Moreover, the study utilizes such conflict as a lens to the larger conflict that took place in Indianapolis between the agents of citywide urban revitalization plans and community leaders who opposed the implementation of these plans, as well as school desegregation measures, at the expense of the historically black community located in the near-downtown area of the city. This thesis is informed and humanized, respectively, by archival research and oral history interviews with individuals who were involved in either the administration or advocacy of the Fall Creek YMCA between 1971 and 2003.Item The Best Road South: Early Auto Touring and the Dixie Highway in Indiana(1995) Fischer, Suzanne Hayes; Scarpino, Philip V.; Monroe, Elizabeth Brand, 1947-; Seregny, Scott J.Item "Clean Clothes vs. Clean Water": Consumer Activism, Gender, and the Fight to Clean Up the Great Lakes, 1965-1974(2018-08) Scherber, Annette Mary; Scarpino, Philip V.; Shrum, Rebecca K.; Robertson, Nancy MarieDuring the late 1960s and early 1970s, the polluted Great Lakes became a central focus of the North American environmental movement. A majority of this pollution stemmed from phosphate-based laundry detergent use, which had become the primary product households used to wash fabrics after World War II. The large volume of phosphorus in these detergents discharged into the lakes caused excess growths of algae to form in waterways, which turned green and smelly. As the algae died off, it reduced the oxygen in the water, making it less habitable for fish and other aquatic life, a process known as eutrophication. As primary consumers of laundry detergents during the time period, women, particularly white, middle-class housewives in the United States and Canada, became involved in state/provincial, national, and international discussions involving ecology, water pollution, and sewage treatment alongside scientists, politicians, and government officials. Their work as volunteers, activists, and lobbyists influencing the debate and ensuing policies on how best to abate this type of pollution, known as eutrophication, has often been ignored. This thesis recognizes the work women completed encouraging the enactment of key water quality regulations and popularizing the basic tenets of environmentally-conscious consumption practices during the environmental movement in the early 1970s.Item Conservation and Indiana Gubernatorial Politics, 1908-1916(2006) Hackerd, Jeremy Lynn; Scarpino, Philip V.; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; Blomquist, WilliamItem Education and the Perception of Equality: Defining Equality through the Establishment of Public School Systems in Indiana and Ontario, 1787-1852(1998) Baer, M. Teresa; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia; Cutler, Kenneth W.; Scarpino, Philip V.; Shipps, Jan B.Item Entertaining the Public to Educate the Public at Conner Prairie: Prairietown 1975-2006(2010) Allison, David B.; Robertson, Nancy Marie, 1956-; Scarpino, Philip V.; Bingmann, MelissaThe nexus of presenting an authentic environment and engaging audiences has been at the core of debate around living history museums since their inception in the 1960s. Conner Prairie's transition from a folklife model to a learning theory and research-based organization is traced in this thesis.Item "Fearless Rest and Hopeful Work": The Arts and Crafts Movement in Indianapolis, 1890-1925(2005) Hudziak, Candace Suzanne; Barrows, Robert G. (Robert Graham), 1946-; Scarpino, Philip V.; Snodgrass, Michael; Stanis, Suzanne R.Item Forming a Japanese American Community in Indiana, 1941-1990(2005) Conner, Nancy Nakano; Barrows, Robert G. (Robert Graham), 1946-; Scarpino, Philip V.; Zhang, XinItem Fort Benjamin Harrison: From Military Base to Indiana State Park(2020-04) Hankins, Melanie Barbara; Scarpino, Philip V.; Shrum, Rebecca K.; Morgan, AnitaFor nearly a hundred years, Fort Benjamin Harrison served as an epicenter of training and organization for United States Army in Indianapolis, Indiana. However, budget cuts pushed the U.S. Congress to close Fort Harrison under the Defense Base Re-Alignment and Closure Act of 1991. Over the following five years, the U.S. federal government, various Indiana state agencies, city governments of Indianapolis and Lawrence, and citizen advocacy groups worked together to develop a reuse plan for the former military base. Succinct planning and compromises allowed 70 percent of the former military base to be converted into an Indiana state park. Over the lifetime of the base a variety of factors resulted in the unintended creation of the largest noncontiguous forest in Central Indiana ---an area perfectly suited as an Indiana state park. As Fort Benjamin Harrison enters its second decade as a state park, park staff must reevaluate the park’s military past and its effects on the land as it is today. This thesis examines the transitional years between the closure of the base and opening of the park, analyzes current interpretive practices at the park, and provides new suggestions for future public programming and interpretive practices.