Browsing by Author "Snodgrass, Michael"

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    The 1901 Fort Wayne, Indiana City Election: A Political Dialogue of Ethnic Tension
    (2013) Brown, Nancy Eileen; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia; Snodgrass, Michael; Monroe, Elizabeth Brand, 1947-
    In 1901, three German American candidates ran for the office of mayor in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The winner, Henry Berghoff, had emigrated from Germany as a teenager. This thesis examines the election discourse in the partisan press for signs of ethnic tension. The first chapter places Fort Wayne in historical context of German immigration and Indiana history. The second and third chapters investigate the editorial pages for evidence of ethnic tension. I also reference a few articles of an editorial nature outside of the editorial pages. The second chapter provides background information about the election and examines indications of the candidates’ ethnicity and references to the German language papers. The third chapter considers the editorial comment about Germany, the intertwining of ethnicity and the issues, and ethnic name-calling. In order to identify underlying bias for or against Germany and to better understand the context of the references to German ethnicity, the fourth chapter explores the portrayal of Germany in the Fort Wayne papers.
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    "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.
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    Hemp vs. Marijuana: The Federal Battle to Control the Meaning of Cannabis
    (2011) Torrella, Carrie Lynn; Snodgrass, Michael; Barrows, Robert G. (Robert Graham), 1946-; Robertson, Nancy Marie, 1956-
    The "War on Drugs" is the most expensive effort to control the personal behavior of American citizens. This study is an effort to analyze the battle over the meaning of cannabis. This "war" has waged on for the majority of the twentieth century and beyond. The federal government has utilized a variety of weapons in the "war" including most notably media. The government has succeeded in altering the definition of cannabis from hemp to marijuana.
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    Historical Film and the Assassination of President Lincoln: The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) and The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)
    (2002) Savarino, Malia Dorothy; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; Snodgrass, Michael; McKivigan, John R.
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    The Making of the First New Left in Britain
    (2011) Thurman, Jacob Clark; Kelly, Jason M.; Cramer, Kevin; Snodgrass, Michael
    In 1956 a cadre of Marxist historians in Britain created what would come to be known as the New Left. The New Left in Britain took the form of a loose affiliation of scholars and intellectuals whose goal it was to create a space for socialist change within and between the existing structures in the British labor movement. These intellectuals greatly influenced socialist thought in the aftermath of Stalinsim and paved a way forward for future socialist activism. Existing works on the group analyze its impact and assess its successes and failures. By placing an emphasis on understanding the conditions that existed during the making of the First New Left, the following historical analysis argues that these assessments within the historiography require revision.
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    Nativism and the decline in civil liberties: reactions of white America toward the Japanese immigrants, 1885-1945
    (2009) O'Neal, Jonathon P.; Snodgrass, Michael; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia; Cramer, Kevin
    This thesis concentrates on how nativism, through a series of discriminatory policies over the span of fifty years, influenced the creation of the Japanese American internment camps during the Second World War. By using the experiences of the first—and second—generations of Japanese immigrants, my thesis explores how nativism supported the creation of laws meant to preserve racial homogeneity, cultural superiority, economic segregation, and national security from the Japanese immigrants living in California during the end of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century
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    Soul City: Indianapolis' African-American Community and Soul Music, 1968-1974
    (2003) Kollath, Jeffrey J.; Coleman, Annie Gilbert; Barrows, Robert G. (Robert Graham), 1946-; Snodgrass, Michael