Browsing by Author "Wokeck, Marianne Sophia"

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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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    Dead Science: The Curious Relationship between Spiritualism and Science
    (2005) Fivecoat, Douglas Keith; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia; Vanderstel, David G.; Kelly, Jason M.
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    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.
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    Festive Expressions of Ethnicity: National German-American Festivals in Indianapolis at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    (2014) Rippel, Elena Marie; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia; Robertson, Nancy Marie, 1956-; Hoyt, Giles R.
    Expressions of German-American culture in Indianapolis reached a high point in the first decade of the twentieth century. Social clubs such as the Socialer Turnverein and the Maennerchor enriched the city’s cultural life through musical performances and athletic classes and provided a social outlet for their members. During this decade, these clubs played a large role in organizing two national festivals held in Indianapolis: a Turnfest (gymnastics festival) in 1905 and a Saengerfest (singing festival) in 1908. Examining the planning and implementation of the Turnfest and Saengerfest sheds light on how club leaders responded to their social and political environment at the beginning of the twentieth century, how the respective clubs’ members conceived of their ethnic and club identities, and how they represented these identities in the festivals.
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    How America Remembers: Analysis of the Academic Interpretation and Public Memory of the Battle of Tippecanoe
    (2011) Abercrombie, Brent S.; Scarpino, Philip V.; Labode, Modupe; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia
    The Battle of Tippecanoe marked the turning point in relations between Anglo/American and Native American cultures, whose incompatible ways of understanding and living on the land and religious views made co-existence improbable. The battle also served as a last ditch effort by young, desperate warriors following the orders of a Prophet whose promises of invincibility and dominance proved untrue. The victory at Tippecanoe, and subsequent success during the War of 1812, strengthened the military prowess and popularity of the battle’s commander William Henry Harrison and his men. Overtime, the legacy of Harrison, his men, and Battle of Tippecanoe grew in significance. This thesis is an examination of the academic interpretation and public memory of the Battle of Tippecanoe. Until the cultural history movement by scholars in the mid-twentieth century, historical interpretation and public memory mirrored one another in the remembrance of the battle. As historians aimed to provide a more balanced and nuanced understanding of the Battle of Tippecanoe, the public memory of the battle remained entrenched in the teachings highlighted during Progressive Era. The purpose of this thesis is to trace the origins of both schools of thought as the importance and significance of the battle’s interpretation changed over the last 200 years.
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    The Impact of Caleb Mills on the Hoosier Education Debate: An Edition of Two Unpublished Addresses
    (2007) Natali, Bethany Leigh; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia
    This thesis examines how the writings of Caleb Mills impacted the development of public education in Indiana and includes an edition of two unpublished addresses by Mills, “A Lecture on Popular Education” and “Knowledge is Power.” The addresses provide a much-needed glimpse of some of Caleb Mills’ efforts other than his famous addresses as “One of the People.” The works demonstrate how the education reformer outlined his views regarding the ideals of proper education found in his much better known “One of the People” addresses and also highlight the education debate that has continued into the early twenty-first century.
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    The Irish Catholic Community of Indianapolis, 1860-1890
    (2004) Wilson, V. Danielle; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia; Vanderstel, David G.; Lindseth, Erik L.
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    "Look West," Says the Post: The Promotion of the American Far West in the 1920s Saturday Evening Post
    (2012) Keen, Rusti Leigh; Labode, Modupe; Scarpino, Philip V.; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia
    This thesis will look at the various images of the American Far West presented by the Saturday Evening Post during the 1920s under the editorship of George Horace Lorimer, and will examine his editorial strategy that promoted the Far West as a last land of opportunity while also recognizing and weighing in on the challenges of that region.
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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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    The Nottingham Settlement, a North Carolina Backcountry Community
    (2009) Adams, Wendy Lynn; Monroe, Elizabeth Brand, 1947-; Wokeck, Marianne Sophia; Lindseth, Erik L.
    In the 1750s, a group of Scots-Irish families migrated from southeastern Pennsylvania to central North Carolina and became known to local historians as The Nottingham Settlement. To determine the motivation behind members' migration to and settlement in present-day Guilford County, I propose that factors used to identify the Settlement, such as proximity, society, culture and religion, establish a model for North Carolina's backcountry communities in the mid-eighteenth century. Relying on methods employed in similar backcountry community studies to explore extant source materials for this specific set of colonists, the study provides local and family historians with an in-depth view of the lives of those associated with the Settlement as well as others residing nearby in colonial Guilford County.