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Item A Classical Education: Naples and the Heart of European Culture(Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton, 2016) Kelly, Jason M.The life of Emma Hamilton in NaplesItem Mobilizing Children to Aid the War Effort: Advancing Progressive Aims Through the Work of the Child Welfare Committee of the Indiana Woman's Council of National Defense and the Children's Bureau during World War One(2019-07) Jarnecke, Meaghan L.; Morgan, Anita; Cramer, Kevin; Robertson, Nancy MarieThis thesis examines the motivations of the Woman’s Council of National Defense. It will examine how women in Indiana and Illinois organized their state and local councils of defense as they embraced home-front mobilization efforts. It will also show that Hoosier women, like women across the United States, became involved in World War One home-front mobilization, in part, to prove their responsibility to the government in order to make an irrefutable claim for suffrage. As a result of extensive home-front mobilization efforts by women, the government was able to fulfill its own agenda of creating a comprehensive record of its citizens, thus guaranteeing a roster of citizens eligible for future wartime mobilization. By examining the Child Welfare Committee and the Children’s Year in a broad view, this thesis supports the assertions of historians like Robert G. Barrows, William J. Breen, and Lynn Dumenil, who have shown how Progressive-minded women advanced Progressive reforms by embracing the war effort and using it to their own advantage.Item The Mountain Maternal Health League and the changing politics of birth control in Kentucky, 1936-1949(2017-04) Holly, Jenny M.; Robertson, Nancy; Schneider, William; Schultz, JaneIn 1936, Clarence J. Gamble, heir to the Proctor & Gamble fortune, established the Mountain Maternal Health League (MMHL) in Berea, Kentucky. Gamble had a strong interest in testing the effectiveness of simple birth control methods as a means to reduce the birth rate of impoverished and rural people and he would fund the organization for nearly six years as an experiment to test a jelly-and-syringe method of birth control in rural Kentucky. After his financial support ended, however, the organization continued. The women activists who worked with Gamble shifted the organizational focus, models of operation, and available methods to accommodate changing perspectives and expanding communities.Item Purdue girls : the female experience at a land-grant university, 1887-1913(2013) Stypa, Caitlyn Marie; Robertson, Nancy Marie, 1956-; Shrum, Rebecca K.; Scarpino, Philip V.Item Women in Music & Technology(2013-03-17) Choe, EJ; Anderson, Rene; Hook, Sara Anne; Lee-Hopkins, Alice M.; Walker, Regina (Gina)Music by women composers; women in music and technology; women in love.