Computers -- Soviet Union; Computer industry -- Soviet Union
It is widely accepted that the technological and scientific phenomenon that came to be known as “Computing” contributed immensely in the development of the post-World War II industrial societies - to the extent that, today, the technological...
Single-sex schools; Single-sex schools -- Connecticut -- Avon; Avon Old Farms School (Avon, Conn.) -- History
Over the last several decades statistics reveal that there is worldwide underachievement of boys in school. Regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, or economic background, boys as a group are struggling to be effectively educated. While girls are...
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century
The original purpose of this thesis was to examine the forces behind the anti-immigrant movement in United States history culminating in the Quota Law of 1924. However, after much analysis that thesis was expanded to examine the changing nature of...
Honduras -- History -- 1933-1982; Honduras -- History -- 1982-; United States -- Foreign relations -- Honduras; Honduras -- Foreign relations -- United States
For the decade following the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979, the United States organized, supported and sustained a group of counter-revolutionary forces in open warfare against a Marxist-inspired Sandinista government. Operating out of Honduran...
My weekly reader -- History; Children's periodicals, American -- History
Charles Palmer Davis, visiting a one-room school in New England at the turn of the century, asked the pupils, "Who is the President of the United States?" Of the twenty-five first to fifth graders, only two knew the answer, one of whom was Davis's...
St. Louis (Ship); Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945; Jewish refugees
The purpose of this paper is to document the history and voyage of the Hamburg-American Line steamer the St. Louis, loaded with 908 German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. In May 1939, the ship went to Cuba to wait out United States immigration...
A growing forest of crosses cover the entrance way to Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp. Their presence is in protest to the possible removal of a 21-foot cross that already exists at the site. That cross was used by Pope John Paul II in a...
From my research in the Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis on the ROC, Taiwan , I found the key to Taiwan's economic success has been its willingness to strengthen its internal market forces. When the "East Asian Financial Crisis" afflicted many...
Religious fundamentalism -- United States; Sexism in religion -- United States; Women in Christianity -- United States; Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
A plethora of fundamentalist Christian literature emerged in the 1970s and 1980s as a retort to growing feminist ideology. Fundamentalist Christian authors today still adhere to perceived Biblical roles of womanhood. Subsequently, women are being...
Indian women -- Civil rights -- North America; Brave Bird, Mary; Mankiller, Wilma Pearl, -- 1945-
Beginning in the late 1960's and continuing through the 1970's, the American public saw an increased activism within the Native American community. This activism followed in the path of the civil rights movement and was marked by the creation of...
Choctaw Indians -- Government relations -- History; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- History; Federal-Indian trust relationship
Charles Wilkinson asserts that the Supreme Court has responded to contemporary Native American pleas for justice by attempting to incorporate Indian understanding of past commitments into reinterpretations of old laws. The new accommodation appears...
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Family; Women -- Conduct of life -- 19th century; Women -- Social conditions -- 19th century; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Oriental influences
"Harriet Beecher Stowe Had Moorish Slippers: The Oriental Roots of Domesticity" is an attempt to chart the nineteenth century relationship between the creation of woman's sphere, the gender segregated world of American elite women, and the Oriental...
My intent in this thesis is to show that the witch trials in the Hartford area during the Seventeenth Century were unique. The accused witches did not all share any single common bond. There was no one link to connect all of the accused to one...
Virginity -- Religious aspects -- History; Celibacy -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
The focus of this thesis is to investigate, illustrate, and understand why the cult of virginity was and remains to be so important in Catholicism. Further, when did this phenomenon of virginity start? Why was the emphasis on maintaining a celibate...
Scotland -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Home rule -- Scotland
The democratic way in which the Scots pressed for more say in their own affairs is an object lesson in constitutional politics. On September 11, 1997 the voting booth and ballot box were the weapons the Scots used to attain Home Rule and the return...
Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States; Carter, Jimmy, 1924-; Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
To examine the Carter administration's attempts to bring peace to the Middle East from 1977 to 1980 by secretly contacting the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The specific question this paper wants to answer is "What...
On September 13, 1993, the leaders of two rival nationalist groups, Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the lawn of the White House, symbolizing the birth of the Oslo Peace Process. For the first time since Israel’s establishment,...
Missionaries -- Barbados; Missions, British -- Barbados
Most historians argue that missionaries have been complicit agents of the
colonizing powers, paving the way for more complete domination of the
indigenous peoples living in the colonized areas. Yet there are a few historians
who maintain the...
The military revolution had an important impact on the New Model Army of Great
Britain and because of its impact the New Model Army was able to transform Great Britain
into the dominant world power in early modern Europe. The military revolution,...
Submarines (Ships) -- Germany -- History -- World War, 1914-1918; New England -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
Much has been written about America's pre-First World War involvement with
Imperial Germany and her undersea boats, commonly referred to simply as U-Boatsremembering
that the United States remained neutral for the first 2 years, 8 months, of
the...
