Historians have long disagreed over the proper way to include Mormonism within the traditional narrative of American religious history. While some historians have almost exclusively focused on the similarities between early Mormonism and the dominant . . .

In 1926, a religious counter-revolutionary movement began in Mexico known as the Cristero Rebellion. Mexican Catholics across western-central states rose-up against the government, upset in the implementation of what they considered to be anticlerical . . .

During the 1920's, China was torn by multiple civil wars—wars among provincial or regional military governors, called tuchuns, or more commonly, warlords. During the 1930's, several Chinese Communist historians charged that various tuchuns had been un . . .

�We have no king but Jesus� was the repeated rally of England�s seventeenth-century radical religious dissenters known as Fifth Monarchists. Their focus on fulfilling millennial prophecy led them to support Oliver Cromwell�s English Civil War. The mid . . .

Never before have the souls of Black people clamoured in such an intense unison for their rightful place under a harsh, "white American sum " More than the religious guarantees of eternal and peaceful life, more than an end to their poverty, more than . . .

The study of nearly every phase of American colonial history must also be the study of English history. To understand the former without a knowledge of the latter would be a most difficult task and infinitely subject to error. For that reason, the pre . . .

For forty years prior to 1906, a political situation had been developing in California which had become especially stifling, vexatious, and intolerable to a particular segment of the society, and they endeavored to do something about. Thus it was that . . .

In 1846 representatives from various Protestant churches in Europe and America met in London in the interest of Christian unity. The result of this meeting was the formation of the Evangelical Alliance, a voluntary international organization intereste . . .

September 11, 1973, a day etched in the memory of Chilean history, marked the abrupt end to the socialist government of Salvador Allende, via a military coup led by the General of the Army, Augusto Pinochet. Although condemned by many for what they co . . .

In the 1960s, the Catholic Church in Spain was undergoing massive changes and was struggling to adapt. In that decade the oppressive Franco regime weakened in the face of failed economic reforms and as the Second Vatican Council ushered in monumental . . .

The U.S.-Israel “special relationship” receives vast attention from scholars seeking to trace its origins and implications, yet the focus consistently remains on Washington, D.C. as the birthplace and nerve center of an ironclad pro-Israel foreign pol . . .

Despite the research of many historians concerning Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his administration, research concerning the president s interaction with the press is lacking. Franklin Roosevelt used the press to further his administration and its goa . . .

During the post-revolution period, the newfound constitutional government of the United States faced a crisis of sovereignty and legitimacy. The Old Northwest region, encompassing what is now Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, was disputed between several gr . . .

The initial research for this thesis took place in 1966 to write two papers for undergraduate history classes. More information was gathered when a paper was written for a graduate seminar in history. This present work is a combination of these early . . .

The depression decade of the 1930's produced in California a myriad of popular programs to restore prosperity and establish economic justice. One of the little known among these movements was a sustained effort by the single taxers from 1933 to 1938 t . . .

Prior to the eighteenth-century, fashionable clothing and consumer items were the hallmark of rank and privilege in English society. A consumer revolution beginning in the last decades of the seventeenth century challenged that notion. As fashionable . . .

In 1851, Dr. Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania” to describe an imagined psychological condition that caused slaves to flee from southern plantations in large numbers. Although Cartwright died before the end of the Civil War, this thesis . . .

This thesis argues that the Bracero Program, a series of migrant labor agreements between Mexico and the United States, represented the pivotal deviation from, and ultimate failure of, the Mexican revolutionary project started in 1910. By abandoning t . . .

When one considers the civil war one immediately thinks of Abraham Lincoln, General Grant, Robert E. Lee and the major battles of the war. Upon examining the subject more deeply one would run across the political, economic, and social implication of t . . .

King Cotton has become firmly established as a major agricultural industry of California. Partly because of this fact, the writer of this paper has made an investigation of certain phases of this important industry. Another reason why a subject pertai . . .

Although ironically remembered as the Summer of Love, 1967 proved to be one of the most violent in American History. And while previous summers also witnessed serious rioting, 1967 dwarfed earlier levels of violence and would alternately enter the lex . . .

Throughout the seventeenth century, English presses published cheap pamphlets about crime in abundance. These pamphlets were highly sensational and contained gory details about violent crimes and criminal executions. Hawkers shouted much of the conten . . .

This gender and social history examines the role of the Paston family in the developing gentry culture in fifteenth-century England. A family who desired to increase their social standing, the Pastons worked to first obtain land and wealth in order to . . .

There exists in the United States an Almost total ignorance regarding the existence of a serious refugee problem in Western Germany. The citizens of the nation such as the United States should have received abundant information concerning a problem su . . .

This study has shown that there was a strong political texture to Hoover's relief program in Europe in 1919. Americ relief was largely directed against the spread of Bolshevism from Russia into Europe.

Twenty-five years have elapsed since the last German prisoner of war (POW) left the continental United States. Few books have been published about POW's and apparently none which relate specifically to their use in agriculture. Consequently, I have ha . . .

Jay Monaghan in his Lincoln Bibliography of 1945 l lists 3, 958 books and pamphlets written about Lincoln. Eight years later Time observed that the total had risen to over five thousand. In addition to these there are many books and pamphlets on perip . . .

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the East China Sea was a place of interaction between different cultures and societies. During these centuries, there was a large increase in pirate groups, known as wokou. How Asian governments choose t . . .

On May 11, 1.680, two groups of men, brandishing all manner of firearms, faced each other in a battle over a fertile piece of land. This event took place on the farm of Henry Brewer near the small settlement of Grangeville, about five miles from the p . . .

Fresno, California has been ethnically divided since its inception. The Southern Pacific Railroad tracks initially separated established whites and Scandinavians on the east side of town from ethnic whites and minorities on the west side of town. Fres . . .

The republic of Lebanon is a unique political system not only in the Middle East but in the world. In some respects, this system appears to be archaic and traditional, while in others it is relatively modern and liberal. The Lebanese society is made u . . .

The purpose of this paper arose out of the desire to follow the political rise of Franklin Roosevelt from the New York State Senate in 1911 to the White House in 1932. Out of this original desire arose a curiosity to examine the background of the poli . . .

The purpose of this study, however, is not to consider the effects which the navy had upon Barbary«A*ariean diplomatic relations 5 o n the contrary, the attempt is to evaluate the effects which diplomacy, or rath©? the failure of this diplomacy, had u . . .

In August 1872, a mining company in San Francisco, California started a diamond rush that lasted for four months until the scheme was exposed as an elaborate hoax. The story of The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 is regularly retold as a legend of the fron . . .

During the World War II internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans, the internees published newspapers in each of the assembly centers and relocation camps. Both the government officials and internees used the center newspapers to disseminate diffe . . .

The early modern period in Britain saw a shift in the way charity was justified. The dissolution of the monasteries, the original bastions of charity, led to attempts by the British government to address the issues of poverty and vagrancy. The populat . . .

In his standard work on California progressivlsm, George Mowry says that by 1890 the Southern Pacific, holding a virtual monopoly on transportation, dominated the politics of the state as well. The "Octopus," as novelist Frank Norris called the railro . . .

In presenting this struggle I am attempting to examine fully the activities of the men, who, through their opposition to the Vigilance movement were generally referred to as the "Law and Order Party".

The tumultuous years of the 1960s evolved from the thaw of the Cold War era. College campuses’ emerging interest in the Civil Rights movement was exacerbated by the escalating violence withinthe Deep South. By the time events from Selma, Alabamareache . . .

In the 1950s, the United States government turned towards civil defense in order to prepare its citizens for the possibility of nuclear war. During the Eisenhower administration, from 1952 to 1960, civil defense was designed to fit into certain diffic . . .

In Spain, owing to the centuries-long battle between the Western character and Christian civilization on the one hand, and the Oriental character of the Moors and the religion of Islam on the other, an institution like the Inquisition found great appe . . .

The stable and advancing Mexico of today is the product of the Mexican Revolution, which started in 1910. Mexico's revolution continues to the present and is divided into the destructive phase from 1910 to 1920- the construct! phase from 1920 to 1934; . . .

This study of the peace talks between the United States and Japan has been undertaken with the hope that from it one may find what steps were still possible at the late date of 1941 to avert the breakdown that took place in the search for peace betwee . . .

The role of Armenians in British intelligence has been largely neglected by historians of World War I. My thesis will explore the multifaceted identities of Armenian dragomans, vice-consuls, and intelligence officers in British service through the car . . .

There is little doubt as to the completeness of the control of the Southern Pacific Railway Company over the government and politics of California in the years before 1911. The corporation had a firm grip on the political parties, at least one at all . . .