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- Creator:
- Juarez, James Gregory
- Description:
- Eugenics is a term sometimes casually thrown around in everyday discussions. It even appears in various forms of popular media such as television shows, movies, cartoons, novels, and even Japanese anime. Eugenics did not simply appear in human history as a coincidence. Its history is surprisingly engrained in the history of California itself. This master’s thesis has compiled a condensed history of eugenics to provide readers a solid understanding of the term. It then introduces readers to two significant historical figures as part of society’s amnesia about the existence and history of a eugenics movement: Charles Matthias Goethe and Paul Popenoe. This thesis utilizes various historical sources and artifacts of these two men to bring to life their actions within the twentieth-century eugenics movement. Goethe and Popenoe shared a singular worldview or they both wanted to use eugenics to solve the problems of twentieth-century society, such as: immigration; low IQ values; the population of low humans; opponents of eugenics; conflicted eugenicists of Catholic faith; eugenics organizations not agreeing; and a lack of sharing eugenics scholarship. However, Goethe and Popenoe had different ways of accomplishing their goals through the areas of: eugenics rhetoric; a California sterilization program; an intrinsic value of faith; analogizing low humans; collaboration among eugenics organizations; proliferating eugenics literature; and a global eugenics network. and Thesis (M.A., History)--California State University, Sacramento, 2018.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Boyd, Eugene H.
- Description:
- Roman politics during the final decades of the Late Republic was a vicious process of gamesmanship wherein lives of people, their families and friends were at the mercy of the gamesmen. Cicero’s public and political gamesmanship reflects the politics, class and ethnic biases of Roman society and how random events impacted personal insecurities
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- Thesis
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- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Bowman, Jason Micka-Lee
- Description:
- Statement of Problem The history of Japantowns in Northern California is limited to a few organizations and books with very little digital content available for the general public to access. Japanese communities throughout Northern California aided in the development of many towns and cities through their contributions in agriculture and labor. The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and redevelopment projects in many cities in the 1950s and 1960s devastated many Japantowns throughout the state. Today, only Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Jose have their Japantowns intact. The Nihonmachi digital exhibit is an online exhibit that presents the history of the initial creation of the Japantowns, their growth and contributions to their local communities, the challenges they faced from discriminatory practices, and the effects that the internment and redevelopment had on them. The exhibit will provide materials on the history of Japantowns in Northern California to the general public while following exhibition practices and standards. Sources of Data Many sources were used in the creation of this project including the Center for Sacramento History, the California State Library History Room, the Japanese American Archival Collection at California State University, Sacramento, in addition to articles, books, and museum exhibition publications. Conclusion Reached The Nihonmachi digital exhibition seeks to provide access to primary sources on Japantowns in Northern California and seeks to explain why some Japantowns survived the effects of the internment during World War II and the encroachment of redevelopment in the 1950s and 60s. The exhibit is available for all to view at: http://japantowns.omeka.net/
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- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Brislan, Kyle Joseph
- Description:
- The revolutionary semblance between anarcho-syndicalism and Bolshevism, amplified by the reemergence of populist ideals among factory workers, engendered a temporary alliance between Russia’s anarcho-syndicalists and Bolsheviks at various times during 1917 and the Civil War. Lenin’s vague and politically elusive concepts of revolution and social organization persuaded some anarcho-syndicalists to join the Bolshevik vanguard. Many of Russia’s anarcho-syndicalists fell victim to the Bolshevik illusion, which necessitated the revolution’s success upon the unification of Russia’s revolutionary forces, either to overthrow the Provisional Government or defeat the Whites in the Civil War. The cooperation between anarcho-syndicalist and Bolshevik revolutionaries not only highlights Lenin’s pragmatism at this moment but also the sudden importance of anarchists, both with and against the Bolsheviks, in the making of early-Bolshevik Russia. This thesis provides a modern interpretation of anarcho-syndicalism in revolutionary Russia through a prosopographical approach. An examination of the lives of three noted anarcho-syndicalists will illustrate the development of a distinct relationship between Russia’s anarcho-syndicalists and Bolsheviks, as well as reveal three similar, yet divergent, anarcho-syndicalist responses to Bolshevism. The cases of Vladimir Shatov, Volin (Vsevolod Eikhenbaum), and Grigorii Maksimov not only represent different anarcho-syndicalist perceptions of Bolshevism during the summer and fall of 1917 but also illustrate the transnationalism of Russian-anarcho-syndicalism.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Tierney, Kevin A.
- Description:
- This thesis offers an analysis of eight newspapers published in the greater Sacramento-region during the Gold Rush era of California, 1848-1860. Topics explored include the image of Indians and white settlers in the press, Indian massacres, and the reasons for white-on-Indian violence, proposed solutions to the “Indian troubles,” and an examination of John Rollin Ridge’s editorial opinions. A number of historians have addressed the notion that white settlers and gold seekers in California, with the support of the California government, perpetrated genocide upon the indigenous people of the region. Evidence in the Sacramento-region press confirms this assertion in a variety of ways. Additionally, historians have pointed to the reservation program in California as a failed policy. Here again the Sacramento-region newspaper editors offered substantial proof of this assertion. This thesis draws primarily from the editorial writings of eight major newspapers of the Sacramento-region. The cited newspapers include the Daily Alta California, the Marysville Daily Appeal, the Marysville Herald, the Daily National Democrat, the Placer Times, the Sacramento Daily Bee, the Sacramento Daily Union, and the Sacramento Transcript. Additionally, this thesis examines other primary documents including journals, eyewitness histories, and letters. Finally, secondary accounts have also informed the analysis; specifically, I have relied on the works of Albert Hurtado, Robert Heizer, James Parins, George Phillips, James J. Rawls, and James Sandos among others. The thesis concludes that the majority of editors in the Sacramento-region blamed white incursions upon Indian lands as the catalyst for violence in the gold fields. Editors worked to convince readers that the white-on-Indian violence in the diggings was the work of a small minority of white newcomers. Further, most editors supported the creation of a reservation system in the state, although they were critical of the administration of that reservation system once established. John Rollin Ridge stood alone in favor of the assimilation of California Indians into “civilized society.”
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Rife, Ronald Edward
- Description:
- This work chronicles the construction of two nineteenth-century train robbers from Tulare County, California into social bandits. It presents the context of late nineteenth-century California as an essential element in creating a social bandit, and suggests the unifying features of the social bandit for California citizens. This study utilizes local newspaper, biographies, and an unpublished memoir as source material for examining the construction of these two men as “social bandits.”
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Almquist, Karen Singh
- Description:
- No close examination of Hindustani Ghadar Party literature has been completed in order to ascertain the Ghadar Party view of the political relationship between British-controlled India and America. This thesis will provide an analysis of their newsletters and other correspondence in order to understand how their ideological perception evolved in relation to the United States and British India. Specifically, the Hindustani Ghadar Party's view of the political relationship between Indian freedom and American freedom will be studied I willfocus on three distinct time periods: from the beginning of the Ghadar Party movement up until the end of the quixotic revolution to invade India; during the federal trial of 191 7-1918; and finally, the time period between 1918 and the 1920 's where the political perceptions of the Ghadar Party diversified The timeframe of this study is 1913-1928. My examination shows that the political ideology changed significantly during the years 1913-1925. Notably, the federal trial acted as a milestone for the group 's ideology-the pre-war ideas expressing similarities between America and India changed to an idea that America had lost its way and that the Indian expatriates were the true holders ofAmerican virtues of freedom. The sources usedfor this thesis include Hindustani Ghadar Party newsletters, autobiographies of members and leaders, political writing of the leaders, newspaper excerpts from the New York Times and Berkeley 's Daily Californian, trial transcript from the neutrality trial U.S. v. Franz Bopp, San rancisco Chronicle coverage of the federal criminal trial brought against Hindustani Ghadar Party members, general files from the Department of Justice related to the conspiracy case, records from the Immigration and Naturalization service, and post-trial telegrams to ffiliates in New York City. This thesis references a large number of primary sources, several translated specifically for this thesis, in addition to numerous secondary sources as well as the Foreign Relations of the United States, Lansing Papers.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Von Brauchitsch, Dennis M.
- Description:
- This study was initiated in an attempt to discover the events surrounding the growth and development of the Ku Klux Klan in the state of California and to determine the extent of Klan political strength and influence during the early 1920's. Much has been written about the twenties and the role of the Klan in the historical events of that time. However, the state of California has been almost completely ignored in this respect. Those who write history, and the Klan's role in it, have either determined that a discussion of the development of the Ku Klux Klan in California does not merit extensive coverage or else they have been unwilling or unable to do the research necessary to properly discuss this topic. Whatever the reason, a perusal of the literature has revealed a shocking void which needs to be filled. This study makes no pretense of being the final, authoritative word on the subject. It is hoped, however, that it may provide a sort of initial step in that direction.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Francis, Carol S.
- Description:
- The Western Norse Settlement in Greenland disappeared suddenly, probably in 1342. Research in the area includes medieval sources, archeological studies of the ruins, climatic data from the Greenlandic icecap, oral stories from the Inuit in Greenland and Canada, and possible sightings of ancestors of the Norse in the Canadian Arctic. Feeling threatened both physically by the Thule (ancestors of the Inuit) and a cooling climate, and economically by the Norwegian crown, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Eastern Settlement in Greenland, the Western Settlement voluntarily left en masse for the new world, probably in 1342 based on sailing dates.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Batarseh, Yousef M.
- Description:
- Over 43 years after the incident, the official stance of the U.S. government on the attack of the USS Liberty on 8 June 1967 is still unsatisfactory, as testimonies from survivors speak of a government cover-up. Being the only major maritime incident not investigated by Congress, this paper presents layers of evidence supporting this claim and questions the openly accepted version that it was an accident. Research for this paper includes various international newspapers, personal files of the Liberty Alliance, including a letter from Senator John McCain, a BBC documentary by Liberty survivors with eyewitness accounts refuting government claims, a report on war crimes from the USS Liberty Veterans Association from 2005, recently published books, internet sources as well as phone interviews by the author. Discrepancies of reporting this attack are significant and bring up a myriad of questions: why did Israel claim it was a case of mistaken identity, why did the Johnson administration control the media reporting of the attack, why would Israel intentionally attack an ally vessel, why are some documents still classified, and most of all, why has every request for a congressional inquiry been denied? The Navy Court of Inquiry’s hasty investigation only lasted 5 days, missing vital testimony from survivors whose voices have yet to be heard in the mainstream media. Israel’s undocumented claim of a threat contradicts scores of eyewitness accounts, justifying a real and uncensored investigation.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History