Lorenzo Harris, John Henry Adams, Albert A. Smith, and Laura Wheeler-Waring were illustrators for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) publication The Crisis during the early part of the twentieth-century. The illus . . .

Punk and its meaning has been examined by scholars in various ways. For example, some scholars have focused on punk as a regional phenomenon, but these studies primarily follow punk of the 1970s and 1980s. Others have centered their focus on the do-it . . .

This thesis explores the reactions of conservative parents and politicians to juvenile delinquency during the Cold War in San Diego. Through an exploration of media reports, police records, and constituent letters, emerges the realization that youth c . . .

At both the academic and popular levels, scholars of the history of computing have studied the development and proliferation of specific technologies such as the microprocessor, the great people that made these technologies possible, as well as the hi . . .

During World War II the railroad served as the nation's most efficient way to transport troops from their hometowns to domestic military bases and posts. The troop trains stopped in many towns between the east and west coasts where they were greeted b . . .

This thesis analyzes how Balboa Park has transformed as an urban space throughout the twentieth century. Both the function and myth of the park were tightly controlled by the elites of San Diego during the early 1900s. This included a nostalgic Spanis . . .

In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, the Greek city-state of Athens was the wealthiest, best educated and most politically equal society in the Mediterranean area, but over one third of Athenian citizens lived at or below the subsistence level. For . . .

This thesis examines the historiographical background to the contemporary macrohistorical phenomena called Big History. The first chapter explores traditions of universal history through Western historiography to the early twentieth century. Chapter t . . .

This thesis focuses on Perry Eaton Seely’s life from 1886 to 1949 and offers a discussion of his impact on deaf education in California. The first part, the written portion, will cover his activism and his goal of opening a school for the deaf in Sout . . .

The study of sexual violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust (Shoah) is well-documented, thorough, and accessible to the public. However, this subject is absent from many high school and college curricular resources available to educators. T . . .

“Identity and Division” examines the individual choices made by prominent Hollywood Jews in negotiating the demands of their very secular industry, the largely anti-Semitic surrounding culture, and the nature of their Jewish identity. It analyzes thei . . .

The Middle East has been a subject of wonder and derision in U.S. cinema since Americans began producing film in the late 1800s. Disparaging portrayals of Middle Easterners, Arabs in particular, have been a steady staple of American-made films regardi . . .

Gymnastics training has had a profound and lasting impact on American physical culture. It was the first physical training system widely practiced throughout the United States after its introduction in Massachusetts in the early nineteenth-century, an . . .

Rancho Bernardo, a community in the northernmost portion of the city of San Diego, California, arose in the 1960s to become a rather unique kind of suburb for the era: It was a corporately-managed master-planned community that included multiple types . . .

In the early twentieth century, Mabel Farrington Gifford proposed a new model of speech language pathology treatment that would impact the profession of speech-language pathology and the California public education system. Gifford pushed for early int . . .

This thesis explores the extent to which the first four presidents of the United States – Federalists George Washington and John Adams and the Republicans, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison - relied on political agenda setting. The thesis demonstrate . . .

This thesis explores the water contamination crisis at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina from the early 1950s to the signing of House Resolution 1627, “Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012” by President Barack Obama . . .

James Buchanan was the fifteenth president of the United States, who served from 1857 until 1861, preceding Abraham Lincoln. He is considered to have been one of the most ineffective presidents, due to policies that some historians believe helped lead . . .

“For Refuge and Strength” examines African American women’s activism in establishing a community center for black women and girls in San Diego in the early twentieth century through the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). With San Diego as the . . .

Following the failures of the boarding school era, federal reforms in the 1930s touted drastic changes for American Indian education. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, commonly called the Indian New Deal, stressed the immediate need for education . . .

San Diego architects of the 1920’s and 1930’s appropriated Andalusian architecture to create a sense of community and cohesive design throughout the county. What now typifies the San Diego landscape—red tile roofs, white-washed stucco, glazed and brig . . .

With few exceptions, the women who helped shape the development of Riverside, California, have been ignored in history books and in the city’s historic preservation program. This neglect is typical of communities across the U.S. In the nineteenth and . . .

This thesis analyzes conceptions of gender and sexuality during the progressive and interwar periods by examining Seabury Quinn’s Weird Tales stories. It also examines Quinn’s life and various influences on his storytelling. The pulp magazine Weird Ta . . .

During World War II, the United States government implemented a policy that encouraged the home-front population to grow victory gardens. However, the use of agriculture as a way to inspire and bring a population together dates back to a much earlier . . .

Charles Stuart was the first and only reigning English monarch to be tried, convicted, and beheaded for treason and murder. In January 1649, fifty-nine men signed the order that sent King Charles to his death. Theories offered for motives behind the e . . .

The history of skateboarding has been written about frequently. All describe the clear and drastic evolution during the 1970s. But what has not been fully developed, is that many of technologies that led to the evolution of the sport came out of a spe . . .

Between the years 1930 and 1965, C. Leon de Aryan wrote and edited a newspaper in San Diego, California entitled The Broom. The newspaper was radical right-wing and antisemitic, and pushed the alternative religion of Mazdaznan, of which de Aryan was a . . .

For more than a century before 1900, American men migrated across the continent in search of land, building farms in one region after another as they sought to achieve the status of independent landowners. The possibility of freehold land ownership an . . .

From 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) interviewed over two thousand former slaves about their experiences under slavery. Since the interviews took place during the Depression, the ex-slaves also shared details about the Depression in t . . .

This thesis explores the memorialization of the U.S.-Mexican War in California from the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. It argues that Anglo-American boosters, historical society members, and others actively whitewashed the publi . . .

The website portion of this thesis (http://biblio.csusm.edu/scholarworks/e-theses/faulk006/) extends the study of disease later in time by examining plagues which occurred within approximately 300 years of the Athenian plague. There were two outbreaks . . .

Donna Gentile, a young San Diego prostitute who had been a police corruption informant was murdered in June, 1985. Her murder occurred approximately a month after she testified in a civil service hearing involving two San Diego police officers, Office . . .

In this thesis, James De Wolf of Bristol, Rhode Island is profiled regarding his involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade from 1794 until 1816. This research discusses the evolution of state and national laws that explicitly declared that slaving . . .

The principal purpose of this contextual biography of Dr. Attilio Henry Giannini, known as Doc, is to recognize his importance to the City of San Francisco. He was a major contributor to the community as a medical practitioner and as a member of the B . . .

Many of the female artists employed at Walter Elias Disney Enterprises in the 1950s and sixties were married, middle-class women. As part of the company that designed and built the Disneyland theme park, their jobs were in many ways gendered, included . . .

Sylvia Ullback, or “Sylvia of Hollywood,” was a beauty practitioner and writer in the 1920s and 1930s. An immigrant to America in the 1920s, Ullback’s career and discussion of women’s bodies and beauty paralleled historical developments in physical cu . . .

This study argues that comic book publishers, editors, writers, artists, and fans imposed multiple limitations on Wonder Woman’s and Supergirl’s powers and independence. Although Wonder Woman and Supergirl embodied significant liberated characteristic . . .

This thesis documents as a historical continuum the relationship between the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD), the nation’s largest water district by population served, and the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA), MWD’s la . . .

Unlike the members of other minority groups, homosexuals can hide or “pass” in a straight-dominated world to avoid public hostility. Because of the reluctance of many gay individuals to publicize their status, visual media including film and televisio . . .

Moms Mabley’s comedic performances during the mid-twentieth century Civil Rights movement are historically significant because she publicly highlighted the struggles of African Americans and women while simultaneously criticizing the marginalization a . . .

Star Trek became one of the most popular television series, not only in the United States but the world, in the latter half of the twentieth century. The original series aired from 1966 to 1969, a momentous time of change in American history. During t . . .

In this thesis, I argue that the newspapers that owned and/or operated radio stations in Los Angeles and San Diego sought to create new print and broadcast multimedia corporations but ultimately failed because they faced several obstacles that they c . . .

“From Underground Chinatown to Hall of China” explores the representation of the Chinese and Chinese Americans in San Diego’s two expositions in Balboa Park. The first, the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition (PCE), degraded the Chinese as the enigma . . .

“A Revolutionary Western” and its digital component, “Non-Native Warpaint,” examine the portrayals of American Indians in film and television programs set in the American Revolution, as well as related depictions in the video game Assassin’s Creed III . . .

This thesis examines the significance of marketed visions of the future following the Second World War on the American public. Visions, predictions and forecasted depictions of the world of the future, collectively referred to as futurism, highlighted . . .

This thesis is a pedagogical project that considers an alternative use of dramatic films when teaching the crusades from 1095 through 1300. Currently, digital media plays a significant role in everyday life but has yet to be fully utilized within the . . .