The disease that would become known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first identified in June of 1981. The original Center for Disease Control article identified five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, an opportunistic infection . . .

The 1954 overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz Gúzman orchestrated by the United States has been approached by various points of view by different historians. While many aspects of the overthrow such as the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agenc . . .

This study focuses on an area within northern California during the nineteenth century. Specifically, the following study provides insight into the early history of Folsom, California. Generally, this work examines the intersection of two different wo . . .

Abstract of ONEIDA‟S UTOPIA: A RELIGIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT by Katherine Anne Heim The Oneida Community was a Perfectionist communal venture undertaken in Madison County, New York from 1848 until 1881. The group‟s leader, John Humphrey Noyes, a . . .

Following World War Two, federal legislation allowed leaders in American cities to implement aggressive programs of urban renewal. Designed to revitalize neighborhoods blighted by decades of neglect, such programs often razed a city’s oldest and poore . . .

During the Italian Renaissance female artists were able to emerge from the confines of the convent and develop their skills in the outside world due to changing attitudes towards women and the heightened status of art. The intelligent and artistically . . .

Traditional Hmong culture was a patriarchal society with marriages arranged by male clan elders. The Hmong were recruited by the CIA to assist in the Vietnam War and later fled to Thailand. American education and notions of western culture were introd . . .

This thesis traces the history of the Upper American River Project (UARP) from its original conception through construction. Owned and operated by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the UARP is a publicly owned hydroelectric project loc . . .

Drastic changes in sports and recreation happened in the first half of the twentieth century, much of it reflected in the development of golf course architecture. However, only four “Golden Age” (ca. 1910-1940) architecture golf courses that were desi . . .

Harry Devine was a prominent architect in the Sacramento region during the 1920s-1960s and was responsible for the design of several dominant structures in the architectural landscape of the Capitol City. He had a vision for a Sacramento of the future . . .