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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .