Chicanos are essentially absent from the State of California United States History Content Standards, as a result Chicanos are excluded from the narrative of American history. Because Chicanos are not included in the content standards and due to the l . . .

The Women’s Political Council fought bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, prior to the 1955 bus boycott but these women are often neglected in teaching about the civil rights movement. Women such as Jo Ann Robinson, who led the Women’s Political Co . . .

While Japanese-Americans made great contributions to the United States during the twentieth century, relatively little of their history is included in the California State Social Studies Framework. In order to better understand the injustice of World . . .

The Berolzheimer Family Archive consists of family and technical research collections. The family collection is made of personal family manuscripts dating back to the late nineteenth century and business documents. The technical research collection co . . .

The role of religion in United States History is often neglected in the teaching of eleventh grade curriculum. Leaders and individuals with religious convictions strove to improve society and influenced political and social dynamics throughout America . . .

Over 22,000 Japanese Americans and 13,000 Chinese Americans actively served in the U.S. armed forces during the Second World War. While there are numerous historical works on the Japanese American military experience, little research has been develope . . .

The California Gold Rush is an important occurrence within the exploration of the Western Frontier, American expansion during the nineteenth century, and the development of a unique and intriguing social world in the State of California. Currently, th . . .

The history of the Union states during the Civil War has typically been told with an eastern emphasis. Historians have frequently dismissed or neglected California’s role in the Civil War due to the state’s great distance from the theaters of war. The . . .

Afghans for most of recorded history have been an isolated and non-migratory people. This began to change in the late 1970’s when the government’s shift to communism and the Soviet invasion in December 1979 caused more than half of the population in A . . .

This research seeks to understand how the National Farm Worker Association and the newspaper, El Malcriado: Voice of the Farm Worker engaged farmworker and activist identity during the Delano grape strike, and ensuing nation-wide boycott. It analyzes . . .

This thesis explores how feminist activism at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), in the Seventies, transformed the university. My research utilizes archival sources, newspapers, and oral histories from women who participated in the moveme . . .

In the 1950s, real estate agents and builders steered Sacramento residents of color to the West End, an area that used to occupy much of downtown Sacramento. However, as federal dollars became available for urban renewal programs, Sacramento officials . . .

Carlos Bulosan, Filipino writer and labor organizer, fabricated or embellished details of his life in his autobiography and elsewhere. Bulosan's autobiography, America Is in the Heart, will be heavily scrutinized for accuracy. It will be cross-referen . . .

Dr. Max Merten, a German military official during the Nazi occupation of Greece, methodically participated in the destruction of Salonika’s Jewish community. His actions during the Second World War aided the Nazi regime in extorting, deporting, and ul . . .

Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel was no ordinary woman. Eighteenth-century Neapolitan intellectuals recognized her passion for learning and her poetic talent and welcomed her into their salons and academies at a very early age. Even the Bourbon monarchs o . . .

The New Woman of the early twentieth century is primarily presented in cultural memory as two stereotypes: the flapper and the suffragist. These images are problematic largely because they are typically exclusive to the white middle-class woman of the . . .

For many years a two story, red brick building, popularly called the brewery, stood on Sutterville Road in Sacramento. Shortly before its destruction in 1955, the building was boarded up to prevent continued destruction by those who were coming in inc . . .

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 . . .

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An examination of rap music's impact on African American youth from 1987-1993, referred to as hip hop's golden era.

Pirates are a fascinating subject, inspiring authors and filmmakers alike with dramatic and romantic tales of daring and adventure to create works of fiction like Treasure Island, Peter Pan, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Pirates have inspired historia . . .

The idea of female revolutionaries struck a particular chord of terror both during and after the French Revolution, as represented in both legislation and popular literary imagination. The level and form of female participation in the events of the Re . . .

In the bloody history of the conflict between North American Whites and Indians, California's chapter stands forth as epic in its description of the savage cruelty perpetrated against the Indian population. Referring to California, one early twentieth . . .

During the period of 1870-1920, America was transformed into an industrial nation and elevated itself to the status of being a world power economically, politically, and militarily. With an abundance of coal and iron ore, the United States moved slowl . . .

In a democratic society, the news media is charged with delivering truthful, fair and unbiased news to the public it serves. This is particularly crucial during times of war, when truthful reporting is vital. An analysis of newspaper articles and edit . . .

This work demonstrates the consequences of conflict over timber between the British imperial government and Anglo-Atlantic colonies. English colonists in the North Atlantic quickly turned to the available forestlands to meet their needs for survival a . . .

At the end of the 1970s Californians passed Propositions 13 and 4, essentially changing how their state functioned. This thesis investigates how the city of Sacramento, California utilized various growth strategies during the 1980s in order to make up . . .

President Franklin Roosevelt set out to establish popular support for an interventionist foreign policy designed to insure the survival of Great Britain as the key component of American national defense. To overcome the prevailing isolationist viewpoi . . .

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 . . .

When gold was discovered at Sutter's mill by John Marshall on January 24, 1848, thousands of Americans, Europeans, Orientals and Mexicans flocked to California. Bancroft estimated California to have in residence in mid-1848 about 14,000 persons. In th . . .

The dam, a barrier to prevent the flow of water, is believed to be one of the primary and most basic tools of civilized man. The first dams, constructed of mud and twigs, were probably built to store or divert water for irrigation purposes. From these . . .

Paul Warburg’s contributions to the movement for technocratic central banking reflected a teleological vision of the modern economy that rejected American exceptionalism. He believed that the US could only become a fully civilized country if it create . . .

This thesis offers an analysis of the Phoenix Program, a counterinsurgency operation during the Vietnam War. From 1967 to 1972, American military advisors worked with South Vietnamese military and police forces to defeat a Communist insurgency deeply . . .

The 1860 presidential election marked a crucial change in California state politics which paralleled a major national political change in the same year. It was the first time that the Republican party won a major victory in the state as well as in the . . .

The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is unique among the trees of the world. Occupying only a narrow strip along the Pacific Coast of California, these trees are considered to be the oldest, largest, and most impressive of all living things. Prior . . .

Britain relied upon the practice of impressment to man its navy until the late 19th century. The feudal system of the Norman period provided precedent for such a method of recruiting. The successive lines of English kings recognized the strength of su . . .

This thesis offers an analysis of the life of Rena Marie Vale (1898-1983), a professional anticommunist crusader who likely shaped the agenda if not the personality of the California Un-American Activities Committee (CUAC) in the 1960s. Topics explore . . .

The Kindertransport, a British scheme to bring unaccompanied mostly Jewish refugee children threatened by Nazism to Great Britain, occupies a unique place in modern British history. In the months leading up to the Second World War, it brought over 10, . . .

In 1911, California's Progressive legislature passed an act that limited a woman's working day in certain occupations to eight hours. The courts upheld the California Woman's Eighthour Bill on the grounds that a woman's role as the mother of succeedin . . .

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 . . .

This thesis examines the strike that resultedfrom the 1979 case of sexual discrimination filed by Toni Lee Gilbertson against the Simpson Timber Company in Shelton, Washington. The thesis explores the responses of Gilbertson, the Washington State bure . . .

California's Civil Addict Program, a statewide compulsory civil commitment treatment program for narcotics addicts headed by the Department of Corrections, emerged within the context of new applied therapeutic perspectives in dealing with narcotics ad . . .

The objective of this thesis critically examines the Cold War framework offered by the leading scholar of the conflict, John Lewis Gaddis. His analysis is narrowed down to three maxims, or principles, that are then subjected to a case study: the 1973 . . .

In 1941, counties in northern California and southern Oregon expressed a growing dissatisfaction with their respective governments' inadequate attention to the needs of these communities to either develop their economic infrastructure, nor address the . . .

Historians have generally ignored James Ben Ali Haggin, even though he represented one of the wealthiest and most influential entrepreneurs in West. And those who have written about Haggin have offered at best a cursory view of his Rancho Del Paso, wh . . .

Detailed information on economic losses suffered by Japanese American internees is scarce, especially community-specific detail. This study helps to address this problem by examining Japanese American landownership in communities within Sacramento and . . .

On December 26 1908, to the disdain of white Americans, an African American pugilist captured the laurels of the heavyweight championship of the world. Becoming the seventh heavyweight champion in modern history and more significantly setting the prec . . .

In Looking Backward, A Modern Utopia, and Moving the Mountain, Edward Bellamy, H.G. Wells, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, respectively, refashioned conceptions of women’s roles as the basis for their visions of economic and social order. Although each . . .

Between the end of World War I and the passage of the Radio Act of 1927, the business of radio broadcasting in the United States developed rapidly. When Congress passed the Radio Act of 1927 as a means of regulating broadcasting, it did so without an . . .

Long before written record, men and women have known the healing properties of herbs and medicinal arts have been practiced even before the first civilizations emerged. This ancient tradition of treating infirmity with herbal medicants was especially . . .