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- Creator:
- Piona, Amber Elena
- Description:
- 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, in otherwise healthy men in Los Angeles. The article speculated that there was a potential relationship between the patients’ homosexual “life-style” and their infections. The association of AIDS with a gay life-style and the LGBT community’s decision to embrace AIDS as community cause profoundly influenced AIDS history. This thesis explores the differing agendas of Sacramento city/county’s public health officials and Sacramento’s LGBT community and how they were based on differing understandings of AIDS. These two intersected in the creation of the first public document regarding AIDS in Sacramento, the published findings of the 1986 Mayor’s AIDS Task Force. The 1986 Mayor’s AIDS Task Force provided the framework for this project, supplemented by primary source material from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society in San Francisco and the Center for Sacramento History. Newspapers, both from the gay and mainstream press in Sacramento, also provided valuable context for Sacramento during the 1980s. Additional sources consulted to provide context include books and journal articles on the AIDS epidemic, LGBT history, AIDS activism, and the cultural and linguistic construction of AIDS.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History (Public History)
- Creator:
- Blake, Tandrea Amber
- Description:
- This thesis aims to examine the reasons for the Saints’ settlement in and subsequent expulsion from Jackson County. It also presents the Saints’ attempts at reinstatement. Historians generally attribute the Saints’ religion as the cause of their expulsion. However, the Jackson Countians issued manifestos that suggest other possible reasons for their expulsion. Are the manifestos trustworthy? Could there be other reasons for the Saints’ expulsion, such as business competition and a lack of consumerism? Source dates range from 1821 to 2009. Secondary sources include doctoral and masters’ theses, encyclopedias, histories, and journal articles concerning Missouri and Mormonism. Primary sources include autobiographies, journals, Latter-day Saint documents, government documents, and newspapers. Both sides deserve blame for the expulsion. Cultural-religious, economic, and political issues all contributed to the ejection of the Saints from Jackson County. Relying on hearsay and popular perceptions of the Saints, the Jackson Countians justified their actions with bigoted and malicious remarks. Although not included in the manifestos, the efforts of the Saints to compete with local merchants likely exacerbated tensions between the new religious community and the established population. Furthermore, the Saints’ storehouse and their practice of the Law of Consecration did not increase the amount of money in circulation in Jackson County. The lack of a nearby bank probably discouraged consumerism among the Saints as well. Possibly, if the Jackson Countians had benefited from a constant money stream from the Saints, they would have displayed greater tolerance and less of an inclination to expel the newcomers.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History (Public History)
- Creator:
- Harris, Alicia Denise
- Description:
- The media has a direct role in creating and shaping perceptions about advocates in the black community specifically those who participated in the Black Panther Party and other black militant organizations. The governmental dissemination of inaccurate information to local law enforcement and news media outlets regarding black militants had a devastating effect on African American communities across the country. This study examines how the news media overtime helped to construct a negative image and memory of the Black Panther Party. In turn African Americans have created and forged their own counter memory through black institutions, such as the black press, to offset the public memory of black culture and revolutionary politics in America. Analyzing the case study of the “Oak Park Four” trial through examining The Sacramento Bee, The Sacramento Union and The Sacramento Observer demonstrates how the media and citizens of Sacramento went along with the popular perceptions of black militants of the time, which further fueled the racial divide between whites and the historically marginalized African American community of Sacramento, California who came to the support of the “Oak Park Four.” This study thus signifies the ease with which those working for social change within their communities could be targeted and silenced.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History (Public History)
- Creator:
- Roberts, Ann-Elizabeth
- Description:
- This project determines eligibility and establishes a historic context for the nomination of the Sacramento Turn Verein to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic property, with accompanying nomination forms. Newspaper articles and advertisements, maps, city records and directories, photographs, contemporary works on historic preservation, urban history, German immigration, and Sacramento urban development. The Sacramento Turn Verein is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria A and C. Its two historic contexts are as the meeting location of German-American Turner members looking to practice and maintain German cultural traditions and as an exceptional example of Classical Revival style architecture built by locally renowned architecture firm, Dean & Dean with decorative terra cotta elements by Gladding, McBean.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History (Public History)
- Creator:
- Schimandle, Carolyn Jean
- Description:
- California was one of the first states in the nation to have a state park system. While a general history of the system up to 1980 has been written, the history of interpretation in the California Department of Parks and Recreation (more commonly know as California State Parks) had never been documented and analyzed in a single focused study. Of particular interest is how the evolution of interpretation in the California state park system compares to that in the rest of the United States, especially the National Park Service. Data for this thesis was gathered from many sources. For the history of California State Parks interpretation these included the department document archives and photographic archives, the California State Archives, the Center for Sacramento History, California State Parks publications, and private collections of department documents made available to the author. The author also conducted three oral history interviews with past department employees. These oral histories will be deposited in the California State Parks Archives, in both digital recording and transcript form. The national context was also researched using a wide variety of sources. The website of the National Association for Interpretation and a publication from that organization provided a broad overview of the development of interpretation in the United States, as did seminal works on interpretation theory written throughout the twentieth century, and historical books and journal articles on interpretive techniques, trends, and issues. Additional information, especially on specific interpretive methods, came from the National Park Service. The study reveals that interpretation became increasingly professionalized in California State Parks throughout the twentieth century, as it did nationwide during the same period. In virtually all cases, interpretive techniques, training and planning lagged behind the National Park Service—usually about a decade behind. The main reason for this seems to be chronically insufficient funding and staffing to carry out programs, not a lack of knowledge of what was occurring in the National Park Service and other agencies. In the case of distance learning, California State Parks was a pioneer, and still is ahead of the National Park Service and other park agencies in the nation in having a system-wide organized program of distance learning.
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- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History (Public History)
- Creator:
- Menne, Travis Michael
- Description:
- This project determines the eligibility of and establishes a historic context for the nomination of the Francis P. “Squeaky” Williams house to the National Register of Historic Places single property, with appropriate nomination forms. Sources employed in this project include newspaper articles; maps; photographs; city building permits; neighborhood, city and county histories; advertisements; contemporary literature on urban history, historic preservation, and the French Eclectic style. The Francis P. Squeaky Williams house is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C for its architecture. The significance of the structure is its embodiment of the style, high integrity and the rarity of its type.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History (Public History)
- Creator:
- Lee, Deborah Hebert
- Description:
- The purpose of this consultant’s report is to identify current archival best practices that will serve as a foundation for maintaining, preserving, and making accessible Martinez Historical Society’s (MHS) collections for researchers and the public. Applying current best archival practices will enable MSH to use their historical resources to their maximum benefit. The report’s recommendations are based on current best practices literature from the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH), and Society of American Archivists (SAA) as well as the Historical Society of Pennsylvania online guide for small repositories, and other relevant literature. This report outlines numerous recommendations based on current archival best practices, ranging from costly to relatively inexpensive. Top five recommendations have been listed in order to help MHS begin the process of instituting best practices to use their facility and historical resources to their fullest potential.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History (Public History)
- Creator:
- Benson, Sigrid
- Description:
- The Stories in the Seams is a multi layered narrative woven from relationships between individuals, memory and the archive. This thesis recounts, through the literary device of the creative memoir, selected aspects of the life and work of Osage artist Richard Kastl (1943-2013). It is a firsthand account, arrived at by a experimental process that evolved from a preliminary engagement with oral history into a personal narrative that provides provenance and historical context for a unique collection of artwork. The narrative is constructed by a successive overlay of storytelling, image making, memory writing and finally an engagement with archival source material from private collections. It engages with a practice of orality particularly suited to the demands of an unconventional research situation that culminated in an artistic collaboration. The historical relevance of the narrative lays in the documentation of an extraordinary contemporary native artist whose work and the stories he told about it manifest themes of indigenous sovereignty, cultural revitalization, American Indian activism and an unrelenting advocacy of the value of the individual.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History (Public History)
- Creator:
- King, Daniel
- Description:
- 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 designed by master architects are on the National Register of Historic Places, and these were nominated for reason other than their architecture. This lack of nominated Golden Age architecture golf courses stems from poor communication between historic preservationists and golf course managers. There has been a renaissance in Golden Age architecture literature over the last few decades. There is also a growing interest is preserving and documenting designed cultural landscapes. Both growing interests are leading to more literature about the two aspects of preservation. It is important to ensure golf course managers understand the National Register of Historic Places does not mean a loss of sovereignty of the golf course. With Internet age communication, the NRHP can be used to encourage both thoughtful preservation and promotion of these unique resources.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History (Public History)
10. Digitizing minority-based collections: a case study on the Japanese American digitization project
- Creator:
- Weese, Megan Danielle
- Description:
- The Japanese American Digitization Project sought to digitize 10,000 items part of 13 CSUs Japanese American collections. During the Digitization process, CSU Sacramento found some issues that are common with minority-based collections. The purpose of this project is to provide a case study on how one archival institution addressed those issues as well as how much of an impact the Japanese American Digitization Project had on the accessibility of a minority-based collection. The results of the case study show how simple solutions can improve the quality of the digital scans and the increase in activity on websites that contain the Japanese American Archival Collection represent the accessibility of the collections.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History (Public History)