Browsing History URC Student Scholarship by Author "Dumenil, Lynn"
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From Housing to Home Plate: Chavez Ravine, Cultural Transition, and the Construction of History
Rebec, Nicole (2006-01-01)History is constructed. Like any craft, it is shaped by the views and conceptions of those active in its construction. In modern America, popular media and the press are as active as, and often more influential and ... -
From Sisterhood to Objectivity:Social Workers, Unmarried Mothers, andthe Professionalization of Charity in the 1920s
Riccobene, Melanie (2004-01-01)Tracing the evolution of efforts to aid unmarried mothers in the 1920s exposes characteristics of social workers and evangelicals which simultaneously united and divided them, but which universally distanced them from the ... -
Promotion, Opposition and Manipulation: Mexican Deportations and Repatriations in 1930s Southern California
Toledo, Veronica (2009-01-01)The economic collapse of the late 1920s left millions of Americans demanding an explanation and solution from the government for their high rates of unemployment and economic privation. Federal officials shifted much of ... -
Resistance and Appropriation of Modernism in 1920s Faith Healing
Bunnell, Caroline (2007-01-01)My research this summer focused on how the faith healing ministry of Aimee Semple McPherson related to the social and cultural context of the 1920?s. Framing this highly specific topic is the greater question, how does ... -
The Young Women's Christian Association: Activism and Gender Identity in Postwar America
Knight, Teigynn (2011-01-01)Based on archival research in the collection of the Young Women?s Christian Association of Los Angeles at California State University, Northridge, and the microfilm collection of the YWCA of the USA from Smith College, ... -
Un-American History and the First Great American War over Collective Memory
George, Evan (2003-01-01)Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole in a speech to the national convention of the American Legion in 1995, condemned those who try to ?disparage America? and the nation?s unified ?language, history, and values?. At the core ...