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  • The Enerience of Women's Higher Education at Oregon Agricultural College 1870-1916

    Creator:
    Knewtson, Katrina Anne
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    This study addresses women's experiences in higher education at Oregon Agricultural College between 1870 and 1916. The experiences of these women illustrate how they were affected by society's beliefs and values, and further, how their education encouraged them to develop skills necessary to transform their role in society. Education has...
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    Education of American Girls, (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874), 23. 6 against women's changing role

  • Kinship, environment and the Forest Service : homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

    Creator:
    Prior, Jan M.
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    The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Families on the Move : The Powledge Family of Meriwether County, Georgia, 1820-1900

    Creator:
    Roberts, Nancy A.
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    The migrations of four generations of the Powledge family centering around Meriwether County, Georgia were described within the context of social and economic forces in the United States in 1820 to 1900. The family was representative of thousands of families that migrated westward. The migrations were found to correlate with...
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    by Henry L. Davidson and Historical Account of Meriwether County, 1827-1974 by Regina P. Pinkston

  • Archaeological Symbols of Status and Authority : Fort Hoskins. Oregon. 1856-1865

    Creator:
    Bowyer, Gary C.
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    Fort Hoskins is located near Kings Valley, approximately 16 miles from Corvallis. The Fort, built after the Rogue Wars of the 1850s, was intended to safeguard the newly created Indian reserves. During its' ten-years of existence, U.S. Army Regulars manned the Fort from 1856-1861 while volunteers from California, Washington, and...
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    regulations, a body of administrative rules relating to the management and performance of duties (Davis 1898

  • The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

    Creator:
    Stone, Helen Delight
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    Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton, Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early Oregon pioneers, Andrew and Sarah Smith, was considered architecturally significant,...
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    Judy Gerard; and Mrs. Ruth Stoeller. These four individuals persistently insisted that the Smith house

  • When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

    Creator:
    Finch, Kurstin
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    This thesis presents an analysis of seventeen contemporary blockbuster films in which women kill people. The purpose of the analysis is to discover the "frames" with which film producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors portray women in film. The thesis first establishes the model in use in the analysis: Entman's model...
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    status quo" (Mayne 1995, p 50). As a woman engaged with the social structure I am attempting to explain

  • China and France in the Nineteenth Century

    Creator:
    Leggatt, Nick
    Abstract:
    In studying Western, especially French, imperialist action in China during the nineteenth century, this thesis argues that contemporary Sino-Western relations took various forms across various social strata on both sides, and the general terms used to classify them are erroneous: in effect, there was no "Chinese" response to "the West,"...
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  • Beyond the ballot : the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the politics of Oregon Women, 1880-1900

    Creator:
    Gelser, Sara Anne Acres
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    Between 1880 and 1900, the Oregon Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) significantly impacted the lives of Oregon women. Not simply an organization of middle class white women, the Oregon WCTU enlisted Native American and African American women, and persistently advocated for improved conditions for working women. The WCTU aspired to...
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    to speak in the presence of 36 Ruth Bordin, Women and Temperance: The Ouest for Power and Liberty

  • 'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

    Creator:
    McGrory, Suzette L.
    Abstract:
    Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...
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    . Healey. Ithaca: Cornell U P, 1963. LI or LH Joyce, James. Letters. Eds. Stuart Gilbert (Vol. I) and

  • An evaluation of the archaeological potential of Riverfront Park in Corvallis, Oregon

    Creator:
    Littlefield, Steven W.
    Abstract:
    The archaeological resources contained in Corvallis Riverfront Commemorative Park (RCP) have a great potential to add to the historical record of the warehouse district of the original town of Marysville (Corvallis). The City of Corvallis' proposed Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) project and proposed changes to Riverfront Commemorative Park threaten to...
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