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The Power and Growth of the American Press

Creator:

Bath, Grace Monemia

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Before discussing the American press of the day, with its freedom and power, a brief historical review of the development of journalism in its several functions seems in place.

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Undergraduate Thesis

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then and is nov considered the oldest European weekly. The growth of the newspaper in the United
Germans and the Union: Immigrants' Struggle Against Assimilation in the Civil War Era

Creator:

Diebel, Nathan W.

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The United States of America is founded upon immigration, and Germans are one of the first European ethnic groups to settle en masse in North America. The common narrative of immigration is that of the “melting pot”; characterized by assimilation of cultures into one ‘super’ culture. German immigration has often...

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Honors College Thesis

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submitted to Oregon State University Honors College in partial fulfillment of
The history of the 1390th Engineer Forestry Company during World War II

Creator:

Stangland, Gordon

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Undergraduate Thesis

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The history of the 1390th engineer forestry company during
States' Rights Nationalists: Governors Joseph Brown and Zebulon Vance versus Conscription

Creator:

Dickerson, Susannah

Abstract:

Confederate governors Joseph Brown and Zebulon Vance have long been considered obstructionists to the Confederate cause through their steadfast commitment to states' rights. States' Rights Nationalists throws in its own interpretation of these two men into the historiographical conversation taken on by well-known Civil War historians like Frank Owsley, Albert...

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Research Paper

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first case of mandatory conscription in United States history, and thus came with an understandable