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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations

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• Kabat, Sally G. "Home Away From Home: The Architectural Geography of Hotels in the American Southwest, 1880-1920."

• Kalaldeh, Murad. "Impact of Industrial Parks on Urban and Regional Development."

• Kamrath, Mark L. "The 'Novel' Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown."

• Kane, Paula Marie. "Boston Catholics and Modern American Culture, 1900-1920."

• Kang, Jo Ma. "The Image of the Grandparent as Depicted in Selected Twentieth-Century American Novels."

• Kaser, James Allen. "The Army of the Cumberland and the Battle of Chickamauga: An Exercise in Perspectivist Historical Research."

• Kassner, Scott Gerald. "William Smith and the Empire of Liberty: Adventures and Misadventures on the Civil Religious Landscape of Eighteenth-Century British America."

• Kaufman, Kenneth C. "The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights in a Deep South State, 1956 to 1977."

• Kay, Dianne Fife. "Contemporary Hawaiian Carving, Sculpture, and bowl-turning: An Analysis of Post-Contact and Cultural Influences."

• Keating, Anne B. "'A World We Have Invented Here': Exploring Community, Identity and Art in the Construction of 'The Farm', Kate Millett's Feminist Art Colony, 1978-1994."

• Keller, Craig Lee. "The Intellectuals and Eisenhower: Civil Religion, Religious Publicity, and the Search for Moral and Religious Communities."

• Kelly, Arlene Blumenthal. "How Deaf Women Construct Teaching, Language, Culture, and Gender: An Ethnographic Study of ASL Teachers."

• Kemp, Louis Ward. "Highway Diplomacy: The United States and the Inter-American Highway, 1923-1955."

• Kendall, Laurie. "From the Liminal to the Land: Building Amazon Culture at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival."

• Kenschaft, Lori. "Marriage, Gender, and Higher Education: The Personal and Public Partnership of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer, 1886-1902."

• Kerr, Andrea Moore. "Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality."

• Kessler, Donna J. "Sacagawea: A Uniquely American Legend."

• Kibler, M. Alison. "Female Varieties: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit, 1890-1925."

• Kiefer, Geraldine Wojno. "Alfred Stieglitz and Science, 1880-1910."

• Kilar, Jeremy W. "The Lumber Towns: A Socioeconomic History of Michigan's Leading Lumber Centers: Bay City, Saginaw, and Muskegon, 1870-1905."

• Kilde, Jeanne Halgren. "Spiritual Armories: A Social and Architectural History of neo-Medieval Auditorium Churches in the U.S., 1869-1910."

• Kilgore, DeWitt Douglas. "Beyond Earth: Popular Science, Science Fiction, and the Cultural Construction of an American Future in Space."

• Kim, Ju-Hwan. "Relocating the Alliance: The U.S.-South Korea Military Alliance in Cultural Representations."

• Kim, Sam Gon. "Black Americans' Commitment to Communism: A Case Study Based on Fiction and Autobiographies by Black Americans."

• Kimmel, Shawn. "Freedom's Police: The Constitution of the Liberal Police State in the Early Republic's Theater of Civil Society ."

• Kimmel, Sheryl Adelman. "The Changing of the Guard: A Case Study of Maynard I. Wishner as an American Jewish Communal Leader."

• Kinch, John A. "The Biodiversity Mission in American Environmentalism."

• King, Julia A. "An Intrasite Spatial Analysis of the Van Swevingen Site, St Mary's City, MD.."

• Kinsey, Joni L. "Creating a Sense of Place: Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West."

• Kirk-Kuwaye, Christine. "Exceptional Moments: A Feminist Analysis of Selected Images of the Photographic Work of Anne Noggle."

• Kirkendall, Judith M. "Hawaiian Ethnogastronomy: The Development of a Pidgin Cuisine."

• Kirkham, David M. "'Inflamed With Study': Eighteenth Century Higher Education and the Formation of the American Constitutional Mind."

• Kirwin, Elizabeth Seton. "It's All True: Imagining New York's East Village Art Scene of the 1980s."

• Kishimoto, Kyoko. "Race and History Wars in the 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. and Japanese Media."

• Kiuchi, Yuya. "THE BLACK IMAGE IN THE BLACK MIND: THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS' ACCESS TO CABLE TELEVISION IN BOSTON AND DETROIT, 1963-1989."

• Klein, Christina. "Cold War Orientalism: Musicals, Travel Narratives, and Middlebrow Culture in Postwar America."

• Kleiner, Diana Jean. "The Invisible Managers: Corporate Expansion and American Culture, 1870-1940."

• Klemek, Christopher. "Urbanism as Reform: Modernist Planning and the Crisis of Urban Liberalism in Europe and North America, 1945-1975."

• Kline, Michael. "The Politics of Knowledge in a 'Post-Industrial' City: Intellectual Work and Political Struggle in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945 to 1992."

• Klopotek, Brian. "The Long Outwaiting: Federal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities."

• Knepper, Cathy Dee. "The Gospel According to Greenbelt: Community Life in Greenbelt, Maryland, 1935-1990."

• Knight, Carole L. "Survival of the Forest: The Evolution of Forest Park as a Reflection of the Social and Cultural Dynamics of St. Louis."

• Knight, Melinda. "Cultural Radicalism in the American Fin de Siecle: The Emergence of an Oppositional Literary Culture."

• Knupfer, Walter Richard. "Running in Place: An Excursion into Self and Community."

• Koch, Cynthia M. "The Virtuous Curriculum: Schoolbooks and American Culture, 1785-1830."

• Koch, William N. "An Unexpected American Apocalypse: Eschatology in the Thought of Thomas Merton and Its Significance for the Myth of America."

• Kocks, Dorothee E. "Champions of Place: Politics and Landscape in the 1930s and 1980s."

• Koelle, Alexandra. "Rights of Way: Race, Place, and Nation in the Northern Rockies."

• Koistinen, Janice H. "'The Good is not Always the Beautiful': Social Reform, Good Taste, and Social Identity in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature."

• Kondo, Mitsuo. "Assimilation and Acculturation of Long-Term American Residents in Japan, 1930-1955."

• Koppelman, Nancy. "One for the Road: Mobility in American Life, 1787-1985."

• Korr, Jeremy L. "Washington's Main Street: Consensus and Conflict on the Capital Beltway, 1952-2001."

• Kosiba-Vargas, Zaneta. "Harry Gamoa and ASCO: The Emergence and Development of a Chicano Art Group, 1971-1987."

• Koske, Mary Susan. "Finnish and American Adolescent Fantasy and Humor: An Analysis of Personal and Social Folklore in Educational Contexts."

• Kotchian, Sarah B. "Converting to Spiritual Profits: CEO Faith and Corporate Environmental Performance."

• Kozol, Wendy. "Documenting the Public and Private in Life: Political Culture in Postwar Photojournalism."

• Krieger, William Carl. "Henry David Thoreau and the Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Science."

• Kruger, Mark H. "The Influence of the 1960s Values of Individualism, Anti-Materialism, and Community on a Contemporary Intentional Community."

• Kuhlman, Erika A. "The Feminist Pacifist Challenge to Progressive Hegemony: The Debate Over U.S. Intervention in World War I."

• Kunkelman, Gary. "The Religion of Ethnicity: Belief and Belonging in a Greek-American Community."

• Kunkle, Barbara Lynn. "Appalachia and the Imagination of Empire."

• Kusnerz, Peggy Ann. "Picturing the Past: Photographs at the Library of Congress, 1865-1954."

• Kustritz, Anne. "Productive (Cyber) Public Space: Slash Fan Fiction's Multiple Imaginary."

• Kuwahara, Yasue. "The Promised Land: Images of America in Rock."

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