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• 1. [Article] The Histories of New York City’s Parks

  This is the introduction to the Journal of Planning History volume 16 issue 2, 2017.

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: The Histories of New York City’s Parks Author: McNeur, Catherine Year: 2017 This is the introduction to the Journal of Planning History volume 16 issue 2, 2017. Title: The Histories of New York City’s Parks Author: McNeur, Catherine Year: 2017 This is the introduction to the Journal of Planning History volume 16 issue 2, 2017. Close

• 2. [Article] Language as a Tool: The Use of Arabic in Spain Under Islamic Rule

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Language as a Tool: The Use of Arabic in Spain Under Islamic Rule Author: Hauenstein, Madeline B Year: 2014 Title: Language as a Tool: The Use of Arabic in Spain Under Islamic Rule Author: Hauenstein, Madeline B Year: 2014 Close

• 3. [Article] Bishops, Authority and Community in Northwestern Europe, c.1050-1150

  This important new study of episcopal office and clerical identity in a socially and culturally dynamic region of medieval Europe examines the construction and representation of episcopal power and authority ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Bishops, Authority and Community in Northwestern Europe, c.1050-1150 Author: Ott, John S. Year: 2015 This important new study of episcopal office and clerical identity in a socially and culturally dynamic region of medieval Europe examines the construction and representation of episcopal power and authority in the archdiocese of Reims during the sometimes turbulent century between 1050 and 1150. Drawing on a wide range of diplomatic, hagiographical, epistolary and other narrative sources, John S. Ott considers how bishops conceived of, and projected, their authority collectively and individually. In examining episcopal professional identities and notions of office, he explores how prelates used textual production and their physical landscapes to craft historical narratives and consolidate local and regional memories around ideals that established themselves as not only religious authorities but also cultural arbiters. This study reveals that, far from being reactive and hostile to cultural and religious change, bishops regularly grappled with and sought to affect, positively and to their advantage, new and emerging cultural and religious norms. Title: Bishops, Authority and Community in Northwestern Europe, c.1050-1150 Author: Ott, John S. Year: 2015 This important new study of episcopal office and clerical identity in a socially and culturally dynamic region of medieval Europe examines the construction and representation of episcopal power and authority in the archdiocese of Reims during the sometimes turbulent century between 1050 and 1150. Drawing on a wide range of diplomatic, hagiographical, epistolary and other narrative sources, John S. Ott considers how bishops conceived of, and projected, their authority collectively and individually. In examining episcopal professional identities and notions of office, he explores how prelates used textual production and their physical landscapes to craft historical narratives and consolidate local and regional memories around ideals that established themselves as not only religious authorities but also cultural arbiters. This study reveals that, far from being reactive and hostile to cultural and religious change, bishops regularly grappled with and sought to affect, positively and to their advantage, new and emerging cultural and religious norms. Close

• 4. [Article] Music and Race in the American West

  This thesis explores the complexities of race relations in the nineteenth century American West. The groups considered here are African Americans, Anglo Americans, Chinese, Mexican Americans, and Native ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Music and Race in the American West Author: Schneider, William Steven Year: 2017 This thesis explores the complexities of race relations in the nineteenth century American West. The groups considered here are African Americans, Anglo Americans, Chinese, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans. In recent decades historians of the West have begun to tell the narratives of racial minorities. This study adopts the aims of these scholars through a new lens--music. Ultimately, this thesis argues that historians can use music, both individual songs and broader conceptions about music, to understand the complex and contradictory race relations of the nineteenth century west. Proceeding thematically, the first chapter explores the ways Anglo Americans used music to exert their dominance and defend their superiority over minorities. The second chapter examines the ways racial minorities used music to counter Anglo American dominance and exercise their own agency. The final chapter considers the ways in which music fostered peaceful and cooperative relationships between races. Following each chapter is a short interlude which discusses the musical innovations that occurred when the groups encountered the musical heritage of one another. This study demonstrates that music is an underutilized resource for historical analysis. It helps make comprehensible the complicated relations between races. By demonstrating the relevance of music to the history of race relations, this thesis also suggests that music as a historical subject is ripe for further analysis. Title: Music and Race in the American West Author: Schneider, William Steven Year: 2017 This thesis explores the complexities of race relations in the nineteenth century American West. The groups considered here are African Americans, Anglo Americans, Chinese, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans. In recent decades historians of the West have begun to tell the narratives of racial minorities. This study adopts the aims of these scholars through a new lens--music. Ultimately, this thesis argues that historians can use music, both individual songs and broader conceptions about music, to understand the complex and contradictory race relations of the nineteenth century west. Proceeding thematically, the first chapter explores the ways Anglo Americans used music to exert their dominance and defend their superiority over minorities. The second chapter examines the ways racial minorities used music to counter Anglo American dominance and exercise their own agency. The final chapter considers the ways in which music fostered peaceful and cooperative relationships between races. Following each chapter is a short interlude which discusses the musical innovations that occurred when the groups encountered the musical heritage of one another. This study demonstrates that music is an underutilized resource for historical analysis. It helps make comprehensible the complicated relations between races. By demonstrating the relevance of music to the history of race relations, this thesis also suggests that music as a historical subject is ripe for further analysis. Close

• 5. [Article] An Analysis of the Parallel Frames in the Media Used to Describe Communism in the Early Cold War and Terrorism in the Post-9/11 Era

  109 pages. A thesis presented to the School of Journalism and Communication and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: An Analysis of the Parallel Frames in the Media Used to Describe Communism in the Early Cold War and Terrorism in the Post-9/11 Era Author: Carter, Savannah Year: 2015 109 pages. A thesis presented to the School of Journalism and Communication and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2015. Title: An Analysis of the Parallel Frames in the Media Used to Describe Communism in the Early Cold War and Terrorism in the Post-9/11 Era Author: Carter, Savannah Year: 2015 109 pages. A thesis presented to the School of Journalism and Communication and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2015. Close

• 6. [Article] From Coup to Constitution: Repression, Legitimacy, and Human Rights in Pinochet’s Chile (1973-1980)

  72 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of History and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2015...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: From Coup to Constitution: Repression, Legitimacy, and Human Rights in Pinochet’s Chile (1973-1980) Author: Kim, Nayeon Year: 2015 72 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of History and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2015. Title: From Coup to Constitution: Repression, Legitimacy, and Human Rights in Pinochet’s Chile (1973-1980) Author: Kim, Nayeon Year: 2015 72 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of History and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2015. Close

• 7. [Article] A Conservationist Takes Flight: The Early Career of William Lovell Finley, 1887-1911

  William Lovell Finley was an American conservationist active in Oregon and California from 1894 to 1947. He was president of the Oregon Audubon Society and a field representative for the National Audubon ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: A Conservationist Takes Flight: The Early Career of William Lovell Finley, 1887-1911 Author: Myles, Carey Elizabeth Year: 2017 William Lovell Finley was an American conservationist active in Oregon and California from 1894 to 1947. He was president of the Oregon Audubon Society and a field representative for the National Audubon Society. He also served as Oregon State Game Warden, State Biologist and as a Commissioner on the Oregon State Fish and Game Commission. He wrote for ornithology journals and popular magazines, was an early wildlife field photographer, and made wildlife films. This thesis examines the Finley's career from 1887 to 1911 to demonstrate how Finley, as a self-taught naturalist, forged a professional identity and became part of a social and professional network of conservationists. Using Finley's correspondence and published pieces the thesis presents a detailed account of his photography partnership with Herman T. Bohlman, a Portland plumber and artist, and of Finley's involvement in three ornithology organizations, the Northwest Ornithology Association, the Cooper Ornithological Club, and the National Audubon Society. Title: A Conservationist Takes Flight: The Early Career of William Lovell Finley, 1887-1911 Author: Myles, Carey Elizabeth Year: 2017 William Lovell Finley was an American conservationist active in Oregon and California from 1894 to 1947. He was president of the Oregon Audubon Society and a field representative for the National Audubon Society. He also served as Oregon State Game Warden, State Biologist and as a Commissioner on the Oregon State Fish and Game Commission. He wrote for ornithology journals and popular magazines, was an early wildlife field photographer, and made wildlife films. This thesis examines the Finley's career from 1887 to 1911 to demonstrate how Finley, as a self-taught naturalist, forged a professional identity and became part of a social and professional network of conservationists. Using Finley's correspondence and published pieces the thesis presents a detailed account of his photography partnership with Herman T. Bohlman, a Portland plumber and artist, and of Finley's involvement in three ornithology organizations, the Northwest Ornithology Association, the Cooper Ornithological Club, and the National Audubon Society. Close

• 8. [Article] Peripheries of Belonging: Military Recruitment and the Making of a ‘Minority’ in Wartime Iraq

  In the hinterlands of Mesopotamia in 1915, facing the daunting task of securing the province of Basra and advancing towards Baghdad, British officials charged with the success of the Mesopotamian campaign ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Peripheries of Belonging: Military Recruitment and the Making of a ‘Minority’ in Wartime Iraq Author: Robson, Laura Year: 2016 In the hinterlands of Mesopotamia in 1915, facing the daunting task of securing the province of Basra and advancing towards Baghdad, British officials charged with the success of the Mesopotamian campaign began to cast around for ways to strengthen their position colonial apparatus there. This tactic permanently stamped Assyrian refugees as protégées of the colonial state and created increasingly hostile feeling between them and the mainly Arab Iraqi government and army. Ethnically based military recruitment of refugees during the war thus contributed substantially to the international legitimization of British and League control over post-war Iraq as well as shaping a deleterious relationship between Assyrian communities and the emerging Iraqi state. against the Ottoman army. A British Indian army officer stationed in Nasiriyya hit upon the idea of recruiting local tribesmen for the purposes of ‘reconnoitering’. Falling somewhere between a military and a police force, these ‘Levies’ quickly expanded into an important arm of the British military operation in Mesopotamia, encompassing thousands of men by 1919. In the immediate post-war era, following a major anti-colonial revolt, the British saw an opportunity to remake the Levies as a force separate from the emerging Iraqi Arab army whose primary task would be to protect British interests in the new mandate state. They began to incorporate Assyrian refugees from the Turkish and Iranian borderlands into these previously mostly Arab informal forces and use them to put down Kurdish and Arab resistance to British rule, particularly in the northern reaches of the country. By the late 1920s the Levies were entirely Assyrian, and Assyrians had become a target of anti-imperial invective among Arab and Kurdish activists agitating against the imposition of a British mandate state. This wartime and post-war recruitment of Assyrians in the eastern reaches of the Ottoman Empire created the conditions for a long-term military partnership between the Assyrians and the British, and the consequent re-invention of the Assyrian community as a beleaguered ethnic ‘minority’ in a majority Arab Iraqi state. The British had already tried out the idea of minority military recruitment in other imperial contexts, deliberately isolating ethno-religious communities in order to produce dependencies, create reliable sources of manpower and fracture emerging anti-colonial nationalisms. In Iraq, military recruitment of Assyrians did all these things and something more important as well: it helped to create and sustain a concept of a threatened ethnic ‘minority’ whose existence and needs could be invoked to legitimize an ongoing British presence in Iraq. During a territorial dispute with Turkey over Mosul in 1924, British officials sought to convince the League to attach Mosul to mandatory Iraq partly by painting the Assyrians as a ‘minority’ in need of protection in the region, while simultaneously assigning the Levies responsibility for the security of the Title: Peripheries of Belonging: Military Recruitment and the Making of a ‘Minority’ in Wartime Iraq Author: Robson, Laura Year: 2016 In the hinterlands of Mesopotamia in 1915, facing the daunting task of securing the province of Basra and advancing towards Baghdad, British officials charged with the success of the Mesopotamian campaign began to cast around for ways to strengthen their position colonial apparatus there. This tactic permanently stamped Assyrian refugees as protégées of the colonial state and created increasingly hostile feeling between them and the mainly Arab Iraqi government and army. Ethnically based military recruitment of refugees during the war thus contributed substantially to the international legitimization of British and League control over post-war Iraq as well as shaping a deleterious relationship between Assyrian communities and the emerging Iraqi state. against the Ottoman army. A British Indian army officer stationed in Nasiriyya hit upon the idea of recruiting local tribesmen for the purposes of ‘reconnoitering’. Falling somewhere between a military and a police force, these ‘Levies’ quickly expanded into an important arm of the British military operation in Mesopotamia, encompassing thousands of men by 1919. In the immediate post-war era, following a major anti-colonial revolt, the British saw an opportunity to remake the Levies as a force separate from the emerging Iraqi Arab army whose primary task would be to protect British interests in the new mandate state. They began to incorporate Assyrian refugees from the Turkish and Iranian borderlands into these previously mostly Arab informal forces and use them to put down Kurdish and Arab resistance to British rule, particularly in the northern reaches of the country. By the late 1920s the Levies were entirely Assyrian, and Assyrians had become a target of anti-imperial invective among Arab and Kurdish activists agitating against the imposition of a British mandate state. This wartime and post-war recruitment of Assyrians in the eastern reaches of the Ottoman Empire created the conditions for a long-term military partnership between the Assyrians and the British, and the consequent re-invention of the Assyrian community as a beleaguered ethnic ‘minority’ in a majority Arab Iraqi state. The British had already tried out the idea of minority military recruitment in other imperial contexts, deliberately isolating ethno-religious communities in order to produce dependencies, create reliable sources of manpower and fracture emerging anti-colonial nationalisms. In Iraq, military recruitment of Assyrians did all these things and something more important as well: it helped to create and sustain a concept of a threatened ethnic ‘minority’ whose existence and needs could be invoked to legitimize an ongoing British presence in Iraq. During a territorial dispute with Turkey over Mosul in 1924, British officials sought to convince the League to attach Mosul to mandatory Iraq partly by painting the Assyrians as a ‘minority’ in need of protection in the region, while simultaneously assigning the Levies responsibility for the security of the Close

• 9. [Article] "As Long as the Mighty Columbia River Flows": The Leadership and Legacy of Wilson Charley, a Yakama Indian Fisherman

  On March 10, 1957, the United States Army Corps of Engineers completed The Dalles Dam and inundated Celilo Falls, the oldest continuously inhabited site in North America and a cultural and economic hub ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: "As Long as the Mighty Columbia River Flows": The Leadership and Legacy of Wilson Charley, a Yakama Indian Fisherman Author: Hedberg, David-Paul Brewster Year: 2017 On March 10, 1957, the United States Army Corps of Engineers completed The Dalles Dam and inundated Celilo Falls, the oldest continuously inhabited site in North America and a cultural and economic hub for Indigenous people. In the negotiation of treaties between the United States, nearly one hundred years earlier, Indigenous leaders reserved access to Columbia River fishing sites as they ceded territory and retained smaller reservations. In the years before the dam's completion, leaders, many of who were the descendants of earlier treaty signatories, attempted to stop the dam and protect both fishing sites from the encroachment of state and federal regulations and archaeological sites from destruction. This study traces the work of Wilson Charley, a Native fisherman, a member of the Yakama Nation's Tribal Council, and great-grandson of one of the 1855 treaty signatories. More broadly, this study places Indigenous actors on a twentieth-century Columbia River while demonstrating that they played active roles in the protest and management of areas affected by The Dalles Dam. Using previously untapped archival sources--a substantial cache of letters--my analysis illustrates that Charley articulated multiple strategies to fight The Dalles Dam and regulations to curtail Native's treaty fishing rights. Aiming to protect the 1855 treaty and stop The Dalles Dam, Charley created Native-centered regulatory agencies. He worked directly with politicians and supported political candidates, like Richard Neuberger, that favored Native concerns. He attempted to build partnerships with archaeologists and landscape preservationists concerned about losing the area's rich cultural sites. Even after the dam's completion, he conceptualized multiple tribal economic development plans that would allow for Natives' cultural and economic survival. Given the national rise of technological optimism and the willingness for the federal government to terminate its relationship with federally recognized tribes, Charley realized that taking the 1855 treaty to court was too risky for the political climate of the 1950s. Instead, he framed his strategies in the language of twentieth-century conservation, specifically to garner support from a national audience of non-natives interested in protecting landscapes from industrial development. While many of these non-native partners ultimately failed him, his strategies are noteworthy for three reasons. First, he cast the fight to uphold Native treaty rights in terms that were relevant to non-natives, demonstrating his complex understanding of the times in which he lived. Second, his strategies continued an ongoing struggle for Natives to fish at their treaty-protected sites, thereby documenting an overlooked period between the fishing rights cases of the turn of the twentieth century and the 1960s and 1970s. Charley left a lasting legacy that scholars have not recognized because many of his visionary ideas came to fruition decades later. Finally, my analysis of Charley's letters also documents personal details that afford readers the unique perspective of one Indigenous person navigated through a tumultuous period in the Pacific Northwest and Native American history. Title: "As Long as the Mighty Columbia River Flows": The Leadership and Legacy of Wilson Charley, a Yakama Indian Fisherman Author: Hedberg, David-Paul Brewster Year: 2017 On March 10, 1957, the United States Army Corps of Engineers completed The Dalles Dam and inundated Celilo Falls, the oldest continuously inhabited site in North America and a cultural and economic hub for Indigenous people. In the negotiation of treaties between the United States, nearly one hundred years earlier, Indigenous leaders reserved access to Columbia River fishing sites as they ceded territory and retained smaller reservations. In the years before the dam's completion, leaders, many of who were the descendants of earlier treaty signatories, attempted to stop the dam and protect both fishing sites from the encroachment of state and federal regulations and archaeological sites from destruction. This study traces the work of Wilson Charley, a Native fisherman, a member of the Yakama Nation's Tribal Council, and great-grandson of one of the 1855 treaty signatories. More broadly, this study places Indigenous actors on a twentieth-century Columbia River while demonstrating that they played active roles in the protest and management of areas affected by The Dalles Dam. Using previously untapped archival sources--a substantial cache of letters--my analysis illustrates that Charley articulated multiple strategies to fight The Dalles Dam and regulations to curtail Native's treaty fishing rights. Aiming to protect the 1855 treaty and stop The Dalles Dam, Charley created Native-centered regulatory agencies. He worked directly with politicians and supported political candidates, like Richard Neuberger, that favored Native concerns. He attempted to build partnerships with archaeologists and landscape preservationists concerned about losing the area's rich cultural sites. Even after the dam's completion, he conceptualized multiple tribal economic development plans that would allow for Natives' cultural and economic survival. Given the national rise of technological optimism and the willingness for the federal government to terminate its relationship with federally recognized tribes, Charley realized that taking the 1855 treaty to court was too risky for the political climate of the 1950s. Instead, he framed his strategies in the language of twentieth-century conservation, specifically to garner support from a national audience of non-natives interested in protecting landscapes from industrial development. While many of these non-native partners ultimately failed him, his strategies are noteworthy for three reasons. First, he cast the fight to uphold Native treaty rights in terms that were relevant to non-natives, demonstrating his complex understanding of the times in which he lived. Second, his strategies continued an ongoing struggle for Natives to fish at their treaty-protected sites, thereby documenting an overlooked period between the fishing rights cases of the turn of the twentieth century and the 1960s and 1970s. Charley left a lasting legacy that scholars have not recognized because many of his visionary ideas came to fruition decades later. Finally, my analysis of Charley's letters also documents personal details that afford readers the unique perspective of one Indigenous person navigated through a tumultuous period in the Pacific Northwest and Native American history. Close