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BROTHERS IN ETERNAL COLD: HOW THE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS SENT TO THE MOON DISCOVERED THE EARTH
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-17)
On September 12th, 1962 in a speech at Rice University in Houston, President John F. Kennedy pledged the United States would land humans on the moon before the end of the decade. This goal was accomplished with the Apollo ...
"IT'S A HARD-KNOCK LIFE": THE DARK SIDE OF ADOPTION AND CHILD WELFARE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-24)
This thesis seeks to address the question: why were the victims of three high-profile adoption scandals, The Orphan Trains, Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Children's Home Society, and St. Joseph's Catholic Orphanage, ...
FIRE AND FEATHERS: THE APPROPRIATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE IN SUMMER CAMP TRADITIONS
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-17)
In the remote woods of Maine, children gather around a fire wearing headbands and feathers in order to become members of their tribe as they partake in a decades-old tradition. To them, the wearing of a feather is just ...
IN HER OWN WORDS: UNDERSTANDING ACADEMIC TRANSFORMATION THROUGH THE CREATION OF WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAMS AT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-24)
Fifty years ago, activists and academics created the first Women's Studies Program. This program, and the ones that quickly spread across the country in its wake, radically altered the course of higher education by changing ...
BEHIND THE BIG DESK: HOW NEWS PARODY STRUCTURED THE NETWORK LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW AND REINVENTED AN AMERICAN ART FORM
(Georgetown University, 2018-04-19)
On June 16, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy bounded into Studio 6B in 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Tonight Show host Jack Paar had invited Kennedy onto his program as the first presidential candidate to appear on ...
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A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE [WHITE HOUSE]: HOW THE SMITHSONIAN'S THE FIRST LADIES EXHIBIT MISREPRESENTS AMERICA'S WOMAN
(Georgetown University, 2018-04-19)
In this thesis I explore the Smithsonian Institution’s (SI) changing first lady narratives through two exhibits and their catalogs. First, I examine the First Ladies Hall exhibit (1965) at the Museum of History and Technology ...
WE'VE BEEN IN FORMATION: BEYONCÉ'S POLITICAL VOICE THROUGH BLACK MUSICAL RESISTANCE
(Georgetown University, 2018-04-19)
You may have known her as a member of Destiny’s Child. You make have known her as the singer behind “Halo” and “Single Ladies.” You may know her as the wife of rapper Jay-Z. However, this senior thesis illuminates Beyoncé ...
SOCIALLY ACTIVE(IST) CAPITALISTS: CORPORATE IDEOLOGY, AMERICAN IDENTITY, AND CONTROVERSIAL COMMERCIALS IN SUPER BOWL LI
(Georgetown University, 2018-04-25)
On February, 5, 2017, several companies, including Airbnb, Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, and 84 Lumber sparked controversy when they ran advertisements during the airing of Super Bowl LI that seemed to take aim at President ...
FORGETTING FOUNDERS DAY: HOW THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A CAMPUS TRADITION REVEALS THE AMERICANIZATION OF GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY'S CATHOLIC IDENTITY
(Georgetown University, 2018-04-25)
When John Carroll founded Georgetown University as the first American Catholic college in 1789, he had conducted a radical experiment. Why? Because the term “American Catholic” was considered an oxymoron. Catholics were ...
WE MADE LEMONADE: BLACK WOMEN, SYNCRETIC RELIGION, AND VOODOO AESTHETICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE
(Georgetown University, 2018-04-19)
Historically, syncretic religion has never been positively represented with such a broad platform as it has through Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Through the historical origins of the practice with its inception in the Americas and ...