Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Author "Jortner, Adam"

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"Alas for the Church of God": Southern Methodist Leaders and the Quest for Ecclesiological Identity, 1844-1876

Markum, Corey (2016-08-19)

This dissertation traces the formation, development, and preservation of a distinctive “southern Methodist” identity by southern Wesleyan leaders during the Civil War era, and describes the tensions faced in seeking to ...

The Baptist Frontier: Isaac McCoy, Indian Missions, and the Making of a Denomination

Williams, Daniel (2017-10-30)

This dissertation explains how the missions to Native American tribes run by Isaac McCoy in the Old Northwest (Indiana and Michigan Territory) shaped the development of the Baptist denomination in the early American republic ...

Collecting the Scattered and Forgotten: Printers, Collectors, and Early Archival Societies

Brown, Robin (2013-08-07)

The formation of archives in America, according to most archival literature, began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This view, however, fails to consider the pivotal roles played by individuals before ...

“Companions of My Tribulation”: Transatlantic Female Preaching Networks in the Early Nineteenth Century

Greer, Caroline (2020-05-11) ETD File Embargoed

As part of the pulpit in the early republic, female preachers created their own identities separate from the domestic sphere by forging successful careers as religious authorities speaking in public. Bolstered by a growing ...

A Hollow Inheritance: The Legacies of the Tuskegee Civic Association and the Crusade for Civic Democracy in Alabama

Smith, Gabriel (2016-08-01)

This thesis examines and analyzes the Tuskegee Civic Association’s “Crusade for Citizenship” in Alabama. In 1957, the Crusade encouraged black citizens to boycott businesses owned and operated by segregationist whites in ...

Hoodoo in the Gulf Coast: Empowerment and Protection during the 19th and 20th Centuries: The Black cat bone and Snakes

Evans, Arielle (2016-05-06)

Hoodoo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries provided African Americans with knowledge, protection, and power. Although previous scholarship has focused on the role of different charms and herbal treatments, this ...

"In Time of Iron-Age: The Choctaw Civil War and the Southern Frontier

Sparacio, Matthew (2018-04-23)

This dissertation is the first extended ethnohistorical study of the Choctaw civil war that occurred between 1746 and 1750 CE. Using gender as a primary lens of inquiry, it outlines the mutual intelligibility of Choctaw ...

The Law of Love: The Christian Commonwealth Colony, a Utopian Experiment

Ray, Randal (2013-11-08)

The Christian Commonwealth Colony existed as a utopian experiment from 1896 to 1900. The group of Christian socialists sought to live by the tenets of Jesus Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. Members gave up their possessions ...

Prophet Without Honor: Hosea Williams and the Anomalies of the Black Freedom Struggle

Rice, Rolundus (2015-05-18)

Examining the life of civil rights activist Hosea Lorenzo Williams’s life illuminates the entire landscape of the civil rights movement from a different vantage point, broadening the familiar geography and chronology of ...

“She Can Never Be Happy Without All or Some of the Family with Her”: Women’s Lives on the Early National Frontier

Kitts, Mary (2018-04-18)

When it comes to the early American frontier, a great deal is known about the men who moved to form the first permanent settlements. Much less has been told about the women they brought with them, the fundamental role these ...

The Starless Night of Centralism: Examining The Language of War in and outside of Revolutionary Texas

Coleman, Davis (2020-05-11)

Texian officials and American Democratic party newspapers pushed for a cause that they believed appealed to shared ideals concerning Jeffersonianism, centralism, race, liberty, slavery, nationalism, kinship, and identity. ...

A Teacher of Souls: Elizabeth Ann Seton, Theologian

Goldschmidt, Paige (2019-11-15)

This thesis is an analysis of Elizabeth Anne Seton’s conversion to Catholicism. It is also a discussion of her interpretation of traditional Catholic doctrine and eventual teaching and systemization of it within the American ...

“There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute”: An Examination of P.T. Barnum’s Methods and Museum Controversy Today

Galati, Leslie Ann (2014-01-09)

The purpose of this paper is to show that P.T. Barnum’s methods have been used in contemporary museums when dealing with controversial exhibits. This contention is supported by first exploring P.T. Barnum’s production of ...

Un-Living History: Programming, Interpretation, and Management at Haunted Historic Sites

Craig, Leah (2012-07-23)

Using employee interviews and a variety of other primary and secondary sources, this thesis examines ten historic sites throughout the southeast that are considered haunted in order to explore the advantages and disadvantages ...