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Alabama Courts and the Administration of Slavery, 1820-1865
(2009-02-23)
The examination of contemporary legal materials from the slaveholding states, particularly Alabama, shows considerable official involvement of the legislature and the courts in the management of slavery, going well beyond ...
Civil War and Reconstruction Era Cass/Bartow County, Georgia
(2009-02-23)
A "white men’s democracy" profoundly shaped aspects of pre-industrial Cass/Bartow County, Georgia’s social, economic, and political landscape. Following the removal of the Cherokee from northwest Georgia, white settlers ...
'A Fine View of the Delectable Mountains': The Religious Vision of Mary Virginia Terhune (Marion Harland) and Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
(2008-09-09)
In the past twenty-five years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the popular domestic fiction of the nineteenth century. Cultural historians have studied this literature, largely created by women, for the ...
David Schenck and the Contours of a Confederate Identity
(2008-09-09)
The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it serves to shed light on the life of North Carolinian David Schenck (1835-1902), whose extensive diaries have been a wellspring of information for historians for ...
Louise Blanchad Bethune: Architect Extraordinaire and First American Woman Architect, Practiced in Buffalo, New York (1881-1905)
(2008-09-09)
Jennie Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1913) was America’s first professional woman architect at a time when few women chose careers except when faced with economic necessity. The only child of teachers, Bethune’s education ...
A Meaningful Reality: The Integration of the Opelika, Alabama City School System, 1965-1972
(2008-09-09)
This thesis chronicles and analyzes the integration of the Opelika city school system from the institution of the freedom of choice method of desegregation in 1965 to the court-ordered total integration of the system in ...
Patriarchy on the Gallows
(2008-09-09)
One of the most telling ways to examine society in the early modern era is to read
the pleadings of the indicted. Typically taking the form of written petitions to the
monarch, the pleadings are indicative of the place ...