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Political Patents of Monopoly: Parliamentary and Public Discourse of Economic Policy, 1628-1648
(2014-05-13)
Discussion of patents of monopoly during the reign of Charles I reflected the changing political environment from the 1620s through the 1640s. Members of parliament and merchant pamphleteers described monopolies as ...
“There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute”: An Examination of P.T. Barnum’s Methods and Museum Controversy Today
(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 ...
Regulating a Global Technology within the American Federalist System: The Ideological Origins of the 1926 Air Commerce Act
(2014-05-02)
The 1926 Air Commerce Act represented the institutionalization of a specific
mental model for aviation regulation within the United States. This dissertation focuses
on how individuals and groups responded to three ...
War in the Pine Barrens: The Civil War Era in South-Central and Southeastern Alabama
(2014-12-04)
When the American Civil War erupted in 1861, the eight counties that comprised south-central and southeastern Alabama responded by sending thousands of men to fight in southern armies. This corner of the Confederacy, and ...
Unruly Teachers: Florida's Political Culture During the 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike
(2014-07-09)
On February 19, 1968 over 27,000 teachers in Florida resigned from their positions as educators. In doing so, these teachers created the country’s first and only statewide teachers’ strike. The teachers who went on strike ...
The Fifth Border State: Slavery and the Formation of West Virginia, 1850-1868
(2014-06-30)
Civil War historians unfairly treat West Virginia as an oddity. They tend to see it as the dissident part of Virginia that resisted its secession in 1861 to protest decades of economic neglect. Some explain this process ...
Providing a Voice to Those who Cannot Speak: The Use of the Digital Archaeological Record in Charting the Evolution of the African-American Community
(2014-12-09)
In order to understand the foundations of African-American culture, one must look beyond the meager amount of written records available to researchers and study evidence that many scholars consider unconventional including ...
2,000 Trees a Day: Work and Life in the American Naval Stores Industry, 1877 to 1940
(2014-12-10)
This project explores the lives of nineteenth and early twentieth century naval stores workers in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. After the Civil War, turpentine operators faced a high demand for their product, limited ...
Academic Business: Professionalization and the University Business Officer
(2014-12-10)
This dissertation examines the place of the college and university business officer in institutions of higher education across the U.S. South. In 1927, George Howell Mew, newly minted business officer at Emory University, ...
War Eagles: Auburn University’s Tradition of Training Soldiers
(2014-05-02)
As a land-grant university, Auburn University maintains a tradition of training American soldiers. Its Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) unit was once central to campus life, but in 1969 the university eliminated ...