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The Mental Universe of the English Nonjurors
(2015-05-08)
The Glorious Revolution of 1688, which pushed James II from the throne of England, was not glorious for everyone; in fact, for many, it was a great disaster. Those who had already taken an oath of allegiance to James II ...
Private Paths to Protecting Places: The Creation of a Conservation Infrastructure in the American South Since 1889
(2015-05-08)
This dissertation investigates changes in the ways individuals protected private land in the twentieth century American South. In contrast with iconic parks like Yellowstone or the heavily industrialized lands of the ...
Palmetto Navy: Ironclad Construction and the Naval Defense of Charleston During the Civil War
(2015-05-07)
This dissertation traces the creation and operation of the Charleston Naval Squadron in the Civil War through a look at the different ships and construction strategies implemented within Charleston Harbor. Under the ...
Prophet Without Honor: Hosea Williams and the Anomalies of the Black Freedom Struggle
(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 ...
A “Gruesome Business”: Collecting and Repatriating Pacific Theater War Trophies
(2015-05-18)
While serving in the Pacific Theater of World War II, American servicemen collected a variety of souvenirs. Some men collected skulls and bones. Other men collected flags, photographs, binoculars, or other personal ...
Getting the News and Getting Ahead: Correspondence and News Culture in Early Stuart England
(2015-05-11)
In early seventeenth-century England, court politics and the spread of news were closely connected. Many outside of James I’s inner political circle were deeply concerned with what was happening at the center of power. ...
Operation ICEBERG: How the Strategic Influenced the Tactics of LTG Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. at Okinawa
(2015-12-08)
The Okinawan campaign was World War II’s last major offensive operation. Selected as the last position for which to organize the invasion of Japan, the scale and intensity of combat led to critical accounts from journalists ...
The Origins of American Strategic Bombing Theory: Transforming Technology into Military Doctrine
(2015-03-06)
Perhaps no other technology changed how Americans viewed warfare in the twentieth century more than the airplane. In the minds of forward thinking aerial theorists this new technology removed the limitations of geography, ...